You're touching on something here that I've been thinking for a while. Unless you have top tier actors doing multiple takes with a director that is genuinely brilliant and focused on recreating scenes accurately you can't do something that should be animated in live action.

The problem is that art and animation can be redone until the scene is perfect, until the body language is perfect and conveys the exact emotion intended. Actors performing can't do that, and they don't have the third person perspective of the work that the artist does anyway. They can't see what they're not getting right while in the scene, and their individual personalities can get in the way compared to the character on a sheet of paper.