Man of Steel costume thread

[dualedge]

Since I have no real doubt what we're seeing is what we're gonna get, my only hope at this point is that it won't look so bad on film as it does in a blurry spy photo... no unlike when the first spy photo of Iron Man leaked out of the guy in the stunt costume. The Iron Man suit in the movie wound up looking much better than just the guy in the stunt suit walking around on the set did.

It would definitely benefit from at least having a belt. I don't like the low collar on that design but I might as well get used to it.

I understand the desire to change stuff but, seriously, there are enough variations among the comic designs that they could have picked one of those. That action figure I posted a pic of looks 100% better IMHO and also doesn't have the shorts.

 

[vaderman1701]

The man at least needs a belt to break-up the one piece unitard look. If they at least do that, I can live with it.

 

[superDrool]

The man at least needs a belt to break-up the one piece unitard look. If they at least do that, I can live with it.

A-men to that. It's TOO blue and with that belt that you can hardly see does squat to help out the new cause.

 

[oujala]

Looks like the hair is tamed and from that distance/resolution I actually like the suit ok...

Optimism shakily restored.

 

[space rat]

Strongly agree. The action figure looks a thousand times better then what they are useing.

 

[JD]

This costume makes me want to rent a billboard or put a full page ad in Variety or USA Today saying... YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG or just FAIL with a pic of this costume.

 

[thomdave]

I'm so sick of all these damn CG costumes!!! This and the damn avengers movie!! All the heros are fighting dudes with CG suits!

Cough, cough! Skrulls!
At least, that's what I've heard.

 

[JoMamma_Smurf]

Cough, cough! Skrulls!
At least, that's what I've heard.

That's fine I guess... As long as they don't look like the ****ty characters in green lantern I'll be happy :lol

 

[YenChih Lin]

This costume makes me want to rent a billboard or put a full page ad in Variety or USA Today saying... YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG or just FAIL with a pic of this costume.

here I give you a hand:

 

[hansicle]

Forgive me for my frank vulgarity, but I think the shorts helped to buffer the schlong, and kinda make the whole Man parts of Superman less "defined", if that's a good thing, which I think in some ways...it is. I think that pic of the new suit clearly shows he's a man, to the left I think a belt and shorts define Superman's suit, and undefine his nethards....

 

[n0regret5]

it's got no belt. thats messed up. it looks like he put on a onesie and a cape and nothing else. still, at least hes built a fair bit more like superman than routh was..

 

[Jet Beetle]

So Zack takes off Supes's undies taking us one step closer to what he did with Dr Manhattan - soon we'll be looking at Krypton dong for 2 hours.

 

[clancampbell]

So Zack takes off Supes's undies taking us one step closer to what he did with Dr Manhattan - soon we'll be looking at Krypton dong for 2 hours.

I SOOOO wish i could be called "Krypton Dong"!!!!!!

Rich

 

[BLAST]

As much as we all are worried about the costume, I doubt that will be the greatest problem with the film...

I just saw Sucker Punch for the first time last night and wow...what a waste of a few hours.

 

[familyman]

Just asking, has there been a better picture of the suit released where you can see the no belt no trunks.

 

[dualedge]

I SOOOO wish i could be called "Krypton Dong"!!!!!!

Rich

You could always ask the mods to change your username

Just asking, has there been a better picture of the sui released where you can see the no belt no trunks.

Just the blurry "spy" photos... I posted one a page or two back. There were two photos but I just posted one since they were pretty similar. There aren't any better photos available yet to my knowledge.

I think there is some kind of belt-y type of thing on the costume but whatever it is, it's pretty subtle... maybe it's just some of those raised seam line type things we've seen on the one official photo.

I also read elsewhere that the removal of the red shorts in both the comics and the movie is tied to the copyright and legal issues dealing with who owns what parts of the character.

For instance... and I only understand this superficially at best so somebody else can explain it better I'm sure... the Siegel and Shuster (sp?) people own the rights to the stuff from the original comics so their Superman isn't allowed to fly but he can jump tall buildings. The flying thing came later after Siegel and Shuster were working for DC so DC owns that aspect of the character. Lots of crazy details like that. So I'm guessing the "classic" Superman we've loved for decades may truly be dead with the relaunch of DC's titles... much more dead than he was when they killed him off in the comics anyway.

Despite that, they could've give him a yellow or red belt or something for the movie.

 

[streetjudge79]

The first official photo, he's wearing a belt. Maybe this was just a rehearsal and he didn't have it on.

 

[Darius Alucard]

I SOOOO wish i could be called "Krypton Dong"!!!!!!

Rich

You could always ask the mods to change your username

Or bring back the titles!

:lol


The couple of pics of the suit haven't impressed me, but I don't hate it.
It's much better than the Returns.

 

[dualedge]

The first official photo, he's wearing a belt. Maybe this was just a rehearsal and he didn't have it on.

Well, there's definitely a belt buckle thing (that looks kinda similar to the Reeve style maybe?) but it's hard to tell much beyond that... it might be gold colored though it's tough to tell in the photo below if it's definitely gold or maybe silver (?). There doesn't appear to be much of a pronounced belt per se. There's definitely some seam lines or something going on - those can be seen on the side of his abdomen behind his bicep.

 

[BAK55]

I also read elsewhere that the removal of the red shorts in both the comics and the movie is tied to the copyright and legal issues dealing with who owns what parts of the character.

For instance... and I only understand this superficially at best so somebody else can explain it better I'm sure... the Siegel and Shuster (sp?) people own the rights to the stuff from the original comics so their Superman isn't allowed to fly but he can jump tall buildings. The flying thing came later after Siegel and Shuster were working for DC so DC owns that aspect of the character. Lots of crazy details like that. So I'm guessing the "classic" Superman we've loved for decades may truly be dead with the relaunch of DC's titles... much more dead than he was when they killed him off in the comics anyway.

QUOTE]

The classic Superman is so iconic that DC and WB are nuts to think fans wouldn't care. They certainly don't seem to care what we expect of our hero except for the money we give them. I know of a lot of friends who are fans of the character, and had collected the comics for decades, have said they will discontiue their supcriptions to Superman comics after the reboot. They, as well as I, have no interest in seeing this new guy in blue longjohns in the upcoming comics or movie.

This film may do all right at the box office, but I don't think it will be the great financial success that WB wants it to be. And the suits will sit around again scatching their heads wondering "Wha' hoppened? Everyone loves Superman, so why wouldn't they give us their money?"

If there is anything that can kill The Man of Steel, it's good old corporate greed.