Who actually liked the 2014 movie?
 

I know this movie gets a lot of hate but it's not like it was the worst thing the turtles ever starred in. I had a lot of problems with this movie but to me, the designs and what they were going for with them had potential which may not say much for the final product. I would take this over TMNT 3, Coming Out of Our Shells, We Wish You a Turtles Chirstmas, Turtle Toons, and that one train special.

If you liked this movie, what did you like about it?

Yeah dude. I fail to see how in a franchise that gave us Coming Out Of Our Shells, Turtles III, We Wish You A Turtle Christmas, The Next Mutation, how this is somehow a big offender. I also suspect there's people here who secretly like it but are afraid to be in the minority & would rather be amongst the majority. But yeah I'm a fan. It has its problems (like any movie) but I'll take it over the 2007 CG flick any day.

I love it. The design, April, Shredder, fight sequence, camera angles, rich colors and soundtrack. Omg the soundtrack is epic. :tlove:

This movie tie or even top the first movie for me.

I watched the 1990 & 2014 back-to-back the other night & had a blast. They make for a great double feature (also 'Batman' & 'Batman Returns' - I highly recommend watching these together in one night).

That isn't news to anyone, my friend. :lol:

I'm on-and-off with this movie. I think there are - to say the least - extremely valid reasons for people to hate it. There are things that should have been done that weren't, and vice versa; and I think it was most definitely handed over to the wrong people. But I'm still capable of sitting through its entirety and finding satisfaction. Not a total let-down for me, but could have been executed much, much, MUCH better.

I like it a lot. It's just a fun movie with really neat action scenes. The snow mountain sequence and the fight with Shredder are probably my favorite action scenes of any movie this year honestly.

I have to agree about that snow mountain bit.

I loved it, I'm happy that the Turtles are back on the big screen.

I guess I kind of like it, but it's hard not to think about what it could have been when watching it. I plan to buy it eventually, especially since I need a 3D Blu-ray so I can make use of having a 3D display, but I'd rather buy the Casey Jones DVD before I worry about that. I don't agree that it was better than TMNT 3, but definitely better than the musical tours and such.

The fight in the lair, or on the rooftop?

The turtles' lair was very well-done, and very detailed. Shame we spent so little time there.

I liked the new Master Splinter, even if all he really did was advertise Pizza Hut. He made good use of his tail.

Sachs was an interesting character, if an unnecessary one. I liked him so much that I rooted for him the whole film.

And I almost liked Raph's speech at the end, when the turtles are (supposedly) plummeting to their death. But it was used as fodder for a stupid joke the next scene, so forget that.

I feel the same, despite hating his addition (Baxter could have done exactly the same stuff in the film). But Ficthner is very charismatic.

It would have been pretty bad ass if Sacks actually did get away. The Foot gets framed for the toxin, the Turtles eliminates Shredder, and Sacks could have in the chaos snuck away with bags of money or something, or hog the glory for exposing the Foot's plans and then run for Mayor or something.

i think it obvious to anyone i loved the movie. Loved the action. Loved the actors loved just about everything

I too loved this movie. The turtles looked good, Splinter was badass Shredder looked cool. I agree with B Man we have gotten worse turtles crap than this movie. The Action scenes were awesome too.

The rooftop. Though I did like the lair fight too.

It just felt good to me. Broad daylight, you can see everything and it lasted a decent amount of time. After so many movies setting their final fights in the dark and rain or not having much of a fight at all....I dunno. It stuck out to me.

The only thing I liked was...um...maybe the snowmobile sequence?

Everything else was awful. From the ugly Turtle noses, the bad personalities, bad Shredder, bad everything.

Then... Don't answer the thread?

If you didn't like it why bother answering this thread. FAIL

Was great to me cg looked great.

Then let me tell how I see it.

Among most of the bad versions like the second, third and arguably fourth movies and the Next Mutation the title characters were the stars and each of them tried with varying degrees of success not to treat them like one-note jokes. The stories may not have been strong or compelling (although some aspects of all of them had merit) but made general sense. There's no huge logic holes within the context of the world they created or things that really made me sit up and say "oh c'mon"

But the biggest reason is that none of the other stuff was anywhere near as high profile. Nor did it come out at a time when a lot of the franchises peers are treating them with respect and putting out movies of much higher quality. It's easy for me to brush off 'We Wish You a Turtle Christmas' and Coming Out of Our Shells Tour as harmless, silly fun because they were low key and or came at a time where it couldn't do any damage the franchise. There was no better time than now to put out a big budget movie when so many would be interested and they blew it. In my opinion it's damaged the franchise far more than all the bad versions put together.

I'm.......... not gonna post my thoughts on the movie.....

