I prefer Crowe because he actually did some acting. Brando didn't even read the script...just read the lines and mumbled his way to another quick paycheck.
Heath Ledger
Fassbender
Sharon Stone.
Paulie Shore
Let's forget about the context in which their characters were put.
Let's forget that MoS was a bland pile of insensitive and boring WTFery...
For a comic book movie screen presence is everything, and in that regard Crowe sucked big time.
Even if he tried to act like it was the role of his life, it would not matter at all.
That S on his chest is the costume design equivalent of the ridiculous India ink tattoos all the stoners I knew in high school would give each other. Could really have made that look better for Brando.