Episode 273 Topics Include:
- Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 16 (00:01:00 - 00:32:30)
- Collector's edition Blu-ray packaging
- Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 Episode 2 (00:32:41 - 00:43:51)
- Harry Potter Month
- What we've been watching
- The life and times of Jim Carrey
- Shocktober Week 1
- Featured Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Featured Review: The Changeling (1980)
Running Time: 2 hours, 55 minutes
Episode Songs:
Baby Blue - Badfinger
This Podcast May Include Some Explicit Language
...It Also Most Likely Contains Some Spoilers
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i'm glad you like the TMNT movie so much, Jesse!! it's so good. i like it way more now than i did when i was a kid, it keeps getting better with time. i agree with you that it's got a grit to it, maybe not darkness, and i'd still show it to a kid, i saw it when i was 10, but it does have a grittiness to it that a lot of other kids movies don't have. there's a marked difference between this one and TMNT 2 and 3, and i don't think it's one of darkness or grimness, the material itself isn't dark or overly serious, but in my opinion it's a matter of tone. the first movie has a slight edge to it, i think, it's got a good balance between grit and funny stuff, but it presents all of it with a certain tone that i can't really describe but it's clear it's there.
ReplyDeleteI love the Turtles. Well, I loved the turtles as a kid so they will always have a place with me but I don't really read the comics or watch the cartoons. I think dark was the wrong word to describe it. I was struggling with the right word but I think grit is perfect. I just really enjoy how the creators of the movie took the source material and handled it with care. I still love that movie. I could do without 2. I don't remember 3 very well.
DeleteI love Casey Jones in this flick too.
i was thinking more about it after i commented, and i think it does get kinda dark at times, like if you think about the Shredder/Foot situation, i'd say it's dark, Shredder exploiting and manipulating all these kids and brainwashing them into being loyal to him, it's a giant cult, it's basically Shredder as Charles Manson. the movie presents it in a bit of a silly way, like during the warehouse montage it's like oooh look at all these BAD things these kids do: play cards, skateboard, playing guitar, video games..! noooo! haha. but the core concept is pretty dark, i think.
Deletei think Splinter being captive is kinda dark, too, just the way he looks, all greasy and bloody. i think "grit" is still probably the best word, though. and emotional resonance. the Turtles get emotional in other media, too, but i think the first movie is the one that lets them get the most emotional, i mean Michelangelo cries in one scene, that's intense, and the stuff with Raph's anger and brooding, the Leo/Raph stuff, and i still get choked up by the campfire scene, it just feels "real." the Turtles (and Casey, April, and Splinter too) feel like real people in the movie, not cartoon characters.
like in the scene where Donatello asks Mikey if he's ever thought about Splinter being gone, and Mikey doesn't even answer, he just ignores him and talks about pizza instead. that is so great, such a perfect character moment. my other favorite part is the Raph/Splinter scene when Raph comes back to the lair after meeting Casey, and Splinter sits him down and tells Raph that he's there for him. "i am here, my son." so fucking good. i'm getting teary-eyed here just thinking about it, haha. it's so real.