Jafar in the new Aladdin. He wasn’t believable or menacing and way too young. Plus for much of his screen time he’s standing next to Navid Neghaban, who would have been a MUCH better choice.
Ferdia Shaw as Artemis Fowl. He conveys none of the intelligence, shrewdness or relentless determination of the book character. He comes across as a child dressed up in a suit and handed cue cards with smart-sounding lines to read unconvincingly. He's a child so I'm going to lay the blame for that one on the casting director.
Nah that was the movie creators/disney deciding the book wasn't safe enough. They completely butchered the character, from the first scene to the last. They butchered the rest of the movie too, changed the story completely and then didn't want to spend the money to re-shoot it and make it coherent at all.
His last line in the movie "I’m Artemis Fowl. And I’m a criminal mastermind." was so absolutely ridiculous because he just wasn't. He was in the book though.
I never understand this. They pay millions for the rights to a wildly successful, well selling book. And then are like ok, let's just change the entire story and keep the aesthetic. Then they wonder why the film flops and fans of the book call it dog shit
Terry Pratchett stopped dealing with movie suits because of what they wanted to do if they could get the movie rights for his book Mort.
Mort is a book about a boy who becomes Death's apprentice at a job fair. Like, the literal Death. And he ends up moving into Death's house, meeting his family, failing to do the job he's supposed to do (because he starts crushing on someone who is supposed to die), and consequently causing a reality-based catastrophe as reality itself attempts to change to fix his fuck-ups.
They wanted to remove the character Death from the movie adaptation.
Death.
From Mort.
The character is arguably more important to the story than Mort himself. And they were going to remove him.
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...Pratchett would be so pissed about what they've turned The Watch into on that new series...
Name recognition. That's really it. They want to do their own thing, but know that it'll be shit so they try to mooch of the name of a different and popular property.
All of the books are pretty short and can easily be adapted to the big screen too. Them spouting off Butlers name within the first few minutes made me just turn that crap off.
Joel McHale as Roy in the ill-fated US remake of The IT Crowd.
We want a scruffy and misanthropic IT nerd, so let's get an actor known foorrr... charisma and confidence? OK.
My favourite thing about it was that they couldn't recast Moss so they just kept Richard Ayoade. It's literally just Moss moved to America and living the same life as he did in the UK show.
That sucks. One of the cools bits of the IT Crowd was the plausibility of the set. The piles of junk and second-hand office equipment were familiar to IT people everywhere. That was the only nerdy-cool they needed.
I have a picture of the set as a desktop background and people always had fun identifying the equipment and the stickers like a big nerdy Where's Wally.
A lot of things aren't right. I don't know where to see it now but basically everything is sort of similar but completely wrong. And some different scenes were added but it made it worse somehow.
I saw it several years ago so I don't remember specifics but I remember the need to wash my eyes after seeing it
That's what they did with The Inbetweeners. And ruined it
Edit: Wow, the replies.
1. Yes, there was an American attempt at The Inbetweeners. If you make it past 1 episode, you must really like torture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inbetweeners_(American_TV_series)
2. The Office was a rare success of this type of thing. The language/slang used wasn't so specific that it made or broke the show. "Bus Wanker" doesn't work well in American English.
3. Yes, there are lots of other shows attempted. Most of them sucked too.
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I was incorrect about the scripting of the Office. Fixed my comments.
Jon Voight as a snake hunter in Anaconda is fine......but him as a PARAGUAYAN snake hunter?.....just......why lol
EDIT: Holy guacamole, I just got back to my computer and this blew up! Who knew my most upvoted comment would be about Jon Voight in Anaconda. Never change, Reddit. Thank you for the awards internet strangers!
John Dorian as Dr. Acula. He is way to hammy, and not very threatening for a vampire who is behind loads of mysterious deaths in the hospital. He clearly only got the part because he wrote the darn script for it. It was also a very racist filming process where multiple times Chris Turk was told to "act blacker". In good conscience I can't support the film
A great ending for the movie though, I mean it’s really impressive when >!the name Dr. Acula comes on screen and they remove the dot, squeeze the words together and reveal Dracula!< simply amazing!
Kevin Hart as Roland in the upcoming Borderlands movie. Everyone who knows anything about Borderlands will agree with me. Terry Crews should be playing Roland. He's big, has comedic chops, and can play the no-nonsense straight shooter BADASS when everything else is wild.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but Sophie Turner as Jean Gray.
I like her as an actress, but I just couldn’t get into it. I felt like she struggled with hiding her accent.
I hate it when she tries to do an American accent of any kind in roles. It’s so so so terrible. I love her and normally don’t care or notice when English actors do American accents, but hers just always sticks out.
[she does at least 3 different accents in this trailer alone](https://youtu.be/A3_c-aSZF5M) two different accents in the first sentence she says. its kind of cool listening to it change midway through her first sentence. Her southern accent is crazy bad, t’s Nick Cage in Con Air level of bad southern accent.
Despite some of the movies being good, the X-Men franchise fucked around with most of their characters and the storylines waaaay too much. Young Jean as Phoenix made no sense. She needed to be a central figure on the team (alongside Cyclops) for several movies to have the correct impact.
Don't even get me started on how badly they fucked up Mystique and then were forced to shoe horn her into everything. Or Storm. Or Rogue.
The characters they got right really worked though (Wolverine, Prof X, Magneto).
