Ladywarrior
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i might as well say it. the movie Food Fight. oh my goodness. >__<
Bay was just the producer. The problem with the film was all script. I wouldn't complain about the CGI myself, as that was the one thing they did right. As I've said a million times by now, the decision to focus on April and Eric Sachs was the major problem with the film. The Turtles and Shredder were tossed to the side and felt like guest stars in their own movie. Their moments were actually good, and showed sings of promise, but in the end, it was a lame contagion conspiracy film with the Turtles in it. They didn't even need to be in it, which makes it worse. And I can't even say they intended it to be a conspiracy film and re-purposed it to shove the Turtles awkwardly in it because the writers intended on making a TMNT film with that little focus on the characters.That and there were barely any martial arts, the camera shots were bizarre and uncomfortable, the main villains were underplayed despite how ridiculous they looked, April while well written was bland and poorly acted and at times not the brightest blub (which is a shame because Megan Fox is apparently a huge TMNT fan, maybe she just needed better direction?) all the action scenes were just utterly ridiculous, the character designs were a complete mess, Splinter was horrendously portrayed, and there was little to no real emotion or morals, except for when it came out of nowhere and had nothing to do with the plot.
Let's face it, anything that has Bay's name in it, be it director or producer, you know it's not going to be good.Bay was just the producer. The problem with the film was all script. I wouldn't complain about the CGI myself, as that was the one thing they did right. As I've said a million times by now, the decision to focus on April and Eric Sachs was the major problem with the film. The Turtles and Shredder were tossed to the side and felt like guest stars in their own movie. Their moments were actually good, and showed sings of promise, but in the end, it was a lame contagion conspiracy film with the Turtles in it. They didn't even need to be in it, which makes it worse. And I can't even say they intended it to be a conspiracy film and re-purposed it to shove the Turtles awkwardly in it because the writers intended on making a TMNT film with that little focus on the characters.
Then of course there's the fact Eric's character was essentially just there to take away parts from Saki and Baxter Stockman. It's like the only reason they kept Eric in the film was a personal favor to the actor. Originally Eric was Shredder as an inherited title but they pandered to angry complaints of backward race lifts, kept the darn character (again, as a favor to the actor it seems) but also have Saki Shredder sort of in it and remove Stockman completely... thus having Eric take both Saki and Stockman's parts. The part where he was extremely marveled by the existence of the mutant turtles? Proof the writers shoved him into Baxter's role.
But I do applaud the motion capture suits and the actually well done CGI. if only a fraction of the care for the character designs went into writing the script, we would have had something.
Trying to get a piece of the pie that The Lego Movie served up, I presume. At least with that brand, there were several universes from different sets to work off of to create their own mishmash of a universe. The only Doh-verse I can think of is Doh Doh Island, and I remember that getting a little stop-motion DTV special.http://www.avclub.com/article/fox-attempting-mold-play-doh-movie-paul-feig-217522
I try to keep somewhat of an open mind with movies, but I have no idea how this could be any good. None whatsoever.