So past four pages, this is my take on everything. Sorry, no pics to illustrate, try to understand text.
In regards to
Watchmen; while I wouldn't call it a parody, it is entirely satire and a picking apart of superhero tropes. Silk Spectre II even has a line or two about how ridiculously sexualized her costume is at one point, and how her mother, Silk Spectre has a fan-made porn comic, and momma doesn't mind it. In terms of
Watchmen translating the comic costumes, I've gone into detail before, but simply put, they were great costume adaptations, for
Watchmen.
In regard to
Sucker Punch.
First, I agree with whoever said that no one really got
Sucker Punch, and it's a shame cuz it is an awesome movie, especially the full director's cut.
Second, the girls costumes were sexualized for a reason; in Babydoll's mind, they were like unwilling innocents made ****es trapped in a brothel feeding into men's fantasies, and in her action fantasy mindset, it affected how she saw herself and the other girls, including appearance, based on those fantasies. Babydoll as the school-girl, Sweat Pea as the tough fantasy chick, Rocket as the edgy tomboy, etc. Blondie and Amber didn't really have one, but even in the brothel part, you have Amber in a French maid costume, Rocket as a sexy nurse, and Blondie as an Arabian belly dancer. Those character were sexualized in costumes because their setting was in an overtly sexual place; not the case with Wonder Woman.
In regards to adapting the comic costume.
Does anyone here even know what Faora looked like in the comics? She wore a green catsuit thing that sometimes had white and purple. Even Ursa, who was clearly based on Faora, when used in the comics, looks nothing like how we got Faora in
Man of Steel, yet she still looked proper without having a skintight costume, looked badass, and didn't look ridiculous standing alongside Zod and Superman.
Also, someone mentioning that she's had the same costume for 70 years or so, this is what I say to that. So did Batman, so did Superman. They changed them for the movies for a reason, and it's a good one. The live action equivalent would look stupid for the characters if it was an exact copy. Briefs over tights will
never look good, and that's why we will never see them again.
Lynda Carter's look worked for the show because it was so campy, same goes for Reeve's in the movies, because both were technically tailing in on the Adam West Batman series which was the definition of camp. Once Burton rejuvenated the Dark Knight into being dark, that sort of camp and acceptance of cheap looking costumes got left in the 70s/80s.
To those not wanting her comic costume called a swimsuit/stripper wear.
While I mostly disagree about the stripper wear(it really depends on the comic artist), I'm sorry but it is most definitely a swimsuit; and someone said wouldn't a swimsuit have straps? Some do, but there are strapless swimsuits and that's what the comic costume looks like. With that said, WW's movie costume does need straps, it just looks ridiculous without them. And I also agree with those who are sick of the people going to the extremities of bringing up burqas, and dressing like a nun. I'm a bit over the juvenile overreactions simply because people don't want to see camel toe or a wedgie simply so they can get turned on by WW.
In regards to the skirt.
Finding straw skirts or pulling the Xena card does not negate a better way of incorporating a skirt. It makes you look like you're grasping at straws because you have no better reasons to discount use of a skirt. You all seem to forget that a skirt can look many different ways. The kind of battle skirt a lot of posters like here is not the kind of battle skirt I want. I'm also one of those that feels just because she has a skirt, it does not mean she needs to be commando underneath.
There's nothing wrong with having a sexy, revealing costume, but it can't be pandering or pure eye candy; that's what we don't want. You give her a costume like that, I guarantee you no WW movie will happen anytime soon. And no, it's not a matter of a costume making a movie, it's a matter of WB not having enough faith in audiences to see a female led action movie that doesn't rely on her curves.
