The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Rate the NEW ASM2 costume!!!

[Whiskey Tango]

It's not about the damn patterns, it's about using the classic suit, nothing more and nothing less. No one pays attention or cares about the tiny patterns on Spider-Man's suit but fanboys.

Fanboys = The 1%

Masses = The 99%

Exactly. The only people picking this apart are forum nerds who pick everything apart. general audiences don't give a hoot about studying extreme close-ups of set pics just so they can find something to whine about.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Yeah I don't think the general public is going to complain about costume continuity.

They just want eye candy and a cool story.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Not a die hard spidey fan but I liked the ASM costume. I liked the gloves and the color scheme. Sad to see both of them go. I do like the eyes though. I thought after seeing it at first that it was a photoshop of a Toby spiderman pic. Also baffled why they went back to the old texture of the suit? I loved the one in ASM. Weird.

Because it was rubbery and Spider-man looked like a giant, red and blue basketball?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I can see that's where he knew he needed to have spandex. But the actual aesthetic design? Nah.

Well, he does have a keen scientific mind, probably came in handy

Yeah I don't think the general public is going to complain about costume continuity.

They just want eye candy and a cool story.

Basically, us fanboys need to suck it up when it comes to costume and accesories, and hope for a fantastic story

 

[Nicko-Ray]

It is a litle wierd by they went the Raimi route with regards to the costume overall design rather than taking the ASM costume and straight up change it to the classic suit.

ASM suit
* lose leg stripe
* insert red belt
* lose blue trim from gloves
* lose/reduce silver trim on belt

The seems easier then completely throwing away the ASM suit, starting from scratch with the Raimi suit but retaining the logos front and back from the ASM suit.

I watch ASM last night and the way the light catches the costume is absolutely PERFECT. Now image that material and texture placed on a straight up Spider suit ripped right from the costumes, that would elevate the Spider-Man costume to my favorite superhero movie costume of all time.

I understand why you use the term "Raimi route", but the only thing Raimi about the suit, are the underlying brick patterns on the red fabric. Everything else is a classic spider-man costume.

I actually prefer this new suit's webbing due to the fact that it's all black, and more flat than the Raimi's.
The spider emblem is actually a refined version of the TASM one, and is black too rather than a different color than the webbing.
And need I start on those gorgeous lenses...

I believe they did this drastic change from the TASM suit because I think Marc Webb really wanted it to be just flat out classic Ultimate Spider-Man this time.

 

[Nicko-Ray]

I've seen a picture of the mask from the front and it looks freaking awesome. I thought the big eyes would be a problem, they're not, they make Spidey truly look like Spidey. Sorry, I don't have a link and I can't remember where I saw it.

These?

Yeah I think so too. Just waiting to see how they look on screen..

 

[DorkyFresh]

It's not about the damn patterns, it's about using the classic suit, nothing more and nothing less. No one pays attention or cares about the tiny patterns on Spider-Man's suit but fanboys.

Fanboys = The 1%

Masses = The 99%

Exactly...so if the masses could care less about the suit, as long as it looks like Spider-Man, then why go through such a drastic departure from TASM's suit to make it reminiscent of the Raimi suit?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Makes me think of Spider-Man pointing his finger at Hawkeye from Ultimates v2

 

[UltimateWebhead]

Exactly...so if the masses could care less about the suit, as long as it looks like Spider-Man, then why go through such a drastic departure from TASM's suit to make it reminiscent of the Raimi suit?

Yeah, I agree. This is why I'm gonna be looking for a reasonable explanation as to why he decided to cosmetically change the suit.

 

[Anno_Domini]

Id love to hear their explanation as to why they went with the brick pattern the raimi suit used. Thats the worst offense, that and those impractical looking boots.

This.

I want to really know why Marc Webb decided to use a suit that has the same fabric of Raimi's suit.

I don't mind the new suit having "boots" than shoes, though, but I would have at least thought Webb would think outside the box with a new suit as he did with the first one. I can see that was giving Webb too much credit, lol.

Like I said, to steamline it. Make it simpler and more solid looking. If you're going to nitpick about that then you should nitpick about why Stark randomly decided to switch up the colors on his Iron Man suit and make the gold more emphasised than the red.

