The 2007 movie is a mess, a good one.

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Originally Posted by Peter Palmer

I think you're supporting my point without realizing it.

Sort of. I actually do believe the 1990 film is closer to like 85% Mirage in spirit, than 65%, so I wanted to point out that Andrew's opinion might be in "opposition" to people who think like me.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Citing Kevin in this regard isn't much of anything, for the very reason you mention. It's also worth noting that he once said the Platinum Dunes movies possess "the darker edge of the comic books."
http://www.thenational.ae/blogs/scen...-kevin-eastman

I think it's worth a lot, given he created the thing. Not to diminish personal subjective opinion. But if the creator says "yeah, this is what I was going for", you have to put some stock in that.

Again, Kevin is pretty honest in retrospect.
I mean, the PD films did try to capture "the darker edge of the comics books" in some ways. Obviously the film was a mess and complete disaster, but at times they were going for a mature edge with the 2014 film. Alas, they ended up just slapping all the disparate elements they had together into a gnarly gross pizza.
Claiming that PD went for a darker edge with the first film is a harmless thing to say and doesn't reflect the quality of the movie. Probably Kevin's way of avoiding having to say something bad about the film, but you can hear him voice his negative opinion on those movies in any recent interview.

To wrap it up, I think there is clear evidence that you can depend on Kevin to be honest...eventually. I trust he isn't blowing smoke up anyone's ass by praising TMNT 1990 as representative of his vision, thirty years later. Especially when he is openly criticizing the PD films in interviews now.

Originally Posted by d_osborn

It was ripped straight from the pages of the Mirage comics. Barron used the issues as storyboards in early development.

Yup.

And it's another opportunity to praise just how well the low-budget visuals of the film represented the indie, homemade feel of the Mirage comic. Maybe it was just coincidence, or maybe it's just the natural order of things for a low-fi comic to receive a low-fi movie adaption, but when people talk about comic books "truly being brought to life on screen", I think of this movie, alongside Into the Spider-Verse or Infinity War.