Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley
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A couple LotR mentions already, but Andy Serkis as Gollum is actually most unliveupably to me.
Heath Ledger as Joker.
Mike Myers as both Wayne and Austin Powers. He has a way of doing corny characters with soul, and that's quite rare.
Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.
He was too angry. Not necessarily his fault (probably moreso the script/direction), but Wilder didn't nail the character for me.
Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in the 'Evil Dead' movies.
I fucking dare you to try to remake that with another actor.
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. With the sole exception of his height, (comic book Wolverine is very short, and Jackman is not) it’s like the character walked out of the comics and onto the movie screen.
The like, 2 seconds in Deadpool where they had Cavill as wolverine made me wonder if he could legitimately do it
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The fact that Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn isn't on this list makes me sad.
Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
I think Heath Ledger is the best possible version of that type of joker. I think Mark Hamill was amazing too though.
RDJ just is iron man though. Similar life paths and everything.
Henry Cavill as Superman for me. Alan Ritchson as Reacher.
But
Well yes of course. But Cavill lived up to his role
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal
I thought the same,then i watched Mads Mikkelson in the tv series Hannibal and think he played the role even better.
They both do different parts of the character's story super well. Its worth noting that SotL Hannibal is far more sinister feeling and Hopkins killed that. Mads plays a Hannibal who MUST be reasonable and hide his darker nature and it's a much more subtle performance
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Some great runner-ups mentioned here. Of course the answer is Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who also had one of the best character entrances ever.
Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
Matthew Mcconaughey as Rust in True Detective S1. I'm desperately longing for a show that can live up to S1 with a character similar or better than Rust
Every character in that season was perfect. Even the very minor roles played by unknowns were all knocked right out of the park. The stars really aligned for that first season, and I am very much okay with that being a rare thing.
Ian Mckellen, as either Gandalf or Magneto.
Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman.
Rami Malek absolutely nailed Freddie Mercury. The side-by-side clips of the two are astounding.
Bryan Cranston as Walter White
Yep nobody else could ever play that now
Bryan Cranston on It's always sunny. The man's got range!
Robin Williams as the Genie.
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.
The entire cast of Princess Bride.
Carl Urban - Dredd
Runners up, R to L:
No one will ever play Wilson so well.
David Spade as Joe Dirt
Ewan McGregor - Obi Wan Kenobi
Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
One of the things about his performance is that the role has also been played by more than a dozen other actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, John Malkovich an Ian Holm. Yet he made the character indelibly his own.
Danny DeVito.
I dunno, he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are pretty much indistinguishable
Thank you for making me feel old. That reference made me realize how much my back hurts. But, at least I didn't throw my mom from a train.
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Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in The Downfall
Is that the film that the "Hitler reacts" videos are from?
Yeah
Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger.