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Post by Morgana on Aug 29, 2018 13:44:05 GMT
Forgive if this has been recently discussed. I would be curious to see if anyone could come up with a casting choice worse than this one: This man . . . . Portraying this man! What the hell was Scorsese thinking? David Carradine playing a Chinese kung-fu master.
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Post by amyghost on Aug 29, 2018 18:12:51 GMT
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock. Looked and sounded like exactly what it was: someone doing a bad impersonation of Alfred Hitchcock. Agreed...one of Hopkins' few real ball drops in a performance. Oddly enough, I thought he was weird casting when tapped for the title role in Nixon, but he was brilliant in that. Didn't look much like the real Tricky Dick, but he captured the essence of the man so well you completely ignored that.
The Toby Jones Hitchcock, while somewhat closer, wasn't really much better.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 29, 2018 21:16:16 GMT
I thought David Carradine was playing a mixed race guy, not a Chinese Kung Fu master, even though people kept calling him the Chinaman.
Actually though-I agree that Bruce Lee would have been WRONG for it. He looked too pissed off to be convincing as the mild guy who gets pushed into fights.
Carradine had the right temperament.
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Post by deembastille on Aug 29, 2018 22:24:35 GMT
anne heche in anything where she plays a heterosexual. sorry. she just can't do it.
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Post by deembastille on Aug 29, 2018 22:45:48 GMT
this wins... this spindly little white boy on the left... portraying this 'A.C. SLATER' IRANIAN DUDE... Was Mario lopez not available? heck, Michael cade would have done in a pinch!
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Post by jimanchower on Aug 30, 2018 10:05:37 GMT
Forgive if this has been recently discussed. I would be curious to see if anyone could come up with a casting choice worse than this one: This man . . . . Portraying this man! What the hell was Scorsese thinking? Decaprio is an OK actor but he looks like a kid so there are few roles he's believable in for me. Some of the worst casting I've ever seen was DeCaprio in Gangs of New York. He and the female lead, I think it was Cameron Diaz, were just totally miscast. Anytime DeCaprio has to play a tough guy it's just laughable. He was blown off the screen by Day Lewis in GONY and the rest of the supporting cast.
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Post by Bargle on Aug 30, 2018 12:18:56 GMT
I remember back when they were starting the first Christopher Reeve/Superman movie and they announced Marlon Brando would be playing Superman's father. I thought 'Hey, he'll make a great Pa Kent'. Me and the producers weren't quite on the same wavelength.
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Post by str8carter on Aug 30, 2018 21:37:52 GMT
I remember back when they were starting the first Christopher Reeve/Superman movie and they announced Marlon Brando would be playing Superman's father. I thought 'Hey, he'll make a great Pa Kent'. Me and the producers weren't quite on the same wavelength. LOL. Brando is miscast in ANY role where he's not a tortured character, and there's few I can think of.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 1, 2018 21:30:19 GMT
Decaprio is an OK actor but he looks like a kid so there are few roles he's believable in for me. Some of the worst casting I've ever seen was DeCaprio in Gangs of New York. He and the female lead, I think it was Cameron Diaz, were just totally miscast. Anytime DeCaprio has to play a tough guy it's just laughable. He was blown off the screen by Day Lewis in GONY and the rest of the supporting cast. Yeah he started off playing mentally retarded teenagers and wimpy types. Granted, Lon Chaney Jr also played a mentally retarded character but he was a BIG guy-that was the whole point of it, a gentle giant. DiCaprio is shoehorned into roles he is definitely not ideal for.
Now he is playing a former tv western star in Tarantino's next film. So-is he supposed to be James Arness or Dennis Weaver? Because he is closer to the latter.
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Post by Morgana on Sept 7, 2018 8:11:08 GMT
I thought David Carradine was playing a mixed race guy, not a Chinese Kung Fu master, even though people kept calling him the Chinaman. Actually though-I agree that Bruce Lee would have been WRONG for it. He looked too pissed off to be convincing as the mild guy who gets pushed into fights. Carradine had the right temperament. Bruce Lee would have been more convincing that Carradine, I don't care how pissed off he might have looked.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 7, 2018 8:15:37 GMT
Bruce Lee would have been more convincing that Carradine, As a fighter not as the character. Not to mention his pronounced accent.
Keye Luke or James Hong he was not.
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Post by Morgana on Sept 7, 2018 8:19:19 GMT
Bruce Lee would have been more convincing that Carradine, As a fighter not as the character. Not to mention his pronounced accent.
Keye Luke or James Hong he was not.
You are probably right. I was just pissed off they chose an American to play a Chinese character, and I've never been a fan of Carradine.
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Post by ellynmacg on Oct 27, 2018 6:57:20 GMT
Donald O'Connor as Buster Keaton.
Much as I love DO'C, he looked nothing like Keaton, his style of acting was nothing like Keaton, his voice was nothing like Keaton's...I mean, COME ON!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2018 21:14:42 GMT
What the hell was Scorsese thinking? Probably something like "I want a quality actor and don't really give a shit if it looks like the actual guy".
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 2, 2018 4:23:28 GMT
Charlese Theron as Aileen Wuornos in MONSTER . There are no actresses in Hollywood that don't need makeup to look "unattractive" ?
Ditto adding a nose to Nicole Kidman to play Virginia Woolf in THE HOURS.
Cutting Kathy Bates out of a play that had been written for her and having Michelle Pfeiffer play HER role in FRANKIE AND JOHNNY.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 2, 2018 21:05:43 GMT
Charlese Theron as Aileen Wuornos in MONSTER . There are no actresses in Hollywood that don't need makeup to look "unattractive" ? Ditto adding a nose to Nicole Kidman to play Virginia Woolf in THE HOURS. Cutting Kathy Bates out of a play that had been written for her and having Michelle Pfeiffer play HER role in FRANKIE AND JOHNNY. Cannot stand the trend of 'no-makeup acting'. As though leaving the Max Factor at home makes an otherwise mediocre actress a great thespic talent. I'm to the point of actively avoiding films that engage in this stunt.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 2, 2018 21:06:46 GMT
Donald O'Connor as Buster Keaton. Much as I love DO'C, he looked nothing like Keaton, his style of acting was nothing like Keaton, his voice was nothing like Keaton's...I mean, COME ON!!! Amen to that. I'd love to see a good Keaton biopic, but who on earth could play him?
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Post by kleinreturns on Nov 3, 2018 2:06:52 GMT
Marky Mark when he's playing someone who's supposed to be intelligent LOL!!!!!
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 14, 2018 20:01:18 GMT
Started a thread on this on the Classic Film board. John Wayne in The Conqueror was my 2nd choice. And Henry Fonda in the 1956 War and Peace was my choice. He was too old by about 35 years and too American by a country mile.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 14, 2018 21:44:20 GMT
Peter Fonda in FIGHTING MAD.
He plays a country boy who fights a land developer and goes Rambo in the last act. The scene where he beats up a bunch of construction workers is just so ridiculous--the most ridiculous fight scene since George Hamilton beat up Charles Bronson in A THUNDER OF DRUMS.
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