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This movie was so awful, so boring, so badly miscast -- it took a lot of work to make what should have been a sure thing into such a travesty.
Combs was miscast in this, and did a poor job of it.
I think Penelope Cruz was miscast, the type of woman she is portraying does not look that good, she makes the character unbelievable.
Okay, I haven't read the book yet but I have to say that the lead character was miscast.
The riddle as a concept is an interesting idea, but i'm afraid is miscast, Vinnie if given the Hard man role is his element as in Lock Stock and Snatch.
We never see how or why they go to back to Lonesome Dove...which is a dirt hole in the original...why would they ever leave Austin where they are hero's...for doing nothing during the whole movie...I was rooting for Blue Duck by the end of the movie and he was totally miscast.
Matt Dillon, a fine, intense actor is totally miscast here and is stiff and mannered.
I think Walter Pidgeon was badly miscast in this film.
amitabh and jaya were miscast as this helpless old couple.. firstly amit was not too convincing in this role,because he just did not look like he should be helpless, i mean why not just go back to work where he is wanted instead of being w/ kids who didnt want them.. hema was not convincing as a 60 yr old either... she didnt look a day over 50.. then the whole isssue of the book baghban winning the booker prize begged credibility.. all in all, a movie that handles an important issue but cld have been made better, i give it 5/10
Rock Hudson was badly miscast and entirely unbelievable as a hard-bitten soldier/adventurer drawn to war.
Dennis Farina was terribly miscast as the father in-law.
Characters are totally miscast and there's no chemistry on the screen.
Other hyphenate, wholesome Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (I dare you to rub out that "Saved by the Bell" patina of purity) is miscast as a rural vamp; she's too round of face for treachery.
It's a shame, because this could have been a good movie with some script work and if made by someone with some intelligence (and with a cast led by someone besides the totally miscast and talentless Judd Nelson).
To start at the beginning, JT was horribly miscast in the lead here.
Damon is miscast.
The plot only loosely resembles the one in the book, the characters are completely miscast and there's some appalling acting.
The romance was not believable; the characters were not developed; the love affair made hardly any sense; it was miscast; and scenery was absolutely stupid because it was either (my opinion) like the ADAMS FAMILY GOES ON VACATION...just creepy, gypsy and cheesy; and the OUTERBANKS does not look typically like those houses on the surf; and who would spend the night in one during a hurricane if it was not theirs.
First of all, Katherine Hepburn is badly miscast as Clara.
And, just as with "Planet...", its lead actor is woefully miscast and leaden; Guy Pearce, a terrific actor of great range, is all wrong for this role, giving a one-note performance that elicits zero sympathy; he's so dour and serious, and lacking in awe of the (supposedly) amazing things he sees that you don't believe for a moment that he's experiencing them.
One should, of course, resist the temptation to snicker when Laurence Harvey's Christopher Isherwood, (it keeps the original author's real name; God Knows what Isherwood thought of it), describes himself as 'a confirmed bachelor' and while Harvey is an utterly inadequate 'hero', (he's virtually asexual), and Shelly Winters woefully miscast as Fraulien Landauer, (the part Marisa Berenson played in "Cabaret"), Julie Harris is a perfectly marvellous Sally, (it's a lovely piece of comic acting), and Anton Diffring is first-rate as Fritz, the German-Jew in love with Shelly's character.
At first, both leads – Jean Peters and Louis Jourdan – might seem miscast but they grow nicely into their roles eventually, thanks no doubt to the talented players (Herbert Marshall, Thomas Gomez and James Robertson Justice) who support them.
The journey itself is somewhat episodic, and Joanne Dru is badly miscast.
The first half is great, which, apart from the opening which is a direct nod to "For a Few Dollars More", with Monco, Colonel Douglas Mortimer and El Indio lookalikes walking into a ghost-town and then promptly killed by a Bounty Hunter called "The Stranger", is entirely serious, with great gunfights (especially the train-robbing scene), fast and furious action and nice performances from Gilbert Roland, George Hilton and (who manages well, considering that he is badly miscast) Edd Byrnes.
I can't see why anyone would say that Hume Cronyn is miscast in the role as superintendent.
So much of the novel had been left out and I considered William Hurt to be terribly miscast as Rochester.
Woeful casting, worse even than in Kusminsky's version (a reminder: he managed to miscast Juliet Binoche and Ralph Feinnnes).
Annoying, static comedy with a painfully miscast Peter Sellers as a smarmy, self-centered Casanova who always has his way with the ladies.
Lazerov (Dylan McDermott from the Practice, possibly miscast as a bad guy?) committing robbery and murder.
Also Miss Beasley was miscast as the book mentioned her being a Plus Size lady.
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