Iron Man The Suit!!!!! [Mark III-Red and Gold Awesomeness]

[newwaveboy87]

MAN I 've been yelling this from the ever freakin' web page message boards I can find for 7 years now!!!!

HOW IN THE HELL CAN THEY GET A VERY CLOSE TO THE COMIC LOOKING IRON MAN SUIT....ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT SUITS TO CREATE EVEN IN THE COMICS ...AND YET WE GOT THOSE CHEAP RUBBER BLACK BATMAN- KNOCK OFFS WANNABES FOR THE X-MEN?????

DON'T EVER TELL ME YOU CAN'T MAKE A PROPER WOLVERINE OR COLOSSUS SUIT EVER AGAIN! EVER! BRYAN SINGER GET A CLUE!!!!!

Wow, the suit impresses me big time. It's funny that when X1 was coming out and they gave the excuse that costumes would look dorky and turn ppl off, that I bought it. Then Spiderman came out and the almost perfect comic costume worked great. Now this one is just another nail in the coffin that newer superhero movies can work with costumes.

Anyway great costume, I wonder what it'll look like in motion. Like others have said though, I hope it doesn't look too CGI.

in X1's defense, Batman & Robin was still in people's minds, and going with bright and colorful costumes in a very-hyper realistic setting would have been incredibly silly. not to mention that the X-Men have never really had a consistent team looking outfit apart from the Ultimate line, and when the comic first started in the 60s.

if they went with the bright spandex-ish outfits post-B&R, in a real world setting, and trying to maintain an illusion of being a team...that wouldn't have worked with the tone they were going for. i actually prefer them having a solid team look...but they definitely could've used more color.

 

[Super_Hero]

It looks better than i could imagine!

It's perfect, looks just like in the comics.

Is there gonna be a villian in this movie?

 

[Eddie Dean]

It looks incredible!

 

[darkseid26]

awesome, hells yeah cn't wait for the movie!!

 

[roony]

Spoiler

-TNC

That was HILARIOUS! Like the suit by the way. A part of me wants to see it be a little more bright and colorful, but that's okay. Someone needs to superimpose flames on it to piss off the talkbackers, by the way.

 

[ad101867]

Wow, the suit impresses me big time. It's funny that when X1 was coming out and they gave the excuse that costumes would look dorky and turn ppl off, that I bought it. Then Spiderman came out and the almost perfect comic costume worked great. Now this one is just another nail in the coffin that newer superhero movies can work with costumes.

Anyway great costume, I wonder what it'll look like in motion. Like others have said though, I hope it doesn't look too CGI.

In my opinion it depends on whether or not you're talking about a single character or an ensemble. In my opinion the more superhero characters there are on the screen, the more the costumes should be toned down or rendered as group uniforms. If there are too many of them on the screen at one time, they really can look cartoony and just plain stupid if the movie is supposed to have a serious tone to the story.

This is especially the case with female heroes, because in the comics most of them look, frankly, like ****s in the latest high-priced hooker's outfit. If you put that to live-action and then tried to depict them as action-oriented, criminal-pounding characters, it would look really, really stupid. (Think especially of ridiculous-looking characters like Storm, the Scarlet Witch, Power Girl, Kitty Pryde, etc. Put those exact-same costumes to live-action and the movies would have to be rated R, most likely. Plus the story wouldn't be taken at all seriously.)

I thought the group unis for the filmic X-Men looked just fine.

 

[Cinemaman]

Perfect, can't wait to see it on screen.

BTW, I am sure first teaser-trailer will get attached to either Fantastic Four or Transformers

 

[Noir]

Yell at Ratner too!

 

[dark_b]

no offense guys but this looks like CGI because it is CGI. i think this is a CGI model to show how the suit will look before htey build it. and this is what you see here. if this is real than someone f... up with photoshop.

 

[Saint]

no offense guys but this looks like CGI because it is CGI. i think this is a CGI model to show how the suit will look before htey build it. and this is what you see here. if this is real than someone f... up with photoshop.

It doesn't look like CGI, nor is it. It's already been stated outright that the suits have been built. I don't know why this still surprises me; people on SHH always draw incorrect conclusions from photographs; like the scores of people who thought the leaked photos of Bale in the batsuit were photos of a toy model, or the people who thought Venom was in Spider-Man's lens.

 

[Super_Hero]

Naa, it would be cool if it was attached to transformers but it won't, but it being attached too fantastic four maybe.

I want them to do a avengers movie!

 

[Hunter Rider]

It doesn't look like CGI, nor is it. It's already been stated outright that the suits have been built. I don't know why this still surprises me; people on SHH always draw incorrect conclusions from photographs; like the scores of people who thought the leaked photos of Bale in the batsuit were photos of a toy model, or the people who thought Venom was in Spider-Man's lens.

