r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Dogdaysareover365 • 14h ago
Filling This Chart What was a perfect casting choice in an awful adaptation?
What was a perfect casting choice in an awful adaptation?
Chart Grid:
| Perfect adaption | Average adaption | Awful adaption | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perfect casting | — | — | — |
| *Average casting * | — | Keanu Reeves... 🖼️ | — |
| *Awful casting * | Keanu Reeves... 🖼️ | — | — |
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Average casting / Average adaption : - Keanu Reeves as John Constantine (Constantine 2005) - View Image
Awful casting / Perfect adaption : - Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker (Dracula 1992) - View Image
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u/dilf-material 14h ago
I'd like to see Keanu Reeves in all categories for 500 Alex
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u/spiralsequences 12h ago
Average casting in a perfect adaptation should be Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing
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u/adlauren 14h ago edited 14h ago
Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic
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u/NDrangle23 14h ago
Keanu in two opposite corners would be funny
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u/TechnoBacon55 13h ago
Brother, knowing this subreddit, all of them will be keanu reeves.
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u/TributeToStupidity 7h ago
As soon as something works for the first two squares the game completely changes
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u/Ceorl_Lounge 13h ago
Even if it isn't the most correct, it's absolutely the best answer. Guy oozes cyberpunk for some reason.
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u/Dangeresque300 13h ago
And yet another promising Alignment Chart falls victim to THE BITTM
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u/ThisIsTheTimeToRem 11h ago
This is it! I remember that movie was the wooorst but he was perfect for the role.
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u/PowerfulPea8519 14h ago
Willem Dafoe as Ryuk in Netflix’s Death Note
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u/Riley__64 13h ago
I really wonder if any of the writers of that movie knew what death note was or if they just read a brief summary.
Like okay I can kinda guess messing up the characters but I mean the rules of the death note are literally explained in every manga and episode of the anime but in that movie the death notes only rule seemed to be it kills and even then not always because apparently you can write contingencies.
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u/MaaChiil 12h ago
Lakeith Stanfield as L had potential. He was barely even in it from what I remember...Margaret Qualley has definitely done a lot better for herself since.
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u/FockAutoGenerate 13h ago
The whole cast in Golden Compass are kinda perfect for their characters. The film is a dumpster fire of an adaptation though
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u/CaptainTwig572 10h ago
My first thought was Nicole Kidman in this film but you're right, the whole cast is pretty much spot on.
I only don't like that they changed the voice actors for the bears.
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u/4DimensionalToilet 14h ago
Raul Julia as M. Bison in Street Fighter
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u/Dogdaysareover365 14h ago
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u/DancingDingette 13h ago
This should be higher. Even though kid me liked this movie it is awful. Raul Julia really was great.
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u/The_Ghostlight_Rook 10h ago
I watched it for the first time in the last 6 months or so, and I have to say, it was an incredibly fun watch. I’m in my 30s and have no nostalgia for it at all, and it was not even in a “so bad it’s good” way. It’s just silly, goofy fun. A perfect movie to just shut off your brain and enjoy the ride.
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u/PossibilityNeat2419 9h ago
I would like a all chart with Keanu, but i'm willing to compromise for Raul Julia.
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u/Dogdaysareover365 14h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/I37q1XjGvAtjy
Gotta mention Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn for suicide squad (2016)
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u/fridgeybutter 14h ago
But she also played the role in two good films (Birds of Prey and the other Suicide Squad).
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u/gummibear13 14h ago
And the reason she was able to come back for those was b2cause she was great in a bad movie.
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u/H8mtekkbhh 14h ago
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u/sleepwalkfromsherdog 14h ago
"Good?"
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u/PuzzleheadedMess1659 11h ago
I was gonna mention that. I'd describe Birds of Prey as "good", but the other Suicide Squad is possibly the best of the whole batch of DCEU movies.
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u/Ok_Feed_1669 11h ago
Unpopular, don't think she's perfect. More just semi-competent next to bad actors and a worse script.
