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Full title - Ugly Teenage Steroid Government Experiment with ideas lifted from Ultimate Spider-Man Super Soldier Turtles

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCjsWp…

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It's not as awful as I thought it would be.

Mainly when you consider the amount of hell this project must have gone through just to get a trailer out there. Everything from Aliens, Michael Bay directing/not directing, Megan Fox playing April and the fanboys already made up their minds that this movie was going to be awful no matter what. Why give it a chance in the first place? No, I'm not going down that fanboy path for this. I'm better than that!!

Now, in the interest of fairness (and for EggplantWarrior) and to prove this fan of TMNT can be an adult about this. I'm going to tackle the trailer and be objective about it. Point out what works and what doesn't work.

The beginning talks about how "Crime has run rampant" which was a common theme in the original comic and 1980's cartoon series. It's setting up a New York City as it's kinda been played in the past as a stereotypical crime capital. Basically a "Pre-911" New York.

It's funny I make that remark (it's been 13 years already it's hardly bad taste anymore) because one of the next shots is a building blowing up. A clearly white Shredder tells April O'Neil that "The world needs heroes" which is followed by your standard "quick scene then cut to black" formula found in nearly every action movie trailer these days.

I like the fact this trailer has finally put the "Alien Turtles" rumours to rest. A TGRI canister is shown, indicating the traditional TMNT origin is in place..... Kind of. The part that raised my eyebrow was White Shredder saying "That's what your father and I were trying to do!" which means the Turtles were created by The Shredder. Again, not a shocking revelation considering this is technically accurate to the past.

Shredder was directly responsible for the Turtles creation in the 1980's cartoon. However it's that comment I wanna focus on "That's what your father and I were trying to do!" What's interesting is I've seen this exact same narrative used in Ultimate Spider-Man. In that Peter and Eddie Brock's fathers worked on a government project that created Venom. Here the Turtles were a government experiment into creating "heroes".... in a half shell

So the government created 4 mutant steroid Turtles (the size of Kratos Honey Badgers) to be super heroes. So does that mean Splinter won't be in this movie? Because the 4 Turtles I can understand, but why would the government create a Mutant Rat as a hero?

I wanna say that I welcome these changes. Mainly because I don't want to see another movie about the TMNT or another piece of TMNT media tell the same story I already know. It's what I detest with reboots is when they tell the EXACT same story. If the movie was going to tell the same story as the 1990's TMNT then why do I need this new movie when I can go and watch that? I love the origin story for Bruce Wayne and Joker in the 1989 Batman movie. You can't tell the exact same story forever people. Not to mention the very nature of the Turtles origin has been altered every time they get a reboot.

I think what's causing me to be a little reluctant with the changes is they sound too much like Transformers. Secret government projects, military involvements and Megan Fox. I know Bay isn't directing this movie, but this sounds like roads we've already walked down. Not to mention in an earlier draft of the script, the Foot Clan was a black ops unit led by Col. Schrader. It's obvious that bullshit was dropped when Evan Daugherty came in to rewrite the script.

While it's clear Shredder is a scientist now. The site of what look like the foot clan holding assault rifles was somewhat depressing. Because the ancient way of Ninjitsu was clearly based on secrecy, stealth and military hardware am I right?

At least Shredder isn't called Oroku Saki. Instead the more forgettable name of Eric Sachs. This again, is acceptable. Because calling white people Japanese names looked really fucking retarded in Dragonball Evolution. What's confusing about this movie so far is the plot. After watching the trailer, I went to do some info searching the gather up some thoughts for this rant. I found this blurb on Wikipedia which says.

"The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April and her wise-cracking cameraman Vernon Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder's diabolical plan"

Yet the trailer paints Eric/Shredder as a good man trying to make heroes. Yet the plot says he's a crime lord?

Which is it guys?

Lastly, I wanna comment on the lone positive.

Megan Fox didn't say one word in the entire trailer.

