Amy Adams : Lois Lane is 9 years older than Clark Kent

Lois Lane is 9 years older than Clark Kent

And she looks her age too. Are we as a society ok with this? Whatever happened to a younger looking black haired Lois?



Man this party is like an orgy at a campsite......its ***king in tents.

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I'm fine with that, since Amy is an amazing actress.

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Why shouldn't we be okay with this? They're both legal and both over thirty. It's not as she's a pedophile.

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I like my traditional look of Lois. Younger and black hair. And please don't tell me that this one looks younger.



Man this party is like an orgy at a campsite......its ***king in tents.

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Do you prefer Amy or Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane?

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Bosworth, but the hair needed to be darker.

Man this party is like an orgy at a campsite......its ***king in tents.

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I must admit that its nice to see some love for Bosworth's Lois Lane.

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I like both actresses but it's funny I felt Bosworth was too young to play that incarnation of Lois Lane (one that had a kid while superman had been gone for years) and Adams was too old to be playing Lois Lane who is first meeting Superman in MOS.

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Sure she does.

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It's not as she's a pedophile.


Cougar.

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She is below average in looks and her hair is awful. But to be fair Margot Kidder was plain as well. Seems Lois is doomed to be unattractive in movies but good looking on TV, cartoons and comics.

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Amy is what? She is one of the hottest redheads in Hollywood. Yes, I love her hair as well. Yummy!

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Kidder was very pretty when she was younger. Also she has that snappy sassy attitude of 1930s Hepburn-esque reporter working girl going for her.



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She is below average in looks and her hair is awful.
False.

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I really wish Olivia Wilde had been Lois. Amy Adams is cute but she does not pull off a character that's supposed to be sexy and sultry

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Olivia has the look but I don't think she's a good actor especially in a movie.

Amy Adams: too plain to be Lois Lane

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Why does Lois have to be sexy and sultry, when has she ever been sexy and sultry and not like a hard nosed reporter.




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This is unbelievable to me that anyone could complain about the producers landing an actress of the caliber of Amy Adams to play in a super hero movie based on a comic book. Sorry, I'm also not noticing an obvious age difference either. Amy Adams is an amazing actress and is well respected in the industry for her talent. Outside of playing Superman, no one knows or cares about Henry Cavill. They only landed Amy because she had this childhood fantasy about playing Lois Lane someday. Her inclusion elevat b68 es the whole project just by being part of it. And how anyone could say Amy can't do sexy and sultry, hasn't seen American Hustle, where she defines sexy & sultry.

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I don't give a crap about her reputation of other movies, I care about her Lois Lane and she looks wrong and plays it all wrong. Henry may not have the experience and history but he played the part well; she didn't. The best performances in the film was from the actress playing Faora who has even less movie history than Henry.

Amy Adams: too plain to be Lois Lane

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I don't give a crap about her reputation of other movies
Ignorant. So ignorant.

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I think you need to wake up and see the actors who currently hail CBMs. While I agree with you on the age factor and the looks factor- she is extremely attractive and the age difference does not show- i have to disagree om the part that people should be all thankful and content on having an actress of her caliber. Comic Book Movies have become serious movies now and have serious actors in them. Lets look at the Dark Knight Trilogy for example:Michael Caine, Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman and Ledger. High Caliber actor's now want to do Comicbook movies. Atleast DC ones. Marvel has quite a few great actors currently but the movies barely do justice to their abilities. Its too much on the wrong side of serious there.

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She's not going to age well as the movies continue. She's already well into her 40's and certainly doesn't look much younger than her actual age. I'd have put her early 30's during Man of Steel as opposed to late 30's. She's an attractive woman but the age difference is a bit odd considering men typically mature better once you get beyond the 30 year to 40 year gap.
It was a mistake they should have cast someone similar in age to Cavill.

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I won't completely contradict you since I'm all for actors of a certain age acting with actresses of similar age and vice versa. I don't like big age gaps in couples either, but it's pure personal preference, and nothing more.

