Who's The Bigger Star? Part 10

Here is a fun post where a compare two actors/actresses, sports stars, TV personalities, etc against each other and determine who is the bigger star.  Let's see who wins this time:

Russell Crowe v. Hugh Jackman

Russell Crowe

• Biggest Role:  Maximus
• My Favorite Role:  Maximus
• Top Earning Movie:  Man of Steel ($291.0 million)
• Biggest Flop:  It has to Winter's Tale, that movie blew.
• Awards:  3 Academy Award Nomination (1 Win), 5 Golden Globe Nomination (1 Win)
• Career:  Before he was an actor, Russell was in a band by the name of 30 Odd Foot of Grunts.  I'm not kidding.  As for his acting career, the first thing I remember him in was The Quick and the Dead with Gene Hackman, Leo, and Sharon Stone.  It wasn't bad, but it didn't hold a candle to his next movie, Virtuosity.  He was awesome as the sadistic serial killer computer program come to life.  Next, he had a great string of roles in L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, and 3:10 to Yuma.  However, since then it has been a mixed bag of stuff like Robin Hood, Les Miserables, and Noah.  He's got a couple of movies in the works, but nothing of note.

Hugh Jackman

• Biggest Role:  Wolverine
• My Favorite Role:  Wolverine
• Top Earning Movie:  X-Men: The Last Stand ($234.4 million)
• Biggest Flop:  I'm going with Movie 43, but it could have easily been The Fountain.
• Awards:  1 Academy Award Nomination (0 Wins), 2 Golden Globe Nomination (1 Win), 3 Emmy Nominations (1 Win)
• Career:  Right out of the gate, we saw Hugh as Wolverine in the first X-Men movie and he nailed it.  Since then, he has gone on to do, well, the same character six other times and some other decent stuff like The Prestige, Les Miserables and some not so good stuff like Swordfish, Van Helsing, and Real Steel.  In all, he has carved out a decent career based on one character.  Next up, he will be playing, surprise, Wolverine in another stand-alone movie and the next X-Men sequel.  Also, he will be playing Blackbeard in a new Peter Pan movie even though I don't remember Blackbeard ever being in Peter Pan.

Oddly enough, the only reason we know who Hugh Jackman is is because Russell Crowe turned down the part of Wolverine and when their second choice (Dougray Scott) couldn't do the part due to a scheduling conflict with Mission: Impossible 2.  Then Russell suggested his friend Hugh.  But that isn't what this is about.  If we held this contest in 2000, it would have been Maximus v. Wolverine and I probably would have gone with Maximus (unless it was a fight to the death).  But today, Hugh Jackman's career is definitely still going strong and Russell Crowe can't seem to do a movie worth a shit.  So, Wolverine wins.  But we all knew that was going to happen.

"That's the face of a winner."