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.
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.
