Sequels Would you change Spidey's costume???

[nameless_hero]

Weren't there some pics of the comic style symbiote test suit for the movie? If any body has those post them!

 

[Astrø]

This is How he SHOULD have looked:

 

[not_a_victim]

This is How he SHOULD have looked:

It would not have worked on the screen.
He would have just been a black blob blending into the shadows and background. That is why he is given purple/blue accents in the comics. Some texture had to be given to the costume in order to make is visible.

 

[Web-Head408]

This is How he SHOULD have looked:

Well, they were thinking of using it. From the Making Of Spider-Man 3 book, and I think it would have looked pretty darn cool.

 

[nameless_hero]

that would've been perfect! is that the only shot of the concept suit?

 

[Spider-Jay]

That looks quite nice actually. Anymore concept shots?

 

[Kaizer104]

I love how people exclaim how that fetish suit looks cool... It's really quite amusing...

 

[Web-Head408]

that would've been perfect! is that the only shot of the concept suit?

Agreed, no.

That looks quite nice actually. Anymore concept shots?

Agreed, and yes.

 

[nameless_hero]

That is slick it would have looked good with the comic spider or the oversized bent legged one

hope when spidey 3.1, or whatever it is, comes out and there are some live shots of this

 

[Web-Head408]

That is slick it would have looked good with the comic spider or the oversized bent legged one

hope when spidey 3.1, or whatever it is, comes out and there are some live shots of this

I've heard that they have test-filmed the classic black suit, so its a possibility.

 

[not_a_victim]

I love how people exclaim how that fetish suit looks cool... It's really quite amusing...

LOL!
Throw a red ball gag in his mouth and you would have something akin to what you can only see on the internet...or so I have heard.

 

[not_a_victim]

If it would have worked, they would have went with it. Even in the bent-legged pic, he is just a black blob with highlights from the studio lights. In the darkness of the film, he would have blended in with the background way to much.
I wanted to see a comic-accurate costume as well, but it would not have worked.

 

[Astrø]

Well, they were thinking of using it. From the Making Of Spider-Man 3 book, and I think it would have looked pretty darn cool.

RIGHT THERE ^^^ That is what they NEEEDED!!!

 

[Mr. Socko]

They should have put the damn symbiote symbol on the black suit he wore in the film.

 

[Astrø]

You liked the one from SM3 more than the one from the comics???

 

[Kaizer104]

You liked the one from SM3 more than the one from the comics???

In terms for real-life adaptions, I honestly could NOT take anyone wearing the black suit from the comics seriously. If he was wearing that suit in the movie, I guarantee a good number of people, especially average movie goers and kids would be laughing at the guy and cracking sex-jokes about it. It would certainly ruin the perception that the black suit was making Peter more threatening mentally and emotionally rather than making him try to act more macho and as my female friends say, "Making a small penis seem bigger."

Out of the people I talk to and friends of mine who aren't big Spider-Man nerds and are just the average movie-goer, a LARGE percent (37 out of 41) said they preferred the movie's suit to the suit shown there. The only reason two of those remaining 4 people preferred that suit was because they COULD crack jokes about it and they said it'd add to how horrible the movie was.

The movie's suit, however, does look a bit more menacing with the eye differences and the more twisted spiders. It's not a big change, but it could make the audience I watched it with say "Awesome!!!" when they first saw it and made children cry in fear after Sandman was "killed".

 

[Astrø]

Sandman never died....and how is the Symbiote suit not scary or dark??

 

[Kaizer104]

Sandman never died....and how is the Symbiote suit not scary or dark??

Right, but when Spider-Man supposedly killed Sandman, a lot of kids in the theater freaked out, especially with the look Spider-Man had when he said "Good riddance..." (though, this was completely ruined by Peter's emo hairdo).

As for the symbiote suit not being scary, look at it then google "latex fetish"... compare the two and you SHOULD be able to see how they match up... It may be dark..but it's definitely not the kind of dark you want Spider-Man to be associated with...

 

[Astrø]

Right, but when Spider-Man supposedly killed Sandman, a lot of kids in the theater freaked out, especially with the look Spider-Man had when he said "Good riddance..." (though, this was completely ruined by Peter's emo hairdo).

As for the symbiote suit not being scary, look at it then google "latex fetish"... compare the two and you SHOULD be able to see how they match up... It may be dark..but it's definitely not the kind of dark you want Spider-Man to be associated with...

To everyone his own.

 

[Mr. Socko]

You liked the one from SM3 more than the one from the comics???

Honestly, not really. It was nothing but a black color job to the normal suit, talk about being cheap and lazy.

I'm saying I wish they would have at least placed the damn symbiote symbol on the suit!

 

[Web-Head408]

RIGHT THERE ^^^ That is what they NEEEDED!!!

No question about it. It would have been awesome.

 

[Mr. Socko]

The following quote is the biggest load I've heard all day:

In terms for real-life adaptions, I honestly could NOT take anyone wearing the black suit from the comics seriously. If he was wearing that suit in the movie, I guarantee a good number of people, especially average movie goers and kids would be laughing at the guy and cracking sex-jokes about it. It would certainly ruin the perception that the black suit was making Peter more threatening mentally and emotionally rather than making him try to act more macho and as my female friends say, "Making a small penis seem bigger."

