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11 Aug 01 - 12:43 AM (#525510) Subject: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Celtic Soul John Wayne as "Genghis Kahn". Oh *my*, but that was amusing! |
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11 Aug 01 - 01:52 AM (#525525) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: catspaw49 Oh Celtic Soul....this one will go. Always popular. There are so many that it's a tough choice. You have started off well with the Duke....that was terrible. Let me throw in another biggie. Did anyone see "Teahouse of the August Moon?" It's a cute book and a very funny play by John Patrick about the occupation of Okinawa after WWII and the problems had by a Captain in trying to make a village conform to "American" planning and rules. The narrator is also a character that has a major part but also speaks to the audience. He's the Okinawan interpreter for the Captain and never quite gets it right....a very good role. The movie version cast Marlon Brando in the role of Sakini, the interpreter. Marlon Brando? As a small Japanese guy? Surprisingly, he does okay, but it's one of the worst miscasts of all time...........I mean it wasn't like there were no Japanese actors available. The movie also starred Glenn Ford as the Captain and in true Glenn Ford fashion, his performance was worse than awful which made Brando look somewhat better. This play used to be popular in community and HS/college productions and at least once that I know of, there was a far worse miscast than Brando. This actor was 6 foot tall and weighed about 215 at the time and even with make-up bore no resemblance to anyone oriental...............Me! Well, you know how it is when you go all out to get the best part and the drama teacher likes you and all.....................gawd, I was awful. Spaw |
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11 Aug 01 - 06:46 AM (#525579) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: fat B****rd I once read that one of the studio money men thought it a great idea to cast Charles Bronson as the Al Pacino character in "The Godfather" |
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11 Aug 01 - 10:03 AM (#525617) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Little Hawk Barbra Streisand as an up and coming rock star in "A Star Is Born". Fiona Flanagan as the same in "Hearts of Fire". More or less of a dead heat, I'd say. - LH |
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11 Aug 01 - 10:05 AM (#525618) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: bill\sables Tony Blair as Prime Minister |
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11 Aug 01 - 10:44 AM (#525638) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Peg Kevin Costner as Roin Hood; but since he was the executive producer, I guess I would call that more a case of "most self-indulgent and wrong-headed bit of casting" I thought Gary Oldman was very miscast in Dracula; though he was wonderful...a more, shall we say, attractive actor would have worked better... Juliette Binoche is getting a lot of roles lately that just don't show her abilities very well...is this the same as miscasting? or more a waste of talent? John Malkovich as Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. Don't get me wrong, he is a marvellous actor, but the sight of him in those breeches with his bowlegged New York method actor walk was just plain hilarious...in a period piece an actor/actress MUST be able to move convincingly in the costumes...while we're at it, Mr. Malkovich's turn as a Russian con artist in "Rounders" was also a bit silly... I thought Daniel Day Lewis was an odd choice in The Unbearable Lightness of Being AND in the Crucible; but he is such a good actor he did make it work both times... peg
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11 Aug 01 - 10:58 AM (#525645) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST,Nick Kate Mulgrew as a Star Fleet Officer. She should have been left to re-runs of 70's era cop shows like Mcloud or her "finest" moment as Mrs Colombo. |
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11 Aug 01 - 11:37 AM (#525653) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Mad4Mud In the Highlander movies: Christopher Lambert (Frenchman)as a Scot and Sean Connery (Scotsman) as a Spaniard. Yeah, that made sense. |
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11 Aug 01 - 12:09 PM (#525664) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: ard mhacha Alan Hale as Irish Chieftain Owen Roe O`Neill in, Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex [1939] , it still earns a laugh in Ireland when it is repeated on TV. Slan Ard Mhacha. |
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11 Aug 01 - 12:46 PM (#525671) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Justa Picker Sharon Stone (and Russell Crowe) in "The Quick & The Dead." Timothy Dalton as James Bond. Juliana Moore in "Boogie Nights."
