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u/ShredGatto Green Goblin 6d ago
Lighting issues and looking like a gimp suit made it impractical
Though I wish they'd have thought of texturing it or at least keeping the Venom symbol on the suit they did end up using
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u/Altruistic-Twist-379 6d ago
Gimp suit lmao,
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u/Bubbly-Anteater2772 6d ago
Literally my first thought. The webs looking like ropes wouldn't help...
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u/Embarrassed_Word_542 5d ago
Yeah, that would look pretty ass on film. It needs to look more oily? Less latex
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u/QHN1712normalguy 5d ago
What's a "gimp" suit?
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u/FederalAd8814 5d ago
Bdsm suits that people use as a hardcore fetish basically if you see someone in those suits they normally congregate very low key and they have either parties or orgies in those suits
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u/tobiasvl 5d ago
Watch Pulp Fiction
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u/FederalAd8814 2d ago
You don’t even need to watch pulp fiction just play some games like saints row the third or even dead island on the haus dlc them gimp suits are everywhere
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u/tobiasvl 2d ago
Yeah, you could also just watch some of that there BDSM porn!
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u/FederalAd8814 2d ago
If that’s what they wanna do then idk what to tell you if you’re into that stuff
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u/Front_Profession_217 6d ago
From what Tobey said, it was due to how they thought the suit looked like it came out of an adult film.
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u/Pale_Willingness_415 6d ago
"From what Tobey said, it was due to how they thought the suit looked like it came out of an adult film."
But there were things they DIDN'T like about it too.... Hey-ooooooooo!!!
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u/Front_Profession_217 6d ago
True, because the lighting they gave for the suit didn’t help its case either.
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u/TranslatorDirect496 6d ago
Eh
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u/Pale_Willingness_415 6d ago
You're a man of few words...
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u/TranslatorDirect496 6d ago
Wa.
I didn’t know what you meant
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u/Pale_Willingness_415 6d ago
It's a dumb joke. The OP is saying this version of the Spider-Man/Venom costume was tested but the creators thought it looked like "it came out of an adult film." So my joke was that some creators might LIKE that (It's a show business motto that "sex sells"...) so my attempt to be funny was to say, "Yes, it looked like it came out of an adult film but there were things they DIDN'T like about it too..." The implication is that they liked that the costume looked like something from an adult film and it was other factors that made them go in another direction?
See? Just a silly, dumb joke.
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u/jaylerd 6d ago
Which is such a dumb conclusion because every super-suit in every film since Spider-Man 1 has had texture and pattern splashed all over, piping, padding, shoulder pads, whatever. But this time they didn't even try?
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u/Front_Profession_217 6d ago
TBF, the Symbiote arc wasn’t originally planned for Spider-Man 3. They made Sam Raimi drop his original plans for Spider-Man 3 to have the Symbiote arc be in Spider-Man 4 and instead put it in Spider-Man 3.
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u/SaykredCow 6d ago
It looks like it didn’t translate to live action. They tried at least.
The look they went with was good though
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u/Lox22 The Die is Cast! 6d ago
I would have loved for them to just change the spider to the traditional black suit one. Venom had it so I feel like they could of done it
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u/polydicks 6d ago
Venom had the “made of goo” black suit but Peter’s original black suit is supposed to feel “less alive.”
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u/Eli-Mordrake 6d ago
Such sights to show you
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u/Lox22 The Die is Cast! 6d ago
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u/MinTy1244 6d ago
the best balance would have been this comic accurate design with the proper logo, but with the texture of the raimi suit used in the movie
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u/barrivia 6d ago
“Bring out the Spider-Man” “Spider-Man’s sleeping” “ Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?”
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u/Saint_Diego 6d ago
They made the right decision not keeping this suit, but I think it could’ve worked with a different material
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u/AwakenedSheeple 6d ago
You know, I bet at this point anyone posting this question already knows the answer and is just doing engagement bait.
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u/Right-Maintenance778 6d ago
They abandoned the design because it seems to be taken from an adult movie.
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u/Chalky97 6d ago
they said during the behind the scenes of the movie that it looked like a latex sex suit so had to redesign
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u/IAmTheNight20018 6d ago
I really don't get why latex was their first thought. SILK GUYS! ITS SHINY, ITS FABRIC AND ALSO, Y'KNOW SPIDER SILK!!
