George Oscar Bluth II
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Seriously, that is nightmare fuel.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) | OT | Hey Dude, This Is NO Cartoon
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Seriously, that is nightmare fuel.
Bobby Roberts
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Quick reminder that this isn't a Michael Bay movie, Michael Bay didn't write OR direct the movie, the director is Jonathan Liebesman, and the writers are Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, and Evan Daugherty.
tringworldso
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I love how every turtle is physically different according to their strength.
Yet for some reason his name is all over this. It's the first name in the trailer ffs.
AuthenticM
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I just checked IMDB for those writers; Appelbaum and Nemec both wrote Mission Impossible 4 and seem to have quite the similar résumé. They clearly worked on the same thing more than once. I'm unfamiliar with most of their work. That said, I really liked M:I 4 so there's that.
Marketing. Kinda like when Kojima's name was all over Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, even though he barely worked on it.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Any idea on the runtime?
RPGCrazied
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Still can't get over the nightmare turtle designs. I'll wait until it hits bluray and rent it I guess.
Anton Sugar
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It should be noted that BobbyRoberts is Michael Bay.
GuitarAtomik
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Marketing. How does it work?
keltickennedy
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International poster:
Reminds me of the arcade game when you try to save April and jump out of the burning building.
Bobby Roberts
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How dare you
Winterfang
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Donnie and Ralph look legit cool. Mickey though looks like a really ugly green LL Cool J.
You wanna know the reason why people don't like these Turtles? It's because they look black. This ugly thing is just a smokescreen.
Rapscallion
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Not sure why it's not all CGI like the other Shrek movies.
What are your people obsessions with those goddamn shrek movies?
Banjotanooki
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Shrek is love, shrek is life.
GuitarAtomik
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Yeah. Why didn't they just make Jurassic Park all CG too?
Such a weird thing to say (I see the joke in your comment but people have seriously asked this minus the Shrek part).
Christopher
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What the fuck...? Everyone loves to just play the race card for everything here its so sick.
AuthenticM
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I can't stop watching the trailer.
MoonsaultSlayer
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TMNTurtles in a hyperrealistic environment such as a Michael Bay produced film NEED to have eyelids, nostrils and lips. Their cg models look AMAZING as far as just the cg goes (I also happen to like the designs) and having rounded snouts and flapping mouths would NOT cut it. This is the most human and likeable they can look before veering off into movie monster territory.
I can't help but think of this situation in real life where if you really saw Mikey, you'd be scared shitless. But once you got to know him and his morals and his personality, he becomes likeable and cute to an extent. Movies have too often given us this exact scenario but fail because the designs are usually cute/friendly to begin with (Beauty and the Beast, nerd girl in glasses in romantic comedy X, most itertions of TMNT etc...).
I've had a positive opinion about these designs since the leak which has brought me back into Turtle mode, but reading the visual history of the ninja turles solidifies my stance.
I can't help but think of this situation in real life where if you really saw Mikey, you'd be scared shitless. But once you got to know him and his morals and his personality, he becomes likeable and cute to an extent. Movies have too often given us this exact scenario but fail because the designs are usually cute/friendly to begin with (Beauty and the Beast, nerd girl in glasses in romantic comedy X, most itertions of TMNT etc...).
I've had a positive opinion about these designs since the leak which has brought me back into Turtle mode, but reading the visual history of the ninja turles solidifies my stance.
Killing_Joke
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I'm going through this as well. I don't know if it's my love for the turtles or is it because it actually looks pretty cool. The designs and OMG BAYYYY NAME IS ON IT is not killing my buzz. Movie looks dope. Can't wait.
MoonsaultSlayer
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I can't read the above two opinions without reading their tags and snickering lol.
Charmless? The Batman voice gag, Mikey's lines, the way the turtles freeze when they realize they've been spotted after giving their ninjas as silent as shadows (or something) speech.... Great stuff.
Charmless? The Batman voice gag, Mikey's lines, the way the turtles freeze when they realize they've been spotted after giving their ninjas as silent as shadows (or something) speech.... Great stuff.
TheKaeptain
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Except it isn't a Michael Bay movie.
He is a producer and it has all the hallmarks of a Bay film.
