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|u/reginaman306 - 15 hours
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|The guy who played Ed Kemper in mind hunter was great
|u/Gas-Empty - 13 hours
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|Came here to say this! And the guy who did Manson in the same series!
|That casting was 🤌🤌🤌
|u/BigFigWasp - 12 hours
|
|He also played Manson in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (I think that
|might have gotten him this part) but he's so much better in Mind
|hunter, wish he'd been in it more
|u/CarterBasen - 11 hours
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|I thought Tarantino casted him After he saw his scene in
|Mindhunter. Regardless, incredibile acting.
|u/BigFigWasp - 10 hours
|
|It probably was that way around actually, all I know is he
|killed the role in both. And in Justified. And Mr Inbetween.
|Honestly a terrific actor.
|u/Grimmtown - 12 hours
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|Cameron Britton. He was a great Richard Jewell in "Manhunt: Deadly
|Games" too. I like him a lot.
|u/NerveFlip85 - 11 hours
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|I didnt like him as much as Jewell, but it also wasn’t as good of a
|show as Mindhunter. I did like him in the first season of Umbrella
|Academy.
|u/goastyle - 14 hours
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|He's incredible. Absolutely crushed the part
|u/looshagbrolly - 13 hours
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|About crushed Holden too
|u/Prestigious_Actuary1 - 12 hours
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|I love that show for all the great casting. It was incredible.
|u/Whitechapel726 - 11 hours
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|I didn’t know who Ed Kemper really was when I watched mindhunter,
|aside from just some serial killer. When I saw pictures of the real
|Kemper I had to google the show’s cast just to make sure that wasn’t
|*actually* Ed Kemper.
|u/overdosed93 - 10 hours
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|I saw a video of those interview scenes from the show next to his real
|life interviews and it’s scary accurate
|u/Epic-x-lord_69 - 9 hours
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|Everyone they cast in mindhunter was scary accurate to the actual
|people. I was shocked when i saw the side by side comparisons.
|u/PostTwist - 18 hours
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|John Malkovich
|u/Accomplished_Lab8945 - 17 hours
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|He played John Malkovich very well in that movie about John Malkovich
|u/G0dsquad - 17 hours
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|Can’t recall what the film was called
|u/GrandMoffJenkins - 17 hours
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|Con-Air
|u/hikingguy36 - 16 hours
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|I'm still disappointed Nic Cage didn't get an Oscar simply for
|that magnificent mullet
|u/grizznuggets - 15 hours
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|“Put the bunny back in the box” should’ve earned a Best
|Screenplay nod.
|u/Legal_Sentence3003 - 9 hours
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|One day, my neighbor came to the door box in hand asking to
|go into our backyard to retrieve their pet rabbit which had
|gotten out. My wife said sure and just as she closed the
|door the words came to my brain but did not leave my mouth
|in time. I will always remember the day I had a real life
|opportunity to tell someone to " put the bunny back in the
|box"
|u/smolwormbigapple - 10 hours
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|So many good one liners in that movie, god.
|u/GuyFawkes451 - 14 hours
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|Lol. He really DID play himself in that movie, too, didn't he?
|u/saur0013 - 12 hours
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|John The Virus Malkovich
|u/hollycrapola - 17 hours
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|Something about John Malkovich?
|u/G0dsquad - 17 hours
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|I remember now, it was “Being Gary Busey”
|u/postysclerosis - 12 hours
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| No that’s “I’m with Busey,” John Malkovich’s TV show.
|u/SpeedOfSound343 - 14 hours
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|It’s called Face Off. He swaps his face with his own face. Then
|adopts his own appearance and assumes his own identity. Another
|name of that film is Being John Malkovich.
|u/martymcfly22 - 16 hours
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|Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich
|u/Wild-Lychee-3312 - 14 hours
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|Great, now you've summoned him.
|u/martymcfly22 - 14 hours
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|Malkoviiiiiiiiich
|u/KrimsonKuang - 11 hours
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|Malkovich?
|u/bigfootlive89 - 9 hours
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|Malkovich? Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich.
|u/brawndoenjoyer - 8 hours
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|Malkovich!?
|u/SovietSunrise - 12 hours
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|The tittified Malkovich was amazing.
|u/Didyoufartjustthere - 10 hours
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|If anyone asked me what the mentalist film ever made this would be
|it. It’s fucking brilliant
|u/Itsatinyplanet - 9 hours
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|Never go full Malkovich.
|u/GtrplayerII - 15 hours
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|I can be John Malkovich. "Hello, my name is John Malkovich"
|u/Smackolol - 14 hours
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|He was the second best, [Bill
|Hader](https://youtube.com/shorts/1EeOiJ3lXzg?si=tRqJtSXk7SjGj7lL)
|plays the best John Malkovich.
|u/Efficient-Hornet8666 - 9 hours
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|“I sound nothing like that.”
|u/Altruistic_Ad4139 - 16 hours
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|You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
|u/Mutabilitie - 12 hours
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|Disagree. I think was a miscast. I think Olivia Coleman would make a
|great John Malkovich.
|u/MacGruber204 - 18 hours
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|Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote (Capote) Charlize Theron -
|Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
|u/notchandlerbing - 16 hours
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|Philip Seymour Hoffman probably does take the cake for an all time
|great Capote performance, no doubt. It helps that *Capote* (2005) was
|a near-masterpiece (and Catherine Keener deserves her flowers for
|Harper Lee too) But Toby Jones as Capote in *Infamous* (2006) gets
|unfairly overshadowed, since it came out a year later and the film
|just wasn’t as great overall. IMO he looks and *sounds* far more the
|part (PSH overcame that with his strong performance), and did a
|similarly fantastic job My hot take is that wile PSH did a fine job
|in serving the script, Toby Jones played a much more accurate and
|true-to-life version of Truman Capote. To the point where if we’re
|simply comparing who did the better job inhabiting the character, I’d
|say Toby gave the superior performance (in isolation). And PSH’s voice
|at times seemed to veer heavily into caricature territory
|u/Bhadbaubbie - 15 hours
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|Was just coming here to say this. Toby Jones is unbelievable in
|that role. And I’m certainly not taking anything away from PSH as
|he’s probably my favourite actor
|u/alreadyknowwbroo - 14 hours
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|Hoffman is my favorite actor of all time also ever since I was
|pretty young along with Paul Giamatti coming in at a respectably
|close 2nd but there's just no comparison to PSH
|u/theavengerbutton - 11 hours
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|Toby Jones nails everything that he's in, no surprise there. Dude is
|incredible.
|u/Ambitious-Sale3054 - 9 hours
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|Toby Jones did inhabit that character more. Truman Capote was my
|favorite author when I was in the 7th grade back in the 60’s due to
|a teacher reading his short stories to our class as well as playing
|an album of A Christmas Memory that I thought was narrated by a
|woman. I stayed up late to watch Truman Capote on the Tonight Show
|and lo and behold that was Truman’s voice on that record!
|u/Salarmot - 17 hours
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|Capote was fucking incredible
|u/officefridge - 14 hours
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|Philip absolutely nailed that role. That acting in the film
|absolutely broke my mind, i have never seen anything quite like
|this. He, regardless of being long gone, still is my favourite
|actor. I love his acting, truly.
|u/cdheer - 11 hours
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|He had *range* too. Like, watch Capote, and then watch State and
|Main, where he crushes it as the romantic male lead in a romantic
|comedy. Gone WAY too soon.
|u/Altruistic-Act-3289 - 11 hours
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|and then Twister, and then Punch Drunk Love, and then Mission
|Impossible 3! and then Boogie Nights, and then The Big Lebowski!
|guy's range was insane.
|u/Lazy_Experience_8754 - 9 hours
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|And then the pretentious theater actor who shards himself and
|throws bricks playing hoops in along came Polly . Too funny
|u/Crashgirl4243 - 8 hours
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|And The Talented Mr Ripley
|u/BigMickPlympton - 11 hours
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|PSH is the greatest character actor of my generation. I still
|shudder with sadness at what the world lost when he died. Can't
|begin to imagine the great characters that an aging Hoffman would
|have played.
|u/DavidDarvin - 9 hours
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|His acting alongside Meryl Streep in “Doubt” is the most
|electric and stunning scenes done in the past 30 years. ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
|u/i_write_ok - 12 hours
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|I still say “Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy“ to a coworker named Tom all
|the time
|u/Sufficient_Bat2998 - 10 hours
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|His was the saddest celebrity loss ♥️
|u/Fabulous-Ad-3046 - 13 hours
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|As was Monster
|u/waxteeth - 15 hours
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|Something that’s really cool about PSH as Capote: if you listen to the
|DVD commentary (heartbroken that these aren’t really a thing anymore),
|he is really upfront about the fact that his initial performance
|sucked — he couldn’t find the character, and he knew it. He’d done a
|bunch of prep and it just wasn’t clicking, and he was terrified. The
|director doesn’t contradict him when he says this — it’s not PSH
|judging himself too harshly because his standards were so high. BUT.
