Do you think Tom Welling is better than Henry Cavill?
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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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GreenFace21 — 10 years ago(July 08, 2015 06:34 AM)
I personally don't know if Tom Welling is more suitable choice than Cavill. All I know is I like the Smallville story. I saw Clark Kent more than a superguy, more a human than a savior/hero. In Smallville, Clark Kent is more like what John McClane said about hero in Live Free or Die Hard, and the Five For Fighting's lyrics (It's hard to be me).
Is it because Welling has better acting, or Smallville has better script, I don't exactly know. But I'm done to see a super man. I'm more like to see a human behind those super attributes -
katie_wright-985-438590 — 10 years ago(July 21, 2015 08:09 PM)
Couldn't agree more with you, avenger1234! So glad Tom Welling didn't do the MOS. It was the worst depiction of Superman, ever! Snyder and his crap script shows no humanity in the character and therefore created a boring, overly special effects dud of a movie! You have to root for the hero because you believe in him and MOS only made me pray for it to be over!
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AgentY — 10 years ago(December 04, 2015 11:59 PM)
I think that if Welling wasn't so good at being Clark Kent that most of the cameos that came from the ultimate Superman movies, aka Reeves Superman, wouldn't have happened. They would have had the former Lana Lang as his mother, because she b68signed on before it hit the air, and that would have been it. But we got most of the major characters from the Reeves Era making at least one if not multiple cameos. If Reeves hadn't passed away, he planned on making more appearances. That was how his (Reeves) Lois wasn't a villain on Smallville, which ended up creating the char of G. Teague instead.
MOS was so bad that, even though I bought it on DVD because I missed seeing it on big screen, after watching it I was so disgusted I wrapped it up and gave it to my nephew for xmas. Maybe, I thought, a child wouldn't see all the bad acting, and instead get the wonder a lot of us felt at seeing a man fly, etc.
I agree with the statement that someone said about in Smallville, Kent felt more human which made us care more. If I want to see an alien that feels like an alien, I will just watch Alien ffs.