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Tom Cruise as anyone anywhere anytime. What a goober. And I always want to tell him, "FIX YOUR TEETH!"
For all my dislike of Tom Cruise, I have a lot of respect for the work and dedication that he puts into his roles, I just don't buy them and always see him as a man that's acting not as a character. There's only one role that he managed to sell to me and that's Cage in Edge of Tomorrow. To see that self-importance and arrogance that I, rightly or wrongly, have come to associate with him be eroded in a succession of really well put together scenarios where he gets to die each time pulled me out of my disbelief and for a while I forgot that I was seeing Tom Cruise act on a screen and just enjoyed the suspension of reality that is a very well made film. Plus, he was just so damn believable as a coward.
As for the worst casting choices, I'm not sure... I'm usually easy to please and can sometimes enjoy things even if parts of them don't quite gel, which means that I tend to forget a lot of flaws afterwards. I'm sure if I think long enough I could come up with lots of examples but for now I can only think of Andrew Scott in the role of Moriarty in Sherlock series. I lived and breathed Conan Doyle when I was little, and the image of Moriarty that stuck with me through all these years was not Andrew Scott, who was far too young and neurotic to portray the larger than life resourcefulness and malevolence of the character, or so I felt.
A 35 yo pretty boy Ryan O'Neal playing an army general in A Bridge Too Far, he looked like a little kid wearing daddy's uniform. His helmet looked like it would overwhelm him any minute.
John Krasinski in Amazon's Jack Ryan... sorry, he doesn't appear anything like a CIA analyst or agent might, no killer instinct apparent either active or latent, he seems like the guy who would fix their printers.
I hate to pile on the poor guy, but ... Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men. I think his acting has improved over the years, but by 1992 he still didn't have the capacity to deliver Aaron Sorkin's dialogue competently.
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Clark Gable as Rhett Butler
Seconded. Clark Gable may have looked much as Margaret Mitchell described him, but unfortunately the man could not act. He was way too wooden to play Rhett Butler.
I wished Ed Norton would have played Tom Hanks' role in Castaway. I wanted a lesser known actor.
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You beat me to it. Totally out of character for Old Double L. Looked like a raving lunatic.
