BvS The Barry Allen/Flash Casting Thread

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

It honestly reminds me alot of the Avengers Cap suit, for obvious reasons.

 

[lujho]

Not bad at all. Could be a bit more traditional, the changes are rather pointless, but not awful, especially considering the last two versions of Flash attempted for TV (JLA Pilot and Smallville).

There looks to be a lot of leather, but a lot of fabric too. It's not just pants and a jacket like Ollie's.

Besides, it could always be tweaked in later seasons. Definitely needs more traditional lightning-trim design and placement.

 

[Boom]

For a CW show, it's alright. Could be better, but it could be a hell of a lot worse.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

Hope you're right...

Why would he have fingernails on his gloves?

 

[Kevin Smith]

Why would he have fingernails on his gloves?

Dude who the **** knows....really. Why change the Flash logo's background from white to red? Why change the ear pieces from this:

...to what he has in the show? Why remove the gold lightning trim from his arms and his waist? They make so many bogus, unjustifiable changes with a lot of these costumes that they'd do something as equally stupid as giving him fingernails wouldn't surprise me...

 

[Mindreaper21]

The suit is far better than I expected. It's a win for me. I like some things and I don't like some things, but I really want to see this suit in motion.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Kevin Smith is starting to sound like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons...

 

[roach]

I like the suit...no armor or anything silly...screams the Flash and as we saw in Arrow they can add to the suit to make it more traditional if the want down the line

 

[Rocketman]

I think it's absolutely perfect. The logo change makes total sense to me. Doesn't make much sense to have the logo be white if the entire suit is red. Might as well make that red too. Especially in night scenes, a white chest logo may look hokey and may even be a distraction. If anything, I'm surprised they used a circle at all. I was going to bet money that they had just the lightning bolt on the chest.

I dig the hell out of it. It's a totally modern, fresh, 2014 Flash. It's exactly what I wanted. I'll even go on record and say - based on this pic alone (I'll need more photos to really decide) - it might be one of the best live action superhero suits ever..

 

[BattleAngel]

I'm not saying it sucks by any means- it does *not* suck. But it looks pretty silly to me, in comparison to other modern comic suits, especially as worn by Gustin who just doesn't have anything special to his look at all (in my opinion). Personally, I think Flash's suit in general is pretty generic superhero, but can look really great when done by certain artists, and when the red really pops (this is wayyyy too muted, imo). This iteration, just looks like "lightning superhero." I'm all for more superhero shows on TV, but I just don't know if the public is going to go for this one.

 

[The Guard]

I don't understand complaints about the angle. He's clearly taking off from "starting position". That's a pretty classic angle of The Flash visually, leaning forward, head forward, etc.

I don't really think Gustin needs anything particularly special to his look, as The Flash is probably one of the most "everyman" superheroes out there.

 

[Wise]

I think Grant is fine for the show.

But I want someone closer to Cavill's age to play Barry in the movie. I mean Affleck is old enough to be Gustin's father. I don't really like that potential dynamic.

Claflin, Kwanton or Hunnam are the best pics IMO.

 

[Neonzel]

 

[Wise]

I'm liking the red background on the logo less now that I'm seeing it in action.

It's comparative contrast makes the rest of the suit look too dark.

 

[Neonzel]

I'm liking the red background on the logo less now that I'm seeing it in action.

It's comparative contrast makes the rest of the suit look too dark.

Yeah it looks better with white

 

[Astro13Zombie]

I think it's absolutely perfect. The logo change makes total sense to me. Doesn't make much sense to have the logo be white if the entire suit is red. Might as well make that red too. Especially in night scenes, a white chest logo may look hokey and may even be a distraction. If anything, I'm surprised they used a circle at all. I was going to bet money that they had just the lightning bolt on the chest.

 

[Wise]

Yeah it looks better with white

OMG that just improved the suit tenfold. Such a simple change but it makes such a difference.

 

[MrsKent26]

I like the white too.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

After seeing those set pics my opinion went from loving it to being slightly underwhelmed by it, now I know why they shot the unveil picture in the angle they did to hide most of what the suit looks like.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

Not feeling what I'm seeing in those pictures...
leather pants? really? for the flash?

 

[BattleAngel]

OMG that just improved the suit tenfold. Such a simple change but it makes such a difference.

I don't know about tenfold, but I agree it's a HUGE improvement.

After seeing those set pics my opinion went from loving it to being slightly underwhelmed by it, now I know why they shot the unveil picture in the angle they did to hide most of what the suit looks like.

Totally - I mean, look at those flappy arms. I just feel like Flash should be really aerodynamic and not have a baggy outfit.

Not feeling what I'm seeing in those pictures...
leather pants? really? for the flash?

Agreed here too... to me, the suit looks like a step back from the Affleck Daredevil suit, even. It's not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it looks like what it is, a low-budget TV superhero.

My biggest fear is that the underwhelming nature of this will sour the chances of seeing Flash on the big screen.

 

[Gee]

Not to be that guy, but why do we have a duplicate CW's Flash thread here?

 

[The_Harvest]

I like it. I think the suit would look even better if Grant Gustin could build some muscle mass. Especially leg muscles.

 

[Wise]

Kind of a minor and petty thing to complain about.

But it sort of looks like the Flash skipped leg day at the gym.

 

[The_Harvest]

Kind of a minor and petty thing to complain about.

But it sort of looks like the Flash skipped leg day at the gym.

Seems like we were thinking about the same thing at the same time .