|They both agree that after a certain point, he locked in and gave the
|performance we see in the movie. Even someone that talented really
|struggled with his work at times; no artist is “safe” from a shitty
|time and all you can do is keep going. Since the public pretty much
|only sees finished projects, it’s easy to forget that and think if
|your current draft sucks, it can never get better. It can, as long as
|you keep going.
|u/DasFunke - 15 hours
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|Monster was crazy good. Theron doesn’t get enough credit anymore. She
|did then because she won an Oscar, but it’s kind of forgotten now.
|u/shananiganz - 12 hours
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|My knee jerk reaction was, “why didn’t they find an ugly actress to
|play the lead?” Then I watched the movie and was blown away by her
|performance
|u/JMer806 - 10 hours
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|The makeup artists deserve an Oscar for being able to make
|Charlize Theron unattractive
|u/Miami_Mice2087 - 6 hours
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|Theron gained 30 pounds and also neglected her health and skin
|care routine to make her face look pimply, puffy, and mottled.
|Plus the makeup dpt used Star Trek alien silicone techniques to
|add Wuornos' trademark pocks and scars from her drug use and
|probably drug-related skin picking.
|u/kitti-kin - 3 hours
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|I feel like there was a conceptual element to casting Theron too -
|part of the point of that story was that Aileen Wuornos was *made*
|ugly by poverty and trauma and a deeply fucked up life. She wasn't
|born a monster, and her superficial "ugliness" was pretty much all
|just poverty (bad teeth, damaged skin, premature aging, etc).
|u/tmink0220 - 14 hours
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|Monster was crazy good.
|u/cdheer - 11 hours
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|A friend didn’t realize it was her until I told him. That’s a
|performance they’ll be talking about in 100 years, assuming
|civilization is still a thing.
|u/ChaseAlmighty - 11 hours
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|For me, this was Benicio Del Toro in Fear and Loathing. I watched
|it way back when it came out and multiple times throughout the
|years but only realized it was him after watching it like 20 times
|u/Global-Swordfish-998 - 11 hours
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|Same here! To add to this, I didn’t realize that was Jared Leto
|in Dallas buyers club until the credits started rolling.
|u/Asparagussie - 17 hours
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|Just said the same thing about Philip Seymour Hoffman.
|u/Beginning_Pudding_69 - 17 hours
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|Guy was such a master of his craft. You really realize the more time
|goes on and you see him in role after role. It’s like at one point
|you go “man this guy really has a knack for picking good movies to
|be in” and then you go “oh shit no this guy literally makes the
|movie good”. No matter the size of his role he makes a grand
|impression. His death was a tragedy. You saw man with an addiction
|break in real time. I think he spent like 1500 bucks on dime bags of
|h in one night before he passed. Poor dude probably couldn’t even
|get high anymore.
|u/__BipolarExpress__ - 18 hours
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|Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison
|u/cryptid_snake88 - 18 hours
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|Definitely.. The Doors film is fantastic and even more kudos when you
|learn that Kilmer sang the songs... Perfect
|u/ScotLaRot - 14 hours
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|I think I read somewhere that Val Kilmer sent the producers 4 songs.
|1 he sang and the other 3 by Morrison and asked them which song they
|thought he sang and they could t tell the difference between him and
|Morrison only to later say that they were all sung by Kilmer
|u/tonyMEGAphone - 13 hours
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|There's a fantastic documentary about him. He's always loved to
|sing and act. It's really sad because he currently has or had and
|got over some sort of throat issue that left him unable to
|communicate and act like he used to.
|u/PrimarchKonradCurze - 12 hours
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|Throat cancer. He hid it for some years.
|u/Hot_mama2011 - 10 hours
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|I can understand that. Imagine getting a disease that takes
|away so many things and things specific to your livelihood and
|public image too.
|u/syzygialchaos - 9 hours
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|Then imagine refusing treatment because you’re a Christian
|Scientist, so you lose your ability to speak. The only
|reason he didn’t die is because the caved to his family who
|begged him to get treated before it’s too late.
|u/Hot_mama2011 - 7 hours
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|Damn I had no idea, I honestly knew nothing about the guy
|or his situation it just seemed sad surface level
|u/bstarr3 - 8 hours
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|I actually thought it was quite well done how they rolled that
|into his character in Top Gun Maverick
|u/motorcitywings20 - 14 hours
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|Apparently the Doors couldn’t determine who was Jim and who was Val
|singing
|u/lightingthefire - 6 hours
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|Its possible that Val Kilmer was just a better singer than Jim,
|right?
|u/Rospigg1987 - 18 hours
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|Yeah it's no contest really, he learned the songs and was pretty damn
|good when comparing the singing voices but I seem to remember that
|Oliver Stone went for the original recordings instead, could remember
|it wrong though. EDIT: Seems like it was a mix between both. >[https
|://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101761/trivia/?ref\_=tt\_dyk\_trv](https://ww
|w.imdb.com/title/tt0101761/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv) >Closeup shots
|use [Val Kilmer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000174/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s
|voice, long distance shots use [Jim
|Morrison](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s voice.
|u/TrueOrFolk - 17 hours
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|Apparently he learned the songs and the way Jim sang them so well
|that OG band members could not distinguish between Val and Jim, as
|an additional to his talent in this role I would like to include him
|as Doc Holiday, a performance so strong that Kurt Russell who was at
|the time basically directing the movie, let Val cook and set every
|character behind him.
|u/South-Rabbit-4064 - 17 hours
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|Kurt Russell seems like such a stand up dude
|u/ForceGhost47 - 14 hours
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|Skin that smokewagon and see what happens
|u/Freddydaddy - 14 hours
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|What a great line
|u/joe_s1171 - 13 hours
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|Well, don’t just stand there and bleed.
|u/slom68 - 13 hours
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|Billy Bob Thornton has entered the chat
|u/Rospigg1987 - 17 hours
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|That's it, thanks for jolting my memory had a The Doors phase in
|the early 00s and consumed a lot of media about them I guess every
|stoner goes through a similar phase with late 60s bands. But you
|are right Val Kilmer was an absolute GOAT when it came to acting
|in that era.
|u/manyhippofarts - 15 hours
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|I mean, Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles was pretty good too.
|u/jj198handsy - 15 hours
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|I heard it that to get the part he sent in a tape of him singing
|over the top of some doors music and asked Stone to say which bits
|were him and which were Morrison, after Stone picked which ones were
|which, Val said, ‘they are all me’. And thats when Cruise (who
|wanted to mine) lost the part.
|u/Mo-shen - 17 hours
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|Not to derail but I had a teacher in college who went to a doors
|concert..the crowd pissed off Morrison so he sat down on the stage and
|read poetry for two hours. This just reminded me that.
|u/Look_Up_Here - 14 hours
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|That sounds more like something Van Morrison would do.
|u/boringdystopianslave - 15 hours
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|Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday aswell, not sure about accuracy tbh but
|what a performance.
|u/NotAnotherEmpire - 14 hours
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|He's playing the legend of Doc Holliday, like a lot of Tombstone
|is.
|u/dudleymooresbooze - 14 hours
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|Val Kilmer as Elvis, too.
|u/Rox_xe - 18 hours
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|I love that movie to death and the fact he sung all songs is
|incredible,but the way they twisted Jim to turn him into one of
|Stone's characters was almost hideous
|u/oldmandirty - 16 hours
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|Couldn’t agree with you more. I think Ray Manzarek said it was like
|Stone took all the worst aspects of Jim and made a movie about it.
|Great movie though
|u/Rox_xe - 15 hours
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|Yeah agree the movie is an extremely entertaining trip and Val
|truly nailed perfectly the role he was given. But as an accurate
|biopic it was awful
|u/mito413 - 17 hours
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|I came looking for this. He channeled Jim hard in that movie. Also
|if you have never seen Jimmy Fallon doing Jim Morrison singing the
|Reading Rainbow theme, you should check it out on YouTube. Scary
|good. Edit:[This](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--RYPHqbD50&pp=ygUWZm
|FsbG9uIHJlYWRpbmcgcmFpbmJvdw%3D%3D)
|u/syracTheEnforcer - 16 hours
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|Shoulda tagged him dude. I don’t know if he still roams around here,
|but unless I’m totally insane I seem to remember him randomly popping
|in. Super cool dude.
|u/Parksters - 17 hours
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|I think Val Kilmer was more Jim Morrison than actual Jim Morrison 😂😂😂
|he killed it
|u/thecountnotthesaint - 17 hours
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|Even the surviving members of the doors thought he sounded just like
|Jim Morrison.
