Corrections officer by Day, Vigilante by night

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Originally Posted by Powder

I do appreciate the point you're making, but in this case, it's not really applicable. The two schmucks who wrote it had a lot of terrible ideas that made it in, don't know how to write dialogue or seal gaps, & at every turn seem to make it abundantly clear how little they know/love TMNT.

Absolutely nothing about this project or the previous movie would incentivize anyone involved to know or love TMNT. Or even to stop to think for a moment about what a weird and politically awful choice making a presumably sympathetic character a combination prison guard/vigilante is. There's no reason to rethink the first, easily digestible idea that lets the script work.

Every moment they could be pouring more effort into this assembly-line script built around toy-advertising and flashy effects, they could/have to be spending two more on all the other scripts they'll touch this year that may never be made, that may need rewrites based on all sorts of executive requests, etc. The system does not reward caring.

My fault is not with the writers, who have a hard job and are molded by large studio systems to work that way. It's hard to say it's even with the executive producers and studio heads who spearhead projects like this (although it absolutely is). It's pretty squarely with audiences who support it again and again.

No one in this thread should be pre-maturely dumping on the writers and still purchase a ticket to this film.

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Or maybe they really think prison-guard Casey is an awesome idea because it's a hell of a lot more filmable for this kind of lowest-common-denominator movie than Casey being a pastiche vigilante who's watched too many movies. Maybe they're terrible writers and this is truly reflective of their interests and the best of their abilities. Either way, nothing is encouraging spending any more effort on this than has already been spent.