| Miscasting 15:01 - Apr 13 with 9985 views | E17hoop |
I saw an episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent the other day. It was a later series when Vincent D'onofrio wasn't doing every episode. The lead detective? Jeff Goldblum. Overacting, trying to take the limelight from the collective.
What are the worst examples of miscasting that stand out to you from film and TV? |  |
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| Miscasting on 06:49 - Apr 14 with 1947 views | Gus_iom |
Glenn Close in Hillbilly elegy. Supposed to be the gran who has lived a dirt-poor, tough life, but presents as pure, face-lifted, Hollywood. I turned off pretty much as soon as she appeared.
It makes me worry about who'll play me in 'council house scum dirge' |  |
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| Miscasting on 07:01 - Apr 14 with 1915 views | nix |
| Miscasting on 06:22 - Apr 14 by Paddyhoops |
I thought Brosnan was quite entertaining in that . Probably for the wrong reasons., |
If you’ve read the books he was terrible. Even worse than the Jack Reacher casting by Executive Producer Tom Cruise of actor Tom Cruise. The TV show for that is so much better because the actor is six foot four as is the character in the book which is such a big part of his identity.
It maybe would have worked as a spoof but I wonder if the producers just read the script and not the original books. I’m guessing he was the only ‘name’ they could find to take the role but it really didn’t work and was an embarrassment. Ray Winstone would have been much better casting. |  | | |
| Miscasting on 07:26 - Apr 14 with 1876 views | paddyhdog |
John Lithgow as Churchill in The Crown was a odd one. A giant American who just couldn't get the accent right.
Then again it's a really hard role to nail. Lots of great actors have struggled. Oldman won an Oscar but for me doesn't lay a hand on the ultimate depiction by Albert Finney in the Gathering Storm | | | |
| Miscasting on 10:58 - Apr 14 with 1729 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Miscasting on 07:26 - Apr 14 by paddyhdog |
John Lithgow as Churchill in The Crown was a odd one. A giant American who just couldn't get the accent right.
Then again it's a really hard role to nail. Lots of great actors have struggled. Oldman won an Oscar but for me doesn't lay a hand on the ultimate depiction by Albert Finney in the Gathering Storm |
He somehow made him sound anxious and camp. [Post edited 14 Apr 10:59]
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| Miscasting on 11:04 - Apr 14 with 1722 views | robith |
| Miscasting on 16:46 - Apr 13 by Watford_Ranger |
Watched Saipan the other day. Steve Coogan as Mick McCarthy shouldn’t have happened. Watchable film though and McCarthy/Keane aren’t easy characters to play. The guy who played Keane was excellent in a film which essentially isn’t about much.
Honorary mentions for the small parts they gave to play the roles of Clinton Morrison, Steven Reid and Niall Quinn. |
I thought they did an amazing job, really enjoyed the film, The Confrontation scene was amazingly well done, but yeah McCarthy being played as Partridge really took away from it. Guess they needed a name to get it greenlit |  | | |
| Miscasting on 11:05 - Apr 14 with 1717 views | robith |
| Miscasting on 21:12 - Apr 13 by BrianMcCarthy |
Ha ha!!
And Brosnan is Irish, and all!
Nix - great call on him in the Thursday Murder Club. God, he's way out of place in it. |
I love it when Irish actors can't do Irish accents - I'm looking at you Aiden Gillen | | | |
| Miscasting on 11:12 - Apr 14 with 1705 views | robith |
Recently started on Strange New Worlds. Not a huge fan of Nu Trek as it kinda misses the point of what it's supposed to be about (too much action! It's supposed to be optimistic! why is everyone a secret spy or an assassin!), but despite some quibbles, SNW mostly gets it right and it feels refreshing just having a story of the week like TOS.
BUT.
That lad they have as Young Kirk who appears now and again is so badly miscast.
He's so slight. Kirk has a build to him. He's played so weirdly; he's both too flippant and too serious. There's something that I can't quite put my finger on but he's just not Kirk (unlike Ethan Peck who absolutely carries the show as Spock) | | | |
| Miscasting on 11:43 - Apr 14 with 1680 views | NorrisGreen |
Last two Bond films had awful baddies.
