06-19-2012, 08:33 PM | #21 |
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06-19-2012, 09:14 PM | #23 |
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Usually they make up weird names when they are filming to hide locations and what not.
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06-19-2012, 10:01 PM | #24 | |
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I don't care what they want to try and pull off in the film. The era of turtles I love the most has long since passed. I don't mind the OT, it's great fun, but it's far from the best stuff turtles has had to offer. I can't cling to a cartoon I loved when I was 5 years old and say I want to see it live action. We're 15+ years past that for me. I want to see a turtles movie that's intelligent and covers the over arching theme of the series as a whole. The first movie came closest to nailing it but they still cut a fair bit of it out from what I've heard. What I don't want to see is "Cowabunga", pizza eating, bad excuses for them to wear colored masks, burp and fart jokes, and Mikey making a moron out of himself every other scene. But that's what they're clearly aiming for and that's why I doubt I'll enjoy this film unless there's a serious over haul on the script. I'm well aware that's the turtles that sells but the other could sell too if people would make the effort for it. |
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06-20-2012, 07:13 AM | #25 | |
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Spitfire definitely hit the nail on the head. Agreed 100% man, although I'm a huge 2k3 Mikey fan so I don't mind Mikey acting silly. Last edited by Donnie; 06-20-2012 at 02:08 PM. |
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An intelligent TMNT movie? That would imply the comics are by any stretch of the imagination deep and intelligent to begin with. Reality check: There not.
The first TMNT issue is a generic, flavourless bloodbath for rednecks too cheap to read Frank Miller Daredevil. The first movie took an already dopey concept, took some traits from the cartoon and poured it into a half-way decent journeyman film which satisfies on more than one level...but unfortunatly, for you, that isnt enough, you feel TMNT should be entitled to a film that makes it look better than the sum of it's parts (probably in some vien attempt to proclaim to the world "I like TMNT" without dying of embarrasment). The day you stop living in that elitist fantasy world and start accepting TMNT for what it is in the mainstream is the day you can actually enjoy a movie based on it's more fantastical aspects. Nobody goes to a TMNT movie to think. Quite frankly, setting yourself up to hate the movie just because they will say "cowabunga" and have Mikey act stupid is assanine. This is how the world, and how the CREATORS, have viewed the Turtles for years, it's become part of their mythology now. Nobody cares about how they used to act in the BLAND OLD DAYS. The TMNT movie YOU want would BOMB at the Box Office. Guranteed. Kids wouldnt be able to see it, and adult fans would just find it outright BORING due to it's absurd groundedness and lack of any imaginitive quirks. Quote:
You know why you don't get jack? The MIRAGE stuff IS NOT VERY INTERESTING. Adapting the best of it could only fill up about two seasons of the seven year 4Kids series, which sensibly chose to AVOID being exactly like it and did it's own thing. Dark and compelling at times? Yes, but it didnt forget the quirkiness and light-hearted aspects that the franchise attained during it's OT heyday. If Laird wanted to, he'd have given you your bland black-and-white dross, but he RECOGNIZED the TMNT had to maintain those elements, however slight, to appeal to the KIDS watching. KIDS are who eat this franchise up the most, NOT 30-40 year olds who hold on to the darker days of a niche comic that only told about four or five memorable stories in a sixty issue initial run Quote:
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06-20-2012, 01:59 PM | #27 |
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Look I don't care if the film is a exact copy of the Mirage books or not. But I don't want the Technodrome, Krang, or Bebop and Rocksteady in the movie. The first film was the most grounded and the most sucessfull. When they started adding more mutants and fantasy elments the films did worse. BTW the first run of the Mirage books was 62 issues.
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06-20-2012, 02:10 PM | #28 |
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Well that's not nice. I actually edited my post, I don't agree 100% - I like goofball Mikey...didn't realize he singled that out. But I'm with him in the fact that I sure as hell do not want Bebop & Rocksteady, nor do I want an OT movie adaption.
