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That doesn't look like something you'd easily fake. Looks legit. Looks le-shit as well :awesome:. Re: Shredder design. I think it is try hard too.
 
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Early reports are freaking out about things like April's dad being involved in the creation of the Turtles, but in the current IDW comic, her dad worked at Stockgen, so him working for TCRI in Tue film isn't all that much of a stretch. I'll hold my full opinion for the trailer, but right now, most of the freaking out is over minor details that are unsurprising to folks more familiar with the various incarnations of the Turtles.

I remain cautiously optimistic until Thursday.



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An actual trailer!

 
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Using Megan Fox as the selling point, though. Really? After that time she slagged Michael Bay off?

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Daenerys Targaryen said:
An actual trailer!

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So aside from the fact that Megan Fox looks 100% out of place, and looks like she's playing herself, I'm up for this. (Not gonna lie, at 0:27 it looked like she was Karai, and that was the only moment that I was excited about her).

There're a LOT of different ways that they could interconnect Shredder & the Turtles' origins, and using April's father as one of the TCRI scientists makes sense. If Shredder is initially a military commander in this like earlier rumors stated, then having them both being involved on the same project makes sense. Additionally, because of the Nickelodeon connection (and how it also seems to be connecting to small parts of the IDW comic), I wouldn't be surprised if there's a connection to the Utrom/Kraang with the military and thus the science that's being done. It makes more sense for the ideological rift and potentially the creation of additional mutants like Tokka, Rahzar, Bebop, & Rocksteady being used and controlled by the Foot. Probably what's most surprising is that there isn't any mention of how Splinter plays into all of this.

Additionally, I'm a little surprised that I don't completely hate the way that the turtles look. They actually look like turtle-human mutant hybrids, and they're a little disconcerting but not completely terrible like I'd feared. They actually remind me of most of the positive design aspects of TMNT: Out of the Shadows.



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I'm not really seeing what's so bad about this?
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This.

Maybe I've become more optimistic in my older years (lol im only 25), maybe seeing the awful movie Troll 2 lowered my standards. Who knows.

But there wasn't a single thing in this trailer that turned me off. Sure im not hyped to go see it like I am with Godzilla but its not like I'm walking away from the trailer like I just watched a trailer to Twilight 4 or some shit either.


I know I know. It's a Michael Bay flick, lets circlejerk about CGI and Explosions, and CGI explosions with EXPLOSIONS in them. I never put the man on pedestal. I'm not expecting Pixar tier story telling, or Raid: Redemption choreography.

Im just expecting another summer blockbuster flick that was geared towards teenagers and I think im going to get exactly that.

It doesn't look horrible :monster:





P.s. Everyone here should watch Troll 2 :reptar:
 
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Yeah, the trailer seemed like it could actually be kind of fun. I just wish Megan Fox wasn't playing April. :(

Buuuuuuut the Turtles themselves seem okay, so maybe it won't really be that bad.
 
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Andre Nemec: “You know, you gotta own your own version of what these stories are. I mean, again, looking through the different iterations of the Turtles to date, many of them have different origin stories… There’s the Daredevil component that mixes in with the Turtle canon, there’s the sewers. There’s the laboratories. There have been a number of different components to it. For us it was important to find our own version of who these particular Turtles were going to be so they could stand alone as their own characters.”
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As far as i can remember from the 20 or so years I've watched the cartooon the original live action and such, haven't they always been a kids pet, who accidentally drops them, they fall into a drain, step in the radioactive ooze and become more human. Then are trained by a Rat (who suffered the same fate) in the ways of the Ninja? That has been the basis of every turtles scenario ever, and now they come in and change it by making them fucking lab experiments!

What is it that Cloud says? Oh yeah, NOT INTERESTED.

I could be wrong about the origins and it may have changed in one of the many remakes of the cartoon but I can't recall this.
 
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As far as i can remember from the 20 or so years I've watched the cartooon the original live action and such, haven't they always been a kids pet, who accidentally drops them, they fall into a drain, step in the radioactive ooze and become more human. Then are trained by a Rat (who suffered the same fate) in the ways of the Ninja? That has been the basis of every turtles scenario ever, and now they come in and change it by making them fucking lab experiments!

What is it that Cloud says? Oh yeah, NOT INTERESTED.

I could be wrong about the origins and it may have changed in one of the many remakes of the cartoon but I can't recall this.
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The 90's cartoon and movies weren't really all that close to canon IIRC.

The original TMNT comic was actually pretty dark and was a good take on popular comics of that time, notably Daredevil.
Since then the brand veered off to become more kid friendly and also sell more toys ect. After that with every reboot the origins have changed either slightly or completely. Ranging from what you listed to alien origins with the ooze ect.

I guess what Im saying is that the people who discredit the Michael Bay take on the brand as non-canon or to different just because its not like the 90's take on the brand should probably consider that the 90's were pretty far off too :monster:
 
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As far as i can remember from the 20 or so years I've watched the cartooon the original live action and such, haven't they always been a kids pet, who accidentally drops them, they fall into a drain, step in the radioactive ooze and become more human. Then are trained by a Rat (who suffered the same fate) in the ways of the Ninja? That has been the basis of every turtles scenario ever, and now they come in and change it by making them fucking lab experiments!
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Also, no.

You're absolutely 100% incorrect in assuming that their origins are always the same to that strangely specific scenario. In addition to Gabe's mention that the '80s animated series & the '90s films even have very different origins for Splinter (i.e. being Hamato Yoshi who was mutated into a Rat-person, vs. an intelligent Rat who was owned by Hamato Yoshi that mimicked his martial arts moves and remembered it after being transformed), you've got the current 2012 series which is loosely related, and the ongoing comic, which is... VERY different.


In the IDW ongoing comic series (which is probably my favorite version of the turtles, with the 2012 series coming in at a close second), Splinter & the turtles are actually lab experiment animals at Stockgen (a shell company controlled by the Kraang), and she actually names all of them before they end up getting exposed to the Ooze, and in that origin, they're even separated from Raphael for most of their lives. (In addition to the fact that they're all also the reincarnated family of Hamato Yoshi & his sons and the Shredder is the original Oroku Saki who murdered all of them who's been kept in suspended animation for a large number of years, and was brought back by his granddaughter Karai).

So them having somewhat altered origins isn't entirely unprecedented, nor is it really a surprise at this point - Not to mention that the original comics, and the '80s, '03, & 2012 animated series are all part of a single multiverse that crosses over. The Origin is still staying close to lots of existing elements from the most current TMNT series, (and bringing back all the April O'Neil as a reporter nonsense) so it's a big amalgam of all the TMNT content from the last 20-30 years.



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