Baresark said:
Eh, I'm not mad at it. I don't really care if they changed a bunch of shit. It was never like the comic. If I have nothing else going on, I'll see it. I think all the complaints about the physical changes of the turtles are mostly unfounded. The most recent animated shows were nothing like the comic or even the original TV series. I just do find it funny that the general attitude towards this negative. As someone who loved the Ninja Turtles growing up, I'm excited to see a new live action movie.
The newest show's biggest shift from the earlier animations is making the two prominent human characters teens rather than adults. And nothing is going to be much like the comics, because as a whole the series has moved away from that and towards a more kid-selling friendly image.
And sorry to say buddy, but the differences between the earlier version of the cartoon to now is far less different than it is from the newest cartoon to this. There's something called "subtlety" if you've never heard of it. Adding a crack in the shell here, or bulking the body up a little more than the rest, or a little gap in the tooth there helps show individuality amongst what was shown before as just 4 color swaps of the same character. It also got about defining them, even if just a little, as their role much better.
Micheal Bay has no sense of subtlety, and aside from the sheer idiocy of the look for Donny to have all of his gadgets strapped upon him as if it was safe, or for Leonardo to be wearing bamboo armor just because, doesn't work. He also humanizes the faces for no reason whatsoever, when the Jim Henson ones from the original movies (or the first movie, if you like) worked as a great bridge between realism and cartoony.
It just does not look right animated like it does. People's eyes are naturally trained to notice discrepancies, its why we have the "Uncanny Valley" effect, and its no surprise people aren't fond of the way the faces appear or are animated like.
However, I do find it funny. Funny that people want to be so dismissive of others responses to the movie, and feel the need to point it out as if they are some unique flower, completely ignoring the fact that this is all subjective (including their own view). Nothing is unfounded here, except for your own lazy dismissal.
And I say this as a major Ninja Turtles fan whose watched most, if not almost all, of the series released for them aside from the original comics. I will not see this movie because frankly, just like the third live action movie, this looks like utter trash. All this one has going for it is that no one can definitively say it's trash at the moment, seeing as it's not out yet.
