Hugh Jackman
The only Australian man who can play a Canadian while making the world think he’s American.
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What about the Australian woman who played an Irish woman while convincing the world she was American?
Or that other actor who played somebody else?
Isn’t this kinda what actors do?
But does it matter? He actually has won me over as Wolverine. …That’s either sad or just awesome.
Awesome. He won me over too, and I’m addicted to Marvel comics, having woked for 3 years in a comicbook store with not much trafic.
I’ve always loved the comics, and a couple of X-Men movies. But Origins was the chick flick of super heroe movies, and Jackman made it that way.
He’s the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude.
EXACTLY!!
Love tropic thunder. Best comedy movie ever!
LOL well said!!!
go to hell, it was funny
…and can get your girlfriend wet in the process.
Haha, tell me about it. Least Lynn isn’t gaga but she definitely has a reaction. Lulz.
Hey man, I don’t mind if someone else does the lube job as long as I get to slip behind the wheel and get that sweet motor purring…
Precisely.
He kinda reminds me of Vegeta..
His star power is over 9000!!!
WHAT 9000?????
Well, they’re both short guys with silly hair (that I love, don’t get me wrong), and really, really short tempers.
He’s not short in the movie, sadly.
KAKKAROTTO!!!!!!!!
I can’t stand him as Wolverine. He’s not nearly gruff enough.
And his accent is terrible.
There is a naysayer in every crowd. You are that person and I welcome you.
Yeah it sounded like he was doing an impression of someone rather than acting…
…And his hair looks silly…
You’ve seen Wolverine’s hair, right? Trust me, Jackman’s hair a a pretty close approximation of what Wolvie’s hair actually looks like. I remember squeeing quite loudly the first time I saw it (way back in the publicity stills for the first X-Men film).
LOVE Hugh Jackman, i think he’s a really good actor
He can also sing and dance. And, by all accounts, is a nice person.
I thought he was good in “The Prestige”… But I don’t like Wolverine…
Ya a gruff badass while you’re a whiny Scot. Ya, I can see that being a boundary.
Gruff Badass?
Pffft, he only seems that way cos he doesn’t die and he smokes too much…
For a badass, he was awfy whiny about Jean Gray…
I think putting your hands into a whirling machines as well as walking into power stream of a woman who is Disintegrating you so you can mercy kill her is pretty damn badass.
Sure, he didn’t die but he sure as hell felt all the pain as he went. As for whining, eh, he whined because the woman he loved was unattainable and then she died… When she came back, she was psychotic and he had to kill her HIMSELF.
Perhaps your definition of badass excludes depth and pain tolerance but mine does not, so I don’t know what to tell ya.
OMG that’s…so…sweet! *tears up* I have a new love for you, because you’re not an insensitive d-bag.
… thanks, I think.
Also, “deep”? It’s still a silly film so it can’t carry off deep characters… It just leaves them sounding whiny before they go and blow something else up.
I think the reason you and I disagree over Wolverine is that you obviously like X-men and so can sympathise with the characters you like whereas I just amn’t keen on the films. At all.
They are all silly films, my dear. But you haven’t quantified badass, so you purposely make it a point that you won’t allow yourself to be debated on.
So instead of casting doubts on why we disagree, how about you quantify badass so I know what I am debating with.
So less pretension and more logic, please.
i am totally in love with DeathWyrmNexus. best message board replier evar.
MEGA kudos to you for this comment.
Thanks. I can understand that it is a silly movie but I don’t see how that is less badass, especially when she doesn’t define badass.
Lots of badasses in silly movies. Ash from Evil Dead for example. The point was that it was a silly set of movies but he was still badass.
I LOVE HIM <3 HUGH!
Unlike Sean connery, who plays a Russina sub commander, while making the enemy think he’s Scottish, and the women think he’s captain hottie mchotterson
You can count this woman out of that statement, thanks!
I can’t stand SC – his inability/refusal to do different accents is a running joke amongst my friends and me. I’ve never seen Hunt For Red October, but wow, who knew Hercules was a Scot?!
