Movies: folks that don't fit

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

Post a movie with an actor who just doesn't belong.
Someone who maybe you never noticed was there.

As an example I suggest Young Frankenstein with Gene Hackman as the Blindman.

[Xyzse]

1. Like Star Wars Phantom Menace, the whole Gungan Race?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. I don't know

I never saw it. IMHO they let anyone show up in Star Wars.

[Xyzse]

3. True...

I guess a more serious example I can probably give would be...

Tom Cruise - Valkyrie... He played Tom Cruise, trying to be German, badly... It felt like everyone else was acting their parts, but he, he played himself.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. Agreed, that always seemed a bad fit

IMHO Bryan Singer (producer and director) had box office attraction in mind over good casting.

[Mendocino]

11. He went with physical similarity,

Cruise looks like Stauffenberg. Competent film but Cruise was underwhelming to the point of boredom. He is capable, I always thought that Charlie Babbitt in Rainman was his best performance.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. I suppose but IMHO not a good fit

Cruise was great in Rainman.

[charlie and algernon]

4. For Love of the Game - Kelly Preston

A sports movie about an aging pitcher throwing the best game of his career and she thinks she's in a bad sappy love story.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. I kind of pblame that on bad directing

Sam Raimi may be more of drama fan than a Tigers fan.

[we can do it]

7. Pierce Brosnan as James Bond- Nope

[Ron Obvious]

9. We refer to those as Remington Bond

Never did buy him as Bond either, though I enjoyed Golden Eye.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

12. Good one!

Although I love the chase scene in the tank.
That was inspired!

[Initech]

18. Loved Goldeneye, but it was downhill from there.

[sharp_stick]

8. Comic book adaptations gone bad

George Clooney as Batman, Ben Affleck as Daredevil and Sylvester Stallone as Judge Dredd (I AM D' LAW!!!)

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. I keep forgetting Clooney as Batman...

...which proves your point. Excellent! Same story with Affleck/Daredevil.

I like Stallone in Expendables 3 (I AM THE HAGUE!)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

26. I never bought Michael Keaton as Batman, either. nt

[jmowreader]

30. I actually enjoyed Clooney as Batman...

And I think I'm the only person in the world who does.

The core Batman-Mr. Freeze interplay - IF IT WAS THE ONLY THING IN THE FUCKING MOVIE! - in Batman and Robin would have made a fun, "Batman TV Show"-level of campy, movie.

If they would have rewritten the script to get rid of...

* Poison Ivy
* Bane
* the telescope shit
* Batgirl
* Robin
* and the "dying Alfred" story line...

...then studied Jack Nicholson's Joker to learn how to write a proper story arc for that kind of villain, it could have been a good movie. A villain that kills people by freezing them? Yeah, that could be fun if it was done right, but Batman and Robin is a case study in how to completely fuck up something that's unfuckable-up.

[hobbit709]

10. I still think the perfect Boris and Natasha would have been Danny DeVito and Cher.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

14. You have a future in casting, sir

That's genius!

[Mendocino]

17. Boris and Natasha

There were two movies made with them. One had Sally Kellerman and Dave Thomas. Another had Robert De Niro and Rene Russo. Never seen them, don't worry, hardly anybody did.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

19. The De Niro version had...

...Jason Alexander as Boris. Not a bad fit IMO. I'm not sure how believable Russo is as Natasha. De Niro fits as Fearless Leader.

[First Speaker]

16. Speaking of DeVito--his right-hand man in *Hoffa*...

...I know he directed the film, but still--it was really more about his character than it was about Hoffa himself. And his scenes when he tried to be a tough guy! Just risible... For a couple of actors who should have been cast, but weren't: a young Sean Connery would have been a perfect Gully Foyle in a film version of *The Stars My Destination*...and Bruce Willis should have starred in a Philip K Dick biopic...

[Archae]

20. Sean Connery as Indiana Jones' Dad.

He looks so out of place.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

23. I'm sure since that's...

...another I can't remember.

[sarge43]

21. The entire cast of Pearl Harbor. n/t

[Xyzse]

27. Um, sorry, I can't agree.

Kate Beckinsale is ALWAYS the right fit.

[sarge43]

28. She's a fine actress

Loved her in Cold Comfort Farm and Van Helsing - perfect fit. It's just the Army nurses pre-WWII weren't glamour girls.

[Xyzse]

29. I guess so... I still think she always fits though...

Though I understand where you're coming from.

[Grantuspeace]

22. A casting miss...

Danny DeVito should have played Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

24. I like that, good call!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

25. A new thought

The actors in Kelly's Heroes all fit the movie but not exactly with each other.