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11 Aug 01 - 12:53 PM (#525673) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Don Firth Coulda been worse, Nick. They had originally planned to cast Genevieve Bujold as Captain Janeway, but Bujold decided at the last minute to beam out of there, so Kate Mulgrew got the role. But Genevieve Bujold!!??!?!?!?!!?? Don Firth |
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11 Aug 01 - 01:02 PM (#525678) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Peter T. Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby". Killed the movie DOA. No one ever yearned for her eternally on the edge of a distant dock (Better than Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw, the original proposed duo, but...). Every Batman in the Batman movies, but Michael Keaton was the worst. On the other hand, Michelle Pfeiffer was extraordinary.
Coming up: Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin". I hated the book, but even I can see complete disaster on its way. Cage, the elegant mandolin player (?), Penelope Cruz a Greek maiden? (the return of the 1950's: Spanish, Greek, Kiowa, who knows from Kiowa, we are talking ethnic here!) |
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11 Aug 01 - 01:08 PM (#525682) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST,frankie This one's like shooting fish in a barrel but... Mel Gibson as Hamlet? Matt Damon as a card sharp in a pretty mediocre flick, "Rounders". And Tony Curtis as a Tartar(?) in "Taras Bulba" with his Brooklyn accent. I agree with your call on Malkovich in "DL" Peg, although I'm also a fan of his. frankie |
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11 Aug 01 - 01:29 PM (#525692) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: SINSULL Natalie Wood as Maria in West Side Story???? |
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11 Aug 01 - 01:33 PM (#525694) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Lonesome EJ Sean Connery as the Russian Submarine Commander in Red October. As a matter of fact, has Connery ever had a role that actually tested him as an actor? Kevin Costner as Robin Hood, definitely. The only good job Kevin has done was as the punk gunslinger in Silverado. In Bull Durham and Dances with Wolves he was the beneficiary of very good scripts. Jack Nicholson was miscast in As Good as it Gets, but because Jack is Jack, everybody loved him in it anyway. His acting all came early on : he was great in Chinatown and actually was the standout actor in Easy Rider. |
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11 Aug 01 - 01:58 PM (#525706) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: catspaw49 Well geez Leej, how hard was it to be a standout actor in "Easy Rider?" And Peter, I always thought that Michael Keaton was bu far the best at portaying the original :Dark Knight" attitude of the original Batman comics. Honest, how could he have been worse than George Clooney? Spaw |
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11 Aug 01 - 02:07 PM (#525713) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Lonesome EJ Good point, Spaw. But the inbred shotgun-wielding mutant with the thing on his neck came in a close second. |
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11 Aug 01 - 02:11 PM (#525716) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: catspaw49 True Leej, but he was a local and he wasn't acting............ Spaw |
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11 Aug 01 - 02:25 PM (#525724) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Peter T. There was a good Sean Connery movie -- The Hill (is that right, someone will correct me, I am sure) -- early on. He was pretty good in The Man Who Would Be King. I don't know, Michael Keaton was just so weird and miscast. He wasn't dark at all, just like he had wandered onto the set and found an oversize rubber suit to play in. Thought of another one. Gary Cooper in "Love in the Afternoon". Way too old. You could tell they had to prop him up for most of the film. All those early Hepburn films, they give her all these aged male stars, it is creepy, like child molesting. Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina. Weird. Hey, moving back to familiar toothaches, George Peppard in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" -- damn, wrong thread again, most cardboard actor thread here I come. yours, Peter T. |
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11 Aug 01 - 02:37 PM (#525729) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST,Scabby Doug on the cookie-eating computer John Wayne played Genghis Khan in a movie called (I think) "The Conqueror"..
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11 Aug 01 - 02:50 PM (#525735) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Justa Picker Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. |
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11 Aug 01 - 02:54 PM (#525738) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: SINSULL Agreed, JP. He looked as if he was having an affair with his Nanny. |
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11 Aug 01 - 02:56 PM (#525740) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Mudlark Agree about Nick Cage as Capt Corelli (loved the book, wouldn't see the movie if paid). I've seen basset hounds less lugubrious than Cage.
