@@majorprofit I also love both “I Still See Elisa” and “They Call the Wind Mariah”. Honestly, Mariah is a musical theater banger that doesn’t get its due
@@milescoburn1845 I know. I was just talking generally about the best songs from the show since @majorprofit brought up Lee Marvin’s big solo number. Clint did also sing “I Still See Elisa”, which I also mentioned as one of the best songs.
Clint Eastwood in 1969 movie Paint Your Wagon was AWESOME, and was far from the first or only time he was a singing cowboy on people's TVs or radios... as far back as 1961 he had an album called 'Rawhide's Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites' with a slew of songs like 'Don't Fence Me In', and even sang in at least one episode of Rawhide itself. He also later sang in movies like Honkytonk Man, and even sang the theme track from his massively successful 2008 movie Gran Turino....
No, no, no... everything about Clint Eastwood is exactly WHY "Paint Your Wagon" is a great flick. And the same could be said for Lee Marvin, who at the time had a much bigger tough guy rep than Eastwood did.
I don't think you can really blame Reeves for his acting in The Watchers, he was tricked into the part. So a movie he didn't even want to be in but had his signature forged, can't blame him for not giving it his all.
Yep. I came her to make the same comment... Not his fault. Also he has played against type many times. He was initially the dimwitted but cool teen; Then he became the young cop/FBI agent with balls of steel; Then the Cyberpunk hero/jesus; finally the grizzled hitman... I am probably missing a couple of periods of his career.. Also whatever my own Private Idaho was ?Henry V?
Reeves DID manage a frightening turn in The Gift - another Sam Rami film that deserves a lot more attention than it receives, in part due to Reeves' chilling performance.
@@robpolaris7272 That's a different movie with (unfortunately) the same title. This one is with Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, and Greg Kinnear.
I'm guessing Raimi cast Topher Grace in large part because he looks so similar to Toby Maguire, the same way Scorsese cast Matt Damon in The Departed because he and Leo DiCaprio look similar. The whole "villain is an evil mirror image of the hero" thing.
Some accounts say Raimi purposely miscast Grace out of spite because the studio forced him to put Venom in the movie when he didn't want to. Raimi wanted to keep his focus on adapting the silver/bronze age stories he grew up with. Venom didn't show up until late 80s and peaked in the 90s, by which point Raimi was more focused on his career and less invested in comics at the time. He didn't connect with Venom, and as a result we got 2 plots mishmashed together with Dancing Maguire in the middle.
@@SomewhatSlightlyBored Firstly, why would Raimi want to screw up his own movie. Secondly, after directing not one but two mega-hit Spider-Man films, why didn't Sony allow Raimi full control of Spider-Man 3? What did they fear?
Clint Eastwood released a number of singles in the early 60s, so there was no reason to think he would necessarily be bad in "Paint Your Wagon". There's even a compilation CD of his singles, "Clint Eastwood - Complete Clint: Singles & More 1961-1962"
An often overlooked dark turn for Keanu Reeves was his role of Donnie Barksdale in The Gift. It's one of the more believable dramatic roles he ever did, and honestly some of the best acting he did in that phase of his career.
I absolutely loved the Alex Cross books and Morgan Freeman's portrayal was good. Bringing in Tyler Perry as Alex Cross was such a bad Miss that I watched the 20 minutes of him as Cross and then forgot it ever existed.
Keanu Reeves' role in The Watcher wasn't even his fault. The director, Joe Charbanic, has directed some music videos for Keanu's band Dogstar, and deliberately wanted to see him play against type as the villain in his movie. Keanu wasn't interested, however, so Charbanic actually forged his signature on the contract and forced him into doing the film. Instead of doing a lengthy legal battle, Keanu decided to just do the film and was forced to receive 'union scale' salary while costars James Spader and Marisa Tomei each earned $1 million a piece. After Universal Pictures obtained the film's domestic rights, they got Keanu to agree not to disclose what happened until 12 months after the film's US release. So, all in all, Keanu Reeves got utterly screwed over with regards to The Watcher.
