EddieMoney

River's Edge
My Own Private Idaho

inri222

He's decent in those but looks like an amateur next to Crispin Glover & River Phoenix.

EddieMoney

True.

"You think I'd at least rate a Michelob! It's warm even!"

Why So Blu?

Blake Lively in Savages.

EddieMoney

I enjoyed that movie (surprisingly), but yes, she was AWFUL.

Neeb

Jennifer Lawrence was originally cast in that role.

She left to do HUNGER GAMES.

Lastdaysofrain

The one that always bugged me was Martin Short in Captain Ron. The part was clearly written for Steve Martin and/or a Steve Martin type and as much as a I like Martin Short, it just doesn't work. Also, I'm one of those people who has an opinion on Captain Ron, I'm not proud of it.

Ash Ketchum

When they do a female cop movie based on this lady's life and the studio decides not to use the real thing, for whatever reason (although they should at least give the lovely Officer Penoyer a screen test), I could see Blake Lively in the role.

And then everybody on this thread will bitch about her being miscast.

(Truth to tell, Scarlett Johansson would be a better choice.)

joliom

I wholly agree with all of these:

- John Wayne in The Conqueror
- Sophia Coppola in The Godfather Part III
- Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Geena Davis in Cutthroat Island
- Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin
- Vince Vaughn in Psycho
- Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Lloyd, & Hayden Christensen in Star Wars
- Denise Richards in The World Is Not Enough
- Leonardo DiCaprio & Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York
- Ben Affleck in Daredevil
- Keanu Reeves in Constantine
- Katie Holmes in Batman Begins
- Jack Black & Adrien Brody in King Kong
- Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns
- Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Dark Knight
- Maggie Grace in Taken


And would also add these:

- Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed
- Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing
- Keanu Reeves in Little Buddha
- Owen Wilson in Behind Enemy Lines
- Edward Norton & Ralph Fiennes in Red Dragon
- Nick Stahl in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Colin Farrell in Alexander
- Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Adrien Brody in Predators
- Tyler Perry in Alex Cross
- Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher

inri222

Anthony Hopkins in The Human Stain
Angelina Jolie in Alexander

stvn1974

Ridley Scott's Legend would be a lot better without Tom Cruise in it.

That'sAllFolks

She's OK looking, but not the model-bombshell MJ should be.

I actually like this movie and though I can understand why someone wouldn't like Geena Davis in it. I think she's decent.

yeah she just doesn't have the right look. The whole cast though is pretty bad except for Johnny Storm. Just seems a like a made-for-cable movie.

He loves to play historical figures, but for some reason, all I can see is Leonardo acting.


Though not theatrical Lindsay Lohan in Liz and Dick. Totally unconvincing. Not necessarily because LL is a bad actress (though she was pretty bad), but partly because her voice and looks remind me of LL instead of Liz.

hanshotfirst1138

I would have to sit down with a think tank and speculate very, very hard to come up with a worse title for anything than Liz and Dick. It just sounds very bad, IMO.

joliom

Here you go, hanshotfirst1138:

- I Come in Peace
- Mother, Jugs & Speed
- Stroker Ace
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle
- Free Willy
- The Harder They Come
- Shaft
- Octopussy
- Snatch
- Ride the Pink Horse
- The Black Hole
- Holes
- Zorro: The Gay Blade

Sean O'Hara

Objection! Those are great titles.

Ash Ketchum

Those are all much better and much more effective titles than LIZ AND DICK.

hanshotfirst1138

Thank you.

dhmac

All of those sound like porn titles as-is except for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Its name as a porn title would've been called Titty Titty Bang Bang.

Ky-Fi

I always thought Three Amigos might have been a lot funnier if John Candy had been cast instead of Chevy Chase.

PhantomStranger

You have to remember that for big-budget Hollywood fare, some roles are cast merely for the actors' drawing power of their name above the marquee. Russell Crowe is one actor at this point willing to take just about any role offered him and studios continue handing him roles because he has a sizable following, but he's turning in the same mediocre performance movie after movie.

Ash Ketchum

Of course! That was Joliom's joke in response to LIZ AND DICK and I completely missed it! (And so did Hanshotfirst.) Now that I see it, it's funny! Double

hanshotfirst1138

That went WAY over my head, like sex gags almost always do .

stvn1974

Sounds kinky.

auto

Uh oh...

Yeti4623

He was also pretty good in The Devil's Advocate and The Gift.