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02 Aug 2014, 12:28 am

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Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence (The Shining)
Heath Ledger as the Joker (The Dark Knight)
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter (let's just say 'Silence of the Lambs' and not the others because they're crap)
Brad Pitt/Edward Norton as Tyler Durden/The Narrator (Fight Club)
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
Christopher Lee as Saruman (LOTR)

I know Stephen King had been critical of Jack Nicholson's performance in The Shining (he thought Nicholson looked crazy from the start), but I absolutely agree, no one else could have played the part.

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02 Aug 2014, 6:12 am

Joey King as Ramona Quimby in Ramona and Beezus

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03 Aug 2014, 2:57 pm

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You seem like you're a fan of The Shining...? This is just going from other stuff you've replied to me about the film.

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03 Aug 2014, 9:30 pm

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You seem like you're a fan of The Shining...? This is just going from other stuff you've replied to me about the film.

Not a super fan, but I thought it was one of the best horror films ever made.

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04 Aug 2014, 3:14 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

russiank12 wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

russiank12 wrote:

You seem like you're a fan of The Shining...? This is just going from other stuff you've replied to me about the film.

Not a super fan, but I thought it was one of the best horror films ever made.

I see, it's my favourite horror film too. And while on the topic of horror films...

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates was incredible in Pyscho

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04 Aug 2014, 3:34 pm

Bradley Cooper as Rocket Racoon in Guardians Of The Galaxy.

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04 Aug 2014, 10:21 pm

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Bradley Cooper as Rocket Racoon in Guardians Of The Galaxy.

My wife and I just went to see that today, and I couldn't agree more. Plus, Dave Batista played Drax better than anyone else could have.

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04 Aug 2014, 10:22 pm

russiank12 wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

russiank12 wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

russiank12 wrote:

You seem like you're a fan of The Shining...? This is just going from other stuff you've replied to me about the film.

Not a super fan, but I thought it was one of the best horror films ever made.

I see, it's my favourite horror film too. And while on the topic of horror films...

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates was incredible in Pyscho

And in another horror movie, Dee Wallace was probably irreplaceable in The Howling.

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19 Dec 2014, 8:02 am

Bryan Cranston as Walter White (Breaking Bad)

Ron Perlman as Clay Morrow (Sons of Anarchy)

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21 Dec 2014, 4:18 am

Richard Gere as Clifford Irving in 'The Hoax' (2007). I disliked Gere in every other film I saw him in, but he was amazing here. Not only did he look like Irving, he became him, or at least his perception of the man. He deserved an Academy Award for that performance.

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22 Dec 2014, 1:38 am

a minority opinion here- I think Vincent Schiavelli would have made a better "Doc Brown" in the B2TF series. and Tina Turner [original casting choice, she turned it down] would have made a far superior Rita Mae Brown in "Ghost." Rod Steiger [first casting choice, he turned it down as he had just played a military person in "The Sergeant" and didn't want to repeat himself] would have been a knock-out [compared to George C. Scott] in "Patton" - his clarion tenor voice and ramrod manner was FAR MORE like the real Gen. Patton compared to Scott's excessively basso rendition. and Paul Newman or Steve McQueen would have made a better Inspector Dave Toschi [on-screen counterpart Inspector Harry Callahan] than Clint Eastwood who was just too lanky for the part.
aside from that little rant, I don't think anybody else other than Jaye Davidson could have handled the "Dil" part [in "The Crying Game"] any better, he was truly a natural and 'tis a pity he got out of the business shortly afterward.

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22 Dec 2014, 9:18 am

Oh, dear!! I have to disagree with you on Tina. Although I LOVVVVVVE her (Tina), Whoopi, IMO, was BRILLIANT!! That's the movie for which she won an Oscar, I THINK!!

(BTW, Her character's name was ODA Mae Brown. Later, in the film, she takes the name, "Rita"----those names were INTENTIONALLY, sort-of, "linked" as an homage to the novelist, RITA Mae Brown.)

I like your idea about Vincent Schiavelli----I LOVE him!! I thought "Jim Ignatowski" ("Taxi"----can't think of his real name, right now) was good, too, though.

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22 Dec 2014, 2:56 pm

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Oh, dear!! I have to disagree with you on Tina. Although I LOVVVVVVE her (Tina), Whoopi, IMO, was BRILLIANT!! That's the movie for which she won an Oscar, I THINK!!
(BTW, Her character's name was ODA Mae Brown. Later, in the film, she takes the name, "Rita"----those names were INTENTIONALLY, sort-of, "linked" as an homage to the novelist, RITA Mae Brown.)
I like your idea about Vincent Schiavelli----I LOVE him!! I thought "Jim Ignatowski" ("Taxi"----can't think of his real name, right now) was good, too, though.

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I am always getting names wrong :oops:

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22 Dec 2014, 3:30 pm

No one could have played author William Burroughs better than:

Peter Weller (called William Lee - a Burroughs pen name) in Naked Lunch.

Viggo Mortenssen (called by fictional name of Bull Lee) in On The Road.

Ben Foster in Kill Your Darlings.

Kieffer Sutherland in Beat.

Each of these actors brought something to the role of Burroughs.

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22 Dec 2014, 3:35 pm

val kilmer as jim Morrison, was amazing. at that time I don't believe there was another actor who could have done him justice.

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25 Dec 2014, 4:15 pm

Billie Whitelaw WAS the chilling Mrs. Blaylock in the original 'The Omen'.

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