Night Owl's costume better than Batman's

[Captainhulk]

I think the guys who did the costume design for Batman begins and the Dark Knight, should take note of Night owl's costume. Not only did it look better than both Batman costumes, but it moved way better in the fight scenes. None of the Batman fight scenes looked convincing, because they looked way to stiff and slow. That's not the case with the Night Owl fight scenes.

 

[Capt Throbberson]

Because leaping 20 feet in the air, kicking a dude 50 ft away then striking a 1 minute pose is convincing.

 

[Captainhulk]

Because leaping 20 feet in the air, kicking a dude 50 ft away then striking a 1 minute pose is convincing.

You know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about kicking and throwing a punch and just moving in general.

 

[Mr. Credible]

agreed. nite owl's costume was vastly superior in just about every way (look, design, fluidity of movement) to batman's costume in, well... every batman movie.

 

[Timstuff]

Snyder is better at filming fights than Nolan.

 

[Mr. Credible]

a lot of people are better at filming fights than nolan.

 

[dodgers2213]

Snyder is better at filming fights than Nolan.

Truth to the nth degree

 

[That-Guy]

The fight scenes in BB and TDK never bothered me.

But if there is one flaw in Nolan's Batman movies, it has to be the costume. It's not necessarily "bad," I just think it could have been better. I understand that they were going for realism, but its not as if he is actually wearing an armored suit... it's just a thin rubber suit made to look like an armored suit. Therefore, I don't think that they had to make such an effort to give it the body armor look. They could have taken some liberties and made it closer to the comic.

Nite Owl's costume is the reverse situation, ironically. The comic book costume looks silly (as it was intended) and the movie costume looks armored to the max and totally badass. I have to give the edge to Nite Owl here.

 

[roach]

Im glad I wasnt the only one who watched the movie and compared Nite Owl to Batman. I think the NO costume is superior to the Bat armor. It looks like it offers protecton yet allows NO to move and fight.

 

[Crook]

I'm actually pretty surprised at how I fluid the Dan's suit looked in the movie. The Batman comparisons were inevitable, but it's just striking how completely dissimilar the two suits were on film.

I'm not sure what Nite-Owl's suit is made of, but it can't be that much of a better material than Batman's. In stills they practically look the same. I even thought the former would be stiffer because of how hardened it looked.

 

[roach]

I could have sworn Nite-Owl turned his head in costume too

 

[Anita18]

The Nite Owl suit made Dan look 1000000000x more awesome than he looks without it. So in that way, the Nite Owl suit rocks more, because Bruce Wayne looks pretty awesome without the batsuit already.

Everything else is personal preference. I still have a soft spot for the BB/TDK cape, though. That thing moves like a dream.

 

[The Guard]

Because leaping 20 feet in the air, kicking a dude 50 ft away then striking a 1 minute pose is convincing.

What in blue hell are you talking about?

 

[TNC9852002]

What in blue hell are you talking about?

Internet exaggeration.

-TNC

 

[rogue trooper]

Both Bat's and NO's costume are equally awesome!!

 

[TNC9852002]

Side note: I know it wasn't wholly intentional, but when Dan is in the NO costume for the first time, the score hits two chords that sounds almost exactly like the BB/TDK score and I smiled.

-TNC

 

[roach]

it probably was intentional. I read somewhere the reason they made Nite-Owl look all armored was to draw comparisons to Batman's armored movie look

 

[TNC9852002]

Sure..."read". Hah.

-TNC

 

[roach]

Was in Wizard i think

 

[Crook]

It wouldn't be a surprise. Snyder wanted to make the film like how the comic did. Which was a deconstruction of the genre. With the transference in mediums, it makes sense for Snyder to instead comment on comic book films, instead of the material they were based on.

Batman's rubber suit being one of the stables of this genre.

 

[Nivek]

I could have sworn Nite-Owl turned his head in costume too

He also pulled off his cowl like Batman should!

Thank god someone else started this thread. That was the one superior thing about Watchmen vs. BB/TDK, Zack knows how to make the fighting look like art in motion. Nolan just films A+B+C in fight scenes.

 

[SatEL]

a lot of people are better at filming fights than nolan.

Yes because Nolan wanted his fights to look as realistic as possible (Well as realistic as one man taking down a group of men sometimes with guns).

 

[SatEL]

Internet exaggeration.

-TNC

More like Synder exaggeration, I mean come on some of those feats they pulled of where Superhuman.

 

[Nivek]

Regardless of personal opinion, we have visual conformation of a character who turns his head with no resistance, and can even pull his cowl off while wearing the rest of the suit.

 

[TNC9852002]

More like Synder exaggeration, I mean come on some of those feats they pulled of where Superhuman.

Well, you do understand why?

-TNC