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[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

In the real world? Walking around beside real actors? Or would you want a fully cg film?



Same question.

i dont see why with a little bit of movie magic texturing they cant be side by side with real actors

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

i dont see why with a little bit of movie magic texturing they cant be side by side with real actors

In my opinion? because they don't look like real things. I'd argue, the movie turtles are pretty close to that design, if that design were given greater detail.

But it's a game of degrees at this point. I don't know that adding more detail to those designs wouldn't take you into the "ugly" zone. The eyes are really wide, and the shape of the mouth...they would be unsettling, like this is


Really impressive, hyper details, beautifully executed level of realism, set in an impossible basic form.

If it were a CGI film, I could see it. Would have been much better than 2007 designs.

[newhire13]

Originally Posted by Warhorse

Yeah, but what general audience would find the ugly Turtles we got even remotely appealing?

It's doing pretty well in theaters so I guess a decent amount of people out there.

Personally I think if you dive too much into realistic you start dipping way too much into monstrous which I think kills the fun of the characters. I'd much prefer the turtles have a bit more innocence to their overall design. It goes hand and hand with the teenage aspect, gives you the impression that they truly are the underdogs and would lead to some bad ass visuals when you see these little guys switch to do or die mode and start ripping bad guys new assholes. The new cartoon captures that perfectly

[Warhorse]

Originally Posted by newhire13

It's doing pretty well in theaters so I guess a decent amount of people out there.

Funny, everyone I know whose seen the movies hate the Turtle's looks. First thing they say, is that they are too ugly.

[newhire13]

Originally Posted by Warhorse

Funny, everyone I know whose seen the movies hate the Turtle's looks. First thing they say, is that they are too ugly.

Yeah but and your friends are just a small group of people. I mean if you want to go that route I could argue with the fact that both times I saw it in theaters it got applause at the end.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by newhire13

Yeah but and your friends are just a small group of people. I mean if you want to go that route I could argue with the fact that both times I saw it in theaters it got applause at the end.

Well... I don't think applause is reserved only for attractive beings or perfect movies. Ending on a funny note prob also helps.

I don't personally remember applause, but folks seemed pleased enough at least.

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Well... I don't think applause is reserved only for attractive beings or perfect movies. Ending on a funny note prob also helps.

I don't personally remember applause, but folks seemed pleased enough at least.

true story when i saw it some guy left in the middle and never came back


people who where with him where outside the theater wondering where he went

[Leolead]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

for me? this



i feel those are the best realistic representation of tmnt..and with a small bit of tweaking (texture and skins and more money, and a non video game world) they could be awesome

but i wouldve loved this as well over what we got





EDIT: Powder beat me to it but agree 100%

I think a realistic version of OOTS design would have been okay.. but the second photo... hell yes!

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

true story when i saw it some guy left in the middle and never came back

people who where with him where outside the theater wondering where he went

lol Maybe he hailed a cab and was on his way to giving the film makers a piece of his mind. lol

[MajorViolence]

I was really hoping the movie look would resemble the OOTS designs. I'm still hoping the sequel will nudge the designs in that direction.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by newhire13

Yeah but and your friends are just a small group of people. I mean if you want to go that route I could argue with the fact that both times I saw it in theaters it got applause at the end.

Just because it got applause (which I never understood at a movie.) doesn't mean that the people didn't find the designs to be ugly.

[Slade]

Originally Posted by Jester

Just because it got applause (which I never understood at a movie.) doesn't mean that the people didn't find the designs to be ugly.

No lie, only movie I know that people clapped was Man of Steel and people(not me) hate that movie seems like.

[Galactus]

Originally Posted by newhire13

Yeah but and your friends are just a small group of people. I mean if you want to go that route I could argue with the fact that both times I saw it in theaters it got applause at the end.

Well when people were arguing about the mainly positive reception the movie got when it had advanced screenings meant it must be good to which some people countered by saying that other movies were raved about that turned out to have a bad reception overall. One of these was Green Lantern.

Green Lantern was a movie that was similarly panned by the professional critics and picked up a bad reputation but out of curiosity I looked at what the internet community thought about it at the time and instantly found several youtube reviewers who fresh from seeing it raved about what a great the film was and how the critics are wrong and anyone who hates must be a marvel fan. I even saw two videos of people being interviewed outside theaters with them similarly saying it was either a great movie or not that bad etc.

But what do people think of Green Lantern now?

Sound familiar? I don't think this movie stands up to much scrutiny or will stand the test of time of a few months once the thrill of seeing a new big budget live action TMNT movie wears off.

[Leolead]

I liked Green Lantern...

[Warhorse]

Heh, I don't like Ryan Reynolds, so I didn't even bother with the movie at all.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by Powder

Me, I 100% wanted Out Of The Shadows designs.

http://i58.tinypic.com/ta0b45.jpg

Definitively this.

The OotS designs are perfect for a semi-realistic live-action take on the TMNT, first it's current gen friendly as they are primarily based off the Nick toon, but the designs are still recognizable for all demographics/generations. They keep it simple and classic looking, and the turtles look like humanoid turtles, and not green humans with a carapace backpack. They have expressive eyes and fully emotive mouth without going overboard with looking too human. And I love that they have skin colors like turtles, with streaks of red and yellow in their green skin.

[Tuxedo Moroboshi]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

That's pretty close to what I'd want, but again, only if we got something closer in tone to the original comics. I'm kinda weird in that I think realistic looking TMNT would be better for something more serious and closer to the source material, while something pulling from the cartoons is best to have designs that aren't as strict on how much they'd look like real turtles.

[newhire13]

Originally Posted by Jester

Just because it got applause (which I never understood at a movie.) doesn't mean that the people didn't find the designs to be ugly.

And if you want to argue that point than I could just as easily say that it doesn't mean that they did either. We can argue personal viewing experiences all day but it doesn't change the fact that the film is doing well with the general audience, which was my point to begin with.

[newhire13]

Originally Posted by Galactus

Well when people were arguing about the mainly positive reception the movie got when it had advanced screenings meant it must be good to which some people countered by saying that other movies were raved about that turned out to have a bad reception overall. One of these was Green Lantern.

Green Lantern was a movie that was similarly panned by the professional critics and picked up a bad reputation but out of curiosity I looked at what the internet community thought about it at the time and instantly found several youtube reviewers who fresh from seeing it raved about what a great the film was and how the critics are wrong and anyone who hates must be a marvel fan. I even saw two videos of people being interviewed outside theaters with them similarly saying it was either a great movie or not that bad etc.

But what do people think of Green Lantern now?

Sound familiar? I don't think this movie stands up to much scrutiny or will stand the test of time of a few months once the thrill of seeing a new big budget live action TMNT movie wears off.

What's your point? The big difference is that while Green Lantern is considered a box office failure Ninja Turtles is a box office success. It's ok if you don't like the movie for whatever reason, but facts are facts.

[Sumac]

Green Lantern was more CGI cartoon for me rather than an actual movie.
It was uninteresting and boring, save for the few special effects.
Ultimately it was similar to bad superhero movies of the 80-s, lame story, lame effects, lame characters.