New movie shocking fans by how good it is :-)

[Radical Raph]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

I think the lips are fine..

Here Leo's lips look kissable for you

http://i.imgur.com/PyxSAvm.gif

http://i.imgur.com/6870rzm.gif

Go ahead, don't be shy. I won't look lmao

Yea, I think it looks fine and the noses look fine. I don't know what people are still complaining about. They look like ninja turtles just a little more realistic. Real turtles have nostrils so why wouldn't a mutant turtle? They have to be able to breathe, don't they? I also think the lips are more practical. You can't have realistic looking characters talking without any lips. It's just going to look like a puppet.

[mgambino]

Originally Posted by zkarlette

The movie has the flaws we already knew it was going to have but it is entertaining. Saw it yesterday.

Yep, it's really stupid, but it was entertaining. The crowd at the screening seemed to love it though.

[Tazi]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

Who cares, they're taking feedback from viewers in general.

We should care, unless it's a lie: they just stated it's a feedback from the fans. They made this article to suggest something like: "look, we know, most of you has bad opinion about this movie already, but the true fans actually suprised by how good it is, instead"
If it's not the case...

Same as any movies, even Marvel, is marketed towards general audience not just fans. Your blatant hatred is obvious.

Go take your repulsive attitude somewhere else.

It's not that blatant actually, more like scepticism, and I'm not really talkin about the movie even, but about PD and the hype-machine, and how some of those paid reviews actually work, because yes, there are things like that out there.


Besides, even if it were pure superevil blatant hatred, I don't think I could take it to any place better, then the thread about discussing opinions on the movie. (because it's an opinion, about the movie...)

[SwiftNinjaFox]

Originally Posted by Matt2310

haha i dont mean in that way... i just meant the way he fights and moves hes insane in this movie...

Spoiler:

he uses his tail a lot , he was choking a foot soldier with his tail while double fisted punching another foot in the face

I didn't figure it was meant that way, but it's still a hilarious visual to imagine a body builder Splinter

[sgtfbomb]

Originally Posted by Galactus

That seems to suggest that it's an indisputable fact that this movie is great and that the people who see and don't like it are being dishonest and unforgiving.

I think people have forgotten how to discuss opinion. Nowadays, it's all about making vague, non-descript, non-credible blanket statements, such as "it's bad ass" or "it sucks" followed by no examples, no elaborations whatsoever, and if anyone disagrees with you, they're an "idiot" and must be destroyed.

[saber16]

Originally Posted by Jester

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...o/NOSTRALS.png

You made my night, man.

[jestermon]

You mean casual movie goers that make up 99% of the audience and of the profits love the movie, yes it's a dark day indeed for the property.

[Tazi]

Originally Posted by jestermon

You mean casual movie goers that make up 99% of the audience and of the profits love the movie, yes it's a dark day indeed for the property.

If that was directed toward me: No, I mean publishing a column about how the fanbase loves the movie based on four twitter posts is kind of... You know, it's not really journalism.
And I still wonder, if it's one of those (we need good press before the release!) paid articles.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Tazi

No, I mean publishing a column about how the fanbase loves the movie based on four twitter posts is kind of... You know, it's not really journalism.

Well, by the standards of today, sadly, yeah, that's totally "journalism" these days.

Cracked has like 87 articles on "BS News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream Media" or whatever in the past two years. Thanks to the f*cking internet, "journalism" is as easy as skimming wikipedia or doing a copy/paste from IGN or Ain't It Cool News.

A dozen people saying on twitter or FB that anything is true automatically makes it so, these days. As someone who studied journalism (back in the stone age when the internet was about a year old), it's pretty shameful. But hey, that's life in the digital age.

Movie still might end up doing alright, but yeah, that's not really "reporting" on their part, you're right. As for whether the reviews were paid, we'll never know. That's definitely something that happens, a LOT, but who knows if that's the case this time. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're just enthusiastic. Who knows.

[Tazi]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Well, by the standards of today, sadly, yeah, that's totally "journalism" these days.

Cracked has like 87 articles on "BS News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream Media" or whatever in the past two years. Thanks to the f*cking internet, "journalism" is as easy as skimming wikipedia or doing a copy/paste from IGN or Ain't It Cool News.

A dozen people saying on twitter or FB that anything is true automatically makes it so, these days. As someone who studied journalism (back in the stone age when the internet was about a year old), it's pretty shameful. But hey, that's life in the digital age.

Yup, that's what I'm saying. I'm not even that much informed about the US media, but at my country a good tons of articles are just republished reddit/twitter posts. It's even better when the original article is in english, and the translated end product is something else then the original was...

