Film Runtime

[Leo656]

It'll be a little over an hour and a half, maybe just under two hours. They'll never be able to keep the "jokes" going for longer than that, so forget it going over two. Carve out a decent 20-30 minutes to address the origin and various plot points relating to it, a solid 30-40 of "action scenes", and the rest "jokes & exposition". 100-110 minutes sounds about right.

[Shark_Blade]

The longer the better.

More turtles and Megan Fox goodness.

[Leo656]

They barely have enough material for a 90-minute movie as it is, based on what they're trying to do with it. I'd be fine with a 90-minute movie that didn't drag, over a 3-hour "let's cram in every bit of minutiae from the entire TMNT canon" farce that had people rolling their eyes at the 500th pizza joke. If it goes near two hours, people are gonna be chewing their own arms off to leave.

Having too much of a good thing is a real problem. Having too much of *this movie*, on the other hand... heh, that's an entirely different problem they're gonna have to deal with.

[Slap-Happy]

Originally Posted by Leo656

If it goes near two hours, people are gonna be chewing their own arms off to leave.

You don't know that. You don't know anything about this movie. For all we know, it'll be two hours and leave people wanting more. In a good way.

Then again, it could be sh*t. Once again, we know nothing.

[Leo656]

We know plenty if we know what to look for in the information we do have. We haven't had anything spelled out for us, no, but there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the movie won't be great. It might *look* great, but they're not aiming very high.

Giant afro wig, bro. That's an example of the type of "humor". It's a small detail that says a lot. It says we're supposed to see Whoopi Goldberg, in a TMNT movie, with a gigantic afro, and chuckle at the ridiculousness of it all. This, despite the fact that neither Whoopi Goldberg or giant afros are funny at all on their own, and neither adds anything to a TMNT film. It's only one thing, sure, but it indicates a lot about the angle from which they're approaching this project.

We can also surmise, this late in the game (it's still coming out in spring, isn't it?), that April and Vernon have some sort of "relationship" aside from working together. You may not be aware of this, but it is in fact a "rule" that every "blockbuster" movie, or any movie based on a popular property, has to have a "romance" element. It's done to appeal to women, because they're 50-60% of the population and Hollywood wants their cash. It's why they made up Rachel Dawes for "Batman Begins", despite the fact that Batman's origin didn't need a love story and her character's existence really caused more problems for everyone else than anything. So far, it looks like Vernon is the male lead, so we can all but assure they'll at least tease something between him and April. If they were going to use Casey at all for this movie, they're running out of time, so I don't think they are. I don't really care to see Vernon macking on April. Odds are we will, and that's pretty dumb.

The fact that much of the early script did make it into the movie also shows that they really don't know or care about what they're doing, they just want to get the movie done. I mean, they're already filming it, and they're still announcing new characters and actors in a piecemeal fashion, almost if it's still not finished behind the scenes. For all we know they're still working on what the movie is supposed to be like. It's actually entirely possible it's an "Alien 3" situation, where they already started filming to make the release date despite having no actual finished, complete script. It happens more than you think, and the results are usually not stellar. The studio wants the movie done. The earlier script was what they were working from up until fairly recently, and in "Hollywood-time" anything they've come up with since then absolutely HAD to have been a rush job. There simply wasn't time for the studio to come up with, review, and approve anything too different from what they already had. So what most likely happened, is they took 3 or 4 rejected scripts, watched a few episodes of the old cartoon, and started combining pieces of all the rejected ideas and changing character names to better match the cartoon show. Simply put, the story is likely going to be pretty weak. Add in arbitrarily changing Shredder's backstory ("allegedly"), and it just looks like, on paper at least, a big mess.

By all accounts, it will *look* great. I'm betting it will have awesome CGI and the fight scenes will be exciting enough to make some people overlook some of what's wrong with it. I'm sure it will be "fun", and "exciting", and all that. But I want something *more* than that. I didn't want a "it's fun if you shut your brain off and just go with it" kind of movie, but seriously, that's what it looks like to me, based on absolutely everything we DO know so far. I still think it will be better than some people are expecting, but some people are expecting it to literally make people get cancer. I just think it's going to be needlessly juvenile to the point of annoyance.

[Cure]

You can go on your usual hundred paragraph long justifications, but it doesn't change the fact everything you're saying is an assumption. You could be wrong, you could be right. No one knows.

[Leo656]

I hope it's the best thing ever and I'll be the first one to say so if it is. I'm just callin' it like I see it so far. I'll be the first one to say I was wrong if it turns out great.

[chrisdude]

Aside from that one crummy photo of a sewer set piece, we haven't caught as much as a glimpse of a single scene or actor who wasn't shot on the open streets of NYC. We have no idea what or who has been filmed on soundstages, or even just inside buildings. We really can't guess whether they have "enough material" for a two hour movie.

And if every Transformers movie can go well over 2 hours, with their garbage storylines, I don't see why TMNT can't.

[turtlefanforever]

the movie is just the trailer and we are actually watching the whole thing multiple times a day as it comes on.

[xChri5x]

Originally Posted by Xav

I found this website, no idea how reliable it is, claiming the running time is 87 minutes, mine you that may seem short, but it's still longer than Liebesman's Darkness Falls.
http://movieleaks.co/movie/teenage-m...ninja-turtles/

That website is shady as ****.

[electric_sheep]

02:30:66

1.30 Of human assholes being assholes. 1:00 of mindless action. 66 of Michael Bay flapping his dick in your face...

[Ramboraph4life aka Matt]

Originally Posted by xChri5x

That website is shady as ****.

I know Wikipedia is not the best either, but that says 89 minutes.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Xav

I found this website, no idea how reliable it is, claiming the running time is 87 minutes, mine you that may seem short, but it's still longer than Liebesman's Darkness Falls.
http://movieleaks.co/movie/teenage-m...ninja-turtles/

I doubt it, That site for watching bootleg movies online, Even movies that are currently in theaters.

[TigerClaw]

I think the movie will have around a 2 hour running time, And 2 hours is plenty for character development, story, and action set pieces.

[Eiko]

if it is anything like transformers, it has that feel when watching the trailer then it will probably be a 2 hour movie.

[TrickOrTreater]

No more than 2 hours 15 minutes. That's my guess.

[thebrownranger]

Hopefully the running time is long enough to where there's decent plot and character development.

[BabyTurtles]

I hope it's long enough to give each turtles a chance to shine ^_^

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by BabyTurtles

I hope it's long enough to give each turtles a chance to shine ^_^

Yeah, 2 hours is enough to show each Turtle's Abilities and Skills.

[NinjaPug]

My guess is between 100 and 110 minutes.