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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 16, 2007 19:04:07 GMT -5
I really love polls. I have no idea why. I just do.
I personally don't think anyone at anytime ever was better suited for a comic book role than,...
Danny DeVito for the penguin.
it's like he was genetically engineered to play that role.
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Post by Doctor Doom on Mar 16, 2007 19:07:25 GMT -5
Patrick Stewart is awesome but...
Ian McKellan's Magneto is just the single best character in ANY comic book movie adapation EVER. It's INDISPUTABLE. Both the character and the actor- it's phenomenal, he was born for the role of comics' second greatest super villain.
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Post by uberwolf on Mar 16, 2007 20:06:13 GMT -5
I have to go with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Back in the day I was a huge fan of the Canadian shortstuff. But once he got popular, I mean uber-popular where you couldn't pick up a Marvel Comic without seeing his pointy haired face on it, I really came to despise him. Way too much Wolverine in my comics. Jackman made him a likeable character for me again.
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Post by Tone-Loc on Mar 16, 2007 21:26:52 GMT -5
To me, this poll needs more options. I mean no Christopher Reeve?
The question to me is a simple... its not just someone that pulled off the a role, but to go a bit further, its someone who you thought immediately when the casting was announced that the selcetion was perfect, and then the performance actually lived up to or exceeded expectations.
I actually think there has been a great deal of exceptional casting, at least after the fact, with our favorite genre of movies, and only some notable failures to blot the record.
Who fits my bill?
Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne
Patrick Stewart as Professor X/Charles Xavier
Willem DeFoe as Green Goblin/Norman Osborne
Michelle Pfieffer as Catwoman/Selina Kyle
I leave Michael Reeve and Terrence Stamp off my list, only because I have to be honest and true to my criteria laid out above. Being born in 1972 I had no idea who those people were before I saw Superman I & II.
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Post by iastagehand on Mar 17, 2007 12:36:42 GMT -5
I am going with Ron Pearlman in HELLBOY. He kinda looks like 'em in real life  He's got the right attitude for the role and frankly he kicks ass at it. Anyone know if a sequel is in the works? |
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Post by Tone-Loc on Mar 17, 2007 13:03:44 GMT -5
I am going with Ron Pearlman in HELLBOY. He kinda looks like 'em in real life He's got the right attitude for the role and frankly he kicks ass at it. Anyone know if a sequel is in the works? Yes, I can't believe I didn't think about Hellboy. And to answer your question, yes I do believe there is a live-action sequel in the works. They are currently in the midst of a 2 or 3 animated movie run... which, by the way, features the voice acting of the live-action stars. |
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Post by iastagehand on Mar 17, 2007 13:53:27 GMT -5
I have the first animated movie on DVD. It's pretty good but a little dark for young kiddies. It's cool that they used the same voice actors but where is Niles? hehheh
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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 17, 2007 16:47:18 GMT -5
Well Tone, the voard will only allow for a certain number of options for a poll. That's why I left 'other' as the last option.
Of your selections you listed 2 were in the list though.
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Post by Tone-Loc on Mar 17, 2007 19:47:32 GMT -5
My apologies, I wrote an entire explaination of my vote, without actually signifying my vote.
I did indeed choose "other," and out of the 4 that I believe truly hit the mark bother before and after I saw the movie, I would pick Christian Bale as the most fitting casting selection.
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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 17, 2007 20:36:28 GMT -5
I am kicking myself about not remembering Michelle.
She made a delicious catwoman.
Y'know, the Batman movies did good with it's bad guys (Except Arnold)
How could it not have picked better Batman
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Post by Shiryu on Mar 20, 2007 12:16:39 GMT -5
I picked Patrick Stewart, but only because he was in 3 movies and Willem DeFoe was not. In the first Spidey movie, he was truly amazing, especially in the scene where he talks to his other self in the mirror.
Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen and especially Christopher Reeve are also definitely worth a mention.
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Post by Yellowjacket on Mar 21, 2007 5:09:22 GMT -5
I chose Ian McKellan, he imho really is the shining star in the X-Men trilogy.
Otherwise than that I think Mickey Rourke in Sin City is downright scaring good, could have been Miller´s role model.
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Post by Doctor Bong on Apr 17, 2007 17:21:20 GMT -5
I would say Colin Farrel's portrait of Bullseye was, characterwise if not in appearance, dead on the money...
I just thought about it what with all the recent talk about Bullseye...
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Post by Doctor Doom on Apr 18, 2007 11:17:17 GMT -5
Maybe so, but NOTHING BEATS MCKELLAN MAGNETO.
NOTHING.
EVER.
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Post by balok on Apr 18, 2007 17:02:40 GMT -5
McKellan's a better actor than Stewart (although both are true professionals), but I just liked Stewart more as the Professor than I did McKellan. 'Course, that could simply be that I don't like to identify with the villain (except for Vader, in the order of production first Star Wars films).
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Post by Alchemist-X on Apr 20, 2007 19:55:02 GMT -5
Wiilam Dafoe/ Green Goblin was my fav casting. He was just so evi.,
Chris Evans was pretty obnoxiously loveable as the Human Torch so he gets second place
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Post by midnight99 on Apr 25, 2007 15:31:19 GMT -5
I have to go with Patrick Stewart as Professor X for this one. Although, Dolph Lundgren in The Punisher is a veeeerrrrrrryyyyy close second... ;D
I agree with others who have discussed criteria for this poll. I think you have to break it down into two polls really. Actors like Chris Reeve and Hugh Jackman would get my vote in a minute if it were a poll about unknown actors who became the character. Hugh Jackman still freaks me out when I see him interviewed because he is so un-Wolverine in real life.
And even though I think McKellen nails Magneto in the movie...it's tough to vote for him because his Magneto is not quite the comic book baddie we grew up with.
Also, even though I knew when he was cast that Christian Bale would give a definitive performance as both Bruce Wayne and Batman, I can't vote for him either because until I saw the movie, I didn't know what he would do with the role. I feel the same about Heath Ledger playing the Joker. I think he'll be great and I'm excited about his casting, but I need to see it before I'm certain.
Patrick Stewart however meets all the criteria and more. In the X-films, Stewart is the comic book Professor X. It's the character we all grew up with. Also, I don't think I ever hear any other name being talked about when casting for the first movie began. Granted, how many bald actors are there? But, they could have gone another direction and didn't. Stewart was great in a less-than-flashy role and really anchored the series.
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Post by Doctor Doom on Apr 29, 2007 9:34:14 GMT -5
McKellan's a better actor than Stewart (although both are true professionals), but I just liked Stewart more as the Professor than I did McKellan. 'Course, that could simply be that I don't like to identify with the villain (except for Vader, in the order of production first Star Wars films). McKellan is among the best actors in existence. Brett Ratner summed it up perfectly, give McKellan a phone book to read and he will make it sound menacing and proud. I know people say McKellan's Magneto is not like the comics but the comic Magneto wavers WILDLY, more so than most characters, between writers. McKellan's Magneto is consistent- proud, unquestionably a villain yet very easily understood and you can see glimpses of the man he once was. McKellan Magneto is the only case I can think of where I prefer the movie version to the comic one. |
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He's got the right attitude for the role and frankly he kicks ass at it. Anyone know if a sequel is in the works?