5/5

Description
Full title - Ugly Teenage Steroid Government Experiment with ideas lifted from Ultimate Spider-Man Super Soldier Turtles

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCjsWp…

.....

It's not as awful as I thought it would be.

Mainly when you consider the amount of hell this project must have gone through just to get a trailer out there. Everything from Aliens, Michael Bay directing/not directing, Megan Fox playing April and the fanboys already made up their minds that this movie was going to be awful no matter what. Why give it a chance in the first place? No, I'm not going down that fanboy path for this. I'm better than that!!

Now, in the interest of fairness (and for EggplantWarrior) and to prove this fan of TMNT can be an adult about this. I'm going to tackle the trailer and be objective about it. Point out what works and what doesn't work.

The beginning talks about how "Crime has run rampant" which was a common theme in the original comic and 1980's cartoon series. It's setting up a New York City as it's kinda been played in the past as a stereotypical crime capital. Basically a "Pre-911" New York.

It's funny I make that remark (it's been 13 years already it's hardly bad taste anymore) because one of the next shots is a building blowing up. A clearly white Shredder tells April O'Neil that "The world needs heroes" which is followed by your standard "quick scene then cut to black" formula found in nearly every action movie trailer these days.

I like the fact this trailer has finally put the "Alien Turtles" rumours to rest. A TGRI canister is shown, indicating the traditional TMNT origin is in place..... Kind of. The part that raised my eyebrow was White Shredder saying "That's what your father and I were trying to do!" which means the Turtles were created by The Shredder. Again, not a shocking revelation considering this is technically accurate to the past.

Shredder was directly responsible for the Turtles creation in the 1980's cartoon. However it's that comment I wanna focus on "That's what your father and I were trying to do!" What's interesting is I've seen this exact same narrative used in Ultimate Spider-Man. In that Peter and Eddie Brock's fathers worked on a government project that created Venom. Here the Turtles were a government experiment into creating "heroes".... in a half shell

So the government created 4 mutant steroid Turtles (the size of Kratos Honey Badgers) to be super heroes. So does that mean Splinter won't be in this movie? Because the 4 Turtles I can understand, but why would the government create a Mutant Rat as a hero?

I wanna say that I welcome these changes. Mainly because I don't want to see another movie about the TMNT or another piece of TMNT media tell the same story I already know. It's what I detest with reboots is when they tell the EXACT same story. If the movie was going to tell the same story as the 1990's TMNT then why do I need this new movie when I can go and watch that? I love the origin story for Bruce Wayne and Joker in the 1989 Batman movie. You can't tell the exact same story forever people. Not to mention the very nature of the Turtles origin has been altered every time they get a reboot.

I think what's causing me to be a little reluctant with the changes is they sound too much like Transformers. Secret government projects, military involvements and Megan Fox. I know Bay isn't directing this movie, but this sounds like roads we've already walked down. Not to mention in an earlier draft of the script, the Foot Clan was a black ops unit led by Col. Schrader. It's obvious that bullshit was dropped when Evan Daugherty came in to rewrite the script.

While it's clear Shredder is a scientist now. The site of what look like the foot clan holding assault rifles was somewhat depressing. Because the ancient way of Ninjitsu was clearly based on secrecy, stealth and military hardware am I right?

At least Shredder isn't called Oroku Saki. Instead the more forgettable name of Eric Sachs. This again, is acceptable. Because calling white people Japanese names looked really fucking retarded in Dragonball Evolution. What's confusing about this movie so far is the plot. After watching the trailer, I went to do some info searching the gather up some thoughts for this rant. I found this blurb on Wikipedia which says.

"The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April and her wise-cracking cameraman Vernon Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder's diabolical plan"

Yet the trailer paints Eric/Shredder as a good man trying to make heroes. Yet the plot says he's a crime lord?

Which is it guys?

Lastly, I wanna comment on the lone positive.

Megan Fox didn't say one word in the entire trailer.

5/5