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

[FlawlessVictory]

^I for one am glad they changed the suits for the X-Men movies and I am happy with what Singer did with them. I think their costumes, especially Wolverine's, are pretty lousy in the comics. So I don't agree with always translating to live action exactly how the costume looks in the comics. In the case of Iron Man, he has a great costume in the comics, so it made sense to just translate that, IMO.

 

[ghost_x]

Some of the costumes I liked in Singer's X-men. My main issue was they all looked the same, I always saw the costumes in the comics to represent the characters personalities, something Singer neglected.

 

[Darknightnomis]

I will never forgive Bryan Singer for putting the X-Men in those God-Awful Black uniforms. They look like the Batman movie rejects.

And if he would STARTED the movies out wth them in ther respected uniforms (and a better story while he's at it) none of you would even think to put the X-men in those ridiculous uniforms.

 

[Nathan]

I was fine with the X-Men suits. The X-Men weren't exactly superheroes patrolling the streets, stopping thugs and the like, like Spider-Man and Superman.

They were running a secret school for Mutants and were trying to protect their own kind, as well as humanity from threats like Magneto. So it wouldn't really make much sense seeing them running around in yellow spandex, especially if they are trying not to attract attention.

If there should be a new movie though, and they decide to give them colorful costumes, they better use the Astonishing comic as a inspiration. Have Cyclops telling the team that they need to change their image, so the public doesn't fear them, etc. Then I can accept yellow spandex on the screen.

 

[LostSon88]

Some of the costumes I liked in Singer's X-men. My main issue was they all looked the same, I always saw the costumes in the comics to represent the characters personalities, something Singer neglected.

I liked the fact that the suits resembled one another...made the X-men look more like a team.

 

[NUFFSAID2004]

"Looks fantastic"! Personally, being a fan of the classic Gene Colan Tales Of Suspense version, I think this suit pays a wonderful homage to it! Winston rocks!!!

 

[FlawlessVictory]

Then I can accept yellow spandex on the screen.

I don't think I would ever be able to accept yellow spandex on the screen. I'm so glad they didn't go that route.

I liked the fact that the suits resembled one another...made the X-men look more like a team.

Agreed.

 

[afan]

^I for one am glad they changed the suits for the X-Men movies and I am happy with what Singer did with them. I think their costumes, especially Wolverine's, are pretty lousy in the comics. So I don't agree with always translating to live action exactly how the costume looks in the comics. In the case of Iron Man, he has a great costume in the comics, so it made sense to just translate that, IMO.

However we are also getting a faithful translation of the gray armor in this film also.

 

[Mr. Credible]

No. They were wrong and did screw up, BIG TIME!

They were wrong for not even trying to adapt the suits to be more faithful to the ones in the comics.

And if anything, this IRON MAN suit, which is way more complicated to show on the big screen tha wolverines, or anyone else, and Yet..they did it. they didn't just make it true to the comic, it looks like the best adaptation of any comic to movie uniform.

Proving it can be done if they stay true to the source material and not look silly!

Hopeful seeing how successful this IRONMAN suit looks will now reverse this trend so directors of superhero movie to STOP trying to overthink how a superhero's traditional look should be interpert for the big screen and STICK TO THE SOURCE MATERIAL!!!!!

And the only GOOD thing about the Electra movie was her suit. At least it was the same color as the one she wore in the comic.

sorry, but you are very simply wrong.

not everything in the comics will translate to the screen. iron man is just lucky he has such an awesome suit. galactus would not work on screen. wolverine's yellow suit? no. doc ock's green leotard? lex luthors purple power suit? classic mandarin? dr. strange?

just because something is the 'source material' does not mean it will work on screen. this has been proven over and over. get over it.

 

[ultimatefan]

I liked the fact that the suits resembled one another...made the X-men look more like a team.

Yeah, and something a lot of fans forget, the X-Men DID wear the same uniform in the early Stan Lee and Jack Kirby run.

 

[ultimatefan]

sorry, but you are very simply wrong.

not everything in the comics will translate to the screen. iron man is just lucky he has such an awesome suit. galactus would not work on screen. wolverine's yellow suit? no. doc ock's green leotard? lex luthors purple power suit? classic mandarin? dr. strange?

just because something is the 'source material' does not mean it will work on screen. this has been proven over and over. get over it.

