Who looks more like Chris reeve?
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I agree, he deserved a second movie
Routh looks a great deal like Reeve.
Co-sign.
I like Routh in nearly everything I've seen him in, but his performance as Superman just never struck me as quite right and I don't see the resemblance nearly as much as many others. His costume emphasized a sleek and youthful build that made him feel even younger than he was and the film itself was thematically questionable, especially when trying to reboot the most iconic superhero of all time.
That said, I don't see any more of Reeve in him than I do in Cavill. Reeve's square jaw and narrow, delicate features are distinctly different from any other actor to play the part.
That said, I don't see any more of Reeve in him than I do in Cavill. Reeve's square jaw and narrow, delicate features are distinctly different from any other actor to play the part.
Although Routh's slight similarity to Reeve is the only reason that got him the role, I'm gonna be the minority here and say Henry Cavill. That's why it's so easy to morph the two.
Excibit A:
http://img.cinemablend.com/cb/5/1/e...7c6fc439d68b52baa5c8607f29c3395e75da79f9b.gif
Excibit B:
https://img.ifcdn.com/images/ce6919118b5ecf52e8cf02fe7bb5ee0a11b226b543ce372c9fbf381da1a93b32_1.jpg
Excibit A:
http://img.cinemablend.com/cb/5/1/e...7c6fc439d68b52baa5c8607f29c3395e75da79f9b.gif
Excibit B:
https://img.ifcdn.com/images/ce6919118b5ecf52e8cf02fe7bb5ee0a11b226b543ce372c9fbf381da1a93b32_1.jpg
Isn't that scene CGI altered?
Yes. That's what I said. It was a little 'Easter egg' by Snyder.
http://cdn3-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2013/07/man_of_steel_christopher_reeve.jpg
Brandon Routh 100%. but it was his performance moreso than his looks that pulled it off. SR had its flaws but it should have been the movie to carry on the franchise. Remember everybody complaining about his son? A sequel would have still been ahead of today's comic plot by seven or eight years.
And yet it would have still been late to Superman's other sons in the comics by only 50 to 60 years:
http://www.greatkrypton.com/siegelshuster/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/showcasesf4.jpg
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net...v.1_218.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20081230015848
https://babblingsaboutdccomics2.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/act_391.png
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e5/e8/d7/e5e8d7ab184f55d823228c2dc117a2f5.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5091/5528687374_55feb386a0.jpg
Yup. With his Superman and Bale's Batman, DC would be a lot closer to where they currently want to be. in terms of world building. Maybe they would have put more work into GL, or, after it failed, they could have juts done the fall of the Corp and introduced Kyle Raynor.
I really liked Routh in the role. I wish they had let him be his own man, though, rather than carry on the awkward clumsiness that Reeve captured so perfectly in his movies. I think they tried a little TOO hard to make SR a sequel to the original movies. Routh has shown he has some fine chops when it comes to acting and I think they should have let him make the part his own. Cavill's Clark Kent is refreshing in that it's not a carbon copy of what came before him. I think in many ways, his Kent is more like the Kent we see in the comics. Or at least the Kent I remember from the comics. It's been years since I read SM.
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