Screen time for the turtles

[Batman_89_aficionado]

Um, so, is anyone else other than me worried that they might not be in the movie enough? If there is one thing I hate, it is seeing a movie I want to see that doesn't have enough of a certain character or characters that I am interested in.

[electric_sheep]

This does not warrant a thread.
But yeah, it's a possibility that they will focus on the human characters more AKA transformers...

[Batman_89_aficionado]

Whatever man. The same could be said for certain threads laying around on this website. As for the Transformers, from what I remember they were like almost a million $ to render or a million $ for each time they were in their movies.

[electric_sheep]

Originally Posted by Batman_89_aficionado

Whatever man. The same could be said for certain threads laying around on this website.

Yeah, there's million of them about the same thing, sometimes it's hard to follow...

[TrickOrTreater]

Yes, I'm very worried about it.

It took an hour, a solid hour, for the actual Autobots to show up in a 2.4 hour Transformers movie.

It'll take 30-45 minutes, give or take a few, for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the titular characters, to show up.

[snake]

Probably 1 hour into the film will be the first appearance.

[okguy456]

An hour is a stretch. I don't think we will be following april around for an hour. With transformers, there was a lot more characters they were introducing. Not needed of course. But I still think this will be different.

[electric_sheep]

We will get April moving, that will take at least first 10 Min.

Spoiler:

Than we have to watch her look for a job. 10 minuts.

Then we watch her doing some Exercising reporting, which she objects god damn it, cause she's better than that.

Spoiler:

while she's dressed in the tightest pants and shirt you ever saw, she looks like a whore

That will take another 10 to 15 minutes.

Sprinkle a little Harry Sack in there and it sounds about right...

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

Originally Posted by TrickOrTreater

Yes, I'm very worried about it.

It took an hour, a solid hour, for the actual Autobots to show up in a 2.4 hour Transformers movie.

It'll take 30-45 minutes, give or take a few, for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the titular characters, to show up.

i think someone once did a full time count of just the transformers and across all 3 films its just under 30 minutes

this is when they dont interact with human moments i think adding that is was about an hour total of robots across 3 movies


not a very reassuring thing

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

i think someone once did a full time count of just the transformers and across all 3 films its just under 30 minutes

this is when they dont interact with human moments i think adding that is was about an hour total of robots across 3 movies


not a very reassuring thing

I was wondering if somebody had ever done that. Couldn't ever find anything on it.

What a shitshow.

[Batman_89_aficionado]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

i think someone once did a full time count of just the transformers and across all 3 films its just under 30 minutes

this is when they dont interact with human moments i think adding that is was about an hour total of robots across 3 movies


not a very reassuring thing

Well the thing is that, unlike the turtles, the Transformers were suppose to be realistic looking vehicles with lots of parts and in the end were designed as such. The turtles should cost less to make, I hope.

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

Originally Posted by Batman_89_aficionado

Well the thing is that, unlike the turtles, the Transformers were suppose to be realistic looking vehicles with lots of parts and in the end were designed as such. The turtles should cost less to make, I hope.

price isnt the issue its the writing of the script and how the director chooses to put its human actors in the scenes


1 hour of transformers total across 3 films is a joke, im sorry you can say all you want but clearly they werent not the stars of their own movie

its like making a muppet movie and only have Kermit the Frog show up in the opening credits

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by Batman_89_aficionado

Well the thing is that, unlike the turtles, the Transformers were suppose to be realistic looking vehicles with lots of parts and in the end were designed as such. The turtles should cost less to make, I hope.

That was their first mistake.

If they had gone with a more simple design, like the ones from the more recent video games like, say, Fall Of Cybertron, probably could have featured the Transformers in a movie called Transformers a whole bunch more.

[Donatello19]

Yeah, I'm pretty worried that they're going to focus on April and all the other humans more than the TMNT themselves.

"Focus on the title characters? Pfft, that would make too much sense...what the kids really want to see is the super interesting, extremely talented Megan Fox listening to people talk for a majority of the film!"

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by Donatello19

Yeah, I'm pretty worried that they're going to focus on April and all the other humans more than the TMNT themselves.

"Focus on the title characters? Pfft, that would make too much sense...what the kids really want to see is the super interesting, extremely talented Megan Fox listening to people talk for a majority of the film!"

Don't forget Will Arnett.

They would not put a popular actor like Will Arnett in this movie if he didn't have a significant amount of screentime.

More than Vernon Fenwick deserves at least.

[electric_sheep]

Originally Posted by TrickOrTreater

Don't forget Will Arnett.

They would not put a popular actor like Will Arnett in this movie if he didn't have a significant amount of screentime.

More than Vernon Fenwick deserves at least.

Don't forget Whoopy Goldberg, who want's to bet that she will be lesbian or at least make a lesbian reference?
When April is walking out she will say something like
"O yeah, look at that ass"

[TMNT is cooler than MOTU]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

i think someone once did a full time count of just the transformers and across all 3 films its just under 30 minutes

this is when they dont interact with human moments i think adding that is was about an hour total of robots across 3 movies


not a very reassuring thing

Damn, that is pretty unsettling. I know that the Blue Door draft isn't the final product, but did anyone do a page count on how much the turtles were in it?

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

look at is this way

as of right now on imdb

Main Human Cast

Megan Fox
William Fichtner
Will Arnett
Minae Noji
Abby Elliott
Whoopi Goldberg
K. Todd Freeman

Turtle Cast

Pete Ploszek
Jeremy Howard
Noel Fisher
Alan Ritchson

Splinter
Danny Woodburn


say what you will but the human cast is clearly where they felt needed the most cast, and the turtles and splinter being second fiddle, they are pretty much nobodies..woodburn i know as the guy from Bones twice and the little dude in a dane cook movie

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by TMNT is cooler than MOTU

Damn, that is pretty unsettling. I know that the Blue Door draft isn't the final product, but did anyone do a page count on how much the turtles were in it?

Not that I'm aware, too much of an undertaking for me.

But the Turtles in general don't show up til around page 16 or so if memory serves, and that's just Leo, Raph, and Donnie. I think it was a 119 page script.

That's just shy of a two hour movie, which would mean the Turtles, at least 3 of them, don't show up until 16 minutes in. Mikey doesn't show up until about page 20. So all four Turtles aren't even in the movie until about 20 minutes in.

Compared to Ninja Turtles 3 where the Turtles show up in about 2 and a half minutes in a 95 minute movie.

Even Ninja Turtles 3 got to the Turtles faster than the Blue Door script.

The first movie they didn't show up until about 5 minutes, but it did a good job at building atmosphere and setting up the universe they were in. But they STILL showed up 5 minutes in because they're the goddamn stars of the movie.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by The Boston Ninja Turtle

look at is this way

as of right now on imdb

Main Human Cast

April O'Neil
William Fichtner
Will Arnett
Minae Noji
Abby Elliott
Whoopi Goldberg
K. Todd Freeman

Turtle Cast

Pete Ploszek
Jeremy Howard
Noel Fisher
Alan Ritchson

Splinter
Danny Woodburn


say what you will but the human cast is clearly where they felt needed the most cast, and the turtles and splinter being second fiddle, they are pretty much nobodies..woodburn i know as the guy from Bones twice and the little dude in a dane cook movie

Doesn't matter which version the human cast is always larger lol and i mean that with all respect.