Brandon Routh needs to be told "**** you." Welling is this generation's Superman.
Brandon Routh has the appearance, the presence and the physique to be Superman. Whatever you may say about his character's writing, he IS Superman.
Welling had that for about two years and then he became a whiney, annoying non-teen with a somewhat flabby exterior and with whom I couldn't make any connection to Superman, nor could I relate to in any way whatsoever.
Welling's voice can only be described as
blobbery (how's that for an onomatopoeia?) while Brandon Routh's is sheer Superman. I knew when I heard Brando at the Golden Globes, before SR came out, that he would rock. His super-voice is like Christopher Reeve meets Bud Collyer (easily the two best super-voices out there).
They did it great in Timmverse (but what don't they do great?). All it takes is a one sentence answer. Flash, "I'm that speedster from Central City, you know the one who got struck by lightning? Oh never mind." and Green Lantern, "I'm from the Green Lantern Corps, long story).
There you go.
This logic is fundamentally flawed, if you ask me. First of all, JL/JLU was an animated series aimed at and probably watched by people who knew these characters and knew them well. They didn't need the backstory. A Justice League movie could be a one-shot if Warner Bros. don't handle it correctly. Lines like the one bluebeast has just quoted just aren't good enough for casual filmgoers (or worse yet,
critics) going to see a movie with no clue as to who the Flash or the Green Lantern are (heck, I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't even know who Wonder Woman was anymore). An introduction movie is going to need to be a bit more specific as to who these characters are.
Secondly, JL/JLU was a
series, not a two-hour movie. Timm and Co. had hours and hours to establish these characters and what motivated them, even going as far as devoting entire twenty-four minute episodes to most of the main characters (Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl all had episodes more or less entirely about them. I don't recall a Superman-themed episode, but so many of the plots were based around him anyway). Therefore, they didn't need to get straight into serious-character development right away. This movie will be two and a half hours long at the very most. My advice: get as much character development in as possible. Otherwise, you'll end up with
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie, where the only character traits were people saying "Hey, guys!" or "Aw man!"
