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Title: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Sorflakne on 19 Mar 2012, 19:26
Ok, where the hell did I leave my torch and pitchfork??! (http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/03/19/michael-bay-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-aliens/?hpt=hp_t2)

There's reboots, and then there's...wtf are they even doing?  I could maybe understand a reboot that says the Turtles were born that way and weren't a result of The Ooze (on Earth, mind you, and everything else the same), but this?  Wtf, man.  Wtf...
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Post by: Bachi-Atari on 19 Mar 2012, 19:48
-Hands Sor a pitchfork-

Leave my childhood alone Michael Bay.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Kugai on 19 Mar 2012, 20:19
*Hands out Torches, feathers and tar*
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: LTK on 20 Mar 2012, 02:05
Fuckssake, the 'mutant' part is right there in the name! How did he ever expect to get away with this?
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: JD on 20 Mar 2012, 02:08
TMANT doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: ALoveSupreme on 20 Mar 2012, 02:18
I dunno, at least he's not Lucas-ing the series and re-releasing old episodes or movies with completely new stories.  Honestly, the original cartoons weren't that good upon review (I watched them as a kid and thought they were great [obviously], went back when I was in my early 20s and definitely reversed my opinion).  He's not really destroying anything, he's just adding his own schlock-y ideas to the progression of the series. 

...also, "tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable.” ... ... jesus christ. 

I'm not saying it wont be bad, but c'mon.  They released a cartoon in the early 2000s that I enjoyed, and that version said Shredder was an alien, and honestly, it was justified by the series' story (and it actually sort of combined the Krang character with Shredder, what a twist!).  Whatever.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Lupercal on 20 Mar 2012, 03:20
It depends how Bay does it. I think the star of this film will be The Explosion anyway...
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Blue Kitty on 20 Mar 2012, 07:38
TMANT doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

TANT is way too close to taint for my liking
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Kugai on 20 Mar 2012, 18:24
I think it's time someone had a 'Talk' to Mr. Bey.


*Plays Theme from The Godfather*
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Sorflakne on 20 Mar 2012, 19:39
I dunno, at least he's not Lucas-ing the series and re-releasing old episodes or movies with completely new stories.  Honestly, the original cartoons weren't that good upon review (I watched them as a kid and thought they were great [obviously], went back when I was in my early 20s and definitely reversed my opinion).  He's not really destroying anything, he's just adding his own schlock-y ideas to the progression of the series. 

...also, "tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable.” ... ... jesus christ. 

I'm not saying it wont be bad, but c'mon.  They released a cartoon in the early 2000s that I enjoyed, and that version said Shredder was an alien, and honestly, it was justified by the series' story (and it actually sort of combined the Krang character with Shredder, what a twist!).  Whatever.
Eh, I think that's true of all the cartoons we enjoyed as kids; I watched a few episodes of Peter Pan and the Pirates (which is still 23984r8998 times better than the Disney movie) some time ago and felt the same way.  But I still find myself singing the Darkwing Duck theme every now and then...

Now, if he was making a TMNT movie based off the original comics (which are nothing like the kid's show or even the original Turtles movies), then I'd be more hopeful.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: ALoveSupreme on 20 Mar 2012, 23:37
This thread prompted me to download as many of the comics as possible.  So far so good (and actually the 2003 series I mentioned seemed to draw a bit on these, from what I've read so far)
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: ackblom12 on 24 Jun 2013, 08:57
Oh for shit's sake...

Shredder is a white dude (http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/55018520/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shredder-william-fichtner)

A white dude with a hell of a lot of acting talent, but a white dude. It's not like we don't have at least half a dozen known japanese actors (or god forbid, japanese actors who aren't) who can act well who are already typecast as japanese villians!
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Kugai on 24 Jun 2013, 14:59
OK, that's it

Anybody know how to get hold of The Foot?
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Parkour Lewis on 24 Jun 2013, 22:05
Bay was trying to make a joke.  If you read the original comics, you'd realize they kinda ARE aliens.  The ooze that mutated them came from a truck that was transporting materials for an alien race that was stranded on Earth.  The benevolent alien race (the Ultroms) that the cartoon series twisted around and turned into one evil alien, "Krang".

