The Reel Rejects - Superman Actors RANKED! Who’s the Best Man of Steel?
Episode Date: July 11, 2025WHO'S THE BEST SUPERMAN FROM THE MOVIES?! Become A Righteous Reject By Grabbing One Of Our Superman Inspired Apparel: https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Superman Biggest Cameos & Surprises: �...� • SUPERMAN 2025 | The Major Cameos & Surpris... Superman Spoiler Review (Post Credits & Ending Explained): • SUPERMAN SPOILER TALK!! Post-Credits, Endi... Superman Out Of Theater Reaction (Movie Review) • Just Watched SUPERMAN & Still So Emotional... Who’s the Best Superman?! Greg Alba & Coy Jandreau (DC Studios) go full Kryptonian as they RANK all the iconic Superman actors from the live-action movies and multiverse events! From Christopher Reeve's legendary run in Superman: The Movie, Superman II, III, and IV: The Quest for Peace, to Brandon Routh's emotional turn in Superman Returns and his triumphant return as Kingdom Come Superman in Crisis on Infinite Earths. They unpack Henry Cavill's DC journey in Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and Black Adam (briefly). Then, it’s time to talk about the future of the DCU with David Corenswet, the newest Man of Steel leading James Gunn’s 2025 Superman. Plus, shout-outs to Tom Welling from Smallville and Crisis on Infinite Earths, and Tyler Hoechlin, holding it down on Superman & Lois and across the Arrowverse. Whether you’re Team Reeve, Team Cavill, or placing your bets on Corenswet, this video celebrates the legacy, evolution, and emotional impact of each Superman performance. Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Citizens of the Reject Nation, now that we have Superman, the 2025 movie out,
we are going to rank the Superman from the movies.
Now, a couple of disclaimers here.
A couple of disclaimers.
There's a couple of live action Superman, like George Reeve and Kirk Allen,
who I only learned about today.
You didn't know about George Reeves?
I mean, I knew about George Reeves, but Kirk Allen, I didn't know about it.
Okay.
And I want to make it clear that we're not including them on here.
We're working with the ones that our generation is most familiar with.
So if that disappoints you, I'm sorry.
We wouldn't have much to contribute to that either way.
And yeah, we're only working with the live action.
So it's really only like four Superman.
Yeah, it's a very iconic character played less than most.
But I think it would be important shoutouts and TV versions that we really do love.
Yeah.
I really do.
I mean, okay, you can go first.
Who's the one you love?
Tom Welling.
Tom Willing.
Smallville.
Tom Welling.
He got it.
He embodied it for a decade.
What was it about?
What was about him that you really love?
He was so relatable and it was still like a guy that had all these powers that never felt like he abused them and he made me want to be good.
As a kid, I remember thinking, every kid thinks like what's it like to have powers?
I had someone that in my mind had powers and was still doing good.
And like he didn't not have flaws.
He wasn't perfect.
And that's why I've always had trouble with people that think Superman's just perfect.
He had plenty of flaws.
And like he sometimes was impulsive.
He thought rashly.
He like had a crush.
and acted stupid because of the crush.
Like, there was such humanity, but it was such a long time I got to spend with them.
Like, a decade on a show is crazy.
Like, watching someone grow up for 10 years, you grow up with them.
Do you think he was committed the whole time, or did he ever, like, wean and see my dude game, a little lazy?
But I was a kid, so I wouldn't have noticed.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, I haven't rewatched them as an adult, but I know that when I was a kid, I'm sure there were episodes.
But it also introduced so many guest stars, so many comic characters I never thought I'd see.
And I was always like, man, all these guys the Superman knows.
And, like, Tom Welling just felt like an in-universe Superman.
Like, it was perfect.
I would love to revisit Smallville.
They're so good.
I'm not going to react to it before people ask.
I would love to just watch it on my own.
It's such a good song.
It's so good.
Classic song, man.
For me, I would want to shout out Tyler Hecklin from Superman and Lois.
I actually never saw Supergirl, so I don't know what his introduction was like there.
But in Superman and Lois, it's called Superman and Lois, because that is specifically about him and Lois, moving back to Smallville.
raising their two children.
