the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on May 28, 2016 20:36:43 GMT -5
Just saw Thor: The Dark World for the first time, and maaaaaan was Malekith a complete and utter waste of Christopher Eccleston. He still had a great screen presence, but that's to be expected because... Christopher Eccleston.
So, for the sake of discussion, just thought we could discuss other movies that wasted good actors.
Though on the Malekith front, apparently, they did have more material for him, but it was scrapped to give more screen time to Loki.
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Post by Jiren on May 28, 2016 20:45:58 GMT -5
Batman vs Superman - Everyone aside from Ben Affleck was wasted
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Post by BorneAgain on May 28, 2016 21:03:11 GMT -5
Indy 4 takes John Hurt, a British actor with one of the richest voices in film, a man who can effectively lines and reactions across the emotional range... and makes him a silent and doddering old coot for 90% of the movie.
F Murray Abraham was a damn Oscar winner and the makers of Star Trek Insurrection concluded the best use of an actor with such talents was to make him a shouting and petulant ham for the first two thirds of the movie, and an ineffective bond villain for the last third. In another universe we had a dramatic and tense psychological showdown with Abraham and Stewart battling with words instead of a standard 90s action movie explosion.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2016 21:12:11 GMT -5
Outside of Albert Brooks pretty much the entire cast of Drive. But no lets focus on Ryan Gosling pretending to be a bad ass but blankly staring at the camera in silence for at least 5 minutes.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 28, 2016 21:27:06 GMT -5
I've said it before, but how did Transformers: Age of Extinction manage to have Stanley Tucci and Kelsey Grammer in the cast, and still be so wretchedly forgettable? And I'm calling it now: Idris Elba in Star Trek Beyond. They're hiding Idris f***ing Elba under a mountain of CGI-enhanced prosthetics.
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Post by xCompackx on May 28, 2016 22:08:42 GMT -5
Everybody in Green Lantern.
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on May 28, 2016 22:18:52 GMT -5
Bryan Cranston in that Godzilla movie. It seems like they could have cast anybody in that role.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2016 22:21:47 GMT -5
Would've liked the Force Awakens to do more with Max von Sydow.
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Post by Cyno on May 28, 2016 23:30:02 GMT -5
Yeah, I gotta agree with Max von Sydow. When they first showed the cast and the scene reading you got the idea that Von Sydow was going to have a pretty major role. Not one of the mains, but someone important. And he was just some old guy who gets wasted in the first five minutes of the movie, give or take.
Apparently, the New Canon EU expands on his character, but for someone who's only just seen the movie he's just some old guy who knew Luke and Kylo Ren somehow.
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Post by Ash Kingston on May 28, 2016 23:37:45 GMT -5
Sean Connery. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Post by mizerable on May 28, 2016 23:55:06 GMT -5
The supporting cast in Gangs of New York.
It's amazing that Leo and Cameron Diaz got cast in that because they were wretched. Daniel Day Lewis, Henry Thomas, Brenden Gleason and even *sigh* John C. Reilly completely and utterly outclassed the two leads.
Scorsese seemed to have a Vince/HBK crush on Leo there for a while, giving him chance after chance when he only got a few great performances out of him.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on May 29, 2016 0:02:46 GMT -5
Marvel, for as much as I love them, waste a lot of great actors. Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Terrence Howard, Neal McDonough, Natalie Portman, Micky Rourke, Ben Kingsley, the list could go on for days.
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Post by Knailsic From Now On on May 29, 2016 0:29:36 GMT -5
Bryan Cranston in that Godzilla movie. It seems like they could have cast anybody in that role. I was more excited for Cranston than I was Godzilla and both were barely in the movie
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Post by sonofsharknado on May 29, 2016 0:37:22 GMT -5
Bryan Cranston in that Godzilla movie. It seems like they could have cast anybody in that role. Also more Godzilla.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2016 0:43:16 GMT -5
Bryan Cranston in that Godzilla movie. It seems like they could have cast anybody in that role. I was more excited for Cranston than I was Godzilla and both were barely in the movie {Spoiler}And the thing that pissed me off was how they made him die practically off screen in a anticlimactic way. Like oh no he fell, did he die, wait he survived and has something to say, wait now he's dead? Like f*** I understand he had to film breaking bad but it was a perfect way to write him out for the rest of the film until the end and set him up for the sequel.
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Post by sonofsharknado on May 29, 2016 0:51:28 GMT -5
I was more excited for Cranston than I was Godzilla and both were barely in the movie {Spoiler}And the thing that pissed me off was how they made him die practically off screen in a anticlimactic way. Like oh no he fell, did he die, wait he survived and has something to say, wait now he's dead? Like f*** I understand he had to film breaking bad but it was a perfect way to write him out for the rest of the film until the end and set him up for the sequel. It wasn't even that, the director/writer didn't know/give a shit about how big of a deal Cranston was.
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Post by karl100589 on May 29, 2016 1:06:34 GMT -5
On paper Robert Carlyle playing a Bond villain should have been an absolutely amazing prospect.
Instead we get Renard.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2016 9:41:31 GMT -5
The Lone Ranger wasted everybody's time: actors, producers, directors, viewers, etc.
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Post by BRV on May 29, 2016 10:15:20 GMT -5
Bryan Cranston in that Godzilla movie. It seems like they could have cast anybody in that role. The whole 2014 "Godzilla" reboot was just a complete failure on almost every level in terms of casting. You have Bryan Cranston, one of the most celebrated actors of the era, and devote maybe 10 minutes of screen time to him before he gets sent packing. Juliette Binoche is in it for maybe 30 seconds. David Strathairn is a tertiary bit player. Ken Watanabe gets a decent amount of focus in the movie but he must have been told by Gareth Edwards to look as disinterested as possible because he looked like he didn't give a f*** about anything happening around him. Despite of all this talent, they decide to make Aaron Taylor-Johnson the star of the show. The guy is already cardboard as is but with these other Hollywood luminaries around him, he basically has the acting ability of one of the people turned to stone after looking the Medusa in the eye. And that's before we get to the fact that a Godzilla movie features practically NO Godzilla until the final 20 minutes. Looking back on it, I don't know if they could have butchered that movie any worse than they did. The fact that people ask which movie was better - 1998 or 2014 - and it spurs some legitimate debate tells you all you need to know about how badly they dropped the ball.
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Post by Hit Girl on May 29, 2016 10:29:30 GMT -5
JK Simmons in Terminator 5
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