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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:15 pm |
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:31 pm |
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Those are the second best. At Chris Reeve's insistence, his Superman outfit was spot on.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:33 pm |
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:40 pm |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume?
Forget the casting for a second, which costume looked like it came from the comic page These are two different questions. Nothing will ever top the Adam West Batman for me. Him, Robin, the villains, the Batmobile, the other Bat-vehicles and Bat-weapons ... just perfect.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:01 pm |
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Monk wrote: I went with Iron Man. Same. Although I could have just as easily gone with Reeve's Superman or The Shadow or even The Phantom. Pretty much all of them have been spot on, mind you the movie quality in those examples ranges greatly, but the costume quality has all been superb.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:23 pm |
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Iron Man.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:23 pm |
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I picked Iron Man but accidentally ticked the Thor button. Whoops. 
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:14 pm |
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I went Iron Man as well. Most of the spandex set don't have the exaggerrated and hyper-defined musculature coming through their suits, meanwhile Iron Man looked like a comicbook character straight up.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:36 pm |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: Most of the spandex set don't have the exaggerated and hyper-defined musculature coming through their suits... But that's not part of the costume. Way to move the goalposts.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:46 pm |
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:41 pm |
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James C. Taylor wrote: Hanzo the Razor wrote: Most of the spandex set don't have the exaggerated and hyper-defined musculature coming through their suits... But that's not part of the costume. Way to move the goalposts. Three questions, now. No wonder Hanzo wins all the polls.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:13 pm |
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I voted Reeve Superman although I wish his cape had been shorter. A shorter cape is just going to give the illusion that Superman is bigger. I don't know why they insist on it being so long.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:23 pm |
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I think Rocketeer's was the first costume that, literally, looked to me like it came straight off the comic book page. Even the Superman costume of Reeve's didn't. The way the cape connected to the costume was different, the chest emblem wasn't the same size, and the boots were higher than they were in the comics. It was an excellent translation, but my impression was that Rocketeer was a flawless translation.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:13 pm |
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James C. Taylor wrote: Hanzo the Razor wrote: Most of the spandex set don't have the exaggerated and hyper-defined musculature coming through their suits... But that's not part of the costume. Way to move the goalposts. It's part of the way the costume fits.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:36 pm |
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Iron Man.
I would not have guessed ten years ago that we'd have Iron Man become a MAJOR player, with HUGE films that got the armour dead-on PERFECT.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:40 pm |
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I went with Iron Man. I think that's one of the reason it had such a broad appeal -- it didn't require "civilians" to suspend too much of their disbelief and buy into a costume convention. The armor looked like a reasonable facsimile of what it was. The costume effect was secondary.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:07 pm |
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I liked the costume in the Batman: Dead End fan-made trailer. 
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:33 pm |
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Yeah, that was a great costume. The video itself was mediocre, but the costume was fantastic.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:50 pm |
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The Alec Baldwin Shadow was a pretty decent translation.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:25 pm |
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Bubbles wrote: Yeah, that was a great costume. The video itself was mediocre, but the costume was fantastic. For a fan-made trailer, I thought it was great.
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Post subject: Best Live-Action Translation of a Superhero Costume? Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:52 pm |
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Bolgani Gogo wrote: Bubbles wrote: Yeah, that was a great costume. The video itself was mediocre, but the costume was fantastic. For a fan-made trailer, I thought it was great. I thought it was horrible and spotlighted how ridiculous Batman suit is. I die inside a little but everytime someone holds it as an example of a great interpretation. As the poll, I pretty much have liked most of them, but I'll go with Iron Man's, even though it's not technically a costume.
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