I for one, don't think it should be dedicated to Reeve. Why? This over-sentimentality over Chris Reeve, when there have been a plethora of actors who've portrayed Superman, is really just getting ridiculous.
This is Brandon Routh's movie -- not Chris Reeve's (in any way!), let it be Routh's untouched, un-overshadowed, and unaffected by Christopher Reeve. God bless the man, but he has passed and as Singer has said, Superman is larger that Christopher Reeve -- it's a collective idea, a collective hero that transcends any man or actor. Leave Reeve in his films, this is Routh. He's our new Superman. From this point forward, Routh is Superman -- it's that simple.
Routh is not a substitute, a layover, a carbon. He's not like the current pope, a transitional figurehead. No. He is Superman, Christopher is no longer.
I just don't understand this nauseating sentimentality over a figure that, if he were alive, probably would be fully behind embracing Routh as the new Superman, fully willing to relinquish whatever claim he may have, and pushing a old hero onto a new generation.
Any idea, from a simple dedication to the rather, I think, tasteless and cinematically obstrusive idea of grafting Reeve's face over Routh's, is just plain melodramatic sentiment.
I hate to be so frank, but Reeve has passed on. Sadly, yes. Before his time, perhaps. But he has passed on, its seriously time that people stop attempting to resurrect him in anything and everything Superman.
No dedication to Reeve. In many ways, he has very little -- as an actor or person -- to do with this film. The story, the visuals, the themes all come from the writers and directors -- not Reeve. I'm not hating on Reeve but, just, come on...
Yeah I love it.
