Bad Casting Choices in the Movies and Television

[zeetes]

I have no idea what you're smoking. While the original is a well done B movie with an interesting - and different for its time - premise, and a great performance from Christopher Lee, the remake is cheesy, overacted, and generally uninteresting.

I'm not a Cage hater, but I quickly admit he has as many strikeouts as hits in his career.

your last paragraph makes me happy.

 

[sfidc3]

I dunno. I've always enjoyed the MI movies.

I hear you, I'm definitely in the minority here....

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

I dunno. I've always enjoyed the MI movies.

I hear you, I'm definitely in the minority here....

The MI movies have been consistently good no matter anyone's opinion of Tom Cruise.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The MI movies have been consistently good no matter anyone's opinion of Tom Cruise.

you can argue not just consistently good but getting better

 

[DaveXA]

you can argue not just consistently good but getting better

Indeed, rare among movie sequels. Might be time to binge them at some point. I've never done them all in a row. Could be fun.

 

[St. Chris]

you can argue not just consistently good but getting better

Two criticisms, both from a fan of the TV show:

1) You CANNOT reboot a old TV show, and then take the leader and hero and make him the bad guy. (It is like making Hanibal the bad guy in The A-Team) They did this in the first movie. Although to his credit, Peter Graves refused to be part of the first movie that did this, they still used the same character, but played by Jon Voight and made him the bad guy.

2) Much of the original tv show had the MI team doing their job without the bad guys ever knowing the team was involved. The first movie did not do this and after complaints it became a bigger part of the plots of the sequels.

Other than these two complaints, the movies are good and a lot of fun.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Two criticisms, both from a fan of the TV show:

1) You CANNOT reboot a old TV show, and then take the leader and hero and make him the bad guy. (It is like making Hanibal the bad guy in The A-Team) They did this in the first movie. Although to his credit, Peter Graves refused to be part of the first movie that did this, they still used the same character, but played by Jon Voight and made him the bad guy.

2) Much of the original tv show had the MI team doing their job without the bad guys ever knowing the team was involved. The first movie did not do this and after complaints it became a bigger part of the plots of the sequels.

Other than these two complaints, the movies are good and a lot of fun.

I never watched the old show but I agree

And it's only the last few that they've really made more of an effort to show the MI team

The first few were Tom Cruise vehicles with an appearance from Ving Rhames

 

[Dago]

That woman in the Erics Jobs commercials

The way she moves while she talks is creepy as fork

 

[Torgo]

Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan. Yes, I realize Green Lantern would have been a dumpster fire regardless, and I love RR, but no way I was ever going to buy him as Hal. Guy Gardner maybe.

Oddly enough, Reynolds was perfectly cast as Deadpool in that awful Wolverine movie, only for the character to be forked up beyond recognition. Luckily, he got the chance to do it right.

 

[Maxp]

I keep reading this as bait casting. I agree that it's generally much better than a spinning rod.

Even on windy days?

 

[FullMonte]

I’ve never read any of the Reacher books

Other than the physical differences how was Cruise as Reacher?

It's actually hard to answer that...because Reacher uses his size to intimidate people on a fairly regular basis.

 

[zeetes]

tom cruise is a professional at reaching. he's been standing on his tippy toes a long time.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

almost the entirety of Dark Phoenix

 

[Optimus Prime]

Channing Tatum as Duke in GI Joe