Tattoo, face paint, mask, I simply don't care for the design.
Who says they'll use the costume at all? A movie inspired by a comic is under no obligation to copy it precisely.
They're going to use Bane. I expect the character will at least vaguely resemble his comic book counterpart, in the sense either al-Ghul is a member of an ancient, shadowy organization.
Obviously, al-Ghul was a complete reworking of the character for Nolan's approach to the comic book mythos. Best case scenario I can think of for Bane is Nolan has some crazy inspired bottom-up reworking of the character to turn it into something I'd actually care about.
You can't fairly judge a story you haven't read from a brief summary on a BBS.
Nor have I claimed to. My point was:
However unfair, Heath Ledger's Joker will likely be the barometer given for the film's antagonists, and if they overcompensate with a story like that it could backfire.
That outline, if the writers are going ahead with anything roughly resembling it (as they might if they want to use Bane), could hamper the character in that way.
If the film spends a lot of time trying to convince us how really,
really smart this wrestler is, finding out Batman's true identity and analyzing his previous fights or releasing old villains so he can study it, it could really obviously come off pretty poorly.
I don't think the story should try to make explicit connections between Bane and Batman's past antagonists as a way of insisting he's somehow smarter then them or he's learned from their example. There will be enough comparisons with the previous films without the films themselves slipping them in.
I maybe in the minority but if looking like a clown and doing crime isn't too silly I don't see an issue with Bane having a mask that looks like/similar to the comic version.
Oh silliness isn't the issue, to be clear.
Bring on the silly. I would prefer the Penguin and he can be plenty ridiculous (although I can easily see him played dead straight as a mob boss who just has posh, intellectual interests. That'd hardly be that unique, anyhow.)
I just don't care for the design. That's a pretty blunt, pretty straightforward personal opinion. I'm not wild about superheroes as it is, and by the time they're giving me supermen wrestlers that's the point I start tuning out entirely. It's a completely arbitrary line that has to do with my fairly narrow interest in the genre (which almost begins at "Bat" and ends and "man", as it were.)
But seriously, just because his mask resembles a Mexican wrestling mask and he and Batman did some pro wrestling moves on each other in "Batman: The Animated Series" doesn't mean he's a wrestler. 