Yeah, with IM in particular, there´s the thing that the character has actually had several different armor designs over the years, which has really played in his favor cuz the changes are justifiable by technological advances, so even though there is a certain pattern to the different versions, there really isn´t a suit design that can be deemed "sacred" like the Superman or Spider-Man costumes.

 

[Darknightnomis]

sorry, but you are very simply wrong.

not everything in the comics will translate to the screen. iron man is just lucky he has such an awesome suit. galactus would not work on screen. wolverine's yellow suit? no. doc ock's green leotard? lex luthors purple power suit? classic mandarin? dr. strange?

just because something is the 'source material' does not mean it will work on screen. this has been proven over and over. get over it.

Aprrenetly, I'm not wrong because we have here a prime example in Iron Man (as well as Spidey, Daredevil and others) that it can be done.

ANd it don't have to be a dogmatic following of the look for the suits, a tweak here or there is always welcomed (such as Spidey's webs over the suit and not part of it, DareDevil's symbol on the side of his chest as oppose to be down the middle) as long as it represent somekind of look of the traditional suit.

How can you look at the IRON MAN pic for his suit and make excuse for those directors and producers for not even trying to make a uniform that is both traditional and also appeals on the screen, as we have here?

Iron suit wasn't just by some mere "luck", it took skill and hard work for the designers to make it look fesible for the big screeen.

Obviously, the producers and director didn't care enough for the X-Men to take the time and make the transformation of the traditional costume to the big screen, or more than likely, Bryan Singer (who has admitted he didn't even read comics growing up) wanted it to be "his version" so he just pisssed over the decades of the look of the traditonal suits and concocted the excuse that they wouldn't look right on the big screen, and you fell for it hook, line, and sinker!

By the way wolvrine also had a Brown and darker brown uniform for those who are still going to the "Yellow Spandex" rhetoric.

YOu telling me this can't be done on screen? ridiculous! And it woul dlook great also.

I hope Marvel redo those X-Movies the same as they doing with HULK but with new director that understand something about staying true to the source meterial. And while there at DON'T make thema vehile for Wolverine, but include storise with the other X-Men as well!!!

 

[FlawlessVictory]

sorry, but you are very simply wrong.

not everything in the comics will translate to the screen. iron man is just lucky he has such an awesome suit. galactus would not work on screen. wolverine's yellow suit? no. doc ock's green leotard? lex luthors purple power suit? classic mandarin? dr. strange?

just because something is the 'source material' does not mean it will work on screen. this has been proven over and over. get over it.

Agreed.

 

[afan]

sorry, but you are very simply wrong.

not everything in the comics will translate to the screen. iron man is just lucky he has such an awesome suit. galactus would not work on screen. wolverine's yellow suit? no. doc ock's green leotard? lex luthors purple power suit? classic mandarin? dr. strange?

just because something is the 'source material' does not mean it will work on screen. this has been proven over and over. get over it.

I would say rather, that the only thing proven over and over is the lack of the attempt to be faithful to the "source" costume.

 

[FlawlessVictory]

Another thing, for those arguing that directors should/need to adapt the looks of characters exactly as the source material, explain why Favreau in interviews has stated that the Mandarin would be UPDATED for this movie!

 

[Darknightnomis]

Yeah, and something a lot of fans forget, the X-Men DID wear the same uniform in the early Stan Lee and Jack Kirby run.

But that WASN'T THE KIRBY/ LEE X-MEN that they gave us in the movies. If they woudl've started the series with those first five (Cyclops, Angel, Beast, Marvel girl, Ice-Man) and had them in uniformed suits then it's okay, which by the way was BLACK AND YELLOW, so you would've got your "yellow Spandex" in the movie anyway.

But even that group eentually "graduated" to there own indivual look.

The movies we got was the Len Wein/ Chris Claremont version of the X-Men that NEVER wore any uniformed look from day one!

 

[SilentType]

By the way wolvrine also had a Brown and darker brown uniform for those who are still going to the "Yellow Spandex" rhetoric.

