A while back, I wrote an article detailing my top ten best comic book castings of all time. Now I present its polar opposite, the ten worst castings in comic-book film history (listed from bad to worse).
I want to preface this list by saying that most of these casting choices are victims of bad film-making, and no amount of good acting could save their roles. There was one role I really wanted to put on this list, but I just couldn’t do it–Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. Most people hate him for the role, but few actors can pull of a good, cocky attitude and still be awesome like Reynolds, so he doesn’t make the ten worst for that role (though he does for another). Another notable exclusion is Ben Affleck as Daredevil. Many critics hate his casting, but I thought he worked out pretty well in the role. This article, however, is not about what I liked—it’s about what I dislike, so read away and let me know how much you agree/disagree with my picks. Enjoy!
Dishonorable Mention: Bryan Singer for leaving the third X-Men film
Bryan Singer is not an actor, and he wasn’t cast to play any comic book based roles, but he deserves to be on this list for successfully delivering a killer blow on two films at once. On one hand, his absence from the X-Men franchise in “X-Men: The Last Stand,” is a notable tragedy that ended with a train-wreck that should have been awesome. The third X-Men film had issues on every front, and I blame Bryan Singer, even though the studio could have picked up someone that could do a better job. The other film Singer ruined was Superman Returns, which, if it would have tried to be a film that could stand alone, might have succeeded. Instead, we get a film that parallels Richard Donner’s: “Superman: The Movie” and his “Superman II” so much that I wondered if it was an over-glorified late night comedy sketch. Hopefully Mr. Singer learned something here—don’t leave something awesome to try and copy something amazing. It just doesn’t work. For obliterating two awesome things, Mr. Singer, you get the Dishonorable Mention on this list.
10. Dennis Quaid As General Hawk in G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra
Dennis Quaid is a good actor, but he has this aura that screams: “Nice Guy.” The leader of an elite force of secret military rock-stars needs to be one intimidating dude. No amount of scowling can make Dennis Quaid exude that attitude, yet there he was. The most genuine moments of the film occurred when Quaid had the chance to smile, and then he was convincing, but he followed those moments by delivering lines in overtly comic-book fashion, which was nothing short of a giant ball of cheese. Fortunately for Quaid, he was not the only bad casting in “GI Joe: Rise of Cobra,” as all but three other characters were cast badly (Destro, The Baroness, and Snake Eyes were great castings).
Quaid hasn’t returned for G.I. Joe: Retaliation that opens in the summer.
Who They Should Have Cast: Harrison Ford
9. Samuel L. Jackson As Nick Fury in The Marvel Film Universe
The mis-castings of General Hawk and Nick Fury are quite similar. Where Hawk needs to be an intimidating military leader, Nick Fury’s character requires a rugged, grizzled look and attitude. With this character, villains should fear his major can of whoop-ass and still want to enjoy a nice brew at his side at the same time. What we have in the film-world is the classic cold and calculating Samuel L. Jackson we all know and loved and then got tired of.
In “Pulp Fiction,” Jackson was a cool, calm, Bible-quoting man that was likely to blow someone’s head off and still be their best friend. In “Star Wars,” his Mace Windu is pretty much the same thing, except with Jedi Code instead of the Bible. In “Iron Man 2,” Jackson plays Nick Fury, and has basically the same attitude as in his other roles. I just don’t sense the fury in Nick Fury from Jackson’s usual, but very successful, image. From what we’ve seen of “The Avengers” so far, it looks like he’ll be more of the same, so it looks like that’s the Nick Fury we get.
Who They Should Have Cast: David Hasselhoff might not fit the role in the slightest, but he certainly looked the part. If we could combine the Hoff’s looks with some gravitas, I think we would have the ideal Nick Fury.
8. Nicolas Cage As Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider
I’d like to start by saying that I think the studio went about “Ghost Rider” all wrong, but my alternative would have been far too costly. I think the studio should have made the film using motion capture technology, just like in “Beowulf.” Making a CG guy with a flaming skull is a hair ambitious, and I think the audience would have suspended their disbelief more readily had the entire world been digitally created.
