The NEW Official Trailer Discussion

[Machias Banshee]

Important: This new thread was created due to the original being so full of bickering that it was beyond recovery. Discussion and debate is fine, but any and all fighting/insulting will result in Severe discipline. I and the staff will not allow the forum to get in such a poor state again. You have been warned.

First Trailer:


Brothers TV Spot:


Okay, so after much waiting, we Finally got the official trailer to look at. A lot of controversy has come up in terms of Eric Sachs, with his ties to April's father, his "creating heroes" line in the first trailer, not to mention that giant wall scroll that's got some really weird looking images on it. And what about the voices now?

The Brother's TV Spot gives us our (possible) first soundbite of Splinter's voice, and a partial view of what he looks like - is his necklace of jade or a vial of ooze? What's with the weird hair and fu manchu beard? What kind of Splinter are we going to have based on what we've seen so far?

I'm sure many of you have a lot more questions, and as we get new trailers and movie spots, you'll be able to speculate and make your own theories...

[Machias Banshee]

Okay, we're going to do this one day at a time.. have fun, and play nice.

[Casey]

I'll go first, I'm really weirded out by the sound of Splinter's supposed voice. I am in the "this film is gonna suck" camp, but trying to stay open-minded in hopes their fresh spin on things will spark some new tmnt love and better incarnations, but Splinter is giving me a bad vibe. Hair, voice, clothes... Idk.

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

watching the trailer and the sliding down the snowy hill, part of me wonders how Donatello is sliding so smoothly

it also makes me wonder how it is attached to his shell

[Anton Chigurh]

I liked both trailers one from the view point on shedder and the other from splinter, Tony's voice actually sounds really really good to me. Now lets get one from the view point of Leo

Edit: I can't help but think splinters bout to whoop some butt, really fluid movement this ain't no old and feeble rat

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Anton Chigurh

I liked both trailers one from the view point on shedder and the other from splinter

You know that never even dawned on me...

[Casey]

Originally Posted by Anton Chigurh

I liked both trailers one from the view point on shedder and the other from splinter, Tony's voice actually sounds really really good to me. Now lets get one from the view point of Leo

Edit: I can't help but think splinters bout to whoop some butt, really fluid movement this ain't no old and feeble rat

His voice does sound great and while I'm interested to see a white-sounding Splinter, I have some reservations concerning it and the way it is going to coincide with his Asian "look."

The Yoda-esque fight though should be cool to watch.

Originally Posted by Jester

You know that never even dawned on me...

Me neither.

[Sewer Sirens Podcast]

Yay! Movie discussion is opening up again!

But, regarding the trailer, as I've already said, I'm cautiously excited about what I've seen and what this movie has for us, and am excited to see more.

[AquaParade]

Are you going to wipe our butt's too? I wasn't even part of any argument but this place is starting to feel like a playpen.I'm compelled to voice my opinion that the moderating is too extreme. Much love for the hard work to keep the place running, all else aside.

To be positive and on topic, I'd like to mention that I absolutely love Mikey's design. I'm not sure I've voiced that yet and I've seen mostly a negative response from it around here. Yeah, I could do without the overbearing nose, but the color scheme, pants, and bandana are all visually appealing to me. It sort of remind's me of how spectacular the alien designs were in District 9. I loved the clothing and color's they picked out for "Christopher", the main alien/prawn.

[electric_sheep]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

watching the trailer and the sliding down the snowy hill, part of me wonders how Donatello is sliding so smoothly

it also makes me wonder how it is attached to his shell

That's a great point and how do Raphs glasses stay on when he smashes the Hammer?

I come back and all the interesting people are banned, atleast i take sollace that someone finaly put FellowChucker down, i hate that guy with a passion.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by electric_sheep

That's a great point and how do Raphs glasses stay on when he smashes the Hammer?

Maybe they Re superglued to the hoodie part of the bandanna.

[sethmartin]

Originally Posted by electric_sheep

That's a great point and how do Raphs glasses stay on when he smashes the Hammer?

I come back and all the interesting people are banned, atleast i take sollace that someone finaly put FellowChucker down, i hate that guy with a passion.

Well if his loincloth can defy gravity, why can't his shades?

It's a shame so many people had to get banned, but I was personally tired of being called stupid or seeing people told to "go kill themselves" just because we are looking forward to a movie. Differences of opinion and debates are one thing but some people just take it too far.

[Refractive Reflections]

Here I go into the line of fire...

