[quote]Guilo wrote:
I just saw it with my girlfriend… liked it alot. I wasn’t expecting much so I was really impressed. I loved the flow just like the Reeves ones. Spacey did a really good job as Lex Luthor.
At one point my girl leaned over and asked if I felt good knowing I have bigger arms than Superman…
Later we agreed that he looks like he might lift some weights.[/quote]
Here’s an excerpt from an interview at scifi.com:
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw13084.html
Routh: Well, I did a lot of things. I lifted weights, obviously. I did this rope yoga, which is a mix between karate and yoga, that my first trainer, Gudni Gunnarsson, created. … Basically, it’s a great core-building routine, so that was put in place so that I could sustain myself in the wires and the harness for extended periods of time. And so we did that very early on. And also with weights, and basically trained my body to get in shape. We got my body in shape to be in shape. And, I mean, I was in shape. I was an athlete before that [training]. I did certain things [swimming and soccer in high school], but never to this extent. So that by the time we got to Australia, two months into my training, we started hitting the weights really hard and building more and more mass, and I ended up putting on 22 pounds for the film. Which was fantastic, to see my body change in five months’ time. I had a little extra time when we went into Sydney, because we didn’t start filming Superman right away … .
There were a couple of times when we got a little overzealous with the workout, and I started to get a little bit [too big and] had to back back down. Because you start to lift a lot, and you go, “OK, well, how much more could we do?” But I had to maintain a limit.
I don’t know how I feel about the whole “too big” aspect. I haven’t seen it yet, and initially I thought he could pull it off initially, but I’m having my doubts. I hope the movie will prove me wrong… we’ll see this weekend though…
~V