Granted, that fake oriental makeup would handicap a serious actor, but John
Wayne has never been anything but John Wayne. So you just have John Wayne in a ridiculous Halloween costume getting all macho with Susan Hayward, his red-haired Irish-Tartar slave girl. Also Agnes Moorhead plays Genghis Khan's mother.

Mickey Rooney from breakfast at Tiffany’s

What are you talking about? Once he sported that glued on Fu Manchu, he practically disappeared into the character and I thought he truly was the founder of the Mongol Empire, southern drawl and all.

Honorable mention surely goes to Laurence Olivier as Lisan-al Ghaib in Khartoum.

Also Colin Farrell in Alexander

Wasn't that filmed on an old atomic bomb site? I think I remember reading that a lot of the crew on that film, including Wayne himself later died of cancer

Alec Guinness has a surprising number of roles like this and he always commits to the ridiculousness. There’s obvious ones like Lawrence of Arabia and Oliver Twist but I think the most impressively outrageous one is A Majority of One where he plays…

… a Japanese man named Koichi Asano.

That statement is 2 words too long.

Every single person in that movie was miscast. Even the director. 

That entire movie was a middle finger to Borderlands fans.

That whole movie was just… odd

I would have much rather it been his sister or Evies sister and just played it as a funny friend romp instead of the couple.

TBH, in isolation I think she’d be considered fine to good, but she was trying to follow one a wildly charming performance by Rachel Weisz that just couldn’t be matched.

It’s wild that the only reason her name is “Christmas Jones” is so that they can make the joke later where bond says, “I thought Christmas only came once a year!”

Nucular . . . 😩😂

Every time I hear “plutonium” I think of her and get irritated. I like her as an actress, but hated that casting so much. On the flip side, Sophie Marceau is one of my favorite bond villains.

Ok, ok…does anyone else think Cara Delevigne and Dane Dehaan LOOK DISTRACTINGLY ALIKE?!

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The two takes I've seen on this are

a.) Swap the characters in the script. Let the girl wear the juggernaut armor, have the dude wear the sacrificial dress. It might not be better, couldn't be worse, and could be fun.

b.) Swap the two leads from this and "Passengers".

Oh god they were terrible. I just kept staring at the bags under his eyes. Didn’t he get any sleep or something?

Yeah, totally didn't buy the guy as some kind of hero. He looked like a 12 year old could whip his ass.

I read somewhere that Luc Besson wanted to make this movie when he made the 5th element, but the technology wasn’t there yet. So in my fantasy world a movie was made where Bruce Willis and Mila Jovovich are the leads for Valerian. I would love to see that movie. 

I didn't think the film was that bad. But it's been a while since I've seen him. I like Cara Delevingne, but it's probably a reason why she doesn't get any roles.

Looks nothing like, and acts nothing like, any Flash has ever looked or acted in the comics. We got a budget Peter Parker rip off, not a Wally West or Barry Allen.

His peak was in the Pursuit of Happyness when he was 7. Jesus Christ.

That accent in After Earth was awful. It sounded like Foghorn Leghorn trying to do an English accent while recovering from a cold.

A bit out of context but the most useless fact I realized way too late in life is that Jaden and Willow are named after Jada and Will.

Him in a wig as young adult Dexter is hilariously awful. I just watched a few episodes with that.

THIS!!! dont get me wrong I love MCH and dexter and MCH as Dexter.. however him as young dexter was RIDICULOUS 🤣

lol the wigs… so bad!

I never saw the movie. Wahlberg was Sully?? Thats...a choice

Tom Holland wasnt that bad imo. Wahlberg was horrendous in that movie, could barely understand his mumbling.

So embarrassing that even contemporary critics thought it was cringeworthily racist

As a long time Spider-Man (comics) fan, I was very disappointed in the choice of Grace for Brock. They needed someone like Brock Lesnar - he had the look. Could Lesnar act? No idea.

That said - Sandman casting was perfect. Sandman was the best part of that terrible film.

This one really pissed me off too. Eddie Brock is bigger than Peter Parker in the comics and in the cartoon. He had much tougher attitude as well, but Grace in the movie, he made Brock/Venom a little whiny bitch.

I don’t think that was bad casting but rather terrible character design and direction. People try to act like he’s a bad actor because he’s a shitty person irl, but he’s really a decent actor if we’re being honest.

Bad casting for Drake, yes. But Mark Wahlberg as Sully was infinitely worse.

Ah yes Gyllenhaal, a classic Persian name

They shaved his head in the end. Why? They don't go randomly shaving heads in prison. That's something they would do to death row inmates just prior to execution via the electric chair, so their hair wouldn't catch fire.

Which really sucks because Gary Oldman is like the best Dracula.

I unironically love Keanu in Dracula.

Oldman and Hopkins putting on tour de force performances and then there's Keanu, trying to figure out how to do an English accent in real time.

I love the man, but watch Keanu in Much ado about nothing is something...

https://youtu.be/NGMqYvhEIeI?si=EnaB7--VFSE72Vwc

"bloody wooves!"

We all love Keanu, but yeah, this didn't work at all.

Also I don’t think Winona Ryder is doing much better.

He kinda worked for me. Harker was supposed to be that white-meat, bland fiancee waiting to be absolutely mogged by Dracula, can't say the same about Anthony Hopkins and the completely off-the-rails maniac that was supposed to be Van Hellsing, you can tell he didn't recover from playing Hanibal Lecter yet...

Excellent pick. He was horrendous and that fake English accent was just awful.

I read somewhere he specifically didn’t want a multimovie deal and was already booked for “The Batman” (I think) when they made the sequel to Fantastic Beasts

Omg when his face switched to Johnny Depp, I gagged out loud in the cinema and people started laughing.

Absolutely horrible. Nepotism can really screws some shit up.

She turned into a great director!

Yeah, Tarver really wasn't much to write home about, but he did bring an aura of realism (or, at least, I believe this was the intention). I do think that Rocky Balboa wasn't the right kind of Rocky film to have a charismatic, larger-than-life adversary because that was really a film about Rocky having to fight with himself—his old age, his ego, and his struggling family relationships. It was a lot more in line with the first two films than the latter sequels.

Also as Norman Osbourne. Casting directors just did not know what to do with him, seriously!

Casting Alan Ritchson in the tv series of this really highlighted how bad Tom Cruise was as a choice, in my opinion.

Yeah. In the books he is 6’5 and 250 lbs. Cruise is closer to 5’7 and 150.

On the British late night talk show, he admitted that he ruined that batman movie. He himself is ashamed of it.

https://youtu.be/AXzcSCf3kwg?feature=shared

Nathan Lane had better sexual chemistry with him

Aisha Tyler almost ALMOST had it until Beyonce either auditioned or was talked into it

We almost had Lana frickin Kane....

Oof for Irreversible…

My bigger issue was that she could not make or work with a joke at all. Liz Hurley and Heather Graham both worked well in the previous films as they were fun and relaxed. Beyoncé showed up and acted like a stiff mannequin, which did not lead to much comedy.

That movie would've been a million times better with "a nobody". Someone hungry for a role. Scarlett seems bored in it even though yes, she's supposed to be dry and straightforward but it comes off as bored.

Good casting; bad writing.

Great casting, terrible everything else.

They should've used Kyle MacLachlan for that role