|u/menthaal - 16 hours
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|It’s hurts to know Kilmer lost his voice due to throat cancer…
|u/Plastic_Code5022 - 15 hours
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|I hope him and Bruce are as comfortable as they can be.
|u/pintperson - 15 hours
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|I always thought the guy in Wayne’s World 2 did a perfect Jim
|Morrison.
|u/panteragstk - 12 hours
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|Val Kilmer as John Holmes. Wonderland is a hell of a movie.
|u/0zymandias_1312 - 18 hours
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|the guy who played hitler in downfall
|u/Kasegauner - 17 hours
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|Bruno Ganz
|u/HipsEnergy - 16 hours
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|Bruno Ganz was such an incredible actor. In Himmel Über Berlin, You
|can't tear your eyes away.
|u/icouldwander - 14 hours
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|Wings of Desire as well! That movie led me to Downfall; Ganz is
|amazing.
|u/Lock_Down__ - 13 hours
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|You’re talking about the same movie actually. Der Himmel Über
|Berlin is the original German title. “The Sky (Heaven) Over
|Berlin” A much more fitting title IMO.
|u/HipsEnergy - 12 hours
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|I often have a hard time remembering the English title. The
|German one is perfect.
|u/lejocko - 13 hours
|
|On a side note - he was bearer of the "Iffland - Ring" and at
|least if you're German it's worth it to follow the works of the
|person who holds that ring.
|u/Foreign_Rock6944 - 15 hours
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|Truly an incredible performance.
|u/Captain_Grammaticus - 13 hours
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|He was Swiss!
|u/OmeletteDuFromage95 - 17 hours
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|Holy shit yes. Probably the best rendition and one of the best
|performances in general. Man absolutely nailed the role.
|u/Hoskuld - 13 hours
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|Fun fact he studied the (very limited) footage of Hitler speaking in
|private settings to prepare for the role
|u/Whizbang35 - 8 hours
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|It's a 10 minute record of him having lunch with Finnish Field
|Marshall Gustav von Mannerheim. It's notable because it's the
|only recording of Hitler speaking in a relaxed tone instead of the
|bombast of his speeches. Another interesting thing is he refers to
|armored vehicles with the English term "tanks" instead of the
|German "panzer".
|u/MadRaymer - 10 hours
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|It obviously paid off. You can see the subtle touches like his
|hand twitching. And it takes skilled actor to do it enough that we
|notice it, but not have it be ham-fisted and over the top.
|u/Saturn212 - 17 hours
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|Bruno Ganz
|u/Arglissima - 17 hours
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|Bruno Ganz!
|u/54sharks40 - 18 hours
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|I was shocked when the credits rolled and I learned Joaquin Phoenix sang
|those song versions, not Johnny Cash
|u/CommercialExotic2038 - 17 hours
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|They both did their own singing. (Reese Witherspoon)
|u/lrrssssss - 17 hours
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|Oh man. Young me 100% fell in love with singing Reese.
|u/boomer_g - 15 hours
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|Between that and her southern accent, 14 year old me fell in love.
|u/bushhooker - 13 hours
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|“I walked into a honky tonky just the other day” with that twang
|my goodness
|u/kid-karma - 13 hours
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|Reese Witherspoon is one of those people who is objectively
|attractive, but does absolutely nothing for me (which I'm sure
|would be absolutely devastating for her to hear)
|u/lrrssssss - 12 hours
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|I won’t tell
|u/Fun-Mode3214 - 16 hours
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|Off Topic, but Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman rocked ass in Moulin
|Rouge
|u/Sauce58 - 16 hours
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|Rocked ass😂 never heard that one
|u/disgusting-brother - 15 hours
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|I’ll rock your ass
|u/SpenglerE - 13 hours
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|Unsure if that's a compliment
|u/postysclerosis - 12 hours
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|It’s usually used to describe Taco Bell
|u/CommercialExotic2038 - 15 hours
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|I'm the other person who likes moulin rouge
|u/JoesGarage2112 - 13 hours
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|Rocked ass holy shit 😆
|u/Made_lion - 16 hours
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|I’d love playing those songs on piano and thinking of their
|singing, while I sing…. In tune but not as well
|u/Fabulous-Ad-3046 - 13 hours
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|They did, i loved everything about that movie!
|u/Any-External-6221 - 12 hours
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|Yes! The first big note that Ewan McGregor sings is chilling. As a
|matter of fact I think I might watch that movie tonight, thanks!
|u/youcancallmejb - 17 hours
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|I am shocked, just learning this right now. Feeling like a damn fool,
|especially given how much I love and respect this movie AND Phoenix.
|Thank you for teaching me something today :)
|u/rjwyonch - 18 hours
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|Same for the Elton John bio pic
|u/TH3GINJANINJA - 18 hours
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|idk what world you’re living in but it was very noticeable that
|taron was singing and not elton. he’s definitely an amazing singer,
|but it was noticeably not elton.
|u/misec_undact - 17 hours
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|Same with Phoenix as Cash, Joaquin did a terrific job singing but
|it was obviously not the deep low timbre of Johnny Cash.
|u/Beginning_Pudding_69 - 17 hours
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|It’s actor who played the person most accurately not actor who
|sang the most accurately. In either case this goes to Val Kilmer
|for his portrayal of Mr Mojo Risin. Acting and singing. Even
|Ray couldn’t distinguish between the two singers.
|u/ObanKenobi - 16 hours
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|That's the post, yes. But the specific comment chain this is
|in started with a guy saying he was 'shocked' when credits
|rolled on Walk the Line, because he couldn't believe it was
|phoenix singing, rather than cash. Which is also nuts.
|Phoenix didn't sound even remotely like cash. Nobody who's
|even the slightest bit of a fan couldve thought that was
|Johnny cash singing
|u/rjwyonch - 17 hours
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|Ok, fair… more just commenting on the impressive chops. Triple
|threats are pretty rare in Hollywood these days.
|u/TH3GINJANINJA - 17 hours
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|that’s true. he absolutely killed it.
|u/Spreadthinontoast - 13 hours
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|He’s no Dewey cox but damn was he pretty good!
|u/HBK42581 - 17 hours
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|Just wait for the Bob Dylan biopic with Chalamet. He sounds
|incredible.
|u/RemarkableCode7934 - 15 hours
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|And with A Complete Unknown it will be even more impressive because
|Chalamet sang everything live during filming. No pre-records were
|used. And as far as the songs I already heard he is pretty amazing.
|You can hear both voices at once, Dylan and Chalamet. Very amazing
|how he managed to do this.
|u/Strider_Hardy - 13 hours
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|The movie is wildly inaccurate tho and paints June as a saint and his
|first wife as a bitch when it was the other way around...
|u/Salarian_American - 12 hours
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|I remember an interview (or it might have been the commentary
|track?)where the director talked about how much Joaquin trained and
|practiced, and he just couldn't get his voice to go as low as Johnny
|Cash's. And then, a couple of weeks before shooting when they were
|about to give up and use the original tracks instead, he had some kind
|of breakthrough and suddenly he could do it.
|u/Swimming-Pop-6878 - 18 hours
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|Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn.
|u/highwaypegasus - 8 hours
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|This deserves to be at the top, and Beverly D'Angelo also deserves a
|lot of praise for her performance as Patsy Cline. Coal Miner's
|Daughter is such a good movie. Stellar performances all around.
|u/merrill_swing_away - 13 hours
|
|Saw that movie a long time ago. The drummer for 'The Band' played her
|father. RIP.
|u/moemoe7012 - 17 hours
|
|Angela Basset as Tina Turner
|u/LadyBug_0570 - 12 hours
|
|You know, I remember when it came out and thinking "Angela looks
|nothing like her." But after the first performance (in the white
|dress), I got lost in the movie. She moved just like Tina. She
|embodied Tina. She became Tina.
|u/Therunningman06 - 14 hours
|
|This is another one I can’t believe is this far down. Hell people
|are saying Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln and we don’t have video or
|audio of Lincoln
|u/hiitsme_sbtcwgb - 9 hours
|
|Angela Basset is an amazing actress
|u/MrsTokenblakk - 11 hours
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|This is my vote as well. She was phenomenal.
|u/Economy_Mix_7459 - 6 hours
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|She was incredible. And Laurence Fishburne was great as Ike.
|u/Consistent-Prune-448 - 18 hours
|
|Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK….I had to look twice to make
|sure it wasn’t live footage
|u/TheCommissarM41 - 18 hours
|
|That man is the king of chameleons
|u/barbarnossa - 13 hours
|
|> Imagine one day you're at work or out for a drink or doing the
|shopping and someone shouts "CUT" and it turns out you were Gary
|Oldman all along. > That's how good an actor he is. courtesy of
|u/stormshadowfax
|u/Which_Engineer1805 - 11 hours
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|He was great as Sid Vicious too.