That, however, is all water under the bridge, because the studio went live-action, and they cast Nicolas Cage to play Johnny Blaze. I’ll start by saying that Nicolas Cage has a ton of fun roles, and on the surface he appears to be a fairly decent choice to play a daredevil. When you get him in the role, he just doesn’t fit. Recently Cage has been taking roles that are more light-hearted in nature, and they seem to be more fun than anything, which is how he treated this role. Ghost Rider is not fun. In fact, Ghost Rider is a terrifying being that demands a serious-minded actor that doesn’t seem to deliver every line as though he is being “cool.”
Who They Should Have Cast: Mark Wahlberg
7. Tommy Lee Jones As Two-Face in Batman Forever
Tommy Lee Jones could have been a great Two-Face. Just imagine a younger Jones in place of Aaron Eckhart (who was awesome) in “The Dark Knight.” Think about that for just a second. Now think about “Batman Forever,” and cringe, gasp in horror, and ask yourself: “What was Joel Schumacher thinking?” Yes, Schumacher ruined Two-Face and much more about the Batman franchise, but he hired a great actor in a butchered role, and made Jones look like a buffoon while doing it.
If Schumacher wanted a cackling, classic bank robber for Two-Face, why not bring on someone with a more slapstick style? Tommy Lee Jones is well known for his serious, dry sense of humor in films, yet he completely and unsuccessfully breaks that mold in “Batman Forever,” and the film world will forever be worse for it.
Who They Should Have Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, but used him correctly!
6. Ray Stevenson As Frank Castle in Punisher: War Zone
I’m probably one of the few that liked Thomas Jane as Frank Castle and wish he could have played the role in more sequels. But instead enter “Punisher: War Zone,” a film that is less-than-half of the first “Punisher,” and it features an actor that awesome when in his element.
In the HBO series: “Rome,” Ray Stevenson plays Titus Pullo, a Roman soldier that literally makes friends with people he is sent to assassinate. In “King Arthur,” his Dagonet was one of the more notable performances in a film that was largely a failure. Stevenson has acting chops, there is no doubt about that, but a revenge-bent warrior with an arsenal of explosives is a role that does not fit him.
Who They Should Have Cast: Thomas Jane… they had him and couldn’t keep him.
5. Ryan Reynolds As Hal Jordan in Green Lantern
Ryan Reynolds delivered a performance in “Green Lantern” that was likely the very best thing about a film that was literally bad on a cosmic scale. Just because Reynolds could squeeze out some small bit of good from this nightmare of a film though, it does not mean that he was cast well.
Remember the fan fiction trailer released well before a Green Lantern film was announced? I immediately fell in love with the idea of Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern. Remember how he went from an easy going, joke-heavy bank robber in the beginning of “Serenity” to a serious soldier bent on saving a bar full of people in a moment? That was great!
Now this is no knock to Ryan Reynolds—he does well as a cocky hero type, comedies, and even romantic films, but there is no universe where he should be wearing a green suit and reciting the oath of the Green Lantern Corps. Although he did seem to fair well against a giant evil poop cloud.
Who They Should Have Cast: Nathan Fillion
4. Jim Carrey As The Riddler in Batman Forever
Remember what I said about Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face? You know that part about how he could have been a great actor for the role? I can’t say that about Jim Carrey. There is no world post the 1960′s where Ace Ventura is a successful Riddler. The closest Jim Carrey should have come to The Riddler is his furry and misshapen green body-suit when he played The Grinch. I can take Mark Hamill’s voice performance as The Joker on Batman’s many cartoon adventures more seriously than Carrey’s live-action performance as The Riddler. In fact, why didn’t Joel Schumacher just put a CG actor in Carrey’s place, and use Mark Hamill’s nutsy Joker voice for The Riddler? It would have been an improvement on Jim Carrey’s slapstick, moronic performance of a deranged sociopath obsessed with stealing brainwaves and destroying Batman.