Most people I know love Paint Your Wagon. I haven't watched but know Clint is a good singer from elsewhere. Plus who can hate the film that gave us They Call The Wind Mariah.
I have to congratulate your team on the ragebait that is including Paint Your Wagon. I just checked the comments. Well done. People who rarely comment are outraging.
Keanu Reeves didn’t even want to do The Watcher. A friend had forged his signature and rather than deal with a drawn out legal situation he just decided to make the film and get it over with. But he always hated it.
It wasn't that Vince went against character. He can play the bad guy. We have seen it. Problem was no-one WANTED a Psycho remake and since it was shot for shot, he was too much of a deviation from Anthony Perkins.
Vaughn can play evil, as you say. He did a film with John Travolta around the time, where he played a criminal/abusive step-father, and although the film itself wasn't great, Vaughn was believable in the role. But Norman Bates is supposed to be a physically unassuming, shy, gaunche mommy's boy, and that was the aspect Vaughn wasn't able to project.
Green Street Hooligans is awesome, and features a great performance from Elijah Wood! Are you you insane? His character was a journalist who unintentionally gets wrapped up with soccer hooligans. He wasn't playing against type as a tough guy. He was playing a sheepish guy who unexpectedly found deep human connection and meaning in a violent subculture that ends tragically. Seriously, you folks are crazy putting that on this list.
Let's not kid ourselves: she might have failed to break out of type-casting, but Elisabeth Berkley is _the_ reason people even remember _Showgirls_ today. She, like Nicholas Cage, gets props from me, because even when they give bad performances, they give everything they have. I have infinite time for a bad performance where the actor still gave 110%, and she did.
No way,man - Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing! Compared to that, his role in, The Watcher, was Oscar worthy in my humble opinion. I am biased, though. Much Ado About Nothing, is my 2nd favorite Shakespeare play. A Midsummer Night's Dreams is my favorite.
I love how in the Saved by the Bell Reboot, they have a scene with Jesse where they suggest that what happened in Showgirls was actually Jesse... she does a fully clothed pole dance routine and says that she went through some stuff in Vegas, she doesn't like to talk about it.
Woods was pretty good in Adams' "Holistic Detective Agency". And I'm with others on Paint Your Wagon. It was good and funny. It's an odd musical (they usually aren't light comedies), but the problems with it don't fall into Clint's lap. One of the rules for Keanu Reeves movies (Wick being an exception) is that, when Keanu knows what is going on, when he's in control, it's usually a bad movie. When he has no clue and is trying to figure it out... it works. There are exceptions, but that's the way to be in any example. The Matrix is a perfect "good" example, with the two sequels being the "bad" example.
I Actually think that Keanu Reeves is quite good as a baddie, he's great in The Gift, he is not nearly as bad as you think in Much Ado, he totally gets the character and understands Shakespeare. In The Watcher, I actually quite liked that they picked him rather than Spader as it plays on the Bundy vibe. OK Keanu adoration over, he is shite in Dracula 😅
Well, Elijah Wood is terrible as playing the tough guy, but he's terrific at playing scary guys. Good trade off after dodging the bullet of being Frodo for the rest of his career
The thing is, as terrible as Green Street is, Wood's character wasn't really meant to be a 'tough guy' in it. He's a studious good boy trying to act the part of a tough guy.
Vince Vaughn killed it in The Cell. He played an FBI agent hunting a serial killer and trying to fing a missing woman before she dies. It was a serious role in a like it or hate it Sci fi flick and he aced it
Gus Van Sant deserves credit for anticipating Vince Vaughan's later roles with PSYCHO, where he looked much more like the book character than Perkins (who, prior to the original had usually played handsome heroic types). Clint Eastwood was right for PAINT YOUR WAGON - it often looks dumb to sing to the back row of a theatre in movies, and his rather restrained version of Partner matched his usual screen persona. On the big screen Topher Grace had already done creepy in TRAFFIC. Was Elizabeth Berkeley supposed to be a high school girl ad infinitum? (Or possibly play one with a completely unbelievable thing for Rpbert De Niro, even if it does get an Oscar nomination). Was she not good looking enough to be a dancer or stripper?
