nightwind1
Well-Known Member
Why does Aquaman's stealth suit have a big "S" on it?
Man of Steel costume thread
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It's been a while since I've been on this thread and all I've got to say is...
HELL YES!
HELL YES!
HELL YES!
I cannot wait to see this. They finally the physic right as well. Don't care if it's foam padding or not. The boy rocks the suit.
Haters are gonna hate. I love it! I will enjoy this movie. Too bad the haters wont.
HELL YES!
HELL YES!
HELL YES!
I cannot wait to see this. They finally the physic right as well. Don't care if it's foam padding or not. The boy rocks the suit.
Haters are gonna hate. I love it! I will enjoy this movie. Too bad the haters wont.
dualedge
Sr Member
Oh, you meant "physique."
Sorry, took me a minute to figure out what you were saying there.
YenChih Lin
Master Member
I truly wish people would stop with the Reeve comments. What made him such a good superman? That he was tall and had a semi build to superman?
I try to explain to you. When I was between 4-6 years old, my father introduced me to Superman comics. It was that time where Curt Swan, John Byrne and Dan Juergens drew Superman. Dec 1978 was when Superman the movie came out and my birthyear, so I was just too young to see it on screen, I was just entering the new world. Later my dad rented all the videos from Superman I-IV (fortunately I forgot most of IV). Nevertheless, Chris Reeve was the pure embodiement of Superman I saw in the comics and in the movies. It was like he was breaking the fourth wall and came to life. I believed that a man could fly. It made a profound and deep impression of how Superman should be, he used his brain instead of brawns. He is kind and helpful. He is a hope of overcoming our human shortcomings. That's why this image of Reeve's Superman portrayal made such a long lasting impression into the cultural consciousness of how Superman acts and behaves.
The poster actually looks good - the other photos, not so… :unsure
Not laziness, but if Synder is all about show and no substance like Watchmen, I would say that the Superman franchise died of greediness after Superman II.
unbreakable
New Member
Like I said in another thread, it looks terrible. It needs the super undies at least. Although I don't like Superman to begin with, sooooo.
JD
Master Member
I've said this before... but, Chris Reeve was never my Superman. I was the right age when his Superman movies came out and I saw all of them first run in the theater. But, even as young boy... he just didn't look or act like my Superman. I don't know what it was, I just look at him and I only see a guy in a costume.
George Reeves did it better in my eyes. Something about the way he portrayed Superman and Clark Kent just sand Superman to me.
The comic book Superman... Curt Swan, John Byne, Jerry Ordway. These men drew Superman... the ink moved, it breathed. Classic Superman, amazing Superman. Something Christopher Reeve never came close to - well, at least to me.
I look at the costume Henry Cavill wears and I'm not seeing Superman. The costume resembles a Superman costume - but, it's not the Superman costume. The classic S emblem is a bastardization of the S that's been worn for 50 years now and the well, damn... it's just wrong, it's a SuperSCUBA suit.
YenChih Lin
Master Member
@JD: As I said it and I will repeat it: it's ok. George Reeves is the Supes you've grown up with and Chris was my Superman. Everyone percepts "his/her" Superman different, but I guess, if you ask anyone in another part of the world, which Superman they have in mind, I guess mostly they will say Chris Reeve from the movie with the famous John Williams theme.
JD
Master Member
...and I guess, Henry Cavill will be someone's Superman as well.
Thank you for illustrating my point. Everyone has their own idea of what superman should look like. Heck even I do and even though it is different than Cavill, I still love the new design. I'm not anchoring myself to any one incarnation. It is ok to like more than one. It takes balls to break the paradigm. Good for them for doing it. It doesn't mean other people should feel superman is dead. Common. My 10 year old girls aren't that dramatic.
Primrodo
Sr Member
However look at all three of those Supermen...Reeve, Reeves and Cain all had the classic look with a neat spin...this costume is nothing more than an over designed "modern" spin that actually does a few things very wrong.
The whole blue unitard with weird spider-man swirls that point towards the crotch is not really Superman. The problems people had with Returns' costume had the same problems, over designed \S/ (and the billion he had on the shoes, belt and the main symbol) fruit rollup cape and over textured...people never really grooved to it. Superman's costume does not need to be over designed and complex like any hero and when it tries, it looks odd, and often "wrong."
It comes down to more than just the red undies being gone, it just looks weird with solid blue and a floating buckle, serving zero purpose...dramatic or not...its not good design sense. The comics even compensated the lack of the undies with a wide red belt motif.
The whole blue unitard with weird spider-man swirls that point towards the crotch is not really Superman. The problems people had with Returns' costume had the same problems, over designed \S/ (and the billion he had on the shoes, belt and the main symbol) fruit rollup cape and over textured...people never really grooved to it. Superman's costume does not need to be over designed and complex like any hero and when it tries, it looks odd, and often "wrong."
It comes down to more than just the red undies being gone, it just looks weird with solid blue and a floating buckle, serving zero purpose...dramatic or not...its not good design sense. The comics even compensated the lack of the undies with a wide red belt motif.
Wow, that suit is so terrible it makes the 'Superman Returns' suit look like the Christopher Reeves suit.
Maybe it will look better in a moving picture instead of still photographs.
Maybe it will look better in a moving picture instead of still photographs.
nwjedidave
Sr Member
I'm courious to know what exactly the "pattern" is on the suit?
I doubt it would be the \S/ like in Returns.
thoughts?
I doubt it would be the \S/ like in Returns.
thoughts?
nickytea
Master Member
What if it's just a texture? Does everything have to be a pattern?
nwjedidave
Sr Member
couldn't a texture be considered a pattern?
from dictionary.com
pat·tern
[pat-ern; Brit. pat-n] Show IPA
noun
1. a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
BAK55
Well-Known Member
Brovo on our comment.
Ya know, since our heros seem to need to be updated with their costume designs and attitude to be more hip to a younger audience, maybe we should consider taking away Tarzan's lioncloth and put him in skinny leg jeans -can't have his junk hangin' all over the place y'know- and have him call eveyone, even Jane, "Dude." Or even take away the Lone Ranger's mask away and have him wear some spiffy sunglasses instead. Ooops... that one had been tried before and failed.:lol
This is just an impersonation of what seems to be Hollywood thinking.
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YenChih Lin
Master Member
Now that I read the explainations, I'm feeling old and an unwanted yesterday Superman fan now, thanks :lol
aquaman1007
Member
I think it strays a bit far from the classic style and has adopted like Random said a more alien look. But its too hard to tell from pictures in my opinion, especially set photos. I think you need to see it in action in a trailer before you can fully judge it. Through a camera lens, the look of the suit can change completely.
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