Really? THAT guy?

[The Curmudgeon]

There are often perfect casting decisions in comic book movies. The producer/director who picked, say, Heath Ledger for the Joker took a mighty gamble but obviously saw something in the guy and knew he'd be perfect. And indeed, he was. Likewise Jack Nicholson was an obvious and superb choice for the same role, and even though the movie tanked and got the actual character completely wrong, few could deny that back then, if you're picking Judge Dredd, Sly Stallone is your guy.

The following list, however, is when the guys behind the camera got it very wrong. When the casting decision already makes the movie feel wrong before you even sit down to watch it. I don't agree with a few of them, but we'll talk about that once you've read it.

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A few glaring omissions from this list, the first at the top of my head is THIS English footballer



As this essential figure in the X-Men universe..



So. Fucking. Wrong.

And the number one terrible choice is Tobey McGuire? Over Arnie as Freeze? Over Julian McMahon as Doctor Doom? Bull-utter-shit. True, the third movie blew, but that was more to do with the writing, pacing, clusterfuck of villains and the ruining of Venom. Tobey was an excellent choice as Spidey in my books.

Thoughts?

[trashcanman]

Yeah, putting Maguire at #1 was utterly ucalled for. He really didn't bother me at all, particularly when he was onscreen with that horrible portrayal of Venom. And they forgot to mention that Alba looked creepy with those blue contacts.




One is supposed to suck your blood. The other just looks silly.

[trashcanman]

Oh, forgot one. I know Cage was already accounted for on Ghost Rider, but he was more out of place in Kick-Ass. I know a lot of people disagree with me (some even say he made the movie), but taking a character that was meant to bring to mind The Punisher training a Robin of his own and playing him as Adam West's Batman was fucking stupid in my opinion.

[The Curmudgeon]

Yeah, Jessica Alba, who was a different fucking RACE than not only the original character but her own brother in the movie was beyond dumb. No matter how unstoppably hot she is, she really shouldn't have been in that movie. Or the movie shouldn't have been made. Either works.

The Nic Cage one is complicated, because I think that's more down to the makers of the movie itself. They obviously, for whatever reason, didn't want the Cage character to be the ass-kicking psychopath he is in the comics, and instead WANTED a softer, West-inspired Batman figure. That's obviously how they wrote the script and wanted the character to be, and in that light Nic pulled it off beautifully.

If they'd WANTED a kick-ass Punisher and casted Cage, that may well be a different story. But as it is, and as someone who hasn't actually read the original books, I thought he was superb in it.

[trashcanman]

Yeah, it probably wasn't Cage's fault...for once. The problem was with the director who turned a story meant to be be a gritty and shocking satire into something madcappishly cartoonish, possibly to preserve the R-Rating. Good movie still, but it could have been so much better.