Or that Irishmen are actually Scottish? (The Untouchables – voted worst movie accent ever by Empire Magazine readers, and I agree)
Or that Spaniards had Scottish accents. (Highlander?)
He’s not Spanish, he’s Egyptian!
..what can you say, its the truth.
Mrph? I couldn’t care less where anybody thinks he’s from. He’s Wolverine.
shouldn’t his hair be spikey?
I don’t care where he’s from, he’s yummy
But seriously. He’s a really good Wolverine. On the other hand, now I can’t help but picture badass, tough-guy Wolverine singing gleefully with an Australian accent and dancing in a tux
You must have not seen the picture with the gold pants then.
Clicky the website link for amusing bloopers including a dancing Wolvie…
Five words… Tropic Thunder, Robert Downey Jr.
Nobody beats that!
THAT’s acting! (You wouldn’t know he was acting if you didn’t know he was acting.)
Last time I chechked Canada was in America, did they move from the continent?
I think they meant people think he is of American nationality. Wolverine is canadian nationality but yes it is all north america i guess
er i meant some people (including me) thought that hugh jackman was American. but he not he Austrailian. But he is playing Wolverine who is canadian :S
hmm nope that doesnt seem to clear up what i said any better lol
Dear Fool: Canada is part of NORTH America, which is entirely different from the United States of America, aka America. Jeeze.
Where did you check ?Canada is NOT in America.It is,in North America,But it is a seperate country from America.[ the U.S.]
We in Canada have graciously allowed you “Americans” to monopolize the name of the continent. We feel that naming our country after a Native village imparts a greater grandeur.
We have also allowed you to take the eagle as a national symbol. (Though we will continue to insist on calling it the “bald eagle.”)
Also, you may have military power, global empire, conspicuous wealth, and the many enemies that come with each. No really, we won’t stand in your way.
wait….. HE’s AUSTRALIAN??????
dam, i thought he *WAS* American….
OMG! You`re fricking joking! You honestly thought he was American! He went to the school (Knox Grammar School) just down the road from my house which is the brother school to my school! You have just made my day by making me laugh…
I don’t care…HOT DAMN
Sexy mannnnn!!!! *drool*
They ate my reply button…
@Not_you: Careful, my ego is like a puppy. If you feed it, it will never go away.
It was me. You can have it back, though. And don’t you mean you ego is like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie?
Unfortunately, yes.
Debated on?
Sounds dirty…
*facepalm*
*sigh*
No reply buttons for AC…
This is the second ridiculous argument in as many days but I am an idiot for this sort of thing so:
1. I don’t have a measurement or definition of evil-rear-ness.
2. I do think badass requires you to be out of the ordinary and Wolverine seems like a fairly standard, dull, sort of hero to me.
3. I think you get disqualified from badassery if you’re whiny. You think he’s deep. I think he’s whiny. I don’t believe the films were good enough to create a deep character. I suppose it’s subjective really.
4. I wasn’t “casting doubts” I was trying to make the point that it’s all just a matter of opinion depending on the way you regard the film.
That’s all. Jings… Humans are argumentative, are we not?
1. You don’t have a measurement or definition thus can’t produce any counterexamples. Wow, that’s amazingly helpful.
2. Ash was an ordinary guy, hell a lot of badasses are ordinary guys put into extraordinary situations. Also, this point of yours contradicts your first point but without anything helpful like examples.
3. You don’t have a measurement or qualification but you have a disqualification, which clashes with your first and second point.
4. True it is a matter of opinion but I consider it an intellectual exercise to defend opinions. I am sorry that I thought you had intellectual standing to back up your assertion.
Now here I will hit back on the whiny part. What exactly was whiny for you? Unrequited love, having the person you love die, having to kill the person you love when they come back, having flashing and vague memories of who and what you are? Jeez, you’re a tough sell on the whole human empathy factor…
Yes, we are argumentive but I personally like to temper my experiences and opinions with the naysaying of others. If you don’t like something that I like, let’s talk it out, maybe I missed something. I have strong opinions and defend them, out of respect, I provoke others so I can see what makes them tick. It helps with my mental flexibility.
