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HD Adam
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53 months
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Odie said: None of the actors who have played Jack Ryan really fit in the role for me after reading all the books.
I thought Liev Schreiber was perfect as clark in sum of all fears, even though most of the movie wasnt very good.
They should make 'without remorse' into a film its my favourite ryan universe book
Having read the books before seeing any of films, I always pictured Ryan as being played by Harrison Ford, Clark as being played by Michael Ironside and Chavez by Lou Diamond Phillips.
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Halb
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52 months
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This thread as I thought has quickly moved from inspired casting to simply good actors in stuff.
Inspired casting doesn't require a good actor, or maybe even a great performance. It just needs to be right, so right that one might think the character was written for the actor specially, and that it is impossible to conceive of anyone else as that character.
Inspired also imply something that took inspiration and wasn't easy or obvious.
An example would be Michael Keaton as Batman. Batman was a physically beefy jock, who beat people up. Keaton was a little fella medium build, but it was inspired because Burton saw that craziness in his Beetlejuice performance and knew it was a tight fit for Batman's craziness.
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Stuart70
392 posts
52 months
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Guy Pearce in LA Confidential
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VinceFox
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41 months
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Hate to sound like a cracked record but some of the tightest casting for me recently has been game of thrones, especially peter dinklage. He was pretty good in series one, but the last couple of episodes of season two he's been beyond brilliant. A true antihero/hero.
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Animal
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137 months
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Sheets Tabuer said: ...gunnery sergeant Hartman in full metal jacket. Ermey was apparently only intended to be a technical consultant (as a former drill instructor) after Stalney Kurick saw a video of a demonstration that Ermey did on what a DI should be like. According to IMDB this was 15 minutes of him yelling abuse without repeating himself, pausing or fliching whilst being pelted wit oranges and tennis balls! Most of his lines were improvised too...
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hornetrider
40,759 posts
74 months
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Four motherf  king pages and no mention of Alan Rickman in Robin Hood!! 
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Soir
1,882 posts
108 months
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Daniel day Lewis in gangs of NY
Tony soprano (and Paulie too)
Harrison Ford Star Wars and Indy
Guy who played the father of Lol in This is England
Omar in the wire
A lot of the cast from Game of Thrones (particulary Sean Bean whom I've never rated before!)
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Nimby
260 posts
19 months
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For bad casting - Tom Cruise as 6'5" Jack Reacher.
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VinceFox
14,148 posts
41 months
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Nimby said: For bad casting - Tom Cruise as a straight man. EFA
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Marf
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110 months
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ajprice said: Gary Oldman in any film where he is a bad guy. Whether its a comedy bad guy (Fifth Element) or a damn creepy evil bad guy (Leon), he just does it really well. Agreed, both excellent performances by him.
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Animal
3,264 posts
137 months
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Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast?
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The Count
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132 months
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Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote.
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DrTre
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101 months
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Halb said: This thread as I thought has quickly moved from inspired casting to simply good actors in stuff.
Inspired casting doesn't require a good actor, or maybe even a great performance. It just needs to be right, so right that one might think the character was written for the actor specially, and that it is impossible to conceive of anyone else as that character.
Inspired also imply something that took inspiration and wasn't easy or obvious.
An example would be Michael Keaton as Batman. Batman was a physically beefy jock, who beat people up. Keaton was a little fella medium build, but it was inspired because Burton saw that craziness in his Beetlejuice performance and knew it was a tight fit for Batman's craziness. Can't really see anything mentioned that doesn't broadly fit into those categories. (though perhaps I'm guilty on the Paddy Considine thing seeing as he cowrote DMS). I was going to say MK yesterday though, and yes that's one where there was quite a volte face in opinion after the fact. BK as Don Logan is another good shout, very unexpected turn from him. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley turned out to be a masterstroke. Mark Walhberg in Boogie Nights (that one's probably gonna really rile you Halb, but he was very, very good in it)
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Hooli
21,192 posts
69 months
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David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. Totally correct to the books.
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DrTre
12,428 posts
101 months
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Sam Elliot was who I pictured as Lee Scoresby when reading the His Dark Materials Trilogy so to see him up on screen in the Golden Compass was pretty cool. Shame the film was s t overall. Tangentially related, because of Tombstone, Val Kilmer was Doc Holliday.
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CarTimeNow
606 posts
35 months
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jingars said: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley as Kirk, Spock and Bones.
The original pilot footage from "The Cage" re-worked into the episode "The Menagerie", showed a very different captain, first officer and doctor - and it is easy to see why the studio wanted to re-work the whole thing.
Digital re-working of effects aside, the original series still stands viewing today because of the interplay between the three lead characters.
Karl Urban should also get an honourable mention for his version of McCoy in the "reboot"; I think he captures the essence of DeForest Kelley's McCoy superbly. +1 for Karl Urban, he really got into the "bones" of the role   hornetrider said: Four motherf king pages and no mention of Alan Rickman in Robin Hood!! +1 Anna Silk and Kris Holden-Reid in Lost Girl, the sexual chemistry burns thro the screen
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MrMagoo
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31 months
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drivin_me_nuts
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80 months
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jingars said: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley as Kirk, Spock and Bones.
The original pilot footage from "The Cage" re-worked into the episode "The Menagerie", showed a very different captain, first officer and doctor - and it is easy to see why the studio wanted to re-work the whole thing.
Digital re-working of effects aside, the original series still stands viewing today because of the interplay between the three lead characters.
Karl Urban should also get an honourable mention for his version of McCoy in the "reboot"; I think he captures the essence of DeForest Kelley's McCoy superbly. I can't think of many series, in fact any long running series where the three main individual characters develop so strongly and the relationships between them also become so powerful. MASH is another one of the same sort. It's very difficult to continually write strong characters and keep audience interest and more importantly audience affection. The difficulty is then introducing someone new into the equation - I wonder how a Star Trek sequel would have been had they introduced the sons and daughters of Kirk, Spock and Bones and we then saw the interplay between all six of them.
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Halb
17,849 posts
52 months
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Star Trek only ran for two series. The relationship was good but then it's not unusual, good writing can do that (The Sopranos, The Wire etc). DrTre said: Can't really see anything mentioned that doesn't broadly fit into those categories. (though perhaps I'm guilty on the Paddy Considine thing seeing as he cowrote DMS).
I was going to say MK yesterday though, and yes that's one where there was quite a volte face in opinion after the fact.
BK as Don Logan is another good shout, very unexpected turn from him.
Sigourney Weaver as Ripley turned out to be a masterstroke.
Mark Walhberg in Boogie Nights (that one's probably gonna really rile you Halb, but he was very, very good in it) Hahaha, you have a good memory! But yeah, I like Boogie Nights, and MW does fit it. Perhaps the only one I can think of where he doesn't ruin it for me? 
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Derek Smith
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117 months
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I was impressed by Harrison Ford in Witness. He was miscast as the lead, supposedly a care-worn, violent and short-tempered long time detective. Yet he seemed to overcome the difficulties. The film turned out to be a classic. Kelly McGuilles taking off her clothes helped of course. There wasn't a weak or even average performance in the whole film. A tour de force.
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