Mister Jack Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 um, wat. This could have been so much better looking, too. http://imgur.com/a/0lwLZ I have seen some seriously uncanny valley CGI in Hollywood movies, but this might be the worst yet. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 I'd seen people saying that they look like that because they need the faces to animate accurately for lip-synching in such high-fidelity. I say to hell with that, those redesigns look a hell of a lot better and most likely functional, and that was just one dude messing around in photoshop for a bit. Not that it would allay all the other concerns I have though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 I say those people are full of shit. If you can turn Andy Serkis into a fucking dragon you could have done this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Assuming we're talking about Hobbit, Cumberbatch is the Dragon. Serkis plays Gollum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 (edited) Yeah, Serkis plays monkeys, apes and people called Monkey, duh! Edited April 1, 2014 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 My mistake. Yes, I meant Cumberbatch. In which case they have even less of an excuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 So good cast and it's from Luc Besson and that makes it super green. However my only beef would be with the "10% of your brain" thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Here's another Scarlett Johansson film - looks interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Okay soooo apparently in Michael Bay's TMNT the new Shredder is a white guy named Eric Sachs. Whaaaaaat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 See, it's like Oroku Saki but westernised! AREN'T THEY CLEVER. That's all part of a revised backstory, and to be honest, that doesn't bother me too much. The 2003 series made him an utrom - little brain-looking alien from the original comics that inspired Krang in the original cartoon - who has an exosuit and had existed as 'The Shredder' since crashing in Japan during feudal times. It was a neat twist and kept things new and surprising, particularly when they repeated the decapitation that happened in the comics. And in the new IDW comic series, that also puts his origin in feudal period Japan, and there's some weird mix of magic-like alien technology that has kept him alive for thousands of years. Meanwhile, there is a reincarnation angle involved with Splinter and the turtles. If you look at a few shots in this new trailer, he's got some ancient Japanese mural that presumably depicts the 'original Shredder' or at least suggests some link to that same past. Plus, it appears he's got some reverence for the Shredder outfit. So, it could be some 'possession' or reincarnation or mystical angle involved there as well. Especially since William Fichtner was allowed to come straight out and say, "I play The Shredder". Anyway, in conclusion, I'm not too bothered by any revisions to the origin story, because plenty of other interesting stories have springboarded off different ideas. I mean, in this version the foot soldiers are actual soldiers...who wear some weird kabuki-style masks, so they're doing something intriguing there. Still, I think they look dumb and it will probably be more about April and Shredder than them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 supposedly the film is supposed to somewhat adapt the first arc of the current comic series, so its a possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Hmm, well, I've heard a few things and what I've seen doesn't really match up to that. Wouldn't rule out certain elements being incorporated though. Like Splinter originally being a test subject rat (and rumours that this fused with April's dad to become the new Splinter) at TCRI, a 'weird (alien) technology research' lab clearly owned by Shredder. I've also heard that the turtles themselves might be former humans (which further supports Mikey's 'confusion' in the "It's just a mask" gag), which is sort of like the newer comic...except not. But like I said, I'm intrigued to see what sort of revisions they come up with, so wouldn't write off anything automatically. However, I don't have any faith in the people behind it, and the turtle designs are bad, so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Johnny Knoxville and Tony Shalub have been brought in to do voice over work as Leonardo and Splinter, respectively. Increasing my senses of "this is going to be horribad." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 More than likely not my type of film, but certainly one that might be interesting given the production process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 GIVE IT TO ME! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 I haven't been paying attention to Godzilla, but I had no idea that it was going to be a monster vs monster movie. Looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Yeah some of the recent stuff has started heavily implying a monster versus monster, glad to finally have it confirmed in a trailer. Definitely going to have to see about going to see this. May should be a decent month for films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Looks good. RotPotA was a surprisingly great film, so I'm totally up for some more damn dirty apes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Looks neat. Though the idea that the few hundred apes from the beginning of Rise could establish a society that couldn't just be defeated by the SFPD, let alone end up overthrowing the several billion human global population, kills suspension of disbelief for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Did you not watch the sub plot of the film and the credits? Lab assistant dude gets infected with the same virus that makes the apes super smart. Turns out it's pretty lethal in humans. He ends up passing it to Franco's neighbour(the one that Caesar attacked), drops dead, then the end shows the neighbour isn't just a wife-beater wearing guy: Hence the new trailer mentions the virus being made in a lab and not the fault of the apes (Which in a confused and dying populace it might be like "huh, humans dying, apes getting smart. Apes caused this!") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 8, 2014 Report Share Posted May 8, 2014 Ah, no, it had just been long enough since I'd seen the movie that I'd forgotten about that. Actually, while writing that comment I was thinking "maybe they explained this in the first movie and I'm about to sound like an idiot..." so there you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 This should be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 New Dawn Of The Planet of The Apes trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EqYhEmKkY You know, I never thought id be excited about one of these movies, but Rise was awesome. I honestly havent even seen any of the other ones. They just seem so silly. But maybe Im wrong. Hopefully this one is as good as it looks. Plus, I always look forward to seeing Gary Oldman play a villain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 The first one is good enough considering the time it was made, the rest are all pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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