I mean, yes, the Christopher Reeve Superman movies had a fabric suit, but I first saw those after Batman, so the damage had already been done.
But from Batman onward, I’d realized that was never what I was going to get.
It was a movie costume, and that was it.ĭeep down, I wanted fabric. You couldn’t look at it and suspend your disbelief. None of that stopped it from looking like a massive, impractical lump of molded rubber. That Batman suit is iconic, and proved that a man running around in giant bat ears didn’t have to look as silly in real life as you probably thought it would. From the very first time I watched Tim Burton’s Batman, actually. The main reason I didn’t say anything at the time, though, was because I think I’d been desensitized to what I didn’t like about it a long time ago.
