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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:16 PM
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Name a weird bit of casting in a movie.
When I saw "Dogma" and wondered who was going to play God, Alanis Morrisette was NOT the first person to come to mind.
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:17 PM
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1. Hugh Grant in "Sense and Sensibility"
I don't know who dreamed that one up, but he was terrible.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:18 PM
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4. Gawd, wasn't he?
Made you wonder what in Heaven's name she ever saw in him to carry a torch all those years. The rest of the movie was fab, tho.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:20 PM
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19. Yes, but Alan Rickman played "old" Colonel Branden....
What sane woman would prefer Hugh? (Well, at least her sister settled for old Alan.)
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:19 PM
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6. And Emma Thompson played a character
Who is 19 in the book! I love her, though. And she did rewrite the script to fit.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:26 PM
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11. Well, she had to
but 19 at that time was "old maid" age.
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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 04:39 AM
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65. They could have gotten so many better castings for that...
Edward Ferrars is quiet, reserved, not particularly handsome, dull.... and Hugh Grant?? WTF?

Colin Firth would have been far better; but I think because he played Darcy, that "decasted" him.

I had no problems with Emma Thompson as Elinor, though. She was totally believable.

Pcat

(Me? An Austen fan? Never.... :eyes: )
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:17 PM
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2. Divine in "Hairspray"
as a Mommy. It boggled the mind until you saw how perfect she looked in her little housedresses.
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Laughing Mirror Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:54 PM
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28. And those big puffy slippers
Truly an inspired switch on the part of John Waters, switching Divine from playing Divine to playing a suburban house wife on the edge.

It is too bad Divine is not with us today, bringing much joy and laughter to our deeply troubled times.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 12:57 AM
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56. Divine totally made that movie.
I love Hairspray!
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Liberaltarian Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:18 PM
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3. leonardo dicaprio as howard hughes...
i've seen the trailers, and i don't see howard, i see leo.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:19 PM
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5. I agree
That's whacked. He's not interesting enough to play HH. Johnny Depp could do it.
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Liberaltarian Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:21 PM
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8. colin farrell would have been a better choice, too...
imo.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:26 PM
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13. good choice
n/t
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:45 PM
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15. Me too, at first.
But then I mentally squinted about it and changed my mind to "maybe." He may be able to pull off HH in his more adventuresome youth. However, I'm not sure he can pull off HH as the business savy mogul.

And I'm also not sure he can look mature enough. Dicaprio still looks like such a little kid.

But I'm willing to hold judgement till I see it.
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Liberaltarian Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:54 PM
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17. I won't be seeing it for a while...
it's definitely not a theatre movie...it's not even a renter...i'll have to wait until it makes it to Starz or HBO.
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Socialist Dem Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:28 PM
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22. yep
this is so wrong. He's nothing at all like Hughes. Its like they'll have to have a little sub-title every time he's on screen to remind you that he's supposed to be Howard Hughes.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:50 PM
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44. Scorcese, I think, has gotten a thing for Leo since Gangs of New York.
Some directors just like working with certain people, it seems.
Duckie
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Wabbajack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:20 PM
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7. Nicole Kidman and WIll Ferrell
in the upcoming "Bewitched" movie. They seem like wrong choices to me.
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:35 PM
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24. Eeeewwwwww. Yuk. That's going to suck!
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 04:43 PM
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34. Right! It would have been such a quality movie otherwise!
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Wabbajack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 12:55 AM
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54. It could've been
I used to watch the show on nick at nite all the time.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 04:25 PM
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30. Jim Carrey backed out of the Darren role--and Shirl McLaine is Endora!
What you talkin' bout, Willis???
Nicole Kidman's perky little nose got her that part. When I heard it was she, Jim Carrey, and Shirley Maclaine, I thought "gee, even though this is going to suck, it is the most perfect casting ever!"

Diff'rent strokes and all, I guess. Plus, Will Ferrell...though I think he's funny...that's just weird.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:22 PM
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9. Barbara Streisand in "Prince of Tides"
I couldn't even see that movie after I heard that. Great book though.
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Technowitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:25 PM
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10. Mel Gibson as Hamlet
The weird thing is it really, really worked. He was great.

I thought so anyway... and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia literally made me cry.

-Technowitch
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:23 PM
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20. It did work, I agree
It's a version that you can show teens with short attention spans, too, because it cuts out the Fortinbras side plot and has a lot of action scenes.

The only thing that was weird about it was Glenn Close as his mother-aren't she and Mel around the same age? Still, that doesn't really matter so much with Shakespeare.
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:26 PM
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12. Tom Cruise as Lestat
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Ramsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:48 PM
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43. Worst casting ever!!
Lestat was supposed to a big badass blond dude. Tom Cruise is short, dark and way too effete.
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 07:02 PM
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49. Yes, Lestat should have been Brad Pitt and Cruise should have been
Armand.

This is WHY I do not read the book and then see the movie. Think Exit to Eden or the Bridges of Madison County.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:33 PM
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14. Andie MacDowell
in Four Weddings and a Funeral (or Greystoke, legend of tarzan) or, well, anything but a covergirl commercial.
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 02:49 PM
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16. Michelle Pfifer as Cat Woman.
I just could not envision that working AT ALL. Then I watched the movie and thought 'Well hey, she did all right.'
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 01:59 AM
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63. Michelle Pfifer in a tight black latex catsuit
MMMMMMMmmmmmmmm............
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Kid_A Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:07 PM
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18. Roger Moore as James Bond.
:wtf:
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:26 PM
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21. Linda Hunt playing a man in "Year of Living Dangerously"
I know she was nominated for an Oscar and everything but come on...I don't get it.

