The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The Official TASM2 Costume Thread!! - Part 1

[Smegger56]

I don't agree. It looked just as awful in the movie as it did on set. It did not change. I don't see how someone can see two different looks.
The suit in the Raimi series looked great on set because it looked great. The suit in the Nolan Batman looked great on set because it looked great. Amazing Spider-Man's suit looked bad from day one because it is a goofy design. Just my opinion. But I don't see how it looked any different on film than it did on set.

I would disagree. The bat suit looked meh on set but looked great in film (especially the TDK one IMO). The TASM suit didn't look great at times on set (but other times it did), but in film, looked stunning.

The Raimi one, I agree, looked really good in both. But IMO, on film, TASM beats the classic hands down. There is nothing goofy looking about TASM.

All opinion though.

 

[Joe_Kickass]

I would disagree. The bat suit looked meh on set but looked great in film (especially the TDK one IMO). The TASM suit didn't look great at times on set (but other times it did), but in film, looked stunning.

The Raimi one, I agree, looked really good in both. But IMO, on film, TASM beats the classic hands down. There is nothing goofy looking about TASM.

All opinion though.

There were parts where it did look a little goofy. Like the front of the mask would wrinkle up and from certain angles the mask didn't look as good as its CGI counterpart. And some scenes where it just looked kind of bad, like when Peter stands up on the skyscrapper and the light is hitting the suit. It looked really good in the previous scene (the CGI reveal), but the real flesh and blood reveal didn't make the suit look as flattering, this is of course my opinion.

 

[Smegger56]

There were parts where it did look a little goofy. Like the front of the mask would wrinkle up and from certain angles the mask didn't look as good as its CGI counterpart. And some scenes where it just looked kind of bad, like when Peter stands up on the skyscrapper and the light is hitting the suit. It looked really good in the previous scene (the CGI reveal), but the real flesh and blood reveal didn't make the suit look as flattering, this is of course my opinion.

I think we'll disagree a bit here. The only time the mask looked off for me was in the sewer, just before the Lizard attacked (the lizards tail lowers behind spidey).

I'm not saying tweaks couldn't have been made. I just wish they'd have stuck more with the TASM design. But I do love it alot.

 

[Valkyrje]

I loved everything about the ASM suit. The only improvement the new one has are the eyes shape. The lenses were great in ASM, the gloves, the boots, the colors, the web shooters... everything.

 

[Smegger56]

I loved everything about the ASM suit. The only improvement the new one has are the eyes shape. The lenses were great in ASM, the gloves, the boots, the colors, the web shooters... everything.

I even get the reasons why the negated the 'belt' and put strips down the legs. It did make him looker sleeker (though the red strips where never the best bit IMO).

At the very least, the design points i wish they kept would be the segmented gloves, the higher boots (and give them more of a sneaker/trainer look) and the eye shape. And the shooters.

 

[Mike_D202]

AAHHH!!! Make it go away!!!

 

[Hotwire]

I think everyone will be on board with the new suit once we see it in poses like this one!

 

[Smegger56]

I think everyone will be on board with the new suit once we see it in poses like this one!

I hope so.

But I just loved this suit. More than the Raimi one too. It just looks lovely

 

[lordofthenerds]

I never understood why they made the bottom of his feet silver.

 

[VenomSpawn]

Because they were ASICS Gel Dirt Dog 3s and that's just what their color scheme is.

 

[Smegger56]

I never understood why they made the bottom of his feet silver.

There where sneakers/trainers for the boots. I liked that. I liked how this costume seemed to have been put together by Pete.

 

[lordofthenerds]

Yeah, but couldn't they just color over the silver?

 

[Smegger56]

Yeah, but couldn't they just color over the silver?

It never bothered me. I did like the silver trimming. But yeah. For the sequel, all they had to do was some blending in

 

[wobbly]

I don't really get the love for the sneakers and apparent dislike for the classic boots, especially the thinking that the sneakers are more practical?

More protective, sure, but for his powers, not at all: Its one thing to have his sticking ability still function through a layer of fabric, but through thick rubber soles as well? His wall crawling would be limited to basically going up a wall using his hands only to stick. He could not go directly down or cling to a ceiling with training shoe soles in the way of his feet.

So I dunno, preferring them for their looks, that's fine. But the practical reasoning doesn't work for me at all.

 

[Smegger56]

I don't really get the love for the sneakers and apparent dislike for the classic boots, especially the thinking that the sneakers are more practical?