Unfortunately, I am not getting much of anything out of you. I wouldn’t think a silly discussion would prove this difficult for you.
Ok, I shall clarify further for your benefit:
- I don’t have an exact definition of badass. I do not think you can quantify badass.
-I do think
The nearest I can come to a definition of badass is that you are one if other people call you it and mean it, and not if you call yourself it!
Does that sound reasonable to you both?
It will do…
BTW… Miley Cyrus is SUCH a badass… I mean it, she smashes guitars!
^Like that?
:rofl:
Badass: Somebody who endures hardship, pain, and loss through skill, wit, and/or extreme determination.
Was Mickey Rourk’s character,in Sin City a “Bad Ass” ?
damnit.
Anyway…
-I do think badasses have to be something more than just an average hero. As you can see, I said “out of the ordinary”. I’m not disqualifying “everyman” characters: I’m just saying that if they don’t rise to something more than just the average “Rawr… I kill people” they’re nothing special. I’ve never seen “Evil Dead” so I can’t comment on Ash.
-Now you mention examples my mind is rather blank but I would say The Man With No Name is fairly badass: he’s just a human. He was born with no weird mutant gift. No special weapons. He gets beaten up every now and again. He’s not indestructible. Thing is, he has presence, determination and a don’t-mess-with-me air that’s particularly memorable. I suppose it helps that the films he was in were better written in general…
And I considered Wolverine whiny because, as I have said, the film lacked the ability to create proper pathos. I thought Wolverine’s past was a heavy-handed attempt to remain mysterious in order to churn out more sequels/prequels. I thought the Jean Gray thing was an opportunity to follow the superhero mould and have some angst to fill up screen time. Unrequited love, memory loss etc. aren’t bad things in a movie but, let’s face it, the X-men films weren’t really about characters. They were about fights, explosions, special effects and the odd quip in between.
It’s not that I don’t sympathise with characters: it’s just that I don’t like feeling sad at the appropriate time in a film if “the sad bit” is badly done and cliched. It sounds whiny if you just go “Boo-hoo, the world is cruel, noooooooooo!!! Oooh, an explosion.” I can sympathise with Christian Bale’s superhero Batman because he is better written and more believable.
Crap script = Crap character = bad attempt at making you feel sorry for them = whinyness + displeased AC.
I’ve not seen the film, but I always had a feeling that a Wolverine origin story would be a mistake, despite how well Hugh plays the role. So AC, you may well be right about the film “Wolverine”, but that doesn’t stop the later X-Man being a total badass. Fair?
Sorry, I’ve only seen the X-men films… (Wouldn’t go and see Wolverine
)
Likewise; I’d thought you had seen Wolverine!
As I say, I think Hugh Jackman nails the Wolverine character. My big issue with the XMen films was the characters though; not because of people like him, but because of how uneven the portrayals are as a whole.
Well there is an inherent problem with taking on an X-man movie. You have one fu(kton of characters to try and emphasize while being marketing smart and realizing that some characters are just out and out hated, like Cyclops.
Then there is the source material. Originally, X-men was social commentary but the characters were very gimmick based. One guys flys, another has an eye laser, girl with mind bullets, and bulky acrobat, etc.
Wolverine was the first character that they actually sat down and wrote his back story. They wanted more than somebody who just went nuts and sliced up people as gimmicks were what was weakening their franchise at the time. So they pulled and dug and came up with the idea of a fallen samurai type of guy, which is why some of Logan’s backstory takes place in Japan as a nod to that.
The other characters soon had their back stories embellished upon but Wolverine’s still remains the best as they did from his inception.
And Orgin is still one of my favorite graphic novels.
So I was right when I knew that the X-men movies would be less than they could have been because of how stretched they would have to be.
I plan to watch the Wolverine movie but I plan to turn my brain down a notch or two first.
*sigh*
1. Wolverine is not indestructible. While his skeleton is, the rest of him very much isn’t. He feels pain, knows defeat, etc.