Movie still might end up doing alright, but yeah, that's not really "reporting" on their part, you're right. As for whether the reviews were paid, we'll never know. That's definitely something that happens, a LOT, but who knows if that's the case this time. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're just enthusiastic. Who knows.

I'm not that well informed about the movie industry, but I know that video game industry has that all the time. People fired from jobs for giving negative reviews, reviewers getting presents, like tablets before release, reviewer sites being unable to give proper reviews to AAA stuff, because the fear of loosing the opportunity of getting review copies in the future, etc...
I think Movie industry is bigger than VG insdustry, there are more money involved (basically it's one of the exports of the US), and probably a lot more lobby. I'd honestly be suprised if they wouldn't own lot of those reviewers.


Now about the Movie itself, it still might be good enough, I haven't seen it, I will watch it, and hopefully the turtle-redesigns and the brostep won't disturb me that much to not to enjoy it.
Still, this thread is not about the movie, but about "5 people saying on twitter the movie was good". That's kinda hilarious choice of topic.

[Leo656]

A video game mag I used to read used to get ads pulled all the time for publishing mediocre reviews. For example, companies would give them sneak peeks, demos, interviews, all that stuff, advance copies of the game... then, if it was bad, they'd give it a bad review, and the publishers would be all "What the hell?" There'd be, at the least, an unspoken arrangement of, "We're giving you access to all this, so... yeah, one hand washes the other, right?" Then, an unbiased review would be seen as "breaking" that arrangement, they'd get all pissy, and pull their ads and not cooperate with the magazine anymore. The editors would be like, "Just because you gave us all this stuff doesn't mean we owe you anything, the game was bad and we said so, period." I know for a fact some less scrupulous mags and websites gladly take payola from the bigger companies, that's nothing new.

And it definitely happens in movies. I remember Brett Ratner throwing a hissy fit because he was buttering up to Harry Knowles from Ain't It Cool, and then Knowles said on his site that the Superman script Abrams was going to be directing was garbage (which it was). Ratner was all, "Man, I did that guy so many f*cking favors," and it's like, "Yeeeaaaah, that's also kind of called bribery, isn't it?" Not exactly something to brag about.

I'unno, it's business. Kind of one of those things everyone knows happens, but they don't want to admit would ever happen with their movie, gosh no. As you said, it's a billion-dollar industry, of course they have people who are paid to generate buzz. Is it happening with TMNT? Who can say for sure? To be fair, though, if the movie's good, it'll be good with or without paid reviews and will get its own good reviews, anyway. Would it be unthinkable for them to pass a few bucks around to get the ball rolling first, though? Nah.

[FreddyGroose]

So are they aliens are not? And is no one talking about the action scenes in the movie? I'm at page three and all I see is a bunch of useless bla bla

[Tazi]

They're not aliens, that was confirmed before.

[FreddyGroose]

THanks! SOrry I don't have much internet access

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

So i posted this is another thread and i admit i really feel strongly about this

i feel all these free screenings 2 weeks before will hurt the movie, i mean even if they enjoyed it who says they will pay for it if they had the chance to see it for free..ive done it...i did it with alot of movies i enjoyed

[Warhorse]

Originally Posted by Tazi

They're not aliens, that was confirmed before.

And, they aren't re-incarnated humans, right?

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

So i posted this is another thread and i admit i really feel strongly about this

i feel all these free screenings 2 weeks before will hurt the movie, i mean even if they enjoyed it who says they will pay for it if they had the chance to see it for free..ive done it...i did it with alot of movies i enjoyed

I'm already going to see this movie without paying for it, thanks to Crush.

[jestermon]

Originally Posted by Bry

The OOTS Turtles actually strike a pretty good balance. The nostrils are pretty small and subtle, and they keep the iconic wide/big mouths and the designs and proportions are pretty intact and appealing. They're not my favourite TMNT look or anything, but they're not bad, and I think they'd look a lot better in a movie than what we got.

http://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/up...key_Action.jpg



100% agreed. I've been saying this for ages. The best VFX artists make inhuman characters look real and emote well all the time. That whole "we had to do them this way" excuse doesn't fly.

That picture looks horrible.

[Bry]

Originally Posted by jestermon

That picture looks horrible.

That's subjective. I think that design looks a lot better than this:



But we've all got our own tastes.

[Xiewin]

Originally Posted by Bry

That's subjective. I think that design looks a lot better than this:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SOHZ0vdLN...TELLO-TMNT.jpg

But we've all got our own tastes.

Thank god Mikey looks nothing like that in the actual film

[Bry]

Originally Posted by Xiewin

Thank god Mikey looks nothing like that in the actual film

I had trouble finding a decent full-body picture of him on GIS for some reason. But while the final movie version is more detailed/"realistic", it's the exact same design.

EDIT: nevermind, found a better image.