Famous vs. Unknown -Which Actors Make Better Comic Book Movies?

Wait, you seriously think Bana was a good Hulk?

Eric bana was hardly an unkown.

Why didnt u put the successful knowns? Like Patrick Stewart as prof x. Iam mckellan as magneto. Jack Michelson as joker, ledger as joker. Kelsey grammer as beast. Ed Norton as banner. RDJ as stark. I could go on and on, but the fact is that u cant just put all the poor choices just to try to support your point. There have been plenty of fantastic cbm performances by plenty of well known actors and actresses.

@CorndogBurglar
I listed the best unknowns who plaid lead roles and worst knowns who plaid lead roles. I left every one in the middle out. Just the best and worst. And Eric Banna was unknown in the USA

@WEJAlen yes, but he didn't become big after Begins, imo. The same would go for Shia Labeouf. Constantine, Holes, I-Robot, and of course, Even Stevens.

And that is kind of my point. U put the BEST unknowns and compared them to the WORST knowns, all while trying to say its better to use unknowns. U cant compare knowns vs unknowns like that lol.

Unknown actors. The thing with many known actors is that they already have their own images; for example, Ryan Reynolds, who is seen by many people as the typical bumbling, wise-cracking type of character. (Alright, not precisely, but something of that kind.) He wasn't so bad as Hal Jordan, in my opinion, but the writers might decide to give him a lot of cheesy dialogues due to that his image as an actor. Another thing is that it's pretty hard to recognize known actors as their respective characters...like, when we see Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze, what comes first in our mind have to be, "Oh, that's Nicholas Cage," and not, "Oh, that's Johnny Blaze." (Although by that example, Cage is indeed not a good choice for Johnny Blaze.) What sticks in out mind is them as actors, not as the comic book characters. Of course, that doesn't necessarily apply for all - some could make a perfect fit, such as Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson, Robert Downey, Jr., et cetera.

But, I still prefer casting unknown actors; especially for main comic book characters. It's like, we can expect to be surprised by them since we don't know what they are capable of. (And there are a lot of unknown actors that have impressive skills nowadays.) Besides, unknown actors can easily stick to the characters they portray, since they don't have their own image as actors, making it easy for us to believe and see them as their respective characters. I'm not saying that I'm against the idea of having known actors in comic book movies, though - sometimes it's pretty fun to see the people we are familiar with in these types of roles - only, I prefer to see them as supporting characters; like Sir Michael Caine as Alfred, or Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. Plus, the presence of these actors can help to attract more general audiences to go see the movie.

This article is not well thought out (as far as examples go). But I get your point. A supporting cast of famed actors and an unknown lead is my preference.

I dont know how many times I have to say it lol. My argument is that you only gave the best of unknown actors to play up the fact that unknown actors are a good idea. (keep in mind I dont necessarily disagree with that.) But when u preset the argument for the known actors, you only list the absolute worst examples in cbm history. Like my man above said, its a completely biased and unfair way to present an argument. I really cant explain it any better than that, so if u still dont get it then I dont know what to tell u.

and honestly Stallone COULD have been the perfect person to play Dredd but the script and pretty much everything else [frick]ed it up. The dude has the chin.

@Dromeo Norton was a an extremely well known actor when he did TIH.

I don't mind the actors.

I just want them to do a good job

I prefer good actors.

@ golden

lol

@golden123



Burn. Seriously, that was major burn there. But yeah, good actors is better than know and unknown actors.

@antonio-yes I know, but he's only been listing failed movies with famous actors and I'm illustrating a successful one with a famous actor. Also, let's not forget that Spider-Man had Tobey Maguire, who has famous but not well known.