Should the Turtles swear in the new movie?

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by BabyTurtles

what does thinking for yourself have to do with swearing???

I think he was implying that someone never swearing because their parents said not to is kind of silly, and shows that they have/had a lot of control over them, and expresses a certain amount of naivete. Because most parents who tell their kids not to swear (gasp) actually swear quite a bit themselves. They just don't want their kids to, because kids have no internal filter, and if they start swearing, they'll most likely start swearing in places and in front of people where it simply isn't appropriate.

Once someone is old enough to show some restraint, there's nothing wrong with it. In certain situations it's *exactly* appropriate, like when two consenting adults are in the bedroom together, or, the opposite of that, when some poor guy drops a 200-lb filing cabinet on his foot. In either case, nobody's going to be sugar-coating anything.

That said, there's a level of what would be appropriate in the TMNT movie as well, and I'd say it's right about where the first movie was. Being a Bay-produced film, it will possibly push harder, but they don't need to. I curse more than anyone, but I felt it was horribly out of place in "Man of Steel", for example. Swearing is fine, and sometimes should actually be encouraged, but some movies don't need it.