That costume is just awful, and looks like a promo for a soft porn site or something.
The slashes in the trousers don't look very appealing let alone practical as they look liable to rip further when she moves, can you image when she fights? She's falling outta that top, and it yields her no protection at all from attackers. Those are the fakest white claws on those gloves and I don't like the way they change material past her elbows - and open toe stillettos!?!? Who the hell runs, jumps and fights in open toe stillettos?
They've really bypassed quality on this flick for the sake of sex symbol image and that's annoying because Catwoman has been iconacised in such a way that you know she's deadly, crafty, makes you nervous with anticipation if not respected and sexy but Halle, in that picture at least and in another promo pic I've seen just looks like a 'bedroom plaything' which doesn't do her or the character justice. I mean, we have so much expectation and high hope after the amazing performance by Michelle Pheiffer who was bad, good, clever, cunning, vulnerable and twisted all at the same time - she was the perfect cat, even her facial expressions and the way she moved - priceless. PLus even though her costume was pvc it looked so much more protective and practical then the one above and she had a tail as well right? It's not vital of course but it was a nice extra touch.
Anyways, I really hope Halle can live upto that because I really don't want to see the Catwoman character degraded into another empty female action figure whose only looked at for her body - in the same way they ruined Charlie's Angels and ugh the whole Bond Girl thing. Catwoman is meant to be lethal and dangerous and you're meant to know it, this new image has been cheapened but I hope that I'm proved wrong when I see it.
Last edited by RebelPhoenix on May 2nd, 2004 at 09:47 AM
That's abit ridiculous - I mean, Catwoman has a whole history and like you said when you mentioned her name - we have some knowledge of who she is, it'd be better to continue the mystery by starting with somethign we know and let her narrate the story of her life or something rather then start completely new. It might work though, we wont know until we see it I guess but still . I guess they're just trying to get away from the precedent Pheiffer set and concentrate wholly on Halle and maybe give her a darker past or something (it wont matter to new fans anyway and maybe that's what they're thinking about but it will matter to those established fans who like some kind of accurate reflection)... not that I think it's about the different actresses that play Catwoman, it's bout Catwoman period not about changing it to suit the actress and give her more publicity for herself rather then the character. If she played the character well then she'd have added to the whole Batman collective franchise making up for the catastrophe that was number 4 and it would pave the way nicely for number 5 later on - and plus, playing the character right will give you the credit, not a movie centred on you and how sexy you are rather then the character - you might as well play yourself then.
Last edited by RebelPhoenix on May 2nd, 2004 at 09:57 AM
Yeah, I dont like the top bit of the costume when i think about it but we'll see what she ends up looking like when the film comes out. She sure isnt much compared to Michelle Phiffer.
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I think the costume is terrible! Micheles costume was way better.
And the "she isnt suppose to look like herself because she's wearing a costume" is stupid. We always recognize the actor under the mask (aside from spider ) and her mask is minimal!
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May 2nd, 2004 02:43 AM
do ya think so? The costume is so... 
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