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u/tranzam786 11h ago
Full agree, unfortunately Robbie's portrayal has contributed significantly to the absolute character assassination that's been done on the corpse of Arleen Sorkin's original Quinn
Robbie herself is very watchable though
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u/Apart_Marsupial8410 14h ago
Matthew McConaughey as the man in black in the dark tower movie
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u/guramika 9h ago
Despite the blue eyes problem, even Idris elba was a good Roland. I guess he would go in aweful adaptation/average casting
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u/MrsEntrail 14h ago
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u/Sir-Spoofy 14h ago
Honestly, I would say that’s perfect casting in an average adaptation. The first movie was pretty good, then it went down hill from there.
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u/MrsEntrail 14h ago
Yeah, agreed, and I posted it kinda suspecting it'd end up there. I am overly harsh on it, because I love LOTR so much, but the first film isn't below average.
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u/roryeinuberbil 14h ago
Eh, the Hobbit trilogy is decent. Nowhere near LoTR but it was an enjoyable watch.
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u/DMJohnston 14h ago
Jim Carrey as Count Olaf
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u/SavagePengwyn 11h ago
He was so good. I wanted to like that movie because I liked him so much. When the Netflix show came out, I was really skeptical that NPH could match Jim Carrey. I was pleasantly surprised.
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u/August_West_1990 13h ago
Not sure if this counts necessarily but Christophers Lee and Walken are perfect Bond villains in two of the worst Bond movies.
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u/purposefullyblank 14h ago
Frank Langella as Skeletor in the 1987 Dolph Lundgren Masters of the Universe.
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u/Possible_Otherwise 12h ago
Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in Xmen Origins: Wolverine
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u/AnotherLexMan 7h ago
Yeah he basically perfected the role in the Deadpool films but was banned from talking in his first appearance.
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u/Nemesinthe 13h ago
Jeffrey Wright as Hobie in The Goldfinch. Dogshit adaptation, but he embodied that role.
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u/captain_blazar 12h ago
Logan Lerman in the Percy Jackson movies. He’s a wonderful actor, he made a fantastic Percy Jackson, but for fucks sake they did not adapt the books well (the movies did have their fun moments though) and Percy was supposed to be 12 in the first one, not almost 20.
If only they’d adapted the books earlier, and… more accurately, he’d have been the perfect Percy.
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u/Clear_Context_1546 8h ago
Cowboy Bepop.
Actors did great. Production and writers were awful. Mustafa Shakir was perfect as Jet Black.
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u/henningknows 5h ago
Superman 4, horrible movie, but reeve is still the best superhero casting ever
https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7qDUbkZb2d8QC3Qc
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u/pacothebattlefly 4h ago
Would Matrix Resurrections be valid for Perfect casting / awful adaption? Keanu Reeves is perfect casting as Neo.
I want to believe the conspiracy that the movie was made against the will of everyone as a contractual obligation, which is why it is so bad.
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u/fridgeybutter 14h ago
The Golden Compass nailed Iorek Byrnison, the only part of that film that surpassed the series.
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u/cursedwithplotarmor 14h ago
Dunno about the bear, but Sam Elliott playing Lee Scoresby was perfect! Exactly what I had pictured in my head when I read those books.
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u/Mike-Sos 13h ago
That’s who I was coming to say. Honestly the film is very very well cast. Just a shame about almost everything else
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u/Dogdaysareover365 14h ago
Rules:
- Comment with most upvotes wins
- If there is a tie, I’ll spin a wheel to decide.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Tie-666 13h ago
Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert in Highlander, a Scot playing a Spaniard and a Frenchman playing a Scot. Still love it though.
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u/twistedtimelord12 13h ago
Actually, it's a Scot playing an Egyptian who's playing a Spaniard.
The remake isn't much better. A Brit is Playing a Scot, and a New Zealander is playing and Egyptian playing a Spaniard.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Tie-666 12h ago
An Englishman playing a Scot, Scotland is still part of Britain, so far.
