Exactly, why tamper with the basic, "modern" design of the last 20 years??
I'm guessing that if Singer read similar forums prior to the costume design phase, it wouln't have made a diffirence anaway, cause he already had HIS look in mind. I doubt whether the opnions of the general fan-base were ever brought into consideration or even thought of.
In my opinion, if the above statement is accurate, the director, producers and designers of this new version of Superman are gargantuan, foolish nincompoops.
Singer and his team would have been "gargantuan, foolish nincompoops" if they'd listened to so much as a peep out of the idiots who form the bulk of the fanbase these days. They never would have been able to make ANY kind of Superman costume if they relied on fan feedback. Some wanted Dean Cain's suit resued. Others wanted Reeve's reused. Others wqanted the costume to be an exact copy of their pet artist's rendition. Others wanted the suit radically altered and offered their own redesigns. Singer was smart to ignore them. Otherwise he'd never have gotten any work done, because he NEVER would have been able to please anybody.
And since when did the John Byrne-onward suit visualization become the end-all be-all standard? Superman's been around longer than that, and Singer's costume is based on those earlier versions (Fleischer, Alyn, Reeves, and the HJ Ward paintings). I fail to see how Singer's a "gargantuan, foolish nincompoop" for taking his design inspiration from Superman's golden years. I actually think he's showing Superman a huge amount of respect by acknowledging and being inspired by the older stuff. You might as well castigate those older versions for the smaller emblem and collar, the Fleischers for the darker colors, and Ward for the belt buckle. And you might as well crucify
Spider-Man and
Fantastic Four for introducing the upgraded costuming techniques Singer used.
Give it a break, please. Superman doesn't look radically different from any other live-action version. If anything, it's a huge upgrade from the Halloween suit Dean Cain had.