Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

AerostarMonk · 04-27-2007, 01:49 PM

You've obviously never heard anything about the Superman debacle. Even Nicolas Cage was mad at him. He has no respect for comics, in fact he even said that he set out to make the comics follow his lead instead of the other way around. He's a good filmmaker sure, but I'd rather see another Ratner film produced by Rothman than let Burton anywhere near another comic property. Because Burton doesn't always no best. Sure he made his Penguin a lot more appealing to a lot of people. But if the character isn't appealing without making him a disgusting monster, why even use him? There were plenty of villians that fit without so huge of a makeover. No disrespect to Danny DeVito's marvelous performance. Sure some villains actually need a huge change, like Freeze, or Mad Hatter among others before they got to their current incarnations. Others were pretty much fine how they were. Look at Selina Kyle. She was able to keep her basic story of the woman who fights back with the Burton twist. Why not others?

There's a huge difference between realism and just plain explanation. I mean of course Peter Parker is going to be bitten by a radioactive spider as opposed to getting bashed over the head with a coconut and gaining spider powers. What I'm talking about is when they strip away a lot of what makes a character cool and appealing just to make that character more realistic. Those moments you regard as realism only serve as as a gateway to escapism.

That balance between the right amount of comic fantasy and movie realism is a hard one, but good examples are the first Turtles, the first two X-Men, Mystery Men, and the Superman films. Those are all of varying quality I know, but they struck the balance well.

Will the next Turtles movie achieve this balance? Only time will tell.

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04-27-2007, 01:49 PM	#34
AerostarMonk Holy Toledo! Just try to relax and I'll try not to steal from you. Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Toledo, Ohio. Posts: 462	You've obviously never heard anything about the Superman debacle. Even Nicolas Cage was mad at him. He has no respect for comics, in fact he even said that he set out to make the comics follow his lead instead of the other way around. He's a good filmmaker sure, but I'd rather see another Ratner film produced by Rothman than let Burton anywhere near another comic property. Because Burton doesn't always no best. Sure he made his Penguin a lot more appealing to a lot of people. But if the character isn't appealing without making him a disgusting monster, why even use him? There were plenty of villians that fit without so huge of a makeover. No disrespect to Danny DeVito's marvelous performance. Sure some villains actually need a huge change, like Freeze, or Mad Hatter among others before they got to their current incarnations. Others were pretty much fine how they were. Look at Selina Kyle. She was able to keep her basic story of the woman who fights back with the Burton twist. Why not others? There's a huge difference between realism and just plain explanation. I mean of course Peter Parker is going to be bitten by a radioactive spider as opposed to getting bashed over the head with a coconut and gaining spider powers. What I'm talking about is when they strip away a lot of what makes a character cool and appealing just to make that character more realistic. Those moments you regard as realism only serve as as a gateway to escapism. That balance between the right amount of comic fantasy and movie realism is a hard one, but good examples are the first Turtles, the first two X-Men, Mystery Men, and the Superman films. Those are all of varying quality I know, but they struck the balance well. Will the next Turtles movie achieve this balance? Only time will tell.