Movies What character in a movie could have been great, but the actor they cast didn’t fit the role?

[Wetarmpits]

Tarantino should go and make commercials, for VW or Tacco Bell for instance.

 

[Wetarmpits]

OG Django hurts from the voice dub not being Franco Nero which is why I will only watch the Italian version.

Django Unchained hurts from being a long ass, wannebe cool and slick Tarantino movie with DiCaprio on point, Waltz playing himself again and Foxx totally misplaced. But that's just my opinion, lot's of people liked the Movie.
Didn't liked Tarantino since Pulp Fiction and even that has aged poorly imo.

 

[Brandon Wilson]

Tom Hardy as Bane. I mean, that movie was fucking terrible already, but casting a 5'8" actor as a guy that's supposed to be like 6'8" is stupid.

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Django Unchained hurts from being a long ass, wannebe cool and slick Tarantino movie with DiCaprio on point, Waltz playing himself again and Foxx totally misplaced. But that's just my opinion, lot's of people liked the Movie.
Didn't liked Tarantino since Pulp Fiction and even that has aged poorly imo.

Unchained ends once the 2 white guys die. Django should have blasted his way out and then the movie ends.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Tom Hardy as Bane. I mean, that movie was fucking terrible already, but casting a 5'8" actor as a guy that's supposed to be like 6'8" is stupid.

Kind of like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

 

[GSP_37]

Any movie where stripper doesn't get naked like Sin City.

 

[TheMadThinker]

Not sure if it would have changed the movie, but Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition was never quite right.

 

[TCE]

Not a movie, but the lead female character in the new Netflix TV series Fool Me Once.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Keanu Reeves in devils advocate.

He was supposed to be a smooth-talking young southern lawyer and Keanu struggled with the smooth talking as well as the southern accent, which is terrible when it shows up.

Sharing scenes with Pacino made him look even worse by comparison.

Should've been Matthew Mconaughey

 

[ferrisjso]

I saw a fairly recent Tarantino interview where he mentioned a streaming show he has been working on.

He said 10 films.
(He never said he would never direct after that.)

Streaming would work well with his propensity for being a tad long-winded.
Plenty of time for establishing shots and pauses for effect.

I hope you're right.

I suspect he might be done because movie people tend to put the big screen on a pedestal.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Keanu Reeves in devils advocate.

He was supposed to be a smooth-talking young southern lawyer and Keanu struggled with the smooth talking as well as the southern accent, which is terrible when it shows up.

Sharing scenes with Pacino made him look even worse by comparison.

Should've been Matthew Mconaughey

They had a weird dynamic together when they did Two For The Money.

 

[blaseblase]

Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker in that Dracula movie

 

[mmamxfan]

That annoying fuck from Zombieland and The Social Network playing Lex Luthor takes the cake for me.

 

[Tone C]

Kind of like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

Thank you. Can't believe it took so long for this .

 

[Mangar]

Eli Roth as The Bear Jew.

Incredibly good movie but ya I kinda thought the same when I watched the movie the first time.

 

[Spounman]

The guy who plays Bruce Banner in the Avengers movies seems like a giant pussy. They should have had anyone but him play the Hulk.

 

[Eusung]

Both Katie Holmes in Batman Begins and Maggie Gyllenhall in The Dark Knight.

 

[ufcfan4]

He was literally the only good thing about those films.

The best argument was always: "Durr, he was no way near as badass as Darth Vader, durr." Yeah, that was the point, dumbass.


For me, he's the opposite......great casting but a crap script, Like Henry Cavill's superman.

Driver is good in whatever you see him in. I think he’s one of those actors who just really commits to the role, regardless of what it is.

I did think he was one of the better aspects of that trilogy. But there were so many other drawbacks. As you said, though, that’s not on Driver.

 

[ufcfan4]

Foxx is capable of charismatic performances...when he does the stuff that got him in the door in the first place like in Any Given Sunday. When he grits his teeth and plays it all serious like Django or Law Abiding Citizen...it's passable but he doesn't excel at it.

I thought he was great in Michael Mann’s Ali as well, as Bundini Brown. He and Smith killed it in that movie in my opinion.

I do think he did a totally competent job in Django. My belief is that he just doesn’t really shine by comparison because he has the stoic, strong, silent type character while Waltz, Sam, and DiCaps are absolutely chewing the scenery (to the film’s benefit).

 

[ufcfan4]

I get that may have been the point but I still didn't like his acting and line delivery. Also Eli Roth is still a reasonably big and fit guy, certainly imposing enough that's it not subersive comedy when he walks out like if it were Steve Buscemi or Wallace Shawn or something.

yeah I didn’t really see it as ironic- it might have been- but I tend to think if that’s what they were going for, Roth would not have bulked up, which he clearly did.

I don’t think Roth is really bad in that movie, particularly when he and “Dominic Decocco” take part in the funniest scene in the film. But I get the point for sure that they could have had someone better cast to play The Bear Jew. I get that part of that moniker is the myth transcending the man, but I think it would have been more fitting to have some more physically monstrous individual for that part. Roth is one of those guys as you said, is certainly not small (perhaps by sherdog standards) but I think you needed someone of the physical stature of like Affleck, a big f’n dude who is going to make that “Teddy Williams” scene all the more intense.

Strangely, I’d never heard the Sandler thing before. Would have been interesting.