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.

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Kinda wish Hollywood would stop trying to make Cavil happencause he has no charisma at all.

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!

Tom Welling is still WAY better than Cavill. It's a shame but probably good that Tom didn't get drawn in to Zach Snyder's one note morbid mess of a franchise.

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

Yes. I absolutely think he would have been better.

"Christopher Reeve was and IS Superman"
. Amen to that, Spartacus34.

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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I think this comparison is not fair Because we didn't see Cavill acting as Sups yet.

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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Routh and Welling were both better. Cavill isn't bad.maybe he just hasn't been given enough Superman-type stuff to do yet. And no, having him trash Smallville and Metropolis does not count.

I would just like to see them both in the same movie!

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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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?

Definitely, Tom Welling is the current generation Superman Would've loved to see him playing the role in Man of Steel instead of Henry Caviill.

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.

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 .

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
right.

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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Tom Welling. Not that close even.
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