White Gloves Or No White Gloves?

[Wesley Dodds]

Something i've noticed over these last few months on these boards is a weird, unspoken division between us Lantern fans.
It seem we fall into two camps-
Those of us who want Hal to have his white gloves in the movie and those of us who dont.

Where do you stand on this issue?

Personally, i dont get people who dont want the costume to be as faithful as possible.
We've never seen Hal in live action before EVER! He's the only real mainstream hero left we can say that about... So let's see him! The proper him!
It's too early to start talking about altering the costume whenever most people haven't even gotten a chance to see the original yet. Especially when it's such a classic!
The white gloves are perfect for what Jordan is! A superhero? No. He's a space ranger... And the white gloves really add something to that!

 

[protocida]

We've never seen Hal in live action before EVER!

 

[protocida]

Oh, and no White Gloves!

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Hahaha!

I don't count that! And unless you have a history of mental illness in your family, neither do you, Prot!

Smartass.

 

[protocida]

And the fact that the other guy is Sinestro just makes everything worse, doesn't it?

 

[bunk]

I want half white gloves.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Show me a movie where a character wore white gloves like GL's without looking ridiculous.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

And the fact that the other guy is Sinestro just makes everything worse, doesn't it?

Wasnt this guy Sinestro?

Charlie Callas, i think they call him.

But, we're getting off topic. Why no white gloves?

 

[protocida]

Yes. Sinestro disguises himself as a female psychic and tries to read GL's hand in order to steal his ring.

 

[protocida]

White gloves would look corny. I prefer how GL is portrayed in the animated movie: Black gloves with green gautleds.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Yes. Sinestro disguises himself as a female psychic and tries to read GL's hand in order to steal his ring.

All of a sudden, i'm intensely grateful that i've never been able to bring myself to watch it... Eucchh!

 

[protocida]

There we're priceles moments in that show:

- GL's scene.

- Solomon Grundy disguised as a speeding officer and using a magic cap provided by Mordru to make him look normal on the superheroes eyes. He randomly bumps into Batman, Robin, Hawkman, Captain Marvel and Black Cannary; and, ALL the times, he drops the cap and is forced to knock down the heroes and tie them on a abandoned warehouse nearby.

- The Riddler, disguised as Sigmund Freud, building a shrink's office in the middle of a park and Captain Marvel, tense after looking for a bomb, randomly stopping by and telling Riddler all his problems and aflictions.

- The interview with the recently engajed couple Atom and Giganta.

- Ghetto Man.

- Hawkman randomly standing up and screaming like an... well... An Hawk.

- The incredible Super Retired Man!

- Hawkman's mother telling his Superfriends how much of a troubled child he was.

- Mordru's musical number.

Here are some screencaps:

 

[The Sage]

If they can somehow pull the white gloves, I'm all for it.

 

[Changeling]

Me too, but I think it should be green gauntlets

 

[Wesley Dodds]

If they can somehow pull the white gloves, I'm all for it.

I think a large part of the problem is that whenever people hear white gloves they automatically picture nerds at comic-cons in their homemade GL costumes.
WB would pay the wardrobe dept. a lot of money to make sure the gloves dont look corny.
I think something like a thin, matte white leather would look pretty cool...

 

[The Geek Vault]

I'd want to see white gloves I think they could work also what are all these live action pictures from?

 

[protocida]

Two parts NBC special Legend of the Super-Heroes, with Adam West, Burt Ward and Frank Gorshrin.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I'd want to see white gloves I think they could work also what are all these live action pictures from?

1979 live action special Legends Of The Superheroes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_the_Superheroes

Brace yourself and check it out!

 

[jmc]

Aesthetically, the white gloves are a poor design, here you have a deep green and black suit then suddenly you have these two lumps of white standing out like dogs balls, I think the risk you run with adding white gloves in the movie is the character looking silly, even like a Power Ranger. The alternative is either black gloves, green gloves, or no gloves at all, really though, as long as the spirit of the GL costume is kept there should be no complaints.

 

[D-Man22]

^Yeah I agree. Down with the white gloves. As I've said before the green gauntlets from the animated movie looks really good and they should use that for the live action suit.

 

[Octoberist]

Aesthetically, the white gloves are a poor design, here you have a deep green and black suit then suddenly you have these two lumps of white standing out like dogs balls, I think the risk you run with adding white gloves in the movie is the character looking silly, even like a Power Ranger. The alternative is either black gloves, green gloves, or no gloves at all, really though, as long as the spirit of the GL costume is kept there should be no complaints.

However, I do have to say that Hal's costume is probably the best designed costume in the DC universe, or comic bookdom period.

 

[Changeling]

Easily

 

[D-Man22]

^Nope. Marvel costumes are easily the most appealing comic book costumes ever. Hal maybe the best costume in DC though.

 

[Motown Marvel]

i suppose i could really care less either way,but i suppose if they can make it work i'd prefer the white gloves.

 

[Octoberist]

^Nope. Marvel costumes are easily the most appealing comic book costumes ever. Hal maybe the best costume in DC though.

Both have their lame suits.

Marvel has NAMOR, NAMOR, and NAMOR. Plus people dont' want to admit it, but Thor for a while looked cheesy until recently.