Hollywood's 7 Worst Casting Blunders (vanity)

PA Times | 9/27/05 | Dr. Pissant

[pissant]

We've all sat through many movies that we've deemed a total waste of time. For guys, it's usually when your better half drags you to a hideous chick-flick. For the gals, it's usually having to sit thru gangster movies on Turner Classic Movies with hubby.

But one thing both men and women agree on is that Hollywood has a knack of putting at least one actor in every movie that is horribly miscast! Here at the Pissant Univeristy for Knowledge & Entertainment Studies (PUKES) we've compiled the top 7 miscast thesbians in Hollywood history!

Top 7 Movie Miscasts

7. Will Smith as James West in Wild, Wild West

I only lasted 20 minutes because of this royal screwup.

6. Mark Hammill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

Way too wimpy and annoying

5. Denise Richards as Christmas Jones in 007's The World is not Enough

Nuclear scientist? She ruined the movie

4. Colin Ferrell as Alexander in ALexander

Any military leader that looked like such a wuss would have been murdered by his generals in a nanosecond.

3. Ali McGraw as some chick in Love Story

As exciting as peeling paint

2. Brad Pitt as some dude in the Fight Club

About as believable being a toughie as I am being a ballerina

1. John Wayne as Ghengis Khan in The Conqueror

A cowboy Chinaman? Yikes. Though I did enjoy it for some reason.

[pissant]

I don't remember him. How about Gina Davis, Madonna, ROsie, etc as baseball chicks. ugh.

[pissant]

Start one up!!

[fortunecookie]

Yeah. There was something--possibly--insane about those. Made me wonder about. . . .

Possibly insane? LOL. His diatribes about how HE knows the (real) history of psychiatry and no one else really does were ... insane. Then there was his 'attack' on Oprah. Makes me wonder, too...

[fortunecookie]

I wanted to be Sean Connery as a kid.....for very obvious reasons. LOL

Yes, LOL indeed. Excellent choice! He was excellent in The Hunt for Red October and Russia House, in addition to his Bond flicks.

[1Old Pro]

I hated the choice of Alan Alda in What Women Want.

Yep, seems mutually exclusive.

[fredhead]

Humphrey Bogart as a zombie back from the dead in "The Return of Doctor X".

[Dashing Dasher]

I like a change once in a while.

[fzx12345]

• Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell as Barney & Betty Rubble in The Flintstones
• Hayden Christiansen as Sebastian Shaw in Return of the Jedi
• Matthew Broderick as Inspector Gadget
• Hugo Weaving as Elrond in The Lord of the Rings

[Hi Heels]

YOU charge? I would have thought WE'D charge....

[william clark]

Brando in "Guys and Dolls"
John Wayne in "The Conqueror" (although it's a hoot as a result)
Richard Beymer in "West Side Story"
Ralph Fiennes in "The Avengers"
Steve Zahn in "Sahara"

[Dashing Dasher]

Julia Roberts in Pelican Brief....
She was supposed to be a law student - and every time she used a multisyllabic word, I would cringe.
Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly - what was she thinking?

Keanu Reeves in anything where he needs to talk and/or show emotion.

Leonardo in Titanic - I kept thinking Kate Winslet would crush him if she hugged him too tight.

Timothy Dalton as James Bond - Barf.

Gweneth in The Perfect Murder.
Completely unbelievable in the part.

Rupert Everett in An Ideal Husband...
Having a dozen women chasing an OBVIOUSLY GAY MAN is a HUGE GAFF.

[qam1]

IMO Nicholas Cage is perpetually lost in ANY role. Too true. He might be well cast as a high school drop out, and I thought he did fine in "Adaptation," but there's always something missing. I don't understand his popularity with producers and directors.

He's Francis Ford Coppola's nephew

[dc27]

Michael Keaton as Batman. George Clooney as Batman.

[Ciexyz]

I respectfully disagree with the mudballs thrown at The Duck.

[Ciexyz]

Go rent "From Russia with Love". It's one of the best spy movies ever, hands down.

That's because the early Bond films tried to remain true to the original Ian Fleming books as much as practicable. They didn't start getting weird and over the top until "Goldfinger".

[F16Fighter]

There is NO worst casting blunder than Edward G. Robinson cast as a slimeball slavemaster in the 'Ten Commandments' -- ("Who's your Messiah noooow???")

[F16Fighter]

"Here at the Pissant Univeristy for Knowledge & Entertainment Studies (PUKES)"

Lol, you crack me up, bro...

[pissant]

Someone dissed him in Hunt for Red October on this thread.

[MamaTexan]

You Have gotten funnier since ...well...I guess you haven't. LOL

That's okay Hon...

at YOUR age, we don't expect you to remember much!

[pissant]

If they would have waited a few more years, they wouldn't have needed makeup to make him look like a zombie. ;O)