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11 Aug 01 - 05:32 PM (#525826) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Don Firth As a kid, I always liked Batman because he wasn't a Superhero. No super-powers. And he had a reason to do what he did. Seeing his parents murdered right in front of him made him a little nuts, so he ran around preying on the kind of punks that killed his folks. I hated the Sixties TV show. They were poking fun at one of my childhood heroes. So I approached the Tim Burton movie pretty cautiously. At first I thought that Michael Keaton was lousy casting. Then I saw the movie. For me, Keaton's portrayal was spot-on, taking what could easily have been a camped-up cardboard character and making him more or less believable. He played Bruce Wayne as a troubled young man e.g., the scene where Vicky Vail follows Bruce Wayne and sees him stop at a particular spot, look down sadly for a while, then leave a couple of flowers on the sidewalk -- he was still mourning his parents), and his alter-ego, Batman, as a sort of Avenging Angel. Lets not even talk about the sequels. Don Firth |
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11 Aug 01 - 05:38 PM (#525833) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: RWilhelm The classic: Edward G. Robinson as Pontius Pilot. Speaking "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Mickey Rooney as a Japanese man ruined the whole movie for me. |
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11 Aug 01 - 05:46 PM (#525839) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Don Firth Well, maybe the first sequel. Michelle Pfeifer was fine as Catwoman, and Danny DeVito was an absolute snort as The Penguin. I heard that DeVito really got into the roll and spent most of his time off-camera trying to grab Michelle Pfeifer's tooshy. Quite understandable. Don Firth |
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11 Aug 01 - 05:51 PM (#525842) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: catspaw49 Exactly how I saw it Don. I thought Keaton showed the "Dark Knight" quality, the troubled young man, very well. I can't buy off on any of the sequels though. DeVito was cute and all, but Kilmer had the body and the looks, but I didn't care for him as Batman and Clooney just didn't cut it at all. Spaw |
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11 Aug 01 - 06:00 PM (#525849) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Peter T. Maybe it was because Michael Keaton has a mouth like a real bat. Where is the firm slash mouth, and the square jaw, comic lovers? yours, Peter T. |
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11 Aug 01 - 06:50 PM (#525878) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: catspaw49 True Peter. Quite true............Bothered me at first when I saw th pictures of him prior to seeing the movie, but the brooding portrayal overcame a lot......for me. Then again, I know it takes a lot more for you and gawd knows you have a lot better taste than I do. Let's face it, you can't expect much from a guy who thinks "Blazing Saddles" is on par with the greatest movies of all time! Spaw |
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11 Aug 01 - 07:52 PM (#525920) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: khandu Richard Thomas as Hank Williams,jr. Geez, John Boy as Bocephas! Incredible! khandu |
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11 Aug 01 - 09:10 PM (#525951) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: bigchuck SPAW! You mean Blazing Saddles isn't the greatest movie of all time? Get a grip man. Of course it is. Leej, I thought Connery was fine in The Man Who Would be King, but of course he had Michael Caine to work off. I also rather liked him in Robin and Marion, which is my favorite romantic movie. Sandy |
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11 Aug 01 - 09:17 PM (#525953) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Little Hawk Tim Burton! Ah hah! I should have made the connection right away... That's why I didn't like the remake of "Planet Of The Apes" that's out now. I really can't stand the way Tim Burton does his "dark" movie scenes. I desperately need sunlight after viewing a Tim Burton movie. I detested the first "Batman" movie he made for the same basic reason. I do not find that much "film noir" to be dramatic at all...just a complete drag. Of course, I never wear sunglasses either. If Tim Burton had filmed "Dances With Wolves" the entire plot would have no doubt occured at night, or during a really nasty rainstorm, and everyone would have been either grim and dour, or maniacal and insane. Yuck. I shall henceforth avoid his movies. - LH |
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11 Aug 01 - 10:14 PM (#525973) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Lonesome EJ Peter and Bigchuck, you may be right about The Man Who Would Be King, but then again that movie is on my Top Ten Favorites of All Time list so I can't make an objective appraisal. In fact, Connery is an actor I like. It's a bit of a shame that the Hollywood Star Machinery seems to favor letting actors who have achieved SuperStar status stop acting and just be themselves. I would love to see Connery as Macbeth...and I'll bet he'd be great. |
