our Fr gang is much cuter than them
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.
Good one.
Anything "Pee Wee Herman". :(
or Julian Sands.
as I recall, Rice's legions of fans howled when that casting was announced
But you gotta love Ernest Borgnine's over-the-top jump into the wolf pit.
I agree!
Brad Pitt as Louis was pretty bad too.
Martin Sheen as Robert E Lee in Gettysburg....Gawdawful.
Insulting
American affecting English accents which means they usually suck in Shakespeare...except Gibson and Heston.
Going way back...
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind.
What a wimp!
Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Doolittle in Pearl Harbor. (And Affleck too, but that goes without saying)
I liked Robin Williams in Hook.
And liked Dustin Hoffman's character even more.
Lol.
HOW MANY WANNA SEE PISSANT IN A TUTU?????
Oh yeah,
If you watch those movies as period pieces of period pieces they are fun!
I must disagree with your assessment of Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Pitt was an excellent choice for the part and did a great job of acting. For an "eye-candy" actor, he's actually quite talented. Far more talented than fellow eye-candy actor Tom Cruise.
Miscast actors
Orlando Bloom in "Kingdom of Heaven"
Viggo Mortensen in LOTR
Keanu Reeves in "Much Ado About Nothing"
Keanu Reeves in any movie that requires him to speak dialogue beyond "whoa" and "I'm Neo."
Actually the worst and most disappointing was Robert Redford as the Horse Whisperer.
Being a horse owner/enthusiast and having read the book I was anxious to see the movie.
It was awful.
And Redford was even worse.
Excellent call. He was horribly mis-cast in that movie. What was he thinking when he took that role.
I actually did like Keanu in "The Devil's Advocate."
I would, I need a good laugh! :)
Speaking of bathtub scenes, what about Jack Nicholson in "About Schmidt."
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