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Posted: 9/3/2022 10:30:21 AM EST

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Every "Russian" in "The Hunt For Red October."

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This plus Sean Connery as a spaniard in Highlander

Posted: 9/3/2022 10:31:00 AM EST

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As much a left-wing dick Alec Baldwin is, he should have remained Jack Ryan.

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That's a tough call. Baldwin was good as the young, up-and-coming marine turned Wall Street whiz kid turned analyst. Ford was perfect as the haggard, aging bureaucrat thrust into positions he really didn't want to occupy.

In other words, I believed Baldwin as the guy who would jump into the ocean to get on that boat,and I believed Ford as the "oh fuck, I'm the deputy director now?" guy.

Posted: 9/3/2022 10:38:37 AM EST

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Re: Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher—he’s more believable as a “grey man” who buys clothes at Good Will or thrift shops to stay under the radar vs a 6’6” behemoth who wouldn’t fit in a typical Greyhound bus seat. When I read the only Reacher novel, I pictured Clint Walker or John Smith the former body builder in Every Which Way You Can) & thought—that’s as goofy as the gambling, playboy secret agent named Bond.

Even Mitch Rapp was 5’10” athletic 175lbs.

So, i get the miscast comment based on the novel—but, Jack Reacher’s character was more brains/ability and brute force, vs sheer brute force, in my opinion. Which was why I only read 1 book.

Posted: 9/3/2022 10:41:47 AM EST

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Dominic Purcell as Drake in Blade: Trinity. Dude just didn’t give the vibe of an ancient, all powerful vampire at all.

Posted: 9/3/2022 10:43:21 AM EST

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has to be John Wayne in The Conqueror

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what did they do to his nose?

Posted: 9/3/2022 10:50:19 AM EST

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Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great. He has matured.
Keanu in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Just no.
Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes. Far too smarmy and cutesy.

Posted: 9/3/2022 10:54:31 AM EST

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Every female character added to a movie because the book wasn't 'diverse' genderwise.
AKA- almost all female characters in LOTR trilogy.

Any all female remake of a male movie:
Ghostbusters

Any movie where Jane Fonda doesn't die. In real life. Like, she gets killed during the filming.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:00:55 AM EST

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For the life of me I cannot remember the movie, but it had black vikings. Including the viking queen.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:17:47 AM EST

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This plus Sean Connery as a spaniard in Highlander

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Every "Russian" in "The Hunt For Red October."

This plus Sean Connery as a spaniard in Highlander

He was Egyptian.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:22:35 AM EST

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Elijah Woods as Frodo

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:25:04 AM EST

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The whole cast of The Irishman, everyone was to old. It was geriatrics Goodfellas.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:34:54 AM EST

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Was that 50's ass-crack at 1:55?

IBTL!!

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:36:46 AM EST

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Dan Stevens as the Beast in the recent Disney remake.

Same with Belle. Emma Watson is cute but there were 10,000 hot brunette actresses that would put the Belle in Belle.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:39:25 AM EST

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The kaiser roll from Heat. Everyone knows that Neil McCauley would have chosen rye over kaiser.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:40:39 AM EST

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Keanu Reeves in Devil’s Advocate. Him trying to pull off a “southern” accent completely distracted from what should have been a good movie.

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Good thing I read the thread before posting. Good movie that would have been great with a better choice for his part. Maybe he’ll always be Ted “Theodore” Logan in my mind no matter what.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:41:04 AM EST

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has to be John Wayne in The Conqueror

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what did they do to his nose?

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Whisky.

They had a white dude and a Mexican playing roles of Asians.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:41:45 AM EST

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Jerry Matthers as the Beaver

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I laughed.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:43:18 AM EST

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Michael Caine as Robert Duvall's brother in secondhand lions,. Couldn't get past the English accent.

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This was the first one that came to mind for me. Loved the movie, but sombody else should have been the brother.

Tom Cruise as Reacher next. He played the part well, but Reacher is supposed to be a hulking, intimidating lug, not a midget....

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:44:16 AM EST

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Jim Carry as the Grinch or that fuckhead that played Ricky Bobby. I forget his name every time.

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As much as I dislike Carry. He nailed that roll.

And I hate will farrrel as a talentless hack he did get down to his core personality and was RICKY BOBBY.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:45:40 AM EST

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Every character that Nicholas Cage ever played.

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Uh, wut. Who would you have chosen to play H.I. McDunnough?

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Posted: 9/3/2022 11:46:25 AM EST

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Alan Ritchson as Reacher in the TV series was an even worse choice as Jack Reacher. Cruise wasn’t the best choice but at least he gave the character a personality. Ritchson’s version of Reacher comes across as a meat head with no personality.

