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The movie felt really disjointed to me and I'm not really in love with the new origins of the Turtles and how April ties into it. I think I would have liked the origin a bit more if they'd just used Hamato Yoshi instead of April's father and sort of folded those origins together to something more akin to the comics origins. Just like with Transformers, the human comedy elements are a real detriment to the movie and almost all of that could have been cut. Almost all of April's scenes as a reporter were some of the worst in the movie, too. However, I found most of the Turtles comedy stuff funny. Mikey's stupid comments all the time, Donny being goofy, it all felt great. Arnett made me think they really needed a Casey Jones figure in this movie, though.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I wouldn't at all be surprised if they threw together a lot of those scenes in a weekend because they're super cheap to film and they needed to pad out the film when the budget ran out and they couldn't complete non-essential Turtles effects shots. All the Megan Fox comedy stuff, the more I think about it, is just horrible. She handles the TMNT and Splinter RELATIVELY well and calmly. Then she's in the newsroom, in her house, and she's completely scatterbrained and dumb and crazy-sounding. Does she even show the photo of the 'vigilantes' to her boss, or just Sacks? Other than a few comments from Mikey, I was sort of surprised how they made the whole thing really unsexualized compared to Transformers except for one butt shot and the credits scene. But overall, it was just sort of pleasantly average. It's got some really stupid plot points that we just are asked to accept out of nowhere, way too convoluted with certain things, but I get the feeling they were really aiming at that pre-teen kid market by making it something just clean and nice enough that their parents won't mind setting them down in front of, but just dark and scary enough that kids don't feel like they're watching a 'kids' movie. It's almost like a watered-down Transformers, and maybe that why I sort of 'liked' it. It never really hit the same points of being so extreme and exhausting to watch that I found myself just accepting the movie as it was and not coming out of it just stuck on the things I hated. long edit: I've heard of there being reasons why the film is so disjointed because of its production history, but I haven't had a chance to read up on those yet. I often hold up something like Daredevil or Green Lantern as comic book films that compressed several potential movies worth of plot into a single film, but TMNT 2014 feels strangely different than that. In its current state, the story feels more like someone took the first 13-episode TV season storyline edited down to a single approx. 2-hour movie, if that makes any sense. JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Aug 30, 2014 |
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In a lot of ways the film reminded me a bit of the first X-Men movie. You've got Splinter pretty much following a lot of the Professor X arc from that film, a villain attempting a terrorist attack on NYC, the showdown on tall structure, the focal heroic lead character is the loner bad boy with a angry streak, and the team leader is the least developed character of the lot. I'm sort of surprised with how little I remember of Leo doing anything in this movie. The focus on Raph isn't unique, though. First film had a lot of focus on him, the CG movie about 8 years ago I think similarly featured him heavily (only saw about 20 minutes of it).
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