Good Actors in Horribly Miscast Roles

Self | December 1, 2012 | PJ-Comix

[waredbird]

Also a big Reacher fan. Not only am I disappointed with the Cruise casting, the trailer shows him in a remarkable driving scene. Reacher has no license and is a self described below average driver. And Child is happy with all this????

[Yaelle]

Ugh, robin Williams. You find yourself screaming at the screen, “No! Don’t take your shirt off! Don’t! Noooooo — ye gods!”

[oh8eleven]

Kevin Costner, Robin Hood.
Kevin Costner, any role he's ever played. He's never anyone but Kevin Costner.

[Popman]

John Travolta in Battlefield Earth.

That movie was SO BAD, can you even consider it was miscast...

The whole movie was miscast...could any actor be cast and not be a laughing stock...?

[CatherineofAragon]

Good points, actually, but that’s Hollywood.

[CatherineofAragon]

Seriously

[P.O.E.]

John Wayne as Centurion in the Greatest Story Ever Told. (actually not miscast, just weird hearing his characteristic drawl at Golgotha)

[CatherineofAragon]

$70K for suffering through that movie, in that costume....holy cow. I’m surprised he didn’t rate a higher salary than that.

[CatherineofAragon]

I will 2nd that, LOL.

[Robert DeLong]

My nomination goes to a movie that has not been released yet. At least I don't think it has been released yet.

Will never watch it, even if someone paid me big money.

Jane Fonda as former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Alan Rickman plays President Ronald Reagan in The Butler, filmed in New Orleans. Fonda reportedly appears in just a few scenes. The pic stars Forest Whitaker as White House butler Eugene Allen whose career spanned 34 years there. Director Lee Daniels adapted the screenplay with Danny Strong.

[Future Snake Eater]

The main problem with Williams' movies is that they all have nearly the exact same character arcs:

Wacky guy with wacky issues does wacky things. Stuffy person/people don't like it, and scowl a lot. Wackiness is halted. Wacky guy gives impassioned speech. Wackiness is continued through altered, slightly more subdued means. The day is more-or-less saved.

This arc worked in "Good Morning, Vietnam" but his subsequent 4,342 films that used the exact same meme got a bit boring.

[wtc911]

The ZARDOZ budget was only $1 million. It was a syfy indie.

[JoeProBono]

Rod Steiger In Oklahoma

Pore Jud Is Daid

[robowombat]

Olivier as the Mahdi was laughable.

“I am the Mahdi, the Expected One of God’

Hmm, that sounds like another actor in a dark face I know of.

[Gaffer]

Leonardo DiCaprio in any movie where he tries to play some kind of a macho man. He is a born and bred pussy.

[Fair Paul]

OJ Simpson as a LAPD Detective in “The Naked Gun.”

[hattend]

Jimmy Stewart got the role of Lindberg because he actively sought the role. He really wanted to play the part.

When TCM shows the movie this trivia is usually explained by Robert Osborne.

One of my favorite movies.

[RightOnline]

Well played. :)

[Robert DeLong]

Oops, guess I messed that up since Jane Fonda is NOT a good actress. Still a miscast though.

[sima_yi]

Rod Steiger In Oklahoma

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