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2014/02/01 03:37:04
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Dem faces doe.
Especially Mikey's.
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2014/02/01 03:58:28
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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They look all kinds of awful. Curran hit it right on the head, disturbing uncanny valley territory.
I don't hold much nostalgia for the franchise, but this just looks bad. Honestly, TMNT (and all the nostalgic cartoon fare) is best kept to Saturday morning cartoons.
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2014/02/01 04:01:50
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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 curran12 wrote:Here's a more complete picture of the Turtles...complete with their hideous Uncanny Valley manlips  Edit: And a weird fixation on eyewear. Donatello has a bandana, glasses AND goggles.
Honestly, while Shredder looks pretty cool, and I like the turtle outfits/costuming generally, but the faces of them just look... wrong somehow. Which is a strange thing to say about mutant turtle-men, of course, but they're just not right, in a way that the 1990 movies avoided somehow. Uncanny Valley territory is right.
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2014/02/01 04:02:34
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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I actually really like the faces.
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2014/02/01 08:29:20
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Hellish Haemonculus
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I'm stoked!
From gritty, black-n-white comics turtles, to the zany, 80's cartoon turtles, to the grungy 90's film turtles, back to the more-realistic-in-character-while-being-drawn-like-Cubism-meets-CGI modern cartoon turtles, I have loved every incarnation of this franchise. I can totally overlook weird retcons in the name of a good time if need be.
Then again, I'm a Highlander fan, so I've gotten really good at selectively pretending I didn't hear the word 'alien.' 
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2014/02/01 08:54:58
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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I think... I think I can tell which ethnicity each turtle is supposed to be.
But turtles don't work that way.
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2014/02/01 08:57:33
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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It's a Michael Bay film. Expect racial stereotypes (anyone else ever notice Sentinel Prime became Fu Man Chu in Transformers 3)?.
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2014/02/01 09:49:07
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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[DCM]
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 Jihadin wrote:Wait...so the TMNT are"muppets"? So the actor in the the costumes are not lugging like 85 lbs of rubber?
IIRC the turtles will be mostly CGI, "drawn" over the motion capture suits worn by the actors.
edit : see http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01/03/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-toys-give-us-better-idea-of-the-crews-new-look/
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2014/02/01 09:55:08
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Insect-Infested Nurgle Chaos Lord
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Man those faces are creeping me out something fierce and making me feeling sick all at the same time!
I take it these are just models so that bay remembers what each one looks like, rather than being stop motion?
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2014/02/01 10:05:05
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Nihilistic Necron Lord
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Not outright horrible, just yeah, the faces are a bit odd. Really making sure you know Don is the nerd of the bunch though, complete with surgical tape on the nose bridge of his glasses.
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2014/02/01 10:22:46
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Most Glorious Grey Seer
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Is Vanilla Ice going to reprise his role?
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2014/02/01 19:09:32
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Yeah, I like everything except the faces...
...but they may well grow on me.
Kind of irrelevant though, because Michael Bay has not made an enjoyable film since The Rock (which kind of got ruined when I actually went to Alcatraz and realised that an underground mine cart chase is physically impossible).
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2014/02/01 19:10:18
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Fixture of Dakka
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Why exactly would a news organization hire a reporter with Megan Fox's voice?
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2014/02/01 19:12:26
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Fixture of Dakka
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 AegisGrimm wrote:Why exactly would a news organization hire a reporter with Megan Fox's voice?
Maybe they would dub her voice
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2014/02/02 09:54:49
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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AegisGrimm wrote:Why exactly would a news organization hire a reporter with Megan Fox's voice?
To help keep certain demographics abreast of things.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2014/02/02 11:05:11
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Insect-Infested Nurgle Chaos Lord
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 kronk wrote:I kind of like it. As long as they are mutants and not aliens.
This again?
Bay is constantly being misquoted here. The TMNT are created by an alien mutagen which comes from the Utroms (which incidentally also created Daredevil whist we're here). This is from their original comics. Sadly, a good percentage of people in this world only remember the first animated series (or think that it was the only one that existed). It was never really touched on in the 1987 series; but was covered in the 2003 series, which is FAR FAR closer to the original comics and criminally forgotten IMO.
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2014/02/02 16:42:02
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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The other side of the internet
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Teenage alien samurai turtles
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2014/02/03 00:39:16
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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They're tortoises now.
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2014/02/03 00:54:42
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought
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And here I thought they were terrablepins.
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2014/02/03 03:47:31
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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[DCM]
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 reds8n wrote: AegisGrimm wrote:Why exactly would a news organization hire a reporter with Megan Fox's voice?
To help keep certain demographics abreast of things.
Nicely played
Don't like the faces, probably for the uncanny valley reason mentioned earlier in the thread. It's Bay though, so I'm sure it will be a soulless 2 hr explosion with Megan Fox running in slow motion--and make millions--encouraging him in his quest to murder my childhood.
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2014/02/03 06:20:47
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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I want to see what he does with Heathcliff.
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2014/02/03 06:58:05
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Fixture of Dakka
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One of them is a girl? the orange one looks kinda feminine.
Keep it Simple & Stupid
these are the TMNT i love and remember
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2014/02/03 05:48:08
Subject: Re:A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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reds8n wrote: AegisGrimm wrote:Why exactly would a news organization hire a reporter with Megan Fox's voice?
To help keep certain demographics abreast of things.
Exalted!
Like most; I dislike the faces; and I'm not totally sold on the turtles but don't mind them too much.
I agree that Shredder looks like a BAMF.
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2014/02/03 11:24:55
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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You think they'd wanna use something a bit closer to the current Turtles designs. It seems to be pretty damn popular these days. What they've gone with here is just too weird to appeal to the nostalgia crowd or the kids, since it doesn't look anything like what either set is familiar with.
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2014/02/03 14:22:11
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Why is this even being made into a live action movie in the first place?
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2014/02/03 14:35:51
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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 Easy E wrote:Why is this even being made into a live action movie in the first place?
Because Michael Bay insists on destroying childhoods one icon at a time.
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2014/02/03 14:44:11
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Insect-Infested Nurgle Chaos Lord
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Tibbsy wrote: Easy E wrote:Why is this even being made into a live action movie in the first place?
Because Michael Bay insists on destroying childhoods one icon at a time.
Sorry, but the movie trilogy that came out nearly a quarter of a century prior did that for a lot of people.
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2014/02/03 14:52:07
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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 Grimtuff wrote:Tibbsy wrote: Easy E wrote:Why is this even being made into a live action movie in the first place?
Because Michael Bay insists on destroying childhoods one icon at a time.
Sorry, but the movie trilogy that came out nearly a quarter of a century prior did that for a lot of people.
But it didn't have baysplosions and slow-mo bewbs.
I don't know how Mr Bay can take such a winning combination and make it suck.
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2014/02/03 14:59:19
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Tibbsy wrote:
I don't know how Mr Bay can take such a winning combination and make it suck.
I think he has taken lessons from somewhere....
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2014/02/03 15:15:02
Subject: A Look at Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Tibbsy wrote:But it didn't have baysplosions and slow-mo bewbs.
I don't know how Mr Bay can take such a winning combination and make it suck.
It's because he's a racist hack with no respect for his subject matter.
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