New live action "Turtles"?

[Kelso]

T'Baio wrote:

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I think that looks great.

Agreed.

Kelso wrote:

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Agreed.

To be honest I like it too.

[Unicron]

cardinal biggles wrote:

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I guess it's creepy insomuch as it actually looks like a real turtle head, as opposed to all previous versions, which were more cartoony and humanized.

Agreed. It seems a little creepy to me.

[Samurai8472]

If mutant turtles were real

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/10/10/...les-were-real/






That's too real/detailed and even scares me. Maybe even the new movie suits aren't too far removed from that.

^
Looks cool to me.

[T'Baio]

That looks so awesome! I never thought I'd be excited about a TMNT movie, mourning the fact the franchise was probably perpetually stuck in kiddieville, McHappyMeal Land. But there you go, TMNT the way they should be!

Edit: Oh, wait...that has nothing to do with a movie. Damn.

[Samurai8472]

Crisis averted

http://www.theeffectslab.com/forums/...ic.php?t=13657

FAKE

[Unicron]

As much as I like a high level of effect realism, I do have to admit that's still a bit creepy for me. Almost sort of zombie turtle-ish.

[The Evil Dead]

They look cool, but look like they should be fighting the real Ninja Turtles.

[Too Much Fun]

As someone who has just recently revisited the 1987 TMNT series, I just have to say that if they ever reboot the live action movie franchise for that property, the best change they could and should make to improve it is to make Shredder more like he was in the cartoon. Seriously. A lot of the episodes seem too childish and shrill to me as an adult, but Shredder is terrific because it's clear that the writers frequently gave him lines that they must have known would go over kids' heads probably for their own amusement. As a result, I can notice them now and enjoy the show on a whole new level. And Shredder was just hilarious...the way he bullied his henchmen and obsessed over the turtles so fanatically that it even drove the people he worked with nuts was inspired.

In contrast, the live action 90s movies Shredder was just an almost mute nobody stock villain with no personality and a stupid helmet. That franchise needs a good Shredder in order to thrive. The other big blunder of the live action turtles movies was that they did not highlight the turtles' unique personalities as well as the show did. They were too similar, aside from Michaelangelo sounding more surfer-like and Raphael having a New York accent. It shouldn't have been so hard to differentiate them since they were all basically types (leader, genius, smartass, party animal). The "TMNT" (2007) movie got that right but had a crushingly boring villain and story.

[RoJoHen]

Maybe if they were evil Ninja Turtles. Or super old. Geezer Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[StarshipDefiant]

Hmmm...I dunno, I kind of liked the Shredder in the first live action movie, at least as far as the storyline goes and what not.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Samurai8472 wrote:

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If mutant turtles were real

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/10/10/...les-were-real/






That's too real/detailed and even scares me. Maybe even the new movie suits aren't too far removed from that.

hmm reminds me of Tokka, the snapping turtle from TMNT II, but a bit more anorexic looking.

[Warp Coil]

Re-booting TMNT to make them look more "realistic" is walking a fine line. The turtles, in all of their incarnations, never really looked like what a giant mutated turtle would look like in the real world. Accuracy wasn't exactly a concern. So trying to re-vamp the turtles' look to make them really look like giant turtles could really screw with any sense of nostalgia that the fans had for them. Ya know, kinda like turning Bumblebee into a Chevy Camaro... but anyways... I think the live-action turtles looked really good in the first film. Maybe start there and then make minor adjustments to make them look a little more realistic without completely transforming their appearance.

[Samurai8472]

With "Avatar" right now setting the bar for technology I think if there was a reboot with a reasonable budget they'd try to emulate the realism and use the same techniques.