Top 20 Worst Casting Decisions Ever

for worst casting you forgot Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd as redneck, trailer park people in "Where the Heart is."

Edited at 01:47 on 26/09/11

Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview with a Vampire. Yet another bad casting decision.

Another bad casting decision. Lori Petty as Tyler in Point Break

I think Seagal has redeemed himself in "Cock Puncher"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHTzczh96u8&feature=related

I want to watch it. Even though I can't.

I saw The Crow 4 earlier tonight (which I didn't even know existed until it was on), and as a result, I think Edward Furlong as The Crow should go on the list. With the black marks under the eyes and the long hair, he looked more like a middle-aged menopausal woman, crying about her only daughter leavign home to go to college than a vengeful being.

Yeah, I noticed. They sorta ripped off my 'worst movie fashion' thing as well, that showed up after it was posted on Gorillamask. Probably just co-incidence, but there it is. It's weird, I had an idea to do a 'biggest techno-bullshit moments' feature and then Empire had a blog post up on almost the exact same thing posted about an hour late. My office is bugged!

Posted 16th June:

http://www.empireonline.com/empireblog/Post.asp?id=167

Zoinks!

What films are you lot watching?

a) Liv Tyler was excellent as Arwen in LOTR. As well as that Finn McCool one as well. The roles she's cast in don't really have that much substance in them, so you couldn't really miscast anyone.

b) Ice T was a mutant kangaroo

c) Heath Ledger should never have been cast as The Joker. All I see when I look at him is "Gay Cowboy Jousting Knight Bastard". They should have cast Crispin "Hellooo McFly" Glover

And you totally didn't mention Ice T as a rabbit in "Tank Girl"

He hasn't even lived in Scotland for about three decades, the bastard.

Does anyone remember how hot Halle Berry was in The Flintstones?

For me Sean Connery is number 1 for being miscast.
Whatever the role, whatever the era he's "Shcottish" and makes no attempt to be anything other than Sean Connery.
Ian Fleming called him "a violent milkman" after watching Dr No.

John Wayne is my no.1 I reckon.

Keanu IS shit but I think he was perfect for The Matrix. His dull dull dull face just about matched... a bit. Every time I read something about Denise Richards I always think how the hell she got in a James Bond film (sloppy blowjob)

what about that waste of skin Liv Tyler as an actress

Re: David Bowie being Pontius Pilate -- the commentator called him "the Simon Cowell of the Old Testament". FYI: Pontius is not in the Old, but New Testament, in the four gospels.

Keanu Reeves does Shakespeare has got to be worth a look. I cant think of a more unsuitable actor for some luvvie hamming it up.

Thats possibly the best gay sex metaphor ever

Haha, Dog The Bounty Hunter.
To quote Charlie Brooker "If your penis could choose how to dress itself, it would look like Dog The Bounty Hunter. He dresses like a Gay Lion and all of The Lost Boys at a WWF convention"

Good article, I laughed quite a lot reading that. You missed out about 3 Batmans.

I've got to go and look some of them up.
My nomination would go to Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. Yeah lets take one of the most graceful, well-spoken and legitimatly regal actresses of the 20th century and give her a role as a dirty common cockanee street urchin. Lets also forget the fact that it's a musical and she cant sing, we'll just overdub her and not say anything.
Honestly it's a credit to Hepburn that she pulled that role off.