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But as I've oft-argued in defense of Revelation, if you DO try and do a show/movie/etc. that's 1:1 with the original, you'd get the ten to twenty people who remain in romantic love with that older version without irony to love it, and everyone else would think it was the dumbest thing ever that nobody thought to aim higher 30+ years later. Sometimes, you really just can't win. Try and raise the stakes a bit, you get chastised for "ruining the innocence" of the original. Stick 1:1 with the original aesthetic, you get chastised for being out of touch and not having any new ideas. To be blunt, this is why inevitably, companies just give up trying to reboot things altogether and stick them on a shelf. Popeye, Flash Gordon, The Shadow... all once super-popular, probably more popular in their day than TMNT ever was, accounting for different eras and standards of success... all now completely irrelevant because after any number of failed reboots, their handlers just decided it was too hard trying to force-feed them to an audience which no longer cared. TMNT is going to be on the shelf right next to them much sooner rather than later. Kinda sad, but it's the natural order of things. Watching them flounder aimlessly in the meantime is pretty painful to watch.
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10-17-2021, 11:26 PM | #882 |
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Ok I have not seen FW in its entirety since I guess I was kid. I honestly do not remember how it ended.
I don’t have all the DVDs. Just to season 4. I should probably get them but thought it’d get Blu Rays or a Special Edition by now. Seems the whole series is on YouTube so I’d like to watch it in case it’s removed. At least the final season. Anyway it’s a solid cartoon even though some stuff is silly. By the time it ended it was pretty well rounded from what I can tell. It’s not nostalgia goggles either. I have not seen it years and I don’t remember half of it, like at all. I’m sure some kind of follow up can be made that old and new fans can appreciate. TMNT already appeals to kids. I’m sure it would be portrayed so anyone can watch it and not need 10 seasons to understand it. A lot of the FW elements were in the 2012 cartoon so newer fans are familiar with it and where it comes from. I’ve never seen Transformers G1 but I understand the history.
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And while we're on the subject, while people like to act as if the show was all "Muck Man, Mondo Gecko, Chrome Dome, all my faves galore!" and those characters are the ones to show up outside of the show, the truth is that when the Turtles weren't dealing with some random Shredder scheme, it was some random mad scientist or some other character that were never in anything else. As awkward as this might be to admit, people are not really nostalgic for the show itself because they barely remember and don't care what the show was actually like, they are more nostalgic for the toyline the show was intended to market. That might be a little bit sad to think about but that really seems to be the case. |
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I mentioned this in another thread but I've met people born between 94 to 99 that grew up with the 90s movies and not FW. The 90s movies (at least the first two) are now just as popular if not more than FW. Last edited by LeotheLateBloomer; 10-18-2021 at 01:48 AM. |
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10-18-2021, 02:49 AM | #885 | |
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I do think that if they go in this direction it will avoid the worst of the Revelation backlash as you won't have the whole "it's about Teela" thing. They'll probably do something similar to the 2007 movie and say April has been training so she can be a more active character, but the focus would be clearly on the turtles (and they don't have to worry about Netflix splitting the story in half either). That said, I think it will be guilty of not raising the stakes, since it will be aimed more at kids. Which will also be the studio response to any adult fans' criticism. So less backlash, but also less point in doing it in the first place. Like you say, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Let's be honest, if they do a FW "sequel" aimed at kids it's essentially being made for a new kids but with a nostalgia wrapper to loosely appeal to their parents. If we get something that all ages can truly enjoy (like the best Disney and Pixar stuff), that manages to hit the nostalgia button whilst offering something new I will be genuinely amazed. But, since they seem determined to avoid doing anything aimed at adults or drawing from Mirage, it's still a better idea than what they tried with 2014 and Rise. Last edited by Chris; 10-18-2021 at 02:55 AM. |
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@ neatoman, well I know certain things about the show were silly like running gags and Shredders schemes. I’m sure there was a lot of filler and repetitive episodes based on how long it ran.
From the seasons I do have I don’t think it was as dumb as people make it out now. I think it was a solid action cartoon. I did not expect a remaster to fix technical errors like the ones you mentioned. I’d just like it in HD with bonus content if possible. The 2012 cartoon did more than just rename characters imo. I’ll agree on Irma but a lot of the FW elements were duplicated only with some differences or update. I think they did a good job working them.
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I've read a couple of fanfics adapting Revelation and tweaking it more with the heart of the original MOTU and it really works. They don't forget the stakes but the characters aren't undermined nor unlikeable.
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You and I just probably have vastly different opinions on what makes a protagonist "unlikeable", my brother.
I mean, my favorite movie(s) of all time is Young Guns (Part II automatically should be included in any conversation by default because it's less a "sequel" and more an organic continuation). That Billy the Kid was a bad egg! I mean yeah, he had boatloads of charisma - which is unavoidable when played by the incomparable Emilio Estevez! - but he was incredibly selfish, self-serving, narcissistic, and got ALL of his friends killed because of that. You root for him because the "law" is corrupt and the "good guys" are even worse than he is, and because he's got those dimples and that incredibly charming laugh/cackle thing he does... but he's still just a real asshole, indisputably. People are complicated. Characters, also, can be complicated. To me, it doesn't make them altogether unlikeable, depending. But of course, personal mileage can and will vary on such things. I'm just sayin'.
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Interestingly they did a fine job with upgrading Shredder and Krang into real threats, even Rat King received cool makeover and then...they just threw them away. And then they did the same with Titan, Krakus, Carter, everyone except Dregg who was boring as ****. RSS was like a collection of wrong choices wrapped into 3 seasons. |
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when do you think we will get our first look at the designs of the turtles? |
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I’d guess we’ll see a first look in the second half of next year. Movies don’t tend to do the whole “teaser trailer a year out” anymore but we should get a first look image around then. Very curious to see what direction they go in. If this does end up being a sort of sequel to FW I can still see the turtles having slightly different heights and buildings rather than all being the same
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It seems like Chris Pratt is your go to actor to voice beloved characters these days.
Do you think he would be cast for this animated movie? What character do you think Chris Pratt would be a good fit for? |
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I try not to judge who would or wouldn't suit a character, especially for voice acting, as you never know what they could come up with in the booth. To stick with TMNT for an example, I would never have picked LOTR's Sean Austin as Raphael based on what I knew of his work but I loved him in the show.
I'm sure they could easily fill the voice cast with names like Chris Pratt and they'd be just fine, but I really hope they don't go with big names for this as I'd rather see voice actors get the work. |
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Like I said, I don't like to judge what roles people would or wouldn't suit, especially for voice work. On paper Stephen Amell was a good fit for Casey, but the way the character was written in the film was poor. On the flip side, Chris Evans isn't the first name to jump to mind for Casey but he did a good job in the CG film.
Pratt as Casey wouldn't make or break the film for me. It really would depend on how the character was written and how he voiced it. I just personally would rather they went for voice actors over big names. There's an overlap, and I wouldn't be against a few known names, but I'm just not a fan of stuffing animated films full of celebrity voices when it's more for marketing/publicity than for the film. |
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Tigerclaw is only bringing up Chris Pratt (twice) because of the recent news of him voicing Garfield and Mario. He brought up Idris Elba immediately after the announcement of him voicing Knuckles.
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You know that this CGI movie is going to have some big names for the voices.
Though the Turtles will probably have younger voice actors, but for characters like Casey Jones, April, Shredder, and Splinter, They will get some big names for them. Since Seth Rogen is producing, He'll get some well known actors in his circle to participate this animated movie. Chris Evans was the voice of Casey Jones in the 2007 movie, But that was way before people knew him for Captain America. |
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