Does anyone agree that Out of the Shadows was even worse than the first one?

[Andrew NDB]

Question: do the Turtles (besides Donatello) even use their weapons on anyone that isn't Krang's robot body? Does Michelangelo smack anyone with his nunchuks?

I found it interesting in that trailer that touts "Everything a fan wants" that when it said "NUNCHUKS" it cut to a shot of the corny arm things on the Turtlevan and not, y'know, the Turtle with the nunchuks using them.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Question: do the Turtles (besides Donatello) even use their weapons on anyone that isn't Krang's robot body? Does Michelangelo smack anyone with his nunchuks?

I found it interesting in that trailer that touts "Everything a fan wants" that when it said "NUNCHUKS" it cut to a shot of the corny arm things on the Turtlevan and not, y'know, the Turtle with the nunchuks using them.

A actually Mikey and Raph "play" with their weapons alot. They twirl them around often when not fighting and Mikey and Raph use them quite a bit actually throughout the movie.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by samxsteal

A actually Mikey and Raph "play" with their weapons alot. They twirl them around often when not fighting and Mikey and Raph use them quite a bit actually throughout the movie.

So... they play around with them a lot. Do they hit or strike anybody with them?

[mrmaczaps]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Question: do the Turtles (besides Donatello) even use their weapons on anyone that isn't Krang's robot body? Does Michelangelo smack anyone with his nunchuks?

I found it interesting in that trailer that touts "Everything a fan wants" that when it said "NUNCHUKS" it cut to a shot of the corny arm things on the Turtlevan and not, y'know, the Turtle with the nunchuks using them.

I JUST saw it tonight and I don't recall them directly using their weapons on anyone... but then, there's only a few scenes with Raph and Mikey with any villains besides a couple of foot soldiers and then Bebop & Rocksteady... no, they don't. Lol. Damn.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by mrmaczaps

I JUST saw it tonight and I don't recall them directly using their weapons on anyone... but then, there's only a few scenes with Raph and Mikey with any villains besides a couple of foot soldiers and then Bebop & Rocksteady... no, they don't. Lol. Damn.

So the Ninja Turtles don't actually use their weapons on anyone in the new Ninja Turtles movie. Great. That's great.

The prosecution rests.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

So... they play around with them a lot. Do they hit or strike anybody with them?

Originally Posted by mrmaczaps

I JUST saw it tonight and I don't recall them directly using their weapons on anyone... but then, there's only a few scenes with Raph and Mikey with any villains besides a couple of foot soldiers and then Bebop & Rocksteady... no, they don't. Lol. Damn.

Yes they do in the police station. they do while fighting Bebop and Rocksteady. The fight at the end they do.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by samxsteal

Yes they do in the police station. they do while fighting Bebop and Rocksteady. The fight at the end they do.

So just on mutants and Krang's robot body, then? Who specifically used weapons on Bebop and Rocksteady besides Donatello?

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

So just on mutants and Krang's robot body, then? Who specifically used weapons on Bebop and Rocksteady besides Donatello?

There were parts when they were In the police station in which just about every turtle use their weapons. And they all use them during there fights with BB and RS. And the final fight they all use their weapons.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

So... they play around with them a lot. Do they hit or strike anybody with them?

The Turtles are huge hulk beasts in this version, when we see them hit the Foot (which is only in a few scenes), they literally just swing their arms at them and knock them across the room.

Other than that the Turtles only fight scenes are against Bebop/Rocksteady and then Krang at the end. The Turtles never fight Shredder, Karai, or Baxter. And the Foot are in very few scenes with the Turtles.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by samxsteal

There were parts when they were In the police station in which just about every turtle use their weapons.

Define "using" them. And on whom?

[Powder]

They don't really "use" them in battle, they kinda just hold them while jumping around. I think Leo cuts off the hand of Krang's robot, but that's all I can remember. The weapons are featured often enough, just not for combat purposes.

[chrisdude]

Does this kind of stuff make it into other PG-13 movies?

[Ramboraph4life aka Matt]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

Does this kind of stuff make it into other PG-13 movies?

Apocalypse pretty much decapitated people (well, turned their necks into sand and the heads fell off) in X-Men: Apocalypse...and just take a look at some of the scenes in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Pretty brutal for PG-13.

I hated Batman V. Superman, but you had Batman killing tons of folks (including the fight scene he had against goons in the third act...the only sequence I liked). Even Superman breaking someone's neck in Man of Steel.

The recent Captain America films had impact in their fights, blood on their faces/from their mouths in certain scenes, and (from the sounds of it) more actual Martial Arts/Fight Contact/Choreography/etc. than this flick (with Ninja in the title).

That's just a handful of PG-13 films off of the top of my head.

[chrisdude]

Originally Posted by Ramboraph4life aka Matt

Apocalypse pretty much decapitated people (well, turned their necks into sand and the heads fell off) in X-Men: Apocalypse...and just take a look at some of the scenes in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Pretty brutal for PG-13.

I hated Batman V. Superman, but you had Batman killing tons of folks (including the fight scene he had against goons in the third act...the only sequence I liked). Even Superman breaking someone's neck in Man of Steel.

The recent Captain America films had impact in their fights, blood on their faces/from their mouths in certain scenes, and (from the sounds of it) more actual Martial Arts/Fight Contact/Choreography/etc. than this flick (with Ninja in the title).

That's just a handful of PG-13 films off of the top of my head.

Yeah. Saw all that. None of that has the same shock value as getting hit in the face with nunchucks. An image I can't recall ever seeing, anywhere. Blame our culture, if you want.

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

Yeah. Saw all that. None of that has the same shock value as getting hit in the face with nunchucks. An image I can't recall ever seeing, anywhere. Blame our culture, if you want.

Necks turning to sand and heads falling off doesn't have as much shock value as a piece of wood hitting somebody in the face by a cartoon talking turtle?

[Galactus]

Thing is on the one hand you've got the idea that TMNT Out of the Shadows is marketed towards kids and on the other hand you've also got the idea that it's marketed towards thirty somethings who like to incessantly remind everyone this is marketed to kids so shouldn't have actual combat and use that as a smokescreen because that it's how they want it based on what they remember when they were kids.

[Ramboraph4life aka Matt]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

Yeah. Saw all that. None of that has the same shock value as getting hit in the face with nunchucks. An image I can't recall ever seeing, anywhere. Blame our culture, if you want.

Yeah...because a scene like this (Colossus getting his head caved in, Iceman having his head off off and crushed, a guy burned alive, etc.) is less shocking than simple 'hit to the face'.

C'mon now.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Define "using" them. And on whom?

Omg dude they use them like they always do whTbmore do you I'm not going to start discribing as scene by scene exactly what happens. I practice and use nunchaku and Mikey used them appropriately Raph does his thing I know some have never thought Raph uses his sai authentically. But he does use them I'd say about an equal amount t at the 1990s movie. But they use them in different situations.

[Bry]

Originally Posted by Galactus

Thing is on the one hand you've got the idea that TMNT Out of the Shadows is marketed towards kids and on the other hand you've also got the idea that it's marketed towards thirty somethings who like to incessantly remind everyone this is marketed to kids so shouldn't have actual combat and use that as a smokescreen because that it's how they want it based on what they remember when they were kids.

That's actually a perfect encapsulation, yeah.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by samxsteal

I practice and use nunchaku.

Neat.

Freestyle dancing or "real" techniques?