This is not only a review of the new movie but of the franchise as They came out well before I had a blog.
Being as The new Movie was going to be on HBO Max for a limited time, I was lucky enough that they had the first 3 movies as well. So I wanted to rewatch them as I don’t remember much. With the re-watch I know why. Honestly the first movie was great back then but on the re-watch of them… Some of the visual effects are starting to get dated. Some worse than others.
Matrix
trinity gets Caught for hacking and does she get arrested…. I still don’t get how they travel through (?) The phones.
A little confusion on my part at the beginning. Are they re-showing what happened in the last few minutes of chapter 2?
On the run after being excommunicated, John Wick is on the run looking to get fealty.
My apologies my notes seem out of sorts (they’re in line with other notes etc so I’m trying to figure them out.
a 14 or 15 million bounty for killing a member of the high table.
is that a museum, antique shop, library or what… all i know is I am feeling nervous in this scene. But cool fight. That is some serious case of knives. I’m staring at it like WHEN THE HELL are they going to notice it. Wait did I just see a horse used as a weapon? lmao!
I’ve got NINJA! noted here, but not if it was because of actual Ninjas or just some moves.
Wait I thought guns only held 2 cartridges at a time, I’m not seeing him reloading that often either.
I must have a bloodlust cause I LOVE seeing the blood ‘clouds’ as people fall from a distance. The ‘Cleaner’ as I’m calling him, I bet is gonna get killed (or come close)
WTF is with the ‘crystal skulls’ in the glass cases? That part was another cool one.
Poor Continental
I think they are already working on a 4th. I’m just trying to figure out if this was better then the 2nd or what.
2017 Rated R Horror, 1:30 Alex Vincent, Fiona Dourif, Zak Santiago, Jennifer Tilly
So ANy’s all grown up and has apparently gotten a head of the game. (All Puns intended) Oh wow! this is The original Andy from the very first movie!
Nica having spent 4 years in an asylum for the criminally insane and was made to believe she, NOT Chucky murdered her entire family. WTF! If Chucky’s head is served on a platter How is a new doll also possessed? (Did I miss a movie?) There’s a part or 2 I got that Nightmare on Elm street feeling though Nightmare 3 was also in a mental health facility.
Oh now its not just a doll but is he possessing people too? Why would Andy send out another doll that’s evil? Or is it evil? I don’t know but for a sequel honestly it was just nice to visit an old friend! Er Frenemy? Speaking of which the Halloween Issue of Entertainment Weekly has an ‘Interview’ with Chucky
Chucky #1 “It behooves us to watch our step”
Chucky #2 “Behooves, listen to you, You sound like Hannibal Lechter. Can’t Belive they cancled that show”
There may be times it was a bit silly and a little Nightmare on Elm street like in parts maybe that’s why I enjoyed it.
I’d say give it a watch, it’s the right time of year for it!
Just a note. there’s was an UNRated version on the disk
2017 R 1:31 Kate Beckinsale Theo James Bradley James Charles Dance
So the what is this 5th movie in the franchise? Did I miss one? Oh no it was that 3rd movie that was a ‘base tart ized’ prequel. (sorry I do try to keep things at PG or PG-13 but its fun to be creative in how to ‘curse’ and yet adhere to my rules and anything I need to follow of wordpress guidelines.
So Slene is now an outcast and hunted by both factions (the lycans by her own vampires including her own clan), Selene and new friend David (Theo James) take on Marius (wasn’t he in one of the previous movies??) the new lycan leader and a scheming traitorus female vampire leader.
Selene has no idea where her daughter is for the child’s protection (and maybe even her own)
Now I’ve heard of white parties, I guess this is the vampire version though I think it needs a touch of red.. maybe the host should wear that. I mean those dank dark halls of the vampire palaces… oh I get the black.. its a ‘bat’ party like the white elephant in the room! (Just my goofy interpretation….)
There’s some fight they end up in water (I think it was a fountain or a pond inside) that was cool coming up out of it then there’s a the fight on ice! (if only I could remember the when I went to the) ice Capades … this might have actually been better than that!
Love James Theo’s vampire eye color…definitely an improvement but then I do say “Fangs make the man”
The movie was ok but it doesn’t feel like there’s anything important on the line.No heart in the fight even after the revel from Marius (has to do with Scott Speedman’s character)
a C or D for some cool parts yet disappointing….
(also… Crayola needs to make a ‘vampire Blue eyes’ color!
Having watched the original versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the 1990s hearing the way the new turtles speak, just irritates me. I thought they sounded more ‘surfer’/stoner speak in the ’90s but maybe not as much as I thought, unless the cartoon made them sound more like that.
I didn’t know the movies were originally based on comics, I thought it was a movie and cartoon before it became a comic.
