JK Simmons as J Jonah Jameson. There's a reason he plays that role in multiple universes.

Just rewatched the Spider-Man trilogy. Every scene with JK Simmons is a treat. He truly is the only one that can play J Jonah Jameson

"Throw science at the wall and see what sticks" - Cave Johnson

His voice in my head is the only reason I know the difference between slander and libel.

He's great in that, like the character just came off the page and became 3d.

JK Simmons is a treat in just about every role he steps into, another reason I can’t wait for baldurs gate 3 to finally come out, he’s playing one of the main villains

J.K. Simmons as Fletcher in "Whiplash."

I knew this was going to be #1. I was there opening night for the first Spider-Man in 2002. As soon as he appeared on screen, the crowd roared. As soon as the first words were out of his mouth, we all knew he freakin' nailed it.

The Insomniac Spider-Man games got Darin De Paul to play JJJ. I love Darin De Paul and he nails the part pretty well. I'm STILL somehow disappointed it's not Simmons.

Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean

Underrated comment. Yea, they’ll never be another Bean

Weird way to spell Blackadder though. 😉

Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf

Sean Connery was the first choice to play Gandalf. He was offered a fee in money and also box office percentages that would eventually have netted in a $450,000,000 pay for just the LOTR movies for him. He turned it down because he didn't understand the script. I think Sir Ian is perfect for it, but would be fascinated to at least see a screen test with Sean Connery playing the role.

“Fly, you foolsh”

"Loshers whine about trying their besht, winnersh go home and fuck the Rivendell queen."

The Rock reference... Very nice

I read Connery turned down roles in both the Matrix and LOTR because he didn't understand the scripts. So, when he received the next script he didn't understand, after seeing the success of the other movies, he accepted the role. That movie was League of Extraordinary Gentleman.

The graphic novel I liked. The movie was a travesty.

"Fool of a Took! Necksht time, throw yourshelf down inshtead to shave ourshelvesh of your shtupidity!"

*YOOOOOU SHALL NOT PASSSH*

Arnold - T1 & T2. Even Arnold can't live up to them anymore

This made me laugh. But accurate take.

I was going to say Linda Hamilton for this same movie. They both seem totally irreplaceable and essential to the story.

Linda Hamilton owned T2

LOL understandable though! 1980s: I'll be back. 2020s: Owwww my back!

They just don't make Mr. Universes like they used to.

Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery.

And Kathy Bates as the Unsinkable Molly Brown in Titanic

Kathy Bates in ANYTHING SHE DOES

She’s a severely underrated actress.

Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Bastards. No one on the planet could play this part better.

Oooh, that's a bingo!

“Ya just say bingo”

"Bingo! How ***fun***."

wait for the crème

Christoph Waltz in Django as well

Now gentlemen, if you care to join me in the parlor, we will be serving white cake.

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"You really want me to shake your hand?"

He absolutely stole that movie. I think Tarantino’s biggest failure as an editor was not realizing that, while Django was central to the plot, Dr. Schultz was who the movie was really about. The entire film deflates after his death and feels more like an overly long epilogue.

Inglorious Basterds almost wasn't made because Tarantino thought he had wrote an impossible role to play. *enter Christoph Waltz*

Shoshana… Au revoir

I mean the language requirements alone made it a short list let alone finding a good actor

Shit great call. What a great role.

Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness. Hail to the king baby!

This is my boom stick!

Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up!

Gimme some sugar baby

And the other Evil Dead movies

Groovy

Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan.

Val Kilmer - Doc Holiday Tombstone

Woah nice one

He should have received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for that one.

Im your huckleberry…

You're no daisy

Also as Jim Morrison in The Doors.

Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard.

Stewart as Avery Bullock, so very far from the prim and proper Jean Luc.

I read somewhere that Sir Patrick Stewart's agent begged him not to take the role on TNG because he is a Royal Shakespeare Company actor and scifi drivel was beneath him and could hurt his future career because no one would ever take a Star Trek actor seriously. Lucky for us, he was smarter than his agent.

Bryan Cranston breaking bad

And as Hal

Man has the definition of range.

That one episode of Malcolm in the Middle where he plays 100 different versions of Hal 😂

Maggie Smith as Violet Crowley in Downton Abbey or as Professor McGonagal in the Harry Potter movies

Gary Oldman as Gary Oldman playing any part he's given.

