If the 90s movie trailer was new today...
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJPwRWaZBI

Internet reaction:

Who's the generic asian sidekick?

So Shredder now commands every teenager in the city?

Mikey twirling his nunchuck on 1 finger!

Ugh, Donny just fountain-spit water into that foot soldier's face.

They used cymbals as a weapon...is this a cartoon?

Head smash between their shells, really?

Why are they dancing?

This looks so bad. Its gonna suck. Not getting my money. Hollywood doesn't care.

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Those voices sounded absolutely horrible...I'm glad they didn't go with those

Nope probably would've hated the voices but other than that I think I would've been with it.

Good question regarding this. As an adult, I just would've questioned the voices. If I was a kid now watching the Nick version, I probably wouldn't have thought anything of it and probably would've wanted to see it anyway.

:lol: this is a real good question. I think we all know how it would go down tho :lol:

I hated it back then, still hate it today.

Secret of the Ooze was the only trailer I got hyped for, especially thinking it had Bebop and Rocksteady at the time was sooo cool! We all know how that turned out....

Hey look another thread to try & bait the "leery" crowd. Classy.

and here class we have an example of ...everything TMNT before 2014 sucks now...test tomorrow on TMNT 2014 is the best movie Evar 2 weeks before its released

What... How did you get that out of what he said, he was just talking about the voices in the trailer, the place-holder (if that's the right word in English) voices that was dubbed over with much better voices in the final cut of the film!

Yeah, this. The voices in the trailer didn't match the ones used in the actual movie. They were....pretty bad. ^^

Well...

* Welcome, we live in more cynical times.
* Collectively within the movie section of the franchise this could count as a sequel of sorts, "reboot" or not, and sequels often aren't treated as kindly.
* In 1990, thanks to the cartoon the Turtles had been widely know for all of about...3 years. It's first generation were still young children, with the minds of children and not nearly as much time spent becoming emotionally as invested in these guys, touchy about details, or protective of them as compared to now 30 years of the franchise as a whole.

Provided that TMNT is still around for hopefully a very long time to come, I'm sure long from now technology will somehow one day be even better, will provide the world with yet another film that fans will carry on about and at that time this one may well find itself counted among the targets as proof of why that future one is "better."

Really, isn't it actually better that humanity isn't a hive mind and is capable of differing views... If it wasn't for the freedom and willingness for fans to express what they like or don't like and if everyone acted like 8-year-olds just happy for a movie "because Turtles," we might well be ending up with aliens.

I definitely know we live in a more cynical time and being kids gave us a different view but I posted this to show how any trailer can be overly scrutinized with exaggerated complaints based on a short amount of footage.

Hindsight is always 20/20 right guys?

At least the turtles looks good :lol:

^^^ Agreed! I think those suits still look pretty fantastic and capture the Turtles pretty well in a realistic manner. I would assume puppet technology has advanced, wish they could have wowed us with some awesome real costumes instead of CGI for this new movie.

Turtle designs weren't the point. You dont like them, fine. Its about the only thing that can be judged since we're clearly seeing them as a whole...still I think theyll look better in the context of the actual movie, for those who dislike them now anyway.

No need for suits. The CGI looks great and suits limit action. This movie is more action heavy.

true but we don't have a short amount of footage anymore. We've got a lot more now then we did when the first quick trailer was released and we got nothing but brief glimpses at title characters. What we have now is more than enough footage to make a judgement on if this movie appeals to you or not. In fact a few of the exaggerated complaints have been proven

there's a lot of things to judge based on on what we've been shown. A lot of the worries and concerns certain posters, myself included have had have had with this movie have more or less been confirmed by the various tv spots and trailers. If you don't like certain ideas like super strong bigger than the average man turtles or shredder being in a mech suit no amount of context is going to change that. It is what it is and there's no twist coming. That's a deal breaker for some of us and no matter where they go withe the story from this point we already consider it fundamentaly broken. I really don't see anyway more context could make this better. If I don't like the way something looks and seen it in limited motion I don't see how seeing it in more motion is going to change my mind. And while I agree with you that despite my feeling on the designs themselves the cgi looks good but I don't think they HAD to be 100% cgi. My opinion is that cgi works best when its used to enhance a pratical effect and I believe limited turtles suits with cgi backing them up would have made one hell of a live action turtle. Probably would've saved them time working on the effects too

I just meant the designs would seem better in the context of the overall movie. It'll all sync up. Opposed to seeing clips and pics of "Big, clothed turtles", but yes if you don't like how it looks so far that's fine. Pretty much the point of trailers...you see them to decide if you're interested.

What I'm showing is any thing can be highly scrutinized and made out to be horrible just because you don't like how it looks.

There's a line, a difference, between...hmm I don't like how this looks...and...OMG its so awful, looks like crap, its gonna suck!

As far as suits and CGI goes blending them would work too and would look pretty cool but I don't see a huge need for this.

I agree, though I generally chalk it up to people's attachment to them and not easily taking unwelcome changes.

I'm sure these guys in a way are like old friends to many people. And I suppose this movie is the equivalent to an old friend showing up at your door after a drastic amount of unexpected plastic surgery and not being able to keep from thinking "wtf happened to you and who did this??" I guess some are bound to be heartbroken by it, while others may try to take it in stride...


I was heartbroken a long time there until we finally got their personalities. Still sad over some of their choices for them, but now it's more like finally seeing that someone is still themselves despite what may feel like some unfortunate thing having happened to them.