What is the Worst Casting in Movie History?

John Wayne or Ronald Reagan in anything.

'Green Card' had to have the most unmatched couple of all time.

Depardieu is so passionate and emotive and Andie McDowell plays it like she's made of liquid nitrogen - no way those two were ever gonna get it on!

Well now, if you're talking about unmatched couples, I always thought that Robin Williams and Sally Field (Mrs. Doubtfire) were totally unbelievable as a couple, even as a couple going through a divorce.

There's one movie casting that's just bugged me from DAY ONE! It isn't as if this is some "great" movie, or even an important movie. It just happened that I had read the book once, then read it again later in life, then read it again when my bedpartner was having panic attacks at bedtime. There is nothing like being read to sleep. Works miracles! I came to love this story called The Cider House Rules written by John Irving. In my mind- the kind old doctor & head of the orphanage was always Donald Sutherland. When the news came that the person cast for the role of Dr Larch was Michael Caine ... it absolutely floored me. Good Grief! It couldn't have been worse if he had picked out any number of other men ... Michael Caine was the absolute antithesis of that kindly, caring doctor I'd imagined in my mind's eye for so many, many years.

Not actually a movie but near pitch perfect casting: Lonsome Dove the Mini-Series

One exception: Frederick Forrest as Blue Duck

got to be keanu reeves (think thats how you spell it) in the devil's advocat.... good film but trying to convince me that reeves is a top notch lawyer after watching bill and ted takes some doing... good job pacino was there to carry the film along.....

Once, when Hoffman was on the Late SHow, Letterman commented that while Hoffman was not classically handsome, he is an attractive man. That is part of the puzzle of miscasting . . . a handsome actor would not have worked in that movie.

His costume that never moved from its deep-V position on his chest amused me.

The only movies starring Curtis that I enjoyed are the ones in which his character died. I find him annoying beyond measure.

When I read The Mosquito Coast, I quietly decided that the main character was a spiritual cross between me and a friend of my ex-husband. I just gave the book to former and asked what he thought of the main character after he read it. He said that he was a combo of me and his friend.

When the movie was announced, I wanted Robert Duval to play the part. Duval is someone I could have seen in the role. Actually, given the history, Ford did not disappoint.

Caine was cuddly in the role.

Katy Perry as Smurfette in the new Sony Smurf's movie. Along with (oh though I love him so) Neil Patrick Harris.

Brad Pitt in anything! He is a movie star in looks only, the man cannot act! That being said, I saw Inglorious Bastards and that role fit his jerky acting skills.

Hi Heeven

I have to disagree with you about Brad Pitt. Not that I'm a fan, exactly, or have seen that many of his films.

But he was very good in Babel. Very convincing. (Wonderful film, too!)

Coming in late and therefore may be redundant but....

Tony Bennet in "The Oscar"

Hideous.

Nicolas Cage - Moonstruck
Nicolas Cage - Capt. Correlli's Mandolin
Willem Dafoe - Pavilion of Women
Cuba Gooding Jr. - A Murder of Crows
Woody Harrelson - Palmetto

Well, we all know why you don't like Cuba Gooding Jr., Pam, but why the others?

What bothered me . . . and several others . . . about Pitt in that movie (besides his terrible accent) was the fact that he looked so much like Clarke Gable. There was this sense of distortion . . . it was the wrong person! I suspect that the resemblance was cultivated on purpose.

Cage was horrible as Captain Corelli! The book was so much fun and the movie sucked.

Does that include Wayne in "Rio Bravo" or "The Searchers?" I assume you are familar with them.