Top Ten Casting Mishaps of 2004 (Daily Casting Report – 12/21/04)
Top Ten Casting mishaps of 2004:
10 Ben Stiller in Along Came Polly: Take a funny guy, add a hot chick, sprinkle with some toilet humor, and you have a great movie. Stiller stopped being funny years ago (not counting his role in Starsky & Hutch). Without Stiller, you have a hot chick and toilet humor. South Park isn’t anywhere near as bad as this! Oh heck, we’ll just catalog this one under the ‘why on god’s green earth did they make this film, anyway’ list.
9 Halle Barry in Catwoman: You can’t really blame Halle for such a hideous movie, but somewhere along the line, she had to realize this fact. She should have pulled herself from the project as soon as she realized this fact.
8 Owen Wilson in The Big Bounce: Putting Owen Wilson in a film with Sara Parker and her mysterious bikini is like eating asparagus dipped in chocolate. You can guess which one is the Chocolate in my little analogy!
7 Holly Hunter in The Incredibles: Her raspy and dry voice is only slightly less annoying then Ellen DeGeneres’ in Finding Nemo, but even that isn’t saying much. Who is making these female casting decisions at Pixar?
6 Vincent Gallo in The Brown Bunny: Writing, directing, and starring in your own soft porn movie, then casting a beautiful woman opposite yourself in the title role tells me that you really have to work hard to get laid. Better luck next time, Vincent.
5 Ethan Hawke in Before Sunset: The fact that Ethan gets writing credit for improvising most of this movie only proves that spending 2 hours with Hawke would put 99% of the human race to sleep.
4 Julie Delpy in Before Sunset: Please see #5.
3 Ben Kingsley in Thunderbirds: From Ghandi to this? You have to joking.
2 Michael Moore in Celsius 41.11: The Truth Behind the Lies of Fahrenheit 911: Moore gets an extra award for being cast in a movie without even trying to get the part. I’m sure if you ask him, he’d prefer to not be in this one.
1 Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 911: The thought that people think he is intelligent baffles me. He has become the stereotype of the stupid, fat American, and I for one am offended that he has become the voice of the underdog.
