10 Amazing Movies With Weirdly Distracting Castings

8. Elizabeth Olsen & Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Godzilla (2014)

Godzilla 2014 Aaron Taylor-Johnson Elizabeth Olsen
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Gareth Edwards' 2014 Godzilla film has never really been given the flowers that it deserves. While complaints regarding the human protagonists are justified (trading a post-Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston for literally anyone else didn't do it any favours whatsoever), Edwards is the sole filmmaker outside of Japan to really render the anguished terror of Godzilla in all his glory.

That being said, there is one element of the film that jars through no fault of its own, but rather because of some unfortunate timing with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Godzilla's two main human protagonists are portrayed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen, who play husband and wife. Their performances are solid - not Cranston levels of good but hey, few things are. The main weirdness is that less than a year later they were cast as siblings Pietro and Wanda Maximoff in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

It's not enough to make the whole thing super weird per se - they're actors, and they're good in both movies - but it was kind of jarring at the time given how they released in such close proximity. (As well as the Marvel pair's weird comics history.)

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