John Wayne playing the Centurion at the foot of the cross of Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told. Surely dis was da Son o God
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Chevy Chase as Pierce on Community.
It's debatably a perfect casting because the charcter is a rich, arrogant, racist, sexist out of touch ass... and so is Chevy. He did excellent in the role and was hilarious more often than not. But because he is such a PoS who wasn't really acting, the cast, writers and crew all hated working with him and then he became a very clear burden on the entire show. Resulting in him being semi killed off, but kept appearing in convulated ways? It would've been better for everyone if he was recast right from the start.
I couldn't disagree more. Like you said, he's perfect casting. Chevy was always a bit if a dick, that was his character in every film he's ever been in. The problem, as you correctly pointed out, is that it wasn't an act.
As he got older his shitty behavior got worse and worse. If he could have humbled him self a bit and not been a burden I expect he would have stuck around.
I can't think of a single actor who could have played the role better.
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But that still makes him the perfect casting.
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I don't see how all the responses aren't Anthony Mackie in altered carbon s2.
Because it doesn't matter who you cast in Altered Carbon season 2. Joel Kinnaman absolutely nailed it in season 1 and while I understand the story of why he is replaced, it just doesn't work. No one could have taken the role. Not that Mackie did the role any favors, but it was an uphill battle from day 1.
Kinnaman nailed the roll. season 2 had so many problems that I don't think it's fair to put the blame on Mackie.
I think it's more a problem with the new showrunner being bad at their job. The show in season 2 didn't know what tone to go for or how to structure scene.
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They could have put someone good who pretended to understand the source.
Fucking smell the fart acting in a high concept scifi.
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I didn't watch season two only because they cast Mackie, who is wooden and vanilla in everything. I don't understand how he's an actor.
Anything played by Ezra Miller.
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One of the things that annoys me the most is when the heroes go into a dingy greasy spoon diner in the middle of nowhere and the waitress looks like a cover model. And then, because it costs more if the actress has lines, the heroes don't even interact with her.
American productions don't allow for normie women; they all have to look like rock stars.
Kathy Bates went for an audition for the Sylvester Stallone movie, 'Paradise Alley.' She told Stallone she'd read the script and every single woman was described as 'beautiful.'
Another story I like. I saw "Erin Brockovich" with Julia Roberts. At one point in the movie Roberts interacts with a beautiful waitress. I rolled my eyes but at the end of the movie I checked the credits. The waitress was a cameo by the real Erin Brockovich.
It's especially gross in something like ready player one. I know it's already a shit ass movie, but in the book, i'm pretty sure the people are described as pretty normal or uglier and fatter. The love interest is supposed to be "ugly" and they casted a beautiful woman and drew a scar on her face. But not an ugly scar, because someone might not be able to jerk off to her. Or game of thrones. No one is really as ugly as they are supposed to be.
That's why I don't like american tv shows as much. Mand di i love the Inbetweeners or peep show for example. When real people play real people. Not 30 year old top models play 16 year olds. And the have one fat extra to make fun of.
I always like Buffy The Vampire Slayer. They tried to play off that Alyson Hannigan was the 'plain' looking girl.
My son, who is an actor and a cinephile, complains about how movies and shows all have actors who look like actors, and don't look like real people. He often talks about "iPhone Face," where a character in a period piece like a 19th century western, looks like they know what an iPhone is.
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Luis Guzman is one of my favorite New York actors. Born and raised in the City, trained in the City, always played NYC locals. Maybe a cop, maybe a psycho, but always a New York City guy.
One day his agent calls him; they want him for a movie, The Count of Monte Cristo. He's flabbergasted. He plays New York, that's what he does. But he goes in and auditions and they decide they want him.
I remember seeing him and recognizing him and saying 'no way.' Then he starts acting and it's like, yeah, there were Puerto Ricans in the 1800s.
Yeah, I love him, too. He's always great.
My wife loves Asian period dramas and this is a hugely common thing that drives me nuts. It doesn't matter if you've got period clothing and scenery etc. If the "lowly common girl" has a perfect complexion, teeth, and obvious cosmetics it just breaks it.
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This is one of the good things British shows have. People looks like people.
Almost every actor cast in Borderlands.
They got a funny man to play the straight man. A woman almost twice the age of Lilith in the game to play Lilith. Jack Black as Claptrap at least makes some sense, but it's not his usual energy and then they tweaked his voice so much I can't tell it's him from clips I've seen.
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Common in Silo. The guy is only good as one-dimensional characters, nothing more than that.
Agreed. They’re supposed to be living for centuries in this silo, and every time I saw him walk on screen with his signature leather jacket I cringed. You just know somebody had to argue that he looked out of place, but he likely insisted he keep his look or not take the role at all.
