I GUARANTEE: 20 years from now, no TMNT fans(kids) will care about this new movie

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And dat's exactly why da original 1990 movie was so good and has held up so well. It's a great film. It's not using a bunch of shiny new special effects to carry it. It actually had character development, great writing, and just made you have an overall emotional connection to da story.

I love da grittiness and "realism" to it. I wanted to give dis new joint a shot but da shyt was just terrible to me. Terrible dialogue, rushed plot, absolutely no depth at all. For me personally it's gonna take a whole lot more than fancy CGI to maintain mah attention. :ld:

Thank you.

I stopped being impressed by cgi in the early 00's. It's nice to have when it COMPLIMENTS the film and does stuff that's humanly impossible to take the film to another level. But when it becomes the whole film it loses something. Everythings being done on a computer screen.
:usure: Dis lil scene alone shyts on any attempt made by da new joint.



And we not go eam get into da emotions when Ralph was gettin dat work at April's apartment. :wow:


It's like this new one tried to still present Raph as the outcast, loner but didn't do a good job building it at all. Especially when you compare it to the 1st movie.

And ppl dump on TMNT 2, but I enjoyed that one despite it being more kid driven.
 

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Thank you.

I stopped being impressed by cgi in the early 00's. It's nice to have when it COMPLIMENTS the film and does stuff that's humanly impossible to take the film to another level. But when it becomes the whole film it loses something. Everythings being done on a computer screen.


It's like this new one tried to still present Raph as the outcast, loner but didn't do a good job building it at all. Especially when you compare it to the 1st movie.

And ppl dump on TMNT 2, but I enjoyed that one despite it being more kid driven.

Fair points but why dump on this movie when it does more with character than TMNT 2 does? If you're going to dump on one for doing it then you gotta dump on the other. I'm assuming you saw the flick so there's a few parts toward the end of it that do more with character and emotion than any scene in TMNT 2 ever attempted, one with Raph and one with Splinter. The movie doesn't hit on the same character moments as the first flick and that's one gripe I have with it but I also understand the source material they were pulling from and I also don't think the two movies should be compared and one doesn't take away from the other, or at least it shouldn't. This movie, much like the first, is about family and brotherhood, and while it doesn't crystalize that theme as well as the 1990 version did, that doesn't mean it didn't do it nor does that mean it should be raked over the coals for it especially if we're going to throw out love to secret of the ooze which did nothing with the interesting bits in the story that it did present, and completely neutered the action and the turtles
 

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I stopped being impressed by cgi in the early 00's. It's nice to have when it COMPLIMENTS the film and does stuff that's humanly impossible to take the film to another level. But when it becomes the whole film it loses something. Everythings being done on a computer screen.

The effects in this movie were incredible :wtf:

Come on!!
 

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You got all that same emotion in the new movie too. Actually I thought it put a bigger emphasis on family and brotherhood than the original ever did.

You're always gonna look at that original movie through the eyes of a 5 year old kid so no matter what this new one is never gonna be able to compete with that.
But for me personally I really enjoyed myself and dare I say it was the best one to date. At worst I believe it belongs in the same class as the original.

This movie succeeded on all fronts. Not only do I think it was a great movie for 5 year olds but sitting through it actually brought ME back to feeling 5 years old too. Can't give it any higher of a compliment than that.

:huh:Actually I'm not. I'm lookin at it from a complete film perspective. Dere's a reason why most of da shyt dat we grew up wit is :huhldup: now when we look at it. And da fact dat dat 1990 original film is still great 20 something years later is not because nikkas are rockin some rose colored lenses. It's because it's actually a well executed film.

I'm not gonna front like nostalgia doesn't play a small role in its enjoyment but to just use dat as a scapegoat in order not to recognize a dope piece of cinematic film is :rudy: status,breh.

Err body's got different taste doe. Some are just more refined than others. :manny:

Either way, T.U.R.T.L.E. POWER.
 

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Fair points but why dump on this movie when it does more with character than TMNT 2 does? If you're going to dump on one for doing it then you gotta dump on the other. I'm assuming you saw the flick so there's a few parts toward the end of it that do more with character and emotion than any scene in TMNT 2 ever attempted, one with Raph and one with Splinter. The movie doesn't hit on the same character moments as the first flick and that's one gripe I have with it but I also understand the source material they were pulling from and I also don't think the two movies should be compared and one doesn't take away from the other, or at least it shouldn't. This movie, much like the first, is about family and brotherhood, and while it doesn't crystalize that theme as well as the 1990 version did, that doesn't mean it didn't do it nor does that mean it should be raked over the coals for it especially if we're going to throw out love to secret of the ooze which did nothing with the interesting bits in the story that it did present, and completely neutered the action and the turtles

I don't disagree w/ you in total.

But I just expect stuff to get better. The only "emotion" I felt in this was when Raph was confessing his feelings near the end when they thought they might die. And that was clearly the most dramatic dialogue/scene, BUT to me it hadn't been built up properly. Even the stuff he was apologizing for hadn't occured in the movie.

That part would've worked well in TMNT 1 though
 

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I don't disagree w/ you in total.

But I just expect stuff to get better. The only "emotion" I felt in this was when Raph was confessing his feelings near the end when they thought they might die. And that was clearly the most dramatic dialogue/scene, BUT to me it hadn't been built up properly. Even the stuff he was apologizing for hadn't occured in the movie.

That part would've worked well in TMNT 1 though

Well it was a lived in world and I do agree they should've showed more of that but I guess it worked for me because as a fan I know him and understand the character so I get it. This movie didn't really allow for any character moments to really breathe minus a couple scenes with April and the one we are talking about now but you definitely got a great sense of their dynamic and that this is a lived in world
 
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I'll say this much, Johnny Knoxville was an awful choice for Leo. That was my biggest and only real gripe with the movie. And that sucked cause growing up Leo was my favorite turtle.

Hope he's replaced in the next one but I doubt it.
 
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The first Turtles movie was the only one I really liked, even as a kid. I watch it now and still love it, the others not so much.

The 2014 version isn't good.. but was entertaining enough. The did a decent enough job making the new origin story add a little depth to the film and an attempt at adding a touching story, but as a huge fan of the original movie it did rub the wrong way a little that they changed it. I would've much preferred a darker tone more in tune with the original concept of the 1990 movie, but the direction they went works as well.. my only other gripe would be with Shredder looking like a Transformer and Johnny Knoxville as Leo. The one liners, and humor sprinkled throughout actually had me laughing out loud so I'll give them that, plus I liked Megan Fox as April O'Neil as well.

I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10
 
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