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Name any famous character or person, real or fictional, that would humorously be THE worst choice to play another. Example: PeeWee Herman as The Terminator.

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[+1] - farmerman - 09/09/2006Jim Carey in "The Quiet Man"
[+1] - shewolfnm - 09/09/2006William Shatner as Terminator
[+1] - farmerman - 09/09/2006AWWWW William Shatner has gotta be a gimme. Hes gotta be excluded. I was just thinking of him in "Pulp Fiction" or the "Big Lebowski"
[+1] - CalamityJane - 09/09/2006Ron Howard in "007 James Bond" Jason Alexander in "American Gigolo"
[+1] - CalamityJane - 09/09/2006David Hyde Pierce [img]http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/rx_images/news/hyde_pierce8115.jpg[/img] in "Last Tango in Paris" ...
[+1] - shewolfnm - 09/09/2006Leslie Nielson as Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
[+1] - stuh505 - 09/10/2006This game is too easy! Actors have such niche roles these days...
[+1] - patiodog - 09/10/2006Humphrey Bogart in "The Mask."
[+1] - Lord Ellpus - 09/10/2006How's about ACTUAL mis-casting tragedies..... I'm thinking Nicholas Cage, in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. How someone from Hollywood could read Louis de Berniere's beautiful, tragic novel...
[+1] - Lord Ellpus - 09/10/2006OK.....how about John Wayne, playing the part of Albin in "La Cage au Folles", possibly one of the funniest films ever made. This film, alas, was another that was seen by some bright...

Jim Carey in "The Quiet Man"

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William Shatner as Terminator

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AWWWW William Shatner has gotta be a gimme. Hes gotta be excluded. I was just thinking of him in "Pulp Fiction" or the "Big Lebowski"

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Ron Howard in "007 James Bond"

Jason Alexander in "American Gigolo"

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David Hyde Pierce

http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/rx_images/news/hyde_pierce8115.jpg

in "Last Tango in Paris"

http://www.kroaibo.no/UserFiles/Image/film/SisteTangoParis.jpg

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Leslie Nielson as Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain

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This game is too easy! Actors have such niche roles these days...

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Humphrey Bogart in "The Mask."

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How's about ACTUAL mis-casting tragedies.....

I'm thinking Nicholas Cage, in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

How someone from Hollywood could read Louis de Berniere's beautiful, tragic novel and then think " Hmmmm....a WW2 love story set in Kefalonia featuring an Italian army officer who can play a mandolin....I know.... NICHOLAS CAGE!.... PERFECT! "

........What a plonker.

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OK.....how about John Wayne, playing the part of Albin in "La Cage au Folles", possibly one of the funniest films ever made.

This film, alas, was another that was seen by some bright spark in Hollywood, who immediately slaughtered the whole thing with the recent re-make "The Bird Cage" (dreadful movie) starring Robin Williams.

If you haven't seen the original.....YOU MUST! That is a direct order.

http://www.dvdcorner.net/html/lacage.html

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Clint Eastwood as anyone in Brokeback Mountain.

Sean Connery as a 14th-century Spanish nobleman.

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

How's about ACTUAL mis-casting tragedies.....

I'm thinking Nicholas Cage, in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

How someone from Hollywood could read Louis de Berniere's beautiful, tragic novel and then think " Hmmmm....a WW2 love story set in Kefalonia featuring an Italian army officer who can play a mandolin....I know.... NICHOLAS CAGE!.... PERFECT! "

........What a plonker.

You could tell which one was Cage and which one was the mandolin?

Whether or not someone gay enjoys "The Birdcage," it was a huge box office success and brought the movie to more movie goers than the original has every hoped of doing. It's not as bad as you're portraying it with Gene Hackman the perfect frustrated rightwinger, just one performance among some very good performances. The script is more polished as far as commerciality and the sets are superior to the original.
The original has become a cult classic gay comedy and looks dated, especially with the terrible prints that have circulated on TV and on DVD.

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Lightwizard wrote:

Lord Ellpus wrote:
How's about ACTUAL mis-casting tragedies.....

I'm thinking Nicholas Cage, in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

How someone from Hollywood could read Louis de Berniere's beautiful, tragic novel and then think " Hmmmm....a WW2 love story set in Kefalonia featuring an Italian army officer who can play a mandolin....I know.... NICHOLAS CAGE!.... PERFECT! "

........What a plonker.

You could tell which one was Cage and which one was the mandolin?

Just about, as the Mandolin had a coat of varnish.

Then Cage started perspiring and all was lost.

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Sylvester Stallone as Shylock

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Schwarzenegger as Iago.

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

OK.....how about John Wayne, playing the part of Albin in "La Cage au Folles", possibly one of the funniest films ever made.

This film, alas, was another that was seen by some bright spark in Hollywood, who immediately slaughtered the whole thing with the recent re-make "The Bird Cage" (dreadful movie) starring Robin Williams.

If you haven't seen the original.....YOU MUST! That is a direct order.

http://www.dvdcorner.net/html/lacage.html

agreed, much better than the remake

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Hitler as Ghandi.

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Ghandi as Hitler...er, wait, neither of them were actors. Or were they?

Ben Stiller as Captain Jack Aubrey in "Master and Commander."

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Anyone other than Jodi Foster as Agent Starling in any "Hannibal" films.

I hate it when they have to do that.

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