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God I hate Owen Wilson & that other stupid yank actor in Night at the Museum?

He was no James Bond though was he?

Also, Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man... not even a proper retard ffs.

Any time anyone mentions badly cast roles, that is the one that sticks in my mind. I have never, ever seen an actor so under-prepared and incapable of taking on a classic role. It is so, so terrible.

But I think that was the idea they wanted a silly character who better than the face of Mr Bean

Nicole Kidman in every film she's ever made, because she can't act, and surely casting someone who can't act in a film is a form of miscasting.

But he's always been that character. Since the Barclaycard days.

Gospvg was badly miscast in Big Stampy Boots.

I remember that, it was terrifying. Me and my little sister were especially frightened when the two girls go down into misty bay, against their mother's wishes. With unhilarious consequences. I must have been eight when I saw that.

Gospvg - at the risk of making a mortal enemy, I say Owen Wilson is great. Have you never seen him in Royal Tenennbaums, Bottle Rocket, Life Aquatic - in fact any of the Wes Anderson films? He's brilliant in them, co-writes 'em too. He's a damn good script writer too. Owen as Ned in Life Aquatic delivers a genuinely touching, endearing performance. NED! I agree the rom-coms he's also in are shocking, but they can be safely avoided. Hope he's feeling better after that old suicide attempt, and that he makes more excellence.

John Hannah in everything he's been in.

Just me?

Yes I have. It made me want to push his drawling lazy tongue down the back of his throat with my fist.

Good lord, times infinity.

How she ever managed to fool people into thinking she's a good actress, I have no idea. She's so criminally insincere in every film I've seen her. Her acting is paper thin. She also has a distractingly large, palid forehead.

Agreed, this gets him a lot of points against his subsequent travesties of acting.

All shot at Lulworth Cove in Dorset. Handily its only a 10 minute drive from Tyneham so you can do both in one day.

You sir, are King Wrong.

Scientology?

You're all doing it wrong, it isn't just a "name a shit actor" thread. If this was my thread I'd be most unhappy by now, most unhappy

I'm sure he's a very nice person. It wouldn't be something I'd do with malice, more a grim sense of determination. Well, not even that, it'd be dispassionate. And slow.

Yeah, I'm doing better than most of you and I've just been taking the piss.

I frequently fireball city guards instead of turning invisible to sneak past them in Oblivion.

Then she's not a good actress.

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