Stallone as Rocky.

- Branco

Really?  Sandra Bullock in SPEED?  Anyone could have played that part and it would have been the exact same movie.

- Branco

Robin Williams as Mork

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Samuel L Jackson in Snakes on a Plane.(*)

(*) Note: I have not seen Snakes on a Plane -- as I understand it, I do not believe this matters.

Actually, I think Pulp Fiction is another movie where, basically, the entire cast nails it to whatever one nails whatever it is to.

(I'm going to keep thinking of more for days)

The entire cast of Firefly, particularly Nathan Fillion as Mal. Oh, sorry! This is a movie forum. So... I mean Serenity.

How about actors that sound perfect, but then disappoint? If you had told me three years ago that Sam Jackson would play Nick Fury, I would have performed the Dance of Joy. But now, having seen him... meh. He's kinda phoning it in, really. Maybe Sam Jackson is just on the 'victory lap' segment of his career.

Tom Selleck was the candidate to play Indy.  Henry Selick directed Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline.

But the image of Henry Selick as Indy will now be stuck in my head for quite a while.  Cognitive dissonance indeed.

totally works

Either Selleck would have been pure gold

Shyamalan should not direct, either.

I think the LOTR films pretty much nailed everyone, aside from maybe Frodo, but it's hard to see too many other people who could have pulled off a good Frodo anyway. Gandalf was perfectly cast, at least.

But what about movies that are in production right now? QT has cast Jamie Foxx as Django, and was trying to get Will Smith. I dunno if you guys have seen the original Django, but neither of those two really fit the role at all in my opinion. I was kinda hoping he'd have gone with someone less well known, like Issac de Bankole or Omar Epps or something.

I dunno about Shyamalan anymore. His blocking is great, he chooses some nice angles to shoot from, he's good at longer shots, so he's got that going for him. The way he directs his actors, tho, is his weakest skill, and second to that would be his ability to choose the proper way to shoot a scene.

Example: The action sequences in Airbender are often done in long, single shots. These are often in slow motion, or slow down in parts. That's not a good way to shoot an action sequence. It made the action in that movie boring. It looked really staged and planned out and also quite a bit silly.

Example 2: The Happening had a number of shots that I couldn't help but laugh at. He was trying to shoot a horror movie, but instead made a really dark dead-pan comedy. The lawnmower shot, the old woman at the end of the film, the shots of people who start walking backwards. It's all shot in this really flat way that has no tension and really betrays his normally well-thought-out staging. The part with the cop who shoots himself and a few other shots are staged really well and are pretty chilling, but half the time his shots in that flick have the opposite effect on me.

His writing does suck, tho.

Joe Pesci as every pissed off gangster ever. And Vinny.