And it's the first time we get a depiction of Superman as Clark Kent being a father,
being a husband and watching a lot of failures and mistakes he makes along the way,
while also doing a great job being an actual Superman.
It was the first time I really felt like, oh, I'm starting to really see more of like the human side of him.
And the reason we're not including the shows on here is because it's kind of like an unfair thing.
It's the same way we're in a variation when I hear about Kevin Conroy being put on the list.
like who's the best badman like like kim car is an amazing bad man but there's so much other
attributes that go into the live action and same thing here i'm like well you get so much more
context and time to explore that it's not really fair to compare the tv versions to the movie two hours
of corns but 10 years of tom well yeah and the many hours and years with uh with tyler hecklin
as well you know like it's not fair but i thought hecklin uh and i and i totally and with this
movie too what i'll say is that a lot people are talking about this is the best superman lowest version i'm
like, well, if you love a Superman and Lois, the depiction of Superman and Lois and the show Superman
and Lois is very, very, very strong. Explores trauma, especially on Lois' end. I think it is an amazing
show. I only saw the first two seasons. The time I saw it was great, and Tyler's amazing.
An honorable mention for a movie, Ben Affleck.
As George Reeves? As George is Hollywood. Yeah, I remember it. Took me a second.
I just love that he's played Daredevil Batman and Superbair. That's true. Oh, that's true. All right, man. Well,
let's kick it off. Who is your
number four on this list coming in at number four is very tricky because i don't think he's a bad
superman but if we're sticking to just the movie i have to exclude his comeback which was actually him
portraying well what i'll say really quick another little caveat is the ranking of the supermen is not
really a ranking of the movies no we'll do that separately but yeah yeah yeah i want to make that
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portrayal just movie i got to go brandon routh number four um i think his that's my number four to
is it yeah okay so we'll discuss uh i i think kingdom come and the crisis stuff they did was redemptive
but this is just his one portrayal in the movie um it was really difficult because he was trying
to take on the mantle not just of superman but of christopher reeves superman and so it felt like
he never got to be his self and then he did later which was the i think the brandon routh we all
saw i think the brand and routh that audition got to play him in kingdom cup yeah but in the movie
I don't remember a lot of the movie, and that's not a good sign.
I remember the airplane scene.
I remember crazy Kevin Spacey plot with Cryptonite.
I remember, like, weirdly him being a dad and thinking, like, Superman's flawed, but
like abandoning his child is not Superman to me.
Like, a lot of the things that I think of as Superman wouldn't have done that.
And so that threw me the whole movie.
I didn't feel the relationship with him and Kate Bosworth.
I didn't feel the chemistry.
And Clois is as important to me as Clark.
And, yeah, just someone has to be four.
So for excluding the TV stuff, Bren, yeah, I think the reality.
is he's kind of pigeonholed. He was kind of put in a trap. You know, you can't
be your own thing, but also try to be Christopher Reeve at the same time. And due to the context
of the movie wanted to be a sequel after Superman 2, sort of. You also get this depiction of
him that is like a sad Christopher Reeve. I remember that's what I really recall with it. It's like
it's very somber. He's solemn. And I actually kind of like that. In hindsight, I like it. Because
you know when you think about Christopher Reeve you don't really think about the sadness or the loneliness
even though that part of that is in the performance it's not as prevalent and then we started getting these explorations
and Superman later on that were more embracing the alien side of him and the isolation side and I feel like on the big scale that was the first time we were really going for that you know you can make arguments for stuff like Superman three or whatever but I think or Superman too even but I think when they were really trying to go a lot more like lean into it it was with the Brandon Routh version
So I like the Brandon Rout.
I think Brandon Routh is one of the better parts of a rather lackluster movie.
But, yeah, it's like at the end of the day, I'm not really seeing a guy just fully playing his own version of Superman.
I'm more seeing a guy.
You can't, you can't, if you're trying to be like Christopher Reeve, you'll never match.
Yeah, it's impossible to reach that lid.
You've got to do your own thing to surpass.
Which I'm so glad to got to do.
Or equate to, you know.
And so, yeah, I think it's so it kind of stifles the performance.
It makes it a little stiff at times.
Even though I think he's doing a good job, and I like the sadness to this very pretty man in that movie.
He's a little pretty pretty.
