Comments on: No Objectivity: Top Ten Miscastings in Fantasy Movies

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:54:42 +0000

A few comments:

-I thought Liv Tyler did alright as Arwen, but I agree that Jennifer Connelly would have been better.

-Claire Danes did a fantastic job in Stardust!

-I kind of liked Tom Cruise in Legend, but I suspect that’s because I thought he was so pretty.

Everything else I either agree with or haven’t seen.

By: onmars

onmars — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:59:48 +0000

I love Liv Tyler, but you’re too damn right for words.

By: K.L. Graham

K.L. Graham — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:30:22 +0000

Bravo Valentine, you have done it yet once again.

I agree with all of them, suprisingly, but since I never have watched at least five of these movies I have to say that my most favorite “miscasting” of all is the Lord of the Rings. Liv Tyler CANNOT act, and neither can Tom Cruise for that matter. Plus both of them are suited for more minor roles. Well, Lions and Lambs was pretty good for Cruise, but Liv Tyler should have been in a more, shall we say, nicer movie? You know, a date movie. Her face is too sweet for an elf’s.

And against what a lot of the comments are on this article, the cast DOES in fact make the movie. The plot, tone, scenery and the dialogue make the foundation, but the actors make the mountain come to Mohammed.

By: Elihu

Elihu — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:41:31 +0000

Trent Reznor doesn’t know the first thing about acting. The women of Sin City did what was expected of them – as you clearly realize from your parting shot at Frank Miller – and Alexis Bledel did it well. The wooden acting of the original Star Wars Trilogy didn’t prevent them from being seen as classics, so that tired and blanketing opinion is meaningless at best. And I’m not even sure what you were expecting for the Olivia Wenscombe role – besides a nice(?) physical feature and a characteristic irrelevant to role.

What’s really interesting about this is the bitter (and resentful?) voice of the writing that undermines any pretext of legitimacy in the arbitrary accusations.

Good show.

By: RGombert

RGombert — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:52:15 +0000

Well this shows why you are not a casting director. You are dead wrong 6 out of 10 times (Prestige, Crow 2, Sin City, Stardust, Star Wars and LoTR).

Don’t quit your day job.

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By: Rae Bryant

Rae Bryant — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:37:49 +0000

OMG! I could never quite put a finger on my problem with Liv as Arwen, and that pic cinches it. Jennifer Connelly is definitely the Elven Princess. I’ll forever see her face in that role now.

Was it Requiem for a Dream where Connelly got down and dirty? Ever since that role, I’ve been in total awe of her. Of course, I was always jealous of her in Labyrinth. She got screen time with Bowie and that package of his. What was it about Bowie in that movie? I can’t tell you how many adolescent dreams I had about him in that film. *Hee*

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By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:43:46 +0000

Jennifer Connelly would have been so much better as Arwen that I almost don’t want to even think about it or I’ll depress myself.

By: Cat C.

Cat C. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:25:00 +0000

@ Rachel:

Thank you for the warning! That sounds horrendous. I figured it would be pretty awful but I had this misplaced sense of incompleteness…”Well, I’ve seen the first and the second one so…” I’ll be sure to avoid it, “trilogy” be darned.

(Does it count as a trilogy if you run out of source material for the third and have to make the whole thing up? Let’s ask George Lucas…)