CallMeTheDoctor
Super Freak
Agreed, for me though no-one else could play Wolvie now as I'm totally bought into Jackman being him.
Agreed, for me though no-one else could play Wolvie now as I'm totally bought into Jackman being him.
Singer's character is not the definitive Wolverine be any stretch, of course.
And with every new FOX's movie his character gets messier and stupider.
One change I've noticed over the course of the movies is that Jackman Wolvie gets more and more tame. Wolvie, at least in the early comics (which are the ones I most strongly identify him with), was unstable. He would fly off the handle, go into "berzerker rages," etc. Cyclops constantly had trouble trying to get him to calm down and act as a team member instead of a rogue agent. He had that in X-1 to some extent, but after that it kept getting further and further away from the essence of the character. X2 and DOFP are probably my favorites of all the films, but Wolvie just isn't really Wolvie in them, apart from that one scene in the mansion (that I actually like a lot), and instances where he's no longer in control of his body or whatever like in DOFP for a brief period. He has killed once or twice, but not nearly as much as old comic version would have done, either. Just look at the classic issue where he infiltrates the Hellfire Club and mows down countless thugs. In the movies he feels safe and reliable at this point, and that shouldn't be an ideal Wolvie. Hopefully when he gets recast this will be rethought.
Even his catch phrase doesn't really make sense--"I'm the best at what I do, but what I do isn't very nice."
So he's basically saying that he sucks at everything?
He's saying he's the best compared to everyone else at something that's bad (wrong/mean/etc). Never thought it needed explanation...
Cinematic Wolverine is clearly geared towards people like myself. I've never read an X-Men comic nor watched any cartoons, I went to see X1 in the theater with a friend, and Jackman's performance won me over and made me a fan, and I think the studio saw it having that affect on a lot of people, so they then crafted the movie adaptation to cater to those people like myself who'd enjoy Wolverine becoming the core hero. I like First Class but I missed having him significantly in the movie, so I was glad they worked him into DOFP so much. It may not be true to character but it's what fills the seats more than a true to comic representation probably would.
I respect Jackman and he's done a good job, especially in the first X Men film, but I'm ready for a new interpretation. Jackman's wolverine lacks an edge and a sense of danger, which is part of the character, imo. It's true, with each new film Jackman's Wolvie feels more tamed, but you have to keep in mind that he's been in 6 or 7 films and he's been playing the role for 15 years, so it makes sense for the character to change. A character that doesn't evolve, can become stale, so I don't mind Wolverine's evolution in the films, but I wish he'd been more intense and not so likable to begin with. Jackman is a nice likable guy in real life, and he just can't hide that, no matter how hard he tries. Wolverine is more like Clint Eastwood's film characters.
Hopefully, when they recast the role, they go back and revisit Wolverine's time in Japan, because The Wolverine film screwed that up big time. Instead of having Wolverine live in Japan for a long time, become an expert in martial arts and weapons, and adapting to the culture and language, they turned Wolverine into an idiot tourist in a typical fish out of water story.
Never heard that or of him.
Dugray Scott said he was offered the role as was Russell Crowe.
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