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DrewDad
 
Reply Sat 9 Sep, 2006 08:34 pm
Shamelessly lifted from another site....

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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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 9 Sep, 2006 08:39 pm
Jim Carey in "The Quiet Man"
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Sat 9 Sep, 2006 08:40 pm
William Shatner as Terminator
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 9 Sep, 2006 08:42 pm
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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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 9 Sep, 2006 08:47 pm
Ron Howard in "007 James Bond"

Jason Alexander in "American Gigolo"
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 9 Sep, 2006 08:51 pm
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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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Sat 9 Sep, 2006 09:24 pm
Leslie Nielson as Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
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stuh505
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 07:55 am
This game is too easy! Actors have such niche roles these days...
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patiodog
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 08:53 am
Humphrey Bogart in "The Mask."
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 09:02 am
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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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 09:18 am
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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DrewDad
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 09:31 am
Clint Eastwood as anyone in Brokeback Mountain.

Sean Connery as a 14th-century Spanish nobleman.
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 09:37 am
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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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 09:42 am
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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farmerman
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 10:09 am
Sylvester Stallone as Shylock
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patiodog
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 11:25 am
Schwarzenegger as Iago.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 11:29 am
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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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 11:29 am
Hitler as Ghandi.
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Sun 10 Sep, 2006 11:52 am
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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Eorl
 
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Reply Wed 27 Sep, 2006 08:58 pm
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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