I know this is your area of expertise so i have a question,when i looked at it, due in particular to the background,i thought it was a rendering of the cGI model of the suit,are you saying that is the suit with RDJ in it ?

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

no offense guys but this looks like CGI because it is CGI. i think this is a CGI model to show how the suit will look before htey build it. and this is what you see here. if this is real than someone f... up with photoshop.

Did this one look real to you?

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

I know this is your area of expertise so i have a question,when i looked at it, due in particular to the background,i thought it was a rendering of the cGI model of the suit,are you saying that is the suit with RDJ in it ?

Telling if RDJ is in it, is a bit hard.

 

[odiin]

MAN I 've been yelling this from the ever freakin' web page message boards I can find for 7 years now!!!!

HOW IN THE HELL CAN THEY GET A VERY CLOSE TO THE COMIC LOOKING IRON MAN SUIT....ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT SUITS TO CREATE EVEN IN THE COMICS ...AND YET WE GOT THOSE CHEAP RUBBER BLACK BATMAN- KNOCK OFFS WANNABES FOR THE X-MEN?????

DON'T EVER TELL ME YOU CAN'T MAKE A PROPER WOLVERINE OR COLOSSUS SUIT EVER AGAIN! EVER! BRYAN SINGER GET A CLUE!!!!!

Of course they CAN make it, that's not even a question. It's about what looks GOOD, and on top of that what looks good for the tone of the particular movie. Given the TONE of the X-men films, having them in their regular costumes would look silly, all of them in different brightly coloured costumes would stick out like a sore thumb. Especially as a TEAM it would look cheesy having them all wear wildly different costumes would just look cheesy. Why do you think the original X-men all wore pretty much the same uniforms? Same with the Fantastic Four? Maybe some day someone will start a new X-men series, give it a lighter feel and try and use the comic book costumes, but for what we have now the black leather simply works better.

There's nothing wrong with changing stuff, the comics themselves change all the time. Iron Man definitely didn't look like that all the time, the colours were a lot brighter and looked more like Spandex than metal, and today the look has changed a lot, same with Daredevil's Red and Yellow costume, etc... because someone decided that it looked better, whether just in general or to fit the character better. Same thing with the X-men movie costumes. You can't REALLY run through the films in your head and replace the costumes with the comic versions and tell me that they wouldn't look silly?

Each franchise is different, you can't just use the excuse "Well Iron Man/Spider-man did this so blah blah blah" What works for one isn't necessarily going to work for the other. The people working on Iron Man decided it would be best to almost directly adapt the current comic look, and that's fine. The people working on X-men decided it would be best to go with a new take on the costumes, and guess what? That's fine, too.

 

[Noir]

I don't think RDJ is in that one, but it is a suit that was built probably having a stuntman in it or something.

Like the Rorschach image from the 300 trailer.

 

[Darknightnomis]

In my opinion it depends on whether or not you're talking about a single character or an ensemble. In my opinion the more superhero characters there are on the screen, the more the costumes should be toned down or rendered as group uniforms. If there are too many of them on the screen at one time, they really can look cartoony and just plain stupid if the movie is supposed to have a serious tone to the story.

This is especially the case with female heroes, because in the comics most of them look, frankly, like ****s in the latest high-priced hooker's outfit. If you put that to live-action and then tried to depict them as action-oriented, criminal-pounding characters, it would look really, really stupid. (Think especially of ridiculous-looking characters like Storm, the Scarlet Witch, Power Girl, Kitty Pryde, etc. Put those exact-same costumes to live-action and the movies would have to be rated R, most likely. Plus the story wouldn't be taken at all seriously.)

I thought the group unis for the filmic X-Men looked just fine.

This type of thinking is irrelavant in making superhero movies today.

I can somewhat accept the argument that 7 years ago 'BATMAN and ROBIN' was still lingering in people minds, and that the genre of movies would never be revive with more "colorful" characters, but now, 7 years later and the genre is leading the pack in money in movie making, and the combination of CGI and more specific frabrics makes it where THIS ARGUMENT DOES NOT APPLY!!!!!

Spiderman showed if you stay true to the concept of how the suit shouldl look (with a teak or two here and there) it could work on film, and this pic of Iron man shows that anything that was "cartoony' looking in the books, or complicated, or difficult can be transefere to film and STILL BE TAKING SERIOUS!

You using an aged argument that is no longer relevant with the sources we have today for these movies!

And when someone DO try it with an asmeble cast, and show that it will work, hopefully with a JLA movie or a Marvel revamp of the X-Men movies they will be considered a genuis.

 

[uchiha_itachi]

thing is tho, i reckon if they used somthing like the astonishing outifts then they would work on screen. because they are leather and not spandex, and the colours are not really bright. even wolverines yellow is a dark yellow, so i think it would work, specially if thats how the tone of the film was set from the start off.

