What 'bad' movie could you fix with a simple casting change? (lemmy.world)

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[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] AAA@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago

Needs a bit more than just a re-cast, but it'd be a good start for Jupiter Ascending.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

A re-conceptualisation and re-write would help a bit.

[-] mech@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

Re-cast The Last Airbender movie with Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Mark Wahlberg and Maya Rudolph.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

A request: who would you replace Jerry Seinfeld with in a B movie?

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[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Kind of curious if The Room would be a good movie with a talented lead, or just forgettable.

[-] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You could put Daniel Day-Lewis in that role and I think it would still be a terrible film. A good actor cannot rescue a story that inept. They might be able to wring some pathos from otherwise inept dialog, but it's not going to change the fundamental structural issues with the movie, and, as you allude to, it might strip it of what makes it entertaining in the first place.

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Explain to me what the plot is to answer your question.

[-] Liljekonvalj@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

Not a movie- but: stranger things

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago

What's the casting choice you would change?

[-] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

It would be good if the kids were played by kids, like the first season... And not fully grown adults, like the last season.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah those damn kids, growing up during Covid. How could they be so thoughtless as to allow time to have an effect on their bodies? Weren't they thinking of us at all?

Shame.

[-] MightyThistle@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Exposure to the Upside Down just ages you like that

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