Raphael and Donatello Revealed in New TMNT Trailer
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It's weird, after I saw that trailer I actually kind of wanted to see it. Not with the intent of wanting to see how bad it is, but genuine interest in seeing how giant CGI turtles can work beating the crap out of things. If there's one thing Bay does really well, it's big destructive fights, so with the inherent issue of transforming robots making action scenes hard to follow, I'm thinking there could actually be some merit in this movie, especially to someone like me who never had an interest in the Turtles, so their redesign doesn't really bother me, though it did look really odd at first glance.
Why the hell would a warrior strap all that fragile shit to his body?
This is so stupid.
Donatello was this greek ideal of a balance of mind and body.
That is the opposite. It's the stereotypical nerd who gets beaten up all the time and has to tape his broken glasses.
What the fuck.
This is so stupid.
Donatello was this greek ideal of a balance of mind and body.
That is the opposite. It's the stereotypical nerd who gets beaten up all the time and has to tape his broken glasses.
What the fuck.
What a difference a beak makes. Seriously, these guys need a snout of some kind. You could still give them some nostrils, because in a realistic setting it would be strange if they didn't, but make them pinhole sized. Now they just look like they have stumpy nosed donkey faces.RA92 said:
Leave it to Michael Bay to get me pissed off about something I don't even really care about.
Taped. Motherfucking. Glasses.
Even though I'm a long-time fan of the TMNT I consider myself to be an open-minded person when it comes to new interpretations and representations of established characters. I can get behind Mikey's, Leo's and Raph's looks, no problem - don't even have an issue with how the faces look in general, this is simply a new somewhat-realistic-looking design.
But Donnie's design is just a big smack in the face. Instead of bringing his affinity for tech and science across by making him act smart and a bit nerdy, or even just limiting themselves to the entire workshop strapped to his shell, they had to turn him into an Urkel-esque superdork to get their point across.
Fuck that.
Even though I'm a long-time fan of the TMNT I consider myself to be an open-minded person when it comes to new interpretations and representations of established characters. I can get behind Mikey's, Leo's and Raph's looks, no problem - don't even have an issue with how the faces look in general, this is simply a new somewhat-realistic-looking design.
But Donnie's design is just a big smack in the face. Instead of bringing his affinity for tech and science across by making him act smart and a bit nerdy, or even just limiting themselves to the entire workshop strapped to his shell, they had to turn him into an Urkel-esque superdork to get their point across.
Fuck that.
It's like Bob said about Spider-Man. There is now a dark spot in the portion of my brain devoted to Transformers. What once was pure is now stained.arc1991 said:
As far as the taped glasses though, he's a mother-fucking giant walking and talking turtle who lives in a sewer. He's not going to walk into lens crafters to buy a new pair of glasses, he's going to find a busted pair that was tossed out and fix them. Why he needs glasses though is a mystery to me.
was no one alse put off by William Fichtner's totally phoned in performance/exposition dump to april, he's supposed to be playing shredder but his performance barely leaves baseline monotone. Yeah, the designs suck, that's not a deal breaker for me though, but when your MAIN Antagonist can't be assed to put in something resembling a performance, that's something you should be pissed about too.
though i must admit, donny's design does dredge up a pointless stereotype from the 80's that just doesn't suit his character, he's a tech geek, but he uses that knowledge on the battlefeild, when i look at that design i don't see the confident warrior who uses his brains to turn the tide of battle, i see the kid in a bad 80's comedy who gets their underwear tied to the flagpole.
though i must admit, donny's design does dredge up a pointless stereotype from the 80's that just doesn't suit his character, he's a tech geek, but he uses that knowledge on the battlefeild, when i look at that design i don't see the confident warrior who uses his brains to turn the tide of battle, i see the kid in a bad 80's comedy who gets their underwear tied to the flagpole.
It is so easy to fix these designs so that they aren't so god awful. Of course there is a lot more wrong with this movie than the designs.