TheKaeptain
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I doubt he had much input. He was making Transformers 4 at the same time this was being made.
Exactly. Everyone hating on their looks are the reason they're afraid to come out of the sewers. You're all terrible.
Also how the hell can you guys like the ugly ass transformers but hate on this LOL.
Bobby Roberts
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He's a producer along with
Ian Bryce
Andrew Form
Bradley Fuller
Scott Mednick
and Galen Walker
It's written by three people, produced by five, and directed by one. This is hardly an example of "auteur theory" in fucking action.
It looks like every other superhero movie made in the last 10 years. There's nothing unique about it besides the fact the computer generated heroes at its center aren't Spider-Man or The Hulk or Godzilla or whatever Andy Serkis has decided to mo-cap this week, they're some giant-ass turtles.
Bobby you know to the blu ray release day this shit will still be known as bay's ninja turtles movie.
it's drilled into their minds.
Doesn't help that his name is plastered all over the advertising
MoonsaultSlayer
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Haha thanks. I now imagine a cynical society existing when the original comic came out acting just like this. It was designed as a satire on gritty comics of the time but didn't come off as straight up mockery and ended up holding its own. All of the visuals were straight out of the comic book school of art. We have lame attempts at humor, typical comic book cast, and gaudy, overdesigned heroes and villains. It's Daredevil with little ugly green guys.
AuthenticM
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For me it's both. The Turtles are my childhood heroes, along with the Power Rangers. Seeing them in a movie that looks kickass just fills me with glee and joy.
Totally. This movie looks fun, which is exactly what a TMNT film needs to be. Can't fucking wait.
I'M SO PUMPED.
Bobby Roberts
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Nobody had to say it outright. Hell, this entire post of yours is essentially ARGUING THE POINT FOR ME. You were better off just saying "it doesn't help that his name is all over the marketing" because at least that wasn't contradictory. But trying to say "Nobody said he was an auteur" and then trying to ascribe every aspect of this film to him and him alone? C'mon man.
If that trailer said "From producer Ian Bryce" almost none of this shit would be called out as specifically as it is, because none of it is specific. It looks like a made-by-committee summer blockbuster based on a brand. Based solely on the marketing, the ONLY thing distinguishing it from any other superhero movie, visually, is that the heroes are turtles.
Of the five producers listed, he's one. Of the three writers and one director credited, he's none. He was making a shitass Transformers movie while this was being shot and post-produced.
This isn't a Michael Bay movie. His name is in the trailers because "From Producer Ian Bryce" doesn't sell any fuckin tickets.
eddfromtheriver
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The turtles in TMNT III look miles better than the fugly CGI mutants on this one...
I wouldn't agree. For the third film they basically swapped Transformers for Gobots.
itwasTuesday
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I love magic nunchaku chains.
AuthenticM
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This is getting absurd.
eddfromtheriver
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Still better than the shrek-atized versions...
It's my opinion, i think i'm entitled to it, they look better... it's worse than the previous ones in TMNT I and II... but at least they don't make you hide under your bed, every single person i've shown them to have had strong reactions to the way they look, and not in a positive way... they go like... ARRRGGHHH!!!... the turtles are supposed to look cute!!! (woman), and guys go like... WHOAHHH!!!... what did they do to them?, they look so ugly!!!
Not a single positive comment... NONE.
MoonsaultSlayer
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So they then look like what the turtles were always supposed to look like? Hideous mutants that made you gasp which made them stay in the sewers until they save you one night and you get to know them and realize "wow, these guys aint so bad afterall"?Still better than the shrek-atized versions...
It's my opinion, i think i'm entitled to it, they look better... it's worse than the previous ones in TMNT I and II... but at least they don't make you hide under your bed, every single person i've shown them to have had strong reactions to the way they look, and not in a positive way... they go like... ARRRGGHHH!!!... the turtles are supposed to look cute!!! (woman), and guys go like... WHOAHHH!!!... what did they do to them?, they look so ugly!!!
Not a single positive comment... NONE.
But no. Everyone wanted smiley faced turtles because "childhood" or badass turtles because of entitlement.
lovely ladies
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TMNT 3 puppets were pretty hideous, they added unnecessary spots all over them. Splinter looked off too.
Bobby Roberts
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