Favourite TV/movie/toon take on the Man Of Steel?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
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STORYMARK

Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:54 AM

Also, more than half of our Big Damned Heroes do voices on JLU (as does John Crighton).

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

CHRISISALL

Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:57 AM

Whoah- maybe I have to see that!

The limited Chrisisall

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:58 AM

Gotta go with Chris Reeves here, he defined the character for me, to be blunt - although now you got me interested in checkin up on some of the 40's stuff.

Adam West kinda did that for me with Batman - but that was a different thing, there was Adam West Batman, and then there was dark, gloomy, angsty-emo batman...

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:12 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

Is there no one here to even respond to me???

The Zod-ian Chrisisall

No Terrenceisall. You postulated that the coke addict Reeve was your utmost representation of the Man of Steel. Where can logic progress from that dead end?

ECGORDON

Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:56 PM

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
No Terrenceisall. You postulated that the coke addict Reeve was your utmost representation of the Man of Steel. Where can logic progress from that dead end?

I think your confusing TV Superman George Reeves with movie Superman Christopher Reeve. The latter is the one Chris cited as his favorite.

CYBERSNARK

Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:25 PM

I'm a Post-Crisis fan, so there's never really been a non-comic Superman story that really gets it "right."

The Diniverse does come close, though, and Superman did actually have his own series before Justice League kicked off. It aired briefly between B:tas and JL (the Diniverse goes: Batman -> Superman -> Justice League -> Justice League Unlimited -> Batman Beyond -> The Zeta Project)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_The_Animated_Series

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KWICKO

Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:29 PM

Are we going purely on film, TV, and cartoon versions? If not, my favorite take is Larry Niven's essay "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex", in which he lays out the science of why Clark and Lois were never going to work out (short version: he'd kill her if they tried to have sex). It was hilarious, and it was accurate.

As far as film and TV, Chris Reeve is it.

CHRISISALL

Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:55 PM

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Originally posted by ecgordon:

I think your confusing TV Superman George Reeves with movie Superman Christopher Reeve. The latter is the one Chris cited as his favorite.

I met Chris Reeve after a performance of Fifth Of July on Broadway- in the movies he was impressively handsome & a striking physical presence, but in real life...
he was the same.

The laughing Chrisisall

OPPYH

Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:

I met Chris Reeve after a performance of Fifth Of July on Broadway- in the movies he was impressively handsome & a striking physical presence, but in real life...
he was the same.

HAHA! Nice.

Chris Reeve IS Superman. No other actor can match up. Is Superman 2 better than the first movie? You betcha.

LWAVES

Sunday, January 31, 2010 10:42 PM

I can't say that I know the cartoons at all having only watched Superman: Doomsday but Chris Reeve will always be Superman to me. He was just so right for the role.
Brandon Routh did a great job (especially as Clark) but the rest of the movie let him down.

The Cain/Hatcher version should be erased from existence. Too many things wrong/changed with it and I'm not usually the biggest continuity nit-picker between versions but they went too far.

I was gonna mention Smallville as well but I guess he hasn't actually been Superman yet so I guess it doesn't count.

"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

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