re: Man of Steel - Superman 2013

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Superman with Chris reeve has its good points

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Honestly...very few in my opinion.

Reeves is obviously perfectly cast...though in 2013 we'd all expect/need him to severely hit the weights before donning the cape. But he could not have possibly looked more like we'd all want Superman to look like.

Most everyone else is pretty terrible. Even as a kid I wondered WTF Supes saw in Margot Kidder's Lois Lane. Gene Hackman is awesome, but his take on Lex is horrible...though that's more to do with the straight up goofy comic book feel Donner was going for than his ability to play it differently. Either way, in 2013 it plays way past silly. And of course, the FX are laughable...from his pod leaving Krypton being obviously hoisted through the ceiling on a string and banging into it on the way out to the disco 70's space scenes, etc.

As iconic as Christopher Reeves is/was as Superman, no superhero franchise is in more of need of a revamp as is Superman. It's more overdue than Batman was in 1989 after the Adam West iteration was the last thing people had seen of the Dark Knight.