Remi Malek was feeble and pathetic. Had the heft, threat and menace of a soggy paper bag.
Christophe Waltz wasn't much better, totally unthreatening and lame. | | | |
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| Miscasting on 11:51 - Apr 14 with 1667 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Miscasting on 21:52 - Apr 13 by Clive_Anderson |
The bloke who played Moriarty in Sherlock is the most annoying person on the planet. |
They did a short series of the Talented Mr Ripley, just called 'Ripley' and he was terrible in that as well.
Vacant does not equal psychopath |  | | |
| Miscasting on 11:52 - Apr 14 with 1666 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Miscasting on 21:12 - Apr 13 by BrianMcCarthy |
Ha ha!!
And Brosnan is Irish, and all!
Nix - great call on him in the Thursday Murder Club. God, he's way out of place in it. |
I think he addressed this in an interview I saw, he reckons he's trying to do a Cork accent or some nonsense | | | |
| Miscasting on 12:19 - Apr 14 with 1628 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Miscasting on 11:52 - Apr 14 by nick_hammersmith |
I think he addressed this in an interview I saw, he reckons he's trying to do a Cork accent or some nonsense |
I thought I'd imagined that, Nick.
It's like he's trying to do Neeson's version of the Cork accent from 'Michael Collins'. |  |
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| Miscasting on 12:45 - Apr 14 with 1576 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Miscasting on 11:12 - Apr 14 by robith |
Recently started on Strange New Worlds. Not a huge fan of Nu Trek as it kinda misses the point of what it's supposed to be about (too much action! It's supposed to be optimistic! why is everyone a secret spy or an assassin!), but despite some quibbles, SNW mostly gets it right and it feels refreshing just having a story of the week like TOS.
BUT.
That lad they have as Young Kirk who appears now and again is so badly miscast.
He's so slight. Kirk has a build to him. He's played so weirdly; he's both too flippant and too serious. There's something that I can't quite put my finger on but he's just not Kirk (unlike Ethan Peck who absolutely carries the show as Spock) |
I'm on series 3, I'm enjoying it and I hate all the other reboots.
Agree about Kirk he reminds me of the dude in 'Bewitched' (the 60's show not the Irish girlband) Spock is superb, the episode where the 'Mixed instructions' causes the entity to fix him wrong made me laugh out loud.
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| Miscasting on 13:08 - Apr 14 with 1536 views | hubble |
Talking of bad accents, I found Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi so wooden, I couldn't watch the movie. |  |
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| Miscasting on 15:06 - Apr 14 with 1462 views | bosh67 |
| Miscasting on 13:08 - Apr 14 by hubble |
Talking of bad accents, I found Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi so wooden, I couldn't watch the movie. |
To be fair I don't think Ewan McGregor was the main problem with the prequels. Just about everything was wrong about them. And no offence to Jake Lloyd, who plays Anakin, but he was seriously miscast but then the whole idea of Phantom Menace was horrendous, so a kid that looks like he should be in an episode of The Waltons again isn't the biggest issue. |  |
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| Miscasting on 16:04 - Apr 14 with 1429 views | E17hoop |
| Miscasting on 11:05 - Apr 14 by robith |
I love it when Irish actors can't do Irish accents - I'm looking at you Aiden Gillen |
Irish accents? Sean Bean in Patriot Games.
For miscasting, I'd pushed Sophia Coppola's performance in Godfather 3 out of my mind. And now it's back. | |
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| Miscasting on 16:32 - Apr 14 with 1368 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
| Miscasting on 16:04 - Apr 14 by E17hoop |
Irish accents? Sean Bean in Patriot Games.
For miscasting, I'd pushed Sophia Coppola's performance in Godfather 3 out of my mind. And now it's back. |
Irish accents you say? Try The Devils Own, starring Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford from 1997. Pitts Belfast Irish accent is a marvel in its own right.
At least Ford was playing an Irish/American so could avoid the accent.
Dreadful film as well. Nothing like glamourising the IRA for an American audience. | |
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| Miscasting on 16:49 - Apr 14 with 1340 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Miscasting on 16:32 - Apr 14 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
Irish accents you say? Try The Devils Own, starring Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford from 1997. Pitts Belfast Irish accent is a marvel in its own right.
