Superman Returns Suit, Muscle.. is Brandon the problem?

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Ohearn sucks........c'mon..........the dude's acting blew even in a teaser trailer.

I'm fine with Routh, I would have gotten Welling......but I WILL NOT hold that against Routh in any way, Routh IS Superman now....so that's it.

 

[StarvingArtist]

she was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer first.

Same difference

 

[dark_b]

actualy we can not talk if he cans act. because it isd hes first real movie.
i know that bale would be good because he played in many movies and he was good. but for routh we dont know nothing. after the trailer comes out we still wont know if he can act. but when the movie comes out........... than but only than we will know the true.

lets stop with this soap opera. i dont look this thing. but i dont belive that for a soap opera you must be a good actor. ofcourse now someof you will say........ hey he cant even be in a soap opera. he cant act.

maybe he was relly fired because they didnt like him. maybe the director didnt like him.....because routh had sex with hes wife. everything is possible.

but what if he was born to play superman? what if ?


i saw this on a german chanel this movie: Virtuosity (1995)
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, were playing in this movie. and the movie was mega crap. denzel and russell are mega plyers. this two players can act. but they were also making very bad movies.

actualy my post makes no sense. but lets just say that i am a crazy man.

 

[The Last Meatbag]

I trust Singers choice with Brandon acting-wise and he looks like superman facially, but I think he should've bulked up, when we think of Superman we think of a man of power and we should be able to tell by looking at him, they should of at least had him bulk up his arms

 

[Nightwing1977]

I trust Singers choice with Brandon acting-wise and he looks like superman facially, but I think he should've bulked up, when we think of Superman we think of a man of power and we should be able to tell by looking at him, they should of at least had him bulk up his arms

We may see that if they do a sequel. Reeve did that after part 1. Few pics around here has shown him from all 4 Supes movies & his physique has look quite different compare to part 1.

 

[The Last Meatbag]

If they do do a sequel Im sure they will imporve on his physique

 

[Anita18]

i know that bale would be good because he played in many movies and he was good. but for routh we dont know nothing. after the trailer comes out we still wont know if he can act. but when the movie comes out........... than but only than we will know the true.

Actually, I think you can tell at least a little bit about the quality of the acting in a trailer, depending on how much they show. For instance, I was hoping that SW: ROTS would actually be better than the others acting-wise, but once I saw the trailers, I thought, "Meh, not worth catching.." I cringed when I saw the trailers for gosh sakes. If those were the best bits, I didn't want to know what the inferior bits were like...

I still haven't caught the movie, but my cousin reported that the entire audience laughed at inopportune moments because of the delivery of the lines.

 

[M.O.Steel]

Actually, I think you can tell at least a little bit about the quality of the acting in a trailer, depending on how much they show. For instance, I was hoping that SW: ROTS would actually be better than the others acting-wise, but once I saw the trailers, I thought, "Meh, not worth catching.." I cringed when I saw the trailers for gosh sakes. If those were the best bits, I didn't want to know what the inferior bits were like...

I still haven't caught the movie, but my cousin reported that the entire audience laughed at inopportune moments because of the delivery of the lines.

True, but the opposite is possible also. I thought Brad pitts' lines in the trailer for TROY were terrible, but in the movie, it wasn't that bad. Also, a couple of lines in spiderman were kinda cheesy in the trailer, but in the movie they were...less cheesy.

You're right about the lines in ROTS, but the movie was still enjoyable. I still recommend you watching it, even if it is for laughing at the dialogue.

 

[Nightwing1977]

Actually, I think you can tell at least a little bit about the quality of the acting in a trailer, depending on how much they show. For instance, I was hoping that SW: ROTS would actually be better than the others acting-wise, but once I saw the trailers, I thought, "Meh, not worth catching.." I cringed when I saw the trailers for gosh sakes. If those were the best bits, I didn't want to know what the inferior bits were like...

It can be the other ways too. Even if the lines or acting look bad in trailers, it can be better when seeing the movie, like M.O. Steel mentioned.

 

[dark_b]

people you must realize that in the trailers they will mix some lines together. so actualy we think that for example: martha kent talks with clark.... but in the movie he talks with lois.
thats why sometimes something looks campy and makes no sense.

i still think and will always say that we must see the final product(the movie) so we can tell how it was.

offtopic: lets say that a lot of users here dont like routh. you think they would admit that they were wrong? neever.
FEAR doesnt like routh and doesnt like singer ......hey he doesnt like superman returns. i think he will go watch the movie and if he likes the movie he will never admit that he was wrong.

 

[Kabuki_Jo]

The only issue in this whole thing is, accept it, Routh looks like a kid...he's superboy, not superman...he just doesn't convey the idea that he's a man...the man of steel....the mighty powerful superMan...he looks like a kid in superboy suit, that's all.

 

[Saph]

We may see that if they do a sequel. Reeve did that after part 1. Few pics around here has shown him from all 4 Supes movies & his physique has look quite different compare to part 1.

That's a terrible excuse. That's like saying Bale didn't need to bulk up because of how small Michael Keaton was. Why would Routh just be allowed to be a certain size in one movie because he could get bigger in an unconfirmed sequel?

 

[roach]

Just cause Singer hired Routh it doesn't mean that he looks more like Superman then Ohearn.. It just shows that Singer doesn't know how to cast a movie if his life depended on it... Remember he is the one who messed up the 90% of the cast in xmen, and who put the worst of the baldwin brothers in his Usual Suspects movie... Also yes Routh & Bosworth might have chemistry together, and that might not shock anyone since their both crappy actors... ofcourse there going to go well together.
Crap belongs with crap...