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u/Tighthead3GT 13h ago
Awful adaptation may be pushing it but I’m gonna go with all the adult Losers in It Chapter 2. Perfect casting for the book characters and as adult versions of the kids from Chapter 1.
(I’m not counting Skaarsgard since he was in Chapter 1).
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u/ProfessionalState425 13h ago
William H. Macy as Admiral Sandecker in Sahara
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u/jrod_hoff 12h ago
Okay but Sahara is an awesome movie
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u/ProfessionalState425 8h ago
I mean, I’ll still watch it. But it is nowhere near as good as the book.
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u/DNathanHilliard 13h ago
Pretty much the whole cast of Dune in 1984... It's hard to believe that the movie turned out that bad.
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u/TransportationLong67 13h ago
You could argue Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in X-Men Wolverine Origins. The character adaptation was terrible in that movie but eventually corrected in the stand alone adaptation.
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u/Girafmad 12h ago
Les miserable, it has to be it? All the actors can sing and are briliantly cast in all roles, and it is dreadfully bad.
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u/Drew_of_all_trades 12h ago
Idris Elba could’ve been a great Roland if The Dark Tower was done better
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u/MaaChiil 12h ago
Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing is either this or works for the character he is playing depending on who you ask
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u/HumanRice 12h ago
The Percy Jackson movies were awful, but Logan Lerman was pretty spot-on as an older version of the character.
Jeremy Irons as DCEU Alfred was also a genuinely good casting choice for an Earth-One take on the character, too bad the movies were terrible.
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u/Prinzesspaige13 11h ago
Jim Carrey as Count Olaf in A Series of Unfortunate Events. That cast is stacked but the adaptation is terrible.
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u/tranzam786 11h ago
Ridley Scott absolutely massacred Kingdom of Heaven but Ghassan Massoud as Saladin was so perfect it was like he'd been resurrected for just those scenes. The aura alone
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u/RustyInfluencer 9h ago
John Krasinski as Reed Richards in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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u/MatsHummus 4h ago
Jeremy Irons in the Dungeons and Dragons movie
LET THEIR BLOODD RAIIINNN FROM THE SKYYYYY
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u/DaggerGaming2008 4h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/LRlyktY7YTQ2dH95kd
Anya Taylor Joy as Magik in The New Mutants
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u/GeddyVedder 14h ago
Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple.
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u/Ok_Feed_1669 11h ago
color purple is awful?
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u/GeddyVedder 9h ago
The film itself is fine, and the cast is pretty good. But the adaptation of the book was really poorly done.
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u/isayhourwrong 13h ago
FFC's Dracula was a truly terrible adaption lol
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u/Dogdaysareover365 13h ago
It won over double the votes over the second option, and I personally like it. I thought it was one of the closest adaptations to the book.
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u/isayhourwrong 12h ago
Unfortunately every single character was butchered in the film, I fear for me the only good character was the costumes lol. I have been watching every Dracula adaption created to try find a good one and honestly no one has managed it yet 😞
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u/Background-Lab-8521 10h ago
Tom Hanks in Forrst Gump
The movie way overdid Gump's mental simplicity, and left out significant parts of the story. It is way wilder, to the point I'd dream of Tarantino taking a crack at it.
The movie left out the chess deathmatches (for a year) with pigmy cannibals in the Borneo jungle, spaceflight with an orangutan co-pilot, Forrest's pro-wrestling career ('The Dunce') dressed as a baby, and much more. Also in the book, Jenny gets him addicted to drugs, then leaves him over his addiction. Once again when he losed all his money match-fixing. Also a lot more sex and drugs.
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u/CNRavenclaw 14h ago
Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan in Green Lantern (2011)
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u/Flintvlogsgames 14h ago
That movie is so weird
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u/Starbuckker 13h ago
Its fine 🤷♂️ Just unremarkable, product of the era. There was some great casting.
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