He's a very pretty person.
And like they're framed like, somberly watching pretty men.
So the thing about him on the crisis event is that he's very handsome.
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
But when he's young, like looking at the moon.
Yeah, he's like so polished and clean.
Yeah, almost like Edward Cullinney.
A little bit.
Like pretty and glowing.
Yeah, yeah, glowy.
Yeah.
I think of him glowing.
Yeah.
He actually looks like a glow.
Yeah, there's like a porcelainness.
Number three for you.
Uh, number three for me, I just wanted to go in my heart on this one.
It would have to be Henry Cavill.
All right.
Yeah.
Who's your number three?
Henry Cavill.
Okay.
All right.
I think we have the same list.
I have pretty sure.
I was like, Greg, we should go back and forth to keep a dynamic and like, and have it mix up.
Cut two.
Yeah.
Well, I went first last time, so go for it.
It just, that's a performance that took me like a couple of times to watch to really appreciate it.
Like when I watch Man of Steel, the first time I was,
watched it, I thought more about the action and the visuals, but not so much Henry Cavill.
And I started to understand Henry Cavill's portrayal much later on, and I see why a lot of people
were able to emotionally connect with it. Like, I appreciate the angle of a guy who is isolated,
a guy who doesn't know where he belongs, and finding that loner aspect. I think that's,
even the new Superman movie addresses that, but in a different way. So it's kind of cool when you
compare it to, because you're looking at,
the biggest the distinction between them is how i think jonathan kent is which makes
nature nurture man which makes how henry cavil turned out and and changes how david cornswet turned out
because costner in that to me to talk about the henry cavil version costner in that is like i love you
i love you but you got to hide who you are yeah you know don't save me in this tornado moment you know
and it creates and so i understand the depiction of him
him being like, oh, I have a hard time accepting myself and accepting who I am when my father,
I feel like doesn't even fully accept me.
So I understand the psychology of the approach, but it is such a stoicism that kept me at a distance
that I never quite, I appreciated the movie more than I did connect to Henry Cavill, if that
makes sense.
And I would say the same thing with BBS, like observant, appreciated, and I liked where it was
going, even with the Justice League version.
I was like, oh, we're starting to get more of the classic Superman.
And you can see the arc trajectory going in there.
And he looks like Superman.
So I like that you can get a guy who looks like Superman,
but brings this like dark pathos to it.
But emotional connection to me is everything.
And I never quite connected to him,
even though I love the Man of Steel movie.
And I love the BBS ultimate.
Actually, I love those movies.
But, yeah, as a character, I'm not quite connected to him.
Yeah, if we're talking character, it's hard for me to separate my association with the comic character if you're playing a comic character. And that's why I say, and I say it a lot and people get really mad. But I think it's an incredible elseworld because I don't connect that portrayal to the comic character I love, but he is a Superman to a lot of people. So I don't think they're wrong. But my read of something is going to be different. So I think your point about isolation is really strong. And I think there's a definite linear path between people being angry at Henry Cavill not continuing to play Super Bowl.
man with that feeling of being seen and being isolated.
I think the same people that want to lash out online are isolated and they don't feel
like they have a new one to connect with.
And that's this portrayal.
So it's very effective for that mindset.
But I grew up in a giant Irish family and I had lots of people that nurtured me growing
up.
I was the first grandson.
I was raised on a mountain.
I moved to the city.
I was always around a lot of people.
I didn't have that hide yourself.
I had like, we're going to film you doing stunts and like that was a different thing.
So I feel like I never connected to that Superman, but the people that do, I don't think they're wrong.
I don't think that's not the character, but I don't think that I was able to ever find my way into understanding him or caring enough for him for all of the alienness not to feel like that was the whole thing, which is the action, which is the spectacle.
So it feels like I'm watching a movie, not living within it.
It feels like I'm observing a character, not caring about a character.
