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Six Fiend
5,274 posts
84 months
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Raul Julia as Franco in Gumball Rally...then as Gomez Adams 
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mph1977
4,756 posts
37 months
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Hooli said: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. Totally correct to the books. indeed , Suchet's Poirot is the the definitive interpretation of the character.
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Six Fiend
5,274 posts
84 months
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Have to mention Jeremy Brett as Holmes.
A fascinating man!
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Strangely Brown
7,053 posts
100 months
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Robert Duvall as Col. Kilgore.
Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby.
Harry Andrews as R.S.M. Wilson.
Rod Steiger as Gillespie.
Warren Oates as G.T.O.
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TheHeretic
67,832 posts
124 months
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John Candy (pbuh) in the great, superb, 'Planes, trains, and automobiles'.
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Strangely Brown
7,053 posts
100 months
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TheHeretic said: John Candy (pbuh) in the great, superb, 'Planes, trains, and automobiles'. John Candy as Uncle Buck.
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Marf
22,907 posts
110 months
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Strangely Brown said: TheHeretic said: John Candy (pbuh) in the great, superb, 'Planes, trains, and automobiles'. John Candy as Uncle Buck. John Candy as Barf. 
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Crossflow Kid
4,612 posts
60 months
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Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in the original Superman.
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DeadMeat_UK
3,053 posts
151 months
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Nimby said: For bad casting - Tom Cruise as 6'5" Jack Reacher. I reckon this is a wait and see - Lee Child seems to agree with it. I think Cruise could work a miracle with this one. Personally, my vote would be Liam Neeson though. (I don't care about the straight/gay thing someone else seems to have intimated with their edit - I really don't care or have any interest in knowing). Knowing or caring would make me into a daily mail or hello reader.
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Zaxxon
4,057 posts
29 months
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Nigel Green as Colour Seargent Bourne - Zulu
Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction, coolest dude ever.
Arnold Shwarzenegga in Predator
Arnold Shwarzenegga in Terminator 1
Arnold Shwarzenegga in Conan
Mentioned before but.
R Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman - Full Metal Jacket, he just played himself.
Heath Ledger as the Joker, that character is now off the movie role list as nobody could ever manage to portray the Joker anywhere near as well as Heath did.
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Halb
17,848 posts
52 months
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Yeah the gay thing is neither here or there for acting, look at Rock Hudson. But increasing your height by a foot is something else. Crossflow Kid said: Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in the original Superman. Very. Few actors can be funny and cold. Zaxxon said: Arnold Shwarzenegga in Predator
Arnold Shwarzenegga in Terminator 1
Arnold Shwarzenegga in Conan
Heath Ledger as the Joker, that character is now off the movie role list as nobody could ever manage to portray the Joker anywhere near as well as Heath did. I thought that about Nicholson as Joker at one point. Some wag once said AhNold was brilliantly cast in three films, as a knucklehead bodybuilder in Pumping Iron, as a mindless barbarian in Conan, and as an emotionless android in the Terminator. 
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Paul Dishman
2,053 posts
106 months
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Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey in Master & Commander The Far Side Of The World. Not who I'd have picked, but an inspired choice IMHO
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Streps
2,205 posts
35 months
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Mickey Rourke as Randy the Ram in the Wrestler... Just seemed to parallel his career and self destruction.
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poing
2,296 posts
69 months
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Timothy Olyphant as agent 47 in Hitman
Bill Nighy as the voice of Dylan in The Magic Roundabout (2005 film)
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Highrisedrifter
754 posts
23 months
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Animal said: Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast? Hooli said: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. Totally correct to the books. I was going to mention both of those. Excellent choices. Colin Farrell in 'Phonebooth' and Ed Norton in 'American History X' I thought were absolutely spot on casting choices.
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Watchman
1,950 posts
114 months
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Difficult to say how well-cast some people are without knowing about the characters beforehand however there have been some people for whom the part they played was so right, you could not imagine anyone else in the role:
Keith Carradine as Hickock in Deadwood.
Jim Kelly as Williams in Enter the Dragon.
Bruce Dern in Silent Running.
Benicio Del Torro in anything he's ever done (totally believable).
Peter Dinklage in GoT.
Brendan Gleeson in Lake Placid and In Bruges.
Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Rutger in Bladerunner.
Polly Walker as Atia in Rome.
Swayze in Point Break.
Gary Oldman in anything.
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Strangely Brown
7,053 posts
100 months
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Watchman said: Gary Oldman in anything. I agree with only one exception. I still prefer Alec Guinness as George Smiley. If the original TV series had not set the benchmark for that character then certainly Oldman's performance would have. Good call on Jim Kelly. "Bull-sheet mister Han man. Suddenly, I'd like to leave your island."
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HD Adam
1,621 posts
53 months
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Hmmm, it has turned into a bit of a Good Actors thread but if we're talking about nobody being able to better the role, then.......
Heath Ledger as The Joker
Christopher Walken as Captain Koons in Pulp Fiction. I can't imagine anyone else doing the "Gold Watch" speech.
Gene Hackman in just about anything but especially as Popeye Doyle
Brando as Don Corleone
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D1ngd0ng
931 posts
34 months
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Highrisedrifter said: I was going to mention both of those. Excellent choices.
Colin Farrell in 'Phonebooth' and Ed Norton in 'American History X' I thought were absolutely spot on casting choices. God dammit! I was going to suggest Ed Norton/American History X (so close) Christoph Waltz as SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds Tarantino says it better than I can Tarantino said: Tarantino acknowledged the importance of Waltz to his film by stating: "I think that Landa is one of the best characters I've ever written and ever will write, and Christoph played it to a tee… It's true that if I couldn't have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made Inglourious Basterds"
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Crossflow Kid
4,612 posts
60 months
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Eddie Izzard is usually good when he pops up....which is where you'd least expect him. Valkyrie anyone?
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