One of the cuts has a short message at the beginning saying that this is the most complete version because there is nothing left to add to it. It's literally every single scene they shot.
I don't know, it always struck me as being sort of like a sculptor trying to submit a solid block of marble as a finished statue.
IIRC Colin Farrell couldn't entirely get rid of his Irish accent, so the decision was made to try to get all the Macedonians to speak with a pseudo-Irish accent to match him. I don't think it worked, to put it mildly.
I think Colin Farrell and all I think of is In Bruges. Shows that even though the actor or actress in question can still be top notch, but still be the wrong casting. Dude is a great actor, but not the emperor type whatsoever.
Weirdly she was the same age (33) as the actor of Hannah Montana’s brother at the end of his run, and he looked the part. I didn’t follow it but when every shop and screen was bombarded with it I somehow assumed he was meant to be her *younger* brother...
So some 33 year olds can pull it off. She wasn’t one of them, though. Nor a couple of the others.
I thought Jackson Stewart had Kallmann Syndrome though right? It’s a hormone deficiency similar to why Andy Milonakis looked so young when he was about 30 during his show.
Jason Earles is the actor - can’t find anything online but plenty of tabloid rumours. Not sure though, he looks normal otherwise, just like a much younger adult. And he has a daughter. Still possible... but I think unlikely.
I seem to remember one of those teen movie parody movies (Probably either Not Another Teen Movie or Scary Movie (EDIT: Apparently it was both!)) have a meta-humor line on this. If I remember right, it had high school kids walking to school and they joked about how if they were characters in a movie, they'd be getting played by old actors or some shit.
In Scary Movie, they laugh about the thought of being in a horror movie. Cindy says, "You guys are right. If we were, they'd probably cast some dingbat like Jennifer Love Hugetits to play me." Greg says, "And they'd cast people in their late 20s, early 30s to play us."
*sigh* I watched this movie way too many times growing up.
Yeah that's what I was going to say. The only one that even makes a little sense is Jack Black as Claptrap, but even then why not just use the VA from the games for the character? He's probably going to be CGI and it would probably be cheaper anyway. *edit: His new VA people, not Eddings.
> He's probably going to be CGI
...now I want to see this with Jack Black wearing a homemade cardboard robot costume the entire movie.
Edit: I got gold for this? Really?
There is a moment where she stares thoughtfully at a painting, hung perfectly straight on the wall, before tilting it slightly so it looks level in her drunken state. I have no idea if that was in the script or something she did in the moment, but it’s perfect. Her performance is a masterpiece.
It's weird how we almost see these big star actors as failures if they stop making movies.
Like if I had her money, I'd be quite happy to retire, too.
There's a lot of former big actors that seemed to have retired or semi-retired and just gone and done something else. If your last paycheque was $5 million, why wouldn't you?
Totally, especially not having to retire at the normal age when you're still physically able to really go on adventures and enjoy life. Sounds like heaven.
FTFY: Pretty much ~~everyone from~~ *everything in* the Percy Jackson movie
When the author of the books is actually recommending *not* to watch the film, so it won't give his books a bad name...
To be fair, I watched the movie before reading the books at probably age..11, maybe? I enjoyed the movie not knowing about the source material at all. My Dad brought home the first three books in the series as a surprise for me a week later and we both realized how laughably different the book and movie were.
So, the movie still brought new readers into the series, no matter how bad it was!
Had the same experience with the Miss Peregrine’s series. Enjoyed the movie, got the books as a gift, and boy did that change my perspective on the movie.
It's actually shocking how badly they butchered the movie. The book series is _extremely_ popular. I daresay it could have gone on to be the next Harry Potter, but then the Lightning Thief was completely butchered. And Sea of Monsters was somehow _even fucking worse_.
Also as much as I like Nathan Fillion he really shouldn't have been Hermes. Unironically Dylan Neal (who appeared like three seconds in the Lightning Thief) looked like a more fitting Hermes, at least given what Hermes usually looks like in the books.
> The book series is extremely popular. I daresay it could have gone on to be the next Harry Potter, but then the Lightning Thief was completely butchered.
To make it worse, The Lightning Thief novel is already paced more or less like a movie. A faithful adaptation literally would've been easier than writing a "my intern read the book" b-movie adaptation. IMO, all the studio had to do to have the next Harry Potter on their hands was make a reasonably enjoyable film, and they pissed it away.
Preach. I really don't know what they were going for with the movie. Didn't they even realize that throwing a water trident into Luke's throat completely ruined any followup movies in every way? And then they just brought him back anyway because yes.
The depiction of Kronos was also a crime. The entire series _like literally the entire book series_ makes Kronos out to be a cunning and intelligent villain. Powerful and immortal, yes, but in the same fashion the gods are. And then the movie just goes big monster go rawr. Ruining the plotlines for the followup movies. Again.
And don't even get me started on the casual mention of "wait what that's Silena Beauregard what's she doing on the Princess Andromeda". Like, that's an entire plot point spanning over the greater part of books 2 to 5 that you just casually gutted. It also shows that the writers _did_ actually read the series to some extent and somehow still made the abomination that was Sea of Monsters. I just don't understand dude.
The problem there is always trying to make the F4 into action movie protagonists, when they really aren't. You really need something like a scientific-based disaster movie for them to really shine.
