Miscasting classics

[Shortmember]

James Coburn with such an excruciatingly bad Aussie accent playing Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick RAAF in The Great Escape, that he should've been hit over the head with an Oscar for it.

 

[swee'pea99]

Nicholas Cage absolutely killed Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a good book that should have enabled a good movie. Sean Connery made a wonderful (ageing) Robin Hood in Robin & Marion.

 

[betty swollocks]

I remember years ago watching 'The Generation Game' where the contestant couples had to match leading men and women against the films they starred in. One couple were completely hopeless and managed to pair up 'Gunfight at the OK Coral' with Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. Mum and I rocked with laughter. I forget who they placed in 'Brief Encounter' - probably Laurel and Hardy.

 

[Arch]

I remember years ago watching 'The Generation Game' where the contestant couples had to match leading men and women against the films they starred in. One couple were completely hopeless and managed to pair up 'Gunfight at the OK Coral' with Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. Mum and I rocked with laughter. I forget who they placed in 'Brief Encounter' - probably Laurel and Hardy.

Oh, I'm giggling at that thought!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I forget who they placed in 'Brief Encounter' - probably Laurel and Hardy.

I always remember the overall description of 'Brief Encounter' in I'm Sorry I haven't a clue. It wasn't amazingly funny, but it still made me smile:

'Oh! I've got something in my eye!'

'Here, let me help you get it out'

'I think I love you'

'Me too'

'I'm married'

'Me too'

'Oh bugger'

'Goodbye forever then'

'Goodbye'.

 

[Arch]

Sean Connery playing an Englishman in Robin Hood Prince of thieves

I dunno. I think he looked perfect for the role, and as his lines were minimal, the accent didn't really matter.

At the other end of the film, Marion's brother asks Robin to tell her that he died "a trueborn Englishman", in a broad Dublin accent - I knew the actor who played the part, and he laughed about it.

 

[byegad]

Sean Connery playing an Irishman in The Untouchables
Sean Connery playing an Russian in The Hunt for Red October
Sean Connery playing an Englishman Norman King in Robin Hood Prince of thieves
Sean Connery playing a Greek in The Time Banditds

Sean Connery in any role that might demand an non-Scottish accent

FTFY.

 

[byegad]

I dunno. I think he looked perfect for the role, and as his lines were minimal, the accent didn't really matter.

At the other end of the film, Marion's brother asks Robin to tell her that he died "a trueborn Englishman", in a broad Dublin accent - I knew the actor who played the part, and he laughed about it.

Spoilt the film, and made it! We first saw it in a packed cinema and when Wee Sean McConnery appeared more than half the audience broke out laughing! I nearly wet myself laughing, knowing his views about the hated English.

 

[Over The Hill]

Sean Connery playing an Irishman in The Untouchables
Sean Connery playing an Russian in The Hunt for Red October
Sean Connery playing an Englishman in Robin Hood Prince of thieves
Sean Connery playing a Greek in The Time Banditds

Sean Connery in any role that might demand an non-Scottish accent

He was rather wooden when he was in The Bowler and the Bunnet playing a shipyard worker.
Oddly he was a shipyard worker at the time.

 

[Canrider]

Sean Connery playing an Russian in The Hunt for Red October

"...he's not Russian, he's Lithuanian by birth, raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman."

We can't discount the possibility that Russian spoken with a Lithuanian accent is the Slavic equivalent of English spoken with a Scottish accent...

 

[Over The Hill]

Tom Cruise puts me off whatever film he is in. Short arse smart arse.

Always amuses as love interest is usually Cameron Dias or Ncole Kidman who are both a fair bit taller than him. Any scene with both in is then dictated by camera angles and standing on a box so as to not show him as shorter.

Taller than Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut
But in real life-

 

[Canrider]

I vaguely watched one the other night. It featured Gerard Butler being knocked about by a psychotic Pierce Brosnan.

Now.

King Leonidas getting thumped by Remington Steele?

 

[Spinney]

Tom Cruise puts me off whatever film he is in. Short arse smart arse.

I quite like the Jack Reacher books (not literature, but pass the time nicely).

Then Tom Cruise does a film! This is so wrong it is out the other side of wrong...

I have no idea what the film was like - I'm not even going to bother watching it.

 

[coffeejo]

I quite like the Jack Reacher books (not literature, but pass the time nicely).

Then Tom Cruise does a film! This is so wrong it is out the other side of wrong...

I have no idea what the film was like - I'm not even going to bother watching it.

Ask @potsy what *he* thinks about that

 

[AndyRM]

Anything with Nicolas Cage in it.

I submit for your consideration, the following:

The Rock
Con Air
The Weatherman
Kick-Ass
Bad Lieutenant