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Zeus posted...

The big stumbling block that a lot of fans I knew seemed to have from the get-go was the decision to not use actual costumes. At the time, i defended it since the black outfits *seemed* more practical but I didn't realize how little protection leather actually afforded a person

I think it was less the practicality, and more just the fact that some things that look good or at least acceptable in a comic would look utterly stupid on screen. They SORT of managed to make yellow-and-blue work as a look in First Class, but even then they kind of had to modify it, and push a bit to justify it, and it kind of only worked because in your head you're going, "Hey, it's the 60s." I was perfectly fine with how they handled it (I was WAY less fine about it when Morrison had them change to costumes like that in the comics as well, but that may be the least offensive thing about Morrison's run to me), and I definitely think it would have looked worse if they were all just wearing yellow spandex.

And honestly, I didn't really think of them wearing leather any more than I usually think of Batman wearing rubber (in spite of the fact that he usually is). It's easier to just assume that it's some sort of space-age bullet-proof material or whatever, like when you assume the Fantastic Four are wearing outfits made out of unstable molecules or that Superman is wearing some sort of Kryptonian ultra-fiber outfit that can survive all the shit he puts it through on a regular basis.



Zeus posted...

and, in all honestly, the characters *still* weren't wearing masks of any kind which is a flat-out stupid choice.

That's one of those "evils of cinema" sort of things, though. Basically, when you're paying name actors to star in a film, you want their face on camera as often as possible. It's why Spider-Man had his mask torn off like 50% of the time in the Raimi films, and why the Marvel movies constantly cut to shots of Tony's face inside the Iron Man armor.

Even in some of the most faithful adaptations of comics, you're still going to have stuff like that tweaked to show off actors' faces.

And hell, out of every hero or hero team Marvel has ever had, the X-Men are actually the characters MOST likely to show up without masks, because half (or more than half) of them show their real faces all the time anyway (and then there's Nightcrawler...). Once Claremont took over the team, it became more and more common for them to go out without masks, and for people who previously wore masks to stop wearing masks.


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