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Dr_Rez 02-09-2012 02:36 AM
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Originally Posted by eric generic (Post 1152083)
Lol Elijah Wood.
Maybe you would like this, I did. He is the last person I would have chosen for the role but seems to do a pretty damn good job in my humble opinion.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...reenstreet.jpg

Guybrush 02-09-2012 02:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck (Post 1152088)
Ian McKellen was a pretty esteemed Shakespearean actor in Britain

Elijah Wood starred in some blockbusters
I still think you'd have to agree that the LOTR movies did have a lot of relatively unknown talent in them, also in their key roles. ;)

Howard the Duck 02-09-2012 03:58 AM
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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1152095)
I still think you'd have to agree that the LOTR movies did have a lot of relatively unknown talent in them, also in their key roles. ;)
which blockbuster didn't?

people like Lucas seem to like casting unknowns in the lead roles, only famous for that particular movie, and never heard of afterwards, i.e. Hayden Christiansen (though I heard he did some remarkable indie films)

Guybrush 02-09-2012 04:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck (Post 1152105)
which blockbuster didn't?

people like Lucas seem to like casting unknowns in the lead roles, only famous for that particular movie, and never heard of afterwards, i.e. Hayden Christiansen (though I heard he did some remarkable indie films)
I just thought it weird that it seemed to be one of the things you didn't like about Watchmen. As for Hayden Christensen's role as Anakin, it was worse than Jar-Jar. His role as Anakin Skywalker and Kristen Stewart's role as Bella Swan in the Twilight flicks (the wife's fault) are the two worst casted main roles I can remember seeing in film series. I find both highly annoying to watch!

Howard the Duck 02-09-2012 04:34 AM
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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1152111)
I just thought it weird that it seemed to be one of the things you didn't like about Watchmen. As for Hayden Christensen's role as Anakin, it was worse than Jar-Jar. His role as Anakin Skywalker and Kristen Stewart's role as Bella Swan in the Twilight flicks (the wife's fault) are the two worst casted main roles I can remember seeing in film series. I find both highly annoying to watch!
it's not just that they're mostly unknowns, most of them didn't really fit the roles, besides Rorscharch, which was an admirable job

for example, Nite Owl was hardly as geeky in the comic, showing quite a lot of self-confidence

Dr. Manhattan I'd picture with a booming God-like voice, not a whisper

stuff like that, ya know

Unknown Soldier 02-09-2012 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1152084)
LOTR was full of B/C-List actors like the guys playing the hobbits, Orlando Bloom who was fresh out of school or the guy who played Gimli. I'm not even sure Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood could be considered A-listers before Lord of the Rings.

I did recognize some of the actors in Watchmen, like Patrick Wilson who played Nite Owl who's also played in movies like Hard Candy. Billy Crudup who played Dr. Manhattan also played in my favourite Burton movie, Big Fish. Jeffrey Dean Morgan who played The Comedian was in P.S. I Love You.

Not that it matters much to me. I think they all did good roles, particularly The Comedian and Rorschach. The only casting I didn't like was Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter, but it was a small part.
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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck (Post 1152088)
Ian McKellen was a pretty esteemed Shakespearean actor in Britain

Elijah Wood starred in some blockbusters
LOTR I think got the casting right with its mix of well known esteemed actors and lesser known names. A lot of the actors that some might also think of as being lesser known are actually very well known on UK televison and film Ian Holm, Ian Mckellen, John Rhys Davies, Bernard Hill, Sean Bean and the most esteemed of them all Christopher Lee one of the two faces of Hammer.

Howard the Duck 02-09-2012 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1152184)
LOTR I think got the casting right with its mix of well known esteemed actors and lesser known names. A lot of the actors that some might also think of as being lesser known are actually very well known on UK televison and film Ian Holm, Ian Mckellen, John Rhys Davies, Bernard Hill, Sean Bean and the most esteemed of them all Christopher Lee one of the two faces of Hammer.
yeah, i'm quite familiar with Holm, Rhys-Davies, Bean and Lee

Lee was the actor that slipped my mind when i wanted to retort to tore - he was in almost all the Hammer Dracula movies

Guybrush 02-09-2012 07:32 AM
My point was that a part doesn't need to be filled by an A-List Actor in order to be good. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is a good example of that as it features few actors you could consider A-List before the movies came out, yet had very good casting.

If you have a beef with Watchmen's casting because you didn't like how they interpreted the parts, that's fine, but then it's their acting you have a problem with, not how well known they are.

Howard the Duck 02-09-2012 07:36 AM
well, if the director had chosen well-known actors and who had the chops, rather than newbies, and those who would had actually studied their parts, as was described in the graphic novel, it would have made the film better

not by a long shot, but just slightly better

as US said, LOTR's actors are mostly pretty good and had the chops

Unknown Soldier 02-09-2012 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1152197)
My point was that a part doesn't need to be filled by an A-List Actor in order to be good. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is a good example of that as it features few actors you could consider A-List before the movies came out, yet had very good casting.

If you have a beef with Watchmen's casting because you didn't like how they interpreted the parts, that's fine, but then it's their acting you have a problem with, not how well known they are.
But these types of films are always so much better when they have distinguished actors playing key or supporting roles, they add credibility for lack of a better word to the whole thing. By doing this, LOTR could easily get away with having laregly unknown actors playing the leading roles, or in the case of Viggo Mortenson an actor that had just never struck it big before these films.


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