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Originally Posted by IndigoErth
Please no.
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It surely has to happen.
The producers have said the reason for the turtles lack of screen time in the 2014 movie was that it ate up their cgi budget to simply come up with 3D models. It stands to reason this would be an issue if they use motion capture again for the reboot which I'm sure they will because Hollywood sees it as the go-to method of bringing to life non-human characters.
Also when you add in that there's little chance they are going to have the kind of budget the 2014 did it seems inevitable.
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Yes. After a few viewings I just can't watch those portions anymore. Once you've seen it a few times those chunks of the film just get boring as hell, imo. Whether I've come across it on tv or the few times I've popped my disc in the player I always just skip forward, as well as other long non-Turtle portions.
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But is that because this way is inherently bad or because Megan Fox is not a good enough actress to carry twenty solid minutes of a movie particularly some of the cringey things they made her do.
I'd argue the concept of making the turtles more mysterious at first helps sets up a sense of realism, world building and helps sell these characters as ninjas. In my experience that this approach helps sell TMNT to an audience that is likes to dismiss them as "kiddie crap" which is audience you need to sell TMNT to if you want a movie series to be a success.
Most super hero movies do this to help establish plot, atmosphere and tone. In Batman Begins it is more than twenty minutes before Batman actually
begins, how long does it take Tony Stark to come up with the bulky mk 1 armor and even then how much longer before he comes up with his proper armor? The difference here is that we're still getting the main characters in a story explaining how and why they became a hero which is an important distinction but then it may not have to be a set up for April but Hamato Yoshi's story or if it's an IDW inspired movie a stretch in ancient Japan.
Either way I think this is something fans will have to consider because as I said the likelihood is that they will choose an approach that is the most expensive on what will be the lowest budget thus making another human centric movie almost inevitable.