Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

I didn't see the 2014 one (because it looked terribad and everyone said it was terribad) but honestly I liked all the trailers I've seen for this. Feels way more like my memories. Who knows on those reviews. I'll wait for feedback from you guys

lanx_sl said:

rotten review is from this thing

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And the positive review is from a guy who liked Prometheus and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Let's not pretend we're dealing with world class critics and simply note that only one nutball rated it positive.

I'm getting tired of the bad guy having giant doomsday machines (that float things in the air).

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Well to be fair, the Technodrome would be kind of odd rolling around on tank treads

How the fuck in the Original movie reviewed so poorly?

Homsar_sl said:

How the fuck in the Original movie reviewed so poorly?

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Because it was a live-action kids movie based on a cartoon/comic that didn't come from the mouse house and that was something reviewers couldn't wrap their heads around. They literally didn't get it. 12 year old me didn't care though, best movie ever.

This came out yesterday here and we saw it with the wife and a couple of friends, everyone was a bit disappointed, some a lot. We had all enjoyed the first movie to a point (I thought it was never as good as the original TMNT movie, but it was so much better than TMNT 3 that I gave it a free pass despite obnoxious Megan Fox and Bay's greasy explody fingerprints all over it), but this sequel has all the flaws I reproached Transformers 2 with (and hated it for). Too much dumb humor, too much talking all the time, too much of everything. And the movie felt a lot more kiddy this time around too (like TMNT 2 classic I suppose).

I tolerated watching it because I'm a big fan of the TMNT cartoon and grew up with it and the video games, but if I'm to be honest it's almost as bad as Transformers 2, I only don't hate this one because I like Turtles a lot more than I like Transformers in the first place..

A positive note, it was good to see some of the cartoon stuff make it into a movie, like Bebop,Rocksteady, Krang, and the Technodrome (with eye and trident-cannons like in the cartoon), but like someone else said, almost all of that was shown in the trailers, so it's up to you wether you want to fork out the cash to see the rest of the movie. You do get to see pink-tentacled Krang a lot more outside of his tank than I imagined, so there's that.

Lamest bump ever...

This recently showed up for free on Amazon, so I watched it. It was better than the first movie I guess, but still pretty bad. Krang was actually very well done beyond the fact that he's not in it much. If they make more of these movies, a competent writer could do good things with the character. Bebop and Rocksteady were pretty decent. Shredder was a complete waste in this. If your inner 10 year old has been pining to see Krang and the Technodrome in a live action movie, it's not the worst way to spend a couple hours.

Just watched this for free on Netflix.

If you were age appropriate to watch the cartoon and didn't like this movie you're probably a joyless husk of a person.

What happened to you?

Lanx said:

You assholes got to see free shitty trashy movie on Netflix, I spent 20 bucks to see a shitty trashy movie.

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Meh. The only movies I still go to theatres to see are Star Wars movies. I might do the new Avatar trilogy. I bought a 65 inch OLED and a Sonos 5.1 system. Fuck the theatre. It'll be available to rent in 12 weeks, and free on Netflix 12 weeks after that. The last decade of mediocre film has soured me on the theatre experience. The recent Marvel trash and the Harry Potter spinoff were the final straws for me.

My only regret in the last little while has been missing Fury Road in theatres. Oh well.