I disagree with Keanu Reeves in The Watcher. He may not have been scary and menacing but he was really creepy and I feel that's the way the role should have been played. He's a stalker. Stalkers are always really scary guys. Sometimes they are just average looking dudes who have gone off the edge.
The issue with Spider-Man 3's Eddie Brock wasn't in Topher Grace's acting or casting. He played it precisely how Sam Raimi wanted the character to be (i.e. an evil version of Tobey McGuire's Peter Parker), so, he's still a bit nerdy and inadequate, rather than the buff, physically-overbearing Eddie Brock of the comics.
Leave Clint alone! And Showgirls is a camp magnum opus. I would rather actors try something different even if it fails than just endlessly play the same thing. I always took it that it was a satire on the moral and emotional emptiness of some of those who participate in that industry, so the focus on surface and style made sense to me. Given interviews and commentaries, Elizabeth obviously had a different idea of what she wanted to do than Verhoeven and didn't quite get there - and given the fact that he has taken responsibility for the film's failings, it looks like he agrees with her concept with retrospect.
Christopher Ecclestone in The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising. The guy's just far too inherently likeable to be the right fit as a supposedly world-destroying villain.
Paint Your Wagon, for some reason, was played ad nauseum on Sunday afternoons where I lived. It genuinely made me angry that I didn't get to see Dirty Harry. Instead, I got a stupid musical on one of the few American channels that came in clear.
What, the Coens' *"Ladykillers"* memorable??? Seriously?? Shouldn't have been remade, full stop! You can't perfect on perfection! As good as Tom Hanks is, he can't top Sir Alec Guinness' turn in the classic original.
Yep, I thought it was strange to lump the Ladykillers remake, which is the Coen Brothers' worst film by far, with the superb The Road to Perdition, which is arguably Sam Mendes' best film. That said, Hanks is actually pretty good in both. He's the best thing in the Ladykillers remake, although the bar isn't particularly high.
Obviously Garth is such an expert on what certain actors can play that he gets to do this list-despite calling nearly every one of them wrong. Guess everyone should just keep playing the same typecast roll without challenging themselves, right? Tell me, Gareth, when was the last time you played against type-meaning not an annoying, self-indulgent stooge who can’t pronounce names properly?
Green street Hooligans is great, everyone included! And putting the lousy watcher on the list ignores the fact keanu reeves was tricked to it did it just to let people contracted in the project not down,,but never was into the project.
Quick Question to the narrator. Do you know what a serial killer looks like? Do they have a type? Did Jeffrey Dahmer look like a serial killer? The dude lived in an apartment building with many other people and no one knew what he was. If I remember the case correctly he only got caught because one of his victims escaped from him. So saying Keanu Reeves didn't look the part in just bonkers.
Rubbish. It's an amazing movie and unlike most of today's cinematic output, which is mostly sub-Netflix fare or turgid superhero nonsense, it was genunely ambitious on a cinematic level.
Watch Keanu in Babes in Toy Land alongside Pat Morita and Drew Barrymore and there you can watch is basically the character Ted from Bill and Ted's excellent adventure in what looks to be if someone created a theme park in their own backyard with what they had on hand already from the shed.
Everything I've heard about The Watcher points to Reeves being trapped contractually to do that movie. Understandably, his performance is pretty weak. He was much more a fish out of water doing Shakespeare with the same delivery as Ted "Theodore" Logan. As for Matthew Fox on screen and off screen issues, getting cut entirely from the final edit of World War Z which was another very troubled production didn't help. As for Tom Hanks in Bonfire of the Vanities, EVERYONE should do themselves a favor and read Julie Salamon's book, The Devil's Candy:The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco. There was so much wrong with that adaptation, that I doubt you can really lay blame to Hanks or DePalma.
And i always tell Laymen who say "An actor can act ANYTHING "......um no they Can't, theres a reason why there are such things Casting Directors ,Typecasting and now Branding. Cause certain Actors have certain essences
When I saw the title of this video, my first thought was Elizabeth Berkeley. Although I'm grateful that we saw ALL of her, this movie was a mess, bad directing, bad writing and poor research.
