TMNT Superbowl Trailer
 

That was.... quick... I was expecting it to be shown during halftime, but if I didn't hear the line about ninjas, I wouldn't have turned my attention towards the TV and missed it completely. It did show Krang though, but I am disappointed that I still didn't hear Sheamusteady speak. Fella.

krang looks pretty good

For better or for worse, he looked exactly like the new toy and we actually got to see the actual 'brain Krang' too, not just the robot. I guess Krang is going to replace Shredder as the new CGI robot to fight?

ROFLMFAO at Raph's face in that last clip! So that's our first look at Krang...? Very- interesting. And um, I think Leo is the only ine who "gets" the definition of "ninja".

Yeah, for a second i thought, "Oh, cool Krang!" But then i saw that they were on top of a high place all fighting him alone.

They need to come up with a new last boss fight.

Looks pretty great! I'm excited for Krang, have a feeling his human body will be more of a disguise than how it was in the original cartoon.

But then they'd have to spend more money.

And have talent or creativity.

Was that Knoxville as Leo?

How many threads for this?

i see one.

I figure this was warranted cause they aired the commercial like... just now. I hate threads about some show or movie where there's like 10+ pages of speculation before we actually get to posts about the actual thing in question. IMO we need two kinds of threads for things like this. One for the upcoming annoucements/speculations/whatever, and one for when the actual thing airs.

I doubt Krang is gonna use a disguise. That's just a big CGI monster robot plain and simple. And in the old cartoon Krang never walked around trying to pass off that robot suit as a human disguise.

Looking good!

There's FOUR simultaneous discussions going on about it in this section. What're you, high?

I don't blame Coola, he's not on much. Plus he's a good egg! But geez.

OMG!!!!! so hyped, i'm glad I stayed up, it was worth it. :D

UURRGH

The part were Raphael smacks against the wind shield of the plane like a ****ing wile coyote cartoon complete with his tongue sticking out and slowly peeling off is garbage. Even the dumbest episode of the Fred Wolf show wouldn't pull that ****..

Oh and the turtle van has mechanical arm grabbers just like the various versions of the turtles vehicles have never had and I suppose the takeaway is that turtles aren't actually good at being ninjas which is a great message to send out for a movie about martial arts action heroes.

There was literally nothing good about this and that includes the ultra smooth cartoony Krang. Without hyperbole this trailer has got to be one of the worst advertisement for anything TMNT EVER. Even with everything else this movie series has pulled I'm shocked they are actually going so far in this direction.

Oh, people are using the other trailer threads for this.

Looks like the greatest Ninja Turtles movie ever! This and the new IDW Game are bringing the hype back for me. :)

Way too freaking cartoonish. Raph smashing into the plane was like something straight out of a Loonie Toons cartoon.

Mikey's reaction to Krang and braking part of the Turtle-Van is PRICELESS!

Might wanna finish your thought there mate.

It's dog sh*t. Like I said, everyone's mind was made up a year ago already, these trailers do nothing but reinforce what everyone already feels.

*I* feel this is the absolute wrong way to handle this franchise. Profitable in the short-term, catastrophic in ten years when you need to reinvent the movie franchise as something even half-serious. "You just spent three movies (you know it's coming) and a billion dollars telling us how explicitly campy and stupid this property is and how it only works as vapid, hollow nonsense like Transformers! Now you want us to swallow a 'gritty reboot'? No way! It's just Stupid Fun For Kids, you said so yourselves, insistently!" :roll:

This film series single-handedly undoes every bit of evolution and growth the brand has had in the last 25 years, and it's disgusting. Things had come so far since the old cartoon. TMNT is so much bigger than the Fred Wolf cartoon, or a stupid action figure line...

...But no it's not. SEE? As far as the "mainstream" is concerned, TMNT is Stupid. It HAS to be stupid. I HATE that line of belief, and I hate that "fans" encourage it by spending money on these movies that are so goddamn bad it's offensive.

It's tragic.

Yooo that trailer was a club banger. Really cool seeing what Krang and the Technodrome look like.

That was short but fun! I really like that Krang looked very similar to the original cartoon.

Krang and the Android body looked great. This trailer wasn't as fun but who cares. And everyone is in love with this trailer just like the last one, guess it shows casual fans all they wanted is a "movie" version of the OT, something I said dozens of times here and was always told no one would watch that.