It is truly sad when the console game: “Lego Batman” does a better job with a character than a film (with spoken dialog) does. The Riddler is far too complicated a character for Jim Carrey to tackle, and I am sad that we have yet to see a better take on this interesting villain.
Who They Should Have Cast: Someone who can act
3. Jessica Alba As Sue Storm in Fantastic Four
Let’s all face it; the studio cast Jessica Alba as Sue Storm because she is foremost among Hollywood sex symbols. Fan-boys cheered when Alba appeared naked (although invisible) on screen, and she certainly turned heads in her tight, Fantastic Four body-suit. Any time an actress gets cast for sex appeal, the results are usually deadly. Look at the most recent outing in the Transformers franchise? Michael Bay casts women that are drop-dead gorgeous in a Hollywood way, but his alternative to a cocky Megan Fox was a Victoria’s Secret model that looks both anorexic (I’ve seen pictures where her rib cage scarily sticks out) and can’t act to save her life. Seriously, when your naturally British accent sounds fake, something is wrong.
But I digress, back to Jessica Alba. Wait, I forgot, we’ve pretty much talked about everything that is important—how she looks. Sue Storm needs someone that can pull off intelligent, not just cheesy WB/CW acting. Someone that can pull off blonde a little better would have helped as well. There are plenty of actresses out there that could do well as Sue Storm.
Who They Should Have Cast: Anna Torv of “Fringe”
2. Halle Berry as Catwoman in Catwoman
The Catwoman movie was so bad that I could only stand to watch little tidbits of it whenever it happened to air on television. The marketing stills of Halle Berry in her Cat costume make me cringe all by themselves. Halle Berry must have had fun playing dress-up, because the result, though scintillating, was terrifyingly horrible. I got embarrassed just thinking about watching this film.
I was at my in-laws house one day, and they had “Catwoman” playing (one of those tidbit times). I seriously thought it was a bad movie from the Lifetime channel, and then I saw Halle Berry. Berry and the studio had a noble idea in taking this role. Just as Lawrence Fishburne was cast in “The Man of Steel” as Perry White, Halle Berry was cast as a black Catwoman to change the character’s type-cast. That is no problem when done well, but when an actor portrays a comic-book character successfully, they usually don’t move on to another comic-book character.
Halle Berry is Storm from X-Men, not a weird rendition of the ultimate cat-burglar. If Zoe Saldana would have been around, and the studio decided to put together a better film, just imagine the Catwoman outcome. That is a film I would pay to see. In the meantime, I can’t wait to see Anne Hathaway play Catwoman. The trailer from “The Dark Knight Rises” looks promising, particularly when she sounds so much more menacing than previous renditions of the character. Will Selina Kyle be a true villain? I hope so.
Who They Should Have Cast: Zoe Saldana
1. (Almost) Everyone in Batman and Robin
At this point in the article, I hope my readers understand my loathing for Joel Schumacher’s Batman films. Just about every critic and fan out there hangs “Batman and Robin” by the neck as often as possible—it’s just that easy to beat up. First off, there are no nipples that can make Bat-nipples look good. Secondly, George Clooney is great a saving lives on “ER” and robbing banks in the Oceans franchise, but he stinks as Batman. I won’t even mention Robin—we’ll just pretend he only exists in the cartoons and with Adam West.
The (former) “Governator” Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze is perhaps one of the most disturbing ideas ever invented. Freeze is supposed to be grandly intelligent and obsessed with the loss of his wife, not over-the-top, cheesy, and just plain stupid. Although I suppose they got the strong part of Freeze right. To the Batgirl idea, I say: “Why?” I’ll just leave that one alone. I guess someone had to “act” for Bane’s character. Well, if you call grunting behind a bad Luchadore mask with dog-collar spikes acting, I guess it could be something resembling not bad.