Wouldn't be anymore sex jokes than what you'd hear coming from immature morons making jokes about the normal Spidey suit. They easily could have used same material from the red and blue suit and made it all black. Who the hell is to say they would have definitely used black leather?

Out of the people I talk to and friends of mine who aren't big Spider-Man nerds and are just the average movie-goer, a LARGE percent (37 out of 41) said they preferred the movie's suit to the suit shown there. The only reason two of those remaining 4 people preferred that suit was because they COULD crack jokes about it and they said it'd add to how horrible the movie was.

How do you know they would have preferred the movie suit to the symbiote suit? Did you go to all 41 people and hold up a test shot from the making of book and ask them, "which is better?" If not, you have no indication of knowing whether or not they'd have liked a symbiote black suit. If so, then your method is flawed simply because you're asking moviegoers, "which is better, the fully finished black Spider-Man suit used in the film which is well lit and has been cleaned in post production...or do you prefer this black suit from a test shoot."

That's as stupid as asking a test audience if they prefer an un-finished no visual effects version of Spider-Man 3 to a fully complete FX-finished version Spider-Man 3.

The movie's suit, however, does look a bit more menacing with the eye differences and the more twisted spiders. It's not a big change, but it could make the audience I watched it with say "Awesome!!!" when they first saw it and made children cry in fear after Sandman was "killed".

So they cried in fear because they thought Sandman was "killed" not because they were petrified of the black Spidey suit...

 

[Milu]

I'd just like to see a stronger blue.

 

[Kaizer104]

The following quote is the biggest load I've heard all day:



Wouldn't be anymore sex jokes than what you'd hear coming from immature morons making jokes about the normal Spidey suit. They easily could have used same material from the red and blue suit and made it all black. Who the hell is to say they would have definitely used black leather?

The guys making the jokes indeed are very moronic but the point is not about them cracking jokes, it's that people just would not take Spider-Man seriously in that kind of costume. The fact that more people could not take the suit as seriously or just didn't like the suit's look shows that the suit may have been a bad choice in the end. It could be the material, it could be that people just didn't like the suit, but I do know that they mostly preferred the black suit of the movie to the direction they were going in.

How do you know they would have preferred the movie suit to the symbiote suit? Did you go to all 41 people and hold up a test shot from the making of book and ask them, "which is better?" If not, you have no indication of knowing whether or not they'd have liked a symbiote black suit. If so, then your method is flawed simply because you're asking moviegoers, "which is better, the fully finished black Spider-Man suit used in the film which is well lit and has been cleaned in post production...or do you prefer this black suit from a test shoot."

That's as stupid as asking a test audience if they prefer an un-finished no visual effects version of Spider-Man 3 to a fully complete FX-finished version Spider-Man 3.

Not quite how you described. It was a casual conversation while we were in the library and I showed some friends the pics from the book and more people crowded over to see what it was about. My numbers may have been off but I'm completely sure there were about 40 people total who looked at that suit and stated their reaction to it. If anything the number was higher because they passed the book around. 4 of which, I know for a fact said it was cool. The main reaction was "Ugh...I like the movie suit..." "This looks..interesting..." "Goddamn, good thing they didn't use this." "Um, yeah....no..." "WTF is this?" "Ew..." and "Who the hell came up with this thing?" While this doesn't all say the black suit in the movie was great, they definitely held the suit to a higher opinion than the one they pictured in their head based off the pictures.

Sure it wasn't finished, but it's incredibly obvious what direction the suit was going in. That material + silver symbiote spider is what was the obvious suit idea; I did not once tell them the suit was completed, only that they were thinking of using that type of suit. Hell, you could make that argument AGAINST the people in here saying that would have been cool.

I'm not saying that the black suit of the comics would never work when adapted (I should have been more specific prior), I'm saying that to say the fetish suit shown there was the right way to go for a movie that is attempting a sort of realism that the movie holds just doesn't work. Take Batman movies for instance; they haven't used grey tights and black/blue gloves/boots/cowl since the 60s and people think of the black armor/rubbery suit for Batman because it fits the "realistic representation" shown in movies.

Not everything in the comics works for movies represented in the shown ways, no matter how hard we want them to work. I actually do prefer the black suit in the comics (and I honestly hope they don't attempt throwing the movie's black suit into the comics; that would be horrible in my opinion) but I know that in a movie, it'd be awkward to see Spider-Man running around in that.

Tell me, would YOU want Spider-Man running around in shiny black latex with the only details being a silver spider on the front and back? I certainly wouldn't. So if that's the biggest load you've heard all day, that's alright; you're entitled to your opinion. But I'm just saying my opinion and the opinions of others who commented on the suits.

 

[The Chris]

I always prefered the red and blue suit over the black suit because I thought the design was more original and special. Them making the black suit like they did in the movie wasn't a problem. Plus, I'm being told in school that the colors of death when it comes to lighting are white, bright red, green, and solid black. The black suit may not have looked good on screen as it did in the comics. it didn't even look good in the comics until they added the blue outline.

Oh, and leave the suit alone. Spider-Man and Iron Man's outfits are the best adaptations of superhero uniforms I've seen in film.