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Film features: The 29 Worst Movie Miscastings

The choices they made were not bad, but you can always identify a bad list by the choices they did NOT make. And you can identify a very bad list when the obvious #1 choice doesn't appear anywhere on the list. Lads, you need to rent a movie named Francesco and check out Mickey Rourke as St Francis of Assisi. Then re-write your little list accordingly.

Imagine the casting conferences they must have had for this movie.

"OK, who will be our Saint Francis of Assisi, humble servant of god, pacifist, mystic, lover of the poor and diseased, and symbol of the harmony between man and nature"

"Well, JB, we need an actor who is glowing with compassion, who is self-effacing and asexual, and whose eyes reflect a constant inner peace as well as a deep spirituality"

"I have it. I have our man. Let me just throw this out to the crowd. Mickey Rourke"

No more review needed. Mickey Rourke as St Francis of Assisi.

That says it all. What were they thinking? The Mick never combed his hair, and he whipped it out in public a lot. Francis did those things. Do you think that was the basis for casting him? But I'll tell you one thing - Rourke has several nude or shirtless scenes, and I learned that St Francis had some pretty good pecs on 'im. I'm guessing he was probably our most buff saint.

Not to mention our most tattooed.

This movie shed a whole new light on the dimensions of the man. Mystic ... servant of God ... gym rat.

I guess the vow of poverty doesn't extend to memberships at Gold's

You have to rent this movie just to see a couple minutes of Mick full of beatific grace. Yup, he was full of it all right.