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This recently occurred to me. I was sitting back watching the Netflix adaptation of Death Note (not as good as the original, shocker) and I found myself continually distracted not by the somewhat mediocre plot, or the lackluster acting, or L for some reason dressing like a ninja... but by the hair. I guess this version of Light just spends a couple hundred bucks at the stylist every week. The hair of several if the characters is stylish to be sure, but it's so stylish, so perfect, ir comes off looking more like a wig than anything. Who has hair that perfect? I quickly found myself reminded of all the Star Trek episodes where when short of fancy make up and head ridges the crew just gave alien spexies #4521 some ludicrous and wacky hair get up that looked so absurd it was kind of hard not to laugh at it. Anyone remember the Twilight films and how goofy everyone looked between the white face makeup and the crazy "must have spent hours in the chair" hair? I mean just look at the poster. Who has hair that utterly perfect? And the first X-Men movie where the amount of gel in Hugh Jackman's hair must have added like ten pounds to his head.

And looking back I kept thinking of all these other movies and shows where the acting just felt really hammy mostly because the hair was to perfect. Like the hair threw the entire character and the person acting them into the uncanny valley. Just me or has anyone else felt this way?

Yes, all the time. I don't mind it so much in something slightly campy, like a Marvel movie, but it is super distracting in a gritty drama. "Wait. Did Alcocop McCancerpatient just wake up in a desert with Brad Pitt hair? I'm out."


Although, to be fair, I have seen people in real life who could fall down a rocky embankment and still have supernaturally fine hair. I hate them.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Yes, all the time. I don't mind it so much in something slightly campy, like a Marvel movie,

And then, there's Medusa's "hair" in the Inhumans...

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Yes, all the time. I don't mind it so much in something slightly campy, like a Marvel movie,

And then, there's Medusa's "hair" in the Inhumans...

We prefer to call it the failure

I tend to notice make up more than hair, though both are silly. Especially when you see, say, Celtic tribeswomen running about with heavy mascara.