There was too much concern in production that between the gay director, the modern-Superman-with-feelings, and the speculation about the guy who played him, that the character would be too gay for the straight boy audiences, so they had to excessively straighten him out. Fuck you, Hollywood.
Also, casting a practically teenaged girl as a 30-year-old grown woman: fuck you, Hollywood. It seems like all they were concerned with is making sure Lois looks younger than Superman (i.e. the same reason they wanted to fire Margot Kidman in the middle of the Reeve movies)...which is 1) not true to the character backstory and 2) tiresome bullshit.
Re Christopher Reeve...it doesn't take much to play Superman, but as the SF Chron reviewer pointed out, he was awesome as Clark Kent.
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Also, casting a practically teenaged girl as a 30-year-old grown woman: fuck you, Hollywood. It seems like all they were concerned with is making sure Lois looks younger than Superman (i.e. the same reason they wanted to fire Margot Kidman in the middle of the Reeve movies)...which is 1) not true to the character backstory and 2) tiresome bullshit.
Re Christopher Reeve...it doesn't take much to play Superman, but as the SF Chron reviewer pointed out, he was awesome as Clark Kent.