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Charlize Theron nailed Eileen Wournos'look in Monster. Depp was much better looking than Dillinger.

Mmmm, Johnny Depp----bunk.

the chris gardner one is scary. and i gotta say, claus looks better than cruise

Dude, Will Smith and Chris Gardner look nothing alike. And I'm sure Mark Whitacre was more than flattered to have been played by Matt Damon.

Well, hello, Colonel Claus! Chisled jaw, lips lips lips . . . cheekbones and is that a chin dimple?! I'd like to stauffen your berg, if you know what I'm saying . . .

Sorry, havn't slept all night. I appear to be broken.

OK, the last one made me snort tea all over my computer screen.

I realize I'm dating myself here, but you left off Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein.

(BWeaves -- I tried to stick to movies from the last decade, otherwise, I'd have been cropping images all day long. -- DR)

I AGREE, coveredinbees. I was just reading about her new book, Cleaving, the one where she blatantly cheats on her really nice husband and learns how to become a butcher. She seems like the most self-centered person ever. Even the little reviews on the back of the book are like, "She's like your really mean, witty friend!"

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is the only one on the list where the real person is actually better looking than the actor. Which is saying a lot, because while Tom Cruise might be a lunatic, he is undoubtedly quite a good looking guy, and was done up very well there.

Charlize Theron and Matt Damon at least put effort in to realistically changing their appearance to fit the characters they were playing, to some level of success.

Barring Jesse Eisenberg who actually looks reasonably like Mark Zuckerberg and Drew Barrymore, Gerard Butler, and Leo DiCaprio who are hard to actually compare with those pictures the rest are so far off it is ridiculous.

I hate to say this about a Nazi, but damn von Stauffenberg is hot! He's probably the only one on this list who's more attractive than the actor.

We should do one of these for Pajiba.

YES!
WANT!

Anyone else think Kballs should be played by Bill Murray?

Superasente, I thought KBalls was Bill Murray.

Right there with you, Lauren, but it could be the sleep deprivation.

Barring Jesse Eisenberg who actually looks reasonably like Mark Zuckerberg

I don't see it at all. Then again I disagree about Cruise being good looking. I've never understood his appeal.

@Mrs. Julien: A lot of people think he's an idiot. It's also why he's dead.

Mrs. Julien, I has the exact same reaction to that book. It did nothing but piss me off and convince me that he was a fucking moron.

Is it just me, or do the actors and actresses have incredibly well-defined chins compared to their real-life counterparts?

A picture of Penn in Milk would have shown just how close he was a little better I give you

http://bit.ly/dJ9j9B

Depp and Dillinger have the same hairstyle, not the same ears.

Colonel von Stauffenberg is way better looking than Tom Cruise.

Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash was strangely appropriate, I think. Worth a side by side look at least.
Julia Roberts vs. Erin Brokovich was pretty awesome. PSH as Capote, etc. Seems like the resemblance was the kicker in their respective Oscar bids.

Oh, and of course the Meryl as Julia Child was superb.

BWeaves, I dated myself once.
Didn't work out and I wound up not talking to
myself for three weeks.
Got laid though. So that's good.

John C. McGinley is a dead ringer for John Grogan. If he'd been cast, i may have been able to sit through Marley and Me.

They should have got Paul F. Tompkins to play Dillinger.

Uda: Hahaha. I know. I'm actually in an in depth, full time, anatomy/physiology program right now. Why this is relevant is it means that I end up looking at everyone structurally, what shape features they have, how they fit together, how far apart they are. This is how Jesse and Mark look alike. Their facial features, eyes, nose, and mouth all have the same general shape and the way they are laid out/the ratios are very similar.
Their colorings are very different, and Jesse has better hair, more defined features, Hollywood dentistry, and has clearly taken better care of his skin. But from an anatomical standpoint, I still think they are quite similar.

As for Tom Cruise - I was just trying to be objective. He isn't my type at all. I was attempting to cast aside bias and say/see that he is an attractive person. Not sure how much success I had.

Elizabeth Gilbert looks WAY better than Julia Roberts.

Gary Sinise looked a little like Truman, in that mini-series he did. That was an awesome performance.

Monster and Charlize Theron gave me shivers.

Odnon, FTW! *giggle*

Toddler dad, I so agree with you about Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash being inspired casting. I loved the music as well as the portrayal.

The Leonidas one made me laugh out loud...

Odnon: "BWeaves, I dated myself once.
Didn't work out and I wound up not talking to
myself for three weeks.
Got laid though. So that's good."

Don't knock masterbation. It's sex with someone I love. -- Woody Allen

@ Mr Comma Man
Grizzly Man was the other 'dumb guy meets wild' guy movie.
Timothy Treadwell was his name.
I never made through Into the Wild, btw. Bored out of my mind.

Wow, Von Stauffenberg! Ich werde in mein bunk sein.

Personally, I would like to see if Jenifer Aniston looks anything like Josh Grogan's wife.