Why do I keep clicking on these? The AI that What Culture uses doesn't quite understand what "playing against type" means. I'm not sure the host knows what it means. Most of these are off the beaten path movies. So they are going to be a bit off. But, seriously? Did you really not see Moose in The Fanatic as an obvious neuro divergent person? Nope! He's just a quirky psychopath....👀 WTF?
Paint Your Wagon is great and I refuse to hear slander against it
If only for the fact of Lee Marvin singing Wandering star, which you can view here on UA-cam.
@@majorprofit I also love both “I Still See Elisa” and “They Call the Wind Mariah”. Honestly, Mariah is a musical theater banger that doesn’t get its due
Too late!
@@sterlingcrawford1218 Clint sang "I Talk to the Trees", not "They Call the Wind Mariah". Harve Presnell sang that one.
@@milescoburn1845 I know. I was just talking generally about the best songs from the show since @majorprofit brought up Lee Marvin’s big solo number. Clint did also sing “I Still See Elisa”, which I also mentioned as one of the best songs.
Yet sometime the same people play against type and nail it, I'm remembering Wood as a serial killer in Sin City.
He is a very talented actor. He's also very underrated imo.
Aside from movies, look at the actors who played psychos on SVU. Martin Short? Yikes, he was utterly terrifying.
@@user-yi7bo9hy8vcarol Burnett was good on their too.
You do know most of Vince Vaughn's "comedic" roles came AFTER Psycho right?... 😏😂😂😂😂
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Psycho came out in 1999, before Vince Vaughn was well known. He didn't yet have a "type" to play against.
Swingers??? That was his breakout role.
Clint Eastwood in 1969 movie Paint Your Wagon was AWESOME, and was far from the first or only time he was a singing cowboy on people's TVs or radios... as far back as 1961 he had an album called 'Rawhide's Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites' with a slew of songs like 'Don't Fence Me In', and even sang in at least one episode of Rawhide itself. He also later sang in movies like Honkytonk Man, and even sang the theme track from his massively successful 2008 movie Gran Turino....
Green street hooligans is my FAVORITE Elijah Wood role. Shame on yall.
Agreed!!!
I think he looks like your standard chav that'll take a swing before running away. perfect casting imo
He nailed the role.
Same ....it was so freaking good
He'd already done the nearly unstoppable fighter role in Sin City.
No, no, no... everything about Clint Eastwood is exactly WHY "Paint Your Wagon" is a great flick. And the same could be said for Lee Marvin, who at the time had a much bigger tough guy rep than Eastwood did.
Elizabeth Berkley didn't want to be known as Jessie Spano forever... She certainly accomplished that when she starred in "Showgirls."
And we are forever thankful for it.
@@jeffcox6539Isn't it a shame that Tiffany Amber Thiessan didn't feel the same way
I now will forever remember her as the fish out of water performances she calls dancing and s**
@@patrickdoyle6201 my thoughts exactly.
And now 30 years since then the only thing she’s done is play Jessie spano again.
I don't think you can really blame Reeves for his acting in The Watchers, he was tricked into the part. So a movie he didn't even want to be in but had his signature forged, can't blame him for not giving it his all.
Yep. I came her to make the same comment... Not his fault. Also he has played against type many times. He was initially the dimwitted but cool teen; Then he became the young cop/FBI agent with balls of steel; Then the Cyberpunk hero/jesus; finally the grizzled hitman... I am probably missing a couple of periods of his career.. Also whatever my own Private Idaho was ?Henry V?
What are you talking about? Clint was amazing in Paint Your Wagon. He was a singer prior to the movie. It's on his resume.
I'm calling BS on Paint your wagon.
He's too young to understand how well-known and well-loved Paint Your Wagon is. Poor Millennial shmuck. 😂
Reeves DID manage a frightening turn in The Gift - another Sam Rami film that deserves a lot more attention than it receives, in part due to Reeves' chilling performance.
The Gift was Jason Bateman, Joel Egerton and Rebecca Hall. Didn’t see Keanu
@@robpolaris7272 That's a different movie with (unfortunately) the same title.