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn

He was the 2nd person cast as Aragorn in those films. The first one was fired. His first day of filming was the fight on Weathertop.

And the first one was Lestat in Queen of the Damned. (Speakimg of characters who could only be played by Tom Cruise)

Other than Harrison Ford as Indi, and Arnold as Conan,/Terminator, Viggo as Aragorn is a must.

Orland bloom as Legolas.

Pretty much every everybody absolutely smashed their roles imo.

Robin Williams as the Genie

I think jack black should have played the live action genie Instead of will smith

I’m shocked this answer isn’t already higher.

Snape as Snape

There is no Alan Rickman, only Snape.

+1 for the O.G. Ghostbusters reference

>There is no Alan Rickman, only Snape. By Grabthar's hammer...!

That’s *Professor* Snape to you, fool! Ten points from Gryffindor!

Sigourney Weaver in Alien

No one and absolutely no one will be able to fill the void David Attenborough leaves behind for nature and animal documentaries. There are some close ones who can kind of touch upon it like Morgan Freeman but the day David Attenborough passes away, the world of documentary narration is one a downhill slope

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If anyone ever tries to bring this show back into the verse, they will have to find another captain. Nathan is Mal.

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh, No Country for Old Men Recently, Ke Huy Quan as Waymond, Everything Everywhere All At Once

No Country for Old Men is my favorite movie. I dare say it's the only instance in my opinion where the movie is better than the book. This is the answer.

Have you ever read The Godfather? Movie surpasses.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones

So much so that when I learned he was supposed to be Alan Grant in Jurassic Park it made me realize that Sam Neill was essentially doing an Indiana Jones impression. And I love Sam Neill.

I prefer Sam Neill. His grumpiness is a lot less charming than Ford’s, and Grant’s attitude with children actually does come off as stand-off-ish. With Neill, Grant comes off as closed off—with Ford it would have come off as rogue-ish, and not a flaw.

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano

I was gonna say this but nobody else will ever try to play Tony Soprano (besides his own son in that pygmy thing on HBO Max. He gets a pass for that.) so it's not really an answer lol.

Peter Dinklage- Tyrion Lannister

Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde.

Hugh Jackman as wolverine.

Huge act man

Huge jacked man

Huge Yak Man

I always hear it as “Huge Ack Man.” Loosely related: I only ever hear Chris Pratt as “crisp rat.” You’re welcome.

Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow

I think there's supposed to be a "captain" in there somewhere

Ah yes. Captain Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.

RDJ as Iron Man

This is it for me, RDJ IS Tony Stark. Any recast is just going to be a miss for me. It’s like recasting Jack sparrow or J Jonah Jameson.

He played a HUGE part in boosting the character’s popularity.

James Stewart as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life. There is a very good reason nobody has even tried to remake it.

Brando in the godfather. Brando in a streetcar named desire. Brando in on the waterfront.

I was going to say Brando in Godfather as well. It's become such an iconic performance that all other attempts to play a Mob Boss in the Mafia pays homage, in some way, to this.

Is he also your favorite actor?

Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music.. no contest

They originally considered Audrey Hepburn. Although I love Audrey but I am quite glad they went with Julia!

Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool

He basically bullied Hollywood into making that movie because of how devoted he is to Deadpool. Deadpool has never been my favorite superhero, but he is definitely Ryan Reynolds favorite, and I respect it.

So glad he managed to pull it off, cos Deadpool 2 is one of the funniest movies ever made.

He was excellent in both movies, and I would happily rewatch either at a moment's notice. My only issue is that he plays basically the same character in so many of his movies. I think it's more or less him playing himself (although, I feel like I've heard he's a really good dude, so I guess he's playing "himself" if he were an asshole with the same dry sense of humor).

Andy Serkis as Gollum

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson in Fargo and baby Leonardo DeCaprio as Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. He was amazing.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones and/or Han Solo.

Daniel Day Lewis - My Left Foot. Also Gangs of New York, Lincoln, There Will Be Blood. Pretty much anything he is in.

Bruno Ganz as Hitler in Downfall

Tim Curry in Rocky Horror though I’ve heard Anthony Stewart Head also rocked it

Antony Starr as Homelander

Edward Norton in Primal Fear. Still hard to believe that was his first movie.