And so when that grows, you know, into BVS and into Justice League, I understand that.
you know, Zach Snyder might have had like a 10-year plan that was going to lead to
the Superman that I know and love. The fact is it's hard to start with a deconstruction. It's hard
when you start with a character that is so impossibly powerful, but you don't feel like you
have any way into understanding. My favorite performance of Henry Cavill in Superman is in Black
Adam. And that's really rough because like that was the moment I was like, it's happening. And
like I've talked about that. I even said that's my favorite moment in Black Adam. And it's like a 30
second stinger. Like that was like, they did it. I see.
see it's happening. It got me excited at Henry Cavill
Return to. 100%. And I think
that's also part of this thing. It's like the people that weren't
on board then got to see and then they were upset because again, that
you know, Henry Cavill hadn't been rehired. It was a
moment. It was a handshake deal.
So I think Henry Cavill in an alternate universe
has played an incredible Superman and I think there is a lot of
merit, but that's not the Superman that I connect to.
Well, a big part of how you connect to a Superman too is not the
individualistic performance. It's how watching an actor
connects to other characters.
Yeah.
And so not, like I, as much as I love those movies,
I don't feel jack shit when it comes to him and Lois.
Like, that is one of the-
That bathtub scene is one of the most confusing scenes for me.
They don't, they just don't have chemistry.
They have no chemistry.
And they're both good actors.
They're both great actors.
I loved Henry as another different stoic rooting guy in The Witcher.
Thought he was amazing.
Man from Uncle.
Charming Carnet.
A very different side.
Yeah.
Freaking, and Fallout.
Yeah.
It was amazing in Fallout.
So I love Henry Cavill generally.
but the part of those movies
with Superman in particular
like the only time I really felt
it was like Kevin Koster
and like young Clark Kent
I connected at times with
like when he's like punching Zod
and he's like going out
he went after my mom
like it's parts with him
and what's her name
not Diane Keaton
what's her goddamn name?
Diane Lane Lane yeah
with him and Diane Lane
it felt a little bit more
but yeah because of the fact
that the relationships weren't there
makes me not really connect as much
even though I see the context
and I see the intention.
Yeah.
It's the heart that I'm,
that I am missing there.
Because, like, yeah, even when he kills Zod,
I was,
I'm not much of a Superman purist,
or I was like,
no,
where a lot of people were.
But, yeah,
I mean,
like,
I appreciate his performance there
where he's,
you know,
that anguish scream that he has.
Yeah.
I appreciate a lot about it.
Yeah,
ultimately he would be number three for her.
Yeah.
Number two,
Christopher Reeve.
That's the one here.
I,
I know that's going to be
potentially a hot take
because,
you know,
he's a lot of people.
Superman, and rightfully so.
Like, we would not have the Superman culture.
We wouldn't have comic book movie culture without Christopher Reeve.
I think he absolutely embodied both Clark Kent and Superman.
The scene of him standing up and correcting his posture and fully like that, that is one of
the most beautiful.
Yeah, that's one of the most beautiful moments.
Is this your man one?
Superman too.
And Lois's his apartment when he takes off his glasses and he's going to tell him.
Oh, that's in one.
Yeah.
So that's one of the best.
I think he does it in one.
Okay.
No, but he reveals himself in two to her.
Then you see the posture more.
Yeah.
He does it in front of her.
But that's 32nd.
But yeah, and one, I remember that.
That's like one of the most iconic and for good reason.
And I think that I'm pretty sure that influenced comics.
100%.
That is the rare part of where a live action portrayal actually influenced the way they
decided to, like, when I was reading All-Star Superman, I started getting that idea.
When you're looking at Clark and how he's like hunched over.
And I'm like, oh, and Christopher Reeve really was the first to do that distinctly.
and I was wondering if Christopher Reeve influenced that.
There's a ton of drawings from the late 70s, early 80s,
where he just looks like.
They just drew Christopher Reeve.
Like, he is very influential.
And there's, I have no negatives for his performance.
Like, I think he is exactly that time Superman.
I think there's a reason, like, people are like, you know,
a photo of him in nature is just Superman is real.
Like, that is true.
