#sorry for not saying that mikey also has good leadership skills. it felt like he was just there. they did mikey wrong in these movies

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anyway ive been thinking about bayverse tmnt. and i dont think they should have any one official leader. because leo wasnt that great at it, but none of the other turtles would be better than him. like yeah, raph and donnie DO have good leadership skills, some of which leo lacked, but leo also had leadership skills that they lacked. things would work out better if they ALL contributed as one equal team rather than if just one of them lead the others. they don’t NEED a leader.

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The Good, the Bad, and the IDK How to Feel About That of: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) Part 2

Good: TURTLE TOTS

Good: Little Mikey is adorable

Bad: DID SPLINTER LEARN HOW TO READ JAPANESE TO READ THAT BOOK BECAUSE THE INTRUCTIONS ARE IN JAPANESE

Good: I love seeing the little turtles learning how to use their weapons

Good: Little Donnie is already modifying his bo and it’s adorable.

Good: So Raph knows how to carve wood as well??? Between his knitting and woodcarving, and Donnie’s computer skills, they could honestly bring in some money for their family, like set Raph up with an Etsy and Donnie could do IT or whitehat hacking, and they’d be good.

Good: Little Leo still learning how to use the katanas with the pizza bit

Good: Donnie, squinting because he can’t see a thing without his glasses, me too

IDK: Leo, did you really think that guardian spirits were real?

Bad: Mikey, did you ever even ASK April if she wanted to be your girlfriend???

IDK: I want to know how Splinter got the turtle pins and the turtle medallion. Amazon?

Good: I like how Donnie has a security system set up to let them know when people are getting close to their home, that’s some good thinking.

Good: Mikey when he’s fighting those soldiers, he’s hilarious and great

Bad: Raph, is this really time to be arguing leadership?

Bad: Why is it they’re only after the turtles and not Splinter as well? He was injected with the mutagen as well.

Good: I love the tech in Shredder’s armor, like magnetic blades that return on command? Awesome

Good: Donnie’s bo skills (I am jealous.)

Good: I love how Leo, Donnie, and Mikey are just absolutely desperate to get through the gate, like they’re watching their dad get hurt and they want so much to help him. It’s so emotional and I love it.

Good: I haven’t commented on Donnie’s tech pack yet. I love it and I want to know what it does.

Good: The scene where Leo, Donnie, and Mikey are being walked into the truck while being electrocuted with cattle prods makes me pissed at the Foot Clan because HOW DARE THEY HURT THESE TURTLES, so A+ on making me feel emotions.

Good: Raph being alive (I know they wouldn’t actually kill him but still)

Good: Splinter being alive (Him I’m afraid they would actually kill)

Bad: “…we will drain every last drop of their blood to get it [mutagen], even if it kills them” Um, draining every last drop of blood from somebody WILL kill them, wasn’t this guy a scientist at some point?

Good: The little ceramic turtle that Vern has on his kitchen counter

Good: Raph popping out of the back to end this awkward conversation and dramatically proving his existence.

Good: “How did he get in the back” He’s a ninja, Vern, they can do sneaky stuff like that

Good: “And we were going to use rabbits!” Teenage Mutant Ninja Rabbits…doesn’t have the same ring, lol

IDK: Rip random Foot Soldier #27

Good: The other scientists in the background looking at the dying Foot Soldier on the floor and being like “I DIDN’T SIGN UP FOR THIS, HE JUST STRAIGHT UP MURDERED THAT GUY”

Good: “The fourth cage is for you.” Proceeds to break out the huge freaking knives like he’s planning to murder someone

Good: “Four total turtles and one’s fighting a robot samurai…why not?” Lol, me too.

Bad: If Raph, who was able to build up momentum, was unable to break the glass, how were his brothers, who were starting from basically standing, able to break the glass?

Good: The entire adrenaline bit, from “I feel like cleaning!”, to tripping over the edge, to rambling at a million miles an hour, to Mikey spinning in circles, is amazing

Bad: Donnie’s “oh my gosh, they have guns” thing because they had guns before, now they have live ammo instead of tranq darts. (I’m sorry Donnie)

Bad: Raph’s slow-motion yelling as he launches the bullets back thing. Just no.

IDK: Leo just isn’t having a good day is he? He just keeps getting electrocuted

IDK: OK I WANT TO LOVE HOW DONNIE’S HYPED ABOUT THE WHOLE LAUNCHING THE CAR THING BECAUSE THAT’S ADORABLE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT’S THE STEREOTYPICAL NERD SNORT THING SO I REALLY DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT IT

Bad: Vern staring at April’s butt as she leans out the car

Good: I really love the turtles using their shells as sleds thing, it’s pretty cool

Good: Them sliding around the sewers, it honestly looks awesome

Good: Instead of the elevator, it’s a bunch of Foot Soldiers

Good: “Not the elevator” “Nope” Lol

Good: I love the elevator bit, they’re teenagers who have had a really rough day nearly dying and still have to go fight a samurai in order to save the city, and are probably freaking exhausted, so they just start beat-boxing in the elevator while they wait because they need some form of stress relief before they go fight the main bad guy. It helps remind you that while they may have ninja training and all that, they’re still freaking teenagers.

Bad: If you watch the lights on the elevator buttons it says that they were only at the 34th floor when they get to the roof. Details, details.

Good: Mikey finally said cowabunga!

Bad: I thought Splinter said he saw April’s dad take her last breath and he never mentioned that Sacks straight up MURDERED APRIL’S FATHER, like I know it’s for shock value but come on

Good: Lol, it’s because Shredder’s got a bucket head

Bad: Ok, I get that Raph’s interrupting Donnie’s question was to signify how he’s respecting Leo’s role as leader, but honestly the whole “oh hey we’re fighting this guy but let’s play buck-buck” thing needs clarification, which is why Donnie was questioning what’s going on. Sometimes you just need some clarification.

Good: The slow-motion “using the game that we played as kids to defeat the bad guy” scene is awesome

Bad: …people still use Command Line interfaces, it’s what you use when you don’t have a GUI set up. (That’s my understanding at least, I’m still learning. We use a Command Line Interface in my programming class.)

Good: How hyped Donnie is that he managed to stop the toxin dispersal.

Bad: THERE’S BEEN DEBRIS FALLING FROM THIS TOWER FOR AT LEAST 5 MINUTES AND THERE WAS A COP ON SCENCE, WHY HAVEN’T PEOPLE BEEN CLEARED AWAY???

Bad: April SO fell farther than that, don’t lie to me like that

Good: I love Raph’s confession bit. It’s very heart-felt and I feel like a very valid set of reasons for why he always has that angry exterior. (also rip if Leo had anything he wanted to say, lol)

Good: The “heroes in a half-shell, turtle power” car horn,lol

Good: Donnie’s so proud of himself for how he tricked out the van

Bad: The end credits bit where Raph and Mikey hide on the Victoria’s Secret billboard. It’s so unnecessary and I hate it.

Good: I like the comic book style art they did for the end credits.

Alright, there was a lot of good, a lot of bad, and some IDKs in there. We got 73 goods, 35 bads, and 11 IDKs, giving us 61.34% Good, 29.41% Bad, and 9.24% IDK. All-in-all, I like this movie (even if there’s not enough Donnie in it, but I’m biased because he’s my favorite.), I wish they had not taken so long to show the turtles, but overall it’s a pretty decent origin story movie with lots of great little moments.