ShyViolet wrote: I hope it does. I liked Turtles 1 the best because it had real drama in it and emphasized Raphael's character as being different from the others.
Agreed. The second movie is fun, but not nearly as deep - the first movie nailed the family dimension I think is pivotal to TMNT. (even though Leonardo and Donatello's characters were pretty much massacred... Raph's awesomeness saves it, kinda)
ShyViolet wrote:Also, how are we supposed to tell them apart? They don't even have different headbands from what I can see!
Don't worry; they
are different. This trailer has night-muted colors, but it's pretty clear that Leo is wearing blue, if nothing else. A TMNT comic purist would gripe that they
are wearing different colors (as they all wore red in the comics), but while I love the grit of the comics, I also love the colored masks they got upon being cartoonified. Saves you from having to figure out who's who based on voice/personality/weapon alone.
ShyViolet wrote:I hope this film does well but I'm not sure....there's something really "1990" about the Ninja Turtles...I think half the audience who goes to see this will be people wanting to relive their childhood.
(Nothing wrong with that, of course.
)
I mean, in these days of many, many cartoons that have Anime characters doing martial arts, five-foot turtles swinging swords isn't going to have the same impact, to say the least.
Anyway, just wondering, does anyone know the name of the rap song on the end credits of Turtles 1? (
not the Vanilla Ice one at the end of Ooze.) For some reason, NO ONE seems to remember this but me!
Who is the artist?
Well... the Turtles have been around since 1984, in cartoons since 1987.... and they're still alive and well. But your point brings up an important thing this movie has to do to be successful: get people to take the Turtles more seriously... and yet not too seriously. They were originally created as a parody, after all - a parody that for some odd reason became wildly popular on its own, first among the teen/young adult comic book crowd, and then animated for kids.
As for the rap song... it's sad that I actually have the soundtrack to this movie!
The song is called "T-U-R-T-L-E Power" and it's by Partnerz in Kryme. Ah, back when rap was entertaining...
Only thing that ever irked me about it was its odd decision to name Raphael as the Turtles' leader...
And here's something that's come out for anyone who's interested... an audio interview with the director of TMNT, Kevin Munroe. I haven't had the chance to hear this yet because at nearly 30MB I can't download it at home, but other Turtle fans have expressed excitement that this guy seems to "get it," and that we may be getting the movie TMNT has always deserved. An interesting tidbit: This film was lit as a black-and-white movie before the color was ever added... kind of a film noir style. Now that... could definitely be interesting.
Anyways, the link (to the link):
http://www.superherohype.com/news.php?id=4532
I should post some of the character posters that have popped up. They look pretty sweet.
