Hummingbird | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 09:28 pm     Richard Chamberlain in The Thornbirds -- nowhere near sexy enough! Bruce Willis in Bondfire of the Vanities -- actually the whole thing was miscast! |
Hummingbird | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 09:36 pm     Wesley Snipes in Rising Sun |
Hummingbird | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 09:39 pm     Miscasting mistakes looks redundant now that I see it in print. Should have titled the thread Casting mistakes when books were made into movies. |
Marysafan | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 06:05 am     Clint Eastwood as Robert Kinkaid in the Bridges of Madison County. Unfortunately, Clint bought the rights to the book, so no one else had a chance at it....but I always thought it should have been Robert Redford in that role. |
Goddessatlaw | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 04:06 pm     Robin Williams as Garp. Maybe it was the screenplay, I don't know, but that movie bummed my hide. The casting of that movie destroyed every character I'd imagined from the book, and contributed greatly toward my inability to suspend disbelief. |
Hummingbird | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 10:15 pm     Loved Garp (book)and have read almost everything written by John Irving since. Because of the movie, John Lithgow will forever be Roberta Muldoon to me no matter what else he does. I agree about Williams. |
Goddessatlaw | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 04:18 pm     Hummingbird, Garp is one of the most well-written books I've ever read, novel or non-fiction. It had a tremendous impact on my own writing style (along with all things Linda Ellerbee and Tom Wolfe), and I remember reading the book multiple times because it just made me laugh out loud. I've developed a strong aversion to seeing movies based on books I loved because of the movie version of Garp. It really and sadly destroyed the book for me. |
Marysafan | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 06:31 am     Thanks you guys! I didn't like the Garp movie very much at all...so I shied away from reading the book. Now that years...(make that decades) have past and my memeory of it has faded...I will add the book to my "must read someday" list. |
Goddessatlaw | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 07:21 am     It really is a must read, Marysafan - hope you love it, too. |
Buttercup | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 09:32 am     Jim Carrey as Joe as an adult in the movie Simon Birch. The movie--which definitely is worth watching--is adapted from John Irving's book A Prayer for Owen Meany, one of my all time favorite books. I listened to Garp on audio while driving cross country last year--it sure made for an interesting drive
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Turtletrackz | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 03:51 pm     Tom Cruise as Lestat. Ugh. |
Twinkie | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 12:37 am     Hummingbird, Richard Chamberlain was the main reason why i loved the movie. I'd had a huge crush on him for years. To each his own I guess.
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Jasonfan | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 07:54 pm     This may be controversial, but . . .Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump. The whole movie was a mistake compared to the novel. Anyone else think so? I had my doubts about Kevin Spacey as Quoyle in The Shipping News, but I think he made it work. |
Seamonkey | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 09:01 pm     Julieanne Moore in the Agent Starling role in the movie "Hannibal".. they should have made changes and gotten Jodie Foster back.. |
Marysafan | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 08:20 am     Robert Mitchum in Herman Wouk's the "Winds of War". That part was grossly miscast. The character was short, stocky, dynamic, and had sex appeal. Mr. Mitchum was none of that and slept walked his way through the part...he totally ruined it for me....and I LOVED that book. |
Lycanthrope | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 06:18 pm     I thought Gary Sinise would have been a mistake as Stu in The Stand, but he pulled it off. In the book Stu was taller. I do think Molly Ringwald as Fran was miscast. Eriq LaSalle was miscast as Lucas Davenport in the one 'Prey' novel to be turned into a movie. In every book he's a white guy, but Mr. LaSalle is definitely African American. |
Hummingbird | Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 09:41 pm     Wesley Snipes in Rising Sun. Lucas Davenport as an African American -- ridiculous! I missed this movie. Which "Prey" novel was it? May as well cast Keano Reeves as Mohammed Ali. |
Hummingbird | Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 09:45 pm     Sorry, I just realized I repeated myself with Wesley. I mentioned him earlier and had forgotten. |
Lycanthrope | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 01:57 pm     I can't remember which 'Prey' novel it was. It was one of the ones after he met Weather, but I can't remember which one. It was a 'made for TV' movie. |
Crazydog | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 12:13 pm     Ben Affleck as a youthened Jack Ryan in "The Sum of All Fears" |
Ophiliasgrandma | Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 03:53 pm     Hummingbird, I'm afraid I have to agree with Twinkie. I read The Thornbirds long before the tv adaptation and I though Richard Chamberlain was everything I could have ever wished the character to be...right down to his sexy toes! He was so hot that I had to look at him from behind my fingers to keep from getting burned. |
Hummingbird | Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 07:09 pm     The book described Father Ralph as dark-haired and complectioned, and mysteriously sexy behind those priest robes. Richard Chamberlain just didn't fit the decription. Also, I have heard that Richard is a gay man which sort of ruins the image for us ladies. I know that isn't supposed to matter but I have trouble seeing gay men and women in straight love scenes. I know that the guy who plays David on Six Feet Under is a straight man playing gay and he does a good job. It should work the other way too but the guy has to be one heck of an actor to pull it off. (Forgive me, Richard if the stories aren't true, but I think they probably are.) |
Sia | Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 09:06 pm     Pardon my just jumping in here, but I wanted to toss something funny into the mix: tonight I saw "My Best Friend's Wedding" for the first time (it was on ABC) and Julia Roberts' character's gay-friend's character said to her about his being gay, ". . .most devastatingly handsome single men my age are. . ." I thought that was a funny line. Accurate, but amusing. I've always loved Richard Chamberlain, since I was a little girl, even. Actually, he was a pretty good choice for the part of Father Ralph, imo, since he has that ambiguous quality which makes the viewer believe that he could be a Catholic priest fighting his sexuality and repressing it to the point of squelching it entirely--well, almost!! Oops, he did have that transgression with Meg when he fathered Dane. Years ago I read the novel and loved it. When the book was turned into a movie, I thought it was well done. It's still a favorite minisieries of mine. |
Hummingbird | Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 11:10 pm     That's food for thought Sia. Never thought of his portrayal in those terms. I also loved the miniseries and except for Chamberlain, the casting was perfect. |
Skypilot | Friday, November 15, 2002 - 08:44 am     Re:Tom Cruise as Lestat I always thought that Julian Sands (Gothic,Room With a View) would have made an excellent Lestat and Daniel Day Lewis would have been a better choice than Brad Pitt to play Louis. |