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Your least favorite casting decisions!

[kaijinscendre]

Who were your least favorite casting decisions.


Mine is Nicholas Cage in everything except for Kick-Ass. Also Jack Black in King Kong. He is just too goofy.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

You're objectively wrong, Nic Cage is the only person who could have done what he did in Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans.

Agree with you on Jack Black, though.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[kaijinscendre]

I was scarred as a child by Nicolas Cage. He owes me money to pay for my therapy.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

I remember being really irritated about Keanu Reeves being cast in Constantine

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[kaijinscendre]

Keanu Reeves is just terrible at emoting I think. And he took part in that terrible remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

the only role Keanu would do justice to is if they continued that stupid trend of live-action versions of cartoons and did one of Beavis and Butthead. He could be Butthead. (I don't know who would be Beavis though, the guy who played Bill in Bill and Ted isn't anywhere near manicky enough.)

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[kaijinscendre]

Anything that has Johnny Depp + Helena Bonham Carter + Tim Burton is terrible.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

I agree Johnny Depp is much too overused. Tim Burton should just go have sex with Johnny Depp if he likes him so much.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[mekkio]

Ironically, everyone but Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampire. In the beginning, Anne Rice loved everyone but him. (Though she had to give it to him when the movie was done.) To me, he was exactly how I had pictured Lestat. Looks, mannerisms and arrogance. However, everyone else was awful. Even when the movie is on television, I'll only watch the parts Cruise is in.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

Tom Cruise was so awesome in that. Flouncy, predatory, and batshit insane. Those were not Lestat's most emotionally healthy years ...

Though I will say I also enjoyed Stephen Rea as Santiago. It wasn't much of a role, but he was thoroughly creepy about it. And I just like his face.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[kaijinscendre]

I LOVED Tom Cruise and hated Brad Pitt. Pitt was so fucking boring. But Cruise just made Lestat so likeable (even as he was murdering people). Pitt was basically the Angel and Lestat was the pre-chipped Spike.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

The guy who played Doctor Doom in the 2005 Fantastic Four film. Everyone was throwing a hissy fit over Jessica Alba (who admittedly was not the best choice for Sue), but I barely noticed her because I was so furious with what those movies did to Doom. I don't remember the actor's name and I've never seen him in anything else; for all I know he could actually be a fantastic actor. But he was not Doctor Doom.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[siofrabunnies]

Natalie Portman in the Thor movies. She was a lot better in the second, since she got to actually have a role, but still. I think I just don't like her acting.

The kid who played second Morgan on Boy Meets World. She irritates me so much.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[rubbertea]

Not least favourite, but I never talk about it because that's about the most unpopular fandom opinion I have: Lee Pace in The Hobbit. I have nothing against Pace (I liked him a lot in Pushing Daisies) but I didn't like his Thranduil at all. He felt more foppish than regal to me.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[queerwolf]

Only thing Nic Cage has really bothered me in was Ghost Rider.

From a purely aesthetic viewpoint: the twins on Teen Wolf. In a cast full of hot people, they do not appeal to me at all. Nothing wrong with their acting though.

Why am I blanking? There are always people I think were miscast.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed on Nicolas Cage.
The two people who played Sirius and Remus in the Harry Potter movies.
Agree with the other anon about Constantine.
Not a big fan of either movie Legolas or Thranduil.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

I've actually liked Nick Cage in quite a few things: Snake Eyes, The Rock, Bringing Out The Dead. Con Air was probably miscast, but it was the sort of movie where you honestly didn't really care once you'd made a silent promise to yourself to ignore the accent. He's had his moments, is what I'm saying.

The one time I remember being really lividly furious at a piece of casting was Cumberbatch as Khan, but I kind of don't want to start that wank all over again. I just refuse to acknowledge the movie and move on.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[neonlovechicken]

I wish Scorsese would stop casting Di Caprio. Nothing against any of them of course, they are both great.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

Jack Black as Po in Kung Fu Panda. I get the character is meant to be a klutz and immature, but Black's humor just makes him obnoxious.

The disaster that was Chris Pine as Jack Frost.

Whoever voiced Esmeralda in HoND. Her voice didn't have the strength needed for the character.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

I will never not be angry about Gerard Butler being cast as the Phantom of the Opera. I'm not a big fan of Ramin Karimloo either, but the movie would probably have been a lot more tolerable if Butler had Karimloo's non-speaking cameo role as Christine's father, and Patrick Wilson and Karimloo could have tossed a coin to decide who played Raoul and who played the Phantom. Someone who actually sounded like a believable up-and-coming opera star for Christine would have been nice too. Basically the entire cast was pretty terrible except Wilson, voice-wise. Minnie Driver doesn't count, since she was dubbed. I wish they'd dubbed everyone if they were gonna go that route, or just cast people who could actually sing. I can't really comment on the acting-- they were being directed by Joel Schumacher, so for all I know they're all fantastic actors when they don't have a crap director.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of what immediately comes to mind is comic book movies, Jessica Alba in Fantastic 4, Halle Berry in X-men, everyone except Michael Keaton who played Batman.

It's not even a "oh they were wrong for X character" thing half the time but it's a combination of 1. terrible acting 2. bad writing for that character and 3. then them also being wrong for the character. I am fine with changes from comic to big screen, but you have to have at least a little bit of respect for the character and not just "let's insert big name/hot actor here."

The X-men movies were particularly weird sometimes because you had a cross between people who knocked it out of the park and people who were so bad that they felt like they were bringing the whole movie down.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[tachyonme]

Antonio Banderas as Armand in Interview with the Vampire. I love absolutely everything else about that movie and I love him in other movies, but he was just horribly miscast in that one. (Even if they were trying to avoid Armand being seventeen, they could have gone with something else.)

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

Keanu Reeves as John Constantine and whatshisface as Thranduil. Actually most of the Elvish royalty (except Legolas) from LotR and the Hobbit, now that I think of it. None of them is as ethereally attractive as I pictured them from the books, and I really didn't care for Hugo Weaving's take on Elrond at all.

Re: Your least favorite casting decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

Martin Freeman as Bilbo. Thing is, Bilbo isn't just like a stuffy guy- he's kind of bitchy and clever and Martin Freeman doesn't seem right to me at all.