I think that Routh isn't ripped enough. In the comics Superman is shredded & his muscles are buldging. Routh indeed got bigger before filming began but he's not big enough. If you look at the Special Features on the Two-Disc DVD special for "Superman Returns" he was struggling to lift those little weights that most of the people on this forum could probably lift without a problem. Tom Welling is more jacked than him & he only plays Clark Kent! Anyway, he needs to put on more muscle & this time not have a muscle suit.
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Yeah. Margot Kidder actually had a nice figure. Kate Bosworth somewhat has a chest & has an ass as flat as cardboard. Plus, she's skinny, she needs to put on some weight. We want to see a real Lois Lane, not an anorexic one.
__________________ "It wasn't even about the eggs. Quite frankly I like the eggs, I don't have no...problem with...It's just there's always been a lot of tension between me & Lois. It's not so much as I want to kill her...I just want her...to not be...alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. Then I think to myself, wouldn't it be MARVELOUS if I turned out to be a homosexual?"
Tobey Maguire has the perfect amount of muscle in each Spider-Man movie. Spider-Man's not supposed to be really bulky & Tobey isn't too bulky. If he chooses to be fat when he's not in movies, that's his choice. We have no control over his lifestyle. Btw, those pictures of him being fat looked photoshopped anyway.
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you are all insane. There is no human being that resembles or ever has that of superheros physique portrayed in a comic book. Would you rather of had superman wearing a muscle suit? Christopher reeves was no more cut than routh. Although Reeves may have been in better shape than Routh....once in spandex it doesnt matter. Routh, had a larger physical presence than reeves.
Muscles and over all physique have nothing to do with supermans strength. He could weigh 350 pounds and be the most out of shape being on Earth, yet his strength would not be effected. The presence of Superman is more important to me on film than muscles. Even though Routh portrayed a recycled Reeves performance I thought it worked none the less.
About the complaints of maguire in spiderman. He appeared exceptionally fit in the first movie when he had his shirt off. In the other two movies you never saw him with his shirt off, because showcasing a body of ripped muscles was not important for the character.
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Wait, wait, we're insane because we want actors to resemble their characters more physically? Yeah, okay.
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I didn't hear anyone complain about Magneto not being ripped in the movies. It's not neccessary he looks that way anyway, for his power; that's just how artists draw characters.
Superman is similar, in that his power is completely scientific and artificial. It's not required that he looks like a total gym rat like Batman, who has to work at it to fight crime. He just has to look in shape to give off an air of power. Routh looked fine to me.
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Routh looks like in good fit. He certainly isn't skinny.
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It wouldn't hurt him to bulk up another 20 lbs or so either.....
__________________ "It wasn't even about the eggs. Quite frankly I like the eggs, I don't have no...problem with...It's just there's always been a lot of tension between me & Lois. It's not so much as I want to kill her...I just want her...to not be...alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. Then I think to myself, wouldn't it be MARVELOUS if I turned out to be a homosexual?"
No, I disagree. Superman shouldn't be a huge bulking guy, it looks dumb in the comics (if they go to far) and it would look even worse in a live action movie. Your basically saying that you want Superman to resemble a WWE wrestler. Which is retarded. Routh, I thought, had the perfect physical presence to be Superman. He was in shape, but still looked normal. Plus, if Superman WAS that ripped, it would make Clark Kent seem ridiculous. A huge bulking yet shy nerdy guy? It would make no sense and wouldn't be believable at all. Routh was fine.
I'm not saying he should be a hulking guy, just about 10 more lbs of muscle & a six pack. I don't want him to be freakishly huge. Btw, he did have a comic called "Power to the Parasite" where he had gotten so powerful that he had the size of the Hulk, if not bigger. He looked really freaky but it was interesting to see.
__________________ "It wasn't even about the eggs. Quite frankly I like the eggs, I don't have no...problem with...It's just there's always been a lot of tension between me & Lois. It's not so much as I want to kill her...I just want her...to not be...alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. Then I think to myself, wouldn't it be MARVELOUS if I turned out to be a homosexual?"
I too tire of actors not even being close to the superhero's they are trying to act as. Now let's be honest, comic book characters are made with unrealistic musculature, that no one in real life can attain. But that's no excuse for a character in a movie to have no definition or muscles what-so-ever. Routh has got to get in better shape, I would own him in the gym hands down (probably in a fight, too), and I'm only 5'10" a buck 50 I can BP 250. People need to stop saying it's not about how they look, and how they act. One of Robert Deniro's greatest roles was in Raging Bull, where he packed on 50 pounds of muscles to more faithfully potray the boxer he was acting as. People call it one of his greatest because he showed so much devotion to the charatcer and went the extra mile to pull it off. If Deniro can do it, what makes these actors exempt from trying (in good faith, of course) to look like the characters? In Routh's defense I thought they choose him because he looked just like Chris Reeves and this was supposed to be a continuim, so to have him all buff now wouldn't fit in the story really.
I never saw Christopher Reeve display a six-pack through his costume, and no one complained about his physique. He had the right shape; that's what mattered. And so does Routh.
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dude it woudln't hurt routh's charecter if he put on 10-20lbs of lean muscle , we don't want him ripped just to fill the superman 'comic' charecter's impression , after all he plays a charecter based on a comics
That's what I'm saying, he doesn't have to look like a freak but Superman is known to have a pretty good physique in the comics. Tom Welling if buffer than Routh & Welling isn't even portraying Superman. Routh is in shape, no doubt but if you watch the Superman Returns special features when he's swimming, he virtually has no six pack & yet again, he was struggling with weights that would be considered little by many.
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I don't think its to much to ask for him to put on some extra muscle mass for the next movie considering the amount he will be making... Superman should at least have half decent muscles and a six pack, Brandon looked kind of chubby.
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Yeah, look at Christian Bale though. He was HUGE in Batman Begins. He really worked out & put on muscle mass. By far Christian Bale has had the best physique for a comic book character that was featured in his own film.
__________________ "It wasn't even about the eggs. Quite frankly I like the eggs, I don't have no...problem with...It's just there's always been a lot of tension between me & Lois. It's not so much as I want to kill her...I just want her...to not be...alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. Then I think to myself, wouldn't it be MARVELOUS if I turned out to be a homosexual?"
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no, your insane for wanting something thats humanly impossible. comic book muscles exist only in the realm of science fiction. I can understand when people say that a casting choice was fitting in general resemblence, but when you are pissing because superman only had an 6 pack instead of an 8 pack...that is a nuerotic that fanboys dont even know
in risk of fueling this fire. Routh is a fairly toned person. I know ive seen shots with him rockin tight 6 pack. The problem with showcasing this muscle mass however, was the design of the superman costume. The costume wasnt designed to exentuate muscles.
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