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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 1, 2020 14:10:52 GMT -5
Evans and Pratt were at least pretty well known at that point. Hardly anybody knew who Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston were when they were cast as Thor and Loki. Ditto for Tom Holland as Spidey. I mean Evans and Pratt were known but they weren’t superhero material Pratt was just a pudgy dude and he got himself in great shape. Evans has F4 which didn’t take off and I always remember him not another teen movie even still to this day Evans' early career passed me by, thankfully. First exposure I had to him was Sunshine, The Losers, and Scott Pilgrim, which is probably why I never considered him an odd choice for Cap. I mean, he looks like the clean cut all-American boyscout Steve Rogers is. Pratt was definitely a surprising choice. Andy f***ing Dwyer: superhero?
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 1, 2020 14:31:45 GMT -5
I mean Evans and Pratt were known but they weren’t superhero material Pratt was just a pudgy dude and he got himself in great shape. Evans has F4 which didn’t take off and I always remember him not another teen movie even still to this day Yeah, Evans had a history of playing preppy douchey bros basically... not really what one thinks of for Steve. Yea you can basically add Paul Rudd to the list when he got picked for Ant Man
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Jul 1, 2020 14:32:34 GMT -5
I'm sticking to comic film adaptations here (and not counting WTF's that ended up great like Keaton).
Halle Berry as Storm Keanu Reeves as John Constantine Jennifer Garner as Elektra Ezra Miller as Barry Allen Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor Matthew Goode as Ozymandias Topher Grace as Eddie Brock Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze Chris O'Donnell as Dick Grayson Stephen Amell as Casey Jones Megan Fox as April O'Neil David Thewlis as Aries Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm Jeremy Irons as Alfred Patrick Wilson as Ocean Master Willem Dafoe as Vulko Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg Olivia Munn as Psylocke Shaquille O'Neal as John Henry Irons
I contemplated things like Jared Leto as Joker and Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse, but to me those are way less bad casting and way more bad direction/writing. The rest of the ones I listed were going to suck no matter what.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Jul 1, 2020 15:11:46 GMT -5
WTF casting choices that worked:- Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula. This is the one that completely blows my mind. Winona Ryder was terrible too, but I can at least understand thinking she might be good. Keanu made me legitimately uncertain if this movie was supposed to be a comedy or not.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 1, 2020 15:21:27 GMT -5
This is the one that completely blows my mind. Winona Ryder was terrible too, but I can at least understand thinking she might be good. Keanu made me legitimately uncertain if this movie was supposed to be a comedy or not. At that point Keanu was pretty much just known for Bill & Ted and Point Break, so yeah, it was a pretty baffling choice. It was clearly part of an attempt by him to be taken seriously as a "legitimate" actor, since it was sandwiched between My Own Private Idaho and Much Ado About Nothing, but my word did he make a mistake on that one.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jul 1, 2020 15:26:56 GMT -5
What's funny is that Reeves had a strong reputation for being wooden in his performances around that period, and yet the one film in the early 90s where he really shows his emotion isn't the Shakespere movie, the Coppola flick, or the Gus Van Sant project.
Its as Ortiz the Dog Boy in Freaked:
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 1, 2020 15:29:19 GMT -5
Speaking of Dracula, this one is sort of breaking my own thread with it being hindsight but Gerard Butler as Dracula in Dracula 2000
In fairness, this is hindsight after 300 but holy shit he does not look the part. Also this has nothing to do with anything but I liked Ascension the best out of that trilogy
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Post by kingoftheindies on Jul 1, 2020 15:31:05 GMT -5
I mean Evans and Pratt were known but they weren’t superhero material Pratt was just a pudgy dude and he got himself in great shape. Evans has F4 which didn’t take off and I always remember him not another teen movie even still to this day Evans' early career passed me by, thankfully. First exposure I had to him was Sunshine, The Losers, and Scott Pilgrim, which is probably why I never considered him an odd choice for Cap. I mean, he looks like the clean cut all-American boyscout Steve Rogers is. Pratt was definitely a surprising choice. Andy f***ing Dwyer: superhero? Yep and Pratt was so good Peter Quill's whole personality was changed in other media to match him Could we also say Channing Tatum as Duke and Marlon Wayans as Ripcord?
