Ragitsu

The internet explodes with righteous indignation over vacuous nonsense every day. Listening to and accomodating that noise may lend it a dubious credibility, but it will not lead to quality television/cinema.

I think that's definitely true. Hollywood studios are notoriously risk-averse. But it only takes one success to show the way. Disney/Marvel is sort of doing this by making huge-budget movies with a bright green monster, a bright blue and red super-patriot, and a flashy red and gold armored hero.
 
The problem is that it isn't easy to make brightly-colored superhero costumes look like serious business. I don't believe superhero movies and shows need to be stuck in a dark, "gritty realism" to work--Marvel is proving that nicely, I think. But unless you're going for comedy, viewers do need to take the characters seriously. I think this is achievable with bright costumes, it's just that it's hard and nobody has really nailed down how to do it with consistency outside of the MCU. The fact that virtually nobody is doing it isn't proof that it can't be done; it is merely proof that nobody is trying very hard (for various reasons: lack of vision, lack of incentive, infection by misguided groupthink, etc.).

This might be an unfortunate case of the bad sort of groupthink seeping in ("It is ridiculous because others say it is ridiculous, so I will internalize that.")
 
Yes, this thematic aspect of a superhero film can be done poorly (as with anything else), but it is not automatically so. Maybe the majority of filmmakers simply don't want to try and/or rock the boat?
 
(As an aside, since teenagers are, well, teenagers, I don't see how material with them would classify as child porn. Illegal, perhaps, but they ain't kids.)

I'm confident that's what the execs are saying, but then they haven't actually tried anything else.  And like Roter Baron said above, she flies and bounces bullets off her chest for crying out loud.  They don't have to make it look like that, they just prefer avoiding the more specifically superhero comic feel.

Bare midriffs are more of a college cheerleader thing, I'll grant you. But all cheerleaders are in mini-skirts or hotpants. Regardless, this new Supergirl is past college age and is old enough to be on any professional football franchise cheerleader squad where the outfits are right out of the Vegas stripper catalog. Still not child porn.
 
Christopher Reeves wore bright red and blue and nobody I know of thought he looked silly. The Raimi Spiderman costume wasn't nearly so dark and muted either, and I don't recall audiences pointing fingers and laughing at the "ridiculous pajamas". Captain America gets to wear fairly bright blue and red, and Iron Man's armor is a pretty vibrant combination of crimson and gold. The whole "bright colors" will look silly argument doesn't hold water, IMO.

A part of me thinks the studio executives for modern superhero cinema are trying to appeal to people that would not glance twice at a film that is unabashedly superheroic in it's overall appearance (especially on a poster).
 
In other words: appealing to the superficial.
 
 
I do wonder if modern comics have been too influenced by the latest film adaptations that were based off of them...

I dunno about that. That comic book costume looks no different to me than any high school cheerleader outfit in the country. Add to that the fact that this particular Supergirl is in her mid-20s--it wouldn't be child porn even if she flew around naked.
 
The whole muted color palette for superhero costumes thing has just got to go. It is tedious in its ubiquitousness, disappointing in its creative sterility, and dismissive of its genre roots.

Don't even enter the territory of "realism" - we speak about a bulletproof girl that is super-strong, can fly and can look thru wall (with and without superhot eye-beams) because she hails from an exploded planet.
 
If you are capable of excepting that then there is no reason not to accept that she wears a stainless, super-bright dress that can get dusty but *OHMYGAWD* does not even stain when some jerk spills red wine on it at a party.
 
That is why this GIRL is SUPER!

I agree, they should be more willing to push the boundaries a bit in terms of visuals than going with the "this looks realistic" stuff.  The bright, amazing colors and designs are part of the genre, and they're a uniform of sorts: when you see that costume, and its hard to miss, you know something wonderful is happening.  Its like Mr Incredible picking up his car in front of the little boy on the tricycle.  Don't shy away from that.

OH MY GAWRD. I just noticed the pebbly texture of the...fabric?...in the picture that Sir Bazza posted.

She looks like Batman's little sister dressed by the Joker to make Supes angry ... nah, I don't like theses "subdued" colors at all.
I want bright colors.

spotted this the other day new curved pistol designed for concealed carry
 

 

 

Serious question...
 
Fergusson is 2/3 African American.   Why don't they just vote their racist government out?

The only thing worse than incompetent/corrupt/evil police officers are privatized incompetent/corrupt/evil police officers.

The only thing worse than incompetent/corrupt/evil police officers are privatized incompetent/corrupt/evil police officers.

Which is why, when I was fairly heavily into airsoft, our group was pretty militant about having members follow transportation rules for real steel firearms--in a case, preferably locked, unless you were indoors at home or on the field. We made it very clear that waving a real-looking gun around in public was likely to result in a real gunfight with real cops, and deservedly so.
 
Unfortunately the police mindset, at best, seems to be that any held object looks like a gun, and any movement of the hands looks like "reaching for the waistband". At worst, cops are killing with impunity and trotting these excuses out as a matter of routine to deflect discipline.