As for the reason you stated, I'm just curious since I tend to hear and see this so often - in which ways do men typically mature better once you get beyond the gap you mentioned? If we go by objective criteria aka physical features that undergo changes, both women and men get drier skin and thus wrinkles, their metabolisms slow down so they tend to gain weight more easily and their body shapes change, both get grey hairs and so on. If anything, the wrinkles tend to be less visible on women when compared to men of the same age because of all the beauty products they use. I'm not talking about make up, but various creams to slow down signs of aging and drying of the skin.

So, other than the fact that our society finds it far more acceptable to see greys and wrinkles and whatnot on men (which does not equal "men mature better" but "signs of aging are more socially acceptable"), in which ways do men age/mature better?

FYI and this is strictly subjective of course, I find that Amy Adams ages normally. However she's considered to be a beautiful woman by many people, and I doubt this will suddenly change overnight in the next few years. Henry Cavill is an attractive man, but to me he looks like he's in his late 30s. Which is why, speaking in terms of looks, I find them quite matching in this case. Emphasis on *I*. She'll get older, but so will he.

As for he op - older actors get paired up with 9 (and much more) year younger actresses all the time, even when they themselves are too old for the roles, so honestly I see no logical reason as to why this would be any more controversial or wrong or whatever you deem it to be. Unless you meant society as "superman fandom", in which case I can understand because fanboys and fangirls can get quite sensitive when some details don't match.

Of course, you're welcome to try to change my mind on any point, but I need something more substantial, logical and objective than "social standards" or "beauty standards" which are subjective, arbitrary, constructed, manipulated/manipulative and prone to changes over time.

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It's subjective but you've heard it before so I'm not alone in this. Men (who take care of themselves) just mature better. Their boobs don't start sagging and their asses don't start sagging. Some women age great. Jennifer Aniston looks better than a lot of women half her age. That's just not the norm. A lot of it with stars is plastic surgery. But if we remove that, then men just typically age better. It's one of the reasons male starts have a longer shelf life. Men and women both tend to get wrinkles around the same time. Whereas with a man you will call it distinguished but a female would be old. This isn't always the case. A lot of it depends on how they take care of themselves as well for both sexes.

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Of course you're not alone in this. It's an ancient notion, and it's not difficult to understand why. However I really don't want to go there, I know what kind of comments such ideas attract and I want to avoid that.

I'm interested in objective, physical criteria which clearly demonstrate the notion that men do age better. If you think that your sagging argument is true, I take it you haven't been to the beach a lot (I happen to live at a seaside resort with several beaches ranging from 20 seconds to 1 min from my home, and a lot of other, more distant ones. Have been all my life). Or if you have, I'm guessing you're a straight man who hasn't exactly been checking out male bodies and asses (especially those that are not hidden in baggy boxer type pants). Because it's actually not true, gravity and age spare no one and nothing (and this is not only my opinion, but the opinion of all my female friends and relatives). Of course, boobs are different for obvious reasons, but then it de 5b4 pends on the size (A,B vs E,F cup for example), pregnancy and some other factors.

As for wrinkles, if there is a feature that is present on all members of a species in equal amount, and exactly the same feature is generally interpreted as appealing and positive on one subset of the population, and generally extremely unappealing and negative on another subset - that is pure social manipulation/indoctrination and not an objective fact (you can argue that the result of social manipulation is a fact, but I'm interested in what's behind subjective social factors). Wrinkles are essentially degradation of the skin - if people think they're distinguished on roughly half the earth's population, then they are distinguished period. And vice versa.

How you age has to do with genetics, your lifestyle, your health, as well as your lifestyle when you were younger (like alcohol and other substances abuse, exposure to the sun and similar), so depending on the combinations of these factors you'll age better or worse, regardless whether you're a man or a woman.

As for male stars, it's natural that they have a longer shelf life. Most of the executives and important people in hollywood and the entertainment world are straight middle aged men. We all, men and women alike, like to look at pretty young people with fit, firm bodies, flawless skin and so on, and are quite limited by our own perspective (i.e. a straight man doesn't se 5b4 e other men the way straight women do and vice versa). It's human nature.
As time goes by and more women get some power in the industry, female stars will have longer shelf life too. In fact, their shelf life is already longer compared to before. Especially compared to more traditional societies such as east asian ones for example.