More protective, sure, but for his powers, not at all: Its one thing to have his sticking ability still function through a layer of fabric, but through thick rubber soles as well? His wall crawling would be limited to basically going up a wall using his hands only to stick. He could not go directly down or cling to a ceiling with training shoe soles in the way of his feet.

So I dunno, preferring them for their looks, that's fine. But the practical reasoning doesn't work for me at all.

Well, the TASM2 look anything but thin fabric the boots. They look stiff. Also, his running and acrobatics make the 'sneakers' very practical.

Now it depends how his sticking ability works. I don;t think they went with the 'small hair' that Raimi went with. So whether the thickness of his shoes has any impact on his sticking ability is open to debate.

 

[DorkyFresh]

I prefer some kind of practical LOOK for his feet. I understand that the sneaker look kinda stood out from the rest of the costume and that sneakers wouldn't REALLY be practical for his feet to stick to surfaces, but then again neither would the weird looking boots that they gave him this time around. At least if the shoes LOOK practical I can buy that he uses the traction to run along the side of buildings, rather than action figure boots they gave him with the new suit. The bottom of his feet are perfectly flat...and that's something that always irked me about Raimi's Spidey-suit.

 

[VenomSpawn]

More protective, sure, but for his powers, not at all: Its one thing to have his sticking ability still function through a layer of fabric, but through thick rubber soles as well? His wall crawling would be limited to basically going up a wall using his hands only to stick. He could not go directly down or cling to a ceiling with training shoe soles in the way of his feet.

I don't think the people who say this understand how Spider-Man's clinging powers work.

 

[wobbly]

Well, the TASM2 look anything but thin fabric the boots. They look stiff. Also, his running and acrobatics make the 'sneakers' very practical.

I get the feeling those are 'stunt' boots. Ie; the ones for the main suit will be a classic flat & thin sole style, but the set shot ones are for the stuntman or Garfield to run around the streets in (not unlike how they did Chris Evans bare feet for his street running scenes in Captain America)

And with his sticking power traction isn't an issue (in theory he'd run and do acrobats better without sneakers).

Now it depends how his sticking ability works. I don;t think they went with the 'small hair' that Raimi went with. So whether the thickness of his shoes has any impact on his sticking ability is open to debate.

I don't think they went with little barbed hairs either (certainly don't recall seeing them), so that remains unexplained on film for this version.

In the comics there's the focused static electricity idea (seen that one used in the books) but I think the official handbook describes it as something a bit more exotic (increases localised attraction fields or something like that).

In any event, Peter was always shown to remove shoes before trying to stick to anything with his feet, so as far as the comics goes, the range doesn't extend beyond a finer layer of fabric. That makes more sense to me than working through anything thicker.

 

[webhead731]

I never understood why they made the bottom of his feet silver.

Because



Oh there is no reason. Just because why not.

I watched a special feature to see if there was a good reason. There wasn't.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I don't think the people who say this understand how Spider-Man's clinging powers work.

Did they try to explain in the movie at all how it might work? I actually liked the tiny hair explanation that raimi gave.

 

[titansupes]

I haven't seen the movie much, but did they seemingly forget the wallcrawling power at times? The one that sticks out to me is the ending, when Peter is hanging on the side of the building, then Conners (stupidly) lifts him up...

 

[VenomSpawn]

Did they try to explain in the movie at all how it might work? I actually liked the tiny hair explanation that raimi gave.

No they didn't, so I'm just going to have to assume it's static-cling at an atomic level like in the comics.

Though either way I think it's odd that no one ever points out that Peter climbed up walls while wearing shoes plenty of times in Raimi's movies when it would be physically impossible considering how they explained his clinging powers.

 

[mayo23]

I haven't seen the movie much, but did they seemingly forget the wallcrawling power at times? The one that sticks out to me is the ending, when Peter is hanging on the side of the building, then Conners (stupidly) lifts him up...

I think what happened was Peter was holding the Lizard serum in one hand and Connors caught him with the other hand. Besides, it was probably just for dramatic effect.

 

[roach]

I haven't seen the movie much, but did they seemingly forget the wallcrawling power at times? The one that sticks out to me is the ending, when Peter is hanging on the side of the building, then Conners (stupidly) lifts him up...

I questioned that too. It was like " uh oh Superman's falling out of a plane" "but he's Superman"
"Uh oh Spider-Man's gonna fall off a building" " all he as to do is stick to it."

 

[Streetlight]

When he was falling though it looked like he might not have been able to reach the wall to cling to, so he would have just fallen to the ground.