The Dark Knight Capes and Cowls - New Batsuit Discussion Thread

[Mako]

could someone paste a link or the video from youtube^

 

[Octoberist]

what a weird video.

 

[Judson Caspian]

So... is there any explanation to the batbra?

 

[Nightmare]

only batgirl should wear a bat bra.

 

[Judson Caspian]

Agree.

 

[cryptic name]

The prosthetic route, yeah. But I don't neccessarily think it needs to be a full-on hours in the make-up chair glued-to-the face thing. I think it would be possible to simply make the cowl out of a very soft, stretchy, fleshy type rubber that will simply move with the actor's face. Something like what those funny novelty stretch balls are made from - it really would behave like a second skin:

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You might need to have a slightly more conservative brow sculpt, yes, which would suit me fine personally. Something akin to the brows on the Spawn mask, or perhaps the fear toxin batman in Begins. You could still have pretty much a very similar sculpt to the Begins/TDK cowl though. Such a material would allow a full-head-and-neck cowl to have more movement too, possibly negating the need for any head-neck separation.

Whenever I see Batman's mask move with his face in the comics or cartoon, this is exactly the type of material I imagine it is. It would even stretch with the actor's jaw opening and closing - rather than the actor's face be constrained by the mask. AND he'd be able to shove his head through the mouth-hole and push the top part back like a hood, as he does in the comics.

And of course, you'd have it be reinforced with rigid forms where it needs to not wobble - ears, nose, whathaveyou, and of course "in-movie" the thing would be reinforced for protection too - perhaps even being impact-hardening for that the brows are protected.

i'd love to see this one day. probably in a more stylized batman film.

 

[Superhobo]

To bring this back around to something that's always irked me that's been mentioned serveral times, I've never gotten this whole "the new Batsuit is biker type gear" thing.

This is motorcycle armor -

This is Roboc- I mean, the new Batsuit -

These two things do not resemble each other. At all.

 

[CaptainClown]

you don't fight crime with motorcycle armor though

 

[batman_1982]

I actually see a couple of minor resemblences

 

[Anubis Raptor]

To bring this back around to something that's always irked me that's been mentioned serveral times, I've never gotten this whole "the new Batsuit is biker type gear" thing.

This is motorcycle armor -

This is Roboc- I mean, the new Batsuit -

These two things do not resemble each other. At all.

Wow the Batsuit looks really amazing

 

[lujho]

To bring this back around to something that's always irked me that's been mentioned serveral times, I've never gotten this whole "the new Batsuit is biker type gear" thing.

This is motorcycle armor -

This is Roboc- I mean, the new Batsuit -

These two things do not resemble each other. At all.

Really? Serious? There are some pretty clear similarities if you ask me. Also some of the biker pants have a resemblance to the batsuit too.

Even the costume designers said they looked at various bike and sports-type armours for inspiration.

Of course it doesn't look exactly like something that came off the shelf, but if the Batsuit looks like anything in the real-world at all, it's various kinds of biking and extreme sports protective gear. It looks a whole lot more like bike gear than a medieval knight or a modern soldier or even Robocop, which are the otehr things people say it looks like.

 

[TH3D4RKKN1GH7]

I got to see the suit up close today, very nice and high tech. It wasn't as hard as I expected but comfort comes first. Thought I'd just post the pic here anyway.

Taken with my crummy non flash iPhone camera, they were really cracking down on folks using their cameras though.

 

[DSET]

I found batlenses in batman begins look@




I see these and just think what could have veen if they made the lenses smaller like they look here
but still the lenses look decent from what we've seen of it

 

[Crook]

Completely forgot about that quick shot. That's almost exactly how I'd want contacts/lenses to look, if implemented.

Looks eerie and demonic.

 

[Pauluz]

Huh? What scene is that from?

 

[-Crusher-]

Huh? What scene is that from?

its in one of the new tv spots. the 14th or 15th i believe.

 

[Pauluz]

Yeah I know there are lenses in the tv spot but DSET says that screenshot is from Begins.

 

[Bads316]

Its right before he flies out the back of the train in Begins

 

[Axtech]

Bads is right, it's just before he flies back out of the train. He's just kind of looking to the side and upwards, so it looks like he has no colour in his eyes.

 

[millennium movies]

Man he NEEDS lense, he looks just so much more like a beast/creature! For those realism lovers out there these are needed for protection if you must have a reason.

 

[Comics N' Toons]

so this thread needs to start thinking up concepts for the next batsuit since the 2nd movie is practically already here~!

IS EVERYONE BEHIND THE TIMES ??????????????

 

[Hurm...]

Man he NEEDS lense, he looks just so much more like a beast/creature! For those realism lovers out there these are needed for protection if you must have a reason.

So he needs lenses....To protect his eyes?


LMAO!

 

[CaptainClown]

Man he NEEDS lense, he looks just so much more like a beast/creature! For those realism lovers out there these are needed for protection if you must have a reason.

....

 

[bunk]

So he needs lenses....To protect his eyes?


LMAO!

Is eye protection really that hard to fathom? Either way, he does need some sort of night vision being that he operates almost exclusively in the dark.

 

[cryptic name]

To bring this back around to something that's always irked me that's been mentioned serveral times, I've never gotten this whole "the new Batsuit is biker type gear" thing.

This is motorcycle armor -

This is Roboc- I mean, the new Batsuit -

These two things do not resemble each other. At all.

there's more of a resemblence between these two than there is between the new batsuit and robocop