Worst hollywood casting decision ever?

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^^^ Vincent Kapoor from The Martian

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Anonymous wrote:Peeta Mellark as portrayed by Josh Hutcherson in the series The Hunger Games.

Oh yes. I gasped when I saw him. He was so short and had that weird grimace. Not how I had pictured hunky Peeta at all.

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Plus that ridiculous bleached blond hair. Not masculine looking at ALL.

Yes, when I saw Peeta, I thought they would change the ending so that Katniss picked Gale.

That was part of the whole story. Katniss was the warrior and saved him; he had a more traditional female role.

Well, he saved her too, more than a dozen times. In the book, he was very strong and muscular and could run in the pack with the "Careers."

I don't think any of you read the book. Gale was the strong hunter who saved people and was savvy; Peeta was the nerdy smart scrappy kid who banded with Katniss to survive. Peeta hunky? What a pile is misremembering nonsense.

I think I read it more carefully than you did. In the book it talks about Peeta being a strong-built guy with wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. Peeta was very muscular from throwing around huge sacks of flour from his dad's bakery, and of a quarter of the first book was about how he faked an alliance with the "Careers" to trick them into staying away from Katniss.

+1. The role of Peeta was horribly miscast.

Yes! And it almost ruined the movies for me because he didn't fit the role at all.

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From TV: Katharine McPhee in Smash. She’s cute, personable, and has a decent voice, but put her next to incredibly talented Broadway stars, in a role where she’s supposed to have some undefinable “x factor” and it just ends up looking silly. Broadway performers are ridiculously talented.

I really wanted that show to work and she wasn’t the only reason it didn’t but her miscasting was a big part of it.

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This probably doesn't rise to WORST EVER, but I HATE the movie Space Cowboys with the fire of 1,000 suns for two reasons.

a. Marcia Gay Harden and the haircut that looks like she is an idle four year old with a pair of plastic scissors:

b. She's supposed to be a love interest of Tommy Lee Jones who looks at least 20 years older than her.

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Anonymous wrote:The actress who plays Brianna in Outlander. She made the series unwatchable for me.

Jack Black with any attractive love interest.

Yep. Outlander so epically cast with the two leads before that. Ruined it for me. Not sure how that casting happened.

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Reese Witherspoon on the Morning Show. Her wig was too distracting.

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Anonymous wrote:Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss

She was too old!

I see your point, but I actually thought she did well. Katniss was young, but had been forced to become wise and resourceful beyond her years.

Np. Another white wash. In the book, kat iss had olive akin.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of Natalie Portman, she was so unbelievable to me in the movie Closer. She was supposed to be a stripper, but had a childlike presence acting next to Jude Law, Julia Roberts and Clive Barker.

Clive Owen, my favourite actor in my favourite film. Portman's childlike transcendence was compelling.

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Anonymous wrote:Kevin Costner in anything

Wrong. Loved "Dances with Wolves".

Good God. I can't decide which was worse--his terrible acting or terrible directing.

+1 Thisis an epically bad take. Kevin Costner was surprisingly good in Bull Durham, but he’s a dreadful actor, and Dancing with Wolves was tied with Waterworld for the worst of the worst.

I think he's got a certain thing that works in certain roles. He was great in Bull Durham. He was good in Untouchables and Silverado, and even okay in that spy movie where he is a sleeper agent (sorry, spoiler alert). He was surprisingly really good in that rom com that he did with Jennifer Anniston that was supposed to be a funny sequel to The Graduate. He actually has a nice little sense of comedic timing, which I guess is why Bull Durham worked. I never saw Field of Dreams and can't stand Dancing with Wolves. Waterworld is its own hot mess.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad I'm not the only one who hated Four Weddings and a Funeral.

No one watched that movie for anything other than hot Hugh Grant, and the hot guy who played the deaf brother. Everyone realized at the time that Andie MacDowell was awful and it was amazing she ever got another acting role. She seems like a nice person, though, from interviews.

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Anonymous wrote:Worst ever? As in I can't watch this part of the movie and it's ruined for me? Andie McDowell 3 Weddings and a Funeral. No question. Such a shame.

Yes! That acting!! Omg. Painful.

+1 "Is it raining?" Yes Andie it is. I turn that movie off right before it ends.

I read someplace fairly recently that the line was supposed to sarcastic - like, look at me, I'm so drenched, but is it raining I hadn't noticed, said in a wry tone.

That makes that line more bearable as dialogue. Viewing it that way, it almost redeems that scene, was Andie sort of says everything in that she flat tone. But she just doesn't quite get there. If she had done anything - held up her hands to catch rain, looked up at the sky, grimaced in a half smile - anything that would have indicated she was being sarcastic, no one would remember how bad her acting was in that movie. But because she was so flat, and it's the ultimate scene of the movie, it just emphasizes how flat she was throughout.

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Anonymous wrote:Kate Capshaw, aka Mrs. Stephen Spielberg as the girlfriend in the second Indian Jones movie. She was so screechy and annoying.

Yes! And the way they directed the kid as a walking stereotype. Ick.

Yeah, sadly, that movie was just awful all around -- even Harrison Ford could not save it. The first and the third are great, the second and fourth are unwatchable.

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Anonymous wrote:Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss

She was too old!

I see your point, but I actually thought she did well. Katniss was young, but had been forced to become wise and resourceful beyond her years.

Np. Another white wash. In the book, kat iss had olive akin.

DP, she was also supposed to look like she was starving but the producers made the conscious decision to cast an actress with an athletic build to avoid glamorizing that super-skinny look. I’m ok with JL as Katniss. Agree wholeheartedly about Josh Hutcherson.

Although I love her acting, I agree she is often miscast in older roles. Looking at you Silver Linings Playbook. Heaven forbid they got an age-appropriate actress for that Oscar-worthy role. It changed the whole dynamic of her character they made her 10-15 years younger to fit Jennifer Lawrence’s age.

Keanu Reeves in Dracula. Whaaaaaat was that??

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Anonymous wrote:Worst ever? As in I can't watch this part of the movie and it's ruined for me? Andie McDowell 3 Weddings and a Funeral. No question. Such a shame.

This! All these years later - what was up with that??

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Anonymous wrote:The whitewashing of Avatar the Last Airbender. That was horrific.

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Hollywood whitewashing is insane nowadays. There are so many decent Asian actors who are not given a chance it's just criminal.
Add Tilda Swinton in Dr. Strange, Natalie Portman in Annihilation, Matt Damon turning The Great Wall into a stereotypical "white man saves China" caricature, and Benedict Cumberbatch in the Star Trek reboot all as examples of Hollywood anti-Asian bigotry.

Uhhh....playing a a genetically engineered superhuman. What race would you like them to engineer? With you on the rest, but seriously.