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Rusty Shackelford

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1 hour ago, Eskimohorn said:

 


Did you even watch the movie? A beleaguered Giamatti cusses out a soldier, sits on a pile of rubble to rub his feet, causing the wall to collapse, exposing Germans and starting a Mexican standoff. Giamatti was perfect.

 

This thread is about casting, not characters.  They didn't change anything about the character - except the actor who plays him.

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Eskimohorn

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This thread is about casting, not characters.  They didn't change anything about the character - except the actor who plays him.


OK, who should have played Sgt Hill, a cursing, tired, miserable soldier who comically wants to rest his tired dogs and who nearly wets himself when he breaks the wall down to the German hideout?
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11 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

 


OK, who should have played Sgt Hill, a cursing, tired, miserable soldier who comically wants to rest his tired dogs and who nearly wets himself when he breaks the wall down to the German hideout?

 

I see a crossed dressed Natalie Portman......

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14 minutes ago, Dolemite said:

They intend for him to carry a film but he is just not good enough to pull it off. 

I gotta disagree. He's been the lead in many films, and he kept getting  them so he was bankable.  He chose some lame scripts to star in. The Postman,  Waterworld, Robin Hood to name 3

 

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16 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:
Silverado was a great role for him.

So was Open Range

Yeah, I don't get the hate for the guy. He's played some damn great roles, and he's been in some stinkers. Not an actor out there who hasn't. He was made out to be movie star to be, and has acted much better than that shallow moniker suggests.

 

I'd take him over a Tom Cruise type actor/movie star any day of the week.

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Costner was the king of the classic dramatic technique known as the conspicuous butt in the movie walk, very popular for the mega hunks of the late eighties and nineties. This guy sold a lot of movie tickets to middle aged women who knew what they were getting when they went to see one of this movies. Its practically the only reason anyone bought a ticket and sat through Dances with Wolves.

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Costner has some duds but

Crash Davis

Roy McAvoy

Gardner Barnes

and

Jake

are all great characters specifically because of Costner

I will allow that others could have just as adeptly played roles like Ray Kinsella and Tom Farrell but Costner owns the four I mentioned above.  

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On 8/7/2018 at 11:01 PM, Onboard 2.0 said:

See I thought he was great. It showed they were all just a bunch of regular guys thrown into war, doing impossible things.  He's the last guy you'd think of as the war type.  But everyone sees actors thru their own lens'

Not just that, I knew a shit load of Sargents as a military dependent that coached our baseball and football teams, acted as our father figures while our fathers were deployed, etc. Guys who had zero athletic ability, but were damn good at doing Army shit, and knew how to do their part to keep an army in the field. Paul was a fucking perfect fit for that role.  

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SCARFACE (casting, not the move quality, which was campy fun)

Really, almost everyone in Scarface.  Pacino, Robert Loggia, F. Murray Abraham, the drug lord in South America, as Cubans or South Americans.  I think only Steven Bauer (Tony’s friend) was Cuban.

Why didn’t they just hire Cubans/Latinos?  The accents were terrible;  Loggia’s was probably the worst

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On 8/11/2018 at 8:30 AM, Onboard 2.0 said:

Yeah, I don't get the hate for the guy. He's played some damn great roles, and he's been in some stinkers. Not an actor out there who hasn't. He was made out to be movie star to be, and has acted much better than that shallow moniker suggests.

 

I'd take him over a Tom Cruise type actor/movie star any day of the week.

John Cazale says hello.

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33 minutes ago, Bojack said:

John Cazale says hello.

It's cheating when you die just a few movies in.

On 8/10/2018 at 4:44 PM, Onboard 2.0 said:

Jeff Daniels has never done it for me.  I like him, him not a lot of memorable roles IMO.  Am I forgetting something big he did ? 

I did like him as the uptight NASA manager in The Martian.

I watched Speed last night for the first time since theaters.  I had forgotten he was Keanu's partner.  I found that to be odd casting.  Some dad looking guy as a LAPD bomb specialist next to ultra-cool surfer vibe of Keanu.  (Side note:  his character's name was Harry in it.  I decided to look it up on IMDb last night to confirm my suspicion.  Yep, two consecutive roles named Harry).

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Eskimohorn

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I watched Speed last night for the first time since theaters.  I had forgotten he was Keanu's partner.  I found that to be odd casting.  Some dad looking guy as a LAPD bomb specialist next to ultra-cool surfer vibe of Keanu.  (Side note:  his character's name was Harry in it.  I decided to look it up on IMDb last night to confirm my suspicion.  Yep, two consecutive roles named Harry).


He was great in Speed. Kind of a hang-dog veteran gets shot by his hot-shot partner.
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Who was he surrounded by ?  Robbins, Saranden ?  He was great in that role.

And Nathan Fucking Arizona! Shit just came full circle. And for the record, anyone who shit-talks Bull Durham has never held a baseball, and probably pees sitting down.

That aside, Cruise as Reacher gets my vote.

Costner can do baseball movies forever, but that shootout in Open Range was the balls.
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Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus. 
I could watch Gladiator forever but fast forward every scene Joaquin is in and not care
 
or maybe he played the villain so well I hated him.  I’m not sure. 


This is the worst post on this thread. He was nominated for an Oscar. Come on man.
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