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11 Aug 01 - 10:17 PM (#525974) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: DonMeixner s a comic book collector for years I really get bent when Hollywood insists on reinvenbting the comic books when they do a film. I liked the first Batman best but Michael Keaton certainly doesn't look the part. The Phantom and The Rocketeer are the best comic / movie crossovers done yet. Nick Cage was online to be the next Superman!!!! Don |
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11 Aug 01 - 11:25 PM (#525989) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Peter T. Gee, I found both The Phantom and The Rocketeer to be really boring films: the Green Hornet (or was it the Shadow, the one with Alex Baldwin, I forget), was even duller. Whatever their limitations as films, I think one has to hand it to Christopher Reeve as the best cast of the comic book heroes of all, Superman (he was perfect, that sort of dopy, nice manners, etc., perfection). One shudders to think of the ever impending, Spiderman, Don. yours, Peter T. |
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12 Aug 01 - 12:35 AM (#526004) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST,john c Tom Cruise in Rainman, Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach Kevin Costner in everything And the very thought of a making a Hollywood-blockbuster out of Captain Correlli just makes me sad. J. PS. Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King - absolutely BRILLIANT!!! |
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12 Aug 01 - 12:43 AM (#526006) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Justa Picker Costner WAS good in Field of Dreams, and, 13 Days...but I agree with you on the rest. |
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12 Aug 01 - 02:03 AM (#526015) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: tradsteve David Carradine as woody guthrie in "bound For Glory" |
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12 Aug 01 - 04:28 AM (#526034) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Peter Kasin Catspaw48 as Catspaw49. That flamer 48 from last year didn't have it. Nothing like our 49er! |
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12 Aug 01 - 09:48 PM (#526413) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: RangerSteve DonM - I agree, the Phantom and the Rocketeer were great movies. Early in the movie "Spartacus" our hero is identified as a Thracian. Thrace is part of Greece. Kirk Douglas is not Greek. (Trivia: Kirk Douglas isn't his real name, He's Russian. Don't know his real name, but it's long and hard to pronounce.) Charlton Heston as Moses or Ben Hur. Semitic people don't look like American Midwesterners. Mae West as a sex symbol. Leonardo DiCaprio as a man. |
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12 Aug 01 - 10:02 PM (#526421) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: JedMarum I liked Keaton as Batman - but what the hell was Julia Roberts doing in the Michael Collins movie? Totally miscast, and unfortunately outclassed. Thankfully her role was small enough ... |
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12 Aug 01 - 10:06 PM (#526424) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: JedMarum ... come to think of it; Robin Williams was a pretty poor choice for his role in Good Will Hunting. I never thought I'd say that because Robin's been one of my favorites, but he just couldn't pull off the Bostonian role ... maybe they just should have changed the character's history instead of letting him butcher the language and the character! |
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12 Aug 01 - 11:08 PM (#526446) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: RWilhelm The New York Times recently had an article about how to tell a bad movie from a really bad movie. Among the criteria for a really bad move were Robin Williams with a beard, Robin Williams without a beard, or Robin Williams wearing a yarmulke. |
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13 Aug 01 - 03:19 AM (#526522) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Seamus Kennedy Charlton Heston as Michelangelo, Tom Cruise in that Irish Thing, Woody Allen as The Incredible Hulk. Seamus |
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13 Aug 01 - 10:04 AM (#526665) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Grab Loved Michael Douglas in Batman (no-one else has matched up yet) - and Timothy Dalton as James Bond (not as good as SC, but better than the rest). Hell, we could have an entire thread just on Batmen and Bonds... :-) Nah, I think you've all missed the worst. Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, hands down, no questions asked. If ever someone needed a charisma bypass, it was that guy! Graham.