This one is with Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, and Greg Kinnear.
@@wyldhowl2821 I’ve never heard of this movie. Is it worth watching?
@@robpolaris7272 Yes. Very much so.
Reeves also played a truly despicable and frightening character in _The Neon Demon._ He nailed that one.
I'm guessing Raimi cast Topher Grace in large part because he looks so similar to Toby Maguire, the same way Scorsese cast Matt Damon in The Departed because he and Leo DiCaprio look similar. The whole "villain is an evil mirror image of the hero" thing.
Precisely.
Some accounts say Raimi purposely miscast Grace out of spite because the studio forced him to put Venom in the movie when he didn't want to. Raimi wanted to keep his focus on adapting the silver/bronze age stories he grew up with. Venom didn't show up until late 80s and peaked in the 90s, by which point Raimi was more focused on his career and less invested in comics at the time. He didn't connect with Venom, and as a result we got 2 plots mishmashed together with Dancing Maguire in the middle.
@@SomewhatSlightlyBored Firstly, why would Raimi want to screw up his own movie. Secondly, after directing not one but two mega-hit Spider-Man films, why didn't Sony allow Raimi full control of Spider-Man 3? What did they fear?
Clint Eastwood released a number of singles in the early 60s, so there was no reason to think he would necessarily be bad in "Paint Your Wagon". There's even a compilation CD of his singles, "Clint Eastwood - Complete Clint: Singles & More 1961-1962"
In Matthew Fox's defense, he put his all in a serious movie starring Tyler Perry. He was almost Val Kilmer level in "Bone Tomahawk".
The Watcher is a great movie. I liked the premise immensely. The ending could have been better, but everything leading up to it was great.
An often overlooked dark turn for Keanu Reeves was his role of Donnie Barksdale in The Gift. It's one of the more believable dramatic roles he ever did, and honestly some of the best acting he did in that phase of his career.
Alex Cross tried to make Tyler Perry a action hero that was more criminal then Matthew Fox
I absolutely loved the Alex Cross books and Morgan Freeman's portrayal was good. Bringing in Tyler Perry as Alex Cross was such a bad Miss that I watched the 20 minutes of him as Cross and then forgot it ever existed.
Yeah, a teddy bear looking hero doesn't work.
Tyler perry's acting as Alex cross was amazing quit being an hater.
@@TylerGage-op5hs quit being a troll because there's no one on earth who thought that was good
@williamrose9184 , I think it's his best work by far.
_Paint Your Wagon?_ Seriously? Did anyone on the production staff watch the flick?
Seriously? Paint Your Wagon is awesome. And also, my fave of Clint Eastwood's movies.
Oh thank God! I thought they were going to show Eastwood sing 😂
Boo to this video. Boo I say
Topher did good playing the serial killer/doctor in Predators
Keanu Reeves' role in The Watcher wasn't even his fault. The director, Joe Charbanic, has directed some music videos for Keanu's band Dogstar, and deliberately wanted to see him play against type as the villain in his movie. Keanu wasn't interested, however, so Charbanic actually forged his signature on the contract and forced him into doing the film. Instead of doing a lengthy legal battle, Keanu decided to just do the film and was forced to receive 'union scale' salary while costars James Spader and Marisa Tomei each earned $1 million a piece. After Universal Pictures obtained the film's domestic rights, they got Keanu to agree not to disclose what happened until 12 months after the film's US release. So, all in all, Keanu Reeves got utterly screwed over with regards to The Watcher.
I honestly thought paint your wagon was just a joke from the Simpsons
My mother let me know that it was real as I was laughing at the the scene. That fact blew my young mind!
Me too! I came here to say that.
Wow. That must have been weird. I knew PYW, had seen it in, in fact, but can't imagine how learning that it existed felt.
Most people I know love Paint Your Wagon. I haven't watched but know Clint is a good singer from elsewhere. Plus who can hate the film that gave us They Call The Wind Mariah.
I liked Vince Vaughn in "Freaky" (2020). It was both funny and intense.
