Heh. I never, ever trust the movies to do better than the comics, especially for villain designs,
Eh... I get your point. And I can't fully explain why I have my approach to legends that I have, where I want movie versions of the characters but as close to comic suits as possible. Like my ultimate Cap would be a cross between his Endgame suit and his Age Of Ultron suit, because it would be just like his comic one. I want Cyclops from the end of Apocalypse because it's like his comic one etc.
ESPECIALLY for Spidey villains.
Beetleborg Gobby was . . . well, let’s just say young-20something me walked out of that theatre pretty much crushed overall, and not just with the designs.
Well let's just say... More then, because I feel the same. Spiderman and Star Wars were my big things as a young kid and they stayed with me well into high school, but I was in my twenties when the Raimi movies came out and I just never connected with them. Particularly the designs. Well I was okay with Doc Ock, and Sandman was pretty faithful, but I never liked the Spider suit. But I really just didn't like Raimi's style or the tone. I'm not saying Nolan it up but the cheese. The Adam West quality I guess. It just wasn't for me. And that's why I still maintain the third one is no worse than the others because I feel all emo Peter dancing in a jazz club fits right in with the rest of it.
Because of when I was reading the comics, Hobgoblin is my favorite Spider-Man villain, and like you said, NOT the Macendale one. The cunning mob enforcer who kept setting up there to take his fall etc.
I feel like we discussed this before and how appalling it is when people froth all over themselves about movie Ned becoming the Hobgoblin. First off, the best friend becoming a goblin has been done..twice..and sucked both times, so no. And secondly, NED WAS NEVER REALLY THE HOBGOBLIN ANYWAY!
I need, need, NEED a modern-tooling, pinless, original-flavor Hobgoblin, [unrevealed]Kingsley NOT Macendale, with that “one eye kinda bugged out” classic portrait and also a “can’t see the face inside the hood but can see red eyes” portrait. OH and a glider without holes under the foot-clips.
I would LOVE that. The can't-see-the-face-with-red-eyes is the look they should do in the movies! The mask probably can't really work. Or they won't commit to it anyway, and that could be real creepy.
I have two comic figures because I didn't believe they'd appear in the movies..one is Ares, but I painted his armor metallic bronze to 'real' him up. And I have the Doom with the dark green that had two heads, as I feel he is realistic-passable as is. And I kinda suspect he'll still be on the shelf after Doomsday. But either way, I would jump on a Hobgoblin that was comparable.