re: #657 lawhawk

You mean that BMX bike armor isn’t standard issue in the MI? /

Seriously though, the book version of the MI was truly badass - awesome tech and one MI had the power and capabilities of an entire battalion of kids in the movie.

I think the movies necessarily had to limit the sfx, and we got stuck with crappy miltech.

But the flipside is that we got Barney Stinson, SS (f/k/a Doogie).

They did lots of SFX for the bugs and space scenes in any case. One issue with doing full powered armor is that you get the standard issue of not being able to identify the actors once they have a fully enclosed helmet on and standard full armor*. Thus you get the bizarre SF movie/TV trope where helmets have the lit from below internal light that would be hazardous in real use.

* - Not to mention that bulky suits like that murder the ability of physical actors. Like the get-up Arnold was stuck in for the Batman movie that does not exist.