The designs of the Turtles is proof to never trust Kevin Eastman

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Originally Posted by voltron80

It seems the real hipster thing on the internet is trash Megan Fox

Yes but Megan Fox is relevant to this discussion because her casting is such an obvious thing to happen in movie produced by Michael Bay - people were joking about her playing April as soon as we heard his company was producing it. It shows a complete lack of imagination.

Not to mention her inclusion brings to mind the other 80s property that Bay handled and Megan Fox starred in. I think it's perfectly reasonable to worry if TMNT will go the way of Bay's Transformers movies....all other indications are that it will be worse.

and for Danny Woodburn Master Splinter has always been voiced by a Japanese men just ask Kevin Clash and James Murray.

It's not a case of getting an actual Japanese voice actor although I thought Mako was great in the animated movie but rather the character who is essentially race-less has always been portrayed as a Japanese-esque wise master of martial arts. Unless Woodburn is an actor with a greater range than his previous roles have shown it seems he's likely charged to play Splinter like he's played every other role he's had.

If we're going by directors while Steve Barron directed the first turtles movie and tons of great music videos he also directed "Coneheads"just saying.

If we'd had internet culture back then Barron signing on to direct may have been met with a negative reaction but bare in mind in 1989 hardly anyone conceived that a TMNT movie could be done with even a semi-mature tone. When we all saw the movie - he proved that it could be done.

Now that we know it can then it's natural we'd look at the resumes of those making this new movie and see the odds aren't good of getting something of that quality.

And an Ninja never fought paramilitary guys expect for Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and Ninja Gaiden 3.or American Ninja, Ninja Assassin(the scene post Raizo getting arrested and the last action sequence) and that sequel to Ninja on Netflix.

The turtles have plenty of non-ninja antagonists themselves but the Foot are their primary ones and have always been a ninja clan. In fact it's very important to the TMNT's entire story.

If they wanted to do a movie were the turtles fight the military then they could have either gotten Bishop and his Black Ops guys on come up with an original military group rather than altering the most important villains the of the franchise.

We still haven't seen one trailer with these guys in action yet but **** it the movie is doom, it's the "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of comic book movies. Just saying have an open mind and if you're right then you're right take your victory lap or if this movie turns out alright then every fan wins, and isn't that more important?

I'll never understand why people advocate waiting for a trailer given that trailers are notoriously deceptive.

I've said this before but we don't need to have all the jigsaw pieces in place to figure out what the finished picture will be. In fact studios rely on that hence why they allow the people involved to give interviews, release concept art, designs and trailers. It's all to hype us up and convince us the movie is great before we've seen it.

The lack of any of the above at the last stage in the game is troubling and it's natural to think that perhaps that we don't have any of that stuff because they know that in this instance we wont care for it. Especially when you consider the information we do know about this movie is having the effect of us rolling our eyes.