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Grendel

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Has there ever been a worse choice of actor to play a fictional character than choosing Tom Cruise to be jack reacher?
 

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Grendel said:
Has there ever been a worse choice of actor to play a fictional character than choosing Tom Cruise to be jack reacher?
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Yes Tom Cruise playing anything
 
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Otis

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
Yes Tom Cruise playing anything
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Tom Cruise is excellent in some stuff, but Grendel is right about Jack Reacher. It's a miscasting.
 

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Otis said:
Tom Cruise is excellent in some stuff, but Grendel is right about Jack Reacher. It's a miscasting.
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He just gets on my nerves in whatever he is in
 
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Ranjit Bhurpa

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Grendel said:
Has there ever been a worse choice of actor to play a fictional character than choosing Tom Cruise to be jack reacher?
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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.
 

stupot07

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Not seen any of the reacher films but tom cruise is the complete opposite of what Jack Reader is supposed to look like.

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Otis

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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stupot07 said:
Not seen any of the reacher films but tom cruise is the complete opposite of what Jack Reader is supposed to look like.

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He could play Jack Reacher's son perhaps.
 

bringbackrattles

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  • Oct 10, 2016
  • #8
Thought Tom Cruise was good in Eyes Wide Shut.
 

Grendel

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Ranjit Bhurpa said:
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.
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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.
 

Ranjit Bhurpa

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Grendel said:
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.
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Ranjit Bhurpa

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Grendel said:
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.
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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.
 

Ranjit Bhurpa

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Wouldn't trust the author on it though........a Coventrian who supports the Vile?? Pah!
 

Gazolba

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  • Oct 10, 2016
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Not a fictional character, but Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia was truly awful.
 

olderskyblue

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  • Oct 11, 2016
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Grendel said:
Has there ever been a worse choice of actor to play a fictional character than choosing Tom Cruise to be jack reacher?
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Agreed, but maybe Costner in Robin Hood?
 
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Pipehitterz

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  • Oct 11, 2016
  • #15
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
 

Otis

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  • Oct 11, 2016
  • #16
Hmm.. I quite like Tom Cruise, certainly in some films anyway, but in this it just seemed like Tom Cruise by numbers to me.

I didn't mind the film that much. Just thought it was okay, but lacked any edge.
 

Malaka

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  • Oct 11, 2016
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timothy dalton as james bond, shocking
 

vow

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  • Oct 11, 2016
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Malaka said:
timothy dalton as james bond, shocking
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Agreed, but in Penny Dreadful he's great.
 
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Otis

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  • Oct 11, 2016
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Malaka said:
timothy dalton as james bond, shocking
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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.
 
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bringbackrattles

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  • Oct 11, 2016
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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 !
 
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vow

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  • Oct 11, 2016
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bringbackrattles said:
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 !
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Then getting off again and drinking his milk!
 
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Covstu

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  • Oct 11, 2016
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Mel Gibson in braveheart...
 
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bringbackrattles

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  • Oct 12, 2016
  • #23
Dick Van Dyke as a chirpy cockney in Mary Poppins.
Sounds as authentic as Danny Dyer pretending to be a cockney tough guy !
 

rondog1973

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  • Oct 12, 2016
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Otis said:
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.
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Agree.

Played him with an intensity not previously seen from Connery, Lazenby or Moore.

Lazenby though was like employing Roy Castle to play Bond.
 
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Johnnythespider

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  • Oct 12, 2016
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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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vow

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  • Oct 12, 2016
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Johnnythespider said:
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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Agreed, his goal kicks were worse than Oggy's!
 

Gazolba

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  • Oct 12, 2016
  • #27
Otis said:
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.
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Disagree. My favourite Bonds were Connery and Lazenby. In my opinion, all the others were/are dreadful.
 

Otis

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  • Oct 12, 2016
  • #28
You just wait til the next one is announced as Dawn French.
 

Ranjit Bhurpa

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  • Oct 12, 2016
  • #29
Otis said:
You just wait til the next one is announced as Dawn French.
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Isn't she Pussy Galore??
 
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Otis

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  • Oct 12, 2016
  • #30
I think her baddie character is actually Pussy Swallowyouup
 
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covroy

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  • Oct 12, 2016
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Grendel said:
Has there ever been a worse choice of actor to play a fictional character than choosing Tom Cruise to be jack reacher?
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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
 

Otis

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  • Oct 12, 2016
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covroy said:
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
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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.
 

RegTheDonk

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  • Oct 14, 2016
  • #33
Grendel as the pantomime villain.

In real life, he's a sweetheart who gives to horse charities
 
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  • Oct 16, 2016
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Otis said:
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.
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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.
 

Otis

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  • Oct 16, 2016
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Deleted member 5849 said:
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.
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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.
 
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