Be Excellent To Each Other

I always use my area fire spell in Fable 2 when trying to get out of the menu.

I love Tim Roth, but that American accent in Reservoir Dogs? Brrrr.

She was ok in The Others.

At least I think she was, I liked the film.

The first assumption to make of any ghost related film is: the lead character is really a ghost. It's a surprise when they're not.

Sorry, markg!

Anyway, a perfectly cast actress was the utterly wonderful Tilda Swinton as The White Witch in The Lion, etc. Curiously, her exact opposite, Aslan, was badly cast with Liam Neeson failing to add the required depth, weight and strangeness to the voice. They really needed to think harder and use an unknown voice there, Liam - although a good actor - was too warm and human to work really as a lion-shaped deity.

Better.

Oh Christ, wait, thought of one of the all-time miscasts - Gene Hackman as the Polish commander in A Bridge too Far. "Wow! We've got all these stars! Er, lets cram a few more in. Don't fuss about matching them up to a part..."

John Travolta just didn't sit right with me in Pulp Fiction to be honest.

Oh, I've thought of some more. Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer in Frankie and Johnny.
Ewan McGregor in Down With Love and great movie that it is, he's really clunky in Moulin Rouge as well, though not film wrecking.
Maggie Gyllenhall in The Dark Knight
Claire Danes in Stardust - and not necessarily because she can't act or is unattractive, just my idea of a fallen star would not be her, at all.

What!!

Also: I'm not sure of Orloomo Bland is a good enough actor to qualify, but if he is then I'd put Kingdom Of Heaven forward for your consideration. What your man does well is unthreatening, exceptionally pretty but reasonably dull likability (Keanu, The Next Generation if you like). Amazingly, asking him to play a charismatic leader of men struggling with his faith and tortured by loss didn't remotely work.

No, the all time example of stepping out of your comfort zone has to be Sean Connery in ZARDOZ

Gods he was terrible as Legolas. Absolutely awful. IN FACT! Kate Cate Kayte Blanchett as Galadriel. Fucking awful.

WTF? The best bit of all three films was where he surfs down some stairs on his shield.

HHHHNNNGGH! *asplodes*

No, the bit where he tosses the dwarf is better.

He's such a starfucker.

Nah, the 45 minutes of stuff after the film should have ended once they got rid of the ring was best.

I think we can stretch to those as there are tons of stars who are good at one thing and shouldn't deviate from it but do. In the original clips we had John Wayne, who no one would consider to be a great actor, trying to get his chops around Genghis Khan.

That's why Keanu gets in, as he is universally regarded as the ultimate air headed pretty boy who wasn't acting in Bill & Ted and he's been truly awful in many films where he's actually required to act, such as the aforementioned MAAN, The Gift and Dracula.

In light of this, I'd like to mention Andie Macdowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral. I'm sorry, who in their right fucking mind would pick her over Kristin Scott Thomas.

Oh and lest I forget, let's do some Bond villains. Jonathan Pryce in Tomorrow Never Dies? About as menacing as a limp stick of celery. Sophie Marceau was pretty shit in The World Is Not Enough as well and Robert Carlyle didn't really pull it off in that movie either - especially when you put the scrawny five foot nothing of him against the six foot something of Brosnan in the final fight scene.

Denise Richards is not a scientist, either.

I've heard very strong rumours that she was in fact a high class hooker before landing the gig in Starship Troopers and she's most definitely nuts nowadays.

I didn't think Ed Norton did a particularly good job of Bruce Banner.

And they really should have got Brad Pitt to be The Hulk.

That said, I don't think The Hulk really works as a film anyway.

Edit: I did think that Aaron Eckhart was going to be a terrible Harvey Dent, because I didn't for a second think he would be able to play the role of someone that was supposed to be a decent person, but I was very impressed with his performance.

The best bit IS where he surfs down the steps on the shield, followed by the part where he swings himself under the horse's neck and onto its back.

I quite liked Orlando Bloom in LotR - I don't think I had seen him in anything before that. i was really disappointed to find out he wasn't blonde - he looked much better as a blonde. He also looks better without his silly face fuzz.

