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04-06-2005, 03:12 AM
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John Williamson
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Actors who were seriously mis-cast as villians. Who get's your vote?
This occured to me tonight, I was watching Robocop 3 because I just picked up the trilogy set over the weekend. Anyway, it struck me in a really funny way, that the villian (forget his charactors name, he's the silver haired guy in charge of the swat team) looks remarkably like Steve Martin! 
How could the makers of this film expect us to be afraid of someone who looks like Steve Martin!? I half expected him to look at Robocop and yell "He's one WILD and CRAZY guy!" or "I can take anything, your messin with the wrong guy!"
I couldn't get past it, and the film suffered for it, but in a very comical way.
Are there any actor(s) you guy's and gal's feel were mis-cast in a villian role that was either distracting in a negative way, or in my case, a funny way? This should be fun. 
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04-06-2005, 05:44 AM
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That's a difficult question. I usually forget about them really quick. I can give you some memorable though!
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04-06-2005, 06:49 AM
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Eric Bogosian in Under Siege 2. He tried, he really did. He ranted, he raved, he practically foamed at the mouth. He shot his own underlings. And yet, he just wasn't threatening.
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04-06-2005, 08:47 AM
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Don't hate me, but Alan Cumming playing any villian just doesn't work for me. Sorry.
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04-06-2005, 08:54 AM
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I guess I'll be the one that will bring up Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze.
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04-06-2005, 09:00 AM
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I'd say Arnold in Batman & Robin. Entertaining and funny, but not really menacing.
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04-06-2005, 09:42 AM
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F. Murray Abraham in Star Trek: Insurrection, it's not like the man can't pull it off, just look at Amadeus or The Name Of The Rose, but in this he just fell flat as a pancake "just phoning it in boss, just phoning it in!".
Not the best example I guess as he wasn't really "miscast" as much as he was simply "not there".
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04-06-2005, 10:22 AM
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Don't hate me, but Alan Cumming playing any villian just doesn't work for me. Sorry.
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Actually, I think he works, in a bizzare way, in the first Spy Kids film.
A guy who I think has been pretty awful as a villian is Richard Roxburgh. I don't know if "miscast" is the right word, but at least in Moulin Rouge and Van Helsing, I thought he was just awful.
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04-06-2005, 10:30 AM
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How could the makers of this film expect us to be afraid of someone who looks like Steve Martin!?
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I don't know about a look-a-like, but Steve Martin himself can be quite menacing. It just takes the right director to recognize the potential, as Mamet did in The Spanish Prisoner.
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