This is my opinion if you have a problem with that that's fine but please don't slag me for thinking someone else could have done a better job.

Ok I know the movies out and I know they can't and won't change actors unless something bad happens but I reckon Michael Sheen who played Lucian in Underworld would have been better. I looks better, he sounds better and he would have been great. And he's Welsh! If they'd looked a bit harder they would have found him to be better. Him or Stuart Townsend.

I think Gary Oldman did a great job! He fitted perfectly!

Oooh.....I think someone else could have done a better job. But Gary Oldman did a good job.....like his crazed look in the shrieking shack. That was pretty good.

Yes, Oldman was ideal for Sirius! He fit so perfectly with my little version of him !

I thought he played the character well, but he didn't fit the physical characteristics. That's just my opion, but...w/e
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I thought Oldman did a great job, but I wish they had made his hair different in the movie, longer and darker and maybe a lot more knatted, so he'd look a little scarier.

when sirius was in the shrieking shack my brother and i thought that he seemed abit drunk but he was great all the same 8)

He did a good job but it's true that his hair should be longer I think that he was scary enough, I mean if I ever see a man like this on the street I would run and hide. :?

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This is my opinion if you have a problem with that that's fine but please don't slag me for thinking someone else could have done a better job. Ok I know the movies out and I know they can't and won't change actors unless something bad happens but I reckon Michael Sheen who played Lucian in Underworld would have been better.  I looks better, he sounds better and he would have been great.  And he's Welsh!  If they'd looked a bit harder they would have found him to be better.  Him or Stuart Townsend.

I'm sorry but that is *CENSORED* Gary Oldman did a great job. Lucian underworld dude id to petite and the guy who plays sirius has to be ugly and then nice looking and has to keep changing because that is what happens in the books so ya lucian would have suck so badly the movie would have been worse if he waas in it

Yes, Gary was excellent. True, he looked nothing like what I imagined, but I loved him all the same.lol
The scenes with him and Harry at the end made me cry!

@@siriusblack@@ wrote: I'm sorry but that is a pile of doggy poo poo Gary Oldman did a great job.

Ok, you think that and that's fine but please don't call MY OPINION a pile of doggy poo poo. I don't diss your opinion and I would appreciate it if you wouldn't diss mine.

I think that Triad is right...Maybe that man can be a better Sirius for Her/Him(sorry I don't know) because we all have our very own way to picture the caracters.

Thank-you feerique.

(by the way I'm a girl! )

Lol ok I am sorry

And that's ok I feel the same way about Diggory I don't like that guy they picked because I was pictured him just like Henry Cavill lol.

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@@siriusblack@@ wrote: I'm sorry but that is  a pile of doggy poo poo Gary Oldman did a great job.   Ok, you think that and that's fine but please don't call MY OPINION a pile of doggy poo poo.  I don't diss your opinion and I would appreciate it if you wouldn't diss mine.

Narg, sorry, missed it.

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I'm sorry but that is *CENSORED* Gary Oldman did a great job. Lucian underworld dude id to petite and the guy who plays sirius has to be ugly and then nice looking and has to keep changing because that is what happens in the books so ya lucian would have suck so badly the movie would have been worse if he waas in it

Actually, Sirius isn't really ugly. In the books it mentions that in the wedding picture, Sirius was actually handsome, but barely recognizable as the same man in the wanted poster. The only reason he appears ugly is because of all that hair, being ushaven, and not getting to bathe or bush his teeth very much.

Personally..I expected sirius to have a stronger build and to be darker.

Hmm...he was just to...flimsy to seem like a great sirius..but facially he looked pretty good.

~Fuoco

i think oldman was good

Gary Oldman is one of my favorite actor, and I think he's a perfect Sirius Black!

My only gripe on this one is that Sirius and Lupin all looked 'too old" for the part. Arent the characters supposed to be in their thirties only? Yet the actors who played them looked well into their fourties and fifties. I just find it difficult to picture them having fun with James Potter in Bk5 by the lakeside as teenagers. I hope someone else would play them in Bk5 as students.

Is all.

someone different probabaly will play him as the teenage version. it would look weird if oldman was acting as the teenager

Yeah, I always imagined sirius as sort of well... dreamy. heh, thats just me.

There was something about his voice though that kind of contradicted what I would have expected Sirius's voice to sound like.

well, as in all movies things are gonna be different...

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Yeah, I always imagined sirius as sort of well... dreamy. heh, thats just me.

lol me too!! i thought he was gona be a little younger too.

Yeah, I didn't really have a problem with Sirius, he was just different than in my mind. But then again, isn't everything?

lol, yeh definately. i cant wait to see how young sirius looks.

maybe once hes taken a shower with buck beak and shaved up a bit, he wont be so bad?

I think Alfonso Cuaron must know that the Sirius Black in the books was handsome! Why doesnt he choose Ewan McGregor in the lord of the ring for this? The character should be better if he was chosen by the good director. :roll:

well i dont think that he is the only one that chooses the actors so it might not be his idea to cast him at all...


oldman rocked though!!

