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| that would be kul | ||
| Posted: 18 Aug 2005 22:34 | ||
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| Because Tom Welling got a faggot body... | ||
| Posted: 21 Aug 2005 11:05 | ||
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| Hey JJ1 express your opinon but please try not to get too personal about what your saying about the actors. I mean most of us who read and write on this forum like Tom Welling and his potrayal of Clark Kent. It is bad enough that there has been so many personal attacks on Brandon without seeing what he can do as Superman so be critical but not personal. I think you will find most girls who watch Smallville who very much disagree with you anyhow. | ||
| Posted: 22 Aug 2005 07:06 | ||
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| I'm so glad Tom Welling is not playing Superman. That guy looks younger than Routh. | ||
| Posted: 23 Aug 2005 14:41 | ||
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| I think that is the probably the reason they have him playing a teenager. Huh well? | ||
| Posted: 30 Aug 2005 04:34 Last Edited By: digory | ||
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I'm just glad that they picked an unknown actor to play superman. I hate it when they put someone in to play an established character and you can't keep all the baggage from the actor's old films from getting in the way. I still can't deal with Halle Berry playing Storm.
They do that in animated films all the time. I mean how many times to I have to listen to Robin Williams or Eddie Murphy play some dumb Disney cartoon sidekick? This is such a big budget, high profile film, I'm sure they auditioned a ton of actors for the part. I'm sure Brandon Routh has the acting ability to be superman. Christopher Reeves was pretty much unknown too. Superman was only his 3rd film and his first starring role. Don't get me wrong, though, Smallville is my fave show and Tom Welling is a really good actor. He would have been really good. |
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| Posted: 30 Aug 2005 23:09 | ||
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What was wrong with Halle Berry digory? Quote: I thought she was the perfect choice. Not to start a argument or anything. Tom Welling is a good actor it would have been cool if they chose him. I would have been happy with Dean Cain too. I loved the Lois and Clark show. Im still sad over that show getting canceled.I still can't deal with Halle Berry playing Storm. __________________ |
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| Posted: 01 Sep 2005 00:32 Last Edited By: digory | ||
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I know, a little off topic...
Halle Berry is a great actress and Monsters Ball was amazing, but she didn't embrace the cartoonish nature of a comic book adaptation. She totally overacted in the X films, but not in the right way. Storm has always been a little over the top.... "I, Storm, Mistress of the Elements...!!" That kinda thing. I mean, she was worshiped as a goddess in Africa, she's not really the subtle type. Berry played her all low key and intense. Plus Storm grew up in Africa and Berry played her straight-up American. That may have been a director call though, because Magneto didn't do a german accent either. Sorry, back to topic...;D |
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| I have just had a look at the Brandon Routh website and well I think they made the right choice. I still think the suit doesn't flatter his body type. If you take a close look at Brandon he is a longer in the torso than Chris is. I like Tom as Clark in Smallville but let's give Brandon a go first before we bag him any more. | ||
| Posted: 01 Sep 2005 20:48 | ||
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Sure I'm optimistic, but he really should lift some weights though. Superman's got to have some muscles.
digory I think it was a good idea to have storm played as an American. For some reason I just can't imagine anybody else as Storm than Halle Berry. Magneto sounded more like a shakespearean actor, but that worked. He needed to be over dramatic. Magneto is like stuck on himself so he over dramatizes events that surround him. __________________ |
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| Hey Tim I think if you stood Tom and Brandon side by side without shirts on you would probably see what I am talking about with the different body type thing. The first shot that I saw on Brandon in Australian newspapers he had a shirt on without the front buttons done up and he looked very muscular to me in that picture. Besides the spandex suit they had Chris in never showed that much muscle definition anyhow. I mean if they really wanted to show his body more than they should have gone with Dean's suit because he always looked well defined in that suit. The only time we ever saw Chris without his shirt on was in S2 and he was pretty big but didn't have much definition the way Dean did. | ||
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Dean was awesome as Superman, but there is one thing that always bugged me. He seemed to appear a little short for Superman. I guess I was comparing him to Reeve. Reeve just mainly bulked up his arms and shoulders I think for the role. Of course guys who play Superman can't bulk up too much with that suit you have to have no fat whatsoever, and to get a lot of muscles you have to eat more. __________________ |
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| Posted: 02 Sep 2005 19:27 | ||
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| i think tom welling is cool but we know him as teenage superman(clark kent) so he couldnt play supe in new movie it would look weird i mean him playing aduld supe then we see him as young clark it wouldnt make sense even though he is 28 yrs old,tell me what you guys think. | ||
| Posted: 03 Sep 2005 03:42 | ||
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| Yes digory I think that it would be a little weird to see him as a teenager in one role and a 30yr old in another. Tim, yes Dean was a little short in bare feet as superman. I think he is just under 6'1" but they used to have a pretty good size sole on his superman boots to get him to about 6'3". I think if you have a look at the body stats on both Chris and Brandon you would probably find that their dimensions are pretty similar. I wonder if Warner Bros or D C comics will do a calender featuring all the superman actors like they have been doing with Star Wars over the last couple of years. | ||
| Posted: 03 Sep 2005 14:25 | ||
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| Hey Tim if you take a look at brandonrouth.com you can see his biopage. It says he is 189cm/6'2.5" but not his weight. If you compare that to Chris who was 193cm/6'4" and about 102kg/225lbs you can see that the height difference is only a little bit. It says in his spare time he likes to indulge in a lot of sporting activities which is more than likely why he doesn't look as heavy built as Chris did. It means that he had more of an athletic build to start with, good muscle with low body fat, so Bryan probably didn't want him looking so imposing. I'll bet for the movie they got him weighing about 215-200lbs but he just doesn't look that big because he isn't bulky like Chris was. I guessing you are a pretty smart guy but if you really want to see what I am talking about have a look at some Australian footballers playing either rugby league or Aussie rules and you will see the height/weight dimensions of some of these players. There are some big boys but don't look like they are 6'3" and 220lbs because they don't have much body fat on them, I'll bet Brandon is the same way. | ||
