Many actors in the TV series Power is very poorly done and unbelievable. They do not fit the characters and make the entire series crap.
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The first series was good primarily becauseGhost and Tommy’s actors are very good but there’s not enough there to have 3 series based around it.
Lela Loren (Angela) and Adam Huss (Kantos) were the worst.
Tori Spelling in 90210. The series sucked arse, but shoe Horning in the directors daughter is just nepotism.
She supposedly came up with the idea for the show. And she auditioned for the part under a different name. Who knows if the casting directors knew who she was anyway.
And honestly I don’t think that show would have been as “good” without her. (Total cheese fest, but also a time capsule).
It’s hilarious if you watch it now, because they had to remove all the period music for syndication. They replaced it with some session musician music that still sounds period-accurate. Hats off to whomever wrote those tunes.
Spelling was the producer not the director
My bad!
Pretty sure nepotism is mandatory for the entertainment industry.
I love how just about everyone below cites movies rather than TV. But theaters are dead now so what's the difference?
I have one: In the extremely mediocre Sahara (the 2005 adaptation of a Clive Cussler novel and why Clive Cussler never again allowed one of his books to be made into a movie) Steve Zahn cast as the "Burly little Italian" Al Giordino.
That movie was so strange. It had all the pieces for a franchise including big name stars, but it was just so bad.
Almost every actor cast in Borderlands.
They got a funny man to play the straight man. A woman almost twice the age of Lilith in the game to play Lilith. Jack Black as Claptrap at least makes some sense, but it's not his usual energy and then they tweaked his voice so much I can't tell it's him from clips I've seen.
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Chevy Chase as Pierce on Community.
It's debatably a perfect casting because the charcter is a rich, arrogant, racist, sexist out of touch ass... and so is Chevy. He did excellent in the role and was hilarious more often than not. But because he is such a PoS who wasn't really acting, the cast, writers and crew all hated working with him and then he became a very clear burden on the entire show. Resulting in him being semi killed off, but kept appearing in convulated ways? It would've been better for everyone if he was recast right from the start.
But that still makes him the perfect casting.
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Anything Mark Wahlberg is in. I've never seen him do a good performance, and I've seen him do a LOT of terrible ones. Mediocre is the best he's got. And yet, he is sure he's going to get an Oscar one day.
The Big Hit
The Other Guys
Ted
Boogie Nights
He has 4 solid movies. The Other Guys is brilliant and he’s amazing in his role.
The Fighter is a good movie. He plays a boxer and Chriatian Bale plays his brother (for which he got his oscar). Mark is still good in this movie.
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I don't see how all the responses aren't Anthony Mackie in altered carbon s2.
I didn't watch season two only because they cast Mackie, who is wooden and vanilla in everything. I don't understand how he's an actor.
Because it doesn't matter who you cast in Altered Carbon season 2. Joel Kinnaman absolutely nailed it in season 1 and while I understand the story of why he is replaced, it just doesn't work. No one could have taken the role. Not that Mackie did the role any favors, but it was an uphill battle from day 1.
Kinnaman nailed the roll. season 2 had so many problems that I don't think it's fair to put the blame on Mackie.
I think it's more a problem with the new showrunner being bad at their job. The show in season 2 didn't know what tone to go for or how to structure scene.
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Dane DeHan in Valerean. The part was for an older Han Solo type. Dane was 35, but could still pass for a high schooler. The movie mostly now gets remembered for this miscast, and for its immensely interesting opening sequence, but the whole movie is made of action set pieces made out of sci fi insanity It should be remembered for that, and that Luc Besson is a grooming creepazoid.
Also, Timothy Chalamet. He was terrible in Dune, but I think he was most miscast as Willy Wonka. Hes always wooden, but Wonka needs to be animated! Cinema was introduced to the character with a fake fall into a back flip! Jeremy Alan White is right there!
I'd say Chalamet was even more miscast as Henry V. Henry was a hell-raising rowdy before becoming king, and as king, the kind of leader who liked getting into battle and hacking people to pieces. Barrel-shaped Kenneth Branagh was probably closer to the type than Chalamet, who's no kind of thug.
Anything played by Ezra Miller.
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One of the things that annoys me the most is when the heroes go into a dingy greasy spoon diner in the middle of nowhere and the waitress looks like a cover model. And then, because it costs more if the actress has lines, the heroes don't even interact with her.
That's why I don't like american tv shows as much. Mand di i love the Inbetweeners or peep show for example. When real people play real people. Not 30 year old top models play 16 year olds. And the have one fat extra to make fun of.
I always like Buffy The Vampire Slayer. They tried to play off that Alyson Hannigan was the 'plain' looking girl.
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Common in Silo. The guy is only good as one-dimensional characters, nothing more than that.
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