I have to congratulate your team on the ragebait that is including Paint Your Wagon. I just checked the comments. Well done. People who rarely comment are outraging.
If you do want to see Vince Vaughn as a slasher movie villain, try Freaky, it's pretty great
Keanu Reeves didn’t even want to do The Watcher. A friend had forged his signature and rather than deal with a drawn out legal situation he just decided to make the film and get it over with. But he always hated it.
Constantine was cool, should had been film trilogy.
I actually enjoyed The Watcher because the role was so different for Keanu.
His first attempt at action hero wasn't lauded either: Point Break.
It wasn't that Vince went against character. He can play the bad guy. We have seen it.
Problem was no-one WANTED a Psycho remake and since it was shot for shot, he was too much of a deviation from Anthony Perkins.
Vaughn can play evil, as you say. He did a film with John Travolta around the time, where he played a criminal/abusive step-father, and although the film itself wasn't great, Vaughn was believable in the role. But Norman Bates is supposed to be a physically unassuming, shy, gaunche mommy's boy, and that was the aspect Vaughn wasn't able to project.
Green Street Hooligans is awesome, and features a great performance from Elijah Wood! Are you you insane? His character was a journalist who unintentionally gets wrapped up with soccer hooligans. He wasn't playing against type as a tough guy. He was playing a sheepish guy who unexpectedly found deep human connection and meaning in a violent subculture that ends tragically. Seriously, you folks are crazy putting that on this list.
Let's not kid ourselves: she might have failed to break out of type-casting, but Elisabeth Berkley is _the_ reason people even remember _Showgirls_ today. She, like Nicholas Cage, gets props from me, because even when they give bad performances, they give everything they have. I have infinite time for a bad performance where the actor still gave 110%, and she did.
No way,man - Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing! Compared to that, his role in, The Watcher, was Oscar worthy in my humble opinion.
I am biased, though. Much Ado About Nothing, is my 2nd favorite Shakespeare play. A Midsummer Night's Dreams is my favorite.
I love that adaptation, but as much as I like Keanu Reeves, he is not a Shakespearean actor. He was obviously trying but not making it.
I love how in the Saved by the Bell Reboot, they have a scene with Jesse where they suggest that what happened in Showgirls was actually Jesse... she does a fully clothed pole dance routine and says that she went through some stuff in Vegas, she doesn't like to talk about it.
Woods was pretty good in Adams' "Holistic Detective Agency".
And I'm with others on Paint Your Wagon. It was good and funny. It's an odd musical (they usually aren't light comedies), but the problems with it don't fall into Clint's lap.
One of the rules for Keanu Reeves movies (Wick being an exception) is that, when Keanu knows what is going on, when he's in control, it's usually a bad movie. When he has no clue and is trying to figure it out... it works. There are exceptions, but that's the way to be in any example. The Matrix is a perfect "good" example, with the two sequels being the "bad" example.
I Actually think that Keanu Reeves is quite good as a baddie, he's great in The Gift, he is not nearly as bad as you think in Much Ado, he totally gets the character and understands Shakespeare. In The Watcher, I actually quite liked that they picked him rather than Spader as it plays on the Bundy vibe. OK Keanu adoration over, he is shite in Dracula 😅
The Saved By the Bell revival was amazing and established that Berkeley’s character in Showgirls was actually Jessie Spano.
Keanu Reeves was menacing and scary in The Gift.
Elijah Wood nailed his role in Hooligans.
Exactly
Well, Elijah Wood is terrible as playing the tough guy, but he's terrific at playing scary guys. Good trade off after dodging the bullet of being Frodo for the rest of his career
The thing is, as terrible as Green Street is, Wood's character wasn't really meant to be a 'tough guy' in it. He's a studious good boy trying to act the part of a tough guy.
Vince Vaughn killed it in The Cell. He played an FBI agent hunting a serial killer and trying to fing a missing woman before she dies. It was a serious role in a like it or hate it Sci fi flick and he aced it
That movie is SO underrated.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Also his part as a mobster in True Detective season 2 was an interesting choice.
