Post by stefancrosscoe on Jun 14, 2017 11:49:39 GMT
Well, the movie was on TV again last night and this time I managed to catch it. While I can’t be sure, I think it’s probably been close to 20 years since I last watched this movie. Surprisingly (given how shoddy my memory typically is), I actually remembered most of the movie as I was watching it. What I mean is, as I was watching, my memories of the film immediately returned and I recognized what was happening onscreen and the lines of dialogue.
The only real ‘surprise’ was that Splinter’s flashback to his master, Shredder before he became The Shredder, and Shredder cutting Splinter's ear off came later in the movie than I originally thought it did. Like, when Splinter was explaining the turtles’ backstory to April, I’d expected to see the stuff with his master and Shredder, and when I didn’t see it, I thought the channel which was airing the movie had edited it out (the channel does this a *lot* with things, it’s quite ridiculous). So I was happy/relieved when the part of the flashback I was expecting but didn’t see came later on.
I really enjoyed watching the movie again. I was honestly really into it/never ‘bored’. It was quite fun seeing all these things in the movie that I remembered from when I was young and watched the movie repeatedly.
The only thing I could think of that could’ve maybe been improved is if the mouth movements for the turtles matched their dialogue better – but for the time, and even now, what they managed to achieve is pretty impressive. I know when I watched the movie originally, I didn’t even think of the turtles as 'guys in suits', I just fully bought these characters - who I’d only previously seen in animated form - as having come to life.
The music really suited the movie. I thought it was great at setting the mood, worked well in the ‘comedic’ moments and just lent so much atmosphere to the film.
As I was watching various scenes play out in the movie, I was reciting lines of dialogue in my head as they were said onscreen – obviously having watched the movie so many times as a kid meant that I had these memorized in the back of my mind. They all came flooding back as I watched.
April and Casey Jones had quite the Leia/Han ‘feel’ to them in a few of their scenes in the later half of the movie, I thought. What I mean by that is...sure, lots of movies have the girl and guy arguing/not getting along, only for them to end up together at the end, but I thought like with Leia/Han, although they argued and traded insults, it never verged into ‘unlikeable’ territory for either character. They gave as good as they got, and I bought that they’d eventually fall in love.
There were some lines that amused, even now. I’d sort of forgotten that Donatello and Casey took turns in calling each other names (in alphabetical order). I even felt sad for the turtles and Splinter at some points during the movie. Anyway, I’m glad I got to see it again after so long.
Beautiful written, Chalice_Of_Evil.
I enjoyed your review, specially the part about April and Casey and Leia/Han Solo.
The April/Casey in the new film from 2016, had absolute no chemistry or personality, just two douchy and smug characters that I could not care less about.
I am planning on having a go at the first three films, as they have released them for the first time on DVD in my country, well I already own the region 1 versions, and a region 2 UK edition, but since they finally got a good quality release, I could not resist buying them once more.