Biggest miscasts in films

[Jelly Bean]

Gwenyth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love - how she won the Oscar over Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth is something that still winds me up to this day!

Yes! GP's English accent always appears to consist of talking down her nose - so incredibly nasally (Sliding Doors and Emma were the same).

 

[Saddlesoap]

Olivia Coleman in The Crown. I love her normally, but just can't get on with her in this. In fact I stopped watching it.

 

[Catfan2]

Emma Watson in beauty and the beast was just so bad. I feel like she has ridden the Harry Potter wave but now people can see how little talent she has. I think batb and little women have started to kill her career

The Phantom of the opera movie was badly cast almost all round. Emmy rossum is just so bland.

Anna Kendrick in pretty much everything, permanent sucking a lemon face. Same as Kristen stewart

Les miserables, I actually found Hugh jack man worse than Russell crowe, while Russell singing was weak, he acted well and was believable. Hugh just can't act besides being himself.

Never understood how pierce got so much flack for mamma Mia yet Colin firth who is equally bad (possibly worse) gets off scott free.

Speaking of mamma Mia, Cher in the second one. Completely pointless, sticks out like a sore thumb and actually completely different character to how the mum is described in the original

Anne hathaway as catwomen

I always surmised from the first Mamma Mia film that Donna’s mum was dead due to the line ‘someone up there has got in in for me and I bet it’s my mother!’ So was a bit surprised to discover she was very much alive and performing ‘Fernando’ at the end of the second film

I cannot bear any film version of ‘Jane Eyre’ - the only one worth watching (though it was a series not a film) is the BBC production in the 80’s with Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke. Perfection, and true to the book.

 

[Eirawen]

Ray Winston's as King Henry VIII "Kafrin, I luv ya" *cringe*

 

[StephenTJackson]

I always surmised from the first Mamma Mia film that Donna’s mum was dead due to the line ‘someone up there has got in in for me and I bet it’s my mother!’ So was a bit surprised to discover she was very much alive and performing ‘Fernando’ at the end of the second film

The plot holes of Mamma Mia 2 were irritating. Clearly somebody at Universal managed to get Cher on board, so they panicked to give her a role regardless of the obvious continuity issue.

Also the film was set five years after the first, so why did Sophie have an iPhone that shouldn't yet exist.

But I still loved the film so much and fell in love with Josh Dylan.

 

[Mark81]

I always surmised from the first Mamma Mia film that Donna’s mum was dead due to the line ‘someone up there has got in in for me and I bet it’s my mother!’ So was a bit surprised to discover she was very much alive and performing ‘Fernando’ at the end of the second film

I cannot bear any film version of ‘Jane Eyre’ - the only one worth watching (though it was a series not a film) is the BBC production in the 80’s with Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke. Perfection, and true to the book.

She was also meant to be a strict Catholic that thre Donna out, not some showy millionaire party queen

 

[Gamu]

Cher was nothing but a bit of stunt casting that was totally pointless. She really irritates me in that film.

I also agree with you about Colin Firth but he didn't do as much singing as Pierce so I suppose he just about got away with it.

I liked Pierce in it I think the bad singing was a deliberately good touch

 

[Scotch Mist]

I can't stand anything with bad out of tune singing. Why? when there are many great singers in the world do we have to put up with this? It hurts my ears. It's bad enough on patronising crappy adverts but in films it's excruciating.

I couldn't stand Mamma Mia for this reason. All those great songs slaughtered. It was bleeping ghastly, and watching any sort of follow-up sounds like punishment.

 

[Rayne]

Mark Ruffalo as Hulk, he’s really flat and boring

Emma Watson in any film

Dakota Johnson in 50 shades

Not sure of the actors name but Jafar in live action Aladdin was terrible, and they’re meant to be doing a sequel based on Jafar so that’ll be rubbish

 

[eggbutty]

Clemence Poesy as Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter. In the books she was part Veela (impossibly beautiful women whose looks could hypnotise)
Shes not unattractive but just too plain to play the character imo.

 

[Blue pumpkin]

Emma Watson as belle
Jared Leto as the Joker
Gaga and cooper in a star is born - zero chemistry

 

[Noseybonk]

The suggestion of Hugh Grant as Lockhart I am such a huge fan of Hugh Grants more recent work, Paddington 2, The Gentleman, I love it when he doesn’t take himself too seriously.
Sorry to de rail!!

Sorry to quote an old post but I have to agree with every word of this. I always thought Hugh Grant just played himself and was a standard posh bloke who is as wooden as a chair. But…. He completely changed my opinion in Paddington 2 and The Gentleman, and was the best actor/character in both films.

 

[Barbs89]

Sorry to quote an old post but I have to agree with every word of this. I always thought Hugh Grant just played himself and was a standard posh bloke who is as wooden as a chair. But…. He completely changed my opinion in Paddington 2 and The Gentleman, and was the best actor/character in both films.

Yesss

 

[DCICassieStuart]

I always thought Hugh Grant played himself too, but then he was excellent in 'A very British scandal'.

 

[Warpaint]

Elijah Wood in Green Street. I know the whole point of it is meant to be a Posh Yank who turns into a hooligan (the whole premise is ridiculous anyway) but he still just looks like baby faced Frodo throughout. Even when he's supposed to have hardened up. I think this was meant to shake off his Hobbit typecasting but it failed spectacularly.

 

[laughing]

She was also meant to be a strict Catholic that thre Donna out, not some showy millionaire party queen

I think I love you both. Been saying both these points for years