YOu telling me this can't be done on screen? ridiculous! And it woul dlook great also.

Wolverine's costume is very, very silly.

 

[Nathan]

And again, the X-Men didn't want to attract any attention, they worked in secret and weren't patrolling the city to stop evil doers from stealing purses. They were mutants feared by the public, colorful costumes wouldn't make sense.

 

[demento]

Or they wont have any First Person view

I think they will. It's used extensively in the comics and there's also quite a precedent for it in films that feature robots, cyborgs (Robocop and Terminator), and battlesuits (Lost in Space) etc.

Most likely they'll use some kinda high-tech variation on a hud...

 

[Darknightnomis]

And again, the X-Men didn't want to attract any attention, they worked in secret and weren't patrolling the city to stop evil doers from stealing purses. They were mutants feared by the public, colorful costumes wouldn't make sense.

It has for over 40YEARS in comics and animation. They don't seem to be hurting from those "colorful costumes".

And why is just the X-Men costume tha'ts silly or colorful? Why isn't Spideys, or Daredevil, or the FF, who are just as if not more so colorful? Why do you jut think it's the X-Men who uniform is silly!

The answer is that they're not!

if they would've went with the traditonal look in the first place then you wouldn't even think to put them in all black leather!

It just those idiots who copped out and gave us a B-rated, cheap and easy uniforms in those movie that screwed it up!

 

[Robot Monkey]

The point with X-Men is that what we got was bland and had no personality, the exact opposite of what a comic book costume should be. They could have personally tailored each suit to each character while keeping a uniform design, but instead everyone got the same uninteresting leather. I know they could have done better because they couldn't have done worse.

 

[ghost_x]

The point with X-Men is that what we got was bland and had no personality, the exact opposite of what a comic book costume should be. They could have personally tailored each suit to each character while keeping a uniform design, but instead everyone got the same uninteresting leather. I know they could have done better because they couldn't have done worse.

Couldn't agree more

 

[Nathan]

It has for over 40YEARS in comics and animation. They don't seem to be hurting from those "colorful costumes".

And why is just the X-Men costume tha'ts silly or colorful? Why isn't Spideys, or Daredevil, or the FF, who are just as if not more so colorful? Why do you jut think it's the X-Men who uniform is silly!

Are you actually reading my posts? The X-Men are mutants who are feared by the public. They don't patroll the city streets like Spider-Man and stop thieves. They work in secret as the X-Men, without the public knowing of them. Why, for the love of god, would they wear colorful costumes if they try to stay out of sight from the public?

The X-Men are like a secret task force, only going into action whenever a Threat like Magneto comes along. Colorful costumes wouldn't have fit the theme of the Movie.

Spider-Man on the other hand is a lighthearted character, heck he calls himself the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. He keeps swinging through the city and gets seen by thousand of people. He stops muggers whenever he gets the chance.

 

[SilentType]

It has for over 40YEARS in comics and animation. They don't seem to be hurting from those "colorful costumes".

And why is just the X-Men costume tha'ts silly or colorful? Why isn't Spideys, or Daredevil, or the FF, who are just as if not more so colorful? Why do you jut think it's the X-Men who uniform is silly!

The answer is that they're not!

Wolverine's costume is silly, and there are plenty of other comic charicters with silly costumes.

I don't think the leather was the best solution. A lot of things would have worked, as long as they stayed away from neon yellow and masks with big flaps sticking out on the sides.

 

[Darknightnomis]

The point with X-Men is that what we got was bland and had no personality, the exact opposite of what a comic book costume should be. They could have personally tailored each suit to each character while keeping a uniform design, but instead everyone got the same uninteresting leather. I know they could have done better because they couldn't have done worse.

Amen to that RobotMonkey.

And that's all I'm saying. They don't have to be a dogmatic following of the traditional uniformal but at least make an attempt to gie them some indivualaity that merge the traditonal uiforms with something for the big screen.

I always use Batman as the example of how to "tweak" the unifom and still have it play homage to the classic look. Batman never wore all Black but it was a stroke of guiness to have it all black in the movies.

It was traditonal but tweaked so it worked on film.