And then all of his help with, you know, disability
and like what he ended up doing after he played the character.
like the Superman he actually was
when the cameras weren't rolling
you feel that on screen like you feel
his goodness you feel all those things
in his portrayal that is all there
I just got to talk about my number one next
but number two that's with Christopher Reed
it's how I feel like how
it's how I kind of feel about Tony Robbins at times
where like you're so grand
you're so big
you're so something else
that is so
admire you're like you're so traditional
and there's like something kind of patriarch
and uplifting yet i'm like i don't feel like you're attainable whatsoever you know it's like the
weird part with as much as i love like life advice from tony robins is how i feel with tony rob it's like i don't
feel like anyone could i how could everyone anyone possibly match whatever the hell you are it's like the
rock's work out like you're like i'm 24 hours in the day is the rock but the rock's got like a
nutritionist and a chef and like christopher reeve just had that as a person yeah he just had this
aura where you're like i can't yeah he does and he he he does embody that larger than like
like other being here, but that, you know, with number one being David Corn's, but that is the part when I, when I expressed that sentiment in the James Gunn, which I have expressed to many people before, I even got offered the interview.
Yeah, same to me.
Yeah. So I, I, when I said like this to me, what I said to James Gunn there and what I've said to others is that, that phrase, this is my Superman, this is my Batman, is what people say when you're growing up with that version. You know, you were talking about Tom Welling earlier, like, that's my Superman because I grew up with that.
And as much as I've loved all these, but so much of the virgins we just talked about, I'd never felt that emotion to say that's mine because it's a character that I, people were like, oh, you want to be like him, the hope feeling, but it feels unattainable when I'm like, yeah, but he's, he's God, you know, I can't do it. And David Cornswet pierced that. He broke through that. He feels like a human being. And it's, it's, it's, it's.
the, it's kind of, whereas Superman is often external and then we go internal, that feels
internal and then it's representative externally on his actions. Yeah. And that's why I feel like
this Virgin David Cornswit is the most inspiring one because it makes, it made me go, oh, I self-reflect
to want to be a different person or keep personal developing to be a better person that I'll do
better actions in life. So again, internal, external words, a lot of times with Superman, I would feel
like, well, if I had Superman's powers,
then I could be the good guy that everyone's saying he is.
Yeah.
Or this is like, oh, and this is just making me want to be a better person,
and then maybe I could do more good externally.
I like that because that is both authentic,
but the different experience of how it's received.
Yeah, that's interesting.
And I also think the relatability to David Cornswet is very of today's era.
I was thinking a lot about how, you know, the online commentary
and how that obviously wouldn't be a part of any other Superman,
but how that makes us relate to him and how human that,
is today, but it wouldn't have been human even 25 years ago, like it wouldn't have been a key
part of it. And I think that this David Corn Sweat not only speaks to 2025 in the same way
that Christopher Reeve spoke to 1978, but I think also the villain of a story makes the hero
more relatable. And I think that the way that I thought Tom Welling was Clark Kent was because
of Michael Rosenbaum's Lex. I identified with these two guys growing up together and what that
betrayal would feel like and how that would be like, he's heartbreaking. I love that Lex Luthorpe,
is this monster of a corporate overlord that's willing to throw money at a problem because
he's envious and like jealousy because I feel like in 2025 we have the tools to have more time
and the way capitalism is going we don't get to use it we always have to do more and like do more
like we're always moving the finish line and we always have to make more money and like retirement
seems so out of reach and like we're all aspire aspire aspire aspire but it's because of this like
do more always do more and I love that Lex felt like that I love that Lex felt like that I love that
Lex felt like a tech bro, but not in a cheesy way. It felt like a guy that had accomplished
something, but he had never filled the void that he felt like Superman had filled. And that made
me relate to Superman because the idea of like, he's not done like growing. Like Superman's not
like a finished product, but he's got a root. He's got a wholesomeness. He's got a certainty. And it
was his parents. It was going back to Smallville. It was how he was raised. It was that
relatability. And this every single scene on the farm, I almost cried. I did cry some of them.
But, like, I almost cried every time they showed that dynamic.
And that's so unique to show a world that feels so today, but also so large than life.
Yes, I agree.
The older I get, the harder I have to push back against being a cynical human being.
You know, like, I think when I was younger, I wasn't really as hyper aware of negative and positive thought thinking, but I understand the power and optimism.
and my default is not optimistic, you know.
Like I can be hopeful if I'm like really in game mode and stuff and I can get shit done
and I can accomplish a lot of goals.
But optimism in a very cynical world is the part that I, like that, that being kind
as punk rock moment.
