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[–] deus@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago

Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape

[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AND as the Sheriff of Nottingham!

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 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.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months 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.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee 5 points 3 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.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ian Mckellen, as either Gandalf or Magneto.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 29 points 3 months ago

Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman.

[–] SimpleMachine@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 months ago

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

[–] CptCosmicMoron@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bryan Cranston as Walter White

[–] TisI@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Bryan Cranston on It's always sunny. The man's got range!

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 months ago

Yep nobody else could ever play that now

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

The entire cast of Princess Bride.

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 27 points 3 months ago

No one will ever play Wilson so well.

[–] digehode@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Robin Williams as the Genie.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 19 points 3 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.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 19 points 3 months ago

Carl Urban - Dredd

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal

[–] Kben@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months 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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[–] Foregone_Premise@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 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.

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg

[–] ShiverMeTimbers@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are pretty much indistinguishable

[–] cyphear@lemm.ee 3 points 3 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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] jeansburger@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago
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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 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.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] K4mpfie@feddit.org 13 points 3 months 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

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 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.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

Heath Ledger as Joker.

[–] Resurectra@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in The Downfall

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

David Tennant as Doctor Who

[–] Kben@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 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.

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.

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