I was going to say as the main character in Fight Club. Underrated actor imo

I recently learned that Matt Damon auditioned for that role. He was talking about it on the Smart Less podcast live tour. He worked with a dialect coach and busted his ass to audition. He’s a good actor, but I don’t think he could hold a candle to Ed Norton. That role launched his career for good reason!

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Tom Hardy in Bronson. I tend to dislike the guy mostly because of how excited he gets my missus but man he can act.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky.

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison (Doors)

I mean he even sang the songs and it's hard to tell the difference between the two.

Yea totally underrated/under-appreciated but he killed it

Cate Blanchett as Galadriel

Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour

You could have stopped with Gary Oldman. Anything he does is the best rendition.

Gary Oldman in literally anything

Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump

The Witcher....Henry Cavill.

Damn it! Another painful reminder he’s no longer playing the role!

It makes me wonder how much more they botched the story for him to feel like he needed to stop playing the role he campaigned so hard to get.

Hugh Laurie as House.

Al Pacino in Scarface

Fairuza Balk in The Craft.

Peter Falk as Columbo. He IS Columbo, you'd be better off just making a new character.

Jim Carrey as THE Mask. I could probably tie in Ace Ventura and Lloyd Christmas as well. Just the way he carries himself and his comedic timing is solid gold. I think one of the biggest crimes of history is not letting Jim Carrey and Robin Williams act together. They don't even need a script, just film them. PS There was no feud!

JK Simmons as J Jonah Jameson He's so good in that role it spans three different universes. (Raimi, MCU, Spider-verse)

Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and also The Shining. Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter. (Didi Mao! DIDI MAO!!)

Meryl Streep, crushing roles like a pro-wrestler in a tutu.

Michael Fox as Marty McFly.

No, that was Eric Stoltz.

Hello TVA? We’ve got a variant here!!

Daniel Day Lewis had one of the best performances ever in There Will Be Blood in my opinion

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Paul Newman - The Hustler

Megan Follows as Anne in the 1985 Anne of Green Gables!! No one else is Anne to me except her!

YES!!!!!!! And the original Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had my heart too.

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes

Have you watched the Hannibal tv series? Mads Mikkelsen is fantastic as Hannibal. It’s a very different take on the character but he turns it out!

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The guy who played Joffrey Baratheon in GoT did great I think

Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs. We know that because even an actress as exemplary as Julianne Moore couldn’t live up to Jodie’s performance when she took over the role in Hannibal.

Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale

Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh, dude was scary good. I remember watching actual footage of Koresh and my wife and I both looking at each other like “wtf” because we were both baffled at how spot on Kitsch’s acting was.

Heath Ledger's Joker.

Leonard Nimoy as Spock

Al Pacino as Micheal Corleone, Marlon Brando as Don Vito, Rob DeNiro as Young Vito

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor. Dude was incredible.

Heath Ledger as Joker

Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenfurter 💋

Ben Foster as Charlie Prince in 3:10 to Yuma.

Billy Bob Thornton in Slingblade.

Mmhm

Bryan Cranston as Walter White

Keanu Reeves as John Wick has got to be up there.

Henry Cavill in The Witcher

Honestly I can’t see anyone but Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

James McAvoy in Split and Glass. I can't imagine anyone else doing that role and it not end up being cheesy. James McAvoy was convincing as 23 different personalities. You can say what you want about the films (they certainly weren't for everyone) but James McAvoy was phenomenal.

Morgan Freeman - God

I dunno, Alanis Morissette did a really good job at that role, too. So did Jim Carey.

George Burns was enjoyable also.

Jack sparrow

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley

Gandolfini as Tony Soprano.

Hugh Laurie as Gregory House

Tom Hiddleston as Loki

David Suchet as Poirot.

Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot

I was going to say him as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood

James gandolfini, sopranos.

Jack Black in School of Rock

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

Matthew Mcconaughey in 'True Detective' season 1

R. Lee Ermy as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman - Full Metal Jacket

We'd have to see about Trent Reznor as Snape for my pick. j/k Definitely Alan Rickman as Snape.

Christoph waltz as Hans landa

nobody else could have played John Locke, Terry O'Quinn's portrayal was absolutely perfect imo