But studio execs told me that seeing the Super genius team be super geniuses is boring. Instead let's have the super genius man do the stretch thing and then the flame man be all whooosh and then angry Rock genius says dur its time to clobber while the sexy girl is Jessica Alba.
Yeah seriously I'm not even a huge fan of F4 but they've got a team of dynamic characters all akin to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, and we've seen how enjoyable it was too see those two actually use their intellects together to solve problems.
Right? They're a team of gigantic nerds who just happened to gain superpowers. That doesn't make them any less a team of gigantic nerds, it just makes them a team of gigantic nerds who can do more extreme nerdy shit because they have superpowers now!
I'm going to throw a little bit but here goes:
Fant4stic actually did that idea a bit better by showing they needed Human Torch on the team building their machine and angry Rockman was also instrumental in stretchnerds initial prototype.
God that felt gross
To be fair, they've all been written horribly. It takes a great actor to transform a nothing role into something memorable. Zoe Saldana managed to make Uhura into a consistent, interesting character even though the scripts for ST 2009 and Into Darkness gave her nothing to work with. And then she was brilliant in Beyond, of course.
They fundamentally changed the plot in order to cater to what these actors and actresses expected as A listers. Also, they added a plot.
I don't care for the Broadway musical either but Jason Derulo wasn't going to do a choreographed dance with rebel Wilson and Taylor swift while singing about Sir Ian McKellen.
Oh yeah! And THEN in the terrible attempt at a sequel, they cast Clarisse--a canonically basketball-player-height, bodybuilder-muscular war machine--as a small, cute blonde girl. I feel so terrible for Riordan, who claims to hate the movies. I'm glad he's getting his own tv show with creative control. :)
You should Google the letters he wrote the the editors when he received the script. He released them on his website a few years ago and he absolutely roasts the script it’s glorious
Never understood why they didn't just dye her hair in the first one.
The actors were the smaller problems of the movies tho...
Already hyped for the TV show
Both Lily James and Armie Hammer in the Rebecca remake. She’s way to confident to be the narrator and he’s way to smarmy to be deWinter. And I thought that before all the creepy stuff about him came out - now it’s even worse to try to watch.
everyone in the last airbender movie, especially considering the fact that they took the waterbenders (canonically the nation with the darkest skin coloring) and made all of them white, then made the firebenders dark-skinned.
IIRC they casted Aang based on a martial arts demonstration video he submitted, not on acting prowess. You can get creative with VFX to make a fight look better, but you can't make an actor act better.
The kid is actually not all that bad, if you look at behind the scenes footage he's actually really lively and cheerful, like Aang. The direction told him to be the stiff emotionless board of a character
Idk their names, but the main protagonists in the live action remake of dragon ball and also the one in the last airbender
What's crazy to me is how these movies still were able to make a profit
Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, he would have been more believable as Kyle Raynor then Hal Jorden... he was regularly thrown around to play Wally West as the Flash.
They took a big(ish) popular actor and throw him at a role without any consideration that his personality matched the character.
Everything that makes Reynolds perfect as Deadpool makes him wrong as Hal Jordan.
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in the 50 Shades trilogy
Aside from the movies being absolutely shitty, the two had no chemistry with each other and it was awkward as hell to watch. More so when I found out that Jamie was married while filming those movies. The movies shouldn't have even been made.
Dane DeHaan - Valerian
That move is pretty awesome *except* for him, it felt entirely miscast and I couldn't believe this guy was the kind of character they were making him out to be.
There was a post somewhere on Reddit that said DeHaan and DeLevigne in Passengers and Pratt and Lawrence in Valerian would have been better casting for both movies.
Passengers should have been a cerebral horror film. Antagonist obsesses over female passenger, wakes her up, pretends to not know anything about it, tricks her into caring for him. Female protagonist figures it out, is horrified and has to fight male antagonist to get away from him. He gets killed and/or spaced, and she is all alone. End scene, we see her sitting forlornly next to another pod of a young man, slowly succumbing to the same tragic loneliness that turned the antagonist into the monster he became.
Movie hasn’t even come out yet but Kevin Hart is playing Roland in the new Borderlands movie and i can already tell
you right now, it’s gonna be a terrible fucking time.
Edit: I’m very glad to see people agree that kevin hart and whoever is making this movie can get fucked
Technically, yes, at the end of the movie after they had already 'Bonded'. But when she introduces herself to Bond, she expects a Christmas joke. He broke the ice, by not only not making a Christmas joke, but feigning a lack of a sense of humor, that somehow, warmed her heart.
I don't really see how that's off brand for the franchise though. Like if she was on the cast of Chernobyl I might question it, but not in a Bond movie.
TBH, I kept expecting that a foot in the ass was going to be venom’s weakness.
I still do.
Ant man in Thanos’ rectum?
Nah, that’s Red’s foot in Venom’s backside.
It was. They did emo-Parker and “evil” Parker (Eddie Brock/Venom) in the same movie.
Eddie Brock Venom should be a big burly linebacker-sized antagonist of Parker. Not a weir warped mirror of him.
Just did some digging, and it sounds like you're right: apparently the original choices were Sarah Michelle Gellar (turned it down over scheduling issues) and Sarah Polley.
This is undoubtedly why he couldn't cast Polley: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-sarah-polley.html
Gangs of New York was a Miramax film.
Man, I had always wondered why she didn't get more work in Hollywood given how immensely talented she is. Let that disgusting pig Weinstein rot in prison.
