The Top 10 Worst Comic Book Casting Mistakes (Spike.com)

[Hound55]

How's about we get some alternative 10s going..?

1. Halle Berry in Catwoman

2. Richard Pryor in Superman 3 (I love Richard Pryor but they took the OG series from its apex and turned it into self-parody)

3. Nicholas Cage in Ghost Rider

4. Sean Connery in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Why? Because it doomed the picture to veering well away from the original works and towards hokey PG claptrap... it also was a major part in damn near destroying every person's career who was affiliated with the film due to off the screen goings on)

5. Halle Berry as Storm (I know you guys are saying "Why?" but really she was all over the place...

6. Alba as Sue Storm (dead emotionless fish eyes in another flick)

7. Kirsten Dunst as MJ (because her performs actually irritates me to the point of frustration at times, which Alba is only really capable of with a whole body of emotionless work... Dunst can deliver in ways that actually actively piss me off)

8. Colin Farrell as Bullseye (some liked it, to me it pushed the movie clearly into the garbage pile from the borderline it was at just prior to his appearance)

9. Maggie Gyllanhal in The Dark Knight (which is sad because I like HER, its just that she sucked in it. Also funny because there's a lot of people who want to kick in to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and she actually out-shon Maggie G in that role IMO)

10. Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent/Two Face (again, sad because I like TLJ)

Not mentioned: Everyone involved in Batman And Robin... since there's already a special place in hell reserved for all of those people involved...

 

[El Payaso]

2. Richard Pryor in Superman 3 (I love Richard Pryor but they took the OG series from its apex and turned it into self-parody)

9. Maggie Gyllanhal in The Dark Knight (which is sad because I like HER, its just that she sucked in it. Also funny because there's a lot of people who want to kick in to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and she actually out-shon Maggie G in that role IMO)

Wait a sec. Copuld it be "miscast" if the character doesn't actually exist i the comics?

Because if so, then Katie Holmes would be top 2 or something. What a way to lower what was a very good cast.

8. Colin Farrell as Bullseye (some liked it, to me it pushed the movie clearly into the garbage pile from the borderline it was at just prior to his appearance)

I agree with you. It was starnge. At many points I wasn't sure if the character was portrayed in a comedic tone or not.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

With Bullseye in the comics he's sorta like that though. Can't tell whether he's being serious or ****ing around. That's why when him and Deadpool get together it's fireworks.

The only thing I didn't like about that portrayal was the whole rocker angle they took.

I thought the part on the plane where he pings that peanut into the little old grannies mouth was hilarious though.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I'd still love to see Farrell's Bullseye up against Reynolds' Deadpool.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea that would be pretty insane. Just get rid of the rocker angle for Bullseye.

But I think Farrell did say he thought Bullseye's comic outfit was ridiculous

 

[El Payaso]

With Bullseye in the comics he's sorta like that though. Can't tell whether he's being serious or ****ing around. That's why when him and Deadpool get together it's fireworks.

Ah ok. But I would love to have seen that as sarcasm and not vagueness. To me it felt like Farrell was trying to be silently frightening but came up as a bald Jim Carrey instead because of an inability to achieve what was required.

I thought the part on the plane where he pings that peanut into the little old grannies mouth was hilarious though.

I thought it could have been hilarious for a Mr. Bean gag. But it only added to the feeling that the character was comedic in spite of trying to be intimidating.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

But comic book Bullseye would actually do that though. I mean, it still showed he was a ****ed up, psycho killer. He killed a innocent little old granny!

But yea there was some parts where he hammed it up a little too much.

The Directors Cut did make a difference to his character though. Made him more disturbing. Especially when he killed Elektra.

 

[WillardNation]

Yeah, the guy wrote this article clearly doesn't know his stuff. I do agree with Halle Berry though (both as Storm and Catwoman). That woman just doesn't belong in a comic book movie IMO.

 

[Hound55]

Because if so, then Katie Holmes would be top 2 or something. What a way to lower what was a very good cast.

Katie Holmes was considerably better as Rachel Dawes than Maggie Gyllanhal was...

 

[Donnie Darko]

they were both adequate for the role. However, Holmes is better to look at, so that was the downside of the casting change.