Im sorry but this arguement doesnt make sense. Who was miscast in X-men..Halle and the actor who played Cyclops...that's it...and they werent that big on miscasts. You are bashing him because he took the worst of the Baldwin brothers and cast him in Usual Suscpects...and got a good performance out of him??????
How do you know how to cast a movie????? Have you ever done it???
This is getting old to me. Everytime someone is cast we go thru this. It happened when Reeve was cast, It happened when Keaton was cast as Batman, it happened when Maquire was cast as Spiderman, Jackman as Wolverine. I have faith in Singer...his artistic visions have brought me loads of entertainment.

 

[Excel]

its no escuse, hes pointing out that schris reve who was perfect to so many people, had the same problem. revees size for supes was fine as is rouths.

 

[roach]

its no escuse, hes pointing out that schris reve who was perfect to so many people, had the same problem. revees size for supes was fine as is rouths.

I remember people complaining about CR was an unknown and he didnt look like GR

 

[Nightwing1977]

That's a terrible excuse. That's like saying Bale didn't need to bulk up because of how small Michael Keaton was. Why would Routh just be allowed to be a certain size in one movie because he could get bigger in an unconfirmed sequel?

Terrible excuse to you, but I disagree. And I mention maybe he can bulk up for a sequel if it happend because fans still complain he's not big with right now in SR.

 

[sf2]

he must have 'it'. it just didn't show in those pics.
wasn't he selected through an international search?

i'm confused sometime.

 

[AgentPat]

...wasn't he selected through an international search?

No, he wasn't. To my knowledge, McG didn't conduct a worldwide search...

August 14, 2004

"With casting calls going out for Superman, many potential Men of Steel will be auditioning hoping for a chance to meet with Bryan Singer and do a final screen test. One former candidate who will jump the audition queue is Brandon Routh. Routh, who tested for McG in June, will not have to read for the part and will meet with Singer very soon. He then may be asked to (re)screen test for the role."​

http://www.superman-v.com/news/04_08_14.php

 

[IT is Batgirl]

Wait. Singer did conduct an international search. He simply found his Superman in a screentest during McG's 'era.'

 

[The Sage]

Wait. Singer did conduct an international search. He simply found his Superman in a screentest during McG's 'era.'

And then he re-tested, according to Blog 20 or 21.

 

[Rob-el]

That's a terrible excuse. That's like saying Bale didn't need to bulk up because of how small Michael Keaton was. Why would Routh just be allowed to be a certain size in one movie because he could get bigger in an unconfirmed sequel?

This whole issue of Routh's "Bulk" (or lack there of) is really moot. First off he looks fine in the pictures that I've seen so far (IMO). Superman needn't be some gigantic muscle monster. Having said that though use the Reeve movies as references for the lack of need of "bulk". In the first movie he was all over the map. Some shots he had "bulked" up and in other, earlier shots he hadn't but these shots didn't ruin the movie. In fact most people never even noticed even though there was probably as much as a 20 pound difference. Reeve didn't hit full, consistant "bulk" until Superman 3 and the "bulk" certainly didn't help that movie. And by Superman 4 he had lost alot of the bulk but most people didn't notice the difference.

Too much is being made about this whole "bulk" issue in my opinion. Its going to be the acting that either carries or sinks this movie - straight forward and simple

 

[Saph]

This whole issue of Routh's "Bulk" (or lack there of) is really moot. First off he looks fine in the pictures that I've seen so far (IMO). Superman needn't be some gigantic muscle monster. Having said that though use the Reeve movies as references for the lack of need of "bulk". In the first movie he was all over the map. Some shots he had "bulked" up and in other, earlier shots he hadn't but these shots didn't ruin the movie. In fact most people never even noticed even though there was probably as much as a 20 pound difference. Reeve didn't hit full, consistant "bulk" until Superman 3 and the "bulk" certainly didn't help that movie. And by Superman 4 he had lost alot of the bulk but most people didn't notice the difference.

Too much is being made about this whole "bulk" issue in my opinion. Its going to be the acting that either carries or sinks this movie - straight forward and simple

And in all that incessant rambling you forgot one thing, I didn't mention anything about Routh's size ruining the movie. Apparently complaining about one thing makes me hate the entire movie. Heh.

The post you quoted was talking about one poster saying it's 'ok' for Routh to be the size he is because of Christopher Reeve. Which is a stupid excuse. As I recall, the positive people are frequently telling the negative people to stop talking about Reeve. Oh wait, that only applies until it 'supports' their argument.

 

[sf2]

it isn't about his size. and pls talk about his size in the other thread.

it is about the 'charm'. can the new generation see him as superman once they see his supes image. just like reeve does to us.

 

[Rob-el]

And in all that incessant rambling you forgot one thing, I didn't mention anything about Routh's size ruining the movie. Apparently complaining about one thing makes me hate the entire movie. Heh.

The post you quoted was talking about one poster saying it's 'ok' for Routh to be the size he is because of Christopher Reeve. Which is a stupid excuse. As I recall, the positive people are frequently telling the negative people to stop talking about Reeve. Oh wait, that only applies until it 'supports' their argument.

Actually go back and read your quote - it directly deals with "bulk" - I was merely pointing out to you (and others who have posted about this matter) that from my persepective it was a moot point -- quit being so bloody sensitive. And while I am hopeful this movie is great (therefore a "positive" people" member?) please don't lump me in a group - I certainly have my own thoughts and will feel free to articulate them. I have never said we should stop talking about Reeve.

 

[Muze]

I'm surprised at how many folk think Brandon Routh looks too thin and too small... I showed the original pic of him in the suit to my friends at Chefelf's night life and they all said he looked like he could leg press a bus.

And Christopher Reeve himself was rather lean when compared to his comic book counterpart.

i just think he has stumpy legs and a disproportionately long torso. Reeve is his superior in every way; sorry to say.