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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yes, but that's sort of the point - most people prefer a more subdued version of most costumes, because most costumes don't really work on screen the way they do on the page.

That's pretty much the entire point of the scene in Captain America where they show him on-stage in what is the closest version to his comic outfit, to highlight how it sort of looks goofy, before switching him to something more functional but still era-appropriate.

The public spectacle costume didn't really resemble anything from the comics, though. And, if anything, it kinda suggest what you complain about -- that the creators are demonstrating disdain for the source material

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Spider-Man may be the one character who seems to work with the tight spandex regardless - which might be something inherent to that character or costume, or just because we've kind of been desensitized to it over the years via cartoons and general live-action parodies and the like. He's kind of too iconic to look goofy.

Or Spider-Man simply proves that it CAN be done, if you bother to try. They could have very easily given him a revamp as well. But sure, it could also just be a matter of his popularity. Superman and Batman also tend to get outfits that aren't outrageously far from something seen in comics.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

As to the scrapped Superman script...at least Nic Cage would have been comedy gold as Supes. How much worse could it have been than what we've gotten since the Christopher Reeves movies?

I would be amenable to that, if not for the fact that I saw him in Ghost Rider. Nicholas Cage doesn't always make things fun.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

To some extent, I dislike Jack Nicholson's performance in the first movie in the same way, for the same reason - it feels like Nicholson doesn't even remotely give a fuck (because he didn't, and has admitted this - he also encouraged DeVito to not give a fuck and just cash the check as well).

I wanted to just revisit this comment real quick because I've seen Nicholson not give a fuck before -- I sat through Wolf -- and it definitely felt like we getting something from him, even if he claimed differently. And honestly, he's done a *lot* of films over the years where I felt he was just showing up for a paycheck (hell, EVERYBODY in As Good as it Gets felt like they were there for a paycheck; however, it had one of my favorite lines and something that got me 3KL'd or 10KL'd for repeating once in a topic where people were asking for writing advice on how to write women. I imagine if I had just posted the clip, I wouldn't have got in trouble for that.)
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