It’s become a tradition of the Superman movies: casting an aging overweight Hollywood icon in the role of Superman’s Krypton-father Jor-El. It was Marlon Brando in the original Superman and in the new Man of Steel it’s Russell Crowe. Sounds like a perfect opportunity to arbitrarily pit two actors against one another in an entertaining comparison piece! Hey that kind of crap works for ESPN! So what I thought I’d do is pick the five best performances of each actor and run them down, then offer my verdict on which guy was greater. Cue the slideshow.