I kinda feel the Secret of the Ooze made a major screw up for not having Bebop and Rocksteady in it, Laird and Eastman be damned. This movie, no matter how much it sucks will always be regarded as some sort of holy grail because Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang and the Technodrome are all in it. Any arguement will be kicked to the curb due to the fact that the original trilogy never had Krang or the Technodrome and wasted time with Tokka, Rahzar and Vanilla Ice.

Anyways, I'm very disappointed by how blink-and-you-miss-it short this trailer was. It was hyped for the Superbowl, wasn't even aired during Half Time. After it ended I had a sense of 'Ok.... so where is the real Superbowl trailer...'

I don't know, I guess I was expecting it to be as long as the first one, like showing mostly scenes of the first one, but capitilizing with Krang and the new stuff we saw now. Plus I still want to hear Rocksteady Sheamus speak....

People are raving about it on twitter. It feels like the turtles of our childhood. I like the comedy angle. It looks better than TMNT 3, TMNT 2014, and SOTO. I'm stoked.

Yep. We got the Mirage movie, first time around. It was great. Let's have both.

Yeah we got the Mirage movie in 1990. It's a tough act to follow.

This all sounds so familiar.

Like deja vu from...two or so years ago.

I wonder if the outcome will be exactly the same.

So... like I keep saying:

If someone is mentally STILL 8, they love this junk. Anyone with any amount of sophistication or taste who wants cartoons to be cartoons and movies to be, y'know, NOT cartoons, they think it's trash.

So why is it that people get angry when you point out that it's exactly what it is? You have to be a child or a man-child to like it. Why is that "mean" to say out loud?

Some of us grew up. Why can people never realize that not everything they liked when they were a kid was any good, it was good to them BECAUSE they were kids? Fred Wolf needs to stay where it was buried, not be the eternal goddamn model for everything else. F*ck that. 2/3s of that goddamn show was trash.

Zero f*cking objectivity anymore, anywhere.

I bet the farm it will end the same wham. With a small bang and whimper.

I still watch the Fred Wolf cartoon...

On a similar note... why wouldn't that 'airplane scene' work on an Avengers movie? Pretty much the same reason it wouldn't work here. Stuff like this keeps the Turtles from not even being in the same league as Civil War, Deadpool, BVS and Suicide Squad. It's a comic book hero movie.... and yet doesn't really feel like it.

You know, I think the exact same thing about wrestling. :lol: I loved the Hogan/Macho Man/Warrior-era. I'm not sure how people can stomach the new stuff. Different strokes, man.

I'm not arguing with you. It IS a cartoon. It IS bad. It's also a kids movie. More than likely, I'll have fun watching it. I also have excellent tastes in red wine and vintage lounge chairs, so I guess there's a little bit of sophistication there.

You know, I was fightin' mad after Indy 4 and X-Men 3. I guess for those movies, I expected them to be good. With this, I know exactly what I'm getting.

So honest question here, if you have zero interest in this current movie series, why keep spending time discussing it?

Maybe. Won't know until I see it.

And with me being temp banned for voicing my opinion.

Oh dear friend, you kinda already have. Nowadays watching trailers is basically watching the whole movie. You only watch the movie anymore to connect the dots.

Why do you keep spending time discussing something that looks like something you'd watch once and make fun of drunk with your friends?

So do I, and I like SOME of it, but not enough to want to see ANYTHING like it outside of that specific version. It's NOT that good a show, we liked it because we were little and it was better than most of what else was on. It's certainly not worth raving about NOW, or modeling everything after NOW.

A throwback character here. A wink there. Fine. Smart. Don't take ALL the goddamn piss out of your own movie franchise to the point where you've reduced it to something even sillier than the original show. That's awful.

Also: Who mentioned f***ing wrestling in the first place, d? I actually do it, it's stupider than you think, only I have the right to say so because I'm involved and you're just trying to take shots at me for some reason because I pointed out how tragic this movie is. You've already said you're going to spend money on this sh*t, so you're officially part of the disease. You've no place to be taking swings at me, kid.

Because talking smack behind a computer screen and trying to ruin a good time is fun for some people. It's ninja turtles, dude.