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I think Alfonso Cuaron must know that the Sirius Black in the books was handsome! Why doesnt he choose Ewan McGregor in the lord of the ring for this? The character should be better if he was chosen by the good director. :roll:

I don't understand what you were saying? Do you mean that Alfanso isn't a good director? Well...I think he's a good director and I think Gary Oldman did a great Sirius! And of course he wasn't so handsome when he had spent 13 years in Azkaban (and Alfanso wanted to make him look scary....like a murderer)!! He will get more handsome in the next movies!!

And one more thing...Ewan McGregor wasn't in The Lord of the Rings!!

Ewan McGregor was most certainly NOT in the Lord of the Rings. Ok, maybe I didn't know that it was actually HIM singing in Moulin Rouge, but I DO know my LOTR cast members, and trust me, he's not anywhere on there.

You might be talking about Viggo Mortensen who plays Aragorn aka Strider.

Well, I did like the way Gary Oldman played Sirius, but he wouldn't have been my choice for the part. I wanted someone younger and cuter. Stuart Townshed would have been a good one, but someone else too. I wanted Colin Firth, but only because I've been in love with him since Bridget jones' diary. I think he's so hott and such a good actor. But I don't know if he would have been right for Sirius, but I was pulling for him, until I found out who DID get the part. Then i went out and rented the Scarlet Letter. (well, watched it on cable anyway) :oops:

I think Gary Oldman is A PERFECT Sirius Black, and Sirius is my favourite character... I don't imagine other Sirius better than him. He is an actor with much experience than the other actors you have mencioned. And was realized a very great job in the film.

Sirius el mejor y quien lo dude... peor para él.

i think gary oldman did a great job at playing sirius, i had just hoped that the director would have added more hair that wasn't curly, but straight. maybe a bit more handsomer sirius would have been nice, i can't wait to see hot sirius in snape's worst memory! spidey!

Give the poor guy a break!! He's been in Azkaban for twelve years!!! You'd probably be a bit skinny and haggard looking too!!!

As for him not being cute enough, take a look at these pics I found of an extremely hot (and cleaned up) Gary Oldman.....

Yummy....yummy....yummy.....

Gary Oldman Pics

Gary Oldman Pics 2

(The one where he's modelling for Donna Karan is soooo stunning.......)

*drools* Thankies for those pics Dana! We appreciate them very much.

I still think they should've made Sirius (Gary Oldman) greasier. >.< But that's just me.

No probs!! I just felt I had to share the delicious Gary Oldman with everyone...although I would have liked to have seen him greased up a bit more in the movie myself.

Before I saw the movie, I kind of imagined Sirius as being either like a greasy version of the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale in 'The Scarlet Letter' (I actually printed out a pic of him in that role when I heard he'd been cast as Sirius and used it as a bookmark when I read OoTP - 'cos I'm that sad ) or maybe Jackie Flannery in 'State of Grace'...

Although Norman Stansfield-ish from Leon would have been cool too....

Mmm...... **drifts off in fantasy**....

Mmmmmm, for the most part these young girls *plays the over-20 card* just don't get the inherant beautifulness that is Gary Oldman *umm....apart from in Hannibal...>.<*, do they Dana?...I useta have this gorgeuous poster of him when I was about 15, black and white, of him leaning against a doorway smoking....ahhhhh.....
*ahem* I digress.

I really think he was an excellent choice for Sirius, I squeaked for joy when I heard he'd been cast, and I wasn't at all disappointed...it's been said much before, that there aren't that many actors who can portray the ambiguity of Sirius' character as well as he does...and I strongly agree with that...

The idea of Stuart Townsend...could that have stemmed from his performances as Lestat, and as Dorian Grey in Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Ohh he looks glorious with long hair, doesn't he? But not really right for Sirius...no....

And as for Michael Sheen...I kind see your point...quite the vampiric route though, isn't it? Lookswise, he's equally good as Gary Oldman, but acting wise, I'm really quite doubtful that he would have been so good...

**applaudes wildly** Oh yes indeedy-do, Nivaya...Gary Oldman has to be one of the all time sexiest men ever...maybe it is an older persons thing (hee-hee...do you think the hormones change or something once you hit 21? ) I don't know...

Sexiness is not equated with good looks, you see, peeps...it's that certain je ne sais whatsit (it's been nearly ten years since I passed French!!) that makes a man sexy, and let me tell you, Gary Oldman exudes it by the bucketload....so does Alan Rickman (not as Snape maybe, but as Harry in Love Actually, or the Sheriff in Robin Hood), Patrick Stewart, David Thewlis, Anthony Hopkins, Tommy Lee Jones...maybe not absolute stunners in the way that Colin Farrell is, or Josh Hartnett...but let me tell you, I'd choose Gary or Alan any day over Colin...even with that irresistable Irish accent of his...

I thought Gary Oldman was a awesome Sirius. But if someone else had to play the role, I think Viggo Mortensen would have been Good.. Or Johnny Depp.. Yeouch!

I think someone else could have done a better job (looks wise) but Gary did at fine job acting i thought. He just didnt' look the part to me

I think Gary Oldman did a good job playing Sirius, but he didn't look exactly how I picture him....not that anybody would.