What's more solid-looking than just completing the "belt" and giving this consistency of all of the red connecting? Which is why, imo, I was never a fan of the arm stripes to begin with and besides the atrocious-looking webshooters, I actually LIKE the USM cartoon suit because of that little change. But when TAS-M used the leg stripes, I immediately looked at the "belt" and thought that it should've been a whole one to connect the red together. Call me weird, but that's how my brain works.

And I will say this, as I always do when someone tries to be smart and bring up Tony Stark...Tony Stark has a massive ego that decided to use the color of a car as his armor and it's that ego that is understandable on why Stark would change up his colors while changing up his suits.

Yeah I don't think the general public is going to complain about costume continuity.

They just want eye candy and a cool story.

The saddest truth.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Brick pattern is the fabric part, not that important in the costume design
Can we please not focus too much on that?

 

[Anno_Domini]

Can we please not focus on the fabric that Webb could've done differently? Lol.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I wanted to see more of the old fabric
It's nitpick beyond necessary, focus on the action, it should mask the fabric

 

[Creator]

Exactly...so if the masses could care less about the suit, as long as it looks like Spider-Man, then why go through such a drastic departure from TASM's suit to make it reminiscent of the Raimi suit?

Both suits belongs to Sony and it's the classic costume. Raimi didn't design it, he didn't create it, he didn't buy it and he doesn't own it. It's reminiscent of Steve Ditko's suit, period.

 

[The Infernal]

Can we please not focus on the fabric that Webb could've done differently? Lol.

It is nitpicking though. We never really saw the brick pattern when the costume was in motion onscreen with the previous films, only in stills for the most part. I'm not sure why it's such a big deal for some people.

 

[gdw]

Id love to hear their explanation as to why they went with the brick pattern the raimi suit used. Thats the worst offense, that and those impractical looking boots.

Ok, the *****ing about the "boots" is really dumb. First off, the shoes would have been far LESS practical, as the entire sole would be thick, preventing whatever allows him to wall-crawl from sticking to the wall.

The "boots" are thin at the toes, which is what contacts the walls. His heels have no need to stick to anything, and that's the only part with any real thickness.

Also, with the "boots," far more so than with the shoes, it is probably there for the general visual shape, and not meant to be "real." That is, it's not meant to be, within the reality of the film, that he has some sort of heel lift in his costume.

Whereas the shoes from the first film were, in the context of the reality of the film, meant to be the actual soles of running shoes, thus actually thick.

Unlike the running shoe soles, you almost certainly will not be "seeing" the heels as anything other than his feet, rather than a thickened heel.

 

[Leenie]

Seeing that I am not a fan of how The Amazing Spider-Man turned out, I really don't have any expectations of this new movie. All I have to say is that I really, really dig the new costume, even if it does look a lot like the Raimi one. It's just a lot more pleasant to look at than the jaundiced eyes costume from ASM1. I also bet this costume will translate marvelously onto merchandise, unlike ASM1's costume (I'm sorry, but that costume looked SO horrible/ugly in the merchandise).

I really have no expectations for how ASM2 will turn out as a movie, as I've already stated. If the costume is a sign that the movie will be a huge improvement over the previous film, then that's fine by me. And if the costume is a sign that they're just taking more away from the Raimi films while claiming to be the "untold story," then is anyone surprised? Really?

tl;dr: Based on looks alone, the new costume looks fantastic.

 

[Creator]

Merchandise...those damn toys!

 

[DorkyFresh]

Both suits belongs to Sony and it's the classic costume. Raimi didn't design it, he didn't create it, he didn't buy it and he doesn't own it. It's reminiscent of Steve Ditko's suit, period.

You're not fooling anyone. They could have easily made the same proportions regarding colors and patterns, but still have used the same elastic looking materials from TASM's suit. Instead, they went back to the satin finish that was a staple of Raimi's Spider-Man films. There hundreds of ways to make a "classic" costume without making a suit that is reminiscent of Raimi's Spider-Man, yet here we are with most people agreeing that it's basically Raimi's Spidey-suit with a few of TASM's elements and bigger eyes.

But to my original point that you so conveniently ignored, why such a drastic departure from TASM's look if the masses don't really care about the suit?

