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-rolleyes-

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Apparently the OP really likes this topic:

[movie] would have been great if [name] wasn't in it

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You two are out of my will. In the history of movie mistakes, casting Chris Tucker here is number one. The Fifth Element could have been a very good movie, but he absolutely ruins it. I can't imagine anything worse in the entire history of film, than his performance there. If I could go back in time and do anything, it would be to get Hitler and Chris Tucker admitted into art school.

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^Sounds like you hated the character, which is different from the character being miscast. I can't imagine anyone but Chris Tucker in that role, as annoying a role it was.

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If you don't like the character, blame Besson not Tucker. I don't think anyone could've done better given what Tucker was given to play.

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You may have a small point, I am biased, as I cringe at everything Chris Tucker has ever done, so I prefer to think it was all him.

I like quirky characters and saw the potential in that role, just hated Tucker.

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It was an original character, so how can you know whether he was miscast or perfectly cast? It's not like we had seen the character before and knew how it should have been played.

And I agree with Trevor. If Chris Tucker had not been in that movie, I would have liked it ten times more. I can barely bring myself to watch it now, despite liking almost everything else about it.

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You can't, which was my point.

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Thank you! Finally, someone on this thread who understands exactly what I've been trying to beat into these numskulls' heads around here for the past year-and-a-half. :p

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aw cmon he was the basis for this guy in GTA Vice City

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I think it would be pretty hard for ONE miscasting to ruin an entire film...especially a good film. The miscasting might detract from it, but I can't imagine any films have actually been ruined by one role that was miscasted.

The gay cowboy's ugly sister defintely took The Dark Knight down a tad for me.

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Although Alba was terrible in F4, everyone else was also terrible and the script was godawful, so I at least enjoyed her wonderful face and body.

Of all the movies mentioned, I don't think any of them were ruined by their miscastings.

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Yeah, she's hideous.

Interestingly enough, she looked pretty good in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in the three seconds of screen time she had.

Her face seems to be melting or something.

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Really? I thought she was a step-up from Tom Cruise's beard in Begins.

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I think the point of Ruby Rhod is that he was supposed to be annoying. Like someone else said, blame Besson if you don't like the character, but CT was pitch-perfect.

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For me, the worst casting in The Fifth Element was easily "Tiny" Lister as the galactic president or whatever his job was.

Back to the original topic...while Gettysburg is not a film containing very many good performances to begin with, Martin Sheen was horribly miscast as Robert E. Lee.

OTOH, the same filmmakers cast Stephen Lang as George Pickett, and that was a brilliant piece of casting.

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Without pointing out any one post in particular, there do seem to be several comments that suggests consternation based more about the physical attractiveness of an actress than her actual performance.

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Saw it in theaters in '93, a few times since. She's horrible.

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Of course. A very good looking billionaire and a media darling (who's not exactly ugly himself) D.A. would not be fighting over somebody as unattractive as her. Of all the unbelievable things in that movie, that was the most unbelievable. Never understood the casting on that one. It's not like she's a GREAT actress either, so they weren't going for acting ability over looks. There are countless other actresses out there that could have pulled that role off just fine and done it while looking much more attractive.

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Everyone? Chiklis and Chris Evans were great as the Thing and Torch :shrug:

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Yeah, if they had just yellowed them at least. I don't even mind that much that they're straight.

For me, the Chris Rock cameo in A.I. Artificial Intelligence is just atrocious. I'd love a DC that pulled that briefest of scenes out of the film.

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yeah
going to have to add "people that record stuff off a tv with a camcorder and then upload it to youtube" to my list of things I hate

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The second one to come to mind, after Sofia Coppola in Godfather III, was Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element.

I haven't liked Chris Tucker in anything but I thought he was great as Beaumont.

I couldn't disagree with this more. First of all, people have different opinions of what is and is not beautiful and second, people like people for reasons other than looks.