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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

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

Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours 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] 2 points 1 hour 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] 6 points 2 hours ago

Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours 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] 6 points 3 hours ago

David Spade as Joe Dirt

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in The Downfall

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours 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] 10 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours 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] 15 points 9 hours ago

Robin Williams as the Genie.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

AND as the Sheriff of Nottingham!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours 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] 14 points 10 hours ago

Carl Urban - Dredd

[–] [email protected] 37 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.

[–] HobbitFoot 2 points 9 hours ago

But why is all the rum gone?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 12 hours ago

The entire cast of Princess Bride.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg

[–] [email protected] 27 points 13 hours ago

Bryan Cranston as Walter White

[–] HobbitFoot 14 points 11 hours ago

Ewan McGregor - Obi Wan Kenobi

[–] [email protected] 31 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ian Mckellen, as either Gandalf or Magneto.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago

Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes 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] 25 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 13 hours ago

No one will ever play Wilson so well.

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

David Tennant as Doctor Who

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

I dunno, he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are pretty much indistinguishable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

All of them. The penguin and IASIP especially.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in the new Wicked (part 1)