But I do think the reason many see this as a 'main offender' while we do have crap like We Wish you a Turtles Christmas is mostly because in 2014 we expected better. Now I can grant you Turtles III, but at least Turtles Christmas, New Mutation and Coming out of Our Shells weren't big budgeted movies played in theaters.

you also have to remember..Turtle Tunes,We wish you a Turtle Christmas, and Coming out of their Shells came out during the Turtle hype....it was fuel to an already ranging fire and us 90s kids ate it up


2014 movie was added to a starting fire that needed a little more gas

I found the new movie really boring for the most part. I don't care for many of the changes, but didn't let it stop me from trying. Megan Fox annoys me too.

I just feel like even for a turn off you brain fun kinda movie...it was just blah. No excitement, or anything.

If you didn't like it than this thread isn't for you.

100% Honest Question:

If there's already a Private Group for this exact conversation, Why have the thread at all? Isn't that the entire point? To keep out people who would "ruin" it? Isn't that much easier? No, SparkFlash's comments don't belong in this thread, but simply having the thread be public is inviting those comments is all I'm saying.

Just an honest question/observation. It's like parking your BMW on the street with a big sign on it saying, "Please Don't Throw Eggs At My Car." Anyone who does throw the eggs is an asshole, but at the same time, you kind of have to expect it.

I really enjoyed it. The Turtles' personalities were spot on, Megan Fox actually wasn't that bad, Shredder was a total badass, the snow chase was definitely the highlight followed closely by the final showdown on the roof (including the elevator scene) and I loved the little nods to other TMNT media - Sacks originally wanting to use mutated rabbits and Mikey's Hip-Hop Christmas album.

This movie gets a lot of flack, but at least it isn't as redundant as the 2007 CGI movie.

After having seen the movie a few more times, I have to say Megan Fox isn't that bad. In fact, think she did fairly well, given what she had to work with - though I still think casting her was a mistake.

Plus this is my favorite version of Raphael, period. Alan Ritchson was spectacular - and even though that speech at the end was hardly necessary for the context of this particular film, it was extremely well-executed and would have been a fantastic addition, had it been more relevant. The other 3 were great, too, but I didn't like Mike/Don's CGI appearances, and I didn't like that Ploszek wasn't allowed to voice Leo.

I too found its length to be off-putting. This is just about the only modern movie that I think NEEDED to be longer. (Interesting choice of avatar, by the way.)

The truth.

I like this movie a lot. I'm looking forward to watching it again soon, actually.

I loved it. There was a lot wrong with it, but in my opinion there is also a lot right with it. And I agree, it is by no means the worst offender of epic crapness in the TMNT universe.

I second this by x1000

I'm thrilled with how the turtles were portrayed. They might not have the best designs (though I don't personally think they're as horrible as a majority seem to think) and the storyline might have had it's weak spots, etc. but the turtle themselves were amazing. That was the one part I feel they totally got RIGHT. They acted exactly how I imagine them to-serious, almost adult like but with the right amount of teenage immaturity that makes them easy to relate to and not horribly obnoxious. They acted how I expected siblings to act-sometimes annoyed with each other, bickering, but always this very obvious underlying sense of loyalty and love to each other AND Splinter. They weren't self centered or whiny, they worked as a unit. Mikey made jokes about liking April, but he didn't fawn over her and his character remained purely intact, he didn't become "the turtle who likes April" which is perfect and I'm SO glad there was no weirdness between Donnie and her that I was so deeply dreading.

Anyway, yeah. The movie may have had it's flaws, but in my opinion the one part they got right was the most important part. The turtles themselves were amazing and I only hope next time we see a lot more of them than anyone else.

I realy did enjoy this movie, except for Shredder... I would have like to see more of his martial art skills instead of just a regular guy in a robo-suit...

I guess what is great about this movie is that it got people talking about TMNT again and got them interested in other TMNT stuff... I'm quite pleased with the fact that I bought a lot of TMNT toys to my nephews this xmas!

I liked it. It has plenty of flaws and the turtles are capable of a much better movie but it worked for what they were going for and I hope they're able to fix the misses in the sequel.

I liked it, it was a good fun action movie and my expectations werent for anything more or anything less.

Not like the Nick series or IDW comic have been doing that for the last 3 years or anything. :trolleye: This film got people talking further, sure, but most of it was negative.

Haha, maybe you're right.. For people living in english speaking community, I assume TMNT was already living strong, but where I'm from there wasn't that much of people talking about TMNT before the movie... IDW comics aren't translated so only comics fans knows about it... I'm not sure if the nick cartoon was translated yet, but I wasn't hearing about it before...

IMO, negative feedback about the movie made people talk more and gain interest about the other movies, series, comics since this is their reference for TMNT.

Ah, I see. I hadn't considered that, sorry. Good to know it did some good nonetheless. :trazz: Have you yourself tried to experience the other new turtle stuff despite those issues?

Yeah, I subscribed to the IDW comics, wich is IMO the best TMNT so far... I haven't look the Nick cartoon yet as is seems made for a much younger audience, but I'll watch it someday!

Whenever the actual Turtles were onscreen, it was my favourite movie of 2014!

just saw it again, have to admit its not as bad as i remember as long as i shut my brain off...its still bad...Donatello seems to be the best character