At least Ford was playing an Irish/American so could avoid the accent.
Dreadful film as well. Nothing like glamourising the IRA for an American audience. |
I get the feeling that Brad Pitt has spent a large part of his life with people telling him he's great at everything and has little self awareness left at this point.
Hi traveller accent in Snatch was also a thing of beauty.
In the last film I saw him in it looked like he'd convinced himself he could actually drive an F1 car... | | | |
| Miscasting on 16:50 - Apr 14 with 1340 views | Northernr |
| Miscasting on 16:03 - Apr 13 by BrianMcCarthy |
Sean Connery as the Russian submarine commander from, ahm, Scotland. |
I absolutely love that they start that film talking Russian, then about three minutes in Sam Neill reads a bit of a poem, we zoom in on his mouth, zoom back out again, and that's the end of that nonsense.  |  | | |
| Miscasting on 16:51 - Apr 14 with 1337 views | lightwaterhoop |
Joaquin Phoenix was terrible playing Napoleon Bonaparte.He cant have done any research whatsoever. | | | |
| Miscasting on 17:03 - Apr 14 with 1307 views | hubble |
| Miscasting on 15:06 - Apr 14 by bosh67 |
To be fair I don't think Ewan McGregor was the main problem with the prequels. Just about everything was wrong about them. And no offence to Jake Lloyd, who plays Anakin, but he was seriously miscast but then the whole idea of Phantom Menace was horrendous, so a kid that looks like he should be in an episode of The Waltons again isn't the biggest issue. |
McGregor was enough to put me off the prequels on his own, but I agree with everything else you say. The fact that Lucas chose to shoot all those later movies inside a studio and CGI all the backgrounds was also a massive problem.
Coincidentally, I was writing a movie in Sydney when they were filming one of them there in Fox Studios, and a friend got me onto the set. So I got to handle the lightsabers that they used. Whether that's cool or not, I don't know! | |
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| Miscasting on 17:11 - Apr 14 with 1285 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Speaking of poor Irish accents, Jonathan Pryce in 'Ronin' wasn't great and neither was Natascha McElhone's for that natter. One of my fave films, though. |  |
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| Miscasting on 18:47 - Apr 14 with 1232 views | Paddyhoops |
| Miscasting on 16:32 - Apr 14 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
Irish accents you say? Try The Devils Own, starring Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford from 1997. Pitts Belfast Irish accent is a marvel in its own right.
At least Ford was playing an Irish/American so could avoid the accent.
Dreadful film as well. Nothing like glamourising the IRA for an American audience. |
The Irish accent is a tough one to nail . Judi Dench struggles with the Northern Ireland accent in Belfast but does a cracking west of Ireland accent in Philomena.
Love that film . | | | |
| Miscasting on 21:11 - Apr 14 with 1161 views | Dorse |
| Miscasting on 17:03 - Apr 14 by hubble |
McGregor was enough to put me off the prequels on his own, but I agree with everything else you say. The fact that Lucas chose to shoot all those later movies inside a studio and CGI all the backgrounds was also a massive problem.
Coincidentally, I was writing a movie in Sydney when they were filming one of them there in Fox Studios, and a friend got me onto the set. So I got to handle the lightsabers that they used. Whether that's cool or not, I don't know! |
The votes from the Dorse jury are in: it is officially cool. |  |
| 'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!' |
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| Miscasting on 07:40 - Apr 15 with 1055 views | 100percent |
Leonardo Dicaprio in the Departed for me.
Totally unconvincing as anything near threatening or menacing - ruins the storyline for me.
Oddly, he's totally convincing in the Wolf of Wall St though,,,, tends to excel at the slimy roles... |  | | |
| Miscasting on 08:43 - Apr 15 with 994 views | TheChef |
| Miscasting on 18:47 - Apr 14 by Paddyhoops |
The Irish accent is a tough one to nail . Judi Dench struggles with the Northern Ireland accent in Belfast but does a cracking west of Ireland accent in Philomena.
Love that film . |
Pfft not that hard, just channel your inner Jim McDonald.
So it is. |  |
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