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Perhaps superjon. I mean he could be one bad dude on the basketball court, but on the movie he might not look so tough. A movie like this is all about perception. What do you think about the guy when you see him on the screen? That's the bottom line, but yes your right I didn't really concentrate on the fact he's already athletic. I just skimmed through the biography facts while at that site. Ultimately, no matter what I might say about Brandon or the movie in general, I'm holding back my final judgement until I see the movie. I still hopeful it will be something like the first Reeve movie. __________________ |
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| Yes well Tim if you read about the story of the new movie it still would have made it an interesting movie whether they chose Tom or Brandon for the title role. I think without any serious weight training Tom and Brandon are probably the same height, weight and build. Maybe they could have gotten Brandon to take Tom's place on Smallville whilst Tom filmed the new movie because they aren't that dissimilar in overall looks and I think with the right make-up Brandon could look like a teenager. If you add 15 or 20 lbs on Tom he would look more like a man in his late twenties too. | ||
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Tom Welling looks like a bigger guy to me, but you know like I said I will wait to see the movie before I make my final judgements. I wish we could see a full blown trailer of the new guy flying around as Supes. I've seen like a few moments that were released at the comic convention recently, not the whole thing just clips on the web. Somebody posted a link to capedwonder.com that had a lot of fan trailers using those clips too. __________________ |
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| Yeah maybe Tim but I wouldn't go betting money on it. I am wondering when we will start to get the movie trailer in theatres because we got the Batman Begins trailer four to five months out from the movie release date. Do you think they chose Brandon mainly because Tom didn't want the part? I mean they both look the part but Tom never wanted the job and I thought that Christian Bale looked as much like Chris Reeve as Brandon does. | ||
| Posted: 05 Sep 2005 18:35 | ||
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I don't know, I've read Tom didn't want the part in a few posts. I don't know why he wouldn't want to be in major motion picture though unless he was afraid of being typecast, but you know typecasting isn't nearly a big a problem for movie stars these days as it was back in George Reeves days when kids would test his vulernability thinking he really was Superman. __________________ |
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| He is going to be in the title role of a picture due out next year sometime. I think if I remember correctly I read that in the Smallville magazine some sort of suspence, thriller kind of thing. Yes, good point more than likely doesn't want to be typecast. I think that he should start remaking some of Clint Eastwood's old films because he has the height and a good scowl when needed. | ||
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| Hey Tim, a lot of people on the forum would have liked to see Tom in the role but not all of us right. So with that in mind I was wondering if they approached him to play superman before they asked him to do Smallville because think about it Brandon looks more like Tom than he looks like Chris doesn't he? Both men are about the same age, height and build for the role that is the same character only ten years apart in age. | ||
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I don't think so. Smallville had been on a while before they got their act together enough to pin down an actor. I heard all kinds of rumors of picks for the part of Superman, but the rumors didn't really kick in till after Smallville was on, not counting the big Nicolas Cage false start. I wonder how that movie might have turned out? __________________ |
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| I like Nicolas Cage movies but I don't think he would have made a good superman. He is a good action star and a great villian but just doesn't have quite the right look to play superman/Clark. | ||
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But how do you think he would have compared to Brandon? __________________ |
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| If you facially then Nic doesn't look like superman but build wise he would probably need to put on 15-20 lbs to make that aswell. You see I think they went for someone who looked like Chris on purpose and that is why Tom also fits the bill. They wanted someone who looks like superman in the comics like Chris did. If someone really wants to compare the three men then put up some images of all of them side by side by side and you will all see what I mean. Tall, dark, solid built and a good strong looking face. | ||
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| The WB should come to it's senses and have Tom Welling continue his Clark role and incorporate his role and the entire Smallville cast into a X-files like movie. And if the rumor mill is true about Tom Welling having a clause in his contract that he "will not don the blue and red suit"; he definately should rethink his decision for this. I mean...Come on people, Christopher Reeves basically handed the Superman baton down to Welling. Let's do the right thing. As for this new superman clown. I'm sorry, he's probably a good actor and obviously he needs work, but I don't think it'll work out. Tom and the WB....come to your senses and lets do this! | ||
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Ya, I'm with everyone here; Tom Welling has grown so much into character, that if you meet him, you'd probably think he really was the Clark in Smallville. And I agree with the comment that though he looks like someone just out of highschool, he's actually much older, and can probably look much older.
Unfortunately, the point is moot, not just because he doesn't want the job, but even if he did, Smallville's still alive and kicking. I think part of the reason I have a hard time seeing Routh as Superman is that in the current publicity photos, he doesn't look larger than life; part of that effect is he needs to look bigger than the average person, and that's tougher now, since people are bigger today than in generations past. I don't know if it's him, or the camera angles. We'll see when the movie comes out, if he projects the kind of awe a superman should have infront of mere mortals. It must be demoralizing for him to read a whole lot of negative comments; I do hope he shines and proves everyone wrong. 
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that will be cool if tom play superman but he said NO!!!!!!!!!!
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| how can they change who the main character is in superman ...it should be tom hands down ...no 1 wants 2 see a no name expecially when we have gotten used 2 tom for the last 5 seasons | ||
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