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What were they thinking with the horrible clunky Bat-armor?


It's SO wrong.

It looks cheap and homemade, but Bruce Wayne wouldn't be caught dead in anything that didn't look elegant, expensive, and cutting-edge.

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Huh...i thought it looked cool...

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Fits the look of the comic Dark Knight Returns, from which it is based off.

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Nice to know there's a reason.

Tell me, was the armor homemade in the comic?

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lol
You are relentless!!
:)

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I mean,all of it is homemade to a point. There is no no Batman supply store.

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That was one thing the iffy Nolan films got right - they explained where Batman got all his future-tech crime-fighting gear.

Look Bruce Wayne isn't the sort of person who makes his own armor at home, he's a freaking billionaire! He's got people for that.

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In DKR(comics) it's sort of implied that those resources aren't quickly available because he has been out of it so long. But yeah,he shows up in a battle suit at the end with no explanation as how he came to get it. Afflecks suit is 1 of a thousand problems in BvS, but I appreciated it trying to follow the comic. In hindsight,it makes more sense in the comic. I think the vision was "rugged".

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so movies should "explain" character's wardrobes for the audience?!

isn't this just trivia?

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If Bruce Wayne made it himself it makes sense that it looks the way it did.

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Watching it for the fourth time now...im simply addicted to these cape movies
The armor still looks cool and wow!!! he needed heavy clunky armor to take on Superman
Im not sure he really could have won that fight but whatevs man

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Well, Bats used also kryptonite so he maybe could have defeated Superman without the armor.

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My problem with the bat-suit, both in this and JL, is that it's just too big. Even the strongest, most skilled fighter would have a hard time just walking in it, not to mention fighting or doing stunts.

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Good point! That's the sort of whole-body armor you wear when you plan to shoot at things and get shot at, but that isn't what Batman does.

Well, he does get shot at.

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I thought it was a mistake. I understand why they did it. But if I was a filmmaker, my entire agenda would have been "Eat your heart out, Marvel" with the "iron man" armor design.

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