 

[HHHDan]

MAN I 've been yelling this from the ever freakin' web page message boards I can find for 7 years now!!!!

HOW IN THE HELL CAN THEY GET A VERY CLOSE TO THE COMIC LOOKING IRON MAN SUIT....ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT SUITS TO CREATE EVEN IN THE COMICS ...AND YET WE GOT THOSE CHEAP RUBBER BLACK BATMAN- KNOCK OFFS WANNABES FOR THE X-MEN?????

DON'T EVER TELL ME YOU CAN'T MAKE A PROPER WOLVERINE OR COLOSSUS SUIT EVER AGAIN! EVER! BRYAN SINGER GET A CLUE!!!!!

I have to somewhat agree with the "X-Men" complaint... I never understood why, by the time it came around to making the second movie, they didn't add some colors. It didn't have to be the exact costume as the comic books but Cyclops' leather suit could of been mainly dark blue with some black and they could of given Rogue a dark green & balck one. Wolverine could of had just a few yellow "tiger-stripes" on the arms/shoulders... you know: Just to make them look different from one another.

In the end, it did not ruin the movies for me (Brett Ratner, Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn are what ruined it for me in the 3rd one) but it did make the characters very drab, lifeless and lacking individuality.

So, I dissagree with ad101867: With a group, it is important to be able to clearly differentiate each character more easily.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

thing is tho, i reckon if they used somthing like the astonishing outifts then they would work on screen. because they are leather and not spandex, and the colours are not really bright. even wolverines yellow is a dark yellow, so i think it would work, specially if thats how the tone of the film was set from the start off.

Cyclops? Certainly. The rest? Doubtful.

 

[Darknightnomis]

thing is tho, i reckon if they used somthing like the astonishing outifts then they would work on screen. because they are leather and not spandex, and the colours are not really bright. even wolverines yellow is a dark yellow, so i think it would work, specially if thats how the tone of the film was set from the start off.

EXACTLY!

But they don't have to be leather. Enough with the leather already for a superhero suit! It's old! This is why Marvel changed them back to there more traditional uniforms in the comics! and yo don't have to make them Spandex either!

I'm not saying don't change them up a bit to work for the photography of movies (like they did with Spiderman and here with Iron Man), but at least make them so I can recognized the traditional look of the character.

And Yes, this would change the TONE of the movie but it can be done, if done right and stay true to the legacy of the characters.

 

[Spade]

Wow.

That's really all I can muster up to say. This suit looks fantastic. I love every little detail on it, from the glowing repulsors to the shine in his eyes. This is how the character should be in a feature film of this caliber, and Mr. Favreau seems to have stepped up to expectations in every aspect. Seriously, has someone hoodwinked me and shown me a preview of the Second Coming or is that an actual thing of beauty we'll see in action? I'm still flabbergasted. Movie Iron Man was done superbly in this Mark III form (wonder how Mark II plays in this). I just can't wait until we see how Favreau does on the Mandarin.

And before we start using X-Men just to find something to gripe about...Marvel has officially made this day a holy one where no fanboy is allowed to open their stupid trap about the little things. Bask, for once, in the glory of this. We only get to do this once in a lifetime.

 

[uchiha_itachi]

alright, with one slight mod to colossus's costume i think it would work. just give him long red trousers ( or whatever) instead of the pants

 

[newwaveboy87]

thing is tho, i reckon if they used somthing like the astonishing outifts then they would work on screen. because they are leather and not spandex, and the colours are not really bright. even wolverines yellow is a dark yellow, so i think it would work, specially if thats how the tone of the film was set from the start off.

yes, but you're using hindsight to correct a movie that was filmed in 1999, and released in 2000. long before Astonishing X-Men ever came into existance. now, had the franchise been starting out recently...different story.

This type of thinking is irrelavant in making superhero movies today.

you slaughtered your own argument with this statement. NOWADAYS you can make a comic book movie with the brightly colored costumes because the franchises have proven themselves to be profitable. back when X1 was going into production, they were seen as being a HUGE risk. you can't use hindsight in this case.

also, it has been stated by three separate people, that the X-Men needed a cohesive look to their uniforms. why? unlike Spider-Man where there's ONE character running around in a costume, there was going to be at least 6 X-Men, and 5 Brotherhood members. if every character had an individual outfit...it would've looked ridiculous. other than the 60s comics...during what time frame did the X-Men have a cohesive look pre-99? yeah...that's what i thought.

 

[Darknightnomis]

Cyclops? Certainly. The rest? Doubtful.

AFTER SEEING WHAT THEY JUST DID WITH THIS AWESOME LOOKING YET TRUE TO THE CHARCTER IRONMAN UNIFORM....HELLS YEAH!!!!

at one point is was said the SILVER SURFER would look silly on screen if they keep him silver...but theose FF trailers prove it can be done!