Double recast in the MCU:
Starlord should have been played by Jeremy Renner, and Hawkeye should have been played by Crisp Ratt.It would have fit the characterization in the comics better. In the comics, Hawkeye is more of a goofy wisecracking dude who gets lots of chicks, and Starlord is more of a responsible & respectable straight-man for the rest of the GotG to annoy with their weirdness.
I guess Steven Seagall movies are the low-hanging fruit, huh?
Okay, semi-semi-serious answer: the first Aliens Vs Predator movie. I replace the predator with Animal from the Muppet Show. That would at least make the movie fun.
Replacing any character from any movie with any Muppet makes the movie immediately better.
Gonzo as Anton Chigurh in No County for Old Men.
Cookie Monster as Hannibal Lecter.
“Humans are a sometimes food…”
Not the swedish chef? Think about it… could be good.
Seagal was perfect in Executive Decision though (he dies in the first 10 minutes)
Along these lines, now I’m seeing Alien with Elmo as the main antagonist - would be a huge step up. (I know Elmo is not Muppet Show but is from the Muppets Cinematic Universe.)
If you recast Jared Leto in Tron: Aries, everyone might have actually tried instead of saying “This is gonna flop anyways, why bother writing a good script?”
I didn’t watch it specifically because of Leto. I was absolutely stoked each time I saw an ad for it (forgetting that Leto was in it) right up until his stupid face popped up in the trailer.
If they had somebody else, even a complete no-name actor, I would have watched it. It is impressive how effectively they pushed away their audience.
I think if you recast everything let has been in all of those movies would have been improved
With the exception of lord of war. I feel like he was perfect in that role
Sadly he wasn’t the worst part of the film. He actually fit his role pretty well. The main female lead was pretty damn wooden. I was totally expecting my feelings towards the leading roles to be reversed but I actually think you’d have a better film if she was replaced rather than Jared. And I hate him in most things. I do think however if you replaced him in blade runner 2049 it’d be a better film. Even though he fits that role really well, probably better than the one in Tron, he’s still the weakest part of that film specifically.
I just looked her up, apparently her top credit on IMDb is “Interesting Person #2” in Into the Spiderverse.
I was so excited for this movie until I saw him and knew it would be a dud
Remove Joel Silver from the production team of the Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions. Creative control to the Wachowskis.
Allow the countercultural, noir elements that made the first Matrix excellent. Police and innocent bystanders are potential if not actual enemies. Fewer set-piece fights; more skillful, thoughtful moments like the fight against Seraph.
And, certainly, a different end-fight arc. Once Smith has the Oracle’s power, a slugfest stops making sense.
You might be right but that’s not a simple casting change
Speaking as someone who genuinely loved all four Mayrix movies, while simultaneously able to recognize the decline in quality as the franchise continued: The Wachowskis didn’t understand the media they were ripping off. They were mashing action figures together, effectively, and that’s ok. The first movie was lightning in a bottle, of course the sequels wouldn’t hold up, but I’m glad they exist because it inspired a significant portion of my own writing.
I agree that having the Wachowskis back in charge of the franchise would be an improvement, not because of their skill as writers and directors, but because of the passion and vision for the art (assuming that they still care, anyway.).
I keep saying Reloaded and Revolution would make one great sequel if you cut all the crap out. As they are the scenes are just a little too long and there’s too much gratuitous fighting. But there are enough great ideas for one great movie, just not two.
this would have been so much better.
The Borderlands movie. Anyone other than who they casted. Lilith is between late 20s to middle 30s. Roland is supposed to be a intimidating soldier. And Jack Black for Claptrap?! Come on
I’m so tired of the jack black train.
At least krieg fit
This is an old one, but the Maltese Falcon is a nearly perfect movie, but it is absolutely ruined by Mary Astor as the femme fatale.
She’s supposed to be this stunningly beautiful woman, Spade’s Secretary warns him to brace himself before she comes in because “she’s a looker.” Then she enters, and she’s just sort of normal. Then his partner comes in and completely loses his shit over how gorgeous she is, and I’m sitting there thinking “Her? What’s the big deal?”
Throughout the entire film, she’s portrayed as this conniving woman whom Bogey can’t resist, but I just didn’t see any chemistry at all.
I told my son, who is an extremely knowledgeable cinephile, and he told me that’s a thing. Filmies have noticed how absolutely wrong she was for that part. She was a fine actress, but that role called for a completely different kind of actress. It was probably a studio thing, insisting that she get the part, since she was between pictures, and they wanted something high profile to boost her career, and a Bogey mystery would be perfect. Unfortunately, she was terrible in that role.
Who should replace her? Pretty much anyone else at the time, maybe Barbara Stanwyck.
Some guys made a ten-hour film about paint drying to piss off the censors. Replacing the wall with about anybody would probably be a vast improvement…
I too would watch paint drying on Scarlett Johansson.
