Scrumpmonkey said:Scarim Coral said:Oh god, I thought Micky ugly mug was frightening enough but seeing Don scream at 1.08 was a stuff of nightmare (mainly the open mouth and his glasses)!All i could think of was this;Kmadden2004 said:For some reason, when I saw that shot, the one thing that came to my mind was "Urkel?"
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:I had taped glasses for six days between me breaking them and getting new ones. Does that count?
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:Yeah, this is Bay we're talking about though (I know he's not directing, but come on. He's got his hands into this deeper than George Lucas had into Redtails). He'll revive a stereotype to suit his purposes if he feels like it, and approach it with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer. On fire. Wielded by an elephant. ... Also on fire.
I don't know how I feel about the taped glasses though. On the one hand it COULD have been cool because Donny's head is too big and his eyes too far appart for human glasses. So, he finds some lenses that will help him see, breaks the frame, uses a piece of metal to space the lenses out, and tapes it all together. BUT the logic of it in the movie will be: Donny's smart. Smart people are nerds. Therefore Donny's a nerd. Nerds wear glasses. Therefore, Donny wears glasses... Being the wizard of the group it would have been cool if he crafted his own lenses and incorporated them into his bandana or something, or wore them like goggles, rather than going for the lowest of all possible hanging fruits to get the point accross that he's the intellectual or the tech guy.
I don't have any connection to my childhood that would keep me from enjoying an adaptation of something I was into. Transformers, TMNT, Thundercats, Silverhawks, any of it. I acknowledge the inherent silliness of all these things and won't hold them up as somehow sacred. I'm skipping this simply because Michael Bay products are complete and utter $#!7.
There is a CHANCE that we're looking at a single part of a larger joke where Donny (who wears glasses) breaks his glasses and has to fix them on the fly... and the only thing available is tape. And the movie lampshades it for comedy, like Raphael going "Really, Donny? Really?" or something of the sort.RJ Dalton said:Taped glasses. Because it's always a good idea to insult your stated target demographic.
Seriously, is that stereotype still hanging around? I hang out with a lot of nerds and I've never met anyone with taped glasses.
Wow, holy shit THAT DOES LOOK BETTER.Clive Howlitzer said: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.
My apologies then.Ronack said:Who says I'm paying for it? .... I said I was gonna watch it, not that I'm gonna pay for it. When that shit hits the TV, I'll be there.Frozengale said:I always find statements like this to be hilarious. You're basically saying, "Sure, I'll help make it one of the most successful movies of the Summer, but I reserve my rights to complain about anything and everything the producers do and get mad that they do it."Ronack said:Donatello, the turtle, doing a duckface. I'm officially done with this movie. I'll watch it, sure, but only as a disaster tourist.
You are the problem in this situation. The reason stuff like this gets made is because of people having attitudes like this.
I'm not a fan of Ninja Turtles, but I wish people would realize that the reason they keep making horrible crap out of stuff we love is because we give them ALL the money. Nothing will ever change.
You bet your life!Scrumpmonkey said:
I'll wait until I see something to get excited about.Baresark said:As someone who loved the Ninja Turtles growing up, I'm excited to see a new live action movie.
Transformers made big stompy robots boring. Might not be the example you want to use, even if your argument is "judge slow" rather than "it'll be fine."arc1991 said:Transformers all over again...Fanboys screaming "THIS WILL SUCK" before the film has even been released.
Is it really just that, though? The original movies were different from the cartoon which was different from the original comic, and they were all well-received. The Archie comic made changes and it was huge. Hell, the second movie changed things up and made it goofier and took their weapons away most of the time. Well received. III? Well, no franchise is perfect. The 2003 series was different and was well-received and treated as a watermark. The TMNT movie that sort of follows that series got a middling critic score on Metacritic but has a good fan rating there. Is it that they changed it?kyosai7 said:"Waah! It's different!"
A figure of speech that still indicates its presence harms your memories or past in some sense.XenoScifi said:You found nothing. It's a figure of speech.
Has it ever stopped anyone from buying in?RJ Dalton said:Taped glasses. Because it's always a good idea to insult your stated target demographic.
I grew up in a poor family and had to improvise all sorts of fixes to my glasses. My girlfriend from high school had to tape and glue hers several times, and my current girlfriend has similarly had to jury-rig her glasses.Seriously, is that stereotype still hanging around? I hang out with a lot of nerds and I've never met anyone with taped glasses.
Their appearance is an uncanny valley phenomenon, just because you seek to make them 'appear' like they are real and belong in this world doesn't mean that you should. As a multimedia design student, and as a 3D designer, I can appreciate the technical detail of the turtle's designs and the artistry in the textures. A lot of people clearly put in some really solid work. But that's the problem with the uncanny valley, unless what your doing is perfect the more work you put in to make your characters "better" the deeper you fall.fluxy100 said:Meh, the designs are a little jarring but I can't see anyway that the Turtles being made in CGI wouldn't look jarring. I do like the fact that the different turtles actually look different rather than just giving them different colors.
XenoScifi said:I'm going to skip on this. Michael Bay will not continue to destroy my childhood (at least to my eyes) anymore.MrHide-Patten said:So now Micheal Bay is going to ruin CG Mutants for people like he ruined giant robots.I'm so confused, why are we blaming Michael Bay for the Turtles when he's only the person producing it and not the one directing it?newwiseman said:Ugliest possible TMNT design... I pray this fails and Michael Bay stops making shit movies about my favorite childhood toys.
Because his name is attached to it and I haven't invested any time into researching this, because it's not a franchise I care enough about to do that. My bad.fluxy100 said:I'm so confused, why are we blaming Michael Bay for the Turtles when he's only the person producing it and not the one directing it?