The original starred Judith Hoag as April O’beil and Elias Koteas as Casey Jones while Corey Feldman was the voice of Donatello & James Saito played Shredder
the 2 mutated creatures are a snapping turtle with spikes and I guess a werewolf.. which looks more like it should be in a movie version of the arcade game Rampage! Which Co-starred Ernie Reyes Jr. The Secret of the Ooze
Between the 2 originals I can see why they updated them. Though I refused to see the new one when it came out,
maybe now I will as I hear good things about the sequel besides ‘Arrow’ actor Stephen Amell is in it.
I didn’t remember that there was a 3rd movie, so I guess while I’m on a Turtle tear I should see if I can find a copy
Was this subtitled “Secret of the Samurai”? If not, no idea where that came from
An old mysterious scepter causes April to switch places with an ancient Samurai, so our Turtle friends have to travel through time to feudal Japan to rescue their friend.
Japan 1603 which at first just shows a red sun in the background and for too long as well, then leads into a fight that fades from a red hue to full color.
I can already see why I forgot about this. It doesn’t even look like the turtles from the first two movies. Whoever is in the costumes could not have been pro martial artists it looks more like something that would have been made for Syfy channel when it first came out! (Watch the 2 previous movies you will see what I mean. Like if you watch Donatello with the Bo staff, doesn’t look like he’s twirling it but just shaking it from side to side (WTF?!?!) Most of the movie is just a bunch of cheesy poses. Also their faces and heads are not the same shapes nor are they the same color I think they are lighter from the original, plus where I think the original suits were more mate these are glossy. Then there’s splinter, definitely has got to be a new suit or animatronic (I think the later as I don’t think there was a fully head to toe shot of him). Talk about looking like a sewer rat! This one does, the previous incarnation of the character looked cleaner and less frazzled.
splinter…Lampshade…”he made another funny”
as my friend Rich (from youtubes’s The B.A.R.) would say.. another to toss in the pit of eternal stench.
An old mysterious scepter causes April to switch places with an ancient Samurai, so our Turtle friends have to travel through time to feudal Japan to rescue their friend.
Japan 1603 which at first just shows a red sun in the background and for too long as well, then leads into a fight that fades from a red hue to full color.
I can already see why I forgot about this. It doesn’t even look like the turtles from the first two movies. Whoever is in the costumes could not have been pro martial artists it looks more like something that would have been made for Syfy channel when it first came out! (Watch the 2 previous movies you will see what I mean. Like if you watch Donatello with the Bo staff, doesn’t look like he’s twirling it but just shaking it from side to side (WTF?!?!) Most of the movie is just a bunch of cheesy poses. Also their faces and heads are not the same shapes nor are they the same color I think they are lighter from the original, plus where I think the original suits were more mate these are glossy. Then there’s splinter, definitely has got to be a new suit or animatronic (I think the later as I don’t think there was a fully head to toe shot of him). Talk about looking like a sewer rat! This one does, the previous incarnation of the character looked cleaner and less frazzled.
splinter…Lampshade…”he made another funny”
as my friend Rich (from youtubes’s The B.A.R.) would say.. another to toss in the pit of eternal stench.
The first time I came across the 2012-2014 ‘cartoon’ I have to grab a Ginger Ale every time as I got nausea everytime I saw it! For one CGI is not a ‘cartoon’ and these look like nothing but trash, like someone’s failed attempt using a new program, or an old apple computer (like 90s old). They are more an exercise for children to teach them their shapes rather than being characters. As for that theme song, (first time hearing this version) I’ve puked all over my monitor!
Megan Fox & Will Arnett William Fincher Johnny Knoxcille (Leonardo voice) Alan Ritchson as Raphael Tohoru Masamune Whoopi Goldberg Will Arnett
I originally never intended to watch this one as I loved the originals so much; but after watching them, I can see why they were updated. I originally boycotted watching this because they sounded like thugs and I couldn’t stand it, still can’t they should sound like surfer dudes period. Also because it should have been called the (Not so) Teenage Mutant Ninja TANKS because of the size of them. Well once I heard ‘Arrow’ Stephen Amell was cast in the sequel as Casey Jones, I thought it was a perfect fit! So needless to say I’ll be watching the sequel to this (at least) if only because “Arrow’ is in it, so I figured to give in and watch the update of the original movie or shall I say more like a reboot and see how it went, and if it would be as bad as I thought.
The start of the movie has a graphic novel inspired intro story. Shredder and his foot clan have their claws in the Burroughs of NYC from the cops to the politicians. Their diabolical plan is to release some toxin from the spear of a building and be the only ones with a antidote to bring the world to it’s knees. We don’t actually get a look at the turtles ‘closely’ until around 15 minutes in when they are scoping out some security monitors with a little funny moment there.
