a lot would argue Blade is the one to start that trend
regardless who did though, I still stand by my opinion, the current X Men franchise isn't the greatest and there's massive room for improvement
blade really didn't. it was x-men's 50mil weekend opening that made the studios sit up and take note of the fact that a faithful superhero movie is where it's at if you wants bums on seats, as opposed to just bums.
you could even say blade was a horror/action movie as opposed to superhero.
and as for the arguments on this thread, i have yet to read any convincing arguments against jackman's performance.
the op's stance was immediately undermined by his replacement choice, no offence mate, but how can you argue against jackman being too tall and pretty, when micheal wincott is absolutely wrong, even just in a physical way, for the role.
he is a lanky streak of bacon, even if he ate a bucket of steroids he would still be a lanky type , he's more like the comic book joker in physical stature.
and his gravelly voice is completelyu wrong too. and his face.
and as for the guy who said jackman was a joke and was 'laughing at the role' while in character, i would love it if you pointed out at what moments in the movies your extrasensory film critic powers read his body language to bedoing that.
the guy takes the role with the utmost seriousness, there is no camp, winkyrine vibe in his performance at all. even nin the inferior x-men3, he gives a sterling performance, his turn at the end when giving jean the send off was a top quality example of an actor taking the outlandish material 100%seriously and boiling it down to the real emotions, no matter what was going on around him.
frickin' picky superhero fans don't know how good they got it sometimes.
and yknow what, he was never described as, or looked 'ugly' in the books, he always looked like a well turned out stylish looking guy. he knew how to work those sideburns, wearing the cowboy style gear.
ok, you might have got he odd artiost who drew him a little more skuzzy lookin', but for the main part he looked like a guywith jackman's facial qualities. jackman even has a good handsome biggish nose, like logan did in the books.
and his height never impacted on the stories, all you get would be someone calling him a 'runt' now and again.
we also got a pretty fair representation of his character development through the books compressed into the movies.
in x1 he starts off as an abrasive ***hole, just like the books, but mellows slightly as he works with and gets to know the team, it has his father figure relationships with the younger female members represented with rogue, etc etc
it's all there.
but i repect that the op realises this is a rare moan to have amongst sh/cb fans, but, you just didn't give any convincing arguments as to why you feel this way, and in actuality seemed to be arguing for a type of actor that would not have felt like wolverine at all.
'get out of my bar freak'
'what do they call you? wheels?! this is the stupidest thing i've ever heard...and cyclops? youwannagetouttamyway?'
'you wanna give these geeks one more chance? c'mon, i'll take care of you.'
'you wanna shoot me? shoot me!'
all classic wolverine moments that captured the character's crazy and sensitive traits, and were perfectly delivered by jackman.
even in the 3rd and 4th movies, that were average in comparison to singer's, he was always worth watching, why? because he was always giving his all, and you could tell he loves the character. he will be the first actor to break chris reeve's record of 4 movies, and i hope he goes on to do more.
