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[-] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago

Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.

[-] HobbitFoot 8 points 5 months ago

But why is all the rum gone?

[-] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

AND as the Sheriff of Nottingham!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Why a spoon cousin, why not an axe? It's dull you twit.

I always remembered that bit, I rarely heard anyone but my dad call someone a twit.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

The like, 2 seconds in Deadpool where they had Cavill as wolverine made me wonder if he could legitimately do it

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Hard disagree. Hugh is too tall and too pretty. He's done a fine job with the character but I am extremely excited for a new short-king wolverine. It's time to move on.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago

Ian Mckellen, as either Gandalf or Magneto.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

Bryan Cranston as Walter White

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yep nobody else could ever play that now

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

The entire cast of Princess Bride.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.

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No one will ever play Wilson so well.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Robin Williams as the Genie.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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] 20 points 5 months ago

Carl Urban - Dredd

[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

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

[-] HobbitFoot 19 points 5 months ago

Ewan McGregor - Obi Wan Kenobi

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months 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.

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I dunno, he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are pretty much indistinguishable

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months 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] 15 points 5 months 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] 14 points 5 months ago

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

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

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 5 months 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] 10 points 5 months ago

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

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Heath Ledger as Joker.

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Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley

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Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in The Downfall

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David Tennant as Doctor Who

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Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I used to think no one but Jim Carrey could do Ace Ventura, but I've seen plenty of impersonations of the character now that Carrey actually wouldn't be needed.

I used to think nobody could replace Mark Hamil's Joker voice until the devs of the Arkham games debuted his replacement for one of them and he fucking nails it to the point if I didn't know he was replaced, I would just assume it was still Hamil.

I can no longer hold the idea that an actor is irreplaceable simply because a good actor can imitate other actors.

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