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Wed 1 Jun, 2005 03:04 pm
I think Nicole Kidman playing Samantha Stevens in the new "Bewitched" remake stinks to high heaven. She's almost 40. for pete's sake. Samantha was supposed to be a young newlywed. I just read that Alicia Silverstone was originally considered for the role and think she would have been such a better choice. Nicole Kidman? Pullease...
Whew. Finally got that off of my chest.
Any casting calls that bug you? I still don't understand how Charlton Heston was supposed to be more desirable to Anne Baxter than Yul Brynner in "The Ten Commandments". Even as a child, I was completely baffled. Who would want Chuck over Yul?
adam sandler as paul crew in the new "longest yard" is a head-scratcher... the waterboy gets promoted to quarterback?
Nicole Kidman looks somehow.....plastic. I do
think she looks 20....but a very shiny, taunt 20 year old....
Russell Crowe as mathematician John Nash in a Beautiful Mind. Was he bench-pressing those books or reading 'em.
Jenna Elfman in Keeping the Faith. An otherwise fun and original romantc comedy was spoiled by her poor, dull performance.
My all-time favorite: John Wayne as Genghis Khan.
I thought this thread was a big ol' bomb. Thanks for participating.
Last year, while in the hospital with my brother who succumbed to the cancer just a few days later, the last movie we watched and laughed at was John Wayne as Ghengis Khan. It came on one of the cable stations early that Tuesday morning. Surprisingly, I'd never seen it but Mike had of course and, like all of the other absolutely awful movies we'd watched through the years, we gleefully ripped it to shreds. It was indeed one of the worse casting bombs ever.
I just may have to purchase it.
My wife is Chinese and the sight of Caucasian actors made up to look
Asian drives her nuts. Don't even mention "Charlie Chan".
It's like white actors in blackface. Thank God that's a thing of the past.
I reserve judgement on Nicole in "Bewitched" until I've seen it but her co-star has to be perfect.
John Wayne in "Genghis Khan" is likely the best example but I also did not buy Gregory Peck as Ahab as Abraham Lincoln.
Ahab I bought hook, line and sinker (ha-ha) but Abe Lincoln? What a snooze.
Never saw him as Lincoln, but I totally agree about Ahab.
I hated Keanu Reeves as Don John in Branaugh's Much Ado about Nothing.
Actually I meant that he played Ahab as Abraham Lincoln. 'Fraid it wasn't his best -- I may have even bought Cooper in the role.
So who played Abraham Lincoln? Gary Cooper?
John Wayne as Davy Crockett ("The Alamo") bugged me. I guess growing up watching Fess Parker as Crockett spoiled it for me. Parker was young and rugged; Wayne by then was paunchy and middle-aged...
Henry Fonda played Lincoln and perfectly.
Yes, John Wayne's Crockett was rather comical in parts even while the movie works as an adventure drama, it's really over-the-top historically.
Geez. I'm reading Jane Fonda's book as we speak and she mentioned her father in this role several times.
That was a big career booster for Fonda in his early days.
In "Moby Dick," Richard Basehart, an underrated actor, upstaged Peck.
He was terrific too, I thought.
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