I can't concentrate on writing and someone mentioned it was the 30th anniversary of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and I haven't seen it since the theater so... Here goes.
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Remember when they used to let kids movies have shadows and night scenes in them?
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Ohhhh this was shot by Jim Henson alum, who did The Storyteller. This makes so much sense now.
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Sam Rockwell is a treasure. Also I genuinely miss elaborate bad guy lairs.
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It's amazing how much the "radical!" and in your face stuff just falls away by the time you're 40 minutes in. It just becomes a movie telling it's story. And there's a shockingly good treatment to Raph's interiority. You don't just know what he's thinking, but why.
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Ah yes, the farmhouse second act to save money. Thing is that these sequences can be astronomically useful if you're really digging into things. It can't just be thought of as lofty "character" work - you have to show the relationships evolving and changing. This one is good
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It also understand that to make a really good one you make it 15 minutes and not a half hour.
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Elias Koteas's reaction to first seeing splinter is utterly priceless.
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1. the movie still works. 2. I'm glad I watched this. I had been struggling coming up with a column idea and I think I got one (broader than the movie itself)
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The first five minutes of this movie is just throwing WILD shit at you.
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The pitch of Grilldor's voice just shot me straight back in time 33 years holy crap
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Man, who played the self-assured authority dickhead figure better than James Tolkan?
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This is totally a PG movie with a totally disgusting pus filled wound. I was literally about to screenshot it, but no. Too gross.
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I think 9 times out of 10 people say X movie "stole" from Y movie and it's overblown hooey that misunderstands the historical ubiquity of certain story choices, but man the end of this thing really cribbed a lot from Jedi, huh?
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As the credits play on this thing I'm reminded how much really great bombastic music helped certain 80's movies like this... like most ear worms, the echo lasts long afterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftRoYLzFMKo …
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