Saw In the Mouth of Madness at the local cinema the other week, awesome Lovecraft inspired horror film by the great John Carpenter. It was fun to see it in a theatre setting as many people there had never seen it before. Surprisingly funny for an otherwise spooky movie.
@blindsquarel Funny you say that, I have pretty much the opposite opinion of you.
The Turtles are teenagers, and probably young teenagers here, they're not gonna look like hulking beasts. Also most other TMNT installments have them skinner as well. TMNT 2012 (which is amazing, fight me.), Rise if the TMNT (also amazing, fight me. also not counting raph.) Saying they're "too skinny" is just a weird complain to me.
The voice acting I think is pretty good, I like how the Turtles are voiced by actual teenagers for once, especially one of the kids who voiced Gumball from the Amazing World of Gumball.
The jokes aren't hilarious, but this is the first snippet of the movie we're seeing. I don't think it's too far to judge the humor with the first trailer.
Also the art style is amazing, no doubt.
@Colonel_Mustache Glad this trailer is interesting non-TMNT fans. I'm a TMNT far and I thought it looked great to be honest, but I don't speak for all turtle fans of course.
@Kermit1 Actually, as much as I like the first Turtles movie, the second one isn't too bad either, the animated 2007 movie is not amazing but good, and the Rise of the TMNT movie from last year is pretty sweet.
@Colonel_Mustache Definitely. If you're into the horror/science fiction genres at all, he's absolutely worth checking out. Halloween, Christine, The Thing, They Live, Escape from New York, can't really go wrong with any of them.
Ghibli Fest is back again this year, and unlike last year (where I only saw "Ponyo"), I'm gonna see all of the anime movies in theaters! (All in English, of course)
It's always odd when people complain about these multi-generational kid $$$ franchises appealing to the TRUE fan or not. Like what is a true fan of adolescent mutated martial artist pantestudines? Is it someone who liked those 90s movies because well there was a cartoon from the 80s before that and even then it was based on a black and white indie comic which was tonally very different (pretty much a Daredevil homage/parody) which I can’t imagine the twelve year olds who will make up the audience for this movie or the twelves year olds at the time for all the other movies and shows would care about.
Maybe it’s less ownership by the true fan if the concept and characters can’t survive an adaptation for them as those people are only after chasing nostalgia highs like a heroin addict slapping their arm in a dark alley for their adaptation of choice rather than being a true fan. Batman is always my go to example for this as every generation it goes through a very different take on him Adam West’s deadpan, Tim Burton’s spooky and kooky, Nolan’s grounded crime thriller, Frank Miller’s noir grit , Scott Snyder’s symbolic run, Denny O' Neil taking it seriously before that was cool etc with each generation adding ideas and polishing the concept to add to it without eliminating the original so It becomes greater than the sum of it’s parts such as they added Robin to appeal to kids to read the comic which made no sense so the kids read it reasoned in their own heads that it must because Batman sees himself in Robin so they grew up and wrote that into the comic and so on adding in these layers.
Seth Rogen seems adept at geek culture properties so I’m not sure why people are worried his name is attached. His company has churned out loyal and loving adaptations of Invincible, Preacher and The Boys with Preacher specifically being impressive with how they handle the material considering it is the sort of thing that would have been unthinkable to be adapted when originally released and his company did a good job capturing the feels of Pam & Tommy and The Disaster Artist.
The story in this one doesn't make much sense, even by franchise standards. IIRC, the villain is former French Foreign Legion, & after his group is betrayed by the "multinational military force" they were apart of during the Gulf War (for reasons that are never explained), he decides the best course of action to get revenge on the world is to destroy Shinjuku.
That said, the setup leads up into what is probably the most unique of these City Hunter specials so far. It's essentially "Speed" with a bullet train, where if the train drops below a certain speed (or makes so many trips around it's route) it'll set off a series of explosives that'll destroy the city. This leads into a scenario in which Ryo (& Umibozu) just can't waltz into an enemy HQ & gun everyone down (which is how these things usually end). Instead everyone has something important to contribute, with Saeko playing negotiator with the villain, Kaori finds herself in the conductor's seat of the train, & Ryo/Umibozu using their unique talents to find a way to safely stop the train.
In terms of aesthetic this is the darkest one yet as well. Of course it's still full of the series' classic gags (especially in the first half) which you'll either be tired of or looking forward to in a comfort food kinda way at this point, but the bright 80's neon & early 90's pastel color pallets of the past give way to something more grounded, earthy, and maybe even a tad gritty. Heck, even the deaths (& there are deaths) seem to hit harder here (it features the first bloody head shot that I can seem to recall from the franchise for example. While there have been head shots in the past, as well as bloody wounds, this is the first time the two have come together). When Ryo does finally get his one on one with the bad guy he has a much more equal fight on his hands than he typically does and even gets a bit beat up during the ordeal.
I don't think the vibe is my personal preference for the property, but there's no doubt it's used to good effect here, and it looks really good too (you can definitely tell it's a special, with an animation quality that goes above & beyond what you'd see in a typical episode).
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@Colonel_Mustache I actually saw "Nope" with mom in the theater. So far of the three Jordan Peele movies, we both haven't seen "Us" yet. I did rent "Get Out" on Apple TV a couple of years ago, and I re-watched that on FreeForm during their "31 Nights of Halloween" (one of two months I watch that channel along with "25 Days of Christmas").
@Colonel_Mustache Honestly, "Get Out" is the one movie that made my blood run the coldest. I'm not gonna say what point because... well you haven't seen it yet and it's a spoiler. Seriously, either give it a rent or see if it's on any of your streaming services right now.
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