Hopkins as Odin was well done I thought.
Lori Petty as Tank Girl was a win.
So was Alison Pill as Kim Pine in Scott Pilgrim.
Yeah, “scrawny” wasn’t quite the right word to use, but you know what I meant.
I feel like Christian Bale was the perfect Bruce Wayne, even above Kevin Conroy, but his Batman is just lacking.
I completely forgot about Watchmen – but let’s give a close second place from that film to Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
I still wonder aloud that if the original choice had been used it could had been even better.
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Remembering Flash Gordon, Brian Blessed was perfectly cast as Prince Vultan, the ruler of the Hawkmen in Flash Gordon.
“DIIIIVE!”
I just have to mention Mark Hamill as the voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. I just love what he did with the character. (And I just can not envision that voice coming out of Hamill’s mouth!)
Your point being?
I said he’s often drawn like a linebacker, so showing him drawn like a linebacker is not a counterargument - you’ve not shown him built like a bodybuilder (you know, large masses of mostly useless muscle). And, of course, he’s not drawn like that any more (by most artists). This is how he’s drawn now. Even Ed Benes, who used to seem incapable of drawing men as anything other than a wall of flesh, since he’d draw even Nightwing like that, draws him smaller, now.
Compare this to your Superman illustration … I think their biceps are about the same size, neck about the same, chest I may have to give to Arnold, but the abs are close. I don’t particularly like that artist, no offense intended to him.
As much as I enjoyed the movies, none of those actors came as close to portraying the Batman of the comic books as Clark Bartam did.
^^^^ this.
And I’m actually not very fond of him and tend to avoid his movies, close enough to “hating on the guy”.
Seconded. He really has it all. The manic glee in manipulation, the arrogant smugness in victory, the despicable cravenness in defeat, the intimate wounds and hurt that ultimately drive him…
All that and he manages to make an *astoundingly *silly helmet work, too !
Topher Grace as Venom.
It helped that Hiddleston could do so much with just a sideways look: his Loki didn’t *need *to monologue.
Do we get to count Bruce Lee as Kato? Because Bruce Lee as Kato.
I think the thing that most impresses me about Hiddleston’s performance is he manages to convey Loki’s disappointment. Even when Loki is apparently winning, you can sense that he wishes things hadn’t gotten to this point.
I think there’s really two questions here; what actor has best taken on a role for his own (in which case it’s indisputably Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man) and which best fit into the *physical and characterization that already existed in the comic books? * Movie Iron Man is awesome but is not quite the same as comic book Iron Man.
Most of the supporting roles in that movie were brilliantly cast. It was just Flash, Dale, and Aura who were disappointing.
I’m gonna call bullshit on that. Professor X predates NextGen by about two decades, and I can’t ever recall his appearance changing all that much (apart from going into and out of a wheelchair). He was always a middle-aged, slender, bald white guy with arched brows.
J. K. Simmons is a great choice. I felt like the writers really got the character, too. I especially loved the scene in the first movie where he lies to Green Goblin and says he doesn’t know who takes the Spider-man pictures. Jameson is a jerk, but he’s a jerk with guts and a moral compass.