Dat fule Quint at AICN reckons this Batsuit is "a departure" but one he's "really starting to dig". Way to s*ck WB's corporate c*ck, ya nonce. Hope that next on-set quiche chokes ya. It's just another crappy rubber suit, in the same crappy rubber suit tradition that goes right back to Tim Burton's.
As longterm readers know, I am a deranged zealot who will accept nothing less than an Adam West style grey woolly suit under a black leather cape/cowl/shorts combo, with proper whited out lenses in the eye holes. Oi! Lindy Hemming! Just go look at the Eduardo Risso or Paul Pope Batsuits and go "D'oh! That's how we should have done it!" But that would have involved research ("Read a comic? But I work in movies, lovey" *spit*) wouldn't it? And heaven forfend that any of the artists working in comic books could understand these characters better than the sodding geniuses in the film industry.
When in doubt, here's a simple rule of thumb. No-one has ever looked menacing in rubber and nylon, but dudes in woolly long-johns have always scared the crap out of me. Just remember Lee Marvin in PAINT YOUR WAGON or Jason Robards in THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Trussed up like a rubber chicken.
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Cranky! :)
He kind of looks like a Borg. That's a little scary. Golden boy over there is scarier though, in a bad way. But I am reserving my ruthless judgment until the film.
I laughed out loud about the wooly long-johns. It's so true!
My ire in this story was largely for comedic effect, though I do believe in everything I wrote here on at least a superficial level.
*update* Oooh! Looks like WB's lawyers got all antsy and made them take it down.
the new, NEW batsuit looks like the most realistic. Which is to say, if batman was a real person, his suit would probably look like something developed for the Gulf War.
It's Batman, realism isn't an issue.
Who the hell would go into a war with zero neck mobility and severely hampered peripheral vision anyway?
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