I don't think I'll be able to convince you, but I think that, for all the reasons I mentioned, men physically aging better is a myth. A very popular one, a remnant from old times, but objectively speaking, it simply doesn't hold. You may account for all the social factors, but as I said, those are subjective, arbitrary, engineered and prone to change (for example, ideal body shape through centuries or even decades, or say clothes from the 70s and the 80s vs now). So as I've said, you can say society accepts male aging better, but that is not equal to men actually aging better. I think the most correct thing to say is that some men age truly great, as do some women :) And that most people generally do not age all too well. At least that is the view I hold.

A different example, but somewhat similar in nature is fat men vs fat women. Fat men do not look better than fat women - some fat men look better than some fat women, and some fat women look better than some fat men (and some look better than some fit people because of some extraordinarily beautiful features). Yet it is more socially a 16d0 cceptable and less ugly to be an overweight man (or just have a fat belly) than an overweight woman. It's why you'll typically see more overweight men than women on tv, right? (at least where I live)

And since I've mentioned east asians, here's a good example - when compared to white people, they truly age better. Not because society views their aging in a more positive light, but for biological and cultural reasons. That is, their skin deteriorates slower (I've read that their skin is thicker and more greasy or something) and they value whiter/lighter skin tone, thus taking a lot of care not to be exposed to the sun a lot. Their women typically have smaller breasts too, so in that way they age better too.

Sorry for such a lenghty reply, to be honest my goal was just to make everyone who might come to this subforum and read this topic think a little before complaining about her age, or their age difference, or about the age of any actress in general. Also thank you for being civil and trying to be fair since normally, and especially on imdb, my question/post would be answered with angry, trolling and well...not exactly civil replies.

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It was also believed that men were smarter than women and that white people were smarter than every other ethnic group. Just because it's an old bigoted view, does not make it true.



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I'd say she looks younger. She appears to be in her mid to late thirties. She gets a more youthful look from having big, bright eyes, which are associated with youth.

And she looks younger than Henry Cavill! He has far more wrinkles and b68 aging than she does. He still looks good, but older than Amy.

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her in that tub I'm sitting there with my wife like damn.

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I think men aging better than women only applies to a certain segment of the white population since most age rather badly generally.




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I mean, I would cast Amy Adams as Lois Lane even if she were 49 years older than Clark Kent. She's Amy freaking Adams!!

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Who cares? Shes hot and talented.

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In Superman The Movie with Christopher Reeve, the actress playing Lois Lane, Margot Kidder, was also older. If you grew up in the 90s and watched Lois and Clark, Lois was also older than the guy playing Clark.




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Yeah, Kidder was older and it really started showing pretty fast. Then again, all the coke didn't help either.

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I know the actors are 9 years apart, but in the movie, I didn't notice a significant enough age difference for it to be jarring at all, to be honest... and that is what matters. I like that Amy Adams is getting such roles like the romantic interest of a man at her age of over 40 as it is an example of a changing Hollywood. Society should be okay with it and get used to it.

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I know the actors are 9 years apart, but in the movie, I didn't notice a significant enough age difference for it to be jarring at all, to be honest... and that is what matters. I like that Amy Adams is getting such roles like the romantic interest of a younger man at her age of over 40 as it is an example of a changing Hollywood. Society should be okay with it and g b68 et used to it.

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I'm fine with it. When you start complaining about much older actors, being paired with women who are too young for them, I'll listen.

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but margot kidder as lois in the '70s and '80s supermans had to be kind of old by the time that the 4th movie was made in 1987 because that was made 9 years after the first movie.

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And she looked like she had ahed 15yrs.

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I just watched Batman vs Superman and the age difference was standing out to me.
In the bathtub scene I was like what is she doing with that old woman, didn't seem natural. I didn't even know Amys age before watching the movie but she looked way older than Cavill.
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