Anyway, my choice for Sirius would be Jason Carter from the science-fiction show Babylon 5..... *sigh*

Michael Sheen? Charlie Sheen's brother? Oh my! how could you dare to think he would be better than Gary! NO WAY! I mean, It's OK, it's your opinion, but as this is a forum, I have to write what I feel, and I cannot imagine Mike playing as Sirius Black
...or it's another Michael Sheen?

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OK, maybe this is just me... I'm a huge Tim Roth fan.. and as much as I love Alan Rickman, Tim Roth is and always will be my Snape. Rickman makes him quite.. elegant. Snape shouldn't be that smooth.. he's nasty and mean and PO'd at the world. So.. I just keep hoping that one day Alan Rickman will say no more... or that I'll wake up and Planet of the Apes will never have happened.

Who would you re-cast (if anyone)? Am I alone in the Tim Roth thing?

I'd also love to see Billy Connolly in there somewhere.

There's an official Alan Rickman fanclub around here you know, and you're gonna get yourself ripped to pieces when they see what you've just said.... **chuckles**

Nah, I'm afraid there has always been and will ever only be one Snape for me and that's Alan. I simply could not see any other actor doing what he does with that role...certainly not Tim Roth. He's just not even in the same class, IMHO....If Alan ever quit, the HP films would just lose all credibility for me....he's irreplaceable - one of the very few actors that can be said about.

And Billy Connolly!!!! You can't be serious!! The guy can't act his way out of a paper bag!!! Not to mention the fact that he's deeply unpopular over here in Britain at the moment for making some extremely insensitive supposedly comical quip in one of his shows about the execution of hostage Ken Bigley earlier on this year.

No, sorry....just can't see him doing any role really....other than possibly Mundungus in OotP....he might be quite good in that.

hmm... all right, I'm alone then.

Now see, I don't *want* the raise the ire of the rickman fan club... and as far as I'm aware, I never said anything bad about him... so, hopefullly... that won't happen.

*shrugs*

To each his own, I guess. More Rickman for them, more Roth for me.

I agree that no one else would do what he does with the role. He's made a Snape. I like that Snape. In my mind however, Snape just isn't as.. I don't know, dashing, as Rickman makes him. Rickman is better looking that Tim Roth. I respect them both more than I can say as actors.. I'm just particularly fond of Roth's baddies. He does bad with complexity. Both Snape and Draco are a lot nastier in the books... that's all I'm saying.

Both actors are incredibly talented. I'm not saying one is better than the other. So.. if Rickman were to quit (wasn't there buzz? I don't know.. I'm not hugely into the harry potter news circuit) I don't think it would lose credibility (for me, anyway). We swapped Dumbledors and moved on... albeit under different circumstances, we're on our third director..

It's a big franchise... it'll be seven movies by the time all is said and done. That's a long commitment for an actor. My mind is open to the possibilities of different approaches to the characters. I like seeing what actors do with established characters to make them their own.

This was my first post here, I'm not Anti-Rickman. I'm not secretly in the basement sticking pins into a little Alan Rickman doll in front of a Tim Roth shrine or anything.

A friend of mine desperately wants johnny depp to be snape. And for a while, she wanted keanu reeves. *shrugs* Everyone is different.

And as for Connolley... ehh... he makes me laugh. Like, late at night, punchy laugh... I didn't know about the controversy (or.. the present controvery anyway). Dude just makes me laugh.

Whew... ok.. lol

No, I do adore Alan Rickman.. just, my personal preference is to adore Tim Roth more. No harm.

(as far as noses go though, Tim Roth defintely has one up on Rickman... his nose is off the charts )

Yeah... I felt kind of iffy when they announced Lupin. I was really excited about Ewan McGregor when I heard he was "in talks" but I knew in my heart of hearts that he wouldn't do it... he's got one franchise too many as it is David Thewlis is just kind of.. ehh.. uninspiring.

And, iunno.. I think Gary Oldman is good looking. Crazy talented, too. He cleans up well.

Yay!! **claps hands** We agree on something, then!

Gary Oldman is undoubtedly a world-class actor, but I've sung his praises already so many times around here that I'm sure people are sick of me raving about him by now... I have to pass comment on 'Romeo is Bleeding', 'Dracula', and 'Leon' though....undoubtedly some of his very finest moments.

I must speak up a little in David Thewlis' defence though....I had my reservations when he first announced because he wasn't really as handsome as I imagined Lupin to be....I know he wasn't supposed to be better looking than Sirius, but all the same....

Anyway, when I saw him in the role, his character just shone through and by the time I'd finished watching the movie, I suddenly found him far more attractive...

On a separate casting note though, I've just seen the scan of Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter....she's almost exactly as I imagined her, but they've made her seem quite pretty....I had in mind more of a natty 60's dresser with those long pointy glasses like Olive from 'On the Buses' used to wear.....

LOL...none of you guys are gonna have a clue who I'm on about there, are you? No worries....it's a Brit thing.....