Anyway, my favourites that come to mind....
1. The 1989 Batman costume. It did two amazing things; 1 - turned Michael Keaton, of all people, into a completely convincing looking Batman, and 2 - actually improved on the comicbook design of the costume by making it all black scuplted body armour rather than blue and grey fabric, making the chest emblem 3D, and adding modern gloves and boots more suitable for the street. It certainly had Dark Knight Returns influences, but I think it more resembles the classic Neal Adams/Jose Garcia-Lopez look. Regardless, for me, this is what Batman looks like;
In still images it looks fine sometimes, but in action onscreen it was the worst Batman costume, it made him look like he was stuck in a post office box, and had to rotate the whole thing to see in all directions out the opening.
I know all the BM costumes had neck problems, but this one was made all the worse by the fact that they had that matted scuplture over the shoulders too. So, as well as the head not being able to turn, you got the feeling his arms were strapped to the sides of his body in a lot of shots, like they were trapped under the cape, and he could only use his arms from the elbow up.
What makes that poster above look good is the fact that they flipped the cape over that awful shoulder design.
Look at the shot when the cops are coming up the stairs in axis chemicals, or when he is running along the street, totally stuck in a post office box.
3. Superman Returns costume. I'm aware some don't like the muted colours or smaller 'S', but they work in it's favour. This is an elegant, sleek costume with a very powerful outline. Many superhero costumes are overloaded and over busy - the Nolan Batman costumes for instance - but here Singer and co have tastefully kept it beautifully simple and strong. It recalls not only the Reeve outfit but also the 1950's Fleisher cartoons, hence the darker reds.
See, again, like the Batman costume above, in that particular image there are elements that don't look so bad, but do when you see it in action on film.
As that shot is from a 'worm's eye' view, the fact that there is far too great a distance between the belt and the 'S' is not so noticeable, and by extension, the 'S' does not look as small as it does onscreen.
Look at the scene in the film where he enters the plane once he has landed it on the baseball field, it's the first shot in the movie of Superman standing normally, so we get a good look at the suit.
The 'S' is not only too small to have the impact it requires, but it's size and placing create the gap between it and the belt that leaves a large uninteresting blue expanse. Routh is relatively slim and gangly, the small 'S' and blue expanse only exemplifies that, so we lose the robust presence Superman should have onscreen.
6. Wolverine in the first, and only the first, X-Men movie. I still contend that Hugh Jackman only really 'played' Wolverine in the first movie, and in all the others he was playing a super-buffed up action hero and coasting on his own charisma. Hugh Jackman was acting in X1-! Look at X1 though; he was mean, agressive towards everyone, alienated, and yet a tragic hero underneath. Anyway, he also looks best in the first movie; they got his hair and sideburns perfectly, Hugh Jackman was muscled and lean instead of Superman-sized, and the X-Men suit was fuctional with some stylized elements.
On the characterisation, the first two films follow the arc of Wolverine's intergration into the X-Men quite faithfully, albeit condensed.
In the early years, yes, he was very much like the way you describe, but as time went on he mellowed towards the rest of the team, although it took longer for him to find respect for Cyclops than the rest of the team.
We got that in the second film.
As for Jackman's build in the 1st film, it fluctuates, due to his late casting he worked out as the film was being made. The scene where he wakes up in the mansion must've been one of his first shots, because he is a noticably more flabby there than in the first shot we see of him in the film, the cage fight.
