Saw the movie, thought it SUCKED.
no, that's a bit harsh. I thought it was something good to watch if you are utterly bored and you have seen everything and there is nothing else to do.
I am usually not harsh on movies, but as a kid, ninja turtles was my thing. I remember running into an old elementary school classmate and she was telling me how me and this other kid in class use to just talk about ninja turtles all the time.
So I go to see this expecting the worst (and usually when this happens, I am pleasantly surprised, but not this time) and I leave feeling neither satisfied nor disappointed.
I was just confused I guess.....yea, I guess thats the best way to describe how I FELT about the movie. I was confused about what to FEEL. I rarely feel like that about a movie.
Things I liked
- The action - action was great. Some of the scenes were just ridiculous fun.
- Megan Fox - I dont know what it is about this woman but she is just to beautiful. I know some of it apparently is plastic surgery but damn, she is just captivating to look at, at least for me. I thought her acting was passable to, maybe because I was feeling that THIRST.
- Shredder - I thought the guy they got to play Shredder and the way they portrayed was on point. It felt like they treated this character with respect as opposed to ALL THE OTHER CHARACTERS, though his biggest problem is he has no REAL motivations except, "I'm a bad Guy"
- Splinter - As a character, they got him right. With that said, i dont think it's hard to get splinter right.
Things I hated/disliked
- Splinter- He looked fucking terrible. Who greenlit this? That shit was just terrible looking. Could they not make him look more appealing?
- Ninja Turtles looks - Im sorry, I thought I would be able to get use to how they looked but they still looked like shit.
-The NInja turtles personalities - They never give you a chance to have an affinity towards each turtle and find a fondess to each one and the difference between them. They show you the differences but its not done the right way. which leads to my next 2 points...
- Character development - entirely rushed with basically NONE of this whatsoever. So you never get a feel for the characters or get a true understanding of them
- Pacing - Terrible Terrible Rushed pacing. It's basically just Wam Bam Thank you Mam. Which is good for an action movie where the characters dont matter I guess. But for something like Ninja Turtles, pacing is very important imo and I think this is the biggest problem with the movie.
- Will Arnett - Everything he did in the movie felt forced and unnatural. I love Will Arnett, and I dont particularly blame him for the failure of his role. More to the director/writing.
- Comedic Beats - this ties back to the pacing of the movie, but NONE of the jokes which I could tell were intended to be jokes worked for myself or the audience I was with and it was because of the pacing and comedic beats. Comedy is timing, and the timing of everything was just OFF. The only joke that worked was the Elevator rap scene. Thats IT. (and that was well done).
- Directing and Writing - obviously all of the above can be attributed to these 2 things.
Listen, I went in and turned my brain off hoping that would help me enjoy this film, and it did during the action scenes. but I couldnt help but see how terrible of a product this was. Maybe cause I was secretly expecting to be blown away as a old time fan.
I guess the best way to describe the film is it's just a really Empty, Soulless and Shallow film.