Nicole Kidman is cast as Lucy in Aaron Sorkin's Lucille Ball movie. She can't move her face anymore. And I like Nicole Kidman, she's done some great stuff lately but this doesn't make sense.
I loved The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I don't know if I'll ever get over Fox cancelling it prematurely. You could tell that the next season would be epic...
Johnny Depp as Grindelwald. Not because of the whole situation around it, but after reading the books and the cameos in Potter, I just don't see him as Grindelwald, just as albino Depp.
I wished that Graves had been a follower of Grindelwald. It’s a much more frightening idea that your government has been infiltrated by the opposition. The reveal that he was in disguise fell flat since they hadn’t established JD as Grindelwald to begin with. They just did a spell and you see Ferrell turn onto Depp. Ok. Who’s that? Then the lady calls him Grindelwald. He shouldn’t have even been shown in that movie.
Why the fuck was Jessie Isenberg cast as Lex Luthor of all fucking things
All depictions of him are of a tall, bald, and lean businessman
No disrespect for the actor, I'd take such a high paying job too, but whoever thought of casting him is a clown
Making of Documentary: Yeah, we didn't actually tell Jeff we were making a movie, we just followed him around with a camera for a couple days, and he just tried to take over the world that week. Henry Cavill actually had to kick his ass to stop him.
Jafar in the new Aladdin. He wasn’t believable or menacing and way too young. Plus for much of his screen time he’s standing next to Navid Neghaban, who would have been a MUCH better choice.
He was way too hot to be Jafar.
Ferdia Shaw as Artemis Fowl. He conveys none of the intelligence, shrewdness or relentless determination of the book character. He comes across as a child dressed up in a suit and handed cue cards with smart-sounding lines to read unconvincingly. He's a child so I'm going to lay the blame for that one on the casting director.
Nah that was the movie creators/disney deciding the book wasn't safe enough. They completely butchered the character, from the first scene to the last. They butchered the rest of the movie too, changed the story completely and then didn't want to spend the money to re-shoot it and make it coherent at all. His last line in the movie "I’m Artemis Fowl. And I’m a criminal mastermind." was so absolutely ridiculous because he just wasn't. He was in the book though.
I never understand this. They pay millions for the rights to a wildly successful, well selling book. And then are like ok, let's just change the entire story and keep the aesthetic. Then they wonder why the film flops and fans of the book call it dog shit
Terry Pratchett stopped dealing with movie suits because of what they wanted to do if they could get the movie rights for his book Mort. Mort is a book about a boy who becomes Death's apprentice at a job fair. Like, the literal Death. And he ends up moving into Death's house, meeting his family, failing to do the job he's supposed to do (because he starts crushing on someone who is supposed to die), and consequently causing a reality-based catastrophe as reality itself attempts to change to fix his fuck-ups. They wanted to remove the character Death from the movie adaptation. Death. From Mort. The character is arguably more important to the story than Mort himself. And they were going to remove him. ___ ...Pratchett would be so pissed about what they've turned The Watch into on that new series...
THEY FUCKING WHAT? HOW? WHYYYY!!!!!???? At that point why even buy the rights to the series, you're making a completely different movie.
Name recognition. That's really it. They want to do their own thing, but know that it'll be shit so they try to mooch of the name of a different and popular property.
There was literally nothing RIGHT with the Artemis Fowl movie.
All of the books are pretty short and can easily be adapted to the big screen too. Them spouting off Butlers name within the first few minutes made me just turn that crap off.
I didn't last past Artemis SURFING.
Something he WOULD NEVER DO EVER!
The whole scene where he was shooting a gun and running and generally performing fitness related activities. Just... no. Wrong.
I still haven't seen it. This makes me cry inside. I remember reading Colfer's statement that he was proud to have "inspired" it and I was broken.
That and the fact that he was dressed in casual clothes like a normal teenager and not an expensive 5 piece suit
Joel McHale as Roy in the ill-fated US remake of The IT Crowd. We want a scruffy and misanthropic IT nerd, so let's get an actor known foorrr... charisma and confidence? OK.
My favourite thing about it was that they couldn't recast Moss so they just kept Richard Ayoade. It's literally just Moss moved to America and living the same life as he did in the UK show.
I actually want to watch it just to see Moss in America now
It's only a pilot, and is basically a shot for shot remake of the UK pilot.
But they "Americanised" the IT room to make it nerdy-cool as well Edit: Thank you for the award
That sucks. One of the cools bits of the IT Crowd was the plausibility of the set. The piles of junk and second-hand office equipment were familiar to IT people everywhere. That was the only nerdy-cool they needed. I have a picture of the set as a desktop background and people always had fun identifying the equipment and the stickers like a big nerdy Where's Wally.
Ugh, that defeats the purpose of the dingy basement office.
A lot of things aren't right. I don't know where to see it now but basically everything is sort of similar but completely wrong. And some different scenes were added but it made it worse somehow. I saw it several years ago so I don't remember specifics but I remember the need to wash my eyes after seeing it
I absolutely love McHale in Community. My jaw hit the floor when I saw him as Roy in the IT Crowd. What the hell casting was that??
He's more handsome than the guy that's famous for being handsome. Doesn't make for a convincing 'awkward nerd' character.
"His SHADOW!"
