[Anomander Rake]

I have to say one of the worst casting choices I've seen has been Orlando Bloom in "Kingdom of Heaven". He just wasn't able to carry the film, the way Russell Crowe did with Gladiator. I was surprised that Ridley Scott chose Orlando for such a role.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Orlando bloom shouldn't be cast as anything ever.
I was so pissed that he was Legolas in the LOTR movies...bcs he made legolas look like a pretty boy pussy instead of the extreme badass he was in the books.

As for my worst casting choice:

Sam Jackson as Windu (I think...SW geeks help me here) in Star wars. A gangsta motha-fuckin Jedi???? COME ON! LAME!

THats it until I can think of more

[stone monkey]

I actually like Sam Jackson as Mace Windu - I mean who else would you choose to play "the second baddest motherfucka in the Galaxy"

Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane in the abomination that was Superman Returns shows that some casting directors have absolutely no idea. And that Bryan Singer is nowhere near as bright as he needs to be.

[Dr Trouble]

Samuel L "Motherfucking" Jackson was perfect for the part in my opinion. And I love Star Wars. Mace Windu was the greatest Jedi of the time, and Sam L played it perfect. Although I think they fucked his death something cruel. As if the best jedi is going to get blind sighted by Anakin. He already mistrusted him, he would have been watching his six like a mother fucker.


I think the whole cast of Cloverfield was badly cast. What a bunch of pussies.

[stone monkey]

Trouble;309509 said:

I think the whole cast of Cloverfield was badly cast. What a bunch of pussies.

I would have thought the point of that cast was that they weren't in the heroic mould; they were just a bunch of people (albeit unusually good-looking people) caught up in events they could neither control nor understand. The thing I like about Cloverfield is that all the characters are in the wrong film. They appear to be just about to start working their way through the plot of some sort of twee, coming of age film like Garden State or Elizabethtown (y'know lots of hugging, crying and learning better) when a Giant Monster Movie happens to them; which I find kinda hilarious. Of course they can't cope.

As a bunch of self indulgent, whiny, twenty-somethings I thought they were cast perfectly.

[Dr Trouble]

I guess if you look at it that way. But as I watched it in the cinema, all I could think is, "I hope they die soon! I hope they die soon!" .

Spoiler

And luckily a was rewarded

I didn't take that away from the movie as you did, which upsets me because I really wanted to like it.

[Illuyankas]

[cerveza_fiesta]

I'll add another Star wars miscast.

The stupid cockhead they got to play adult anakin. A 2x4 with a curly wig on it would have acted better in that role I think. The only way it could have been a worse miscast was if they got Keanu to do it.

I guess the Windu thing was just a personal preference more than anything. Sam Jackson just didn't fit with the other Jedi. Everybody else has (at least fake) british accents and has kind of a standoffish-look-down-their-nose-at-you attitude. Every time he opened his mouth he just ruined the illusion IMO.

[Cougar]

cerveza_fiesta;309496 said:

I was so pissed that he was Legolas in the LOTR movies...bcs he made legolas look like a pretty boy pussy instead of the extreme badass he was in the books.

Which version of LotR have you read, none of the Elves in it could be described as an 'extreme badass' skilled, fast, elegant killer maybe. I really didn't think Bloom did too bad a job. Although I've hated him in everything else cos he's a fanny.

Brad Pitt sucked as Achilles, didn't find him at all believable. Thomas Jane as the Punisher was awful.

[Sir Thursday]

Katie Holmes in Batman Begins. The rest of the cast was excellent, she was terrible and her role was unnecessary.


Sir Thursday

[cerveza_fiesta]

Cougar;309559 said:

Which version of LotR have you read, none of the Elves in it could be described as an 'extreme badass' skilled, fast, elegant killer maybe. I really didn't think Bloom did too bad a job. Although I've hated him in everything else cos he's a fanny.

Brad Pitt sucked as Achilles, didn't find him at all believable. Thomas Jane as the Punisher was awful.

Maybe extreme badass was a poor descriptor. He was just one of my fave characters from the books. I always dug the nature-loving and magical but somehow also violent and efficient killer elf persona thing. Bloom just seemed to play up the gayer traits of the elves like gracefulness and wistful looks-into-the-distance, while playing down the awesome traits like nobility, smugness and ridiculous martial prowess that would come with living and training for centuries.

[Macros]

Viggo mortenson as argaorn, I like Viggo, I think hes a good actor but he just didn't do the character justice at all.
The opening sequence for troy I was thinking, 'maybe brad can pull it off' but he fell flat on his face after that.
The Guy cast as Elrond, all I could think was "Mr Anderson" everytime he spoke.
The entire cast of the last legion bar the super hot chick (I must investigate who the hell she is actually) but in hindsight on that comment, no cast could save that awful film.
George Lasenby as Bond

On the other side of that coin, brilliant casting - Sean bean as Boromir, Eric Banha (sp?) as Hector (though I would to see Gemmells troy cinimised well with hector being a real badass)
Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf,
Hugh Jackman as the wolverine

[caladanbrood]

Illuyankas;309527 said:

AHAHA!!

I second George Lazenby as Bond - the worst Bond ever, although he did have a crap script too.


Add to the "never should be cast as anything, ever" list, Keanu Reeves.

[Cougar]

caladanbrood+;309615 said:

AHAHA!!

I second George Lazenby as Bond - the worst Bond ever, although he did have a crap script too.

I'll take your George Lazenby and raise you one Timothy Dalton:

1. Bond is not Welsh

2. Dalton should have stuck to being lord of the forest

3. At least Lazenby looks half capable in a ruck, Dalton and lets be fair Roger Moore would have struggled to take on an angry grandma.

[Aptorian]

What are you talking about? the mighty Judo-CHOP! will floor anyone who enters Roger Moores killing zone.

[Battalion]

I'll back any mass brawl supporting Roger Moore.

Back on the subject, the King Pin in that woeful (almost as bad as Ghost Rider), super hero movie, DareDevil. The guy is ... black? King Pin is ... not.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Roger moore does look like my dad and is kinda silly running around perving it up with all the (obviously) much younger babes...but that's kinda why he's awesome. Plus his are some of the best scripts in the bond series. Moore FTW.

[stone monkey]

caladanbrood+;309615 said:

I second George Lazenby as Bond - the worst Bond ever, although he did have a crap script too.

I suspect that OHMSS would have been the Best Bond Film Evertm had Sean Connery still been playing Bond and had they ditched the, very stupid, middle act for something a little more sensible.

[caladanbrood]

Controversial. The middle is certainly what killed it, it's true. But still, I'm not sure even Sir Sean would have been able to save it.


@Coogs - he's not Scottish either, but Connery was still the best Bond.

[stone monkey]

It certainly has the best plot of that era's Bond movies:

Spoiler

Bond actually falls in love and marries only to have his wife murdered by his arch-enemy Blofeld on his wedding day.

And it has the best song of any Bond movie.