TMNT..dont make excuses for crap

[Vault101]

so theres alot of controversy over Micheal Bay having his name attatched to the upcoming TMNT film.Not without reason given the annoying populaitry and questionable qualiry of the Transformers films

me? personally I'm not fussed, I mean I dont expect anything good but it is what it is and like many things I shall ignore (this is for a few reasons I get into)

[b/]others take the point of "dude...its ninja turtles, what do you expect? citizen kane?" to which I say hold on a second! thats a copout![/b]...just because the premise is silly doesnt mean comthing good cant come out of it or that we should accept whatever shit bay serves us because "Turltes"

ok backing up, the reason I care less than others about it is becayse MY version of the turtles is different that of many others

I dont care about the cartoon, I barley ever watched it

my version is somthing slightly darker, the 1990 film .The reason I dotn care about the series now is THIS version..the version I know...a darker version closer to the original comics I dont feel is going to happen anytime soon, the last TMNT thing was a 2007 animated film closer to the 2003 animated series which I hated both for the right and wrong reasons

my point is what I liked about the turles (with a does of nostalga of coarse) will start and end with this film, I dont feel like we'll get somthing similar

but anyway thats just me

sure the sillyness is still there, but its darker...actually the film itself is VERY dark visually, mostly in to help the puppetry and animatronics, and I'd say it fits it very well. while the film is no citizen Kane it was make by people who actually tried with the scource material...who clearly werent putting out some crap to sell more toys (lets ignore the seaquels)

its a solid little flick

and I see now reason for it to be unreasonable to expect somthing half decent, oh sure this liek any other things in hollywood is a cashgrab, I know that, again I dont expect the new film to be good

but that doesnt mean it cant be good purley because of subject matter

 

[Vault101]

I'm not worried because the creators of the Turtles will try and boycot the film.

uh?

I dont see that happening..and depending on the rights they are probably millionares

 

[hazabaza1]

I think this is kind of a weird topic at times because there's stuff you can excuse and stuff you shouldn't.
Tounge in cheek cheesy humour is a-okay, so long as it's clever and not just pop culture references. From what I read of the leaked script... it's not clever. It's retarded.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

I think this is kind of a weird topic at times because there's stuff you can excuse and stuff you shouldn't.
Tounge in cheek cheesy humour is a-okay, so long as it's clever and not just pop culture references. From what I read of the leaked script... it's not clever. It's retarded.

Oh dear, I know it was naive to hold out any kind of hope but with that info... They've been dashed quite expertly,

 

[Vault101]

I think this is kind of a weird topic at times because there's stuff you can excuse and stuff you shouldn't.
Tounge in cheek cheesy humour is a-okay, so long as it's clever and not just pop culture references. From what I read of the leaked script... it's not clever. It's retarded.

I bet at some point the turtles dance gangam style....

 

[hazabaza1]

I think this is kind of a weird topic at times because there's stuff you can excuse and stuff you shouldn't.
Tounge in cheek cheesy humour is a-okay, so long as it's clever and not just pop culture references. From what I read of the leaked script... it's not clever. It's retarded.

I bet at some point the turtles dance gangam style....

Oh god.
That's cringeworthy when anyone but Psy says it, so having turtles do it...
oh sweet christ malarky.

 

[Vault101]

Oh god.
That's cringeworthy when anyone but Psy says it, so having turtles do it...
oh sweet christ malarky.

its because you can't parody satire

thats just stupid

 

[Auron]

Man that movie was awesome... According to Judith Hoag it was actually much better and more adult on the original screenplay and run but had a good bit edited for commercial purposes which is why she left the series for movies 2 and 3. Michael Bay with his aliens is just disrespectful.

 

[Vault101]

Man that movie was awesome... According to Judith Hoag it was actually much better and more adult on the original screenplay and run but had a good bit edited for commercial purposes which is why she left the series for movies 2 and 3. Michael Bay with his aliens is just disrespectful.

another thing I like was casey jones looked like ..a street person, his other in carnations (well the one in that 2007 animated film) was too clean and "soft"

 

[Fappy]

Man that movie was awesome... According to Judith Hoag it was actually much better and more adult on the original screenplay and run but had a good bit edited for commercial purposes which is why she left the series for movies 2 and 3. Michael Bay with his aliens is just disrespectful.

another thing I like was casey jones looked like ..a street person, his other in carnations (well the one in that 2007 animated film) was too clean and "soft"

Casey Jones also attempts to murder Shredder after he'd already been defeated in the original film.

What a baller! That's one hard-ass antihero for you.

 

[Basement Cat]

I remember how popular the 1990 movie was. Very popular, indeed. At least in the movie theater I lived at. Yeah, you read that right

The irony about the 1990 TMNT movie was that it caught a lot of flack for being TOO violent.

A guy Casey Jones whacking one of the bad guys with a golf club? Yeah. And he liked using a baseball bat.

And there was the scene where a minor Boss bad guy got pissed off and started seriously beating the crap out of the kids/trainees just to vent. One of the kids convinced "Master Imadick" to stop killing them and the kids were helping the wounded while whispering: "He's gonna be okay. Yeah, he'll be okay."

Funny Note: One thing that was going on in the movie to demonstrate the kids 'rebelling' to join the bad guys involved smoking.

"You got cigarettes?" One asked.

The other held up two cartons: "Whadda ya want? Menthol or regular?"

These days that sort of scene would drive people into having conniption fits way more than the violence would.

 

[HardkorSB]

Those 1990's movies were bad. The turtles effects were good but the movies were bad.
I didn't like the shitty script and the bad acting. And don't get me started on that 90's "cool" language. That was some solid pandering to a teenage demographic. You can watch those movies if you want to know which slang words were popular 20 years ago.
People remember them fondly because they were 10 when they first saw them. I liked them when I was 10 as well.

Here's a nice little drinking game:
Take a shot whenever one of the turtles says a cheesy one liner before hitting a foot clan member. You will die before the first movie ends.

I'm beginning to think that I'm the only person on this forum who actually saw all of Bay's movies and I have to say that most people here are just hating because Transformers 2 was bad. Yeah well Kubrick has made "Eyes Wide Shut" and that was crap. Why don't we hate on him as well? Joss Wheddon wrote Alien Resurrection and Titan A.E. and those were some crappy scripts. Let the hate flow. Spielberg directed the last Indiana Jones movie. Let's hate on the fucker.
And I'm not saying that Bay is as good as Spielberg because he's not but stop hating on the guy. You're worse than the Bieber haters.