Armored GL suit planned. Do you approve?

The GL suit should be:

  • Armor

  • Spandex

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ya i wouldnt mind if we see his eyes in the mask, and when he is powered up maybe they have a green aura/glow to them.
 
Mindreaper21 said:
GL's suit needs to be thick, something like the X-men attire. Considering the power of the rings, the movie would not be as enjoyable nor as believable watching an epic battle where the hero is wearing "indestructable spandex". Though if GL wore a X-men-like suit and it started tearing, then I would know just how rough the battle is.
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I completely disagree, on the contrary, I find the idea of the "indestructable spandex" quite neat ! Not believable ? This is alien suit (or uniform, or whatever it is), so I think it works fine. I do not think the guardians let every corps men decide what suit he would like, it is all the same, more or less, and I think it would be pretty bad to see Kilowog or Salaak in a suit like X-Men.
On the contrary, the last thing I want is something "believable". Green power ring, pink skinned villain, blue powerful dwarfs, living planet, power batterie, ... hardly believable things.
I really disagree with your comment, no offense, but I think it is necessary to see non-human things.
Besides, a "spandex" can be torn apart too.
 
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This is somewhat off topic, but I'm really curious about how they'll handle the whole bodily aura/glow effect that GL's are always drawn with. For some reason I've just always had a hard time imagining that in live-action. Maybe something similar to the Phoenix effect that Jean Grey had at the end of X2 could work?
 
CLARKY said:
I completely disagree, on the contrary, I find the idea of the "indestructable spandex" quite neat ! Not believable ? This is alien suit (or uniform, or whatever it is), so I think it works fine. I do not think the guardians let every corps men decide what suit he would like, it is all the same, more or less, and I think it would be pretty bad to see Kilowog or Salaak in a suit like X-Men.
On the contrary, the last thing I want is something "believable". Green power ring, pink skinned villain, blue powerful dwarfs, living planet, power batterie, ... hardly believable things.
I really disagree with your comment, no offense, but I think it is necessary to see non-human things.
Besides, a "spandex" can be torn apart too.
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No offense taken, yet I stick with my opinoin...When I said "believable" you seemed to have confused it with "realistic". Of course a pink skinned villain etc. isn't "realistic", but when I think of movies like "Alien", it could be "believable". The "spandex" is just too close to the "comic look", where as I feel that in a movie things such as the suit should be even better. Just like in the Batman movies, there are different variatons of the suits other than the suit from the comic books, which gives everyone a choice of which look they like the most. So I would like the same to be done for GL.
 
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Wesley Dodds said:
Hahaha!

Hear that, everyone? It's the sound of common sense prevailing.
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Well. When the hero has a super powerful ring that does almost everything he can will it to... and he's getting his ass kicked.
 
Chris B said:
This is somewhat off topic, but I'm really curious about how they'll handle the whole bodily aura/glow effect that GL's are always drawn with. For some reason I've just always had a hard time imagining that in live-action. Maybe something similar to the Phoenix effect that Jean Grey had at the end of X2 could work?
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Something like Dr Manhattan's aura in Watchmen would work fine.

Although, much like the earlier idea of the white/green eyes effect only happening when Hal's uses the ring, I'd like to see the aura only employed in the same way; i.e. not when the ring is inactive.
 
I agree with that braddock, not having it all the time would be good, and they wouldnt be wasting x number of dollars for cgi.
 
dnno1 said:
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Replica of Spider-Man Costume
(by Yuri Schuurkes)

Yes, it was spandex, with rubber detailing and airbrushed musculature (and Lycra is just a trademark name for the same fabric), but a lot of the action scenes were done using CGI, so that went unnoticed.



The answer should be to go with what the masses will buy. The geek community is just a smaller subset, and they have learned to accept changes in the past (like Batman, X-Men, The Punisher, et. al). You have pretty much answered that question in your second statement.
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LOL Yes. I know Lycra is a trademark name, I wasn't saying they were different...saying that the actual costume was done with a particular brand. (I've spoken with Yuri before lol and Brad, and spidersuitmaker and I've made several of my own)

To the person that said Spidey's costume only worked because he's an acrobat, uhm you do realize GL tussles with people mid-air and whips around flying and generally is at least semi-acrobatic? I don't disagree that the use of the suit and the look should match for "realism" (we all know what comic-book movie realism is...not quite real, but less fantasy than the comic-books themselves). But that still doesnt rule out spandex for someone who has drag while flying. (Of course you could say the ring surrounds him whatever he's wearing so there is no drag, but we could keep arguing that ;) )

X-men leather would be terrible to me. It's an attempt to look like a cool motorcycle guy. ZOMG! Uhm no. Yes, DavidYr1 does great stuff with his Batman motorcycle leathers, but unless it's mostly skin tight with a bit of leather armor pieces (which tell me why that would be better than hard-shell armor bits?) I wont like it. It's tryyyyying too hard to look cool, in my opinion.

I say thick, rubberized, skin tight suit/ mix of black, green and white, with a glowing green-white symbol on the chest, and if you have to do "armor" some stuff on the knee/shin and some stuff around the midsection. "Realistic" gloves and boots. Of course the comic-style mask.

But that's just me.
 
Brian Braddock said:
Something like Dr Manhattan's aura in Watchmen would work fine.

Although, much like the earlier idea of the white/green eyes effect only happening when Hal's uses the ring, I'd like to see the aura only employed in the same way; i.e. not when the ring is inactive.
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That could work. My biggest concern is just that it could look really out of place if they don't do it right. Part of the solution I think is that when the aura is in affect, Hal's skin and the black parts of the suit should have a very slight green glow to them.

Another solution could be just to have the green parts of the suit literally glow. Giving the impression that's where the aura is being emitted from.

I also agree that it should only appear when the ring is in use.
 
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Agreed, but you're going to have to come to grips with the fact that filmmakers change stuff to "make comics work on screen". Favreau did it and it worked.

It's not totally unbelievable that a uniform for spaceflight would have some armored parts. You'll probably get that.
 
The Uniform isn't made for spaceflight. It's just that, a Uniform.
 
Maybe have armor on his forearms, like from his elbow to his wrist, and have it from his knees to his ankles. Anymore than that would be overkill IMO.
 
Ya hopefully who ever the costume designer is, will make a suit us fans will like and not ***** about like SR's superman suit. I do hope it retains alot of faithful elements from the comics like the spider-man movie suits did.
 
i have a feeling that they will do a good suit.
 
I don´t think they will put him in a stiff rubber armor or a metal one, but I suspect it won´t be purely Spider-Man-style either, probably a middle ground.
 
I could see that happening too some middle ground. Man i cant wait for the first on set peak on the suit or first official still image from it. Hopefully they wont make the same mistake with first official pic release like SR's first pic was horrible.
 
Let's face it - there's going to be *****ing and moaning about the suit from some quarters on here no matter how good it looks.

I guess some people are just like that; they think it's cooler to moan and hate the world than it is to offer praise and be hopefull.
 
I will never understand people that want to see spandex on screen.

I want a black undersuit that can be skin tight, but the green should be thicker padding/armor.

Pretty much the First Flight uniforms made for live action.
 
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