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⌈ Secret Post #4022 ⌋

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In movies or TV. And who would you have casted instead?

Honestly, anytime they cast someone who cannot sing in a musical. I don't mean someone whose voice you just don't like (yeah, some idiots judge talent this way), I mean someone who does not have a musical background and/or a natural ability to sing.

Russel Crowe as Javert. Related to the post above me lol

Any really really stupid whitewashing, where the characters are conspicuously non-white in the original. Like the cast of The Last Airbender. Well, mostly Katara and Sokka, I was indifferent about the Aang kid, because non-Asian or not, he looked like Aang. The others were ridiculous.

On that line of thought, it doesn't work any better the other way around. For example, the casting of The Human Torch in the latest FF movie.

I don't care about race-changing unless the character's ethnic culture is important to the series, tbh. In the case of The Last Airbender, visuals inspired from various Asian/etc. cultures were used, so the characters should have matched.

To be fair, there was a whole lot wrong with that movie than Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch.

Keanu Reaves in Much Ado About Nothing.
Hugo Weaving in the LOTR Trilogy (sorry, Hugo, I love you, but you aren't Elrond).

Also, Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula. And pretty much anything else where he's trying to do accents.

the only movie where Keanu Reeves would fit in is if he was Butthead in a live action Beavis and Butthead (don't know who would play Beavis, though, the guy who played Bill in Bill and Ted isn't manicky enough).

Oh, I'm going to catch shit for this, but either Chris Evans was miscast or all the other Avengers were miscast in the MCU. He's just way too young to be the Captain America for that group of Avengers. And yeah, ScarJo and Hemsworth are younger, but they don't seem as green. Hemsworth, at least, has the righteous anger down. When Evans tries it, it just comes off as pissy. Although to be fair, I don't know if that's on Evans or if that's just how he's being directed.

Too young? He is mid 20s in the movie. How is that too young?

Because one half of the Avengers are twice his age and the other half convincingly act like they are? Cap's supposed to be the physically (as opposed to chronologically) about the same age as the rest of team and emotionally more mature than most of them. Instead he's physically younger than most of them and emotionally less mature than everyone except Iron Man. So, either you keep Chris Evans and recast everyone else, direct Chris to act like more of a leader and hope he can pull it off, or recast him.

Re: What are some of the worst castings you've seen?

(Anonymous) - 2018-01-08 00:02 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What are some of the worst castings you've seen?

tabaqui - 2018-01-08 00:47 (UTC) - Expand

There are a few but the most recent for me is Emma Watson as Belle. She can't really sing and that's crucial for a musical. I was fine with the casting when I thought it was going to be a reimagining like Maleficent. She also had a lot demands, like not wearing corsets, and making random changes to Belle's character.

I swear I can't remember the last time there was a decent casting of Robin Hood for a RH TV show or movie.* Kevin Costner was too out of shape and American. Russell Crowe was too old and out of shape and even though Cate Blanchett is only five years younger, she makes him look like a withered sack of potatoes. That ridiculous scrawny boy band member with the bad hair they cast in the BBC Robin Hood isn't even worth mentioning.

* Except for Cary Elwes in Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

withered sack of potatoes

:'D

+1 The only good Robin Hoods I can remember are Cary Elwes and a cartoon fox.

Robin of Sherwood?

Also... Gerard Butler in both Dracula 2000 and The Phantom of the Opera. Seriously, WTF were they thinking?

I dunno, the premise of Dracula 2000 was so weird I can’t really get upset that they cast a Scotsman as Judas. Totally with you on Phantom, if for no other reason than his complete inability to sing. He sounded like Bullwinkle the moose.

It's hard to top John Wayne as Gengis Khan.

Keanu Reeves as Prince Siddhartha?

Re: What are some of the worst castings you've seen?

(Anonymous) - 2018-01-08 00:26 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What are some of the worst castings you've seen?

(Anonymous) - 2018-01-08 01:33 (UTC) - Expand

Olivia Wilde in anything requiring emotion or a personality. >:)

hey, at least she's better than sela ward

Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan.

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