|u/merrill_swing_away - 13 hours
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|Gary Oldman as Dracula. Gawd that's scary.
|u/ikedriver2000 - 11 hours
|
|Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious was really good.
|u/No_Profit_415 - 9 hours
|
|And Churchill.
|u/lolmyspacewhooers - 17 hours
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|I’m just a patsy.
|u/Tin_OSpam - 18 hours
|
|Daniel Brühl was fantastic as Niki Lauda in Rush
|u/boringdystopianslave - 15 hours
|
|Daniel Bruhl is one of those actors who, when appears I'm like "Yes!
|This guy!" Joyeaux Noel and Inglorious Basterds aswell. Superb actor.
|His Zemo in the Winter Soldier TV show stole the show aswell. It would
|have been 10x better if the show was about him.
|u/Nettie_Moore - 11 hours
|
|Yes! Kind of like when William Fichtner pops up in a movie. I know
|I’m going to like the movie a little bit more.
|u/shadovvvvalker - 11 hours
|
|His return was the best decision in falcon and the winter soldier.
|u/dufunk - 6 hours
|
|Don't forget *Good Bye Lenin!* Great flick.
|u/inagartendavita - 16 hours
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|Brühl is underrated
|u/fourbums - 14 hours
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|Huge in Europe.
|u/usernamesarehard1979 - 11 hours
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|I don’t think he’s any larger or taller vs. when he’s in the US.
|u/Nettie_Moore - 11 hours
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|176 cm in Europe, but only 5’9” in the US.
|u/usernamesarehard1979 - 11 hours
|
|Ah. Yeah. You’re correct.
|u/Wise_Marketing_4610 - 16 hours
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|pretty sure he's extremely well regarded but wtf do I know
|u/PanzerPi - 16 hours
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|Smug, unlikeable and thoroughly compelling.
|u/HipsEnergy - 16 hours
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|He's excellent in everything. I first saw him in Goodbye Lenin and
|thought he definitely deserved to be in the big leagues.
|u/boringdystopianslave - 15 hours
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|Initially, then you feel sympathy for him so bad at the end and
|realise he was a fucking warrior.
|u/bullitt1990 - 14 hours
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|Niki was just a different breed.
|u/bastante60 - 14 hours
|
|Have to agree ... I confess, didn't know Daniel Brühl, and as a German
|speaker I found myself looking up this phenomenal actor who spoke with
|an Austrian accent, and sounded EXACTLY like Nikki!! LOL ...
|subsequently I've seen Daniel in roles speaking perfectly in Spanish
|too, go figure!! Lauda was well known, he did a lot of TV (F1
|commentary, talk shows) in Germany. Such a cool guy ...
|u/RobGrey03 - 13 hours
|
|Daniel Brühl's breakout role in "Goodbye Lenin!" won him the German
|Film Award and European Film Awards for best actor.
|u/Blackbloombeach - 12 hours
|
|As far as I remember, he's half Spanish and speaks 5 or 6 languages,
|including German and Spanish, of course.
|u/boxed_lunch_venom - 15 hours
|
|Rush is such a good movie high underrated I think. Never see people
|talk about it. One of the few Chris hemsworth performances that feels
|different imo
|u/T_affy1 - 12 hours
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|Directed by ron howard
|u/plz_send_cute_cats - 15 hours
|
|oh he was amazing. huge daniel brühl fan
|u/mechanicalcontrols - 13 hours
|
|And Hemsworth was a fantastic choice to play James Hunt too. I really
|like when Ron Howard does "based on a true story" movies. See also:
|Apollo 13.
|u/Rox_xe - 18 hours
|
|Jamie Foxx was incredible as Ray Charles
|u/playlistpro - 18 hours
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|this is my vote
|u/Rox_xe - 18 hours
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|Totally, the way he captured his voice, mannerisms, the look... It
|immediately became my favorite biopic
|u/disgusting-brother - 15 hours
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|And then it became the template for every music biopic for decades
|lol
|u/c00lrthnu - 13 hours
|
|Jamie Foxx's greatest ability isn't being an actor IMO - it's his
|ability to do impressions insanely well. Every single one I've
|seen him do is the person he's impersonating down to most minute
|detail of their personality
|u/YutYut6531 - 18 hours
|
|With enough makeup, he would be a phenomenal [donald
|trump](https://youtu.be/aFU1VECpYV4?si=VvuHzz3xp7TQMJZh)
|u/finneemonkey - 17 hours
|
|I want him to do a Saturday night live cold open as trump
|u/insomniacslounge - 11 hours
|
|Start the open with James Austin Johnson as Trump getting ready to
|go on stage, talking into mirror about needing extra bronzer for
|yuge day. Then cut to Jamie Foxx walking onto stage with no makeup
|but a Trump wig.
|u/TheAndorran - 12 hours
|
|Holy shit, I knew Jamie Foxx was crazy talented, but his having
|probably the best Trump impression I’ve ever heard locked and loaded
|was not on my checklist.
|u/vacri - 12 hours
|
|[Shane Gillis](https://youtube.com/shorts/Xj_KXoNnako?si=DmD2-5RSl
|9WYbZJW) does a really good impersonation, and is able to
|freestyle him as well. Foxx is relying on a couple of catchphrases
|- Gillis has on-the-fly conversations. Also does a great
|impression of actual quotes, too.
|u/jcmib - 17 hours
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|Excuse me, excuse me
|u/-Ximena - 13 hours
|
|He's excellent with impressions. It's mind boggling lol
|u/AdventuresofRobbyP - 13 hours
|
|“They TRIED to give me the VIRUS 😩” 💯💀💀
|u/2spicy_4you - 18 hours
|
|Jamie Foxx might be the most talented guy on the planet
|u/BumbotheCleric - 15 hours
|
|Donald Glover gotta be in the debate
|u/ThinksTheyKnowBetter - 14 hours
|
|Shout out for one that often goes under the radar too- Viggo
|Mortensen. Dead Don't Hurt last year, credits: - written by:
|Viggo Mortensen - directed by: Viggo Mortensen - produced by:
|Viggo Mortensen - starring: Viggo Mortensen - music by: Viggo
|Mortensen Pretty damn cool.
|u/2spicy_4you - 15 hours
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|For sure, he’s awesome
|u/Lou-nee - 16 hours
|
|Loved it! Went out and bought the soundtrack. Was listening to it and
|said to my hubby "Wow! Jamie Foxx really nailed Ray Charles' voice
|eh?" The hilarity that ensued when he laughed and I realized I was
|listening to Ray... Anyway, that's how good Jamie Foxx was!
|u/GerbyDaGod - 18 hours
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|- Christian Bale as Dicky Eklund in The Fighter - Jack Black as Bernie
|Tiede in Bernie
|u/Dongslinger420 - 18 hours
|
|Jack Black as the teenage girl in Jumanji
|u/DaddyDontTakeNoMess - 17 hours
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|"Where is my PHONE"
|u/The_Great_19 - 17 hours
|
|We quote this daily in my household
|u/Salarian_American - 12 hours
|
|"Is that really what you're worried about right now?" "Oh do you
|not think this might be a good time to, like, CALL SOMEBODY?"
|u/peterthepieeater - 11 hours
|
|“I feel like ever since I lost my phone, my other senses have
|kind of heightened.”
|u/Perihelion_PSUMNT - 11 hours
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|“Or change your status to stuck in a frickin video game?!”
|u/piznit007 - 18 hours
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|Haha he really did nail the mannerisms
|u/Working_File2825 - 17 hours
|
|Awkwafina as Danny Devito
|u/rjwyonch - 18 hours
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|Personally, I go for jack as THE big fat panda.
|u/Blackhole_5un - 17 hours
|
|I counter with Christian Bale as Ken Miles in Ford V Ferrari.
|u/Sammy_Dog - 15 hours
|
|Once again, Christian Bale is great in a role (terrific movie).
|u/RobGrey03 - 13 hours
|
|"H-A-P-P-Y, I'm H-A-P-P-Y, I know I am, I'm sure I am, I'm H-A-P-
|P-Y!"
|u/Expendable_Red_Shirt - 13 hours
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|He was also great at both Dick Cheney and Bruce Wayne. He can really
|nail a person.
|u/Ok_Squirrel_4199 - 17 hours
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|Christian Bale in Vice.
|u/Smart-Classroom1832 - 15 hours
|
|My vote is that Christian Bale is the ultimate winner only because
|he has at least 3 stellar portrayals, and overall physical range.
|Thinking of The Mechanic, vs The Dark Knight, vs Vice. His physical
|transformations are insane.
