Official TMNT 2 Trailer Discussion

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Nah, not yet. Nobody's threatening to beat Leo656's head in with a crowbar yet.

You'd think, right? I guess what with the holidays and all, people have just been busy.

As for this movie series, nothing can win me back at this point. This one and the inevitable third one are just going to be continuing the junk from the first one. Minor improvements here and there notwithstanding, they're building on top of a cracked foundation, planting seeds in poisoned soil. No matter how good it looks at a glance, those tomatoes aren't gonna taste right or sit well.

A lot of actors like to say, "You can't make a good movie from a bad script", but I'd like to add that you also can't get a good sequel out of a truly horrendous movie like the last one. You can improve on it with a little plaster and spackle but you can't rebuild he foundation. You have to break away from it entirely and start over. That's not what they're doing, thus everything they do in the same series is bad by definition, at best it can only be less-bad.

I'm not looking forward to the inevitable reboot either, though. I'm not looking forward to any TMNT movie ever again. It's still Viacom pulling the strings and they only care about being pimps to the brand, so why get excited? They don't care. The people who own TMNT don't care about making a good movie, and they're making tons of money making bad ones. We've ensured they don't have to try, ever. Well, not me personally, I didn't vote for this bullsh*t, but you guys... All you did was make sure they're going to do nothing but spoon-feed us pablum and dreck for the rest of the time they bother to hold on to the brand. Nice work.

So no, nothing's gonna win me over for THIS film series, and for any future ones, it would take nothing short of a miracle. I'd honestly prefer zero future TMNT movies at all over the 6 to 10 sh*tty ones we're guaranteed to get over the next 30 years.

Unless Viacom ever gets bored of it and sells it to WB. Then I'd have at least a spark of hope, because if nothing else WB has shown a willingness and understanding of how to take their "kids properties" and use them to provide products and entertainment for fans of all ages, not just kids, something Nick/Viacom simply isn't interested in doing.

So if Nick ever sells TMNT to pretty much anybody else, then there's hope for a good movie one day. Meanwhile, nope. As long as Nick owns it, it literally doesn't get better than this, as depressing as THAT is.