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I think he was fine in the earlier season(s) (what season are they on now?) but agree he still acts the same after the "change" (to not spoil anything).
Yup, because in the beginning his character was one-dimensional. As time goes by, his character gets more depth and that’s where you notice he’s still playing it the same way.
Anything Mark Wahlberg is in. I've never seen him do a good performance, and I've seen him do a LOT of terrible ones. Mediocre is the best he's got. And yet, he is sure he's going to get an Oscar one day.
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Only tv, or movies too? I vote mark wahlberg as sully from uncharted
You remember that abomination that was Aladdin (2019)? The actor who played Jafar wasn't even scary, and IMO Jason Mantzoukas would have nailed it and made the movie a little more tolerable to watch.
I saw that in theaters because me and a couple friends thought it might be good/fun or whatever, but the movie ended up just being okay. It's just another thing that exists.
That's pretty much all the live action Disney remakes. Like, they're certainly movies, but that's about it.
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I love how just about everyone below cites movies rather than TV. But theaters are dead now so what's the difference?
I have one: In the extremely mediocre Sahara (the 2005 adaptation of a Clive Cussler novel and why Clive Cussler never again allowed one of his books to be made into a movie) Steve Zahn cast as the "Burly little Italian" Al Giordino.
That movie was so strange. It had all the pieces for a franchise including big name stars, but it was just so bad.
I was something of a Dirk Pitt fan in my teens, I've got 18 of the Dirk Pitt books (also five of the Isaac Bell series and one Oregon Files books, I have a whole Cussler section) including Sahara. It's the 11th book in the Dirk Pitt series.
It's the second attempt at a Dirk Pitt movie, in 1980 they adapted the fourth book, Raise The Titanic. It's even worse.
At first glance it might be easy to picture a series of movies based on Dirk Pitt books, but if you start thinking about it, 1. the books are all pretty formulaic, same general plot of handsome tall guy punches a captain planet villain and rescues the treasure/women, 2. Sahara is one of the more straightforward ones to film; other books you'll need much weirder settings varying from the ocean depths to the surface of the moon at one point, 3. each book is a bigger story than will fit in a movie. A bunch of stuff had to be trimmed out of Sahara to make the movie, kind of like they did with The Martian.
There's also a lot of shit that went wrong behind the scenes, the budget exploded, apparently there were bribes paid to the Moroccan government, and Cussler and the production company sued each other, with Cussler losing to the tune of $20 million.
All in order to produce a movie that lost its ass at the box office and failed to make any cultural impact at all.
The show runner for Mad Men cast his own son as 'Glen', and that kid was a terrible actor (he's an adult now obvs, so I consider his performance fair game for criticism).
Why wouldn't a kid's performance be fair to criticize? It's not like we're harassing them on social media.
It's usually best to given 'em the benefit of the doubt, as a bad performance by a child actor is often more due to the director than the kid.
I would've suggested the girl sally. They clearly wanted a teenager to go through the 60s but the actress ended up looking permanently 13.
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There was a miniseries about OJ Simpson and the trial and everything. They cast Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson. OJ Simpson has a square jaw, broad shoulders, tall athletic. CGJr is small, round, narrow, high pitched, etc. CGJr doesn't even look like he could be OJ's little brother. No idea how he got that part.
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Anything involving Pat Hingle.
Going a bit off topic into movie, but he simply isn't Jim Gordon in the Batman films. Straight up. Does not fit in any way. I don't look at him and see Gordon. I see Hingle. And I don't like Hingle.
That stems morstly from his Murder She Wrote appearances, where I always find him to be the weak link in the guest cast. (To somewhat bring it back on topic).
Contrast that to i.e. J Jonah Jameson in the Tobie McGuire Spider Man movies. I was absolutely floored to see how they managed to get somebody who fit they look, attitude and mannerisms of what was pretty much a relatively low-screen-time side-character.
Actually in general I'd say the casting choices for the first two movies contributed very strongly to their success. So many of them just fit.
Dane DeHan in Valerean. The part was for an older Han Solo type. Dane was 35, but could still pass for a high schooler. The movie mostly now gets remembered for this miscast, and for its immensely interesting opening sequence, but the whole movie is made of action set pieces made out of sci fi insanity It should be remembered for that, and that Luc Besson is a grooming creepazoid.
Also, Timothy Chalamet. He was terrible in Dune, but I think he was most miscast as Willy Wonka. Hes always wooden, but Wonka needs to be animated! Cinema was introduced to the character with a fake fall into a back flip! Jeremy Alan White is right there!
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