It makes sense that Taylor Lautner doesn’t want to spend his life being That Shirtless Wolf Who Was In Twilight That Time, but this pushes a little too far in the other direction:
I want to like it — cute boy in a suit — but it’s just so glum and charmless. The kid is 19. He should be allowed to look like a hot young adult, rather than a) one of the students featured in the Terrorist Reform School story; b) all five telltale signs of a psycho boss; c) the crabby upstart on an episode of Mad Men who makes Pete Campbell look like an easygoing noodle of a man; or d) an old-school game-show host who is really, really angry whenever anyone gets a whammy.
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Also they photoshopped his face to hell and back. He looks very feminine and delicate here — nay, he looks Bieber-esque!
WTF GQ.
Is it just me or does his head look huge?
No it is not just you, his head is HUGE here, his body, oddly tiny and possibly elongated, nothing looks right here, and why would you photoshop a 19 year-old who bulked up a bit, and make him look skinnier than (insert creepily thin female celeb of choice here)? Massive Fugging Fotoshop Fail!
I’m trying to figure out the photoshop decisions GQ made here. Keep his neck the same width, but make his shoulders smaller and enlarge his face? I guess? It looks kind of weird to me.
His head and face actually ARE that much bigger than his body, so I don’t think we can blame photoshop.
I understand his predicament, but I can’t help but feel like he jumped the gun trying to go full-Tom-Cruise in his last movie. Just no way in hell am I taking him seriously in an “action hero come to the rescue of a damsel in distress” role. If he came to rescue me from a burning building, I’d send him back down the ladder and tell him to come back when he could grow convincing stubble.
It looks like they tried to give him an hourglass figure. Is that a new trend for men? If so, that makes me woeful.
That’s the first thing I thought. Hourglass figure? On a guy? No thanks.
Does. he. have. on. contacts? T.T
Yeah, lol, is that even him? His head is ginormous compared to his body here.
I dunno, I think he looks fine.
Kind of looks like he lost the matching trousers to his suit, and wore the jacket anyway. It’s so photoshopped he looks Autotuned.
I am totally stealing, “So photoshopped it looks autotuned.”
looks like he’s made of plastic…
I agree that this is confusing. Lautner is a very attractive young man. Why photoshop him and make him look WORSE?
I agree. He’s sexy naturally. :3
With that monstrous parade balloon head he looks like he’s going to lift off to the Land of Cro-Magnan Browed Mad Men.
Everyone seems to think that they photoshopped his head to be larger, but I always thought he had a big head.
I think it’s amusing that they declared this the “Man Up Issue” while featuring a boy who cannot even buy a drink yet.
Little Donny Draper! Um, yeah, let’s find a middle ground here…
They DID shop his head bigger.
Just google some candids. I think they tried to even out his freakishly long neck and figured they needed more head to accomplish that (at least they managed to shop some of the douchebag face out of the mega-head up there).
Compare: http://api.ning.com/files/7-oL2ibLLzZFGZLFQOxrzfPhQMQ4BJI4c8bN8cnIh1oNsbizXTDS-3caZ630HNCCd*Vg9EypG*OeZ-tRFUfr*BZ-L3HhuO-S/taylor_lautner_1238033311.jpg
Whoa! Major photoshop bobble-head. And hand. Freakishly large hand.
I agree that his head looks too big or his shoulders too narrow for reality. I can’t quite figure it out, but something’s wonky there. Still, a SMILE would improve the look greatly IMHO.
It is so attractive to see a man actually taking an interest in his appearance … I am so sick of men of all ages in stupid tee shirts, jeans and ugly sneakers … any man who makes even a token attempt to look nice is so ahead of the game … bravo, Taylor … you are a chick magnet.
It’s just look really wrong.
Don’t see the attraction with this kid. It looks like they mixed in some other male celebrity with his face here. He looks like a male model, which is to say soulless and not interesting at all.
Yes, soulless is exactly the right word.
1. OMGWTFBBQ Photoshop disaster.
2. Geico CaveMadMen.
The head (size) doesn’t bother me. I guess I’m oblivious. BUT – I hate the gray pants with the blue blazer. If he had on the matching blue pants, I wouldn’t have thought twice about this. Gray pants and a blue blazer – that’s what my FATHER wears. And he’s in his 80′s.