About the only pieces this film cast correctly were Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Michael Gough as Alfred, who they inherited from the Tim Burton films. Some will disagree with me on the Poison Ivy choice, but had there been a better filmmaking team, she would have been amazing. The biggest people to blame for both Joel Schumacher films are those that hired him to make Batman in the first place. Maybe if Batman was becoming a Broadway Musical (which it did), Schumacher would have been an excellent choice to direct. Instead, Bat-fans everywhere will have an image forever cemented in our memories of bat-nipples other ridiculous things. Thank you, Christopher Nolan, for making Batman awesome again.
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I see your point with some of the actors you have placed on this list but you have missed the worst piece of ‘acting’ in a super hero movie and the worst film Marvel has made and there have been a few. I of course refer to the character of Elektra played by Jennifer Garner in both the Elektra and Daredevil film franchises. Elektra is meant to be an unstoppable assassin who shows no emotion to get her job done, a fearless and blood thirst warrior. Garner shows none of this acting more of a helpless maiden role. One of my main problems is she also dies ridiculously quickly in the Daredevil film she is meant to be a brilliant assassin. I agree with most of your choices but Garners portrayal of a brilliant heroine has to be first, she makes some of the actors portrayals above look like Oscar winning renditions.
This is a decent list but with some major errors. Sam Jackson was cast because of his likeness to Nick Fury in the Ultimate Marvel comics. He is spot on. Jim Carrey is a fantastic actor, contrary to your thoughts, who brought humerous villainy to what was written. Your idea of a CGI Riddler wouldnt be too great with 1990′s technology. Ryan Reynolds played Hal Jordan very well for what he was given.
Fun list overall, though. I love the last one haha
Only thing is Nick Fury was always a white guy with hair. Samuel doesn’t look or act like Fury would. Fury is one cocky SOB.
The majority of this list is more the fault of poor script-writing and/or directing, not poor actor choice. The only real Mis-matched characters to actors would be Ncholos Cage & Halle Berry, the rest of this list could have been saved by a better director, better script, and/or less studio involvement.
UGH. When are you going to realize that Nathan Fillion should not play everyone?
David Hasselhoff are you fucking kidding me???? Me and the few Doctors would like to have a chat with you about this terrible mental condition you have of silliness….please take 2 of these pills and call me in the morning.
Jimmy Carrey would have been awesome as the riddler if it was a more serious script and if schumaker wasn’t directing,I think he could even be the riddler in a Nolan Batman film.watch Truman Show and 27. But David Hasselhoff??!! NOOOOO
Agreed. Jim Carrey was going for psychopath that found his own jokes hilarious, and Tim Burton just went the wrong way with the whole movie.
*I meant the number 23,he a psycho
Tommy Lee Jones is a good actor and could have pulled off a good Harvey Dent had the script and direction been decent.
Hasselhoff played Nick Fury back in `98. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119781/
#s 4 and 7 should have just been rolled into 1 if you were going to do that (which would have freed up space for more on the list).
@Jon, have you considered that Nick Fury in the comic was modeled after Samuel L. Jackson and not the other way around?
Mostly, yeah, these are were just the result of terrible writing and not quite just the casting.
Btw, my comments were primarily to the comments and not the author, per se. The author clearly knew that Hasselhoff played the role in the past so good on him for paying attention. That validated this list to me. He knew his stuff! My note on 4 and 7 is just my way of saying I want to read more and see more of this list.
Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan was like dream casting. To quote the author exactly “few actors can pull of a good, cocky attitude and still be awesome like Reynolds.” Hal Jordan is a cocky, irresponsible test pilot. Nathan Fillion should stick to B movies where he belongs.
How did Kevin Spacey (or even Gene Hackman) not make the list for being horrible Lex Luthors?
