Worst Cases of Miscasting

[Young Superman]

Joacquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash - His performance was spot on.[/SPOILER]

Agree with this 100%, he was awesome as the man in black. I also think even though we only saw him for about a minute, Tyler Hilton was good as a young Elvis Presley.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Jack White was better.

 

[childeroland]

Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn. She's my favorite younger actress, but Anne Boleyn was supposedly something of a sexual dynamo and Portman looked like a teenager playing the coquette.

 

[Clu]

I liked the movie too, but the last 20 minutes or so are really bad.

Spoiler

It's not the death, it's how the death happens. In the movie he blows up his lab, which was typical Hollywood. In the book he's captured by the vamps. As he's awaiting death and he looks out into a crowd of fearful vampires he realizes that being the last surviving human he became somewhat of a myth, a legend.... thus the title lol.

i had to explain this to people since the movie came out, whenever someone was.....the ending was good, id have to explain how its really not.

but Arnold in batman should be considered one of the best casting choices....the one liners alone are worth the 7 dollars i paid(as i watched it in theaters)

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Arnold Schwarzenegger in "End Of Days".
Bruce Willis would have fit the role better.

 

[PyroChamber]

Jessica Alba - Fantastic 4
I haveno issue with a Latino girl playing her, however, let her BE Latino and don't try and make her look like a middle class white woman with creepy blue contacts and plastic blonde hair. She essentially looks like BARBIE.

In the sequel they made her look even worse.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Jessica Alba can't act and generally lowers the quility of any movie when it comes to performances. Only reason she is stuck in them is due to being hawt.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Jessica Alba can't act and generally lowers the quility of any movie when it comes to performances. Only reason she is stuck in them is due to being hawt.

Couldn't agree with you more. She nearly ruined Machete with her horrible acting.

 

[Slushy]

Arnold in batman should be considered one of the best casting choices....the one liners alone are worth the 7 dollars i paid(as i watched it in theaters)

People diss Arnold for his performance in B&R, but he's the best thing about it. I love the irony.

 

[El Payaso]

People diss Arnold for his performance in B&R, but he's the best thing about it. I love the irony.

The best thing about B&R was Alfred and his scenes with Clooney.

 

[Art_of_Crime]

I just heard that Michelle Trachtenberg had been one of the actresses in consideration for Bella Swan. If she had been in those movies they would have been so much better. Granted bad writing is still bad writing, but at least she is talented and engaging.

 

[childeroland]

Stewart was pretty decent in Adventureland. And I'm not sure Meryl Streep could make a Twilight film better.

 

[ALP]

That guy who played Anakin. He's so wodden I like to call him Pinocchio.

 

[TheVileOne]

For me:

-Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern. He's not Hal Jordan. I tried to give Reynolds the benefit of the doubt so I didn't trash the casting move much at first. At SDCC he acted like he was attempting to play things cooler and not too much like "Ryan Reynolds." Instead it was Reynolds being Reynolds and not Hal Jordan. He just has the completely wrong energy for the character. Hal can be funny and have a sense of humor, but it's just not this type of Reynolds energy. Reynolds is too metrosexual and sarcastic to pull off Hal Jordan. You needed a more straight-laced, square-jawed American hero type because that's what Hal is.

-Ben Affleck as Daredevil. Some years back there was talk of Matt Damon playing this character and I think that would've worked better. Granted it wasn't all Affleck's fault. He had a terrible script and an inexperienced director he was working under. Again too much jokey sarcasm and humor and to me that's just not Matt Murdock.

-Entire cast of Dragonball Evolution: nuff said.

-Marlon Wayans and Channing Tatum in GI JOE. Pretty much killed all this movie's chances of being a huge hit. You have Wayans as the black comic relief. Tatum as Duke. Listen . . . Tatum just isn't Duke. I'm trying to be nice here, but Tatum is not a good enough actor to become this type of character. Duke is a leader and a gritty soldier. Tatum can't play that. He can't transform himself into that. Wayans' character was turned into the oblgiatory black comic relief instead of say using actual existing black GI JOE characters that have history in the material like Stalker, Road Block, or the actual Heavy Duty and not this weird Brit-speaking dude in the movie who never really did anything. As cheesy and 80's as GI JOE was back in the day, there was something cool about these guys. And they have a weird sort of appeal that Wayans and Tatum just don't.

 

[THANOSRULES]

I knew that movie was screwed when i saw Dennis Quade was cast...reaffirmed when i saw robo suits in the previews.

I literally wanted to cry after GI Joe it was so bad.

 

[Rowsdower!]

GI Joe was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. It wasn't even the kind of bad movie that you can laugh at.

 

[Axl Van Sixx]

-Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern. He's not Hal Jordan. I tried to give Reynolds the benefit of the doubt so I didn't trash the casting move much at first. At SDCC he acted like he was attempting to play things cooler and not too much like "Ryan Reynolds." Instead it was Reynolds being Reynolds and not Hal Jordan. He just has the completely wrong energy for the character. Hal can be funny and have a sense of humor, but it's just not this type of Reynolds energy. Reynolds is too metrosexual and sarcastic to pull off Hal Jordan. You needed a more straight-laced, square-jawed American hero type because that's what Hal is.

^This.