Kevin Costner Cast in Snyder's Superman

Well, Costner has only ever really been good in westerns or sports movies. Since this is neither, I don't see this doing well.

I liked Waterworld and The Postman >_>

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Read the novel that The Postman was *very* loosely based on - David Brin's "The Postman" - to see exactly how bad that movie really is. Costner took one of my favorite sci-fi novels and dumped huge, steaming loads of "director's vision" all over the original story.

But the original novel didn't have Tom Petty!

Tom Petty is an awesome musician and songwriter. I love his music.

That said, after seeing his performance in "The Postman" I will gladly give up my life if it ensures that he NEVER acts again. EVER.

Having never read the book, I can base my judgement solely on the movie, and I found it entertaining.

But if you want to enlighten me. Did he change it more or less than HP: The Half Blood Prince, which the movie really never got into why the movie was even titled the Half Blood Prince! :/

If you think HBP was only loosely related to the book, then you will be amazed that The Postman movie and book even share the same name.

About the only thing that book and movie have in common is the protagonist wears a postal uniform (and the setting).

While I generally agree with this assessment, I did like him in Untouchables.

This I would not dispute. Just sometimes a director is lucky enough to have him cast in a part where playing Costner will pass for the character in question.

Yeah, pretty much what docbuzzard said.

I want to be clear, I'm not "attacking" you or anything for liking the movie. We all have different tastes, after all.

Let me put it this way. When I read the book, I could not put it down. This book has the distinction of being the only novel I have read that I finished in one sitting. I just HAD to know what happened next!

The movie, well, it has the distinction of being the only movie I have ever left before it was over. I could not stand to watch it for more than 30 minutes, then I walked out. I contemplated asking for my money back, but didn't because it wasn't the theater's fault that I thought the movie was terrible. I finally saw the entire movie several years later, when I was up sick and watching late-night TV. I watched it to see if it redeemed itself later in the movie. Sadly, it didn't.

I know several people who also saw the movie and haven't read the book, and they all thought the movie was rubbish. A few of them I got to read the book - they were all resistant because of how bad they thought movie was - and all of them who read the book responded with something along the lines of, "Wow, this book is *awesome*! If the movie had actually told the story in this book, it would have kicked *** and now be among my favorite movies!"

So, YMMV, but I do highly recommend reading the book. (I highly recommend anything by David Brin, for that matter.) If you like post-apocalyptic sci-fi stories, then you should love the novel.

Agreed. I can't stand Costner.

That usually goes for most of the actors that people love. It's really about being cast in the right movie.

My favorite Brin novel: Kiln People. YMMV as to whether the story leaps off a cliff at the end, but its one of the best science fiction novels of all time in my opinion up to that point. The narrative is very thought-provoking and creative.

On the subject of the OP: I can see Costner as Pa. As long as he doesn't try to do an accent.

On the subject of movies "loosely based" on novels, the one I think that was the worst translation of the source material that ended up nevertheless transcending the original material in a weird way is The Running Man. When you base your movie on a short story by Stephen King, and you all but shred the story itself, its usually a bad sign. But that movie is just so darned over the top wild its hard not to like.

Also, I actually liked HBP, although I know that it, and for that matter all of the movies, are highly simplified versions of the novels. They did, in fact, touch on the subject of the Half Blood Prince in the book, but just not as much as in the book.

Sometimes you really have to wonder though. Tom Cruise seems to play nothing but Tom Cruise. Its easy to wonder if he used up all his acting skills in Risky Business. Sometimes he seems not to even be able to play Tom Cruise correctly. Then he shows up in Tropic Thunder.

Tom Hanks is probably the example everyone loves. He tends to play himself, sometimes loosely disguised. He is the everyman, and that's what he's good at playing, but well. George Clooney seems to do a good job playing variations of George Clooney, sometimes disguised much better than Tom Hanks.

But then there's Russell Crowe. Who is apparently a dick, but plays a rather diverse set of characters, most of which are not nearly as dickish. And Matt Damon, who is definitely not playing the same character in the Bourne movies as he did in Courage Under Fire or The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Although to my mind, the best character actors are the B-listers who seem to show up in movie after movie always playing different interesting parts. The late J.T. Walsh, for example. Chris Cooper. J.K. Simmons. Gary Oldman. Those guys. Everyone knows them, even if not everyone can remember their names. Hardly a bad performance among the lot of them.