When McFarlane designed Spawn he exaggerated the design of the cape using his knowledge of graphics design. It of course moved and twisted unrealistically, but realism is not the point, it's spectacle. For the 1997 movie version they tried and succeeded at capturing it, sacrificing the unnecessary realism

Never let realism stand in the way of kino. Iron law.

@pupitard never

primitive cgi didn't hold them back from trying to recreate the effevt of the original design, it takes courage

@flatclem The film literally won awards for its CGI at the time on top of the fact it was given recognition for pushing technical advances by the academy. Like people can hate on it, but at the time this shit was BADASSS lmao

@vikare06 Dawg have you ever read a Spawn comic in your life?

This is what I mean and you can see McFarlane do the same with Batman's cape here

Idgaf the 97 Spawn suit should ALWAYS be brought up as one of the best live action adaptions of costuming. Dawg they even made the redonkulous cape physically for the cover shoot

Spawn's cape in the comics is always so...majestic and extra

They succeeded at nothing with that piece of shit cape

are ypu compaining about the cgi? it was 1997 after all

I like Spawn and Todd MacFarlane but I think that movie is stinky poopoo

@vikare06 I saw it in theatre as a child and it was ass

@vikare06 I was 11, and even as an 11 year old I thought it looked bad. Jurassic Park 2, Contact, Starship Troopers, they all have style. This is just what they rushed through when a practical effect wouldn't work

In this scene he made the idea of comic books better but it was objectively too challenging to make "credible" for the whole movie

People have no idea how groundbreaking this was. Watching him climb on the side of the building in camouflage was amazing

that's right

Loved this movie, @JohnLeguizamo as the fat evil clown was his best work. Too bad he became a fat evil clown in real life, oh well.

Spawn’s cape wasn’t supposed to be realistic it was meant to feel like a living weapon. McFarlane basically turned a cape into the main character.

It was kinda ass near the end of this clip but I can see the vision here and there was genuine potential for how this could work

It’s actually crazy how much better that looks today than it did back in the 90’s When I first saw this 25 years ago it looked weird and off. But now after looking at CGI superhero stuff for the past 10 years this looks really good! Perspective is wild sometimes 😅

The cape is alive, it's in the comic books so it's not just me saying it

Such an underrated movie ,Michael Jay White killed this role.

Its not really unrealistic in the sense that the cape (and costume) is supposed to be alive. Its sentient armor.

No, this was bad. Also the movie was bad.

Spawn's cape is more like a prehensile skin than cloth, so it shouldn't move "realistically." In the comics, he uses it to strangle and trap people in addition to more "mundane" stuff like blocking flamethrowers.

Even though the cape is an integral part of the character, there were about three scenes in the entire movie where he actually has the cape. It probably costed a fortune to CGI that thing.

It’s not just a cape, it’s necroplasem

Baldurs gate 2's Pit Fiend always reminds me of Violator and all the hell aesthetics in cutscenes makes me think of this movie

That cape was never about physics it was about making every panel feel like a gothic painting and the 97 film actually understood that

I wonder if some day Holywood fight choreographers will give up on the idea of "I have the enemy in my hand. Now let me throw them away a few times, giving them the chance to escape, instead of pummelling them right here."

This was one of my favorite movies when it came out. The soundtrack really is one of the best soundtracks ever. The movie though could use a remake, and preferably, still using the same actors.

The effects haven't aged particularly well, but this movie was awesome. I'd love to see them tackle it again with more modern effects technology.

they can probably make the cape with practical effects today

Yeah but it absolutely looks like shit though, is the thing - people thought that then and also now. There has been no reinvigoration of opinion toward this Film, and there probably won't be. The comics and the HBO series are good though.

when da artist do da art dey use da graphic design

What an entrance 👏

A side from the cool effects of his cape this movie was hard to watch. I barely managed to finish it.

This right here is one of my all time favorite movies

Looking at it now, it doesn't work. How the film was able to translate Spawn but shave off so much of the character's body features such as the cloak, gauntlet, ankle brace & boot & rendering the character half naked. Everything about this film was just such a mess.

Movie or comics, I could never tell where the chains come out of

The cape is alive and wouldn’t move in a normal way to begin with. So fuck realism as far as a cape is concerned but as a living entity mimicking a cape and does what it wants to do is another story in and of itself

Rewatched the 4K release last year and the CGI looked pretty bad. But the first time watching it was on VHS on a 32" CRT and thought it was badass.