 

[Smegger56]

You're not fooling anyone. They could have easily made the same proportions regarding colors and patterns, but still have used the same elastic looking materials from TASM's suit. Instead, they went back to the satin finish that was a staple of Raimi's Spider-Man films. There hundreds of ways to make a "classic" costume without making a suit that is reminiscent of Raimi's Spider-Man, yet here we are with most people agreeing that it's basically Raimi's Spidey-suit with a few of TASM's elements and bigger eyes.

But to my original point that you so conveniently ignored, why such a drastic departure from TASM's look if the masses don't really care about the suit?

I just think if they put a belt on and removed the leg strips and redded the silver, but kept everything else, fans would have been happy.

I admit to having no substance to that statement. It is only an opinion.

 

[Leenie]

Merchandise...those damn toys!

I'm just telling the truth. The ASM suit looked UGLY in the merchandise. I'm a Spider-Man collector, and I didn't want anything the ASM merchandise had to offer because it simply didn't look good.

Even if I hate ASM2, I can already tell that I'll be more inclined to get some of the merchandise because the costume looks pleasing to the eye this time around.

 

[Nathan]

I just think if they put a belt on and removed the leg strips and redded the silver, but kept everything else, fans would have been happy.

I admit to having no substance to that statement. It is only an opinion.

And get rid of the segmented gloves, then it would have been perfect. What I also really like about the TASM suit, is that the textures made the whole suit, how should I describe it, richer? Gave it more depth? From far away, you couldn't tell what pattern they used, but it gave the suit a rougher look. Now, it's way too smooth, like it's satin. Well, the red parts at least. Glad the blue doesn't look as smooth.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

You're not fooling anyone. They could have easily made the same proportions regarding colors and patterns, but still have used the same elastic looking materials from TASM's suit. Instead, they went back to the satin finish that was a staple of Raimi's Spider-Man films. There hundreds of ways to make a "classic" costume without making a suit that is reminiscent of Raimi's Spider-Man, yet here we are with most people agreeing that it's basically Raimi's Spidey-suit with a few of TASM's elements and bigger eyes.

But to my original point that you so conveniently ignored, why such a drastic departure from TASM's look if the masses don't really care about the suit?

Needs more feeling. Angrier! ANGRIER!

 

[Smegger56]

And get rid of the segmented gloves, then it would have been perfect. What I also really like about the TASM suit, is that the textures made the whole suit, how should I describe it, richer? Gave it more depth? From far away, you couldn't tell what pattern they used, but it gave the suit a rougher look. Now, it's way too smooth, like it's satin. Well, the red parts at least. Glad the blue doesn't look as smooth.

I would at least hope the gloves would have stayed lol. Really, love them.

IMO, the texture and look of the TASM suit was awesome. Like you said, it looked rougher and edgier. I think just those small changes I mentioned (but keep the gloves dammit :-p ) and fans would have been happier... IMO.

 

[TH29]

Ok, the *****ing about the "boots" is really dumb. First off, the shoes would have been far LESS practical, as the entire sole would be thick, preventing whatever allows him to wall-crawl from sticking to the wall.

The "boots" are thin at the toes, which is what contacts the walls. His heels have no need to stick to anything, and that's the only part with any real thickness.

Also, with the "boots," far more so than with the shoes, it is probably there for the general visual shape, and not meant to be "real." That is, it's not meant to be, within the reality of the film, that he has some sort of heel lift in his costume.

Whereas the shoes from the first film were, in the context of the reality of the film, meant to be the actual soles of running shoes, thus actually thick.

Unlike the running shoe soles, you almost certainly will not be "seeing" the heels as anything other than his feet, rather than a thickened heel.

have you not seen how thick and clunky the new boots look?? the sole is extremely thick and raised. It just doesnt make any sense. again its like the brick pattern, the "boots" could have been designed to fit his foot better and still be the classic look. But yet again they used the weird clunky boots that Raimi used and looked ridiculous as we were supposed to believe he wore them under his regular shoes?! I love how people on a comic book message board are all "oh the general audience doesnt care, why are you caring? " because I AM ON A COMIC BOOK MESSAGE BOARD, which is where people that CARE come to discuss this type of stuff.