|u/Pad_TyTy - 13 hours
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|Machinist
|u/oh_hai_mark1 - 17 hours
|
|He nailed that role in Vice, i think it was because there was so
|much source material for reference to get the speech patterns and
|mannerisms just right
|u/SortofChef - 18 hours
|
|Perfect picks. I’m going to add Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln.
|u/NinersInBklyn - 17 hours
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|Not to be difficult, but how the hell would you know how Lincoln
|actually acted? I’ve scoured the web, and especially surprising
|for someone so famous (I think he was US President, after all!)
|there’s just no video. I love a good daguerreotype as much as the
|next guy, but I’m finding it hard to extrapolate mannerisms and
|vocal tics from an image of a guy sitting still for five minutes.
|u/Mediocre_Internal_89 - 17 hours
|
|Lincoln was a talented vampire hunter.
|u/AlexDKZ - 17 hours
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|True, I saw that documentary filmed in real time
|u/raven_widow - 17 hours
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|There are journals and diaries describing his mannerisms.
|u/SortofChef - 17 hours
|
|When I posted this, I thought the same thing. I guess after years
|of seeing pictures of him and studying him as a person, lawyer and
|then politician. Daniel Day-Lewis just brought him to life for me.
|u/mywordswillgowithyou - 17 hours
|
|you mean Christian Bale as Dick Chaney
|u/slowcub - 18 hours
|
|God I love Bernie. One of my favorite movies. So underrated
|u/irishgypsy1960 - 18 hours
|
|I was confused if I was watching a documentary for quite some time
|when I first saw this movie.
|u/imij_da_muse - 16 hours
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|Bernie is a true story?🤯
|u/truffles45 - 16 hours
|
|I thought Christian bale was a good Dick Chaney.
|u/JGCities - 18 hours
|
|George C. Scott as Patton His son watched the film and was crying and
|told the person next to him that THAT was his dad on screen.
|u/Suspicious-Earth-648 - 18 hours
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|The best. He was also really good as Cus D’Amato in Tyson
|u/pheitkemper - 17 hours
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|I don't think so. The real George Patton had a much squeakier, whinier
|voice. George C. Scott's Patton: https://youtu.be/PS5yfhPGaWE Real
|Patton: https://youtu.be/vTvkvPh_OKw
|u/papaprof - 16 hours
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|Real Patton sounds like Mayor Quimby
|u/GothmogBalrog - 12 hours
|
|You have to remember that old audio equipment tended to pitch up
|voices
|u/Quake_Guy - 17 hours
|
|I was going to say George C Scott was a better Patton than Patton. I
|wonder how many actors mentioned here is the same thing. On a side
|note, if you read about Patton's speeches, he had a definite Trump
|like element to him.
|u/The_OtherGuy_99 - 17 hours
|
|Exactly right. He was what Patton wanted so badly to be.
|Fortunately for the man's legacy, most people will remember GCS when
|someone mentions Patton.
|u/Traveler_Protocol1 - 13 hours
|
|And he refused his Oscar, no? (Yes, I can google it, but that’s too
|easy. Grew up with Encyclopedias. Haha)
|u/FloppyObelisk - 14 hours
|
|Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goth (Schindlers List) A survivor of the
|holocaust was on set and started physically shaking in fear when she met
|the actor for the first time.
|u/Fabulous-Ad-3046 - 13 hours
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|Vicious
|u/pgh9fan - 8 hours
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|Fun fact: Ralph Fiennes and I were born on exactly the same day.
|u/haroldangel - 12 hours
|
|Had to scroll so far to find this! Thank you.
|u/fjsjahshfjshabxjsn - 6 hours
|
|His eyes were absolutely horrifying. Great work by
|him/makeup/lighting etc because they are scarred into my brain
|u/Northerngal_420 - 18 hours
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|Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.
|u/FluffyRogue - 18 hours
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|Lisa Ann too
|u/guidethyhandd - 17 hours
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|wait what
|u/Hanzell85 - 17 hours
|
|Lisa Ann as Sarah Palin I’m pretty sure
|u/G0dsquad - 17 hours
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|She nailed it
|u/Jambo11 - 16 hours
|
|I see what you did there.
|u/DehliJelly - 17 hours
|
|*Paylin!
|u/gothmommy9706 - 13 hours
|
|Let's not forget Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer
|u/Northerngal_420 - 13 hours
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|Impossible. When she left with the podium was hilarious.
|u/gothmommy9706 - 12 hours
|
|And the massive wad of gum lmao
|u/ocarter145 - 17 hours
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|You betcha!
|u/dandee93 - 17 hours
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|I can see Russia from my house
|u/bdbr - 15 hours
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|The crazy thing is, Fey was so spot on that people actually
|believed that is what Palin said. Granted what Palin actually said
|was also pretty ridiculous in context, but it wasn't total
|nonsense. (She said you can see Russia from some parts of Alaska,
|which is true for a few remote islands, but this was her response
|to a question about her foreign policy credentials)
|u/builder137 - 17 hours
|
|Sarah Palin having gone as Tina Fey for Halloween before made it quite
|poetic.
|u/Mister-Psychology - 11 hours
|
|Julianne Moore was perfect as Sarah Palin in the very great Game
|Change.
|u/gonowbegonewithyou - 18 hours
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|Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Vice (2018)
|u/0melettedufromage - 17 hours
|
|Christian Bale in any role. He and Gary Oldman are chameleons.
|u/Come_along_quietly - 16 hours
|
|They should be in a movie together where they each play each other.
|:-)
|u/Instatetragrammaton - 15 hours
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|Face/Off 2.
|u/RoboBurglar - 14 hours
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|Old-Bale Bugaloo
|u/THE_BLUE_BOLT - 13 hours
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|The Face-ening
|u/dgisfun - 11 hours
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|Face offer
|u/strangevimes - 15 hours
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|This would be a great SNL skit
|u/shutterslappens - 16 hours
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|I watched this last night, Bale was very good.
|u/boringdystopianslave - 15 hours
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|Christian Bale in Ford Vs Ferrari aswell.
|u/DiverExpensive6098 - 13 hours
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|Sam rockwell also does a great George W. Bush in that film.
|u/HueRooney - 18 hours
|
|Ben Kingsley as Gandhi How has this not yet been mentioned?
|u/ZizzyBeluga - 17 hours
|
|For the same reason no one's mentioned Gary Busey as Buddy Holly
|u/NauvooMetro - 9 hours
|
|Yeah, those movies are both 40+ years old. And Busey isn't really
|famous for serious acting these days. But he absolutely nailed the
|Buddy Holly role.
|u/nanneryeeter - 9 hours
|
|Wait... That was Busey? Son of a bitch.
|u/Crashgirl4243 - 8 hours
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|It was before his accident and he turned into a serious looney
|u/rainbwbrightisntpunk - 17 hours
|
|Cause a lot of the people in here weren't born when it came out lol. I
|was and I haven't even seen it.
|u/Maelstrom_Witch - 16 hours
|
|Cuz you’re old. Like me.
|u/CaliforniaNavyDude - 14 hours
|
|>How has this not been mentioned? I'd guess because we don't really
|know how accurate of a depiction it was. It's a fantastic performance,
|but accurate? We don't know, there isn't a lot of video of him to get
|an accurate idea of his mannerisms to compare Kingsley's performance
|to.
|u/lostbelmont - 15 hours
|
|Is one of those movies that got all the praise and awards when it came
|out, then the time forgot about it
|u/CheckHistorical5231 - 8 hours
|
|Ben Kingsley’s grandfather was from the same village as Gandhi.
|u/CaySalBank - 17 hours
|
|Matt Damon as Tom Hiddleston
|u/PezDiSpencersGifts - 16 hours
|
|You mean Loki as Loki?
|u/WarhammerRyan - 8 hours
|
|Wonder how many didn't get the Dogma throwback
|u/Keter_GT - 14 hours
|
|lmao, Luke Hemsworth as Chris Hemsworth.
|u/SeonaidMacSaicais - 13 hours
|
|Sam Neill as Odin. 😂😂
|u/car0linabeauty - 17 hours
|
|This made me laugh because I’m watching this movie with my kids
|tonight for a family movie night.
|u/Utah_Get_Two - 18 hours
|
|Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill.
|u/THE-BS - 17 hours
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|John Lithgow (The Crown) was also excellent 👌
|u/softkake - 17 hours
|
|Yeah I actually preferred Lithgow’s version, personally.
|u/BojackTrashMan - 13 hours
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|People were really skeptical because he's American, but we're
|talking about *John Lithgow*. Never underestimate John Lithgow
|u/SquidgeSquadge - 17 hours
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|I would have been blown away by it if I hadn't just watched John
|Lithgow as Churchill in the crown just before who I was impressed by.
|u/Scared-Engineer-6218 - 18 hours
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|He could even play me. That chameleon.
