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Post by kevinharrell on Dec 19, 2016 20:15:34 GMT -5
Who is more macho? Clark Kent  Bruce Wayne  |
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Post by wheelbender6 on Dec 19, 2016 20:26:25 GMT -5
Bruce Wayne. He could really drive that Batmobile and he had a bigger vocabulary. Who else uses words like insegrevious?
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Post by SylvreKat on Dec 21, 2016 9:28:33 GMT -5
Adam West really drove the Batmobile? I figured they always used a stunt driver.
Plus he did throw out all those crazy long words like they were nothing. So Bruce gets my vote too.
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Post by oldchopperguy on Dec 29, 2016 22:11:27 GMT -5
Whew, hard choice!
Both of their alter-ego superheroes wore tights, with their underwear outside... EEEEWWW! But Bat Man wore lavender boxers, and Superman wore blue briefs... A guy's gotta be pretty macho to do either! LOL!
Clark Kent at least generated SOME girly-interest from Lois Lane... and Superman operated without the help of a side-kick... So Clark Kent gets my vote by a small margin. Oh, yeah, AND Superman could FLY!
Something to ponder: Now that everybody has cell-phones, and PHONE BOOTHS are gone... Where DOES Clark Kent now hide to morph into Superman? Enquiring minds want to know... LOL!
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Post by SylvreKat on Dec 29, 2016 23:29:52 GMT -5
[/i]Something to ponder: Now that everybody has cell-phones, and PHONE BOOTHS are gone... Where DOES Clark Kent now hide to morph into Superman? Enquiring minds want to know... LOL![/quote] I believe the definitive Clark Kent/Superman showed us already, when Christopher Reeves entered a revolving door as Clark, revolved it very quickly several times, and emerged as Supes. Sigh. I miss Reeves' Supes, when the Man of Steel didn't have to be all broody and moody and dark and crap. |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Dec 30, 2016 22:11:05 GMT -5
[/i]Something to ponder: Now that everybody has cell-phones, and PHONE BOOTHS are gone... Where DOES Clark Kent now hide to morph into Superman? Enquiring minds want to know... LOL![/quote] I believe the definitive Clark Kent/Superman showed us already, when Christopher Reeves entered a revolving door as Clark, revolved it very quickly several times, and emerged as Supes. Sigh. I miss Reeves' Supes, when the Man of Steel didn't have to be all broody and moody and dark and crap.[/quote] ___________________________________________________________________________
Kat... I had forgotten about the "modern" movie Superman and the revolving door! I guess I'm incurable "old-school". To me Clark Kent/Superman just has to be George Reeves. Yeah, there were several good "Supermen" in early movie serials, but for little nippers of my generation, Superman was the TV hero George Reeves. Just like the "Lone Ranger" was ONLY Clayton Moore, and "Tarzan" was ONLY Johnny Weissmuller... Especially for adoring adolescent hero-worshippers, there is ONLY one genuine, bonafide "real-deal" star character.
His untimely death in 1959 (7th grade for me) was traumatic for little fans. The official cause of death was suicide, but not likely. George WAS depressed over the Superman series being cancelled, but he had just received news that it was reinstated. He was at a party celebrating the decision to keep the show going. Most of his TV pals figured everybody was drunk, and somebody started playing with a 9mm Luger war-trophy and it was accidentally discharged through careless handling. We'll never know for sure...
My teacher actually told us the slug that killed him must have been made of Kryptonite just to make us feel a little better... We were already in mourning, reeling from Russia beating us in the race to launch a satellite, with their little "Sputnik". And now, SUPERMAN was killed? What next??? Cheesh... Those were simpler times than today. I wonder what kind of scooter Superman would have ridden in the fifties? Gotta be a Cushman Eagle... And of course, it would have been able to fly!Ride safe, and watch out for Kryptonite-potholes!Leo |
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Post by SylvreKat on Jan 1, 2017 1:25:25 GMT -5
Hm. Gotta' disagree with you, Leo, that George Reeves was THE Superman. His hair was wrong, and seems he was a bit pudgy. Nothing wrong with pudgy, I'm probably described as pudgy myself (or maybe that's "soft"?). But Chris Reeves was just so very very perfect. Had the innocence in everyday (and with Lois) along with the hard-edge to deal with Gen Zod. Had a good bod without too much muscle. Blue eyes and black hair and that little bang curl just like the comics. Now Lone Ranger, nobody else but Clayton Moore. He WAS the LR on and off screen! I'm still totally jealous you got to meet him, and Jay Silverheels, and Silver and Scout. As for Tarzan, I first saw the Ron Ely tv series. So he sort of defined the role for me. Sleek, slender, muscular. I did see some Johnny Weissmuller films after and he was good, and I'd probably agree with you if I'd seen him first. But I didn't, so I don't.  >'Kat |
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Post by wheelbender6 on Jan 2, 2017 11:52:02 GMT -5
"PHONE BOOTHS are gone"
Super heros must now use porta-potties to don their uniforms. I bet they change a lot faster now than they did in the phone booths.
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jan 4, 2017 1:21:15 GMT -5
Kat...
I totally agree that Chris Reeves WAS the "perfect" Superman... right down to the curl... But like you and Ron Ely, us war-babies grew up with George; trampoline takeoffs, fake, stuffed muscles and all... It really IS the one you grew up with that "sticks"... LOL!
Interestingly, Ron Ely WAS the more "correct" Tarzan. College-educated, Oxford English and all. Followed the Edgar Rice Burroughs character very well... But a Tarzan that went back to the bush after becoming "civilized" and educated seems to me to be a tad "unbelievable"...
I think the film-makers got it better than the novel with Johnny Weissmuller's rendition.. "Me TARZAN, you JANE"... Now THAT is my idea of a proper ape-man!
Ride safe, that spaghetti-burner ain't no elephant... UNGAWA, TIMBA!
Leo
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