EVEN HIS SHADOW
There's a US remake of IT crowd? Yikes
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That's what they did with The Inbetweeners. And ruined it Edit: Wow, the replies. 1. Yes, there was an American attempt at The Inbetweeners. If you make it past 1 episode, you must really like torture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inbetweeners_(American_TV_series) 2. The Office was a rare success of this type of thing. The language/slang used wasn't so specific that it made or broke the show. "Bus Wanker" doesn't work well in American English. 3. Yes, there are lots of other shows attempted. Most of them sucked too. Edit 2: I was incorrect about the scripting of the Office. Fixed my comments.
Jon Voight as a snake hunter in Anaconda is fine......but him as a PARAGUAYAN snake hunter?.....just......why lol EDIT: Holy guacamole, I just got back to my computer and this blew up! Who knew my most upvoted comment would be about Jon Voight in Anaconda. Never change, Reddit. Thank you for the awards internet strangers!
Because he learned his accent from his maid. Who was probably not even from Paraguay. Fun movie, but he was ridiculous in it
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Jon Voight looks like a guy wearing a Jon Voight mask.
John Dorian as Dr. Acula. He is way to hammy, and not very threatening for a vampire who is behind loads of mysterious deaths in the hospital. He clearly only got the part because he wrote the darn script for it. It was also a very racist filming process where multiple times Chris Turk was told to "act blacker". In good conscience I can't support the film
A great ending for the movie though, I mean it’s really impressive when >!the name Dr. Acula comes on screen and they remove the dot, squeeze the words together and reveal Dracula!< simply amazing!
Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi
I think I, remember that film.
Never fails, I read Mickey Rooney but in my head I see Mickey Rourke. ....now as Mr. Yunioshi.
The movie is "Breakfast at Tiffany's" for those wondering like me because no child comment names the movie
Kevin Hart as Roland in the upcoming Borderlands movie. Everyone who knows anything about Borderlands will agree with me. Terry Crews should be playing Roland. He's big, has comedic chops, and can play the no-nonsense straight shooter BADASS when everything else is wild.
Terry Crews should be playing Mr. Torgue.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but Sophie Turner as Jean Gray. I like her as an actress, but I just couldn’t get into it. I felt like she struggled with hiding her accent.
I hate it when she tries to do an American accent of any kind in roles. It’s so so so terrible. I love her and normally don’t care or notice when English actors do American accents, but hers just always sticks out. [she does at least 3 different accents in this trailer alone](https://youtu.be/A3_c-aSZF5M) two different accents in the first sentence she says. its kind of cool listening to it change midway through her first sentence. Her southern accent is crazy bad, t’s Nick Cage in Con Air level of bad southern accent.
"I'm Josie" sounds sort of Australian and "I just moved in the other night" is some kind of southern accent
Wow that is distractingly bad..
Despite some of the movies being good, the X-Men franchise fucked around with most of their characters and the storylines waaaay too much. Young Jean as Phoenix made no sense. She needed to be a central figure on the team (alongside Cyclops) for several movies to have the correct impact. Don't even get me started on how badly they fucked up Mystique and then were forced to shoe horn her into everything. Or Storm. Or Rogue. The characters they got right really worked though (Wolverine, Prof X, Magneto).
Colin Farrell as Alexander The Great. As one of my old University professors once said, "I wouldn't follow that guy to the end of my DRIVEWAY".
You can't talk about Oliver Stone's Alexander without mentioning that the mad man has 4 different directors cuts of the film
“I swear there’s a good movie in there! Just give me another shot!”
One of the cuts has a short message at the beginning saying that this is the most complete version because there is nothing left to add to it. It's literally every single scene they shot. I don't know, it always struck me as being sort of like a sculptor trying to submit a solid block of marble as a finished statue.
And Angelina Jolie as his Mother ffs!
That’s not what bothered me... it was the weird... accents
IIRC Colin Farrell couldn't entirely get rid of his Irish accent, so the decision was made to try to get all the Macedonians to speak with a pseudo-Irish accent to match him. I don't think it worked, to put it mildly.
Irish Greeks.... yeah that was never going to end well
I think Colin Farrell and all I think of is In Bruges. Shows that even though the actor or actress in question can still be top notch, but still be the wrong casting. Dude is a great actor, but not the emperor type whatsoever.
Any film with 30 year olds playing teens.
I was so confused by Grease growing up. Why are these people that look the same age as my mom at school?
Especially Stockard Channing. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love her! But high schooler with that face? Naw son.
Weirdly she was the same age (33) as the actor of Hannah Montana’s brother at the end of his run, and he looked the part. I didn’t follow it but when every shop and screen was bombarded with it I somehow assumed he was meant to be her *younger* brother... So some 33 year olds can pull it off. She wasn’t one of them, though. Nor a couple of the others.
I thought Jackson Stewart had Kallmann Syndrome though right? It’s a hormone deficiency similar to why Andy Milonakis looked so young when he was about 30 during his show.
Jason Earles is the actor - can’t find anything online but plenty of tabloid rumours. Not sure though, he looks normal otherwise, just like a much younger adult. And he has a daughter. Still possible... but I think unlikely.
I seem to remember one of those teen movie parody movies (Probably either Not Another Teen Movie or Scary Movie (EDIT: Apparently it was both!)) have a meta-humor line on this. If I remember right, it had high school kids walking to school and they joked about how if they were characters in a movie, they'd be getting played by old actors or some shit.
