Costumes! Discuss them Here!

[Balthus Dire]

No, I'd rather they stuck with the simple comic look instead of making them look like pop culture 90's superheroes.

 

[Mercurius]

I have expressed my criticism of the looks of three characters (Veidt, Laurie and Daniel), but I simply don't get the complaints about Silk Spectre's S&M visual, or kinky boots, or whatever.

Guys, she had a kinky look in the book, too. There are even jokes with it there (by Rorschach, by the original Silk, her mother, etc).

I really don't get all the fuss about her kinky outfit. I myself just dislike it because it is shiny leather and not a yellow transparence over black S&M-like attire.

 

[BoredGuy]

Unless this is gunna be a spoof comedy, I just couldn't see ALL the originals working, audiences won't buy it. We can do all the fanboy whining we want, but they need to make considerations for the uneducated mass of American audience, and thats that. they said right off the bat that they had to make at least a few changes to nite owl...

 

[logansoldcigar]

Rorscach, Comedian and Silk Spectre look brilliant, and I like the paunch and zippers on nite owls. i think it could look more leathery tho. Im OK with Ozy's suit, im just not sure about the guy in it

 

[Doc Destruction]

No, I'd rather they stuck with the simple comic look instead of making them look like pop culture 90's superheroes.

So let me ask you a question. Are you happy with Nolan's Joker? Because if you are, then that's the dumbest breach in logic and taste in HISTORY.

That Joker SUCKS if you're a purist. He's NOT a hobo, bum, smelly-looking, disfigured ass.

But we hear about how AWESOME and REVOLUTIONARY he looks. Then we come here and talk about Ozy and it's "NIPPLES! I'm OUTTA HERE!"

 

[Nivek]

Figures with all the current Superhero movies coming up short or making huge character changes, the one that has relitivly small changes gets the nipple-biters ranting!

"He haz Nipplz! Teh Suk! 300 wuz Ghey, so iz Snyder, Nipplz proves it!!"

Sheesh, no wonder why fans get a bad name in the film community.

 

[Doc Destruction]

And the changes really aren't that big.

Exactly. GREAT point.

 

[Balthus Dire]

So let me ask you a question. Are you happy with Nolan's Joker? Because if you are, then that's the dumbest breach in logic and taste in HISTORY.

That Joker SUCKS if you're a purist. He's NOT a hobo, bum, smelly-looking, disfigured ass.

But we hear about how AWESOME and REVOLUTIONARY he looks. Then we come here and talk about Ozy and it's "NIPPLES! I'm OUTTA HERE!"

I never said I am against changes to the source material. I understand not everything works on film and that some changes must be made. However, I really don't see the need for adding sculpted muscles to the suits. It looks extremely cheesy and unecessary.

I hadn't noticed the zippers on Nite Owl, that's a really cool touch. The costume I have the biggest problem with is Ozymandias. He looks absolutely stupid, and seemingly for no real reason. They managed to make Rorschach and Comedian exactly like their counterparts and it looks great...why not do the same for the others?

If they change the material for something that works better, I'm all for it. I do not feel that some of these changes work better.

 

[wobbly]

Can't help but wonder, had anyone here suggested that they should use a Schumacker style rubber suit for Ozy before these pics were released, just how vilified they would have been for even thinking that would be a good idea.

Be honest now.

 

[Rac]

..Thats exactly how it looked in the comic..

That dude even has the belly. t:

That's because for the 100th time - SPANDEX LOOKS TERRIBLE ON SCREEN.

Not in Spider-Man and Fantastic Four movies, imo.

 

[Doc Destruction]

That isn't spandex in the S-M and FF movies for the last time.

 

[wobbly]

And in regards to spandex comments, though in the Spider-man and Fantastic Four movies they looked like spandex, they weren't made of spandex.

Technically speaking, none of the costumes in the books have ever been made from Spandex either.

 

[Doc Destruction]

They would have to be in order to be that tight.

 

[Comics N' Toons]

i think Rorsarch's costume is perfect for a Green Hornet costume!

 

[drew643]

costume for manhattan or cgi?

 

[Armored Avenger]

costume for manhattan or cgi?

Manhattan will be a cgi character, so we have to wait longer to get a look at him

 

[Rocker22]

Yeah I can't wait to see how Dr. Manhattan will look.

 

[Doc Destruction]

At least everyone is using his correct name now lol.

 

[Rocker22]

What were they calling him? Blue guy?

 

[drew643]

In the novel Manhattan is completely naked.Will he have pants or a Superman sort of look?

 

[Agentsands77]

Doesn't really look like something that would have existed in the early 70s though, does it?

Exactly. And the real problem is all the rubber, which simply wasn't an effective costuming mechanism in the 1960s/70s. They really should have tried to make the Nite Owl costume out of cloth/leather.

 

[wobbly]

lol I my statement agrees with you.

I never said they were, but with how costumes are drawn on characters in comics, spandex is the first thing that comes to mind. And I don't recall really any comics going too in-depth about what their costumes are made out of.

Yes, it's become an assumption they are Spandex rather than a referenced fact, however, originally the costumes had to be simple 'tights', as Spandex didn't even exist until around 1960.

A little besides the point: Regardless of what the actual costumes were made of in the FF and Spider-Man movies, they are still thought of as being form-fitting spandex, rather than the more elaborate numbers we know they really are - ie: Spider-Man's costume is a shaded material over a lightly padded muscle suit.

 

[Rocker22]

I think he might have said it would be "R" not sure though.

 

[Agentsands77]

and to be an advocate of the new batman films I feel that they have addressed the issue of a real man wearing spandex into battle. (that and the x-men flick)

True. But the Nolan Batman suit(s) do look like something that was more cobbled together. Especially THE DARK KNIGHT suit, with its cloth foundation. Something like that would have been effective here, rather than this very polished presentation. I was hoping for something rougher around the edges.

 

[Doc Destruction]

What were they calling him? Blue guy?

Dr. Midnight lol.