One of my problems with he sneaker game is the general lack of imagination that some sneaker companies have.
i was having an argument with my homey from Flawless Hustle – GABEROCKKA. He was discussing one of his recent acquisitiions that he called the ‘Batman’ SB’s. I saw that same pair and I called them the ‘Iron Giant’ SB’s
I thought that the name ‘Iron Giant’ was way more appropriate because the shoes are a gun-metal grey. Batman’s strongest colorway isn’t his grey bodysuit but the indigo of his cowl and cape.
Plus I liked the movie ‘Iron Giant’. This is a DVD you need to copp for Hanukwanzamas if you don’t have it already.
The Iron Giant is a robot from outerspace who crash lands on Earth and befriends a boy who teaches him all about humanity. The movie is a cartoon that can get graphic at moments unlike anything that Disney has put out. The film examines how people treat one another as the Iron Giant tries to figure out what is the driving force for humankind.
At the end of the day the ‘Iron Giant’ is simply the story of a boy who loved a robot, and the robot who loved the boy enough to risk it all to protect him.
Outside of the CLASSIC film The Pacifier, Iron Giant is surely Vin Diesel’s crowning achievement.
Good call on this DP, I fully support your Iron Giant reference, I never thought they were a good “Batman” shoe, only named that because of the recent hype…
And Iron Giant is good shit. SUPERMAN! Gotta inspire you at least a little. eFF that, I’m superman tomorrow! hah
I didn’t really study this at the time but the producer of ‘Iron Giant’, Warner Bros. Studios, owns DC Comics outright so it was nothing for the them to go hard for Superman since it was their property as well.
That is how corporate synergy works best.
The original book is awesome (The Iron Man by Ted Hughes)
Inside niggas.
Yeah, I didn’t really feel these were overly Batmanish. Def. more Iron Giant.
full metal alchemist > the iron giant
FMA is the shit, but these shoes still represent IG better, but I get your point. FMA is the shit.
making IG even more gangsta:
It was written by Sylvia Plath’s husband, he wrote it for his kids after she 86d herself in the oven.