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Jul 1, 2020 15:40:38 GMT -5
Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates
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Post by arrogantmodel on Jul 1, 2020 17:06:40 GMT -5
I'm sticking to comic film adaptations here (and not counting WTF's that ended up great like Keaton). Halle Berry as Storm Keanu Reeves as John Constantine Jennifer Garner as Elektra Ezra Miller as Barry Allen Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor Matthew Goode as Ozymandias Topher Grace as Eddie Brock Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze Chris O'Donnell as Dick Grayson Stephen Amell as Casey Jones Megan Fox as April O'Neil David Thewlis as Aries Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm Jeremy Irons as Alfred Patrick Wilson as Ocean Master Willem Dafoe as Vulko Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg Olivia Munn as Psylocke Shaquille O'Neal as John Henry Irons I contemplated things like Jared Leto as Joker and Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse, but to me those are way less bad casting and way more bad direction/writing. The rest of the ones I listed were going to suck no matter what. I imagine most of these got the part on their name alone and/or they looked a lot like the character. Berry: Big name, attractive. Makes sense. Reeves: Looks like Constantine. Big name. Garner: Looks like Elektra. Action vet doing Alias. Miller: No idea. Eisenberg: Riding high from Social Network. Zuckerberg as Lex would have been better. Goode: Solid pick. Grace: No idea. Cage: Big name. Big fan of the character. O'Donnell: Beat out Marlon Wayans and DiCaprio because he looked tougher. Amell: Eh, why not? Fox: Cause she's hot? Thewlis: No idea. Bell: No idea. Irons: Big name. Adds credibility. Wilson: Eh, why not? Dafoe: A name. Has range. Kinnamann: Eh, why not? Munn: Hot. Looks a lot like the character. Shaq: Huge dude. Charisma for days. Looks like the character.
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Post by prettynami on Jul 1, 2020 17:12:45 GMT -5
What's funny is that Reeves had a strong reputation for being wooden in his performances around that period, and yet the one film in the early 90s where he really shows his emotion isn't the Shakespere movie, the Coppola flick, or the Gus Van Sant project. Its as Ortiz the Dog Boy in Freaked: Golly do I love that movie. Haven't seen it in awhile, it seems to be one of those movies that has fallen off the face of the earth. Amazing performance by Randy Quaid too in that.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 1, 2020 17:25:06 GMT -5
Evans' early career passed me by, thankfully. First exposure I had to him was Sunshine, The Losers, and Scott Pilgrim, which is probably why I never considered him an odd choice for Cap. I mean, he looks like the clean cut all-American boyscout Steve Rogers is. Pratt was definitely a surprising choice. Andy f***ing Dwyer: superhero? Yep and Pratt was so good Peter Quill's whole personality was changed in other media to match him Could we also say Channing Tatum as Duke and Marlon Wayans as Ripcord? Or Channing Tatum doing a solo gambit movie I think he could got the whole southern thing down tho but Gambit does not need a solo movie. All Channing had to do was basically play the same character he played in The Hateful Eight except not shooting someone huevos off
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Jul 1, 2020 17:26:15 GMT -5
What's funny is that Reeves had a strong reputation for being wooden in his performances around that period, and yet the one film in the early 90s where he really shows his emotion isn't the Shakespere movie, the Coppola flick, or the Gus Van Sant project. Its as Ortiz the Dog Boy in Freaked: Well but Freaked is a magical, beautiful movie enchanted by fairies. It's the exception to everything.
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Post by Talent Name on Jul 1, 2020 17:34:24 GMT -5
Keanu as Constantine
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Post by the2ndevil on Jul 1, 2020 17:35:50 GMT -5
Here’s a WTF recasting choice:
Rutgar Hauer as Master Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts III.
He was just wrong for the role, playing it too differently than Leonard Nimoy’s original version of the character.
Then Hauer died before the DLC happened, and he was replaced by Christopher Lloyd, who was much closer to Nimoy’s performance
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Post by badkarma on Jul 1, 2020 17:38:48 GMT -5
WTF casting choices that sucked:- Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula. To this very day I still contend that Keanu Reeves, in Bram Stroker's Dracula, is the worst performance I've ever seen from a major Hollywood star.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 1, 2020 17:55:35 GMT -5
What's funny is that Reeves had a strong reputation for being wooden in his performances around that period, and yet the one film in the early 90s where he really shows his emotion isn't the Shakespere movie, the Coppola flick, or the Gus Van Sant project. Its as Ortiz the Dog Boy in Freaked: Golly do I love that movie. Haven't seen it in awhile, it seems to be one of those movies that has fallen off the face of the earth. Amazing performance by Randy Quaid too in that. awful lot of milkmen on this route... no wonder they fight.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jul 1, 2020 18:16:51 GMT -5
Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana will be, uh, interesting to see.
But Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor has to take the cake.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 1, 2020 19:31:55 GMT -5
Chris Pratt as Star Lord is my favorite.
There's something deeply inspiring about someone seeing the chunky, dumb guy comic relief from Parks And Rec and seeing something there.
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Post by Fade on Jul 1, 2020 19:34:28 GMT -5
Chris Pratt as Star Lord is my favorite. There's something deeply inspiring about someone seeing the chunky, dumb guy comic relief from Parks And Rec and seeing something there. Sarah Finn has had a hell of a talent in spotting good qualities in the MCUs actors and actresses.
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