Simple what movies do you reckon suffered because of odd or miscasting? Whether the miscasting was a odd or a bad thing. I thought this could be interesting .....

Here is my list

*Brandon Routh and Kate Bosworth: Superman Returns. This casting was so extremly bad they had no chemistry.
*Marcia Gay Harden: The Fog - um this was just odd. High quality actress in a d grade movie
*Frances McDormand: Miss Pettigrew Lives For The Day - She is has a too strong a screen presence to play a timid character.
*Sanaa Lathan: Alien VS Predator - This was just odd ....
*Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz: What stays in Vegas - a toilet brush had more chemistry than these too.
*Keanu Reeves: Much Ado About Nothing (1993) - this was just so bad
*Kate Beckinsale: Underworld - she was just so so weak as a action hero.
*Leonardo DiCaprio: The Aviator - simply he didnt have the range to play Howard Hughes. The scene where is is going mad. He just looks constipated.
*Mel Gibson: Hamlet (1990) - why?
*Macaulay Culkin: Party Monster - His acting was so so bad it was funny
*Kate Hudson: Almost Famous - I simply dont know if it is good acting or was she playing herself?
*Anotinio Banderas and Lucy Liu: Ballistics: Ecks VS Sever - the chemistry between them was so and it was good
*Rachel Gritths: Step Up - what the heck was she doing in this movie she doesnt need the money
*Eric Bana: Hulk - this so didnt work in my eyes. Had no chemistry with Jennifer Connoly

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OKay, alot of those choices are not really spot on at all. Calling out Hudson & DiCaprio, you are way way way of base...

Agree with most, disagree with Leo.

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Originally posted by Mike:

*Kate Hudson: Almost Famous - I simply dont know if it is good acting or was she playing herself?

What difference does THAT make?

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Originally posted by Awardshq:
OKay, alot of those choices are not really spot on at all. Calling out Hudson & DiCaprio, you are way way way of base...

This is opinion ......... I didnt have a problem with Hudson becuase it worked..... DiCaprio was one of many problems with The Aviator

Leo was the best part of the aviator, he was amazing! He should have that oscar and not jamie foxx for his crap called ray...

yeah mentioning leo is completely out of line, he was fantastic in the aviator, capturing everything there was to howard hughes.

a movie that suffered from severe miscast was probably 'the house of spirits'. i worship streep, but that was a bad move

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Originally posted by Mike:

This is opinion ......... I didnt have a problem with Hudson becuase it worked.....

Say what?

If you didn't have a problem with it, why did you use it as an example of a movie that "suffers because of odd or miscasting?"

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Originally posted by vozas:
yeah mentioning leo is completely out of line,

See, on this one I agree with him. DiCaprio can be a good actor but he was terrible in The Aviator.

Since when is it out of line to give an opinion?

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Originally posted by Mike:
*Brandon Routh and Kate Bosworth: Superman Returns. This casting was so extremly bad they had no chemistry.

I definitely agree with this. That's another reason for me to still dislike Kevin Spacey because he keeps getting Kate Bosworth work.

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*Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz: What stays in Vegas - a toilet brush had more chemistry than these too.

Well, I haven't seen it yet and probably won't ever unless there's nothing else on. Also, while I'm glad that it's the woman who is older for once instead of the guy, since I don't think they're playing that up but trying to make it seem like they're around the same age, I don't think it will work. Don't get me wrong I think Diaz is very pretty, but if they try to get her to play the same or around the same age as Ashton Kutcher's character, it will be like Beverly Hills, 90210 when Luke Perry and Gabrielle Carteris were obviously pushing 30 but were trying to play high schoolers.

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*Mel Gibson: Hamlet (1990) - why?

I think we all know why. Thank goodness Kenneth Brannaugh released his version a short time later.

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*Macaulay Culkin: Party Monster - His acting was so so bad it was funny

He should have just let people remember him as the Home Alone kid with a stage father from hell.

I really can't think of too many miscasts right now. The biggest one though has got to be Katie Holmes in Batman Begins, she ruined every scene that she was in. Her character wasn't exactly very likeable, but I think most of it was her interpretation because I think if they had got Maggie Gyllenhaal from the start, she wouldn't have stunk up the whole movie. It's a shame too because I think it was a really good movie, but then her character comes along, and I have to turn away because she's so awful.