|u/j3434 - 18 hours
|
|Daniel day Lewis played Abraham Lincoln
|u/tkh0812 - 17 hours
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|I believe historians say he played him perfectly
|u/j3434 - 17 hours
|
|Stellan Skarsgard as Boris Shcherbina In Chernobyl mini series
|u/Spider-1205 - 17 hours
|
|Forrest Whittaker played Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. I think
|he got an Oscar .... that was a sick year for the Oscar's! I wanted all
|of them to win
|u/HipsEnergy - 16 hours
|
|Oh, I'd forgotten about that film. It's so good, but so... Scarring.
|u/timojenbin - 12 hours
|
|Incredible movie. Between the bleakness, it made me ask: "Wait, how
|did Scully get hotter?"
|u/Spider-1205 - 12 hours
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|Omg fo4 real! I absolutely love her
|u/AidanGLC - 9 hours
|
|Came here to post the same. A remarkable and absolutely bone-chilling
|performance. He's the only male actor to ever sweep the major
|institutional awards (Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAGA, National Film
|Board of Review) and the major critics awards (London, LA, New York,
|National, Broadcast) for a single role.
|u/Spirit_Wanderer07 - 12 hours
|
|Damn, he was so good in that film, but I don’t know if I could ever
|watch it again.
|u/NerveFlip85 - 11 hours
|
|MacAvoy should have been nominated at the very least.
|u/McFistPunch - 17 hours
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|Nicholas Cage as Nicolas Cage
|u/michiganbikes - 16 hours
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|John Travolta does a great Nic Cage in Face Off.
|u/Abject-Difference767 - 17 hours
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|Face Off does not get the appreciation it deserves.
|u/The-dopechaud - 17 hours
|
|Pretty sure he's refering to The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
|u/deltaexdeltatee - 16 hours
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|I loved that movie so much. It's utterly ridiculous in a fantastic
|way.
|u/lavamunky - 14 hours
|
|Nicholas Cage always plays Nicholas Cage
|u/CoyoteCub - 16 hours
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|Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al
|u/Coccquaman - 8 hours
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|The role Radcliffe will be remembered for.
|u/TekkenCareOfBusiness - 3 hours
|
|Yeah right. Only if everyone wakes up tomorrow and forgets about
|the entire series of Lord of the Rings movies.
|u/timojenbin - 12 hours
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|Meticulously researched role. ;)
|u/LozoSmif - 10 hours
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|Had to scroll too damn far for this
|u/BIGGULPSHUHALRIGHT- - 7 hours
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|What an awesome movie
|u/WarhammerRyan - 8 hours
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|RiP
|u/mountainrunner5050 - 6 hours
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|Yeah Weird Al was shot and killed
|u/BrushStraight1761 - 18 hours
|
|Jeffrey Wright in Basquiat
|u/derfmai - 15 hours
|
|Not to mention David Bowie did a fantastic job playing Andy Warhol in
|the same film.
|u/_BELEAF_ - 13 hours
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|1000%. Bowie had major acting chops. There seems to be nothing the
|man could not do. A total icon. And one for the ages.
|u/Jaymcmlxx - 18 hours
|
|Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking. Theory of Everything.
|u/platweasel - 18 hours
|
|great shout
|u/Frogs4 - 17 hours
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|I thought Benedict Cumberbatch was equally as good in a TV version of
|his life.
|u/Away-Ad-8578 - 17 hours
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|Denzel Washington as Malcolm X
|u/mhills77 - 13 hours
|
|To this day I have to look carefully at Malcolm X images to determine
|if it really is Malcolm X or if it's Denzel.
|u/Fit_Contribution4279 - 13 hours
|
|I was looking for this one. IMO he deserved an Oscar for this one
|instead of Training Day (love that movie too).
|u/StonedSam - 14 hours
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|Scrolled way too far to see this. May watch that this weekend
|u/AmTurtleEnough - 15 hours
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|I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this
|u/BlueBlossom27 - 17 hours
|
|Maybe not the best ever but I think that Tom Hanks did a fabulous job as
|Mr Rogers
|u/Myrealnamewhogivesaf - 17 hours
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|Did pretty good as Sully aswell
|u/Clayfool9 - 15 hours
|
|Love how he scored that role knowing his son Colin played Fred Rogers
|in an episode of Drunk History
|u/scruntyboon - 18 hours
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|Jim Carrey in Man on the Moon
|u/HoldenCooperyoutube - 16 hours
|
|I personally think he overdid it. Andy was subtle; Jim was not
|u/RekopEca - 15 hours
|
|I also found it obnoxious... But I think what Carey was really
|trying to do was "live the Kaufman mind" not necessarily copy Andy.
|The idea that anything, ANYTHING could be a performance. You never
|knew with Andy what elements were him or what was "performance".
|That's why his career, cancer/death was controversial etc. Jim's
|interpretation was exhausting but somehow effective. The movie is
|great, with a few exceptions (Courtney love). But I agree Jim's
|behavior offsets in the documentary was appalling.
|u/Rico_is_my_dad - 17 hours
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|Had to scroll way to far down to see this
|u/SomeDudeNamedRik - 17 hours
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|When he method acted this, the real people that knew the real Andy
|Kaufman thought that Jim was Andy. Jim was andy
|u/jlees88 - 14 hours
|
|Except that Jim was a huge asshole on set. Jerry Lawler had talked
|about this on a podcast a few years ago. He said that Jim as Andy
|backstage was a straight up dick to Lawler. Jerry said that he and
|Andy were good friends and Andy was an incredibly down to earth
|person.
|u/RechargedFrenchman - 12 hours
|
|Yeah the "public" Andy as played by Carrey was spot-on and
|basically everyone involved in production agrees. The "private"
|Andy, Andy when he wasn't performing, was no different in Carrey's
|performance despite the real man being a very different person
|when he wasn't "on". Carrey only knew "working Andy" because
|that's all anyone in the larger public knew. And he nailed it. But
|that wasn't all there was to Andy as a person and Carrey failed to
|grasp that at all.
|u/KoosGoose - 15 hours
|
|Not really. It was cringe when he met Kaufman’s parents and stayed
|in character. They weren’t all that impressed.
|u/LadyBug_0570 - 12 hours
|
|Of ever there was a time to drop the character, it's when you're
|meeting the deceased's family. Even if you're perfect, it breaks
|their hearts.
|u/lewdpotatobread - 13 hours
|
|Where did you hear that because rverything else ive read and watched
|of andy's family and peers is that Jim didnt act like Andy at all
|u/WitesOfOdd - 15 hours
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|He lost his mind in that role - there’s a a movie on that
|u/TheDeadEndKing - 18 hours
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|Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley (Bubba-Ho-Tep)
|u/hennsippin - 17 hours
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|Thought the guy playing JFK nailed it!
|u/TheDeadEndKing - 17 hours
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|I know, he is my runner up!
|u/twosnailsnocats - 14 hours
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|I was going to say Bruce as Bruce in various movies. He just did an
|AMA on r/horror the other day which is an entertaining read.
|u/TheDeadEndKing - 14 hours
|
|I’ve had to pleasure to meet him twice and I have to say, he is as
|charming and clever and quick witted as the characters he portrays.
|Guy just oozes charisma. I always say I hate celebrity worship
|culture with two exceptions: Bruce Campbell and Arnold
|Schwarzenegger.
|u/phironuthi - 14 hours
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|This movie does not get talked about enough
|u/EmbarrassedToe627 - 14 hours
|
|The only thing I hate more than Elvis are Elvis impersonators. I loved
|this movie.
|u/tistimenotmyrealname - 18 hours
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|Maybe not most accurate but most amazing Margot Robbie - Tonya Harding
|Eric Bana - Chopper Tom Hardy - Bronson Tom Hardy - Kray Twins
|u/Agentkeenan78 - 14 hours
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|Bana was so good in Chopper.
|u/KeyJust3509 - 18 hours
|
|Cats Blanchett as Bob Dylan
|u/HipsEnergy - 16 hours
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|I'm Not There... That's so good. I knew it was her, but I saw Dylan.
|It was such a strange feeling. She's so incredible in everything she
|does
|u/Material-Macaroon298 - 17 hours
|
|I think in Bombshell, Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly was pretty spot on.
|On a similar score, I don’t know enough about how he is and his
|mannerisms, but Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes seemed soo believable in
|tone and manor for a major successful television news executive with a
|very dark personality.
|u/DragonfruitFew5542 - 14 hours
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|I found myself forgetting it wasn't Megyn Kelly in the screen.
|Everything from her voice to her mannerisms was just super on the
|nose.
|u/RoadieGaming - 17 hours
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|Joseph Gordon Levitt as Bruce Willis.
|u/Matrix5353 - 15 hours
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|If we're counting that, I would add Josh Brolin as Tommy Lee Jones.
|u/eyemacwgrl - 16 hours
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|What movie did he play him in?