Not that I'm defending Bay or anything, I think he's a jackass, but this time he's kinda right.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: ackblom12 on 24 Jun 2013, 22:07
To be fair, Bay is only producing, not directing.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: LeeC on 27 Mar 2014, 16:32

I'm not sure how I feel about it yet...

on the bright side, you see the ooze so, not aliens.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Taekwondoin on 27 Mar 2014, 17:07
But the faces are completely wrong though.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Blue Kitty on 27 Mar 2014, 18:06
At least Mikey has his sense of humor
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: mustang6172 on 27 Mar 2014, 18:19
Why do the turtles wear masks?

Really think about that.
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Post by: Neko_Ali on 27 Mar 2014, 18:50
Because they are ninja, duh. They need to hide their identities.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: LeeC on 27 Mar 2014, 21:29
Its probably more like the uniform splinter gave them to signify that they are students of ninjitsu not unlike what he saw as a rat in a cage, or a student in japan...depending on how they do spinter's back story this time around.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 28 Mar 2014, 04:58
Also because it's really hard to tell them apart.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 28 Mar 2014, 04:59
Wait, was that racist?
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Post by: GarandMarine on 28 Mar 2014, 05:04
Xenophobic more like.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: GarandMarine on 28 Mar 2014, 06:10
You know what I just realized? Michael Bay makes movies like we all used to play with our toys growing up. The Turtles are aliens, there's constant explosions, G.I. Joe is showing up for some reason...
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Kugai on 28 Mar 2014, 17:22
Shreks Cousins!!!
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Post by: Blue Kitty on 28 Mar 2014, 18:20
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/1f35775485a3e9f7ba83345690ecd307/tumblr_n34g3mezoO1qk42mho1_1280.png)
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/b0307267d744bc4d8135460b95c06088/tumblr_n34g3mezoO1qk42mho2_1280.png)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/4e9bfc0120c5bfa0155809fbd531fd65/tumblr_n34g3mezoO1qk42mho3_1280.png)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/ba24736f75a2b4792577f6bc4a20fb6c/tumblr_n34g3mezoO1qk42mho4_1280.png)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/afad6b2c35be1526dbbcfbd70ad9b51a/tumblr_n34g3mezoO1qk42mho5_1280.png)
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: mustang6172 on 28 Mar 2014, 20:02
Also because it's really hard to tell them apart.

That was the answer I came up with first time I tried answering that question.  I quickly realized that defeats the purpose of wearing a mask.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: K1dmor on 29 Mar 2014, 03:29
 
 
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Post by: LeeC on 29 Mar 2014, 13:07
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Post by: Blue Kitty on 29 Mar 2014, 15:06
so close
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/24e9cc91dd6e469db7efe95477f7f5b0/tumblr_n35d1hJlRQ1qluyy4o1_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: J on 29 Mar 2014, 17:57
i'm actually kind of starting to dig the creepatude factor of the turtle's faces. they're weird gross mutants, who look like weird gross mutants.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Lupercal on 02 Apr 2014, 12:55
They're 25-33% Mutant, depending on how you look at it!
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Blue Kitty on 03 Apr 2014, 19:07
Johnny Knoxville is now voicing Leonardo
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: LeeC on 25 Jun 2014, 12:31
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Neko_Ali on 25 Jun 2014, 15:05
I'll probably go see it. The trailer looks good, action packed. But I have low, low expectations out of Micheal Bay. I did get a real chuckle out of the end though "So, they're aliens?" "No, that would be stupid." Damn right it would have been.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: mustang6172 on 25 Jun 2014, 18:14
I'll probably go see it. The trailer looks good, action packed. But I have low, low expectations out of Micheal Bay. I did get a real chuckle out of the end though "So, they're aliens?" "No, that would be stupid." Damn right it would have been.

