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Originally Posted by mitchanthropic
A-listers should never, ever, ever be used for iconic superheroes. When you use A-listers in these kinds of roles, you get Clooney's Batman. Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face. Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze. Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy. You get Ben Affleck's Daredevil and you get Halle Berry's Storm. Their real-life fame outweighs the character they're playing, and it becomes too hard for the audience to fully believe what is happening in the story, which makes it hard to like because these stories require a level of suspension of disbelief to have any effect.
Sorry, that turned into a bit of a ramble. 
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I dunno, I consider Hugh JAckman to be an A-list star, and I loved him in X Men as Wolverine (But then again I am a huge wrestling style mark for him)