Biggest Miscast of DCEU?

[Slowpokeking]

My choice

1. Ares. He was a very handsome and strong god, not some old dude with mustache in his real form.

2. Luthor. Enough has been said by others.

3. Lois. I still think Teri Hatcher is the best Lois, Amy was fine just doesn't fit the role so well.

[Midvillian1322]

1.Flash
2. Luthor

Eh I think the DCEU has actually did some pretty great casting. Amy Adams i dont love as Louis but shes such a good actress I'll give her a pass.

[Slowpokeking]

1.Flash
2. Luthor

Eh I think the DCEU has actually did some pretty great casting. Amy Adams i dont love as Louis but shes such a good actress I'll give her a pass.

Of course, most of the cast are great, especially Antje Traue as Faora.

[AJBopp]

Affleck.

The others are just characterization mistakes. they'd have been played largely the characters largely the same no matter who was cast.

Acfleck was just bad.

[titanfan]

1. Luthor — it might not have been the casting as much as the interpretation of the character was really bad.

2. Affleck — You can argue he was credible under the cape — but the problem is that the Batman part of the character is the easiest to play. It’s Bruce where Affleck utterly and totally failed.

3. Meta — Just not a strong actress, and i liked her when she was the Bold and the Beautiful.

[CliffHanger2]

Bruce Wayne is a millionaire playboy with serious psychological issues. That's basically Affleck in RL, I thought he was good as Wayne.

[XPac]

Ares probably bugged me the most.

I was fine with the casting when I thought it was a disguise. But finding out that's what he actually looked like really threw me off.

[Powerboy]

1. Luthor — it might not have been the casting as much as the interpretation of the character was really bad.

2. Affleck — You can argue he was credible under the cape — but the problem is that the Batman part of the character is the easiest to play. It’s Bruce where Affleck utterly and totally failed.

3. Meta — Just not a strong actress, and i liked her when she was the Bold and the Beautiful.

For Luther, it was both the way it was written and the casting which seemed to be because of how it was written.

[Comic-Reader Lad]

I have different feelings about Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in that I generally liked his take.

That was because of how I interpreted his behavior. My feeling is that we are seeing a Lex Luthor that has already met the New Gods of Apokolips -- certainly Steppenwolf, if not Darkseid himself. That's evident from the end where he creates Doomsday, but even before that when he's talking to Holly Hunter in his library and he shows her the upside down picture on his wall and says that sometimes a god doesn't come from above, but comes from below. He's likening the New Gods to demonic forces.

It was my sense in watching the movie in the theater that his meeting with the New Gods unhinged him a bit and made his reality all topsy-turvy. As a billionaire businessman, Lex was undoubtedly accustomed to being powerful and almighty -- someone who could use his money and power to bend others to his will.

Meeting the New Gods showed him just how small, inconsequential, and powerless he was in the Universe, and that made him a little loopy -- not to mention the fact that he probably didn't believe in gods and demons in the first place -- until he met them.

That's why when he was making the speech at his party that Clark, Bruce, and Diana were at, he lost his train of thought and started to babble a little. It wasn't just some Eisenberg actor-quirk. It was that his entire sense of reality was upended and he still processing the enormity of what he's experienced, that beings such as the New Gods could actually exist, what he knows is coming regarding Darkseid's ultimate goal and his place in it, and trying to maintain some sense of feeling that he has some control in his life when he really doesn't.

[Frontier]

I liked Ares, if only because his acting and conviction really sold the character for me even if he didn't have the physicality.

1.Flash
2. Luthor

Eh I think the DCEU has actually did some pretty great casting. Amy Adams i dont love as Louis but shes such a good actress I'll give her a pass.

I think Miller was a miscast for Barry Allen, but I guess they cast him intending for Ezra Miller to do his Ezra Miller thing.

He'd be a better Wally or Bart.

[Midvillian1322]

I liked Ares, if only because his acting and conviction really sold the character for me even if he didn't have the physicality.

I think Miller was a miscast for Barry Allen, but I guess they cast him intending for Ezra Miller to do his Ezra Miller thing.

He'd be a better Wally or Bart.

Yea Bart but with the added layer of being on the spectrum.

[Jim Kelly]

Probably Cara Delavingne as June Moon in SUICIDE SQUAD. I liked that movie more than most, but trying to track what was going on with Enchantress was not easy. However, likely not the fault of the actress.

Ares made sense for the message of the movie. It was saying that it's not the people on the front lines in a war that are to blame--it's the seemingly pleasant bureaucrats back at the home office that are the real villains. Ares chose that guise because that was the place where he could foster the most calamity.

That also fits with what will happen in future wars and WW II in particular, as it becomes the boring men in suits who sow the greatest evil.

And when he revealed himself as the god, he looked the part. It was probably just the CGI in that scene that made it hard to relate to his character--but then he's a god, so we don't know what a god is supposed to look like.

[Slowpokeking]

Probably Cara Delavingne as June Moon in SUICIDE SQUAD. I liked that movie more than most, but trying to track what was going on with Enchantress was not easy. However, likely not the fault of the actress.

Ares made sense for the message of the movie. It was saying that it's not the people on the front lines in a war that are to blame--it's the seemingly pleasant bureaucrats back at the home office that are the real villains. Ares chose that guise because that was the place where he could foster the most calamity.

That also fits with what will happen in future wars and WW II in particular, as it becomes the boring men in suits who sow the greatest evil.

And when he revealed himself as the god, he looked the part. It was probably just the CGI in that scene that made it hard to relate to his character--but then he's a god, so we don't know what a god is supposed to look like.

As a disguise, yes.

But the real form, no.

Ares was clearly known as a strong and handsome figure, not some old dude.

[Comic-Reader Lad]

If the main actors are good, that carries the movie for me.

Man of Steel was the most perfectly cast DCEU movie. A deep bench of A-listers bringing their A-game. Loved every single one -- from main to supporting actors.

However, the other DCEU movies have been generally well cast. I liked Ben Affleck, Jesse Eisenberg, and Ezra Miller, so no complaints there.

Suicide Squad and Justice League each had major issues, but it really had nothing to do with the actors. Joss Whedon was more miscast as director than any actor, and having a trailer company recut SS was also a miscast.

[Powerboy]

My choice

1. Ares. He was a very handsome and strong god, not some old dude with mustache in his real form.

2. Luthor. Enough has been said by others.

3. Lois. I still think Teri Hatcher is the best Lois, Amy was fine just doesn't fit the role so well.

Personally, I don't care if an actor really matches the comic version or if the character is different than in the comics. Granted they should have at least de-aged the actor who played Ares when he showed his true form. I personally thought Amy was great as Lois. But what most of us agree on was that their choice of Lex Luthor was horrible not just because it was not any previous version but because it sucked on it's own merits.