Ok, so we get the same voice over and a few new seconds of footage, all of it action scenes . . . I'm not sure what I was expecting. . . plot details? HAHAHAHA, it's a Michael Bay production, What Plot! HAHAHAHAHA
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I don't mind the new designs at all except for those faces. Those terrible faces. Nostrils and weird looking lips. They kind of look like the Goombas from the Super Mario movie. I bet that the main reason they strayed away from the classic and proper Turtle beak design was to sell new toys based on the movie and to set them apart from the old ones so there's no confusion when Timmy begs mommy for a TMNT: The Movie action figure. $$$
*watches new trailer*
Yup! Still looks fugly as hell.
Not one person could have called Jim Henson's Creature Shop or another practical effects house to make these turtles look good? It just baffles me that movie studios tend to mostly use CGI rather than use a blend of CGI and practical effects. Yes, I know its a cost thing, but sometimes, CGI can kill the quality of a movie. Bay's Turtles is an example of bad CGI. The human faces on them just makes them repulsive. What was the logic behind this decision? Realism? We're talking about mutant turtles that studied ninjutsu with the aid of a mutant rat (who was either a normal rat turned humanoid or a human turned into a humanoid rat, depending on the continuity). It's suppose to be silly, people. If you can't handle things being child-like or silly, then you have some serious inadequacy issues. I'm just saying.
Aside from the fugly turtles, the rest of the trailer doesn't make me feel confident about the finished product. This second trailer is basically the first but with a bit more turtles in it. Possibly to convince people "No, really! We're not totally focusing the movie around the human characters like we did in Transformers!" Also, judging from the trailer, it looks like they're borrowing the "predestined heroes choosen by fate itself" angle rather than stick with the "heroes by a freak accident tossed into circumstances beyond their control" origin, mostly out of convenience/laziness. And I think we've all covered how Megan Fox as April O'Neil is the second worst casting choices made by Bay (the first one being Shia Labeouf for the first three Transformers movies).
Overall, this new trailer doesn't make me want to spend my time and money on this remake. Unless I'm convinced otherwise, this is one movie that is on my "skip it" list.
Yup! Still looks fugly as hell.
Not one person could have called Jim Henson's Creature Shop or another practical effects house to make these turtles look good? It just baffles me that movie studios tend to mostly use CGI rather than use a blend of CGI and practical effects. Yes, I know its a cost thing, but sometimes, CGI can kill the quality of a movie. Bay's Turtles is an example of bad CGI. The human faces on them just makes them repulsive. What was the logic behind this decision? Realism? We're talking about mutant turtles that studied ninjutsu with the aid of a mutant rat (who was either a normal rat turned humanoid or a human turned into a humanoid rat, depending on the continuity). It's suppose to be silly, people. If you can't handle things being child-like or silly, then you have some serious inadequacy issues. I'm just saying.
Aside from the fugly turtles, the rest of the trailer doesn't make me feel confident about the finished product. This second trailer is basically the first but with a bit more turtles in it. Possibly to convince people "No, really! We're not totally focusing the movie around the human characters like we did in Transformers!" Also, judging from the trailer, it looks like they're borrowing the "predestined heroes choosen by fate itself" angle rather than stick with the "heroes by a freak accident tossed into circumstances beyond their control" origin, mostly out of convenience/laziness. And I think we've all covered how Megan Fox as April O'Neil is the second worst casting choices made by Bay (the first one being Shia Labeouf for the first three Transformers movies).
Overall, this new trailer doesn't make me want to spend my time and money on this remake. Unless I'm convinced otherwise, this is one movie that is on my "skip it" list.
Not really, because that wasn't some kind of fashion statement or something you did because you were a nerd. It was a necessity for the moment. This obviously isn't that.lacktheknack said:
See, I could go for something like that. If they actually made Don have a vision problem and it was a part of his actual character that they built around and the glasses were a thing he needed, yeah, I could go for that. But just throwing glasses on because "Nerds wear glasses" is insulting.vagabondwillsmile said:
