BvS The Batsuit Thread - - - - - - - - Part 31

[Black Narcissus]

Found the vid:

http://batman-news.com/2014/09/30/ben-affleck-dark-knight-returns-influence-batman-v-superman-dawn-justice-video/

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

I'll be more than content if Batfleck looks like this in the movie. Magazine covers be damned!

 

[Sawyer]

But the magazine covers have looked better than that.

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

Found the vid:

http://batman-news.com/2014/09/30/ben-affleck-dark-knight-returns-influence-batman-v-superman-dawn-justice-video/

It's interesting how so many people praise and love TDKR. Before I read it, I had no idea it was so popular. I'm going to guess it is very popular because of Batman's fight with Superman? Anyhow, I feel of all the Batman comics Frank Miller has written, Year One is his best work on the character imo. That one is a bit underrated. But I like that Nolan was influenced by it a bit when making Batman Begins.

 

[Boom]

I admittedly do not care for TDKR all that much.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

It's interesting how so many people praise and love TDKR. Before I read it, I had no idea it was so popular. I'm going to guess it is very popular because of Batman's fight with Superman? Anyhow, I feel of all the Batman comics Frank Miller has written, Year One is his best work on the character imo. That one is a bit underrated. But I like that Nolan was influenced by it a bit when making Batman Begins.

Read some of the customer reviews here when time allows.

http://www.amazon.com/Batman-The-Dark-Knight-Returns/dp/1563893428

 

[Black Narcissus]

It's interesting how so many people praise and love TDKR. Before I read it, I had no idea it was so popular. I'm going to guess it is very popular because of Batman's fight with Superman? Anyhow, I feel of all the Batman comics Frank Miller has written, Year One is his best work on the character imo. That one is a bit underrated. But I like that Nolan was influenced by it a bit when making Batman Begins.

You should check out the animated film. It is my favorite Batman film so far.

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

Read some of the customer reviews here when time allows.

http://www.amazon.com/Batman-The-Dark-Knight-Returns/dp/1563893428

Most seem to like it because Batman is more of an Anti-hero here and the real world type of Gotham and Ha! There's a comment praising the fight. I seriously did not care for the fight. Anyways, as an else-world story on its own, it was a good read (I personally like the animated adaptation better) and while I know it's pretty influential, I'm surprised at how some people think it should be the template to how Batman should be done.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Most seem to like it because Batman is more of an Anti-hero here and the real world type of Gotham and Ha! There's a comment praising fight. I seriously did not care for the fight. Anyways, as an else-world story on its own, it was a good read (I personally like the animated adaptation better) and while I know it's pretty influential, I'm surprised at how some people think it should be the template to how Batman should be done.

I hear you. I was just trying to give you an idea as to why so many fans are fond of the book since you asked.

 

[regwec]

Wow, almost too many Perry Yellow posts to skip over!

TDKR is a great comic book, and most certainly a "game changer" (and I really hate that term). Almost everything directly extrapolated from it is poor, however, so we must wait to see how positive its influence on this movie is.

Also, those hoping the Batsuit will look as bad as it does on the Empire cover should not get too excited. It looks far better everywhere else. Save up your derision for Lex Luthor's lack of abs, or something.

 

[TripleJ]

No, he's a Miller fanboy. What makes me think so? The fact that he's often stated that its his dream to adapt TDKR. And WB was like "hey want to direct the start of our universe?" And he's like "but i only care about TDKR".

So they seem to have found a compromise.

Yeah, I think you are exaggerating it a bit (Especially about him caring only about TDKR).

Sure, it's his dream to adapt TDKR, and he has taken elements from the comic (like the suit, and the symbol), but a lot of the other things are completely against it (like Superman being a Gov errand boy in the comic...but that's not the case in the movieverse).

None of these elements, the ones we have seen, are a negative to this movie. At least, not in my opinion.

Well, in truth, there's just no need for Superman to be so huge or the "biggest" member of the JL (outside of what fans want). He is the strongest no matter what. His physique is natural. He doesn't work out, nor does he need to in order to be strong. He could be thinner than Wonder Woman and would still retain the same strength and power.

Batman is a human. In order for him to do what he does, it requires him to work out and lift weights to retain his peak level of strength. This would naturally make him a big guy. Beyond that, it's clear he's wearing a suit with some sort of armor/padding that was also sculpted to look animalistic and intimidating.

True. Superman doesn't have to be muscular.

 

[KillerWolf]

Empire Magazine cover

This is actually worse than the "Entertainment Weekly" cover. Batman looks like air conditioner from "The Brave Little Toaster" and Superman looks like younger Michael Palin.

Are there any good graphic designers left in this world?

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

Wow, almost too many Perry Yellow posts to skip over!

TDKR is a great comic book, and most certainly a "game changer" (and I really hate that term). Almost everything directly extrapolated from it is poor, however, so we must wait to see how positive its influence on this movie is.

Also, those hoping the Batsuit will look as bad as it does on the Empire cover should not get too excited. It looks far better everywhere else. Save up your derision for Lex Luthor's lack of abs, or something.

True. If only the arc of Batman being driven by anger and becoming impatient with everything around him is improved upon by making him realize his growing anger doesn't have to be his motivation to do what he does. I would like that.

 

[DlAMONDZ]

This is actually worse than the "Entertainment Weekly" cover. Batman looks like air conditioner from "The Brave Little Toaster" and Superman looks like younger Michael Palin.

Are there any good graphic designers left in this world?

It could be worse. Just look at Empire's AOU cover

 

[BatFan1979]

This is actually worse than the "Entertainment Weekly" cover. Batman looks like air conditioner from "The Brave Little Toaster" and Superman looks like younger Michael Palin.

Are there any good graphic designers left in this world?

Yeah, they're all on SHH!!

 

[DaveMoral]

Snyder's batsuit is clearly not Jim Lee's. It's from Miller's Batman. From the thickness, to the big fat ugly batemblem, to the gauntlet spikes (whatever those things are called), etc.

Jim Lee's Batman owes a ton to Miller. Hence why Lee was on All-Star.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

^ To me, it's a good Elseworlds story. I don't think of it being canon.

I think thats the way its supposed to be perceived, I think it did an awesome job at telling a great batman story and it boiled down the essence of batman to its bare bones and it worked wonderfully.

 

[titansupes]

Okay, I get you now, I misunderstood, sorry. I thought you were somehow saying that the content of the Batman image itself was somehow faked an in question.

Rather, you were questioning whether it was a real photo of that photo on a wall. And yeah, I don't have a clue whose wall that's supposed to be, and it could easily be faked.

This topic is long gone, but yes, that's what I meant.

 

[The Guard]

But it could have been any kind of fabric they chose.

There was this actual real-world fabric they found that the military/aeronautics industry was using. It had a special kind of electrostatic flocking, and then they found out about memory cloth, which is sort of a real thing, and from that they developed the idea.

At least that's what Nolan and Goyer said early on.

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, they're all on SHH!!

Um......... sure.

 

[Majik1387]

Are there any good graphic designers left in this world?

Yeah, they're all on SHH!!

Um......... sure.

To be fair Sawyer, we have a hell of a better ratio than deviantart.

 

[Bathead]

^ I'm all for bigger ears. I'd even want the 12 inch Tim Sale ones

fixed.

 

[TheFlamingCoco]

^ I like my ears to look like horns

But I totally meant ears Thanks

 

[BatFan1979]

Um......... sure.

I was being a bit facetious, but honestly there have been some great images made on this site, as well as deviantArt for sure.

 

[I Am The Knight]

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