Really? Looking back at the earlier Raimi costumes, I don't think they hold up very well. The sharpness of the eyes, the raised webbing, just don't look as good to me as the new costumes do. The new costume really looks like it came from the pages of a comic book.
Hey everyone, my first post here. More of a lurker than poster, but I just wanted to say:
These two pictures show exactly why I personally prefer the Raimi suit over the MCU suits. The Raimi suit was notorious for having literally hundreds of revisions and time taken to make sure they got it right before the release of the 2002 movie, and the result really shows. Even though that picture isn't of the 2002 suit (which had bigger eyes, skinnier + more reflective webbing, and a different front/back logo, honestly it's my favorite version of a live-action Spider-Man suit), they made a very good effort to make sure the suit looked good in both motion and in photos, and it shows. Every single intricate detail of the suit is always visible and noticeable no matter how he's framed into the shot, and it has the details where it is needed. I understand not everyone is a fan of the raised webbing, but if I'm being honest, the only time I thought not having the raised webbing looked fine was with the ASM1 suit (which I don't really hate, I think it's a cool design), because with that suit it was depressed, which still gave it depth and visibility. With the MCU suit, his webbing has this 3-d pencil art effect which looks okay in photos, but it's so freaking thin and light that in motion you can barely make it out, especially with motion blur and a lot of other CGI stuff thrown in. As a result, half the time Spider-Man looks like a red and blue (or black, I'm guessing for the FFH suit) blob with no real detail or texture in motion. It's also why I like the sharp, raised eyes of the Raimi suit, because it makes the mask have a stand-out detail without being redundant. Also I don't know if this is just an actor issue, but the MCU Spider-Man suit makes it look like he doesn't have a nose half the time, like look at those shots up there.
I like the MCU suits, a hell of a lot better than the ASM suits, but the Raimi suits are still #1 by a far margin to me.
I think ASM2's suit is super overrated, mainly because the eyes make Spider-Man look obnoxiously derpy with certain angles (like with the camera looking up at him), and I never was a fan of him having ovular eyes to begin with.
That's just my two cents though.