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13 Aug 01 - 10:05 AM (#526666) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST,Celtic Soul Woody Allen as the Incredible Hulk??? :D That's not a casting nightmare, that's the funniest film ever made!! ;D |
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13 Aug 01 - 11:46 AM (#526741) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Justa Picker RangerSteve, Kirk Douglas's real name is: Issur Danielovitch Demsky |
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13 Aug 01 - 12:21 PM (#526771) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Little Hawk Kirk Douglas is also a Jew. Has anybody read "The Ragman's Son" (his autobiography)? It's a GREAT book with some very funny episodes, and I highly recommend it. - LH |
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13 Aug 01 - 02:46 PM (#526890) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST,PAH I couldn't disagree with the Robin Williams thing more. I loved his performance in Good Will Hunting. I think his performance in Good Morning Viet Nam is extremely underrated. I haven't liked every movie he's been in, but I can't think of one where I felt he turned in a poor performance.
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13 Aug 01 - 02:59 PM (#526903) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Little Hawk He was great in Popeye too. - LH |
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13 Aug 01 - 03:54 PM (#526958) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Don Firth Speaking of Popeye, whoever played J. Wellington Wimpy in that movie didn't grasp the character at all. Wimpy was a cultivated gentleman (he would have you know) who was just temporarily strapped for cash. And he talked exactly like W. C. Fields. The actor who played Wimpy missed all that. Don Firth |
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13 Aug 01 - 03:58 PM (#526962) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Kim C I saw Blazing Saddles for the first time just this year and thought it was awesome. Cleavon Little's Sheriff was the only person in the whole story who had anything resembling a lick of sense. My favorite miscast is Reba McEntire as Annie Oakley in Buffalo Girls. The Annie Oakley I have read about was not red-headed, nor did she have an Oklahoma accent, since she was from Ohio. I thought the whole point of "acting" was to look and sound like the person you're portraying. Boy have I ever been deludinated. I hear she's now in Annie Get Your Gun, which really affrights me. A lot of people didn't like Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee in Gettysburg, and I have to admit, I was skeptical, but I think he did all right. |
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13 Aug 01 - 03:59 PM (#526964) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Little Hawk Correct, Don. Wimpy was the one character in that movie who was not played true to type. - LH |
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13 Aug 01 - 10:15 PM (#527327) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell's first choice to play Rhett Butler was Groucho Marx! And we wonder why writers don't get no respect in Hollywood! 180 degree about face: how about miscasting that worked out fine? I'm thinking of the "voice-acting" job that Eddy Murphy did in "Schrek". Whoever would have expected that he could portray a talkng jackass so well? (Truth is: I loved it, but that line was too much to resist.) |
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14 Aug 01 - 03:51 AM (#527474) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST,--seed Peter, about the old men cast as romantic leads in Audrey Hepburn movies...did you see her at 60 or so as an ingenue in _The Other Side of Midnight_? --seed How about Charlton Heston as Michaelangelo? Or Richard Chamberlain as Anjin-san in _Shogun_? |
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14 Aug 01 - 01:03 PM (#527780) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: bob jr a second vote for the insufferable tony curtis in taras bulba where i am sure he is a cossack and not tartar....its bad enough that his thick brooklyn accent makes hash of the dialogue but he is also suppose to be the son of YUL BRYNER ....now spot the family resemblance between those two (yul does at least look a little bit russian) and while i am on the subject how about all those movies where sean connerey plays a soviet? is he from a part of minsk known as "little glasgow"? |
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14 Aug 01 - 03:57 PM (#527972) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: LR Mole Oh, yeah... Toby McGuire is going to be Spiderman. Will it be called "The Spider-House Rules"? But, to contemplate the other side of the street, was anything ever more perfectly cast than "Barney Miller"? |
