Gregory Peck as Dr. Mengale in “The Boys from Brazil.” A laugh fest anyway, with some ridiculous dialogue. “You fool! I AM a doctor!”
I think Stewart got the role of Lindbergh in part because he was a flier, and because he would have been PERFECT for the part when he was 25.
Just look at any cheesy SYFY channel original movie and they’ll have a bunch of unknown actors with 1 or 2 good SYFY channel series stars reading really crappy scripts.
Funny you should mention “Inchon” in your writing. I was stationed in Korea when that was filming there and many of us soldiers were hired to play Marines as extras for the film. So, in effect, I was a stand-in for my late father who participated in the actual landing.
Lemme think.......uhhhhh.... Horrible miscasting,
I think I remember.....Tony Danza as George Washington
in “Who’s the Boss?” the story of the American Revolution.
Oh, I forgot....they had to be good actors.....
I nominate Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
I'm certain this was some liberal attempt at tweaking the noses of conservatives by having a liberal screwball play a conservative icon. And it blew up on them twice.
First, I guess Streep couldn't help herself and gave a bang-up performance.
Second, what the twisted liberal mind thought people would find appalling - Lady Thatcher's unbending and uncompromising will to do what was needed - resulted in every conservative like myself cheering with joy.
Damm do we need politicians like that today!!!
Micheal Keaton as Batman...
I pulled it off but I still think of him as Mr. Mom...
Worst. Evar!...Laurence Olivier in black face as the Mahdi, in “Khartoum” with Chuck Heston. Olivier couldn’t decide wether he was doing Othello or Amos and Andy. Can’t watch his scenes without cracking up!
Best actor in a miscast has to be the current empty suit in the white house. Really belongs on Broadway as Santa Claus
Arnold Schwartzenegger cast as anyone...
Gatsby was supposed to be this mysterious, enigmatic character who brooded at his window, pining for Daisy while sponsoring lavish parties for his guests who rarely if ever see or meet him. Redford comes across as too flighty, whimsical and extroverted for the role.
On the flip side, Daisy Buchanan was to be this flighty, reckless coquettish, high society party girl, and Farrow was too much the introvert to pull it off convincingly.
Curiously, Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway, in the very same movie, is for my money, one of the most perfect casting choices ever made by a Hollywood studio.
Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in the upcoming release of Rock of Ages
‘The Iron Petticoat’ was on TMC a couple of nights ago
Katharine Hepburn plays pilot Captain Vinka Kovelenko, a character that defects from Russia.
Sat and watched most of it because of Bob Hope(love Bob Hope movies) but this one was bad. Her accent was terrible (from the Connecticut region of the Soviet Union) - the whole story was slapped together.
Obama as pissadent.
Eddie Murphy as a cop, did’nt work for me. He was good as a con though.(see 48hrs.)
I would have said Yul Brynner as Jason Compson in the Hollywood version of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, where
Brynner didn’t even try to capture a Southern accent, and wore a reddish wig-—but Brynner is so good the whole thing actually worked.
Karl Malden as Herb Brooks in “Miracle on Ice”.
Not. Even. Close.
Mel Gibson in The Man without a Face. Gibson’s whole shtick was his looks back then and it made no sense to me.