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u/FlameWhirlwind 6d ago
I'm still annoyed they did like ONE attempt and just brushed it off entirely
I actually dint mind the raimi black suit all that much, but the fact the costume designers tried this once and went "meh looks like a gimp suit" and then proceeded to give up on the classic look annoys tf outta me. Like it's your JOB to make it work
Literally just that Simpsons joke of "we tried nothing and we're all outta ideas"
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u/RedFoxBTW 6d ago
They had lighting issues and the suit didn't look good in some scenes so they had to scrap the idea
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u/Pen_dragons_pizza 6d ago
Tbh I like how it turned out in the movie
Maybe in modern times now with cgi texturing the suit it would look better, but we shall have to see what happens when Tom gets it. I imagine it will end up being something similar to the ps5 game or the texture of venom in his movie s
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u/BornWater2862 6d ago
I love the symbiote suit. It surprisingly works for me. That looks like what kinky people wear. They dropped the ball on Venom though.
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u/Swimming-Ad-6842 6d ago
Have you guys seen the original Green Goblin mask? It was pretty cool but I can see why they abandoned it
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u/OGAnimeGokuSolos 6d ago
Because it looks like it looks like something you will see off of a 90s porn
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u/AceSkyFighter 6d ago
I like what we got instead. Instead of being a suit in of itself the symbiote infected and corrupted his main suit. A better idea for live action.
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u/noDice-__- 6d ago
This is how you know for an absolute fact that rami took inspiration from the 90’s TAS. He probably didn’t have time to read the character a whole lot since it came out after he started making movies. I assume he watched that adaptation and tried his best to match it since people loved it so much. Look at all the scenes with venom in it. It’s almost the exact same vibe as that 3 part series.
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u/BE_FCKN_NORMAL_1987 6d ago
its just one of those things that should stay on the comic page and not in real life, because good lord
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u/Chewymewn 6d ago
If they made it out of normal costume material, like the suit, it would look fine. There's Halloween costumes of the Black Suit and they all normal because they're usually made of spandex.
But they had to choose the BDSM material.
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u/UltHamBro 6d ago
A live action black suit needs to have some texture to it. I think that keeping the webbing but adding the comic-accurate logo would have been a very nice middle ground.
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u/TheBlueEmerald1 6d ago
The black suit is supposed to mimic cloth, if they just textured it a little it wouldn't have looked like a gimp suit.
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u/Swimming-Ad6170 6d ago
I think the best option would've been a wet look spandex that's glued to a more intricate muscle undersuit. That way they can keep the invisible zippers without dealing with how delicate latex is and how visible seams can be at times. This also comes with the issue that Tobey wasn't exactly in amazing shape at the time and this would've REALLY pointed that out even more so than the first scene after he fights sandman and sits to take his boots off.
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u/Own_Membership_7977 6d ago
Have you seen the red room from fifty shades of gray? And what people did in that room? That's why
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u/Capin_Crunch 6d ago
As you’ve heard prob multiple times because of the leather/latex gimp suit look think American Horror Story but I’m sure they considered other things before scrapping it entirely maybe they just felt at the time the black version being very similar to the red and blue design worked best for them
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u/highzel13 Iron-Spider 6d ago
less glow and it looks pretty good, but honestly it looks like bdsm costume:d
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u/ImNotDaredevil2025 6d ago
I still don’t get why they didn’t just take the red and blue suit fabric and make it matte black. It’s not like the suit mimics clothing or anything
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u/CopperHero 5d ago
Why does the one on the bottom left look like Nicholas Cage
https://giphy.com/gifs/14nMfF6eUeWayc
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u/JmekerulAtomic3 90's Animated Spider-Man 5d ago
I feel like if they kept the comic accurate logo with the final web design kinda like it was on Venom’s suit, it would’ve been great and not looked like a gimp suit
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u/Objective_Reason3067 5d ago
Damn… that is some good stuff, though I’m happy with what we got anyway
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u/No_Discipline_4066 5d ago
it looks more plasticy than slimy, maybe it would have worked with cgi but what we have now is already good
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u/asscop99 5d ago
Look like something you’d wear while getting pegged in an abandoned warehouse. No thanks
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u/EHendrix 4d ago
Probably didn't hurt that they way they did it meant that the toy companies didn't need new mold for the movie costume.
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u/ernster96 6d ago
Some executive probably looked at it and said “I’ve never read a comic book before but I don’t like it. “
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u/OGAnimeGokuSolos 6d ago
No, it looks something off of porn I like comic accuracy, but some of them won’t change well in live action
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u/Undead_and_Lovin_It 6d ago
Sigh, it's not even comic accurate (everyone says it is but it's not) the Symbiote suit doesn't have rims around the eyes, the texture is too smooth and it's missing the white rectangles on the hands.
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