Films where they got exactly the right actor

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  1. Solitaire1

    Solitaire1 Carpenters Fan

    Haven't seen that movie, but (although it is a TV series) they did get the right actor, Jon Cryer, for Lex Luthor in the Arrowverse. He was great.
     
  2. polchik

    polchik Forum Resident

    denzel washington - training day
     
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  3. Kaskade10729

    Kaskade10729 Senior Member

    Yeah, no -- I was referring to who Zack Snyder cast for his role in Batman v Superman. AWFUL, awful decision to pander to the "weird, twitchy millennial" crowd.
     
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  4. Welshman

    Welshman Forum Resident

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    David Bowie as the goblin king in Labyrinth.
     
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  5. Tom Perry

    Tom Perry Senior Member

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    Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles

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  6. Kaskade10729

    Kaskade10729 Senior Member

    Hands down, Alfred Molina as Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2.

    Heck, for that matter, Rosemary Harris as Aunt May and Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy...

    All looked like they stepped right off the pages of the comics (including Kirsten Dunst as MJ).
     
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  7. Big Jimbo

    Big Jimbo Forum Resident

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    Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in “Gone with the Wind”
    Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark in “All the King’s Men”.
    John Banner as Ernst, the cynical German Home Guard soldier in “36 Hours”. “In Germany you have to make enough money during a war so you can survive in peacetime.....Hitler says I must drive the Allies from our country. I do not own a car. So I will walk you to Switzerland”.
     
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  8. jwoverho

    jwoverho Licensed Drug Dealer

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    Cox's creepily subdued performance was unfortunately overshadowed by Hopkin's showy (but nonetheless unforgettable) one. I must say that Mads Mikkelsen completely won me over with his work, which seems to me is much more true to the character as written by Harris.
     
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  9. jwoverho

    jwoverho Licensed Drug Dealer

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    Warren Oates in BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA.
     
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  10. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    It's A Wonderful Life: Clarence! he was the perfect guardian Angel!
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  11. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    I'll watch any movie with Warren in...one of may favorites is Dillinger! he was great in that..
     
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  12. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    excellent...he was amazing in Flight as well! watched that many times...my wife and I are Denzel fans...there isn't any we don't like and we've seen them all!
     
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  13. CDFanatic

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    Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke

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  14. Glenn Christense

    Glenn Christense Foremost Beatles expert... on my block

    Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster.

    He actually was able to convey some pathos and humanity for the monster instead of the monster being a big unsympathetic lug.
     
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  15. DHawkins1590

    DHawkins1590 Well-Known Member

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    Donald Pleasence as Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed. Really menacing.
     
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  16. Honey Bunches of Sadness

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    I've heard so many good things about "Hannibal", and I'm an admirer of Mikkelsen. I'll have to check it out sometime.
     
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  17. GMfan87'

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    Hackman, The French Connection
     
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  18. listner_matt

    listner_matt Still thinks music is an inexhaustible resource

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    I know I used this reply a few minutes ago on the Last Movie You Watched thread, but it's correct for both - just watched John Huston's Wise Blood yesterday, and Brad Dourif was exactly right in the Hazel Motes role. Of course, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, and Amy Wright ain't miscast either.
     
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  19. kouzie

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    If we're talking about getting it right with an actor playing Lex Luthor, the hands down winner is Gene Hackman. He was perfectly cast in Superman 1 and 2.
     
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  20. kouzie

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    The Bad News Bears has two. Can't imagine anyone better than Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal in their roles.
     
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  21. SgtPepper1983

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    Murray Melvin as Reverend Runt in Barry Lyndon.
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  22. flower_picker

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    Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude... and young Bud Court for that matter.
     
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  23. jwoverho

    jwoverho Licensed Drug Dealer

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    An excellent Huston film!
     
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  24. gabacabriel

    gabacabriel Forum Resident

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    Anybody mention Christopher Reeve in Superman yet?
     
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  25. Glenn Christense

    Glenn Christense Foremost Beatles expert... on my block

    I just watched Arsenic and Old Lace again a couple of weeks ago. It’s one of my favorite comedies .

    I think Peter Lorre was the perfect guy to play Dr. Epstein and he’s really funny in the movie and gives a wonderful performance.
     
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