Actors that steal the special out of Special Forces...

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Or put the "special" in.

Of late cinema / TV seems to be placing wholly inappropriate actors as Special Forces. After the car crash of Predator, with a mis-cast Boyd Holbrook as a SF sniper (would be out of his depth sniping ladies knickers on Love Island), we seem to have soft as sh*t actors trying to play SF characters.

Ryan Phillippe as Bob the mailer in Netflix version of Shooter is another bug bear of mine. Ok, he's not cast as a Navy SEAL, but he looks like his version of Hell Week was a 4 day Stag Do in Vegas.

WTF has happened? Or do I have to content myself watching reruns of "left" tennent Schaefer offing "krauts" in Where Eagles Dare for the rest of my days?

So whose bad / whose good?

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Russian Troll Bot said:

On the subject of the Predator franchise, Adrian Brody was horribly miscast in Predators. I could accept him as the sneaky assassin type, but not the gravel voiced badass.

Absolutely, Eric Bana must have been busy. Or maybe Tom Hardy doing 23% of Bane.

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El stovey said:

Annie in commando and predator and whatever else.
BA From the A team. (Were they all special forces)
Rambo.

All classics and convinced special forces.

You've just pitched in anyone with a speech impediment.

I think Marvel has fked up movies for good. Everyone needs a clean uniform and an instigram account or they're a baddie.

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rykard said:

too many look 'soft' and unbelieveable. They need to have a 'real world hardness' about them, but most don't and it becomes a chore to watch. In the last series of strike back, the women looked harder than the male lead..

This is my point. I'm not taking about size and build, but the air or intensity needed to carry it off. Arnie, Stallone are all obviously caricatures; but Ryan Phillipe as a sniper - nope not buying it.

Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now" seems plausible, Tom Berenger as Sgt Barnes in Platoon also, and I also liked Jon Bernthal's Punisher - although all 3 are basically mentally unhinged and I'm not implying that "real" SF are nutters.