What is a Hashi? The turtles fight (argue) more I think than they did in the original, Oh sh** what is that! Wait that’s splinter… HORRIFYING~ looking at splinter makes me nausea, couldn’t they have used the old costume or an animatronic creature? This one is just scary looking, and I’m usually the one that thinks the real rodents are cute, and can never understand and laughs at those who jump on tables when they see a mouse or rat. I guess this incarnation of Splinter is what they see! I’m pretty sure in this he’s purely a motion capture creation. I think the turtles may be so as well, or at least there was one point that made me think so. Now as for Shredder’s look… pardon the pun, but I do have to shred it and not in a good way! Shredder looks more like a robot than a person I can go on with he maybe thinks he’s a power ranger megazord, or even Edward Scissorhands (maybe he watched that movie way too much!) Not sure who came up with the Shredder scissor-hands look, but WAY too much buddy. As they say less IS more!
So far the character ‘costumes’ are my only gripes, as well as the Turtles NOT sounding like the Turtles. Where’s all the goofiness especially from Michelangelo? He’s always been my fave now… it feels as if he’s a pod person. It feels there’s no heart other than who April O’Neil turns out to be. Also wasn’t that a new twist on the story or the actual comic origins of it?
Raphael seems overly aggressive for what seems for no reason. Donatello wears glasses, WHY? because he’s the smart one of the group? What a cliche and Other than their masks and a little joking from Mikey all the turtles seem to be the same personality instead of very different individual ones.
What. The. OMG it’s a wall of boomboxes (or should I say ghetto blasters.. was there a difference between the two or just depended on the music played by them?) Oh for SHAME Mr. Saks… tsk tsk. between the bulk and adding other items to them even when they were ‘younger’ Donatello looks like a ghostbuster with whatever that is on his shell.
Hogoshai (sp?) is a great guardian spirit.
“Dashing through the snow in a 4 turtle open trailer, over hills we go, fighting all the way…”
WOW! Finally we get a Cowabunga from Mikey! The Turtles of the 90’s were so much cooler as far as personality. These ones just seem more like brutes they may as well be in the foot clan. The best part of the whole film was the snow chase, which I think should have came after the last scene (on the building)as a sort of game of keep away and the climax of fighting shredder wasn’t even a thrill, and likely after a few days to a week will have forgotten.
I think I still enjoyed the original 2 more, Raph’s speech didn’t feel genuine and sounded too forced.
Stephen Amell, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Alan Ritchson as Raphael, WWE star Sheamus as Rocksteady
This I am seeing only because Stephen Amell is in it and plays Casey Jones. Wait, was that a batmobile I just saw?!?! (the scene when transporting shredder)
In the beginning I am so far loving Stephen’s Casey Jones, its definitely a nice transition to his usual Broody Oliver/Arrow acting. and Wait Turtle Dumpster….dumbfounded but wait wasn’t it pizzas that it used to shoot? But then again Pizza isn’t an actual weapon unless you make the cheesy like a spider web and someone else already has that copyrite!
OH…MY…Gods!!! I know I was ripping on the last one for not being like the 90s ones that they were more enjoyable well.. except that very last one… but I meant it only as the personalities and a few other things but they are KILLING me with the 90s music ‘All I wanna do is put my boom boom in your zoom zoom … Shake your rump!” (that was killing me with laughter at the lyrics) and let’s not forget about Ice ICe Baby! (I swear that song wilkl haunt my generation for the rest of our lives!
What was the name of that villain that looked like a brain? or was it Brain? (or am I just thinking Pinky and the Brain…sorry) ah its Krang!
and Almost fell on the floor laughing at the turtles reaction to Casey.. and they called him Friday the 13th! Called Them swamp things that now live in an amusement park! (one of my favorite parts of the movie and I think most of them came in the beginning)
So shredder is tasked to put together what I’m calling the ‘Space vase’ (because 1 I forget what it’s called and 2 honestly.. tell me that doesn’t look at least in a way like a freaking vase) and this turn I think I like Be Bop and rocksteady a bit more.
There’s nothing really memorable like the sleigh ride from the last one. Frankly as soon as it was over I still only remember some of the beginning parts (like the dumpster) and Stephen Amell lighthearted humorous parts
Now I can complain about the reboots, but I did say it needed an updated, aside from the storylines which weren’t great but at least was an effort and I guess the sky needle part was cool but turtles playing leap frog? so stupid! As for the tanks.. I mean turtles… any chance they could at least lose some weight and shell if there’s another movie?
2017 R 1:31 Kate Beckinsale Theo James Bradley James Charles Dance
the black.. its a ‘bat’ party like the white elephant in the room! (Just my goofy interpretation….)
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