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Posted on 09/27/2005 12:37:14 PM PDT by 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.
I agree, Schreiber was better. But his baby face made him appear soft. Clark is HOT, smart, rock hard and intense...I picture someone more along the lines of the guy that plays the Transporter (don't know his name, but he's not exactly Clark either) but more human.
Ralph Fiennes as John Steed was a disaster in the "Avengers" movie. In fact, I googled "bad casting" and that was high in the results. Also the Batman movies. Michael Keaton as Batman? Val Kilmer as Batman? Come to think of it, Tobey McGuire as Spiderman?
Jodie Foster in "Maverick?" Leo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes? Tom Hanks as Tom Wolfe's "master of the universe" in "Bonfire of the Vanities." Or Bruce Willis as and unscrupulous tabloid journalist in the same movie? Adam Sandler in just about anything?
Howie Long is my ideal John Clark.
Have you read the book tho? Ashley Wilkes was a wimp. I remember the first time I saw that movie I was disappointed in Leslie Howard as Ashley, but then I read the book (again) and realized he fit the part very well.
Becky
"Leonardo DiCaprio as a male"
LOL.
Good selections for terrible miscasts all!
Jar Jar RUINED that already mediocre movie.
Fortunately, I will never see Titanic.
Yes, I read the book. He's a "southern gentleman" in the book. Pretty useless overall, but not a whiny wimp. Also, Leslie Howard was FAR too old to play Ashley.
Episode 1 I saw in the theatre. Episode two, we rented and I fell asleep. Episode 3, I decided I'm not a George Lucas fan anymore and avoided. LOL
Rufus Sewell as John Murdoch in "Dark City" (1998). Really good movie, lessened by an unconvincing and unsympathetic lead. Young Sean Connery would have been wonderful; Ewan MacGregor would have been terrific.
Dan
Yes, a bad lead has a way of putting the kabash on a good movie! ;o)
Charlton Heston as a Mexican narc in "Touch of Evil."
However casting Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon and Peter Falk in the Great Race was Genius!
Charlton Heston had many good, fitting roles in his career. That was NOT one of them!
Two roles I thought Cage did very well in:
Raising Arizona (He was perfect for the quirkiness that the Coens need in their movies!)
The Rock (His nerdy/geek role opposite Sean Connery was funny as hell.)
LOL...I guess it's depends on the definition of wimp. You're right he was a southern gentleman, AND Howard was too old.
I think part of why he was a disappointment as Ashley is it's hard to imagine Scarlett falling for someone that was like him in personality. I remember the part in the book where Scarlett is reading Melanies mail and she tries to figure out what the difference is between Ashley and the other souther gentlemen around her. How Mitchell discribed him makes sense. Ashley did all the things that put him in the category of a gentlemen, and did them well, but his heart wasn't in it. It wasn't the end and aim of his life. He'd rather be dreaming and reading books. contemplating beauty. Now that doesn't necessarily make him a wimp, but it comes across that he was more in touch with his feminine side:), atho definitly NOT gay.
LOL, sorry for the ramble, GWTW has just always been one of my favorite books and movies, and I've read and seen it hundreds of times.
Becky
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