The movie is self-aware!
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Edguy on 26 Jun 2014, 16:05

A white dude with a hell of a lot of acting talent, but a white dude. It's not like we don't have at least half a dozen known japanese actors (or god forbid, japanese actors who aren't) who can act well who are already typecast as japanese villians!

Ken Watanabe was probably busy.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Kugai on 26 Jun 2014, 21:54
Yeah, he was kinda dealing with a giant Lizard at the time
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: LeeC on 29 Jun 2014, 16:28

A white dude with a hell of a lot of acting talent, but a white dude. It's not like we don't have at least half a dozen known japanese actors (or god forbid, japanese actors who aren't) who can act well who are already typecast as japanese villians!

Ken Watanabe was probably busy.

the white dude is apparently not shredder, but the shadowy guy he was talking to is. 
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: TheEvilDog on 29 Jun 2014, 17:28
If you guys are talking about William Fitchner, then it looks like he is the Shredder.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: mustang6172 on 06 Aug 2014, 19:26
I'm not sure if this is funny or sad.

Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: LeeC on 07 Aug 2014, 15:29
If you guys are talking about William Fitchner, then it looks like he is the Shredder.
nope
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Pilchard123 on 10 Aug 2014, 11:54
Maybe this is old hat, but the TMNT origin happened at the same time as Daredevil's. Like, the same event.

Matthew Murdock was blinded when he pushed a blind guy out of the way of a truck. The truck lost part of its cargo of radioactive goop, which hit Murdock in the face, blinding him and improving his other senses. The goop that mutated the turtles came from a lorry that lost its load after a young man pushed a blind man out of harm's way, getting hit in the face by the load in the process.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: GarandMarine on 10 Aug 2014, 12:41
So TMNT is currently carrying a whopping 19% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes. Everyone I've talked to just wants to go see Guardians of the Galaxy again. Most brutal review quote I've seen so far?

Quote
Turtles fans might have been looking for their own Avengers. They get Alvin and the Chipmunks on performance enhancers and mass-market pizza instead. In Hollywood, history repeats first as farce, then as marketing.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: J on 11 Aug 2014, 00:31
came across this recently:

Quote from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT Original Animatronic Face Mask (http://www.yourprops.com/TMNT-Original-Animatronic-Face-Mask-original-movie-prop-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-1990-YP30359.html)
original movie prop

(http://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/default/4a7765e3d18bb/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-TMNT-Original-Animatronic-Face-Mask-1.jpg)

(http://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/default/4a77688bd6c75/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-TMNT-Original-Animatronic-Face-Mask-2.jpg)

Original Animatronic Face Mask of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Raphael. Given to me by the costume creator and award winner. Only known animatronnic face left in existance.

poor guy's seen better days
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Blue Kitty on 11 Aug 2014, 14:35
Quote
New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Does The Impossible: Makes Other TMNT Movies Look Good [Review] (http://comicsalliance.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-movie-2014-review)

It takes almost toxic levels of suspension of disbelief to make it through the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, the fifth and worst entry in the film franchise based on the pop culture phenomenon originally created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. That suspension of disbelief has nothing to do with mutant turtles in the sewers who learned kung fu from a mutant rat to fight a villain wearing a suit of knives. No, the TMNT are as ingrained in our imagination as any other 20th century commercial institution at this point, and if we’re seeing the film at all, they’ve already got us in the theater—we’ve bought the premise like we’ve bought our ticket. Rather, this new TMNT suffers from the other, worse kind of suspension of disbelief: Filmgoers are asked to turn off their brain, ignore all logic and just accept the fact that every action taken by every character makes no sense at all.
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Post by: LocoJoe on 11 Aug 2014, 14:54
The 5-year-old child in me is weeping right now.
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Post by: GarandMarine on 11 Aug 2014, 16:21
As a fan, I'm actually kinda happy about this tanking.
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: Blue Kitty on 11 Aug 2014, 16:29
Except it didn't, it made more money than they thought and apparently it's getting a sequel. It even beat Guardians of the Galaxy
Title: Re: TMNT Reboot: The Turtles are Aliens
Post by: GarandMarine on 11 Aug 2014, 16:32
It beat 94 million?