That was the, it was like, it was just a line exchange and that made me cry.
Like there's something about that specific exchange.
Did I tell you about that with my, what happened to DC Studios?
You mentioned it.
What happened?
So we film our episodes and batches sometimes with like availability of talent.
We shot the intro and outro to the episode that's probably already aired with David and Nicholas
two days before I saw the film with you.
Like when we all went, two days before I had filmed an intro and I was talking about the
importance of the conversation we'd have with David, but we had the David conversation
and then we shot the intro outro, but still two days later was watching the movie.
And I had flippantly been discussing how important it is that people
find hope and how hope is counterculture.
And I literally said, and that's why Superman's punk rock.
And we need Superman to be punk rock right now.
And then I did not know if that was in the movie.
Like that's such a specific phrase.
And that's such a specific idea.
And that's kind of the theme of the film.
But I got that from David.
That's how much he's Superman.
Like I literally, in talking to David,
would never have had that line pop in my head.
I never would have thought that.
I hadn't seen the film.
But the way that David describes Superman,
he is so full of hope.
He is so full of this.
this Shuck's character.
We were talking at the trailer event,
and David is a big dude.
He's like 6, 3, 6, 4, maybe 6.5.
I don't know.
I'm 5, 9.
He's tall.
So, like, he's over 6.3, and he's a big dude.
And we were talking, and he made a joke about his brother being 6.8.
And he, like, gestured as, like, a bigger person.
And he accidentally bumped into someone walking by.
And they, like, went to, like, they were spilling their water.
And the whole conversation, I immediately saw Clark Ken apologizing.
I didn't see this dude, this actor.
I saw, like, who?
And then when he came back, he was like,
he took care of it. And I was like, that's Superman. And I don't often feel that when you get the in person, it translates 200 feet. Yeah. I think Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool both ways. I think Downey Jr. in person, in person has that thing where in person, you're talking to this person that is as good and wholesome as the character, but in a modern way. He doesn't feel out of time. David doesn't feel like, you know, you meet people and you're like, you belong in the 50s. Like they feel off. He feels modern, but hope. Yeah, that's what I mean. He feels like a guy.
can actually have a, I'm talking even
his version of Superman. It feels like a guy can
have a conversation with. Like the way
he reacts to even situations
with crypto and stuff, like you really get a sense
of a guy who grew up raised
in a farm. I don't really get that sense with anybody.
Not even Christopher Reeve honestly. Like Christopher Reeve feels
very like polished and
a bit presentational.
Like sincere, weirdly sincere, yet like
there's a certain cadence.
Yeah. How he comes across where I
where there's this impression that I get
that I would just be
looking up in a way but there's a distance
whereas like corn sweats
I feel like would meet
the average human down
at their level. 100%. Like I don't
want to talk too much about because I want to say something for the spoiler
review is the
the kaiju thing.
Like when the kaiju
in case people haven't seen the movie, I won't spell it too much
when the kajus first introduced
it introduces this little baby creature.
So when it cuts to the next thing with the kaiju
as an audience member and as a vegetarian due to moral reasons,
I immediately was like,
but it's just like a baby animal
and is just doing an animal thing,
and now Superman's going to kill it.
So when I see him like, oh, Superman doesn't want to kill it.
Superman is trying to protect this.
He's trying to protect everyone around him
and protect a squirrel and everything.
They keep calling it out because life is just so precious.
That was another moment of like,
that's my friend.
Yeah.
That's for sure.
Like the fact that he even sees that,
the fact that he's an alien
makes it easier for him to see
how everyone is human
everything is human
every life is human
not the human
not the human mindset that
we are human and we are better than all other
living creatures that living creatures
are all equal and so
yeah I mean I could just go on and on about why
he's my favorite Superman for a reason
and yeah
I mean he's relatable and I want to
be him
Yeah, no, dude, like David Kornswett is so inspirational
and Superman on screen is so inspirational.
Yeah, so that's our ranking.
That was fun.
That was fun.
I did not expect the same exact list.
We could have a discussion.
Normally ranking videos, I know we're just like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam,
but let's continue the conversation in the comments.
I mean, I'm sure there'll be some tempestuousness,
but I'd love to know how people feel.
All right, thanks guys.
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