Your problem is you can't get past the fact that Turtles isn't just what the mainstream makes it out to be. TMNT at this point is such a mish-mosh of different takes (comics, cartoons, games, etc.) that to base a movie off of just one of those is asinine. I don't want a totally Mirage based movie, but I'd rather it be way more Mirage/2k3 than OT. |
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Whether it's Triceratons and the Federation or Rock Soldiers and animal mutants I'd say keep stuff of that ilk until after you've won the audience over. A more grounded movie is much more likely to do that imo. I certainly wouldn't call myself a Mirage elitist like say Andrew but I'd argue that fans of that version haven't had our fun when it comes to other versions at all. Of course if people feel really strongly about how we need Fred Wolf tropes to be succesful then why not go the whole hog and make a pure live action Fred Wolf based movie like the Flintstones or Scooby Doo live action features? Obviously everyone involved knows such a movie would tank. For a movie I feel we need certain tropes that are not found in the 80s show. Where else is better to get these things than extrapolating then from the original comics were these things do exist? That's for me is the best argument of why the movie should take its cues from the comics - because it's easier to fit that into a movie that works for todays audiences than the Fred Wolf version. That's not to say they couldn't be made to work but to do them for no other reason than to please a bunch of thirty year olds with the sense of "cool I remember them" and piss of another bunch of thirty year olds with the sense "aww they totaly ruined them" isn't a good reason to include them. |
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And yeah the franchise could be for kids but it could be for adults too. Only kids wanted to see Transformers, I didn't know any adults who wanted to see it. I mean seriously. You could say that about anything. In the end what matters is how it's made. If it's made well enough people will eat it up and I know for a fact there's plenty of people who would like a more "adult" turtles film. Maybe you're some jaded 40 year old nerd but us younger guys and gals who grew up with the turtles don't see an issue with our favorite childhood series growing up too. |
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TMNT is "fashionably disliked" by a few idiots, but that film is very entertaining too, and that had fantastical elements in it. Why shouldnt we get Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady and The Technodrome in this movie? It's about f*cking time they did, so far I havent heard ONE really convincing reason as to why they shouldnt be in it. I just get laughable shlock like "the movie has to be GROUNDED" To HELL with "groundedness", the TMNT concept is f*cking stupid enough as it is, just go nuts with it and stop being so particular about what should and shouldnt be in a damn COMIC BOOK MOVIE. If The Avengers can afford aliens and make a box office killing with it, TMNT can afford Dimension X. Period.
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The Avengers is a poor comparison here. They are Earth's Mightiest Heroes, they work for a government agency and were all established crime fighters on their own before they became a group. With the TMNT, they're not heroes in the traditional sense, so having them out in the streets fighting off Rock Soldiers and The Technodrome is just too much. The conflict in a Turtles movie has to be more personal, and less of a "save the world" type of thing. The turtles hide from the world above, which is why it works best when they fight ninja clans and stuff like that. Then again, I don't write scripts for Hollywood. Maybe there's a way it could work. And maybe you think the movie should be a straight up comedy like the OT was. If that's the case, feel free to watch the 193 episodes it left behind. |
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As for Avengers well it's based off one of those comic thingies you seem to hate so much called the Ultimates. It had aliens, it had Loki working with them, and it had the team bickering and fighting one another. |
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Now he says he'll only post a review once he gets 10k followers. Pretty weak. I suggest we all follow him if we've got Twitter accounts.
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06-21-2012, 09:30 AM | #37 |
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let's put this thing straight: movie1>movie2>movie3.
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06-21-2012, 01:19 PM | #38 |
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For once, I agree.
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06-21-2012, 03:20 PM | #39 |
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Wonder how much different a live action movie technodrome would look like. Cause a Fred Wolf inspired movie could work just fine.
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I think they'd be severely numb to today's movie industry to think they could get away with making a giant metal ball on wheels with the Eye of Sauron on top a serious threat.
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