I am so over people getting bent out of shape about Sam Jackson as Nick Fury. When they started the Ultimate universe reboot, Nick Fury’s new character design WAS Samuel L Jackson. It’s practically canon. If you’ve got an issue, take it up with the Ultimate universe, not the casting of a character as himself…
While we’re on the subject of Samuel L. Jackson, I had far less trouble with him as Fury than as the Octopus in The Spirit. That movie could have been great, and Frank Miller destroyed Eisner’s characters so badly, I thought he’d brought in Joel Schumacher. A couple more “for instances:”
Brandon Routh- a cardboard cutout of Chris Reeve (or even a two dimensional Curt Swan image) would have been a more believable and emotional Man of Steel; Billy Crudup (an actor I like) made for a horrific Dr. Manhattan in “The Watchmen,” and Julian McMahon was almost as bad as the ham that played Dr. Doom in the unreleased (and unreleasable) Roger Corman bomb of an FF movie.
Reading this was a waste of time. David hasselhoff? Smh
For the record, Halle Berry didn’t play as Selina Kyle in Catwoman. There is a reference to Michelle Pfeiffers Catwoman (Selina Kyle) during the film.
Wow. I mean it. Seriously, on so many levels you have completely read my mind. With issues such as Brian “the sell-out” Singer and his blame in the demise of the xmen trilogy. To almost all of your top ten, yet you leave gaping holes in certain areas and forget major facts. For one Thomas Jane was a much worse Punisher, David Hasselhoff had already played the part of Nick Fury and was indeed far greater at this role than Samuel L. Jackson. Replacing Nicholas Cage in the role of Ghost Rider with Mark Walhberg, Is like painting a wall just slightly off white as opposed to white. In other words they both only have one very bland character that follows them in every role they play. Other than that, you forgot that even Adam West’s Batman there was a black Catwoman. Oh and Ryan Reynolds would be perfect for the file of Wall West aka The Flash. I couldn’t agree
more with you. But you missed a few that should have been on the list. Vinny Jones as Juggernaut, yet this was due to Brian Singer. Kirsty Dunst as Mary Jane Watson. Michael Caine as Alfred. Michael Clark as Kingpin. Eric Bana as Bruce Banner (The Incredible Hulk). Probably a few more, but these are the ones are needed to get of my chest. Oh one last thing, you said.comic book film. G.I Joe was a cartoon before a comic, so doesn’t fall into this section.
Interestingly enough, I actually kicked around throwing Michael Caine on the list for Alfred. He’s always just seemed like Michael Cain as a father figure rather than a long-time butler who is a close friend. The more I think about it, however, the more I like Cain as Alfred. A new dimension has been added to the character in his role as father-figure, a dimension that seems to give Alfred’s character more of an impact on Bruce Wayne and Batman alike. Oh, and G.I. Joe was indeed a cartoon before comic book, but comic book it remains, so on the list it is. Thanks for the comment!
Jim Carrey a bad actor? You are off your rocker, give the guy a good script and there are few, if any, actors out there with the same range. How many people could go from Ace Ventura to a movie like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Maybe you should do some research before you say somebody can’t act, it makes your article look amateurish.
Hey Tim,
Thanks for the comment. I did plenty of research before I wrote this article, and I stand by my opinion on Jim Carrey. I’m sure Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was a fine specimen of Carrey’s ability to act–he just didn’t bring his A-game in Batman Forever. Few did. He basically took his Ace Ventura personality and put on a green suit with question marks, then called himself The Riddler. It just didn’t work. As a side-note, my editor added the line: “someone who can act,” because I didn’t offer an alternative to Carrey’s casting. I thought it was a pretty good line, so I rolled with it without argument. I may not be a professional writer, but I’ve written enough at a college level to know that all articles, big and small, need research before publishing. Thanks for disagreeing with me–I like that and I’m happy to see that it is generating discussion.
Carrey is an excellent actor, if he is directed well. His natural inclination is towards way over-the-top, high energy performances, but if you have a talented director like say, Peter Weir, Milos Forman or Michel Gondry, who can reign in the craziness, then he is capable of delivering excellent, nuanced work. Joel Schumacher is not such a director and I imagine the script and the studio weren’t much help either.