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14 Aug 01 - 04:10 PM (#527994) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: catspaw49 Hawk...."The Ragman's Son" isn't just good, it's a really excellent book where so many autobiographies are not. Kim.....You've just seen "Blazing Saddles" for the first time??? Geez, I hope you saw the uncut version, it's much funnier! AND....Regarding Annie Oakley.....Yes, she was from Darke County, Ohio and was a beautiful woman. She was an avid reader and very "refined" outside of her performances. She was also, in her private life. way outfront on the equality issues. Neat lady...... Spaw |
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14 Aug 01 - 04:59 PM (#528044) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Justa Picker How about Diane Keaton as "Kay", Michael Corleone's wife in the Godfather? (I thought she was dead wrong and horrible in that role.) |
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14 Aug 01 - 10:05 PM (#528258) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Seamus Kennedy Wally Cox as Hercules, and Paul Prud'homme in the Dom DeLuise Story. Terrible! Seamus |
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14 Aug 01 - 10:44 PM (#528289) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Justa Picker What about Larry David playing himself in his own show? |
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14 Aug 01 - 11:29 PM (#528325) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST,BigDaddy Two that I've heard are possibly forthcoming, but thankfully have not been done yet, are Julia Roberts as the female lead in a remake of "Casablanca," and Nicholas Cage as "Superman." However, we should all realize that this is a very subjective topic. Found many I can't agree with. Some of today's "best actors (male and female)," are really just personality products who got lucky by being in the right place at the right time. Some of the best have never had "boxoffice" appeal. Sometimes good books, good music and good films make the top ten/best seller/blockbuster status, and too frequently mediocrity receives as much if not more attention. Being fans/performers/afficionados of the sort of music discussed here at Mudcat, many of us no doubt realize that the best stuff out there never gets much in the way of public acclaim. |
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14 Aug 01 - 11:30 PM (#528326) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: dick greenhaus Well, a loong time ago Chuck Connors did a technicolor, 6'5" blue-eyed Geronimo. |
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15 Aug 01 - 12:34 AM (#528355) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: RangerSteve A remake of Casablanca? I'll start boycotting the theaters now. |
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15 Aug 01 - 12:55 PM (#528573) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Little Hawk Chuck Connors as Geronimo?????? Truly unbelievable. Even Bob Dylan as Geronimo would hardly be less appropriate. Thankfully, that has not been attempted. Come to think of it, Bob's been very badly miscast as himself on the odd TV appearance here and there. I suspect he just didn't really want to be there. - LH |
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15 Aug 01 - 12:56 PM (#528575) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Don Firth A remake of Casablanca??? OY! Casablanca was a very low-budget movie (cardboard airplane in the background, that sort of thing). Hollywood could spend two-hundred million on a remake and it still wouldn't come close to the original. I think one of the major problems Hollywood has had within recent years is too much money to work with. Instead of creativity and ingenuity, they just throw money at the screen. Cripe! They can't even come up with new stuff, they have to remake the classics. ('Scuse me, I get worked up sometimes) Best movie I've seen in recent years was The Sixth Sense. Highly original premise, excellent acting, and a brilliant build-up to the "McGuffin." I didn't get it until they wanted me to get it. (Just my opinion). Don Firth |
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15 Aug 01 - 01:00 PM (#528579) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Little Hawk I agree entirely, Don. - LH |
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15 Aug 01 - 02:10 PM (#528653) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Kim C Heehee! I had the Chuck Connors Geronimo! I think we unloaded it at our last yard sale. The Blazing Saddles I saw was whatever they had on the shelf at Hollywood Video. The sheriff is near! |
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16 Aug 01 - 01:55 AM (#529010) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Bugsy Gotta be John Wayne as the Centurian in "The Greatest Story Ever Told." where, in the final moments, he ruined the whole film with his one line "Truly this man was the son of God." Cheers Bugsy
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17 Aug 01 - 02:41 AM (#529947) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: GUEST John Wayne in just about anything |
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17 Aug 01 - 07:10 AM (#530013) Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever. From: Trevor How about Dick van Dyke as a lovable cockney chimneysweep (or was it bad acting rather than bad casting?) 'Woi Moiry!' |