I'm gonna share the thoughts I posted on my Facebook page earlier today...
First Hollywood redesigns Green Lantern's uniform, taking away his signature white gloves. Then, they redesigned Spider-Man's threads for the upcoming movie, making him look like he stepped out of the much-hated "Clone Saga". And now they've redesigned Superman's time-tested classic of a costume to look like something out of the "Totally XTREME!!!!" 1990s era. Not a good move at all. :thumbsdown
We finally get an actor that LOOKS like Superman, and they stick him in that. Ugh. Bottom line, the costume no longer looks like something his (adoptive) mother sewed for him here on Earth. Now the only explanation that works is that they're Kryptonian threads that he somehow managed to come by that were miraculously tailored just for him... when he was an infant! :rolleyes
Superman's costume is a classic for A REASON. It was the very FIRST superhero costume. It is THE standard by which all others are judged! It still works roughly 75 years after the character's creation because it has a certain something going for it... it is what people call a TIMELESS look. It ALWAYS looks good. Superman's creators did good when they designed that costume. Sure, each artist working on the comic is going to draw it a little different, but they've always followed the same basic design.
Take Shane Davis, when working on the graphic novel
Superman: Earth One (which was written by
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski.) Here you have a new re-telling of Superman's origin, an updating of the character and his world. Shane Davis could have re-designed the costume any way he wanted to modernize it. And what did he, ultimately, setlle on? This:
He just tweaked it a little, that's all. Made the blue parts of the costume two-tone, darker on the sides, lighter down the middle. Tweaked the design of the briefs, belt and boots a little. And that's it. And that's all that should EVER be done to this costume.
Unfortunately, Hollywood thinks they know how to design a costume better than the character's creators. So we end up with a Superman that looks like he's wearing the Witchblade. Utter nonsense.