Finally, for a case of odd casting, I would have to go with Anna Paquin in She's All That. I guess she was right in that it would appeal to a large audience than her other movies at that time, but she wasn't even the lead and was stuck playing second banana to Rachel Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr., two "actors" that she could outact with both hands tied around her back. Although there is one positive thing to come out of it, and that's realizing that a pretty face will only get you so far which is why RLC and FPF have fallen off the face of the earth while Paquin is still working.

How about Jessica Alba and Chris Evans as siblings in F4? Or Emily Blunt as a high school classmate of Steve Carell's in Dan in Real Life?

Natalie Portman in 'Closer' comes to mind..

Lauren Bacall in almost everything.

Kate Bosworth in almost everything, ESPECIALLY 'Beyond the Sea'. How am I supposed to buy her as Sandra Dee?

I saw 'Julia' and was perplexed by the nominations/wins for Fonda and Robards. You could tell that Fonda was working her butt off, but she was so wrong for the role. Robards wasn't miscast, but he didn't do anything especial.

"The Sin Eater": Shannyn Sossamon and Heath Ledger. I think they were too young to portray the lead characters in this movie.

Dorothy Malone in 'Written on the Wind' seemed too old for the part, in my opinion.

For me, two fairly recent examples of casting an actress/actor who didn't belong in that particular movie are:

Jennifer Aniston in "Friends with Money".
Now, Aniston is okay (although I personally find her a very middling actress) but put her in a movie about 4 friends where the other 3 are Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, and Joan Cusack, and she can't help but look weak by comparison. This annoys her fans, who feel like they are being patronized by their favorite looking bad, and equally annoys the fans of the ohter actresses, who don't get screen time because time is being spent on the least talented of the bunch. So nobody is happy.

The other is Will Ferrell in "Stranger Than Fiction".
He's okay, but nothing special. With someone else in the part, the movie could have been a cult classic. Ferrell fans were unhappy because it wasn't the kind of Will Ferrell movie they wanted to see. Lots of people who would have liked the movie didn't go see it because they assumed it was a "Will Ferrell" movie. Again, nobody's happy. Neither movie made much money (I think) and I'd put casting at the core of the failure.

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Originally posted by MissyGal:
How about Jessica Alba and Chris Evans as siblings in F4? Or Emily Blunt as a high school classmate of Steve Carell's in Dan in Real Life?

Those are great examples. Jessica Alba as scientist Sue Storm reminded me of another casting blunder with Denise Richards playing a nuclear scientist. I'm sure there's plenty more of those, "they want me to believe that ____ is believable as insert very difficult profession in here when I can't even believe that _____ knows what that profession is."

I like Emily Blunt so far, but I hate that too when the actors are so far apart in age and look it but the movie tries to say otherwise. Like I know that technically it could have worked with their real ages, but with "Hanging Up", it was hard for me to believe that Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow were suppose to be sisters.

Other examples that came to mind later:
Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The guy in the Snickers commercial is way more believable as Robin Hood.

Keanu Reeves in Dracula. He seems like such a nice guy, seems pretty lowkey for a such a big star. He's sort of hit and miss though. He can be incredibly right for a part (Bill and Ted, suprisingly The Gift, the first Matrix), but when he's wrong, he's really wrong. For me this is probably the worst casting of him; although, Chain Reaction where he suffers from the previously mentioned "mouthbreather cast as a Mensa member" syndrome or Johnny Mneumonic where I couldn't help but laugh at the idea of him carrying around priceless data in his brain. (The movie should have really played with the idea more that he had an empty head suitable for this profession. Actually I do think he probably is smart in real life just plays dumb really well and not like Denise Richards or someone like Josh Hartnett.)

Speaking of Hartnett, I haven't seen Resurrecting the Champ, but he looked woefully miscast in the trailer and every review that I read of the movie supported that assumption. So far he's never impressed me enough to think that he can make the transition from teen actor to successful leading man.

I can't stand movies that cater to young people by casting impossibly young. "Superman Returns" is a prime example. I've got nothing against Kate Bosworth in general, but the idea that she'd be credible as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is preposterous. A complete crock, and none of her scenes could survive it.

There were a lot of problems with "Just My Luck," like the fact that they made it, but one of the biggest was casting Linday Lohan as the vice president of anything. She's not old enough to run a book club.

Julia Roberts in Charlie Wilson's War. Terribly terribly miscast. One of the worst things I've seen on screen last year.

Keria Knightley; "Atonement"