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Finally, someone agrees with me. No way in hell Ritchson could pull of this scene, even if he was given the script.

Jack Reacher (2012) - I Am Not a Hero Scene (9/10) | Movieclips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mySMw3VkEBE

Cruise was much better.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:46:36 AM EST

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Where's Your Messiah Now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Qcv3YV4aA

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:47:41 AM EST

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Keanu Reeves in Devil's Advocate. Him trying to pull off a "southern" accent completely distracted from what should have been a good movie.

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I thought he was pretty bad in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:48:27 AM EST

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Uh, wut. Who would you have chosen to play H.I. McDunnough?
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Every character that Nicholas Cage ever played.

Uh, wut. Who would you have chosen to play H.I. McDunnough?
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This x1000
Cage rocked that role.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:49:30 AM EST

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Both leads in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

I think it would have been a pretty decent movie if there was ANY chemistry between the elads, they were both awful on their own and somehow even worse together.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:50:21 AM EST

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Roll?

Role.

What is it with ARFCOM and homophones?

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:51:44 AM EST

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Chris Walken in True Romance

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Posted: 9/3/2022 11:53:26 AM EST

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Steve Zahn as Al Giordino in Sahara is nothing like the way he is written-- and I love what he did with the part, so we're good. Hi, howareya?

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:55:00 AM EST

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Willem Dafoe as John Clark.

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Clark's Olympic Arms OA-93.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:55:52 AM EST

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George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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I actually like Lazenby in that movie. It’s a unique take.

Posted: 9/3/2022 11:58:23 AM EST

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Madonna as

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:00:41 PM EST

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That's a tough call. Baldwin was good as the young, up-and-coming marine turned Wall Street whiz kid turned analyst. Ford was perfect as the haggard, aging bureaucrat thrust into positions he really didn't want to occupy.

In other words, I believed Baldwin as the guy who would jump into the ocean to get on that boat,and I believed Ford as the "oh fuck, I'm the deputy director now?" guy.

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As much a left-wing dick Alec Baldwin is, he should have remained Jack Ryan.

That's a tough call. Baldwin was good as the young, up-and-coming marine turned Wall Street whiz kid turned analyst. Ford was perfect as the haggard, aging bureaucrat thrust into positions he really didn't want to occupy.

In other words, I believed Baldwin as the guy who would jump into the ocean to get on that boat,and I believed Ford as the "oh fuck, I'm the deputy director now?" guy.

Well the problem with that is the events in Patriot Games preceded Red October.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:06:00 PM EST

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I thought he was pretty bad in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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Keanu Reeves in Devil's Advocate. Him trying to pull off a "southern" accent completely distracted from what should have been a good movie.

I thought he was pretty bad in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

I couldn't help seeing Ted Logan doing a piss poor British accent. "Look dude, you crossed the line. People trusted you and ended up undead. Vlad, you gotta to go down. It has to be this way."

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:09:08 PM EST

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Tom Cruise as Nathan Arugula

J/K I love that fucking movie!

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:10:37 PM EST

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Keanu Reeves in “Chain Reaction”

He was cast as a nuclear scientist/researcher.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:12:41 PM EST

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Tom Cruise as Lestat

Scarlett Johansson as Major Kusangi

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:13:07 PM EST

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Casting Dakota Skye in "Fat Chicks with dicks" was a huge mistake.

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And then she died.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:18:21 PM EST

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Also Keanu Reeves in “Much Ado about Nothing,” there’s no way he could escape Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure so far as to do a Shakespearean musical.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:18:35 PM EST

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Bob Odenkirk in Nobody.

Also, Tom Cruise in anything.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:18:53 PM EST

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Marky Mark as Marcus Luttrell in Lone Survivor.

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Posted: 9/3/2022 12:19:12 PM EST

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Emilia Clarke in Terminator Genisys.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:19:24 PM EST

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John Wayne in every film he ruined.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:20:29 PM EST

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Idris Elba in the Dark Tower.

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Guy is a fucking terrible actor who Hollywood has been trying to make into a star because reasons. Give it up, the guy is in his 50s, and a wooden dowel can outact him.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:24:06 PM EST

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As much a left-wing dick Alec Baldwin is, he should have remained Jack Ryan.

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Ban him.

Ford Ryan is best Ryan.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:24:11 PM EST

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Every character in Uncharted.

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:25:38 PM EST

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Roll?

Role.

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wtf did you just call us?

Posted: 9/3/2022 12:25:54 PM EST

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Every character that Nicholas Cage ever played.

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Agreed, save for two films, Raising Arizona (best part he ever played) and Leaving Las Vegas (he was a natural with the alcohol problem, plus he dies and Elizabeth Shoe was so smoking hot)

I'll help this thread with a pic of his lovely costar.