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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 1:59:52 GMT
Chloe Grace Moretz in Carrie (2013).
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Mar 5, 2018 10:56:15 GMT
Chloe Grace Moretz in Carrie (2013). /thread. But for less gregious examples, Monica Keena in Freddy vs Jason (she has a boob job and a tramp stamp and she's playing a high school virgin!) and the killer in Hush (totally unthreatening dork). |
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 5, 2018 10:59:11 GMT
The killer in Hush (totally unthreatening dork). |
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 5, 2018 13:02:59 GMT
Chloe Grace Moretz in Carrie (2013). I don't mind Moretz in the role, since the story was updated to contemporary times and she was the right age for Carrie, as per the book. Who else would you suggest? I was mostly ok with her too, but she's not weird enough to be the pariah and the freak in her school. Sissy Spacek had the anti-social awkwardness and odd look to exemplify that sort of character. As did Angela Bettis in that TV remake. Moretz was ok, but was a lot less believable as that kind of figure. |
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 5, 2018 14:49:23 GMT
Moretz was ok. It's not that her performance was bad, but she doesn't stack up against the other actresses who have played the role. That's the issue. She was age appropriate, and she handled it well, but there just wasn't the level of pain in her performance that was needed. She didn't 'fit in' but she wasn't painfully shy or painfully awkward the way she needed to be when compared to the others. It's hard to see her, the generally nice looking and pleasant Chloe Grace Moretz, and see her as someone with such a horrid inability to connect with people for so many reasons. I do think she was a miscast. Not sure who else of her age would have worked better at that time.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 5, 2018 17:20:23 GMT
Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates in Pyscho (1998)
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 5, 2018 17:34:32 GMT
Nicolas Cage in The Wicker Man remake.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 6, 2018 2:32:52 GMT
The American black and white helicopter pilots in the Thing 2011. An obvious gesture to make one think of Macready and Childs but a little too obvious and forced.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 2:37:19 GMT
Humphrey Bogart in The Return of Doctor X
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 6, 2018 2:43:12 GMT
Humphrey Bogart in The Return of Doctor X Actually I like it! Was interesting to see him doing that kind of role. In fact, the only reason I knew of him as a kid was because that film was mentioned in a horror movie book. I dont think he could have had a career making horror films like Lugosi or Karloff though. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 3:00:05 GMT
Chloe Grace Moretz in Carrie (2013). I don't mind Moretz in the role, since the story was updated to contemporary times and she was the right age for Carrie, as per the book. Who else would you suggest? Elle Fanning without makeup, for one. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 3:00:49 GMT
Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates in Pyscho (1998) I kinda liked that performance, IIRC. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 3:01:31 GMT
George C Scott in Firestarter.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 4:46:33 GMT
Keanu Reeves in 'Dracula'. If bad acting and bad accents count.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 4:51:10 GMT
Chloe Grace Moretz in Carrie (2013). Too pretty to play the role I know some said. But Carrie was pretty but just not able to pretty because of her mother. Not bad casting just not as good in the role as Sissy Spacek. |
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 4:55:22 GMT
Shelley Duvall in 'The Shining'? Going by the book she looked nothing like how she was described and the character of Wendy in the book seemed much stronger than Wendy in the film. Duvall seemed like a scream queen blubbering and crying. Bad casting or bad writing and bad character development?
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 5:23:30 GMT
Robert De Niro in Kenneth Branagh's 'Frankenstein'? Despite the make-up he just looked like Robert De Niro which was kind of distracting. Then of course you had John Cleese also as I thought at any moment he was about to do the funny walk.  |
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Post by Marv on Mar 6, 2018 9:34:11 GMT
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Mar 6, 2018 10:15:29 GMT
Chloe Grace Moretz in Carrie (2013). Too pretty to play the role I know some said. But Carrie was pretty but just not able to pretty because of her mother. Not bad casting just not as good in the role as Sissy Spacek. If you're gonna bring up The Shining's original novel, it should be pointed out that Carrie in its novel is supposed to be overweight, acne ridden, and whom "no one would call attractive". Chloe Moretz looks like someone you'd cast as Sue or Chris. Wendy is a completely different character in Kubrick's adaptation. Less the perfect goddess and more the battered housewife that would realistically stay with an alcoholic child abuser like Jack. The Carrie remake made no such modifications for the Carrie character. IIRC, no one even really knows about her mom. They cast a pretty blonde girl simply because, let's be honest, when is the last time you saw a conventionally unattractive actress leading a Hollywood movie for idiot teenagers? It's disgusting, cynical, and shallow, and I can't believe people still defend it. |
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Post by deembastille on Mar 6, 2018 11:52:52 GMT
Overweight and acne ridden? Try chunky due to her needing to lay off the chocolates. That's what the book said.
However, I always thought Carrie should have been on the thin side. Almost skin and bones. She was supposed to be more or less abused and neglected. I never got why King wrote her as even chunky... Including how she got that way... Where did she get the money for all this chocolate?
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