As for the live-action trailer, my predictions about this movie being a much darker version than we (the fandom) have experienced seems to somewhat still be holding up:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sho...83#post1207383

I don't necessarily mind this level of darkness, but as my post mentioned before, if it doesn't address some of the practicality/logic issues, people won't take the movie as seriously as it apparently wants to be taken and it will be an unintentional parody of itself.

I don't know... Seeing Leonardo land on the concrete ledge creating an impacting dust cloud, and Raphael being used as a wrecking ball against a military Humvee (a turtle shell against armor used for IEDs) is just screaming an excessive amount of action "loudness" to me at the expense of a dark-oriented plot. I mean aren't ninjas supposed to be quiet and stealthy? Poor Raph, his brute strength is being taken to such an extreme level that he's being used as a wrecking ball. LOL, with Leonardo's landing, I'm sure the residents in the building could hear him 3-4 floors underneath him, so much for being part of the "shadows". As for how these four are gonna fit in the TurtleVan, LOL...

Of course, and as always, this could all change when the movie is actually released, but for now... honestly... I couldn't stop laughing at the trailer. William Fitchner's vocal narration/introduction was so cliche and hilarious, I mean the "high rise in crime in our great city" speech could easily be interchangeable with any other superhero movie.

One thing that is actually an interesting twist for me is seeing how April's father and Shredder/Eric Sachs are somehow associated with each other in "creating" the Turtles.

Hearing how they are using Johnny Knoxville's voice for Leonardo now, and how they are still refilming some scenes (according to Alan Ritchson) after a budget of $125 million... yeah... I'm not having much confidence in this film. Ever since this movie's beginnings, it has all been a messy production. It seems that this production staff is struggling to put something cohesive (like a big tape job) with a hodgepodge of elements they have. As examples, the Turtle designs, the script writing of the past, Bay being shifted from director to producer, voice over changes, etc rather than some confident, firm concept or idea of where they want to take the Turtles and their character development. Then again, this is a Bay film, so expecting this level of depth is a joke and it will probably be like most Bay films, a superficial "bad ass" violent film with a thin plot and thinner characters, which will be massively successful as a perfect "turn off your brain" summer flick.


Then again all those setbacks could all be nothing but a PR ploy just to keep us talking, LOL. I mean the public is more interested in talking about a train wreck rather than something going smoothly, so all my logic could be turned right on its head.

[Ramboraph4life aka Matt]

Originally Posted by Refractive Reflections

Then again all those setbacks could all be nothing but a PR ploy just to keep us talking, LOL. I mean the public is more interested in talking about a train wreck rather than something going smoothly, so all my logic could be turned right on its head.

Well, if it's all a PR ploy...it's the best one in the history of films. So it's either that or the train wreck, take your pick

[Puddinpop]

Well.. i think your right. People in the press and folks on the inter webs have been talking about this film since 09. Within the last couple of years the interest has really kicked into high gear and as you all probably have heard the trailer got more views than any other trailer for any film out this year.. 31.4 Million views in its first week. Some say it was people watching the trailer over and over but i tried that and it only counts once by IP address i believe. Even if it was possible that's an INSANE amount of views for one week regardless of what people try to take away from it. And if you can watch a trailer more than once than that goes for all trailers but some will go to the ends of the earth to take away Anything positive in regards to this film. So i agree with you, Either its an unintentional train wreck, or the best PR job in history. I think that the HIGH level of interest will translate into high ticket sales bc when you think about it, most of the people that spend a ton of time blogging and posting on forums and youtube comment columns Facebook pages etc whether its negative or positive have invested so much time and energy and emotion into this film that they will most likely see it. It will be interesting to see what happens after August 8th. I wonder if the next trailer will create even MORE excitement/uproar.. In my eyes its all good

[AlZarkovski]

Ok... I found this.
And release the trailer after 7 days.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by AlZarkovski

Ok... I found this.
And release the trailer after 7 days.

HAHAHAHAHA i can't wait it was right last time hahahaha

[Vicky82]

Wow never expected to get the 2nd trailer so soon I though it would come out in a month or so but anyway can't wait to see it.

[raphmike]

agree, i can not wait thank for tell us. i only hear anybody voice and leo
not say word i can not wait hear leo's voice.

[tmntmikey23]

Originally Posted by raphmike

agree, i can not wait thank for tell us. i only hear anybody voice and leo
not say word i can not wait hear leo's voice.

I agree lets hear him