The Wolverine News & Discussion Thread - Part 1

[runningman3000]

Photos on a Live Journal:

http://hope1972.livejournal.com/2393912.html

Sweet!

 

[Alexei Belyakov]

The hair is hilarious. He basically looks like Hugh Jackman - but with mutton chops and hipster *****ebag hair.

Not Wolverine at all.

This reminds me of the first manips of Chris Evans as Captain America where they used pictures of him with his whole head buzzed. Just awful.

 

[JP]

He basically looks like Hugh Jackman - but with mutton chops and hipster *****ebag hair.

AKA Wolverine from the last 5 films.

 

[Alexei Belyakov]

AKA Wolverine from the last 5 films.

Common, really?

If you don't agree with me, that's fine, but I've been reading & collecting Wolverine comics for 30 years. That ain't Wolverine.

The guy I saw in the trilogy & Origins, that guy was Wolverine.

 

[JP]

He's always looked like Hugh Jackman with mutton chops and a funny hairdo... because he IS Hugh Jackman with mutton chops and a funny hairdo. And if you have been collecting Wolverine for 30 years, you'd realize that he looks a lot like Cockrum's Wolveirne.

 

[Alexei Belyakov]

He's always looked like Hugh Jackman with mutton chops and a funny hairdo... because he IS Hugh Jackman with mutton chops and a funny hairdo. And if you have been collecting Wolverine for 30 years, you'd realize that he looks a lot like Cockrum's Wolveirne.

No he doesn't.

 

[S. Grundy]

It's just hair, and frankly the shorter look looks better. As accurate as it looked in the first three movies, it was still pretty silly looking.

 

[BMM]

Save for the brief but noticeable wig shots in X2, and the awful wig in The Last Stand, I've never thought Jackman's hair as Wolverine looked silly. It never took me out of the movie or anything like that.

 

[Great Mind(s)]

Common, really?

If you don't agree with me, that's fine, but I've been reading & collecting Wolverine comics for 30 years. That ain't Wolverine.

The guy I saw in the trilogy & Origins, that guy was Wolverine.

Cmon the guy in Origins wasn't Wolverine either. He LOOKED like Wolverine but he acted nothing like him. If he ACTS more Wolverine in this but looks less would that be ok? It would be okay for me!

 

[marvelrobbins]

Having watches first Class again last night he looks similar In set pics to wolverine's cameo
there.

The dave Crockrum drawn wolverine Is the closest the set pics looks like to me.

 

[747]

I still think Hugh looks great as Wolverine in that shorter hair-style. He looks Wolverine-y enough to me at least.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Photos on a Live Journal:

http://hope1972.livejournal.com/2393912.html

Cool, I like the shorter hair on Wolverine and I dig Yukio's red hair.

 

[danoyse]

He's always looked like Hugh Jackman with mutton chops and a funny hairdo... because he IS Hugh Jackman with mutton chops and a funny hairdo. And if you have been collecting Wolverine for 30 years, you'd realize that he looks a lot like Cockrum's Wolveirne.

No he doesn't.

Cockrum's Wolverine:

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[danoyse]

Getting away from the never-ending hair discussion for moment...is that a bullet hole in his leg in a few of those shots?

 

[JP]

Nice catch!

 

[narrows101]

Getting away from the never-ending hair discussion for moment...is that a bullet hole in his leg in a few of those shots?

Saw that right away, that's what it looks like!

 

[Alexei Belyakov]

It's just hair, and frankly the shorter look looks better. As accurate as it looked in the first three movies, it was still pretty silly looking.

He never looked "silly" to me in the past films because the character of Wolverine has never looked silly to me.

In these set pics, I just don't see the character at all. I see Hugh Jackman choosing to not wear a wig out of comfort despite compromising the essence of the character he's playing.

 

[Alexei Belyakov]

Cmon the guy in Origins wasn't Wolverine either. He LOOKED like Wolverine but he acted nothing like him. If he ACTS more Wolverine in this but looks less would that be ok? It would be okay for me!

We coulda had both though.

 

[danoyse]

He never looked "silly" to me in the past films because the character of Wolverine has never looked silly to me.

In these set pics, I just don't see the character at all. I see Hugh Jackman choosing to not wear a wig out of comfort despite compromising the essence of the character he's playing.

Then what was this, a Casual Friday?

Not mention he wears a ton of wigs here:

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And that the character has appeared with the same short hair, as we've established several times now:

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[JP]

He never looked "silly" to me in the past films because the character of Wolverine has never looked silly to me.

In these set pics, I just don't see the character at all. I see Hugh Jackman choosing to not wear a wig out of comfort despite compromising the essence of the character he's playing.

He wore a wig in X3... ALL of X3. And for 90% for Les Miz. You're really reaching.

 

[S. Grundy]

Really? The essence of the character comes from his hair? That has to be the epitome of a fanboy being ******** about something inconsequential.

And here's an example of Wolverine with even shorter looking hair than the Cockrum pic above (in fact the hair looks almost exactly like what's in the Jackman pics). It's not a big deal at all, nor should it be.

 

[craigdbfan]

Cockrum's Wolverine:

Exactly.

Here's another pic for good measure.

 

[Alexei Belyakov]

Really? The essence of the character comes from his hair? That has to be the epitome of a fanboy being ******** about something inconsequential.

And here's an example of Wolverine with even shorter looking hair than the Cockrum pic above (in fact the hair looks almost exactly like what's in the Jackman pics). It's not a big deal at all, nor should it be.

For starters, the Cockrum comparison is getting old. It looks nothing like that particular Cockrum panel. The hair in the panel is slicked back with the horns up back. Jackman's hair is combed forward like every 20-year-old kid in skinny jeans that attends the college I work at.

Second, you clearly don't know much about the character if you think his hair style/length doesn't matter. For 40 years - its mattered. It mattered to Bryan Singer & it mattered to Darren Aronofsky (who actually addressed it in his draft & gave it meaning).

If Chris Evans had a buzzed head in The Avengers, it woulda been a HUGE problem. Nobody would care about "updating" him to a more modern look, nobody would justify it by making fun of the outdated look, people would be upset. That's not "fanboys being ********", its fans saying "that ain't the character".

The funniest thing about some of the justifications I keep reading for why his hair is off, is that they all attack the classic look. "It looked silly, ridiculous, etc."

Wolverine's hair has never been silly or ridiculous. Its iconic and part of a persona some consider to be the best in the Marvel stable.

 

[JP]

No one every attacked his look.

To me this look still looks like Wolverine, just like the extra long hair that didn't really form into the "horns" in Origins still looked like Wolverine.

 

[Alexei Belyakov]

No one every attacked his look.

To me this look still looks like Wolverine, just like the extra long hair that didn't really form into the "horns" in Origins still looked like Wolverine.

The meaning of the hair, of why its been the way its been for so long, is that it symbolizes "the wild man". A man borderline-animal. He looks unkept and scruffy.

Jackman looks like he went to a hipster salon for his monthly touch-up.