question... why did this suck?
I saw the flick and it was a whole lot better than I thought. Nothing spectacular but not that bad. I'm just curious why many hated it, and Michael Bay LOL why all the hate on Bay???o_O
shareI have no problem with Bay at all. People seem to hate him because Transformers 2 & 3 were so badly recieved by fans of Transformers that they forgot that they enjoyed thr first one (generally speaking) and hated the fourth one and everything he touches before they're even released. Its cool to hate Bay now, and apparently him making a movie adaptation of cartoons you liked as a kid, erases that cartoon from existence, thus 'raping your childhood' - the most overused joke on the internet with regards to movies probably.
With this movie, I just didnt enjoy it. Didnt find the jokes funny, didnt like the action, didnt like thr story.
I like the Turtles to rely on their Ninja skills and shells rather than super strength and size, I like the ties between Splinter/Shredder/The foot clan/Japan, I like the foot clan as a ninja clan, I like the Turtles as street level vigilantes.
This movie didnt deliver any of that and instead gave something radically different from what I like: Merc foot clan, hulk turtles, american splinter who randomly learns ninjutsu with no ties to the shredder at all, ironman shredder, turtles saving the city from deadly super viruses, April being the star.
On top of that there were a lot of things that just seemed silly.
But thats me. A lot of people seemed to like it more than they expected to.
Well, I can't speak for everybody, but I'll tell you what didn't sit well with me:
- Everything seemed way too convenient. The turtles and Splinter being April's childhood pets-- which she named after Renaissance painters-- who liked pizza because she fed it to them-- which her father and the villain were experimenting on-- who ended up in the sewer because she threw them in there. Too convenient and made the TMNT world feel very small.
- Not enough martial arts. In making the turtles super-strong, hulking, bulletproof brutes, they virtually defeated the purpose of them being ninjas. Difficult to care about characters who are technically never in danger due to having every physical advantage over their obstacles.
- For that matter, the inconsistencies in the turtles' strength. Early on we see Raph literally throwing shipping containers and jumping straight through the side of a van like the Kool-Aid Man, yet seconds later he can't punch through a pane of glass. The turtles are strong enough to send foot members flying 20 feet, yet they have trouble lifting a gate. If you're going to defeat the purpose of what's in their very name, at least be consistent about it.
- The dastardly and unoriginal plan of the villain-- to get "stupid rich" when he already seems to be doing extremely well for himself, by launching a toxin into the air *cough*Amazingspiderman*cough*.
- Splinter learns ninjutsu from a book he randomly finds, which, mind you, is written in Japanese. The same martial art that the other villain conveniently happens to be a master of.
- Too much focus on April and reducing the title characters to the guest stars of their own movie, similar to Transformers.
- The humor didn't work for me. Just a bunch of innuendos centered around the objectification of Megan Fox. Although I don't think of her as much of an actress, if Michael Bay's going to keep casting her, he should at least start treating her like one, and not some piece of meat for every guy to creepily ogle.
I wasn't expecting anything Oscar-worthy, but it was like the filmmakers couldn't be bothered to think things through and opted to half-ass the whole thing. It felt lazy and unwilling to reach its full potential.
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LOL whoopsie you are hilarious LOL. That is too funny on Megan Fox WOW!!!! LOL thanks for your input as well. I now have a good idea why people hated Bay's TMNJ. IDK how true the rumors are of him being an *beep* Or that so called beef with him and Fox... Who knows but you''re a funny critic :-)
sharevery well said.
shareI agree with everything you and the poster above have said. In addition to that, there were some other minor things that bothered me too.
- Cinematography. Too many over dramatic shots for virtually no reason. Too much slow motion. Too much camera motions during certain scenes and so on. Some aspects of the action scenes were done well though.
- Too much random product placement. I can look past the Pizza Hut placement considering the movie, but there were just so many others that had zero business being in the movie. Like the Project Almanac add for example.
- The design of the turtles. I don't know what it is exactly, but there is something really off putting to me in their design. I thought this as early on when I first saw them before the movie came out, and watching the movie I never got used to it.
Overall I don't think the movie was absolutely horrible or anything. Maybe a 5 or 6/10. However, as a fan of TMNT since the 80's, there were a lot of letdowns even though I purposefully went in not expecting much.
Ok cool, fare enough I respect your opinion. I see your point. I loved the secret of the ooze back in the day.... Thanks for your input why.. :-)
shareAs much as I enjoyed this film, I see two explanations as to why it didn't go down too well:
- Eric Sacks. He was meant to be the original Shredder, but thanks to IRON MAN 3 they changed it to a Japanese actor and did a slipshod rewrite making Sacks his lieutenant. They should have just gone with Jap Shredder from the beginning.
- Eric Sachs' plan and the climatic fight to stop it. It was such a shameless rip-off of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN that I can't believe they didn't get sued.
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Hm I honestly liked this movie. I rated it an 9 out of 10 (I am not trolling).
I did like the humor and pace of this movie. The 3D was really fun and worked for me.
'The Amazing Spiderman' popped my mind ofcourse but many plots are about launching stuff in the air. And since this all takes place in New York there is no better way to launch on a top corp tower. (or openening a portal to another dimension... for example Ghostbusters 30 years ago and recent The Avengers)
I am really glad how the origins of the turtles are handled to be honest. It was swift and clear, unlike many superhero movies were you have to go hours through the spider-bite and gamma radiation accidents.
I will be watching the second movie in the theaters :)
I didn't mind the origin story but I found the film very dull.. I thought the turtles were alright but I agree, it was too much about brute force and throwing things around that it got a bit boring for me.. No originality. I didn't notice much humour although there were a couple of bits that got a little chuckle from my husband.. Nothing amazing though. Perhaps it's aimed at much younger people than me but I just don't get the appeal... It wasn't funny, the action didn't do it for me and nor did the story - all just a bit of a letdown
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