The Greatest Miscasting Mishaps In History - Page 3

Speaking of Cruise:

I actually think he's a pretty great actor but his natural charisma & star power overshadowed an already well drawn character & the result was dull & campy.

 

Boring. Boring. Boring.

 

YOU FOOL.  DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE???
 

 

Haha, thanks to the ignore function, I'm sure I'll never have to find out.

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember liking Cruise as Lestat.

The problem with Cruise as Lestat is pretty much Lestat as a character. He's paper thin in the books.

I haven't seen Interview since I was like 14, but Cruise was near-iconic in the role.  Whether he matched the print character or not, that was a long fucking way from The Greast Miscasting In History.

I'll agree with that. He's certainly not Sophia Coppola bad or anything & he does a perfectly serviceable job as Lestat. My point is that his Lestat is 80% "Hey, look! It's Tom Cruise in a powdered wig! With a slight accent!" & 20% Rice's character. I haven't read the books or seen the movie in 17 years but I remember his presence just completely taking me out of the film every time he opened his mouth.

 

Stuart whats-is-face was a proper shite Lestat in QotD, so maybe I'm being a bit harsh on Cruise. Maybe.

 

Certainly Cruise is the superior screen Lestat.  But I actually think both are okay casting decisions - Cruise as the shallow plot-device in what is literally Louis's story, and Townsend as the ludicrous reworked fangirl wank character of the post-Interview stories.

For what it's worth I thought Cruise was great in VALKYRE. Not his best work or the best that could have been done with that role, but he was extremely solid and showed why he is a movie star. His work was taught and compelling, and frankly I didn't give a tinker's dam about the accent issue. I like that movie quite a bit, at least in the context of what it is.: a very well crafted, well cast thriller, but not to be mistaken for a film with anything terribly profound to say

BTW: SOPHIE SCHOLL is a wonderful movie, and could act as a more thoughtful companion piece, in case anyone wanted to embark on an 'Anti Nazi German Resistance' movie marathon

PS I'd have to agree about Lazenby as Bond. My least favorite 007 by a wide margin

Cruise was amazing as Lestat.  And the character was a little thin in Interview because it was from the point of the view of the other vamp, Louis, who thought Lestat was evil.  The character was actually well fleshed out in the other books, where he is portrayed as more sympathetic and complex.

I think Michael Fassbender would've would've been perfect for Veidt. It's a shame Snyder didn't realize it after he worked with him on 300. Fassbender has the right physicality, looks, charm, and acting chops for it. And he's half-German, which would have come in handy if he wanted to play Veidt with a German accent like Goode did!

 

Heath Ledger may have made a good Balian, though he probably would've wanted to avoid typecasting after "A Knight's Tale". :)

I get not caring for Lazenby as Bond, but to rank him below the atrocious Roger Moore and hollow Pierce Brosnan?  That, I don't get.

Roger Moore is my second least favorite Bond, but I love Brosnan. My Bond list:

Craig/Connery (in that order, but it's nearly a tie)

Brosnan

Dalton



Roger Moore


Lazenby

EDIT: Art Decade: Farrell was not 'boring':


Devin Faraci said it was an Oscar worthy performance in his review, FYI

Interesting point, especially now when he's dropped out of DJANGO. Will Smith the actor is great in I AM LEGEND. But it could be argued that Will Smith the phenomenon is the reason that film isn't very good.

 

I unfortunately have seen that movie (a few years ago) and yeah, it was a pretty poor motion picture and Tomlin came across as being like Travolta's mom, which made their falling in love relationship really creepy and disturbing.

 

To state a rather obvious choice, Denise Richards as a "brainy scientist" in The World Is Not Enough. Sure, her role wasn't the worst problem with that movie, but still appalling to cast her as that sort of character.

I haven't seen it, but I'm pretty sure there's a movie where Gary Oldman plays a dwarf.

Yeah, "TipToes"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukRdEVthmWM 

Is that a wig or dye job on Farrell? Either way it looks awful.
 

 

Cameron have you seen ALEXANDER? If not, then trust me: he has the most amazing hair in that movie. Some is a wig, some is his own natural hair for the scenes with younger Alexander, but his hair is incredible throughout the film. My favorite look is when he gets to India and it's all long and greasy, showing his increasing distance from Greek culture, and his increasingly single minded fixation on his war to the ends of the earth. It also is evocative of Herakles and the lions mane


"Come then! Where are your daggers?!" (Farrell's line from the moment of this screen cap)

There's a parallel universe where Daniel Day-Lewis said 'yes' to playing Lestat - and it's no doubt glorious.

Not to be pedantic, but I don't think always-bad actors like Sophia Coppolla or Orlando Bloom qualify as ever being miscast. The idea (I've always thought) of seeing 'miscast' has been to put a good actor into a role where they're not suited, and thus ineffective.

 

To wit...

 

mis·cast  (ms-kst)

 

Orlando Bloom can work when hr is cast well, as in, not cast as a leading man. See: LOTR