I really like her too. Another great actress who should be working more and isn't.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 01:10 AM
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60. It worked though, didn't it?
Hunt was brilliant. In the novel Billy Kwan was a dwarf, and since Hunt is a little smidge of a woman, I'm sure her stature as well as her chops had a lot to do with her getting the part.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:34 PM
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23. Doogie Howser in "Starship Troopers."
Or really, Doogie Howser in anything but "Doogie Howser."
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:44 PM
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38. That's Herr Grupenfuhrer Doktor Doogie Howser
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:37 PM
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25. that tops the list as far as I'm concerned
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:38 PM
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26. gael playing 3 different parts in aldomavar's "bad education"
hell, i would have let him play alll the parts he wanted too. pedro's no dummy!
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 03:40 PM
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27. In "Back To The Future" they originally cast Eric Stoltz
as Marty McFly. They shot most of the picture with him before Bob Zemeckis decided to swap Stoltz for Michael J. Fox and reshoot the whole thing!
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Kber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 04:04 PM
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29. How do you feel about Tom Hanks
in the upcoming movie version of the Da Vinci Codes?

And did you know that in Casablanca the role of Rick (played by Bogart) was originally supposed to be played by RONALD REGAN?
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 04:28 PM
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31. Lyle Lovett as
a detective in The Player
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 04:29 PM
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32. Keanu Reeves in "Much Ado About Nothing"
Ugh. Made all the worse by the fact that his costars were Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh. Honestly, who was the casting director that said "Don John? Well the only person that can possibly fill that role is Ted Theodore Logan."
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Jean Louise Finch Donating Member (651 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 12:59 AM
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57. Oh god, yes
That snazzy bit of casting ruined the movie. He was just bewildering in his complete awfulness. I think it's the worst performance I've ever seen in a movie. I just can't imagine how it ever came about.
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 04:41 PM
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33. bob saget as a crackhead in norm macdonald's mediocre 'dirty work'
Edited on Tue Nov-30-04 04:42 PM by Adenoid_Hynkel
but the complete mismatch made that part funny
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:41 PM
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37. actually
did you know bob saget wrote that movie?
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:19 PM
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35. Ronald Reagan as President
Man, who would believe that?

Oh, sorry, you said movie.
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Abelman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:48 PM
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42. That's hilarious
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 03:31 AM
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64. The Jack Warner comment
You're probably familiar with the comment Jack Warner allegedly made on hearing that Reagan was to run for governor in California: "No, no! Jimmy Stewart for Governor, Ronald Reagan for Best Friend". That's casting.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:40 PM
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36. Crispin Glover in anything
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:44 PM
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39. Corbin Berson in "Major League".
One of the worst miscasts of all time. He did not look like a ballplayer at all.
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sans qualia Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:46 PM
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40. William Shatner as... well, as a human being
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Ramsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:47 PM
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41. Meg Ryan as a cardiothoracic surgeon
Edited on Tue Nov-30-04 06:50 PM by Ramsey
In that angel movie with Nic Cage.

Not in the least believable.

Edit: City of Angels
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:50 PM
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45. John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror" (1956).
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bloodyjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:59 PM
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48. Or as the centurion in "The greatest story ever told"
Edited on Tue Nov-30-04 06:59 PM by bloodyjack
'There is a great story behind The Greatest Story Ever Told that involves director George Stevens and superstar John Wayne in the role of a Roman centurion. His one line in the picture was: "Truly, this man was the Son of God." After a couple of attempts at the seemingly simple line, Stevens gently told him, "Duke, what we need in this line is something more. Look up at the man and give us some awe." Wayne nodded affirmatively, Stevens signaled the cameras to roll, and Wayne said, "Awww, truly this man was the Son of God."'
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WMliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:51 PM
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46. denise richards as a nuclear engineer
or madonna as a fencing instructor. the bond movies are great for bad casting.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 07:04 PM
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50. Yeah. Maybe on Planet OH RIGHT SURE...
Deni Richards has two characters: ditz and the word that rhymes with witch.
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WMliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 07:10 PM
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52. HOT?
Sexy? NICE RACK?

no, those don't rhyme with witch. Ok, I'll bite. What?
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:53 PM
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47. Julia Roberts as Tinkerbelle
What a lummoxy, lanky, uncoordinated choice to play a fairy.

That horsy laugh is getting really old, too.
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 07:13 PM
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53. I agree. Unsympathetic, mean-spirited beyond the point in the story
where she's supposed to be. Bad choice.
And ... didn't Spielberg rue that choice, too?
Wasn't she a bit o' trouble on set? I seem to recall.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 01:07 AM
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59. She didn't act with anyone else...
On the set of Hook she acted against a blue screen for much if not all of it, if I recall correctly.

So no problems with her there--she had major problems with Nick Nolte in Nothing But Trouble or whatever that terrible film was.

Nick Nolte is gross, for starters.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 01:38 AM
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62. Julia Roberts as Michael Collins' fiance....
In the Michael Collins movie starring Liam Neeson. A decent version of an interesting story, generally made very well.

Except for poor lost Julia. If you can subtract her total lack of an Irish accent from her performance--she still comes off pretty badly.
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 07:07 PM
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51. Winona Ryder in "House of the Spirits"
WTF? Seriously, WTF?!? :wtf:
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 12:57 AM
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55. Nicole Kidman as a neurosurgeon in Days Of Thunder.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 01:03 AM
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58. Tom Cruise as a straight guy
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 01:14 AM
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61. Ahnuld cast as *any* character.
He's a dumb lug. Why does anyone in Hollywood think he's a acting material?

For that matter, what's the matter with all those Californians that thought he could act the role of State Governor????

Arianna was right about him - he's nothing but a "gropinator".
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