Do you think Tom Welling is better than Henry Cavill?
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xanxei — 12 years ago(January 02, 2014 12:58 PM)
Christopher Reeve
Brandon Routh
There ends the very short list of good Supermen.
To be fair, the Tom Welling I just saw in Parkland might have, with good direction, made for a good film-Superman, but that's simply not a possibility anymore. In a different universe where someone else played Clark Kent on Smallville and Welling meanwhile grew into a decent actor elsewhere, someone might have cast him in a Superman movie, but in this universe, that ship has not only sailed, but sunk. -
Darkwalker173 — 12 years ago(January 13, 2014 01:34 AM)
Brandon Routh would have been remembered as a great Superman if the script had been any good.
He wasn16d0't given much to do and as I said, the script was so bad that I am surprised Superman Returns was made in the first place.
Although Smallville was a guilty pleasure of mine despite the steady decline in quality, Tom Welling, although good looking, was simply not a good actor, and on the job training is not recommended when you are carrying a show.
Henry Cavill did not play Superman.
I don't know who he was exactly, but Superman he was not.
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WackyKacky — 12 years ago(January 13, 2014 02:31 AM)
I honestly don't think Tom Welling was a bad actor. Many actors are trained, and more than you care to know learn "on the job", and end up taking acting lessons later. I thought his best was when he was allowed to be "bad". I also thought some of his 2nd year stuff was pretty good (loved the episode when he first shot fire out of his eyes). I think a big portion of what came across as stiff had more to do with poor scripts that spent way too much time on the Lana/ Clark dysfunctional relationship, which I was ready for it to end by Season 4. Clark was written as a self condemning person, constantly full of guilt. I would have liked to see them develop him with more passion and boldness. It started that way but once they had exhausted exposing new abilities, he did little more than running in slow motion. I think they could have developed his character more, in keeping with the growth of Lex Luthor, who they carried from rich brat growing into his own to evil through and through in 7 years. Not so for Clark. He got to wallow in self pity for almost 3 more years.
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MysteryRidah — 11 years ago(June 18, 2014 04:50 PM)
UltimaRex
Must be trolling
Tom welling is the best superman next to reeve. Period. Man of steel sucks, the whole damn movie was trash.
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xanxei — 12 years ago(March 24, 2014 03:16 AM)
Agreed on all points, except this:
Superman Returns
did have a
fundamentally
flawed script, but while it didn't work as a whole, it still had a lot going for it, and many segments were absolutely brilliant. It's really a shame of epic proportions that they didn't have a better foundation to build on, because there was a lot of talent in that movie and they got many things very, very right. Bryan Singer's vision was absolutely beautiful. It's just too bad they couldn't make the premise work.
I heard somewhere scheduling got messed up and they had to write the script in a month. If that's true, it explains a lot.
Man of Steel
, by contrast, was just a bizarre, embarrassing mess from beginning to end. It didn't get
anything
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lafritejojo2000 — 11 years ago(May 14, 2014 10:01 AM)
I love both actors. They both deserve this role. Snyder asked Cavill to be more a manly and athletic Superman. Henry did a good job. But "Man of Steel " is confused and it damages the legend of Superman, no matter whether Tom or Henry plays .
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katie_wright-985-438590 — 11 years ago(May 14, 2014 10:30 AM)
I think that Cavill is not a very good actor. He had the looks but the whole script and casting was terrible in "Man of Steel." I'm a big fan of Tom Welling, so I am glad he didn't do this horrible movie. I don't get how people say Welling can't act. He played the role of Clark to perfection. Even his peers and fellow actors and directors felt his ability to play the role with sincerity and stillness was incredible. John Glover (Tony Award winner) felt that he was a very gifted actor. You can see his real acting skills when he flipped his character into "bad Clark" mode and in the few small roles he has done since Smallville. Hopefully we will see him in some bigger roles soon.
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Empty-tummy — 11 years ago(June 21, 2014 08:26 PM)
To put my spin on it, here it is. My issue isn't which actor is better, my issue is which actor portrays the character on screen. Henry Cavill did not make me care about the character. At all. It was an altogether dull movie with a very bad cobbled-together hodge-podge of a screenplay with numerous plot holes which left me extremely bored during the viewing process.
Tom Welling (I will concede, initially wasn't strong, but, definitely improved in leaps and bounds (pun intended =D) over the years, especially seasons 8 through 10) made me believe in something which I had yet to see portray on the screen till date. He made me believe in Clark Kent as a human being. His desire to be human, and, depicting his flaws and failures, as well as his own psychological limitations were what made me fall in love with Tom Welling's interpretation of the character.
People may debate on the quality of the acting style, but, I choose to focus on the simplest factor. Tom Welling made me invested in Clark Kent. Henry Cavill made me bored. Does that answer the question? -
pypsqweek — 11 years ago(July 24, 2014 09:05 PM)
Christopher Reeve, Tom Wellling, Henry Caville and,Brandon all played good Superman. The problems not with them but the script. Superman has always been written as,very handsome, very reserved and painstakingly always doing the right thing all the time that it makes his character kinda flat. I think the best adaptation was when Dean Cain took on the role in Lois and Clarke.
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TreeHuggerTravels — 11 years ago(October 09, 2014 07:23 PM)
Relative to all the comments on inconsistencies in the semantics of a character.I recall that producers and writers of content borrowing borrowing source material have complete creative control over their presentation and incarnation of characters..get over it
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spartacus34 — 10 years ago(April 17, 2015 09:57 PM)
Not going to say I would have preferred Tom Welling, but Cavill is the most one dimensional Superman ever!!! He has ZERO personality. Tom Welling at least made me care, Cavill makes me bored. I would rather watch Smallville over and over than watch "Man of Steel". Christopher Reeve was and IS Superman and the closest we have come to that are Welling and Routh.
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