donny Just flipped a car...Im treating this movie as a cartoon from now on.
 

With Leo landing and creating craters, Raph back-handing some one to space, his destruction of the Humvee, Mike with the rocket skateboard, and now Don flipping a truck with his bow... it's pretty obvious that any sort of logic has been thrown out the window.

Yes, this is a movie about anthropomorphized turtles and a rat but that is just a specific section to create this story. The rest of the world doesnt really have function in the same crazy way. Heck in the Nick cartoon Don's Bo actually brakes and they have aliens and other dimensions.

This way i may enjoy the movie more. And i am actually doing this because of the Godzilla movie. The marketing for that movie gave you the impression that the movie was going to be one way but the movie is totally different. So with these little hints i am preparing myself for some crazy crap.

It's going to be a zany cartoony ride.

It's funny to see how fragile Nicktoon Donnie's staff is, as actual Bo don't break as easy, but a telescopic staff PD Donnie uses seems rather... Sturdy.

Which is made even funnier by the fact it flipped over a freaking truck.:lol:

With its spring-loaded action feature :lol:

I want to say they have a reason for the truck going up in the air, by Donnie using his staff, as they come down the mountain. Don's staff (from what I've seen), isn't wooden, yet retractable. It doesn't look as breakable.

He put the bo, retracted, under the truck, and then with leverages it off a rock as he extends the bo under the truck.

However, that's all from memory and based off of not the best recording of the trailer from the theatre.

Also, a rocket skateboard is on par or even less than the same as something like Iron Man, Leo hasn't created "craters" (in my opinion). But I will give you Raph (however, I don't think they were intending to really have him going straight up, you just notice it after seeing the video in repeat)

Maybe there's a really low gravity in this universe? That would explain why everything is so big, it needs to be heavy not to float away, that's why trucks are so light and foot soldiers fly into orbit.

I don't know if you guys noticed, but when Donnie was about to flip the truck over, he pressed a red button on his staff and used a large rock as a way to spring the truck upward. But I still don't know what material that staff is made of though :ohwell:

Eh. Yeah, they seem to bend the rules of physics a bit, but so what? I don't agree with the prevailing Hollywood reasoning that you can do whatever wild things you want in animation, but if you film a movie in live action, everything needs to be realistic. Who drew that line?

Isn't it a negative that comic book properties only get live action feature films by being forced into a realistic world? Anything that helps break that barrier is fine by me.

That makes sense.
Maybe the Utroms have been slowly lowering the gravity of the planet so they can walk around without using robots.

I think people are being a little bit too harsh on this movie..

Oh boy, another thread.

This thing is gonna have some serious stretch marks by September with all the pulling in opposite directions between trying [too?] hard to be "realistic" and really unrealistic at the same time.

(Then again, with those muscles, so will the Turtles themselves.)

Lol, my thoughts exactly.

In a forum! :o

Surprising, isnt it.



There's a certain level of goofiness you can do and this is apparent in all action films. Most of the stuff that Batman does is not really possible in real life. Those bat ropes he uses to escape need a device that is way bigger than the one he uses and one cant really glide the way Batman does but they still fall within a certain level of realism.

Flipping a truck with a stick, tackling a truck, and breaking bricks when you land are outside of the range of the standard turtle levels. But if they explain that.... they are hulk-level in strength i guess those events makes a bit more sense. But if they are the rocket skateboard makes no sense cause the power needed to move those things is tremendous! Unless those are Utrom tech... then i guess that makes sense...

Still... i am preparing for none of this to make any sense and going in thinking this is just a cartoon.

This is the direction I'm leaning towards atm. As I've said before, if I expect something on the level of the 1990 film, I'm bound to be disappointed - it's obvious at this stage that we're not going to get it. So maybe if I don't take it as seriously, I can enjoy it in a different way.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. We wouldn't question this stuff in a cartoon, or a comic book. But there's something about shooting something with a camera that makes everyone say, "They had better explain this, because it needs to make sense."

It's just like how people can't accept a dramatic, mature story if it's animated. Animation can only be for kids. It just doesn't make sense to me.

I think you're exaggerating everything, And donny did not flip the car over.

You're right, it wasn't a car.

It was a freaking TRUCK! With just his bo staff!

Clearly, real world physics are going to be ignored in this film.:lol:

Don is sliding down a hill again and sticks the bow staff in the wheel-weld and causes it to flip that way.

because science, physics, logic...
That staff better be made out of the heart of a dying star or that scene is going to be very silly.