I agree partially with you on Stevenson, he’s a really good actor and he could have been a good Castle, after all he did have the look down. It’s just that the script, direction, acting were all lacking. Jane was lucky to jump that sinking ship of a movie, it made less money than Howard the Duck.
Reynolds is more suited to play Wally West than Hal Jordan, hell he probably could work better as Kyle Rayner or Guy Gardner.
The funny thing about Alba is how much they seemed to have whited up her skin in the sequel.
Hey Jim Carrey should not be there in the list .. and he can act . He proved it in Eternal Sunshine .. The Truman Show.. and recently in Yes Man
I just wanted to say I absolutely agree with you on Thomas Jane as Punisher and don’t understand why people consider him so bad. I thought even Dolph Lundgren made a better Punisher than Ray Stevenson. I just have to say Thomas Jane is an underrated actor and the 2004 Punisher was an underrated movie. The only bad casting in that flick was John Travolta.
Your Nick Fury comment shows that you probably haven’t read a Marvel comic since before 1999, as Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch’s Ultimate Nick Fury IS Sam Jackson. It’s nothing like the original character, but Marvel Studios seems to have chosen to follow the ultimate universe more closely, as those origin stories are more contemporary (and frankly better for today’s audience.)
I completely disagree on Ray Stevenson as The Punisher. Thomas Jane’s version was written better, had more Punisher-esque badass lines, and Jane was good for that movie… But Ray Stevenson IS the part. He is much more intimidating physically, has a face that says “Do no [mess] with me”, has the gritty voice to scwol out some better lines if he had them, is technically proficient enough in the guns n such to make it look like he knows what he is doing, and understands the role and was dedicated to it. Ray Stevenson = badass. One of the most underrated, underused badasses out there and if I had to pick, my favorite Punisher.
Really? Deadpool fans hate Ryan Reynolds? Since when? They hate what FOX did to the character in that WOLVERINE movie, but I never met a Deadpool fan, who didn’t like the idea of playing him.
Also it’s not that Bryan Singer didn’t want to do X-Men 3. It was FOX (again) who decided to rush it into production without him, although he begged them to wait until he had finished SUPERMAN RETURNS.
I didn’t make it to your list. No offense, but you seem to be the wrong person to write something like that.
I can’t believe you bagged on Ray Stevenson in The Punisher. War Zone is the best Punisher movie made. Its ludicrous over the top violence at its finest. Ray Stevenson plays it straight out and nails Frank Castle. Non of the BS from “the original” as you call it, where Castle announces he’s still alive (WTF?) and then goes all Yojimbo in a personal vendetta against the Mafia Don who killed his family. Thats it. There is no greater spirit of vengeance storyline. And thats The Punisher. its not something simple, revenge storyline. Shame on you.
You should have included Brandon Routh for his splinter-inducingly bad turn as “Superman”. The guy wouldn’t know the meaning of the word “talent”, if you hit him repeatedly in the face with a dictionary.
‘Dylan Dog’, anyone?
While you have a few bright(or is that low?) spots, over all this list is pretty bad. Sam Jackson was cast because the character from the Ultimate universe was based on him. And Jim Carrey did a bang up job channeling his inner Frank Gorshin as the Riddler. I dare to even say Carrey would have pulled it off in a Nolan version of the character.
Here’s my list just FYI. Worst to “Worstest”.
10. Tommy Lee Jones – Two-Face(Love Jones, but the basis for the character is that he was originally good looking. And Jones already looked ragged before the accident)
9. Katie Holmes – Rachel Dawes(Sure, she’s an original character, but Katie Holmes just looks so out of place in the Nolan Bat-Universe, she has to be included.)