|u/RoadieGaming - 16 hours
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|Looper. I was kinda joking, but he seriously nailed it.
|u/crackersncheeseman - 18 hours
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|Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn.
|u/Toothlesstoe - 17 hours
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|Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood
|u/FCD_Ride_or_DIE - 17 hours
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|The choice is obvious, It’s Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic
|Runner up is Nicolas Cage as himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive
|Talent
|u/SkuzzlebuttPC - 14 hours
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|Bruno Ganz in Downfall. He watched hours of videos to get his mannerisms
|to a T. The meme with Hitler at the table and yelling at his generals
|is that movie
|u/Big_Fat_Polack_62 - 17 hours
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|Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in 'Sid and Nancy.'
|u/crmrdtr - 17 hours
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|Also, Gary as Lee Harvey Oswald in *JFK*.
|u/Penguinunhinged - 13 hours
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|Funnily enough, Oldman turned that role down multiple times until he
|gave in and accepted it.
|u/omgitsreallyme - 10 hours
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|when i mentally picture Sid Vicious, i always picture Gary Oldman.
|u/masterrtech - 18 hours
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|Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote.
|u/Cup-Mundane - 17 hours
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|Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland.
|u/BulletBeard29 - 13 hours
|
|90% of Band Of Brothers
|u/vandrossboxset - 18 hours
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|Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson)
|u/isalindsay77 - 16 hours
|
|The book to movie in this case is top notch. They were able to capture
|visually how the bio made you feel in a way that’s really hard to
|recreate.
|u/DungeonAssMaster - 14 hours
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|It's one of the best adaptations I've ever seen, even Hunter S.
|Thomson rewatched the film on a regular basis because he was so
|pleased with how it turned out. That is extremely rare for
|literary authors to feel this way about film adaptations of their
|works, that says a lot. And Hunter, well... would have made very
|clear his dislike if the film hadn't gone well. Terry Gilliam must
|have been terrified to fuck this up.
|u/christianjwaite - 11 hours
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|Didn’t Bill Murray get death threats after doing another
|H.S.Thompson book “where Buffalo Roam”?
|u/DungeonAssMaster - 11 hours
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|He was good friends with Hunter; I could be wrong but I think
|death threats from Hunter could mean that you mildly annoyed him
|by making him spill his overfilled drink. If he's really
|angry, guns and LSD are involved.
|u/WickedTLTD - 9 hours
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|I thought I’d never stop scrolling. How is this not at the top? He
|nailed every aspect of Thompson.
|u/monsterinsideyou - 16 hours
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|He also played Paul Kemp (Hunter S. Thompson) perfectly as well. Love
|both those movies.
|u/I_aim_to_sneeze - 8 hours
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|I love that he moved into HSTs basement for a few months to prepare
|for the role. That had to be a crazy time
|u/Excision_Lurk - 7 hours
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|Had to scroll wayyy too far to see this. I cannot read the good doctor
|without hearing Depp's voice in my head.
|u/Oreadno1 - 13 hours
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|Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, In The Name Of The Father and Lincoln.
|Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in Heavenly Creatures Jessica Lange in
|Sweet Dreams Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter Tom Hanks, Bill
|Paxton, Kevin Bacon and Gary Sinise in Apollo13
|u/Masterkhan007 - 17 hours
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|Robert Downey JR as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin
|u/boringdystopianslave - 15 hours
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|Yes! Under-rated role and movie. Robert Downey Jr smashes it every
|time.
|u/jbrayfour - 17 hours
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|Ed Harris; Gene Kranz, Apollo 13
|u/socio_butterfly - 17 hours
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|Diana Ross as Billie Holliday. Michael Douglass as Liberace.
|u/GDogg69 - 14 hours
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|Yeah, and I can't believe Liberace was gay. I mean, women loved him! I
|didn't see that one coming.
|u/irishgypsy1960 - 18 hours
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|Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett in The Runaways.
|u/dontdothistomewaylon - 14 hours
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|The Runaways is such an underrated movie!
|u/currycurrycurry15 - 15 hours
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|She is amazing and idc what anyone says about her
|u/Snowy3121 - 16 hours
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|She did well as Princess Diana took.
|u/MeesterComputer - 12 hours
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|Fool of a Took!
|u/boringdystopianslave - 15 hours
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|I'm glad she, along with Robert Pattinson, have shaken off their
|Twilight stigma and have showcased how good they really are.
|u/Personal_Drive3113 - 13 hours
|
|So the girls in the movie were just absolutely incredible. Dakota
|really filled that role so well. Kristen is and will always be a fave
|of mine
|u/cntUcDis - 16 hours
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|Bruno Ganz as Hitler in Downfall. A stunning performance.
|u/Potatopamcake - 17 hours
|
|Cameron Brittons breakout performance as Ed Kemper in Mindhunter. The
|nerdy voice was so good
|u/Sugarysam - 15 hours
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|Audie Murphy.
|u/nikonuser805 - 13 hours
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|He was so good in the movie *To Hell and Back* you would swear it was
|the real guy.
|u/Canarino80 - 18 hours
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|Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
|u/ArrrPiratey - 17 hours
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|Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf
|u/statelesspirate000 - 14 hours
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|Sean Penn as Harvey Milk was like watching a documentary. I’m not sure
|why I scrolled through tons of answers and haven’t seen this one yet.
|Number 1 best portrayal of a real historical person in my opinion
|u/Superb_Narwhal6101 - 16 hours
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|J Lo as Selena.
|u/Any-External-6221 - 12 hours
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|This is what I said as well. Captured her energy, her mannerisms her
|voice. And JLo is not exactly known for her acting.
|u/Fantastic4unko - 18 hours
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|John Malkovich.
|u/philipb2 - 17 hours
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|Malkovich Malkovich?
|u/Messithegoat24 - 18 hours
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|Mark ruffalo - Dave Toschi Zodiac
|u/Duke_Of_Halifax - 17 hours
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|- Malek as Freddie Mercury - Foxx as Ray Charles - Kilmer as Morrison -
|Phoenix as Cash But also... - Charlize Theron as Meghan Kelly in
|"Bombshell" - George C. Scott as Patton (the voice wasn't right, but
|everything else was) - Will Smith as Ali - Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln
|- David Morse as George Washington in "John Adams"
|u/jaytea86 - 16 hours
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|Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown.
|u/higgywiggypiggy - 14 hours
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|Taron Egerton as Elton John
|u/saltedbees - 4 hours
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|scrolled wayyyyyy too far for this
|u/Late-Temporary863 - 12 hours
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|Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison
|u/Motor_Somewhere7565 - 18 hours
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|Bryan Cranston as LBJ in All the Way (2016, TV Movie)
|u/zionhendrix - 18 hours
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|Abraham Lincoln as Daniel Day-Lewis
|u/BringBack4Glory - 17 hours
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|Ah yes, honest Abe was a fantastic Hollywood actor of his time
|u/mackelnuts - 16 hours
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|Alanis Morissette as God in Dogma.
|u/Reasonable-Delivery8 - 16 hours
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|Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela
|u/Most-Weird - 15 hours
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|Claire Danes did a great job as Temple Grandin
|u/AsgardianLeviOsa - 15 hours
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|Two I haven’t seen mentioned yet… Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal
|Miner’s Daughter Cameron Britton as Ed Kemper in Mindhunter
|u/shutupandevolve - 15 hours
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|Evan Peters-Dahmer
|u/SumptuousRageBait1 - 15 hours
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|Dahmer was some amazing TV. Felt so disappointed by the menendez
|series
|u/Axela556 - 17 hours
|
|I'm sorry but not Rami Malek
|u/quoththeraven1990 - 8 hours
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|One of Freddie’s friends/acquaintances (I forget who, exactly) took
|issue with how slowly Malek spoke in the film, saying that Freddie
|tended to speak very quickly. I just couldn’t stand Malek, especially
|after years of watching Queen docos, where you see that Freddie does
|indeed speak quickly. I’m sure Malek was doing the best he could, but
|his performance was jarring.
|u/GqIceman - 17 hours
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|Without a doubt, Jim Carey as Andy Kaufman
|u/Tight_Contact_9976 - 17 hours
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|Cristian Bale as Dr. Michael Burry
|u/Oldgraytomahawk - 17 hours
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|The Buddy Holly Story-Gary Busey did his own singing
|u/Kosstheboss - 17 hours
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|Jamie Fox as Ray Charles. There are some other great ones, but they
|aren't even close to this.
|u/whoopercheesie - 17 hours
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|Ben kingsley as Gandhi
|u/JSBT89 - 17 hours
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|Sebastian Stan & Lily James as Tommy & Pam. They both nailed it with
|the look, the speech inflections, and the mannerisms.