Haven’t seen Star Trek: Into Darkness since before I watched the actual show, so I can’t really say if it would fix it, but it would be improved by removing the Cumberbatch of it all
Cucumber was not the right casting choice for Khan. But then Ricardo Montalban’s portrayal of Khan is a tough act to follow.
He could have been literally anyone else from the Botany Bay sleeper ship and you wouldn’t have to change a thing in the movie.
Yeah.
That was a really, really bad choice, especially considering how race-based casting became a huge issue around that time.
Replacing Chris Pratt in Jurassic Park. He’s cringe
He’s bad in those movies, but I don’t think it fixes them. Not by a long shot.
Recasting Chris Pratt in all of his movies would greatly improve all of them.
Which character is he in Jurassic Park? I don’t remember the guy from
communityparks and rec in there.I believe he plays Chris Pratt, same as his other films.
I should have known, lol.
Is he the little boy the brother of the computer hacker girl?
Not old Jurassic Park, he’s in the newer Jurassic world movies
Oooh
yup. with damn near anyone ffs, he’s a derpy twat.
Snow White and the Huntsman could have been decent, but Kristen Stewart is terrible in it. She’s not a bad actress (see Underwater) but she’s not the right fit at all here.
I strongly disagree that Kirsten Stewart has an iota of talent as an actress. She has two emotions she expresses: sulky and panicky, and she does neither well. She was no better than her baseline in Underwater and that film wasn’t very good either IMO (and I love Cthulhu stuff).
However, I didn’t like Snow White and the Huntsman either. I saw it years ago but can’t really remember much about it, because I found rather bland. It wasn’t just Stewart’s milquetoast performance.
Kristen Stewart is an utterly shitty actress.
Babygirl - Replace Nicole Kidman with someone who can still show emotion on their face
Star Wars - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith would both be infinitely better if a better actor than Hayden Christensen had been cast as Anakin Skywalker.
I also think Mads Mikkelsen was a terrible, awful replacement for Johnny Depp as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3. He’s such a wooden actor and lacks the subtlety and nuance that Depp brought to the role.
Star Wars - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith would both be infinitely better if a better actor than Hayden Christensen had been cast as Anakin Skywalker.
I really think George Lucas as director was the problem there. Hayden Christiansen isn’t a terrible actor. Neither is Natalie Portman or Ewan McGregor. But all three of them have just terrible, awful line reads in those movies.
Portman’s career took a hit from those movies, though she recovered because she already had a foothold in the industry. McGregor was a well-known actor already, so he wasn’t hurt. Christiansen got demolished.
A bad actor makes themself look bad. A bad director makes every actor look bad.
In regards to Star Wars, I remember watching the behind the scenes documentary on the Phantom Menace DVD where you get to see them auditioning child actors for the part of Anakin.
Specifically, you watch them screen test the final three kids, one of which is obviously Jake Lloyd.
In my opinion he was second place of the three, I could never understand why George chose him.
I don’t think George has ever had an eye for good actors. He just got lucky with Harrison Ford who carried the shit out of the original trilogy.
Poor Jake Lloyd had a really tough time in life because of his involvement in Star Wars, sadly.
I think HC was only cast because he was a stereotypically hot guy, TBH. His acting is just atrocious all the way through. (Though he’s acquitted himself way better in the new series as Anakin and Vader.)
There’s also a very real problem of Lucas not really caring to get the best out of them, and for the younger actors it’s disastrous. Natalie Portman is generally a bit better at picking solid projects than elevating them (IMHO), but she’s every bit as bad as the Anakins in the prequels. Only the veterans who could draw on prior experience, and especially the British-trained theater actors, could work with the abstractions of the set and chew the scenery convincingly without a lot of helpful guidance.
On ANH, George was still a young Turk in naturalistic New Hollywood, and anyway he had exactly one mainstream success under his belt, so people could push back; there’s also the sometimes exaggerated but very real contributions of the editing team picking good takes and splicing them together in a way that feels right, certainly in the moment. On ESB he did his best work by going with scriptwriters and a veteran director who’d done a dozen films. Even on ROTJ, the non-guild director was a guy who’d done a lot of intimate character work on British TV, and if the plot was straining under its weight, you still got solid line readings and some convincing emotion.
Kind of curious if The Room would be a good movie with a talented lead, or just forgettable.
You could put Daniel Day-Lewis in that role and I think it would still be a terrible film. A good actor cannot rescue a story that inept. They might be able to wring some pathos from otherwise inept dialog, but it’s not going to change the fundamental structural issues with the movie, and, as you allude to, it might strip it of what makes it entertaining in the first place.
Explain to me what the plot is to answer your question.
I don’t think there’s really much of a way to fix the Bayformer films, they’re quite stunk up from casting to production. I would just kick Michael Bay off from directing and hand it to someone, anyone, with credible creativity when it comes to sci-fi and robots.
Bayformer
Lol, I like that
A request: who would you replace Jerry Seinfeld with in a B movie?
I’m not even joking when I say Nicholas Cage.
