What can I say? I grew up on the animated series and the '90s comics, both of which featured the heavily extravagant aspects of the Batman mythos which flared my imagination and swept me into that universe. Take all that away and you take away what drew me to the character and his world in the first place, leaving some pale imitation in its place.

And I never said I dislike Reeve's Superman; perhaps he was a little stiff in places, but otherwise he played the character to as close to perfection as is possible. No, it's his Clark I dislike, at least in the first two films and the fourth. I'm not a fan of the pre-Crisis "Clark is Superman's disguise" interpretation of the character, and, frankly, Reeve's portrayal of the character comes off as a ridiculously absurd parody of that characterization. I do think he played Clark better in the third movie, though; the clumsiness is dialled down and you almost get the sense that Clark is an actual character rather than a mask.