Professor X - Patrick Stewart or James McAovy
Magneto - Ian McKellen or Michael Fassbender
Beast - Kelsey Grammer or Nicholas Hoult
Mystique - Rebecca Romijn or Jennifer Lawrence
I know it's going to sound like I'm favoring the first X-Men movies, but I do think they made good casting choices.
Patrick Stewart just looks like Xavier, and his voice and manors give off an aire of intelligence and command.
Ian McKellen in his scenes with Xavier were more intense and intimate in their conversations.
Beast is harder to choose. Grammer's voice still has the intelligence of a well educated man. It could also just be a hold over from his long years as Frasier. Hoult lacks that quality in his voice.
Mystique is also hard to choose. Two beautiful women covered in makeup and just a few strategically placed prosthetics. Romijn seems more like Mystique in her look and her fight scenes looked better. Lawrence, also has well choreographed fight scenes but her acting seems to lack the underlying anger that Romijn's does. As an example her conversation with Nightcrawler in X2 when he asks her why she just doesn't look human all the time, and she replies with Because I shouldn't have to. To me that showed her anger at the world and the X-Men for not being on Magneto's side.
Side note: Originally I was going to make this post as a comparison between Romijn and Lawrence, but then decided to add the other duplicates.
Magneto - Ian McKellen or Michael Fassbender
Beast - Kelsey Grammer or Nicholas Hoult
Mystique - Rebecca Romijn or Jennifer Lawrence
I know it's going to sound like I'm favoring the first X-Men movies, but I do think they made good casting choices.
Patrick Stewart just looks like Xavier, and his voice and manors give off an aire of intelligence and command.
Ian McKellen in his scenes with Xavier were more intense and intimate in their conversations.
Beast is harder to choose. Grammer's voice still has the intelligence of a well educated man. It could also just be a hold over from his long years as Frasier. Hoult lacks that quality in his voice.
Mystique is also hard to choose. Two beautiful women covered in makeup and just a few strategically placed prosthetics. Romijn seems more like Mystique in her look and her fight scenes looked better. Lawrence, also has well choreographed fight scenes but her acting seems to lack the underlying anger that Romijn's does. As an example her conversation with Nightcrawler in X2 when he asks her why she just doesn't look human all the time, and she replies with Because I shouldn't have to. To me that showed her anger at the world and the X-Men for not being on Magneto's side.
Side note: Originally I was going to make this post as a comparison between Romijn and Lawrence, but then decided to add the other duplicates.