The best bit is when Sean Bean forgets he is acting and starts rambling on about Sheffield United being awesome when he's supposed to be sneering at Frodo.

Also, I quite liked Nicole Kidman in The Interpreter.

It's when he hefts the sword, looks to camera and says "Hmm, still Sharpe".

And then starts going on about why "Errr 2" are the best home broadband supplier.

I misread that and got excited.

I watched an episode of Interceptor recently, and for all it's failings compared to a modern game show, it was strangely compelling.

I've met both the pilot and the contestant in this clip. What Interceptor was great at was the set pieces. I'm told all the low flying in the series had to be pre-planned and cleared by the CAA, but the contestants genuinely had no idea what was happening.

This is a contestants view of how the series was made. Fascinating reading:

http://www.interceptors-lair.com/htmldocs/behind_scenes/contestants_view/contview_1.htm

Cheers for that, will have a read.

I was always slightly disappointed that when lumbering around the forest hacking up orcs a dozen Frenchmen in Napoleonic dress don't suddenly enter from the right, with him ploughing through them hacking away, seemingly oblivious to the anachronism.

Hugh Fraser: "Damn it! Marshall Soult's throwing in his entire reserves!" (Claps telescope to eye, telescope view shows twelve Frenchmen crossing a river.)

Hugh Fraser: [Pointing to East] "Damn it all I thank God! Blucher has arrived with the reinforcements, the day is saved!" (Cut to twelve Prussians labouring up a slope.)

[Enter Right, an aide de camp]

Aide: Wellington, the fifth regiment has been decimated! Four hundred men and more, wiped out!" (Cut to the same twelve extras as redcoats, lying dead in a gully.)

Fraser: "Damn! Sharpe! Where are you? Damn!"

Bean: "Damn you sir, I'm here!"

Fraser: "Damn!"

Major Hogan: "Damn you Sharpe, get your sergeant up here at once, damn your eyes!"

Bean: "DAMN IT ALL!"

Curly haired ginger bloke: "DAMN!"

Hogan: "Why, cram my mouth with damn with an extra order of damn to go!"

Fraser: "DAMN!"

Harper: "Damn ye all, I'm here ready to do yer damn service."

Fraser: [Bellowing, clutching stomach, red faced] "DAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNN!"

Hogan: "Show some damn respect, damn you to damnation."

Bean: "DAMN YOU SIR! He's the best damn stereotype in this whole damn army! Damnitt!"

All: "DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!"

...

Aide: "Blast!"

Fraser: (Recovering) "Damn AND Blast!"

(Repeat for a dozen series.)

Don't be having a go at Sharpe, or I will wear your testicals as earings!!

She was great in that. Purely because she looked uncannily like whatsherface, that one I went out with and stuff.

I love Sharpe, all in affectionate fun.

you sure!!!

Aye. I even actually like most of the scripts lotses. I was always just amused at the constant shouting of TV-swear-friendly 'DAMN!' and the lack of budget which meant the same twelve extras all the time. (Much like in Commando) Sharpe was always at its best with behind-enemy-lines skirmish missions. When they tried to do Waterloo, they came a bit of cropper.

The ones with Pete Postlethwaite being mental were pretty awesome, too. And that smart looking Spanish guerilla woman in green with hair tied back was hot too. Yup, I liked that show. I can't actually think of any bad casting in that and Hornblower, sorry. (Though Hornblower is supposed to be a little taller and with receding hair and awkward manner in the books, and curter and more self-doubting mingled with self loathing.)

Also Elizabeth Hurley's knockers.

Best thread closer ever. Until now.

Recent Miscasting Error: Tom Cruise - Jack Ryan

I assume you mean Jack Reacher?

Although Chris Pine (?) as Jack Ryan in the most recent film might also count.

I don't see Arsefleck as Batman winning me over.

Nooo, that was great. Chris Pine is great.

Hang on, I'm thinking of Chris Pratt.

I did mean Jack Reacher.

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