1. Photoshop FAIL. The boy is not a bobblehead. Really not.
2. He looks far older here than 19, and nothing like himself.
3. Somehow this is evoking US Air Force dress blues for me, despite the frilly pocket square — maybe he’s gunning for a part in a war movie?
He’s 19. You don’t need to be photoshopped at 19. And for that matter, a pox on these photo editors that continuously photoshop some of the most attractive people in the world! It’s insulting to the subject, the photographer and us as the audience that they think they have fooled. It’s one thing to take the wrinkles out of a garment, yet another to take them out of a face.
I think he looks really good. I know for a fact a lot of teen fans of Taylor’s are going nuts over this cover. Maybe the ones attacking him the most are too old to appreciate a handsome young guy on the cover of GQ.
As much as I appreciate a well-dressed young man (in a totally motherly way since this one is younger than my son), this poor kid looks like a department store mannequin.
I got distracted by the headline in the corner which promises to help me master my domain with digital tips from ….. Ashton Krutcher?!?
I don’t know, I don’t find him attractive in general but this seems like an improvement, actually.
At least the photoshop bobble-head thing makes this cover interesting. Because nothing else about it is. Can’t act, no personality … no wonder he rarely covers up his abs.
Wow -I feel really old & cranky now.
Right there with you, jhops. I realize I’m WAY older than the target demographic for this young man, but I really don’t get the appeal. He has all the charisma of a block of wood.
He looks like a paper doll.
some of the inside pics were really fun, he was doing back flips and jumping into pools wearing suits, the cover is blah and doesn’t appeal to GQ readers
you guys make me crack up. i just laughed OUT LOUD at work! The dude totally looks like all five signs of a psycho. the coat doesn’t fall right either.
Lautner may once have been a werewolf, but now he is deeply, silent-scream-eliciting terrifying. (Or at least in no way targeted at females.) This cover makes an excellent still to send to an Omen casting call.
I just…don’t get this. I’m not really a fan of anything he’s been in, but I like Taylor Lautner – he’s cute, and a lesser actor wouldn’t have been able to make Jacob bearable. He seems like a nice guy, and he’s pretty charming in interviews. I understand why he wanted to do an older, intense look for the cover – even though I sort of wish he was smiling just a little because he looks kinda sad. So WHY did they photoshop the CRAP out of him? It’s not that he looks bad persay, he just looks so flipping weird and my very first thought was “Whaaat? Oh…photoshop.” Cue resigned sigh.
He literally looks like a Ken doll.
Ann, that is totally what I was thinking. And it’s not just HIM….it’s what they did to him.
Yes – I have to say that I’m a little grossed out by their thinning of his nose, as if trying to make his facial features more generic. Or maybe I just have a sensitivity to nose issues, as I have a prominent one but I secretly love it.
Yup,that’s totally what I thought. Very stiff, very oddly proportioned. Actually, I think perhaps they just p-shopped his face on a doll body.
He is a fetus. A fetus with an abnormally large head, it seems.
He has been Photoshopped right into the Uncanny Valley. This looks like a screen grab from a video game.
Word.
With the photoshopped slendertude and the suit thing going on, he kinda reminds me of Fez from That ’70s Show, all dressed up.
Now that I think about it xD
He looks like he’s trying to be Darren Criss from the GQ wedding suits shoot, and falling terribly, terribly short.
Why does he have a school uniform on? Well it looks like a lot of Australian boys school uniforms.
And this guy’s most attractive feature is his smile, grumpy face isn’t working.
e) A hit man.
I like it, but it ages him 20 years!
Is it me, or did you think he was a Warbler at first glance, too, before doing a double take and saying to yourself “Crap, is TLaut legal yet?”?
He’s just never, ever appealed to me. It’s not his fault, but when I look at him, all I can think is how hard he must have to work to remember how to breathe. Or walk.
Hed iz pastede on yay!
19 year old- in a suit, skinny, photo shoppped, business man. That is not sexy at all. What are they trying to do? Get my mom to start liking him?
19 year old – shirt, jeans, converse, partying, fun, sports. Now that, is what I call sexy!
I wish they wouldn’t have done this. It’s like a WTF moment.