8 Miscast Movie Roles That Received A Bizarre Amount Of Praise

8. Brad Pitt - Inglourious Basterds

Brad Pitt's casting in Quentin Tarantino's bloody World War II fantasy Inglourious Basterds - as Lt. Aldo Raine - isn't really something that gets brought up all that often, almost as if it's of absolutely no consequence, or simply because there's nothing much to say about it. On paper, of course, the idea of Pitt playing the leader of a band of Apache-like Nazi killers sounds like the stuff that cinematic dreams are made of: and yet the actor proved to be surprisingly awkward in the role - the one actor in the film who failed to gel naturally with the rest of the cast. So Brad Pitt sticks out like a sore thumb in Inglourious Basterds. You can't help but feel as though Tarantino's first choice for the role, Michael Madsen, might have been more comfortable delivering the lines that Pitt makes such chewy work of getting through. No, he isn't entirely terrible, and no, he doesn't unhinge the picture, but he's the only actor in the movie that doesn't feel 100% Tarantino-esque (perhaps with the exception of B.J. Novak). It's surprising that so many people came out thinking Brad Pitt was "awesome." Awesomely miscast, more like. The Praise: Numerous Best Ensemble Cast Awards, but no major ones, hence why he makes the tail end of the list. Still, nobody ever seems to mark this out for what it is: a clumsy miscasting that we should strive to mention every single day from here on in.