2. Wolverine’s past has been documented in comics since before you were born. The film was simply staying true to that.
3. The man with no name is badass. *golfclap*
And I can’t really say that I saw Wolverine ever really whine about the world being cruel. If anything, he just wanted to be left alone and to know who he was. He had a thing for Jean but couldn’t go anywhere with it so he withdrew. He cried when she died but yes, I know, showing human emotion when somebody you care about dies is just soooo pitiful.
As for his past as part of sequel/prequels, sure I can be annoyed at that, if his past wasn’t part of a franchise that has been around for over a decade or two.
You do realize that these were comic book based movies and that while they took creative license with the characters, a lot of the important aspects weren’t just made up on the fly right?
As for Batman, I can give you that it was a better written film. However, as a writer, I can tell you it is easier to focus a ton of pathos into just one character than it is to focus a ton into over a handful of characters. A bit of an excuse, admittedly, but still food for thought.
I find it rather interesting that you seem to believe that the X-men movies were about a body count and explosions when I managed to see films about a fight for survival as well as a look into comic book social commentary.
Eh, you seem to think that enduring pain and loss is whiny, that’s your malfunction and I will leave you to it.
I have, as you asked, given you an example. I appreciate you taking the time to patronise me for it.
Fair enough about the comic book issues, etc.
As for the rest of it, please read my previous posts for my reply.
… I acknowledged that the Man with No Name was a badass. Were you expecting a hug or something more?
Already read your previous posts, still come to my final conclusion. A man endures pain and loss and you call him a whiner.
No, I was expecting you to be above patronising sarcasm. (I’d always thought that was what a golfclap in this case meant: a sort of “no sh*t sherlock” type-thing.)
Also. One. More. Time.
A character who, in my opinion and my view of the films, is a bad character in a bad film endures pain and loss and I call them a whiner because I can’t sympathise with a creation that doesn’t seem human to me, due to bad writing.
The patronizing sarcasm is stating your inability to see a man in pain and feel empathy for him as a fellow human being though that is quickly becoming worried concern.
The golf clap was acknowledging the fact that after asking twice, you produced an easy result that could have been used in the beginning.
As for your wording, I am going to quirk an eyebrow and stick to my previous conclusion.
He is not a fellow human being. He is imaginary.
And How dare I use an obvious answer.
Quirk away, it won’t stop you from wilfully misunderstanding what I’ve been writing…
Obvious answer that took you three tries to come up with and nobody is questioning the integrity of said answer so please continue whining over nothing.
Nothing to misunderstand. You see a guy lose people he cares about and nearly get disintegrated and you call it whining. But please continue to try and convince me otherwise, I enjoy killing time.
Now you know why yo’ gramma teacher said “no sentences ended with a preposition..”
If only AC would allow herself to be debated on… sigh.
I’ve never been that desperate, sorry.
I know who I am!
I’m the dude playin’ the dude disguised as another dude!
…and satisfy/anger comic book fans…
@DeathWyrmNexus Leave AC alone. You were the one that started on him by chucking insults his way. Talk about a dog with a bone. Just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean you have to have a go.
1. AC is a girl
2. Your mascara is running.
Just a note, this man ALSO was on Broadway AND Carnagie
*snort*
oi leave aussies alone. Hugh Jackman is a great actor.
Love HJ, but Julian McMahon is ALSO a talented Australian who is brilliant at achieving the “American” accent.
No… everyone else knows he’s Aussie… its just you stupid Americans think you are the centre of the world… (ps, India has more pre-teenagers then you have people in America) lol
I resent the stupid American part of your comment, though I do admit that many of my fellow teenage Americans are stupid, as they’ve never even heard of Les Miserables. *sniff* The decline of culture is very evident here, unfortunately.
And the only one that can pull off the way too hairy look.
I woulda made it:
HUGH JACKMAN
The only 6’21/2″ Australian who can play a 5’3″ Canadian….
We’re good at pretending we’re not Australian.
Go the aussies!
True that.