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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A couple LotR mentions already, but Andy Serkis as Gollum is actually most unliveupably to me.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Mike Myers as both Wayne and Austin Powers. He has a way of doing corny characters with soul, and that's quite rare.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Heath Ledger as Joker.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

He was too angry. Not necessarily his fault (probably moreso the script/direction), but Wilder didn't nail the character for me.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in the 'Evil Dead' movies.

I fucking dare you to try to remake that with another actor.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

The fact that Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn isn't on this list makes me sad.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

But why is all the rum gone?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape

[–] cheeseburger 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AND as the Sheriff of Nottingham!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought the same,then i watched Mads Mikkelson in the tv series Hannibal and think he played the role even better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Henry Cavill as Superman for me. Alan Ritchson as Reacher.

[–] cheeseburger 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Well yes of course. But Cavill lived up to his role

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ian Mckellen, as either Gandalf or Magneto.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman.

[–] CptCosmicMoron 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bryan Cranston as Walter White

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yep nobody else could ever play that now

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

The entire cast of Princess Bride.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

Robin Williams as the Genie.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Carl Urban - Dredd

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

No one will ever play Wilson so well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Ewan McGregor - Obi Wan Kenobi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Rami Malek absolutely nailed Freddie Mercury. The side-by-side clips of the two are astounding.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.

[–] gramie 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

David Spade as Joe Dirt

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dunno, he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are pretty much indistinguishable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in The Downfall

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that the film that the "Hitler reacts" videos are from?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger.

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