Furthermore, to suggest that most of the current fan-base are idiots, is idiotic. Not to mention ignorant and arrogant.
No, it's not. It's the unvarnished truth. The Superman fandom as its stands is unbelievably stupid, egotistical, and shortsighted. They're the ignorant ones, not me. Point out that Singer's costume is rooted in Superman's history, and they'll either deny that history and claim the costume is totally unrecognizable as Superman or insult the history as inferior. Cite Singer's design influences, and the fandom will condemn them as garbage because of their vintage or because they're not what was done in 1986-1999. Explain to them someof the practical reasons for the costume elements (the plain cape being easier to CGI than tryting to texture a map a yellow sheild distorted by multiplepleats and folds), and they'll scream about how the filmmakers are too "lazy" and "arrogant" to "follow tradition," and then extend that same insult to the cartoon animators who left the emblem off the cape, too. Siegel and Shuster are often dismissed as "getting Superman all wrong" in order to prop up Byrne as the true creator, but they've even been bashed with regards to their early work being used in part for the costume design. Max Fleischer's been insulted as a hack who had no idea how to do a cartoon character design. The fandom is dead-set against Superman's own history. They want an Iron Age Superman, full stop, and they'll tear apart anything that isn't it.
What I'd like to see, is a costume that manages to captures almost 70 years of history, and still manages to be contemporary. That means something different to everyone.
That's exactly what Singer did. He pulled the costume together from elements of all eras of Superman's history. And he's been skinned alive for it because the idiots who claim to be "fans" don't want Superman's history acknowledged. They point only to Byrne or Alex Ross and say that's the only way to depict the suit. And God help anyone who thinks differently, or who sees the value of Superman's pre-Byrne history and understands where Singer's coming from. It's even gotten to the point where these morons have claimed that the Abrams script where Krypton didn't explode and Lex was Kryptonian or even Burton's whacked-out goth take would be superior to Singer's offerings. If they can't have their Iron Age Superman, they'll embrace a total character assassination over something informed by all the character's history. And this is an opinion I should respect?
I used to think it was the Batman fandom that was the most clueless because of their mindless lemming mentality toward Frank Miller. Butr with this movie, I've come to realize that the Superman fandom is infinitely worse. They're not only deliberately and willfully ignorant and brainless, but they flaunt it like a badge of honor and demand that everyone else be the same way. No, their opinions should never be listened to. They'd sell this character out in a heartbeat, and put bluntly, they're traitors. Every single one. They have no right whatsoever to call thesmelves "fans," because they're too full of themselves to see Superman as more than just 1986-1999.