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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

But why is all the rum gone?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

AND as the Sheriff of Nottingham!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ian Mckellen, as either Gandalf or Magneto.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bryan Cranston as Walter White

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yep nobody else could ever play that now

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

The entire cast of Princess Bride.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

No one will ever play Wilson so well.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

Robin Williams as the Genie.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Carl Urban - Dredd

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Ewan McGregor - Obi Wan Kenobi

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks 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] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks 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] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno, he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are pretty much indistinguishable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

All of them. The penguin and IASIP especially.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

David Spade as Joe Dirt

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Heath Ledger as Joker.

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

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in The Downfall

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

David Tennant as Doctor Who

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

Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks 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] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.

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