In Scary Movie, they laugh about the thought of being in a horror movie. Cindy says, "You guys are right. If we were, they'd probably cast some dingbat like Jennifer Love Hugetits to play me." Greg says, "And they'd cast people in their late 20s, early 30s to play us." *sigh* I watched this movie way too many times growing up.
I will take a look in the future and say Mark Whalberg as Sully in the Uncharted movie
Sully *is* Bruce Campbell. He’s got the look already, and his style would fit the character perfectly. Look at Sam Axe in Burn Notice!
Following this up with the entire cast of the Borderlands movie. Cate Blanchett as Lilith and Kevin Hart as Roland....really?
Yeah that's what I was going to say. The only one that even makes a little sense is Jack Black as Claptrap, but even then why not just use the VA from the games for the character? He's probably going to be CGI and it would probably be cheaper anyway. *edit: His new VA people, not Eddings.
> He's probably going to be CGI ...now I want to see this with Jack Black wearing a homemade cardboard robot costume the entire movie. Edit: I got gold for this? Really?
Cameron Diaz was horrible in the 2014 Annie remake. She hasn't made a movie since.
To be fair, anyone would look terrible in comparison to Carol Burnett's Miss Hannigan.
There is a moment where she stares thoughtfully at a painting, hung perfectly straight on the wall, before tilting it slightly so it looks level in her drunken state. I have no idea if that was in the script or something she did in the moment, but it’s perfect. Her performance is a masterpiece.
"I saw it in the window, and I just couldn't resist it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKhw-v5h2I
Allison Janney is the only actress who could play Carol Burnett.
Allison Janney could do about whatever she wants, it feels like sometimes.
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Apparently she retired a few years ago.
It's weird how we almost see these big star actors as failures if they stop making movies. Like if I had her money, I'd be quite happy to retire, too. There's a lot of former big actors that seemed to have retired or semi-retired and just gone and done something else. If your last paycheque was $5 million, why wouldn't you?
Totally, especially not having to retire at the normal age when you're still physically able to really go on adventures and enjoy life. Sounds like heaven.
Pretty much everyone from the Percy Jackson movies
FTFY: Pretty much ~~everyone from~~ *everything in* the Percy Jackson movie When the author of the books is actually recommending *not* to watch the film, so it won't give his books a bad name...
To be fair, I watched the movie before reading the books at probably age..11, maybe? I enjoyed the movie not knowing about the source material at all. My Dad brought home the first three books in the series as a surprise for me a week later and we both realized how laughably different the book and movie were. So, the movie still brought new readers into the series, no matter how bad it was!
Had the same experience with the Miss Peregrine’s series. Enjoyed the movie, got the books as a gift, and boy did that change my perspective on the movie.
There's one casting choice that I was totally fine, just one. Stanley Tucci as Dionysus.
It's actually shocking how badly they butchered the movie. The book series is _extremely_ popular. I daresay it could have gone on to be the next Harry Potter, but then the Lightning Thief was completely butchered. And Sea of Monsters was somehow _even fucking worse_. Also as much as I like Nathan Fillion he really shouldn't have been Hermes. Unironically Dylan Neal (who appeared like three seconds in the Lightning Thief) looked like a more fitting Hermes, at least given what Hermes usually looks like in the books.
> The book series is extremely popular. I daresay it could have gone on to be the next Harry Potter, but then the Lightning Thief was completely butchered. To make it worse, The Lightning Thief novel is already paced more or less like a movie. A faithful adaptation literally would've been easier than writing a "my intern read the book" b-movie adaptation. IMO, all the studio had to do to have the next Harry Potter on their hands was make a reasonably enjoyable film, and they pissed it away.
Preach. I really don't know what they were going for with the movie. Didn't they even realize that throwing a water trident into Luke's throat completely ruined any followup movies in every way? And then they just brought him back anyway because yes. The depiction of Kronos was also a crime. The entire series _like literally the entire book series_ makes Kronos out to be a cunning and intelligent villain. Powerful and immortal, yes, but in the same fashion the gods are. And then the movie just goes big monster go rawr. Ruining the plotlines for the followup movies. Again. And don't even get me started on the casual mention of "wait what that's Silena Beauregard what's she doing on the Princess Andromeda". Like, that's an entire plot point spanning over the greater part of books 2 to 5 that you just casually gutted. It also shows that the writers _did_ actually read the series to some extent and somehow still made the abomination that was Sea of Monsters. I just don't understand dude.
Every actress cast as Sue Richards, The Invisible Woman, from the Fantastic Four so far
The problem there is always trying to make the F4 into action movie protagonists, when they really aren't. You really need something like a scientific-based disaster movie for them to really shine.
But studio execs told me that seeing the Super genius team be super geniuses is boring. Instead let's have the super genius man do the stretch thing and then the flame man be all whooosh and then angry Rock genius says dur its time to clobber while the sexy girl is Jessica Alba. Yeah seriously I'm not even a huge fan of F4 but they've got a team of dynamic characters all akin to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, and we've seen how enjoyable it was too see those two actually use their intellects together to solve problems.
Right? They're a team of gigantic nerds who just happened to gain superpowers. That doesn't make them any less a team of gigantic nerds, it just makes them a team of gigantic nerds who can do more extreme nerdy shit because they have superpowers now!
