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  • Double recast in the MCU:
    Starlord should have been played by Jeremy Renner, and Hawkeye should have been played by Crisp Ratt.

    It would have fit the characterization in the comics better. In the comics, Hawkeye is more of a goofy wisecracking dude who gets lots of chicks, and Starlord is more of a responsible & respectable straight-man for the rest of the GotG to annoy with their weirdness.

  • This is an old one, but the Maltese Falcon is a nearly perfect movie, but it is absolutely ruined by Mary Astor as the femme fatale.

    She's supposed to be this stunningly beautiful woman, Spade's Secretary warns him to brace himself before she comes in because "she's a looker." Then she enters, and she's just sort of normal. Then his partner comes in and completely loses his shit over how gorgeous she is, and I'm sitting there thinking "Her? What's the big deal?"

    Throughout the entire film, she's portrayed as this conniving woman whom Bogey can't resist, but I just didn't see any chemistry at all.

    I told my son, who is an extremely knowledgeable cinephile, and he told me that's a thing. Filmies have noticed how absolutely wrong she was for that part. She was a fine actress, but that role called for a completely different kind of actress. It was probably a studio thing, insisting that she get the part, since she was between pictures, and they wanted something high profile to boost her career, and a Bogey mystery would be perfect. Unfortunately, she was terrible in that role.

    Who should replace her? Pretty much anyone else at the time, maybe Barbara Stanwyck.

  • Star Wars - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith would both be infinitely better if a better actor than Hayden Christensen had been cast as Anakin Skywalker.

    I also think Mads Mikkelsen was a terrible, awful replacement for Johnny Depp as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3. He's such a wooden actor and lacks the subtlety and nuance that Depp brought to the role.

    • In regards to Star Wars, I remember watching the behind the scenes documentary on the Phantom Menace DVD where you get to see them auditioning child actors for the part of Anakin.

      Specifically, you watch them screen test the final three kids, one of which is obviously Jake Lloyd.

      In my opinion he was second place of the three, I could never understand why George chose him.

      • Poor Jake Lloyd had a really tough time in life because of his involvement in Star Wars, sadly.

        I think HC was only cast because he was a stereotypically hot guy, TBH. His acting is just atrocious all the way through. (Though he's acquitted himself way better in the new series as Anakin and Vader.)

      • I don't think George has ever had an eye for good actors. He just got lucky with Harrison Ford who carried the shit out of the original trilogy.

  • Redo The Adventures of Pluto Nash, but replace Eddie Murphy with Michael Cera from 2010.

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