 

[Octoberist]

to me, Maggie is attractive but an acuired taste. what sucks is that it was never her looks that got her attention but her acting in dramas and indie movies. It wasn't until Dark Knight that she was getting so much crap from stupid fanboys. It's one thing to think she's attractive but to trash her looks again and again is degrading.

..it's embarrassing to be a fan when people act too immature.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

to me, Maggie is attractive but an acuired taste. what sucks is that it was never her looks that got her attention but her acting in dramas and indie movies. It wasn't until Dark Knight that she was getting so much crap from stupid fanboys. It's one thing to think she's attractive but to trash her looks again and again is degrading.

..it's embarrassing to be a fan when people act too immature.

 

[El Payaso]

Katie Holmes was considerably better as Rachel Dawes than Maggie Gyllanhal was...

Better at what? A beauty contest? Maybe. But at acting she loses before anyone.

they were both adequate for the role. However, Holmes is better to look at, so that was the downside of the casting change.

Yes, let's bring Megan Fox in. Crappy actress. Oh, but she's so hot, right?

 

[bunk]

Honestly, I didn't find Maggie's acting much better. I'm not really sure what she did that was so great.

 

[El Payaso]

Honestly, I didn't find Maggie's acting much better. I'm not really sure what she did that was so great.

It wasn't that much that she was "so great" (which nobody has claimed) but the fact that she was so much better than Katie Holmes; and thus an improvement.

 

[p4poetic]

wait a minute..why is Ryan in that list?

Even though Cillian was too young/pretty boy for Scarecrow, he still did a good job. I'm guessing that Katie Holmes doesn't count because her character isn't from the comic books?

Absolutely not. His face was made to look insane.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Yes, let's bring Megan Fox in. Crappy actress. Oh, but she's so hot, right?

Wow, that is not what I said at all. I said they were both adequate for the role. Honestly, the character didn't require a Meryl Streep-esque award winning actress. I thought that, acting wise, they were both fine in the role. I merely said that the only downside of the casting change was that I find Katie Holmes more attractive. Both actresses are better than Megan Fox. She doesn't belong in ANY role that is supposed to have any kind of emotional weight to it. Super hot, but I don't want her as a Batman villain, even. I think she's great for what they use her for in Transformers, but I wouldn't want her as Selina Kyle.

 

[[A]]

Absolutely not. His face was made to look insane.

Maybe he finds insanity pretty.

 

[Hound55]

Better at what? A beauty contest? Maybe. But at acting she loses before anyone.

Delivery for one thing...

I don't know about you but her delivery of the line, in the interrogation of Lau:

Dawes: Look, give us the money and we'll talk about making a deal

Is the most cringeworthy delivered line in either Begins or TDK and the rest of her work isn't much better...

I must have seen that movie 6 or 7 times and everytime I hear that line I cringe at the delivery. Every. Single. Time. Not only is it the most cringeworthy line its probably the worst aspect, the most obvious flaw, in two quality movies.

Her dialogue with Bruce and Harvey, which is pretty much her only dialogue in the film, was woeful and it was sweet relief that the Joker's explosives offed Maggie G mid-sentence before it could further detract from her career...

 

[Hound55]

It wasn't that much that she was "so great" (which nobody has claimed) but the fact that she was so much better than Katie Holmes; and thus an improvement.

No. She wasn't. Which is funny, because overall in terms of career she's a significantly better actress than Katie Holmes.

She just didn't play this role as well as her.

 

[Hound55]

Wait a sec. Copuld it be "miscast" if the character doesn't actually exist i the comics?

To me if a person can be cast then there's the potential for them to have been "mis-cast" so I don't see why not.

 

[The Joker]

I preferred Gyllenhaal to Holmes.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Personally, and I know I'm starting to get off-topic, but I would have loved Rachel McAdams as the replacement for Holmes.

 

[ClarkLuther55]

Maggie is the better actress but was given nothing to work with in TDK. She still wasn't as actively bad as Holmes though (who I didn't think was horrible either, but detracted from a movie that was just excellent eeverywhere else).

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I think they tried to make Rachel a little more "spunky" in TDK. But it failed. She just came off annoying.

Maggie is a great actress, it was just the character wasn't written that well IMO.