Jaymas
Super Freak
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Well it's clear that the suit isn't "realistic", but despite the fantasy of it all it does attempt to a faux realism trying to be "grounded" in reality as much as possible. The tensions they are working with is trying to sell you that it IS a man in a suit AND when worn it presents sleek and organically in a way that hearkens back to the look of the original comic. Remember the gold arms and legs of the original red and gold armor looked almost painted on or spandex at best. Some say it was supposed to be some sort of micro chain mail but they left it pretty ambiguous through the years in the comics. So in the comics Iron Man was supposed to be a man in an iron suit, but looked more like a man made out of iron. Trying to do both in a "realsitic" way like they do in the movies takes some work and can not be done without some imagination on both the part of the costume designer and the audience.
I think then it's natural for us to have preferences that lean to one tension or the other. I like the MKIII, IV, and VI because it's a bit easier for me to imagine a man in a suit in those armors than the later armors like the thinner 42,43, or even more organic looks of the 45 or 46. Of course no one would be able to fit inside the Mark III in real life, the proportions alone wouldn't be suitable for a real person even without making space for joints and servos and working parts; but the bulkier nature of the suit does make it a bit easier to imagine (at least for me). At the same time, I can also appreciate the more organic looking Armor's too which present themselves more as a man made of iron, almost like an android. Regardless, it's an interesting study on how the "suspension of disbelief" works together in tension with efforts to "ground" things in "believability" when doing these kinds of movies.
