Interesting Watchmen blog...???

[Wams]

http://lysad.blogspot.com/2008/03/watchmen-movie-designs-schumacher-would.html

Schumacher influenced???....Maybe.

What say ye?

 

[CaptainGenerica]

That blog is a steaming pile of miss-the-point. But very old, and pretty irrelevant now.

 

[Johnichi Chiba]

Snyder already addressed the reasoning behind this. He was completely aware of that influence. Watchmen wasn't written to make superheroes cool it was written to make them real and at the same time comment on the current heroes in comics at the time. The movie is doing the same thing with movie superheroes.

 

[MadAnthonyWayne]

except not as well. Watchmen never catered to the lowest common denominator of what could be a superhero comic book, it tested the limitations of the genre. Simply because a pair of the worst superhero movies to come out featured costumes done a certain way, doesn't mean that Watchmen needs to use that for it's fodder. Please explain to me how using Schumacher esque costumes comments on the current heroes of comic book movies at the time, when we have Iron Man in an amazing looking Iron Man suit, Batman in the most realistic film he's ever been placed in, with a costume made out of real materials that the audience barely gets a good sight of, and the X-Men in leather. Where does using campy costumes become a part of that?

 

[Luchastyle]

i gotta agree with mad anthony. when snyder said that i KINDA understood what he meant, but i still didn't see the point. costumes had purpose in the world of watchmen. and now nite owl II has a cape when we all know nite owl I covered why not to wear a cape. AND the dollar bill incident is IN THE MOVIE! so how are they going to explain that one? "yeah, 30 years ago a guy died because his cape was too cumbersome, but mine looks so awesome flowing in the wind that i think i can handle it. i just won't go near revolving doors."

i still hope the movie is cool, but i'm not above tearing it apart. the costumes look cool (aside from ozy) but the changes were somewhat unnecessary.

in the book they adressed the fact that their costumes looked silly. so if they did direct translations of those, and they looked silly, it would be fine.

 

[TheVeidtMethod]

So we'll critique the movie for Dan wearing a cape when Dollar Bill was killed wearing his, but not the book, where the same thing occurs? I thought we all wanted a faithful adaptation. Hurm...

You just answered your own questions. The costumes in the comic were supposed to be "silly," but they were moreso supposed to be archetypical.

The movie follows that logic. The nipples are just as silly as they were in Batman, but also the costumes are archetypical of the super-hero movies we've seen over the last 20 years.