Gus Van Sant deserves credit for anticipating Vince Vaughan's later roles with PSYCHO, where he looked much more like the book character than Perkins (who, prior to the original had usually played handsome heroic types).
Clint Eastwood was right for PAINT YOUR WAGON - it often looks dumb to sing to the back row of a theatre in movies, and his rather restrained version of Partner matched his usual screen persona.
On the big screen Topher Grace had already done creepy in TRAFFIC.
Was Elizabeth Berkeley supposed to be a high school girl ad infinitum? (Or possibly play one with a completely unbelievable thing for Rpbert De Niro, even if it does get an Oscar nomination). Was she not good looking enough to be a dancer or stripper?
Green street hooligans is the unicorn of the streaming world and it really bites my nuggets every time I try and find it..
Gareth trying to be Ewan in this video is against type and fails!
Green street hooligans was a great movie.
paint your wagon is a great move because of clint And Lee Marvin
I disagree with Keanu Reeves in The Watcher. He may not have been scary and menacing but he was really creepy and I feel that's the way the role should have been played. He's a stalker. Stalkers are always really scary guys. Sometimes they are just average looking dudes who have gone off the edge.
Keanu said he was forced to do the Watcher as his friend forged his sinature on the contract
Hope the friend wasn't Alex Winter. That would be non-non-non-non heinous!
If you wanna see keanu play a great villain watch the man of tai chi which he also directed and is awesome.
Vince Vaughn wasn't bad as Norman Bates. He was perfectly awkward and terrifying and I thought it worked.
The issue with Spider-Man 3's Eddie Brock wasn't in Topher Grace's acting or casting. He played it precisely how Sam Raimi wanted the character to be (i.e. an evil version of Tobey McGuire's Peter Parker), so, he's still a bit nerdy and inadequate, rather than the buff, physically-overbearing Eddie Brock of the comics.
Vince Vaughn was at his best in Clay Pigeons.
As a male, especially in my past teenage years, I'd thank Molly Wringwald for Malicious. 😂
SOMETHING about it makes it my favorite of her movies 😂
@@patrickdoyle6201Oh most definitely. 😂😂
Wasn't Psycho remake basically Gus Van Sant trolling the studio?
Travolta's final form would appear to be Powers Booth
Leave Clint alone!
And Showgirls is a camp magnum opus. I would rather actors try something different even if it fails than just endlessly play the same thing. I always took it that it was a satire on the moral and emotional emptiness of some of those who participate in that industry, so the focus on surface and style made sense to me. Given interviews and commentaries, Elizabeth obviously had a different idea of what she wanted to do than Verhoeven and didn't quite get there - and given the fact that he has taken responsibility for the film's failings, it looks like he agrees with her concept with retrospect.
Christopher Ecclestone in The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising. The guy's just far too inherently likeable to be the right fit as a supposedly world-destroying villain.
Elijah Wood was great as the creepy killer in Sin City
I still remember that wierd dance matthew fox did on tv.
Paint Your Wagon, for some reason, was played ad nauseum on Sunday afternoons where I lived. It genuinely made me angry that I didn't get to see Dirty Harry. Instead, I got a stupid musical on one of the few American channels that came in clear.
What, the Coens' *"Ladykillers"* memorable??? Seriously?? Shouldn't have been remade, full stop! You can't perfect on perfection! As good as Tom Hanks is, he can't top Sir Alec Guinness' turn in the classic original.
Yep, I thought it was strange to lump the Ladykillers remake, which is the Coen Brothers' worst film by far, with the superb The Road to Perdition, which is arguably Sam Mendes' best film. That said, Hanks is actually pretty good in both. He's the best thing in the Ladykillers remake, although the bar isn't particularly high.
Why oh why would you pick on Tom Hanks for anything other than Road to Perdition?
Obviously Garth is such an expert on what certain actors can play that he gets to do this list-despite calling nearly every one of them wrong. Guess everyone should just keep playing the same typecast roll without challenging themselves, right? Tell me, Gareth, when was the last time you played against type-meaning not an annoying, self-indulgent stooge who can’t pronounce names properly?
