The Flash The Barry Allen/The Flash Thread - Part 3

[Kevin Smith]

No you can't. They even needed to add some muscle padding for the MOS costume. No such practical material exists to be like the comics and muscles aren't constantly flexed anyway. I don't think you understand how reality is different from comics.

I'm not asking to see ripped muscles through the suits for one thing and a minimum, inconspicuous amount of muscle padding that doesn't warrant conversation from the latent I see no problem with.

There's all sorts of material they can use to make the suits cool as far as design and look goes, they don't have to look like foam sculpted muscles all over or armor, even if there is a small amount of padded muscles inside the suits.

The Spider-Man suits all look fantastic in live action and are identical to their comics counterparts but made out of cool materials. The same costume has also been made out of tighty tights before on the tv show from rhe 70s and it loomed pretty bad. Thats where someone like you would tale that suit and point to it and say "see!!! The comics suits will NEVER work in live action!!!!" when with the right budget, materials, execution, and a little bit of vision you can make most if not all of the comic book costumes look great. They're prefect examples of the same suit design where one looks great and is loved and the other is cheesy and forgotten.

The most disliked suit out of the live action film ones is the suit he wore in the first Amazing Spider-Man, it was a departure from the comics and the design didn't look as good simply from a design standpoint.

 

[king666]

the chest symbol is ugly as hell.
ugh.

 

[Rorschach2012]

All I needed to read.

Lol Sawyer...

the easiest Hypester to please. I'm convinced you'd be satisfied with anything...

I personally expect a certain level of quality for beloved DC characters, but yeah to each their own.

 

[king666]

50 shades of red

 

[Rorschach2012]

the chest symbol is ugly as hell.
ugh.

Yep, very out of place.

Hopefully as the show progresses, they'll be able to improve the suit. It really needs it.

There is too much going on... It's definitely over designed to give off the appearance of a contemporary modern suit, and you guys are eating it up. This wasn't the only way to modernize the suit. Modernizing a comic book suit doesn't meaning assembling 30 different materials and all these different shades of the same color and combining the two...

 

[solidsnake86]

Yep, very out of place.

Hopefully as the show progresses, they'll be able to improve the suit. It really needs it.

Don't get your hopes up, arrow hasn't changed anything on his costume and usually pilots have the biggest budget to make a decent costume.

 

[The Shape]

Lol Sawyer...

the easiest Hypester to please. I'm convinced you'd be satisfied with anything...

I personally expect a certain level of quality for beloved DC characters, but yeah to each their own.

But, you know, there are fans of DC characters who can accept and enjoy interpretations that are not literal translations of those characters' comic book appearances...

"Different" isn't "bad" for everyone around here.

 

[Kevin Smith]

The cowl looks great....but that chest symbol and everything else...

The chest symbol...my god...it's so uneven in lightning bolt length. What the ****tin ****. And those ear pieces....something's gotta be done about them. If you're not going to make them look like the Ethan Van Sciver ear pieces at least make the circle part all solid and gold instead of just having it be a gold outlining of a circle. Holy ****.

 

[SpideyFan866]

 

[Rorschach2012]

I definitely want separate universes now. Idk if Gustin's Flash would look like he belongs alongside MOS Superman

 

[Wise]

If they changed the chest symbol to white and improved the "fit" of it around the crotch and upper legs then I'd be 99% behind it.

It is too early to tell though as we know Arrow's costume improved along the way with him getting his goatee and mask eventually. This suit looks like it could be made by Barry. It looks like a good prototype.

Grant looks great in the cowl.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Then again this is from the same guys that gave us the wonderful, wonderful god-forbid-I-call-it-a Green Lantern movie from a few years ago...

 

[Wise]

I know I'm being petty but Grant really needs to do some squats, lunges, calf raises and leg press stat.

 

[Shikamaru]

Different is bad only when it's just different for the sake of being different.

If you look throughout history, most-if-not-all of the successful deviations from the comics were never just different for the sake of being different.

That being said, I haven't seen anything so far with the suit that would suggest they're just being different for the sake of different.

 

[king666]

This one looks cool

 

[kguillou]

I LOVE the way the cowl fits Grant. The suit is interesting. I'm sure it'll look much better with the shading and lighting on the actual finished product.

 

[Kevin Smith]

But, you know, there are fans of DC characters who can accept and enjoy interpretations that are not literal translations of those characters' comic book appearances...

"Different" isn't "bad" for everyone around here.

So sick of that..."different" isn't bad for fans of the comics or people like me, either, bad is bad. The design looks bad - it does not look as good as the one from the comics.

 

[Dark_Lord]

Tried to make it look a little more form fitting, but got bored along the way. I'm not that good anyway. But still...

I'm sure the costume will look better in the show, after post production. Of course stuff like the inside of the logo being red and other design choices some of you don't like will still be there, but...

 

[solidsnake86]

Spoiler

Seeing this picture I see why they did the chest in that material, so it blends in with the mask. I'm curious as to why they opted to put a zipper right down the middle on the front.

 

[Quasimod0]

The mask is the best part easily. Don't really care for the rest to be honest, although i definitely dont hate it. But I'm so glad they gave him the lightning bolt ear things. lol

 

[Sawyer]

Lol Sawyer...

the easiest Hypester to please. I'm convinced you'd be satisfied with anything...

I personally expect a certain level of quality for beloved DC characters, but yeah to each their own.

We all have our roles to play in the grand scheme of things. Me, I look at things rationally and choose not to immediately jump on hate bandwagons.

You? Well, you insist on being annoyingly observant of my actions and make a scene every time I whip out even the slightest defense of these shows.

 

[king666]

Tried to make it look a little more form fitting, but got bored along the way. I'm not that good anyway. But still...

Spoiler

I'm sure the costume will look better in the show, after post production. Of course stuff like the inside of the logo being red and other design choices some of you don't like will still be there, but...

already looks 10x better

 

[Wise]

I'd sy in terms of pros and cons.

Pro - The cowl looks excellent. Great molding around the actors head that accentuates his eyes giving him more expression.
Pro - It looks like it could withstand extremely high speeds and stumbling from those speeds.

Con - The symbol is boring and as a focal point is making the rest of the suit look dull by comparison.
Con - The fit around the legs and crotch doesn't look comfortable or suitable for running in.

 

[Lord Valumart]

OK, I love this. When do I get the action figure?

 

[Bran The Man]

I remember coming to this thread hours ago and seeing the official pic, now I come back and there's all of these close-ups of the costume. Where are these coming from? Are they still filming?