I admit it: I like Superman, but I'm very hesitant to see the new Superman movie (and it has nothing to do with dislike movie crowds, for once).
Here's my problem: I like Superman, but I LOVE Smallville. This is a show that can be both campy and serious in the same episode, even in the same scene. The portrayals of Clark Kent are, of course, very good, but the real capper character of the show is Lex Luthor.
Smallville's Lex is smart, devious, capable, and above all, not yet evil. The on-again, off-again friendship between Lex and Clark, and the tremendous loyalty that they have both shown to each other, makes the idea of seeing a fully-evil, hell-bent on destruction Lex a lot less interesting. The Lex of Smallville is a conflicted, emotional, sometimes unstable human being. The movie Lex has tended to be an unrelentless force of super-human evil, a character of less dimension and interest.
I'm sure I'll see the movie, but I'm hoping it doesn't let down the mythos that has been created by one of television's finest dramas.