Ranking Every Live-Action Superman Suit From Worst To Best
3. Christopher Reeve Movies Suit
It may look tame now, but in 1978, this is what a modernized Superman looks like in comparison to the suits in the past eras. All it did as an update was have the costume be in the right proportions and exact fit in every measure of the actor's body, and it makes all the difference in the world for letting the audience take a live-action Man of Steel seriously.
In design, it is just the suit in the then-current continuity of the comics. Since Christopher Reeve pretty much had the face of Superman and the body of Superman, it looks like the character came straight out of the page and into the big screen.
Since various artists had decades to already perfect Kal-El's look in the comics at this point, it ended up perfect. Again, if Henry Cavill wore this exact costume in his era, no one would have complained as long as the special effects are up to date. It would have been an improvement, in fact. Since it would have better represented The Man of Tomorrow than a dark-looking suit Henry Cavill actually wore.