Tom Cruise is excellent in some stuff, but Grendel is right about Jack Reacher. It's a miscasting.
Totally agree with you. Anyone who has read the books will have a clear image of what Reacher looks like. And it ain't Tom Cruise who's about a foot too short for starters. My mental picture says Liam Neeson.
Funnily enough I'd say Liam Neeson. The author oddly said Ross Kemp. Even though not looking like him a 70's Clint Eastwood would do it as as well.
If you can remember Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, then Ted Cassidy who played Harvey wouldn't have taken any crap off anyone. If anything though about 6 inches too tall. Go with Clint Eastwood as well.
When the first film came out there was the same outrage.
Although, if you've seen the first one, cruise did a very good job so I wasn't complaining
Will see the new one for sure
Although, if you've seen the first one, cruise did a very good job so I wasn't complaining
Will see the new one for sure
Really?
I thought he was great. Really liked his James Bond and it is quite akin to Daniel Craig's portrayal. Loved the darkness he brought.
Would have as my top 3 Bond's, Connery, Craig and Dalton.
Miscasting in films ? John Wayne in The Greatest Story Ever Told as a centurion. Hilarious. Classic line in a Yankee accent : "Surely he is the Son Of God." All that was missing was him getting on his horse !
Then getting off again and drinking his milk!
Dick Van Dyke as a chirpy cockney in Mary Poppins.
Sounds as authentic as Danny Dyer pretending to be a cockney tough guy !
Sounds as authentic as Danny Dyer pretending to be a cockney tough guy !
Agree.
Played him with an intensity not previously seen from Connery, Lazenby or Moore.
Lazenby though was like employing Roy Castle to play Bond.
Surely the top trump of all miscasts has to be Silvester Stallone playing a goalkeeper in Escape To Victory, utterly abysmal.
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Disagree. My favourite Bonds were Connery and Lazenby. In my opinion, all the others were/are dreadful.
ruined the books for me now because i visualise reacher as a shortarse looking for a box to stand on...............shane could get away with it
Just in the same way Lazenby ruined it as James Bond , by his acting being so wooden he dare not walk into a furniture store for fear of being sold as a table.
FWIW Fleming's quote about Connery was along the lines that he wasn't what he had in mind when he wrote the books, but would be if he could write them again.
Lazenby was probably closer in portrayal to the Bond of the novels.
He was, but he simply couldn't act at all. Incredibly wooden and I find it really hard to watch as a result.
Some of the worst acting ever unfortunately.
Now wonder he soon disappeared after.
