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Old 11-05-2019, 11:03 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by sgtfbomb View Post
Even with the exposure push, the 1990 film has arguably the best cinematography of the series. With its use of shadows and natural lighting in the farm scenes, it gives the film a sense of rawness (the extreme graininess is straight up punk rock-ish at times, flashbacks especially) and compliments the creature designs in a way its predecessors never did. To me, it's still the only film where it genuinely feels like the Turtles are in the real world.
110%. The DP and Barron did a lot of testing to give it that exact feel, too. It's a shame they didn't stick with the look for SOTO.
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