|u/OmeletteDuFromage95 - 17 hours
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|Johnny Depp as James Whitey Bulger. His performance was chilling.
|u/OhYouEightOne2 - 14 hours
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|Val Kilmer Jim Morrison
|u/Drumwife91 - 14 hours
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|Kurt Russell as coach Herb Brooks in Miracle. He was outstanding.
|u/whatidoidobc - 18 hours
|
|Is it actually common to feel that way about Malek? That movie and his
|performance were both embarrassing and every time I think about it I
|wish I never watched it.
|u/letsmakelifealive - 17 hours
|
|You mean you didn’t enjoy watching him act around his veneers? I also
|thought it was embarrassing and tame and wish we could have seen what
|Sacha Baron Cohen would have done with it.
|u/hanifshaikh_95 - 17 hours
|
|Sacha would have played Freddie with utmost perfection and honesty.
|He wanted to show what freddie really was. So much so that the
|studio got worried.
|u/space_cowboy80 - 16 hours
|
|They also wanted to have Freddie dying as the middle point of the
|movie and show Queen having "more success" afterwards which Sacha
|vehemently disagreed with them on that one.
|u/WalterPecky - 16 hours
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|I didn't make it more then 15 min into this movie before
|bailing. Is that what happened in the film?
|u/Infamous-Lab-8136 - 12 hours
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|No. The big climax is them doing Live Aid together and then
|they scroll the facts about Freddie's death over the crowd
|shot as I recall. Forgive me I only saw it once, but they
|didn't even get into the recording of Innuendo or anything
|like that. Honestly it is one of the worst biopics about
|being nothing but bald-faced lies. For instance they do a
|whole thing with a controlling boyfriend keeping him from even
|knowing about Live Aid and Mary coming to him in the rain at a
|recording studio to save him. In truth he knew about it and
|the band had been discussing it for weeks before deciding. It
|takes similar divergences from reality all over.
|u/FalcoFox2112 - 17 hours
|
|I appreciated the way they handled his sexuality with subtlety and
|respect. Like how he was straight until one day he saw a mustached
|man in jean shorts & a leather jacket wink at him and everything
|became clear to him for the first time.
|u/WalterPecky - 16 hours
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|Lmfao!
|u/FallOfAMidwestPrince - 15 hours
|
|They completely dismissed his 13 year relationship with a man to
|instead focus on his female ex. So disrespectful and homophobic.
|u/j_o_s_h_t_o_l_i - 15 hours
|
|That movie was disturbingly bad. Now rocketman was amazing
|u/SirChairmaster - 13 hours
|
|Agree, also was surprised to find out that Taron Egerton was the one
|actually singing, thought he did a great job.
|u/The-Coolest-Of-Cats - 12 hours
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|I'm surprised this was the first time I'm seeing this mentioned in
|this thread
|u/No_pajamas_7 - 13 hours
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|His performance was OK, but he was never going to carry Freddie. He
|was like 80٪ Freddie. He just couldn't match the personality. Being
|80% his size didn't help either. The script was terrible. The
|underlying message was things only went bad when Freddie experimented
|with being gay and it got better when he stopped being gay. All power
|to Malek. He didn't do a bad job. He was just the wrong choice in a
|dishonest movie.
|u/LJRich619 - 17 hours
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|Gary Busey, “The Buddy Hilly Story.” Busey sang, played guitar, and
|recorded the music.
|u/Ball-Bag-Boggins - 17 hours
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|Jonny Depp as Hunter S Thompson.
|u/PRWSTrini - 17 hours
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|Andrew Garfield as Jonathan Larson
|u/Automatic-Jello5995 - 16 hours
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|Gandhi with Ben kingsley
|u/funsammy - 14 hours
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|Julianne Moore - Game Changer (Sarah Palin)
|u/Naive-Button3320 - 14 hours
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|John Malkovich playing John Malkovichin in Being John Malkovich
|u/Negative_Potato_9250 - 13 hours
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|Frank Langella as Nixon
|u/i_need_a_username201 - 12 hours
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|Denzel Washington - Malcolm X
|u/Zestay-Taco - 12 hours
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|Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison - the doors.
|u/Keyzus - 12 hours
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|Jamie Foxx in Ray
|u/theshysamurai - 17 hours
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|Not this guy
|u/cryptid_snake88 - 18 hours
|
|Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison Edit: yep Malek done a pretty fantastic job
|as well, some notable mentions. Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill Angela
|Bassett as Tina Turner
|u/MrCatFace13 - 18 hours
|
|Johnny Depp as Hunter S Thompson
|u/Ordinary_Past9479 - 15 hours
|
|Jamie Fox: Ray Charles he really killed it
|u/Exsoc - 17 hours
|
|I know a LOT of artistic licence was taken but I like to imagine Doc
|Holiday was really like Val Kilmer's portrayal
|u/GodzillaDrinks - 17 hours
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|Bruno Ganz in Downfall.
|u/Due_Form_7936 - 17 hours
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|Daniel day Lewis - my left foot
|u/Significant-Box-2637 - 17 hours
|
|Denzel Washington as Malcolm X; Robert Downy Jr. as a black soldier;
|Eminem as…. We as himself Lol. JK, but Halle Berry was really good as
|Dorthy Dandrige too.
|u/buran_88 - 17 hours
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|Laurence Fishbourne as Ike Turner.
|u/kazoodude - 17 hours
|
|Eric Bana as Mark 'chopper' Read was incredible. I got to know chopper
|a bit after the movie came out and could never get passed how in person
|he was so much like Eric portrayed him. I'd talk to the real chopper
|and think it's just Eric Bana in character and I'd want to ask him to do
|pioda.
|u/Cthulhusreef - 17 hours
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|John Malkovich in “Being John Malkovich”
|u/Deekers - 17 hours
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|Johnny depp as hunter Thompson
|u/ItAintGayGettingHead - 16 hours
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|Eminem as Eminem
|u/tom2091 - 16 hours
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|Anthony hopkins as Nixon
|u/FoggyShrew - 16 hours
|
|Train Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough
|in The Damned United
|u/PristineWorker8291 - 16 hours
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|Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger in Black Mass.
|u/MeniscusRising - 16 hours
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|Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
|u/jakejonzart - 15 hours
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|Jamie Fox as Ray Charles was pretty phenomenal
|u/wocketywack - 14 hours
|
|Daniel Day Lewis as William Poole A.K.A. Bill The Butcher
|u/Viscount_Barse - 14 hours
|
|Daniel Radcliffe disappeared into the role of Wierd Al.
|u/Still_Top_7923 - 14 hours
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|Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday
|u/alien-native - 13 hours
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|Jim Carey as Andy Kaufman
|u/cats_are_asshats - 13 hours
|
|Woody Harrelson as Larry Flint. Im pissed that there’s 1500 comments
|here and not one mention of him or of Courtney Love as Althea.
|Outstanding. Both of them.
|u/martinbean - 12 hours
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|Val Kilmer/Jim Morrison.
|u/DemonicBrit1993 - 12 hours
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|Jaoquin Phoenix - Johnny Cash
|u/UsualFirefighter9 - 12 hours
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|Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson?!?
|u/belizeans - 12 hours
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|Denzel and Malcolm X
|u/Mystigoodoo - 10 hours
|
|Josh brolin absolutely killed it playing Tommy Lee Jones in men in black
|3
|u/sealawr - 10 hours
|
|I know I’m old. But Peter O’Toole and Lawrence of Arabia. Even the
|descendants of the Arab guerrillas thought he was identical to Lawrence
|u/PsychologicalAd6235 - 10 hours
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|Denzel Washington in Malcom X
|u/Mukduk_30 - 9 hours
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|John C Reilly as Dewy Cox. I've never seen anyone emulate a person who
|lost their sense of smell to elegantly Riveting.
|u/husky_whisperer - 9 hours
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|Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison
|u/PopsNumber1 - 9 hours
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|Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison (The Doors)
|u/Zalakael - 8 hours
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|Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic.
|u/whiskynpizza - 8 hours
|
|I'm shocked forest whitaker is at the top in the comments for last king
|of Scotland...
|u/Aggressive_Recipe808 - 6 hours
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|Sticking with the music theme, Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in the Doors.
|Fucking great!
|u/trumpSwallowsAidsCum - 6 hours
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|Val Kilmer was a better Jim Morrison than Rami Malek was Freddy Mercury
|and I think he was great
|u/SirenSongxdc - 6 hours
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|Jennifer Lopez playing Selena.
|u/Ashamed-Discipline92 - 6 hours
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|Creed Bratton
|u/heyirma - 6 hours
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|Van Kilmer playing Jim Morrison
|u/mike47gamer - 4 hours
|
|Does Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman count, even though he went so method it
|almost blew up the whole project?
|u/rustylucy77 - 4 hours
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|Jim carrey andy kaufman
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