Best and worst casting in a movie?

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  1. orsenkaht

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    #21 orsenkaht, Jul 10, 2015
    Best:

    Geoff and Beau Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys

    Morgan Friedman in Invictus

    Worst:

    Colin Welland as schoolmaster in Kes ("Casper, that worr t'most exciting thing I've ivver seen in my life!" Aaaarggghhh!)
     
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    #22 Orared, Jul 10, 2015
    Worst just has to be Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.
    Jack Reacher is 6' 5", 250 lbs with a 36" inside leg and wears 3XL coats.
    Just like Tom Cruise - NOT
     
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    #23 Gloria Stitts, Jul 10, 2015
    Better than bloody Orlando Bloom though who ruined Kingdom of Heaven and proved he wasn't leading man material.

    Best Robin Hood - Michael Praed.
     
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    #24 Gloria Stitts, Jul 10, 2015
    What about Ewan McGregor in Brassed Off that was even worse.

    Tim Roth ruined Reservoir Dogs for me with that dodgy American accent so that has to go down as bad casting, same with Clive Owen in Sin City, couldn't do the accent.
     
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    #25 RichK, Jul 10, 2015
    Johnny Depp as just about anyone. Great actor.
     
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    #26 Dragon Tyke, Jul 10, 2015
    totally agree

    Mr Depp is an amazing actor, you completely forget its Johnny Depp you just believe its whatever character he is playing... one of my favourites he did was 'Ichabod Crane' in "sleepy hollow" just wonderful
     
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    #27 Whitey, Jul 10, 2015
    Donnie Brasco. Owns it. Superb actor.
     
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    #28 Dragon Tyke, Jul 10, 2015
    I always thought that Stallone

    was a great choice for Judge Dredd
     
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    #29 Django, Jul 10, 2015
    My vote would go to Waltz too but for Inglorious Basterds as the Nazi officer. Perfect fit.

    Brilliant in Django as well
     
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    #30 Django, Jul 10, 2015
    Duplicate
     
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    #31 KFC, Jul 10, 2015
    Homer Simpson in the Simpsons movie. Would have been really **** if they'd have got someone else to do it.
     
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    #32 Tyketanic, Jul 10, 2015
    Funny thing opinions aren't they? I thought charlieze theron was awful in monster.... Just completely overdid the facial tic thing to the nth degree, really irked me..
    I was like "I get it, the women in real life has a facial tic, now stop distracting me"!
     
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    #33 Tyketanic, Jul 10, 2015
    And just to reinforce the difference of opinions, I thought straight away of Sean bean as hood and Craig baffled me (despite knowing how great he is from"our friends in the north")until I watched his first attempt and he sold me completely by the end when he said "bond....James bond" towards the end.....
     
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    #34 Tyketanic, Jul 10, 2015
    But then I also thought ward was overrated so just ignore me!! ;)
     
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    #35 #FWF, Jul 10, 2015
    Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka was perfect. Why did they ever re-make it? Impossible to improve.

    Jack Nicholson in One flew over the cuckoo's nest was also perfect.
     
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    #36 RichK, Jul 10, 2015
    The entire cast of pulp fiction. Just perfection.
     
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    #37 Cudeth Archey, Jul 10, 2015
    The best:

    As already mentioned Morgan freeman in invictus
    Leanardo Di caprio in Wolf of wall street
    Eddie redmayne in the theory of everything
    Liam Neeson in the Lego movie
     
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    #38 barnsley66, Jul 11, 2015
    Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker in Dracula. One of the worst English accents ever.
     
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    #39 LiverpoolRed, Jul 11, 2015
    Waltz in both the Tarantino films is a great call - first scene in Inglorious is incredible

    Worst - Sophie Ford Coppola - Godfather 3 - almost ruin a brilliant story in one fell swoop
     
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    #40 North Yorks Red, Jul 11, 2015
    Clint Eastwood in the Dollar films, Dick Van Dyke as a cockney in Mary Poppins. That's the good and the bad, just need an ugly :D
     
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