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Good Actors in Horribly Miscast Roles
Self | December 1, 2012 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 12/01/2012 6:09:35 AM PST by PJ-Comix

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To: Artem55

I disagree with that one, I like Selleck as Ike.


61 posted on 12/01/2012 8:26:28 AM PST by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Who should have played the part, Duncan Renaldo?


Nah. Too Spanish looking.
62 posted on 12/01/2012 8:27:42 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: John 3_19-21

Honestly, except for “Good Morning, Vietnam” and “Good Will Hunting” has Robin Williams ever been good in anything?


63 posted on 12/01/2012 8:35:15 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: PJ-Comix

I would disagree in part. Though Heston may have been miscast in Touch of Evil, he did what was expected and the movie is regarded as by far the greatest film noir ever made.

Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon.

Keanu Reeves in FFC’s Dracula.

Keanu Reeves as Don John and Michael Keaton as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing.Jack Lemmon as Marcellus and Robin Williams as Osric in Hamlet

Max von Sydow as Jesus, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, and Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate, in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

Marlon Brando in Teahouse of the August Moon and Guys and Dolls.

John Travolta in Battlefield Earth.

James Cagney as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Martin Sheen (wearing a wristwatch) as Robert E Lee in Gettysburg.


64 posted on 12/01/2012 8:36:16 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Pennies and Nickels will NO LONGER be Minted as of 1/1/13 - Tim Geithner, US Treasury Sect)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Williams was good in Awakenings and Dead Poets’ Society.


65 posted on 12/01/2012 8:36:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I’ll give you “Awakenings,” I forgot about that one. I never really got what was so great about “Dead Poets’ Society” although my roommates in college loved it.


66 posted on 12/01/2012 8:39:56 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: PJ-Comix

I love Robert Duval, but him playing “Stalin” didn’t work for me.....Maybe if I wasn’t so familiar with all his other roles, I might have appreciated it more, but I still felt I was watching Duval and not Stalin.


67 posted on 12/01/2012 8:40:28 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: CatherineofAragon

“Zardoz”.....Weirdest. Movie. Ever.


68 posted on 12/01/2012 8:42:42 AM PST by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: JZoback
Micheal Keaton as Batman... I pulled it off but I still think of him as Mr. Mom...

_______________________________

Were you at home or in the theater when you perfomed this depraved oedipal act?

69 posted on 12/01/2012 8:45:20 AM PST by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Marlon Brando in [ . . . ] Guys and Dolls.

Agree 1000%. And, as a reader and collector of old Superman comic books, I would also say he made a LOUSY Jor-El in Superman.

More than offset by his performances in "On the Waterfront", "Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Godfather".
70 posted on 12/01/2012 8:46:36 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: jsanders2001
Wayne Brady has more talent in his little finger ... etc. I am not sure a bad-guy part in something as obscure as a David Chapelle episode has held him back and suspect there's something else. He has always come across to me as a believing Christian and maybe even a, gasp!, Conservative of African Ancestry. Now that would be entertainment career suicide!
71 posted on 12/01/2012 8:48:35 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Connery did ZARDOZ to pay the bills. He hit a post-007 slump and needed the work. IIRC his salary was $70k.


72 posted on 12/01/2012 8:48:38 AM PST by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Patrick Bergin played Richard Burton (the explorer) in “Mountains of the Moon.” He was hot.


73 posted on 12/01/2012 8:50:24 AM PST by Tax-chick (Are you getting ready for the Advent Kitteh?)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

The worst thing about Martin Sheen as Lee wasn’t his wristwatch or even his accent - it was that he couldn’t ride a horse.


74 posted on 12/01/2012 8:52:18 AM PST by Tax-chick (Are you getting ready for the Advent Kitteh?)
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To: Smittie

Go back and watch it again...it seems like he tried it early in the movie and they told him to just forget it...it is actually pretty funny.


75 posted on 12/01/2012 8:52:18 AM PST by willyd (Don't shoot, we're Republicans!)
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To: wtc911

He also did “Never Say Never Again” to pay the bills.


76 posted on 12/01/2012 8:52:24 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: PJ-Comix

Anthony Hopkins as NIXON
Tom Selleck as EISENHOWER
Chevy Chase as FORD (Oh, wait... I bought it ‘though.)


77 posted on 12/01/2012 8:53:32 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Okay, it is not quite a “good actors in bad roles” nomination; but, I just go crazy when Hollywood always has genius science types played by beautiful, slinky blonde actresses. I think Mayim Bialik from The Big Bang Theory is probably closer to the mark.


78 posted on 12/01/2012 8:54:14 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: libertarian27

but this one was bad. Her accent was terrible (from the Connecticut region of the Soviet Union)


Rofl!!


79 posted on 12/01/2012 8:56:54 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: dfwgator

In 1992 I was developing a film that almost happened. I wanted Travolta for the lead and could have had him for $60k. This was before Pulp Fiction. We had Jim Fargo to direct. The now-defunct production company nixed Travolta in favor of.....Harry Hamlin.


80 posted on 12/01/2012 8:57:18 AM PST by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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