Green street Hooligans is great, everyone included! And putting the lousy watcher on the list ignores the fact keanu reeves was tricked to it did it just to let people contracted in the project not down,,but never was into the project.
Elijah Wood was already successful at doing almost everything you said for his role in Sin City.
Quick Question to the narrator. Do you know what a serial killer looks like? Do they have a type? Did Jeffrey Dahmer look like a serial killer? The dude lived in an apartment building with many other people and no one knew what he was. If I remember the case correctly he only got caught because one of his victims escaped from him. So saying Keanu Reeves didn't look the part in just bonkers.
how about Sydney Sweeney as an innocent little nerd in Madame Web?
And now Dwayne Johnson is trying to do the same by making The Smashing Machine. But we'll see 😂😂😂
Meg Ryan in In The Cut
Disagree about Matthew Fox in Alex Cross. He was excellent in my opinion. Underrated movie.
Missed out on Hanks terrible casting in Cloud Atlas a movie that was equally terrible...
Rubbish. It's an amazing movie and unlike most of today's cinematic output, which is mostly sub-Netflix fare or turgid superhero nonsense, it was genunely ambitious on a cinematic level.
Wood was great in Green Street Hooligans.
Watch Keanu in Babes in Toy Land alongside Pat Morita and Drew Barrymore and there you can watch is basically the character Ted from Bill and Ted's excellent adventure in what looks to be if someone created a theme park in their own backyard with what they had on hand already from the shed.
Sin City came out before Green Street.
Everything poor Jim Varney did besides Ernest.
Disagree with the Elijah Wood Green Street Hooligans roll. Kinda think it’s the point.
Everything I've heard about The Watcher points to Reeves being trapped contractually to do that movie. Understandably, his performance is pretty weak. He was much more a fish out of water doing Shakespeare with the same delivery as Ted "Theodore" Logan.
As for Matthew Fox on screen and off screen issues, getting cut entirely from the final edit of World War Z which was another very troubled production didn't help.
As for Tom Hanks in Bonfire of the Vanities, EVERYONE should do themselves a favor and read Julie Salamon's book, The Devil's Candy:The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco. There was so much wrong with that adaptation, that I doubt you can really lay blame to Hanks or DePalma.
Ellijah Wood is amazing in Sin City?! What do you mean failed
Man, I wanted The Watcher to be good!
I've never disagreed with a list as much as this 1 tbh lolz. Different opinions I guess
And i always tell Laymen who say "An actor can act ANYTHING "......um no they Can't, theres a reason why there are such things Casting Directors ,Typecasting and now Branding. Cause certain Actors have certain essences
Tom Hanks was also pretty terrible in Elvis and Pinocchio.
Always saw Vince Vahne as the c list Tom Hanks
3:16 shouldnt it be more about Tyler Perry
When I saw the title of this video, my first thought was Elizabeth Berkeley. Although I'm grateful that we saw ALL of her, this movie was a mess, bad directing, bad writing and poor research.
So the purpose of this channel is to hate on and bully celebrities y'all don't have anything better to do.
Elijah Wood in Green Street Hooligans is an L take
I think yall missed the point of green street hooligan
Clint Eastwood actually thinks he is a singer. He has done various music projects.
You could list the entire cast of Paint Your Wagon. The whole cast.
Btw it's cast not "casted"..,
Frodo tired to go gangsta? Nah, haven’t seen the movie but just the thought of it doesn’t seem believable
He's by no means the worst performer in the film. Charlie Humman is far worse trying to do a cockney accent.
Tom Hanks as Colonel Parker is the worst casting, EVER! Much more cringe than in BotV.
Never go full master of the universe stock trader
elijah wood has no type
Vince Vaughn in Cell Block 99 and Dragged across Concrete is legit
Why do I keep clicking on these? The AI that What Culture uses doesn't quite understand what "playing against type" means. I'm not sure the host knows what it means. Most of these are off the beaten path movies. So they are going to be a bit off. But, seriously? Did you really not see Moose in The Fanatic as an obvious neuro divergent person?
Nope! He's just a quirky psychopath....👀 WTF?