8. George Clooney – Batman(‘Nuff said)
7. Alicia SIlverstone – Batgirl(Ditto)
6. Jessica Alba – Invisible Woman(Especially in the second one. Everyone complained about her ethnicity in the first one so their solution was to make her even blonder and give her blue contacts??? Genius of the Wile E. Coyote level)
5. Doctor Doom – Fantastic Four(While I like Julian McMahon, he’s NOT Victor Von Doom…Doom doesn’t whine.)
4. Ben Affleck – Daredevil(When people who are watching the film long for your best friend in the role, it’s never a good sign)
3. Topher Grace – Eddie Brock/Venom(The point to Eddie Brock was that he was a polar opposite character to Peter…not a clone.)
2. Halle Berry – Catwoman(While I think Carrey successfully channeled Gorshin, Berry failed to channel Eartha Kitt or even herself)
1. CGI Cloud – Galactus(You include Sam Jackson as Fury but leave this utter debacle off??? For shame.)
I thought about putting the CGI Galactus cloud in, but that was more of a computer effect than a casting. Besides, something had to be a progenitor for the giant poop cloud with a face in Green Lantern.
they should have dennis quaid as nick fury. this is not a joke.
I will repost this comment because it echoes my exact sentiment.
Your Nick Fury comment shows that you probably haven’t read a Marvel comic since before 1999, as Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch’s Ultimate Nick Fury IS Sam Jackson. It’s nothing like the original character, but Marvel Studios seems to have chosen to follow the ultimate universe more closely, as those origin stories are more contemporary (and frankly better for today’s audience.)
Halle Berry wasn’t cast as Selina Kyle in CATWOMAN. She was Patience Phillips. A completely different Catwoman. So while you can say the film is bad, it is not a miscast of the character, because it is a totally new character not affiliated in any way with any former Catwoman besides the name.
The person who wrote this article is an A-1 nutjob who didn’t do much research.
Top among the many things wrong with this brain dead, stupid list is that Halle Berry didn’t play Selina Kyle at all !!!!
The GI Joe movie was awful, but Dennis Quaid was excellent as Hawk (one of the few things they got right), and who doesn’t love Sam Jackson as Nick Fury??
This is one jackassy article!
Three comments:
1. Great reference to Tim Burton’s version of Batman, although I don’t think I have much in common with the Joker in being an A-1 nutjob, and Grissom knows it.
2. Where did I ever suggest that Selina Kyle was Halle Berry’s character? I remember talking about Catwoman and then looking forward to the Christopher Nolan film, but I don’t recall every accusing Halle Berry of playing Selina Kyle. Read a little closer.
3. To answer your question: “Who doesn’t love Sam Jackson as Nick Fury?” Well me, actually.
“Read a little closer”??? you have got to be kidding me… the tagline even says “Halle Berry as Selina Kyle in Catwoman” You’re the definiton of incompetent…
Hmmm, interesting. I didn’t actually write the titles to the individual sections of the list. I’ll fix it and talk to my editor about the error.
Thanks!
I could see Bruce Campbell playing Nick Fury. Put an eye patch on Sam Axe and tell me he wouldn’t look right. And no, I haven’t read a comic book since before 1999. So I don’t know from “Ultimates”.
Oh heck yea! “Hey punk, come get some.” or “Give me some sugar baby.” That would be so freaking hilarious. Maybe a parody of the Avengers would be great for that one.
Number 9 is incorrect, sir. Samuel L. Jackson as Fury was one of the best superhero casting choices seeing as how Ultimate Nick Fury was designed with him in mind. It was the role literally made for Samuel L. Jackson.
However, Nathon Fillion as Hal Jordan would have been astounding.
why didn’t you do a “who they should have cast” for batman and robin?
I really disagree with your overall assessment of Nick Fury, I mean the Nick Fury he’s playing is a completely different one from the one Hasslehoff played, and the character was essentially written as him anyway.
However, as far as thinking of somebody that should play the grizzled Fury, how could you not have suggested Kurt Russell?