Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
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Much better! :thumbsup
TMNT Fan
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Holy crap... I did that... only someone better at photoshop did it too 
Here's mine...
I wonder if they used mine as a basis....
Either way... I think they look way better like that... I can deal with the bodies and clothes... but the nostrils are retarded... now they just need to fix shredder and the foot clan...
Here's mine...
I wonder if they used mine as a basis....
Either way... I think they look way better like that... I can deal with the bodies and clothes... but the nostrils are retarded... now they just need to fix shredder and the foot clan...
BlobVanDam
Sr Member
They look so much better without noses and lips. Had they done that, and scaled them to a more reasonably stealthy size instead of those huge clumsy looking things, then I'd be fine with the designs. It's not the fact they don't look like they used to, it's that they don't look much like turtles, and don't look like they're capable of being ninja-like. Those two attributes are kind of important!
Why would we want Shakespeare?
The version without the lips and nose looks freakier.
"I'm just a little turtle. AH-HEE HEE! Shamone!"
"It's not the fact they don't look like they used to, it's that they don't look much like turtles, and don't look like they're capable of being ninja-like."
What iteration of the Ninja Turtles HAVE looked like turtles. The original Mirage Turtles looked the closest. I also don't get the size being a problem. Have you seen how big BATMAN is in some incarnations!? Yet he manages the whole urban ninja thing well.
"I'm just a little turtle. AH-HEE HEE! Shamone!"
"It's not the fact they don't look like they used to, it's that they don't look much like turtles, and don't look like they're capable of being ninja-like."
What iteration of the Ninja Turtles HAVE looked like turtles. The original Mirage Turtles looked the closest. I also don't get the size being a problem. Have you seen how big BATMAN is in some incarnations!? Yet he manages the whole urban ninja thing well.
BlobVanDam
Sr Member
Obviously none of them have looked like realistic turtles, nor would I expect them to, being mutated anthropomorphized characters and all.
The problem is that turtles have more tapered faces with sideward facing eyes, and they've tried to create these ninja turtles with a human-like face with the front facing eyes (as previous ninja turtles have), but then they tack a nose on there for a turtle nose, which looks off. It's probably technically closer to a real turtle, but it doesn't well represent the features and contours of a turtle as closely as having the more inconspicuous nostrils on there did on previous incarnations.
And lips! Maybe they felt human lips were necessary for the lip movement to look realistic, but it makes it too human, and approaches the uncanny valley, which makes them look downright creepy.
And their bodies are also too human. They're top heavy, with bulging muscles, and tapered bodies. Turtles have rounded bodies. Previous incarnations have had the more obvious front shell to look like a turtle. With the smaller front shell, plus all of the junk they're wearing, they look more like frogs than turtles.
Ninjas are supposed to be stealthy, and light footed, and be able to hide in the shadows. The trailer shows a clumsy 8 foot tall, 2 ton creature steamrolling right through a HUMMER. That is about as un-ninja like as it gets! :lol Maybe those years of a pizza-only diet have finally caught up with them. Not sure how they're getting through that manhole cover now.......
joshvanrad
Master Member
What happens when we find out the reason they have lips and noses is because they were human teenagers that were changed into grotesque turtle-like monsters by the goo of some greedy corporation?
dstnrhds
New Member
It may just be the Uncanny Valley effect. The Bay film seems to have pushed the character design further human, almost to the point where it feels awkward to look at their faces. For me, having grown up with TMNT like many other kids, they just don't look like recognizable Ninja Turtles.*
*The caveat being that I've only seen two screen shots of these characters, I super interested in seeing this movie.
*The caveat being that I've only seen two screen shots of these characters, I super interested in seeing this movie.
KrangPrime
Master Member
We just want something good, not crap
. Why do all the naysayers think that we don't deserve quality?- - - Updated - - -
oh god...that's so horrid it's probably true. all so donny could probably have a reason to hit on april oneil this time around...and to give all the weird fan girls something to swoon about...oh, make it stop!
joshvanrad
Master Member
He just wants to become a real boy again so April will fall in love with him.
We just want something good, not crap
Who ever said that Shakespeare was the only story teller who had quality? When you say that a movie isn't Shakespeare, you're not really saying anything at all outside the obvious fact that Shakespeare didn't write it. How did last year's Romeo and Juliet fare? Well, given it's 1.5 million dollar world wide gross and extremely lackluster reviews, I would guess very poorly. But you know what this movie has that Transformers and TMNT doesn't? It's Shakespeare! See what I mean? It takes more to measure a level of quality than resorting to who didn't write the movie.
infymys
Sr Member
Johnny Knoxville, Tony Shalhoub to Join Ninja Turtles - IGN
I guess they're going full ******* on the movie now.....
I guess they're going full ******* on the movie now.....
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
What's next? Michael Cera as Casey Jones?
:lol or Megan Fox as Apr.... oh wait they really did that :facepalm
Its a pretty well known phrase. Id be worried if anyone didnt get the content. Much like. 'Its not exactly the ritz is it?'
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KrangPrime
Master Member
Nope
....I took that comment as meaning "Just lower your standards, it's not shakespere!" To mean, hey, it's only a goofy turtles movie...no way you should expect it to be good and uplifting, after all.....
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