The color scheme is the only thing that really saves the new Batfleck suit from The Flash for me.
What about it?
I am a huge, wild fan of the blue and gray Batman - to me, it's the most recognizable and associatively close image of the character.
And it would seem to be the first time I've gotten a long-awaited live-action adaptation of this costume (since '66).
And guess what? It could pull it off, and almost bought me off. Almost.
I really liked the mask and cape, when it shimmered into a richer blue color in the light, it was very pretty.
I also liked the brighter gray and yellow belt.
Blue and gray can work in live action, and this suit could prove that to some doubters, which makes me even more offended by how mediocre this costume turned out to be.
This suit had a lot of potential to be one of the most interesting (at least because of the color change), but they ruined it with that breastplate and the metal inserts on top.
Why? For what? Why these artificial complications of design, because of which the image has lost its integrity and monolithic?
It looks like some cut-down version of a tactical suit (which I'm not a fan of either, but at least it looked more "complete").
I genuinely don't like all these segmented and cluttered designs a la the MCU, to me the beauty of Affleck's suits was that they were pretty comic accurate, and didn't try to unnecessarily reinvent the wheel.
Honestly, it would have been so much better if they had just repainted the blue and gray standard suit from JL.
We might have gotten one of the most beautiful Batman suits in the movies, but alas, it was destined not to happen.
Now all hope is for a quality realization of my blue and gray fetish on The Brave and the Bold.
Maybe we'll even get the yellow oval logo again? We'll see...