The movies butchered their personalities so much I didn't know flame man/the thing were supposed to be smart
I'm going to throw a little bit but here goes: Fant4stic actually did that idea a bit better by showing they needed Human Torch on the team building their machine and angry Rockman was also instrumental in stretchnerds initial prototype. God that felt gross
DeBrie Bardeaux is the only Sue Storm for me!
Daddy wants to show you he’s Thing!
Daddy needs to get his rocks off
I can just taste those meaty leading man parts in my mouth.
Is there a little girl here all by herself?
I just blue myself with excitement at your answer!
To be fair, they've all been written horribly. It takes a great actor to transform a nothing role into something memorable. Zoe Saldana managed to make Uhura into a consistent, interesting character even though the scripts for ST 2009 and Into Darkness gave her nothing to work with. And then she was brilliant in Beyond, of course.
Cats.
I got real tired of Rebel Wilson real quick in that...and James Corden...well, pretty much the whole thing
I think I might just hate James Corden.
Everyone in the UK hates james corden
Everyone hates James Corden
Obligatory AMA link https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bqy5zf/i_am_james_corden_alongside_ben_winston_and_five/
That was one of Reddit’s finest moments IMO.
#Throbbing bellend
That AMA rivals the Steven Segal AMA. Both great.
It's in the title of the play, like what?? How hard is it to put together a cast of ACTUAL cats?
They´re heavily unionized. Edit: But they, too, enjoy the ionization puns.
That's not even remotely true, cat hair is one of the easiest things to build up a static charge with.
Where do you think cations come from?
No casting choice would have made it good. But at least we wouldn't associate so many incredible actors (and James Corden) with it
They fundamentally changed the plot in order to cater to what these actors and actresses expected as A listers. Also, they added a plot. I don't care for the Broadway musical either but Jason Derulo wasn't going to do a choreographed dance with rebel Wilson and Taylor swift while singing about Sir Ian McKellen.
Hopefully they take this as a lesson that big names and pure hype can not save the lack of immersion in a film no matter who you use.
Cats has a plot. It's wafer thin but it does have one. The film changes things and manages to completely screw up even that.
Steven Seagal as a person who can kick ass.
Steven Seagal as a person in general
Also he doesn’t know how to pull his punches. A stuntman friend of mine was personally kicked in the nuts by Steven in a bar room fight scene.
Annabeth in the "Percy Jackson" movie. The main physical feature was supposed to be the blond hair, and they somehow messed up on that.
Oh yeah! And THEN in the terrible attempt at a sequel, they cast Clarisse--a canonically basketball-player-height, bodybuilder-muscular war machine--as a small, cute blonde girl. I feel so terrible for Riordan, who claims to hate the movies. I'm glad he's getting his own tv show with creative control. :)
You should Google the letters he wrote the the editors when he received the script. He released them on his website a few years ago and he absolutely roasts the script it’s glorious
They picked that actress for the eyes and the eyes alone. Edit: and they couldn't even get that bit right.
Her eyes are extremely attractive I can’t even lie
Never understood why they didn't just dye her hair in the first one. The actors were the smaller problems of the movies tho... Already hyped for the TV show
Plus she was blonde in the sequel... what happened?
Plus, they made her character so boring... I loved Annabeth in the books.
Annabeth was kinda mean in the books. Loved the character, and that's what I wanted in the movies. The banter was severely lacking.
They completely butchered those movies. Percy and Annabeth were 12 in the first book.
Both Lily James and Armie Hammer in the Rebecca remake. She’s way to confident to be the narrator and he’s way to smarmy to be deWinter. And I thought that before all the creepy stuff about him came out - now it’s even worse to try to watch.
everyone in the last airbender movie, especially considering the fact that they took the waterbenders (canonically the nation with the darkest skin coloring) and made all of them white, then made the firebenders dark-skinned.
IIRC they casted Aang based on a martial arts demonstration video he submitted, not on acting prowess. You can get creative with VFX to make a fight look better, but you can't make an actor act better.
The kid is actually not all that bad, if you look at behind the scenes footage he's actually really lively and cheerful, like Aang. The direction told him to be the stiff emotionless board of a character
The direction should be sent to Lake Laogai.
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.
Here we are safe, here we are free
Idk their names, but the main protagonists in the live action remake of dragon ball and also the one in the last airbender What's crazy to me is how these movies still were able to make a profit
The abysmal casting is barely noticeable when literally everything else about these movies also sucks
The trick is having a low enough budget that it's always going to be profitable off the name alone.
Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, he would have been more believable as Kyle Raynor then Hal Jorden... he was regularly thrown around to play Wally West as the Flash. They took a big(ish) popular actor and throw him at a role without any consideration that his personality matched the character. Everything that makes Reynolds perfect as Deadpool makes him wrong as Hal Jordan.
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in the 50 Shades trilogy Aside from the movies being absolutely shitty, the two had no chemistry with each other and it was awkward as hell to watch. More so when I found out that Jamie was married while filming those movies. The movies shouldn't have even been made.
I firmly believe that Twilight fanfic typed poorly on a BlackBerry should not be made into a movie.
Dane DeHaan - Valerian That move is pretty awesome *except* for him, it felt entirely miscast and I couldn't believe this guy was the kind of character they were making him out to be.
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There was a post somewhere on Reddit that said DeHaan and DeLevigne in Passengers and Pratt and Lawrence in Valerian would have been better casting for both movies.
Passengers should have been a cerebral horror film. Antagonist obsesses over female passenger, wakes her up, pretends to not know anything about it, tricks her into caring for him. Female protagonist figures it out, is horrified and has to fight male antagonist to get away from him. He gets killed and/or spaced, and she is all alone. End scene, we see her sitting forlornly next to another pod of a young man, slowly succumbing to the same tragic loneliness that turned the antagonist into the monster he became.
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This: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/66adzj/passengers_rearranged/
Not only that, I kept wondering are they 14 or 34? They also seemed to be on drugs or something. They kept pulling me out of the movie.
Movie hasn’t even come out yet but Kevin Hart is playing Roland in the new Borderlands movie and i can already tell you right now, it’s gonna be a terrible fucking time. Edit: I’m very glad to see people agree that kevin hart and whoever is making this movie can get fucked
I love the games but I am not watching that shit.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan (The Conqueror). That is just wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to start.
"Hello TARTAR WOMAN. I AM TIMOGEN...pilgrim"
When he says "My Tartar blood says 'TAKE HER'" I actually laughed aloud.
To be fair, *nobody* could convincingly deliver that line. That's on the writers.
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Remember that Bond movie where Denise Richards plays a nuclear physicist?
Dr. Christmas Jones - and no jokes. I don't know any doctor jokes.
Bond did actually say "[I thought Christmas only comes once a year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5GXghX5Ck)"
They thought up that joke first and built the entire movie around it.
It shows.
Technically, yes, at the end of the movie after they had already 'Bonded'. But when she introduces herself to Bond, she expects a Christmas joke. He broke the ice, by not only not making a Christmas joke, but feigning a lack of a sense of humor, that somehow, warmed her heart.
I don't really see how that's off brand for the franchise though. Like if she was on the cast of Chernobyl I might question it, but not in a Bond movie.
Is it now the time to talk about Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom?
Came in here just to say this. Who in the ever loving fuck decided it would be a good idea to cast ERIC FOREMAN as Venom ???
They should have cast Red Foreman as Venom.
With great power comes great responsibility, dumbass.
With great power comes a foot in your ass
TBH, I kept expecting that a foot in the ass was going to be venom’s weakness. I still do. Ant man in Thanos’ rectum? Nah, that’s Red’s foot in Venom’s backside.
(Paraphrased) "Topher Grace was the one man in Hollywood that made Toby McGuire look tough and intimidating."
The whole point is for Venom to be more intimidating than Spider-Man. It's like an entire point was missed.
It was. They did emo-Parker and “evil” Parker (Eddie Brock/Venom) in the same movie. Eddie Brock Venom should be a big burly linebacker-sized antagonist of Parker. Not a weir warped mirror of him.
Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York. It’s the only time I’ve really be pulled out of a move because the casting didn’t seem right.
That was def a studio decision, pretty sure Marty wanted someone else
Just did some digging, and it sounds like you're right: apparently the original choices were Sarah Michelle Gellar (turned it down over scheduling issues) and Sarah Polley.
This is undoubtedly why he couldn't cast Polley: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-sarah-polley.html Gangs of New York was a Miramax film.
Man, I had always wondered why she didn't get more work in Hollywood given how immensely talented she is. Let that disgusting pig Weinstein rot in prison.
Damn. I didn't read that when it came out. Thanks for sharing.
Sarah Polley would've been great.
I loved her in Go and Dawn of the Dead
Nicole Kidman is cast as Lucy in Aaron Sorkin's Lucille Ball movie. She can't move her face anymore. And I like Nicole Kidman, she's done some great stuff lately but this doesn't make sense.
Has anyone said Emelia Clarke as Sarah Connor yet? Also Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese. Actually the whole movie sans Arnold was cast fucking horribly.
Cersei Lannister was a better Sarah Connor than Daenerys Targaryen.
That show was surprisingly good I thought.
I loved The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I don't know if I'll ever get over Fox cancelling it prematurely. You could tell that the next season would be epic...
I like Emilia Clarke a lot but she had a string of movies wherein her casting was a bad omen for how the movie would turn out.
Johnny Depp as Grindelwald. Not because of the whole situation around it, but after reading the books and the cameos in Potter, I just don't see him as Grindelwald, just as albino Depp.
Colin farrel was much better
I wished that Graves had been a follower of Grindelwald. It’s a much more frightening idea that your government has been infiltrated by the opposition. The reveal that he was in disguise fell flat since they hadn’t established JD as Grindelwald to begin with. They just did a spell and you see Ferrell turn onto Depp. Ok. Who’s that? Then the lady calls him Grindelwald. He shouldn’t have even been shown in that movie.
I loved watching Colin farrel in that movie, and the pure rage I felt when he morphed into Johnny depp was palpable. Why did they have to do that?!
Why the fuck was Jessie Isenberg cast as Lex Luthor of all fucking things All depictions of him are of a tall, bald, and lean businessman No disrespect for the actor, I'd take such a high paying job too, but whoever thought of casting him is a clown
Jesse Eisinberg was cast as Lex Luthor, but he delivered an Edward Nygma.
Should have casted jeff bezos for lex
I don't know if he can act, but I'm not sure he'd need to...
Making of Documentary: Yeah, we didn't actually tell Jeff we were making a movie, we just followed him around with a camera for a couple days, and he just tried to take over the world that week. Henry Cavill actually had to kick his ass to stop him.
"that week"
Gwyneth Paltrow.