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Wait until he makes Shredder into a fat black man... oh wait...
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I love Michael Bay.
But dont fuck with my ninja turtles. TMNT 1990 was the best turtles were and frankly the best theyll ever be. Go ahead reimagine and remake but you will never top the gritty awesomeness that was that movie. Corey Feldmans voice ftmfw. Raphael with some cliche brooklyn accent ftmfw x2.
Looking for the movie on BluRay..only a collectors set...but how cool is this packaging ?
Best reason to have a license.
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As a bonus.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzlYl1KcbA&feature=endscreen"]TMNT Barbara Walters Interview - YouTube[/ame]Best reason to have a license.
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oh Raphael...U so CRAY-Z
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_6KMGB_Pkw"]Raphael vs Casey Jones - YouTube[/ame]
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To be perfectly honest, I'd like to see one film based on the comic version of the Turtles and not the show version. The show was campy and fun, which is exactly what I wanted in 1990. Now, I think it would be sweet if they used the original comic and made it darker with a bit more focus on stealth.
Either way, though, since it is being made in Hollywood, even if the first film is amazing, I give it about 2 years until the marketing guys make it back into this...
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Secret Of The Ooze was one of my favorite childhood movies. This picture just evokes memories:
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We heard you guys loud and clear when we wrote yesterday about Michael Bay's suggestion that the turtles in the upcoming movie he's producing will be teenage ninjas, but not mutants-- they'll be aliens. Comments ranging from "Don't ruin my childhood" to "Michael Bay needs to die already" popped up suggesting that if anyone is going to tweak with the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles formula, it shouldn't be Bay. He's not directing the upcoming live-action Turtles film, just producing it through his company Platinum Dunes, but by giving that speech on behalf of Nickelodeon, Bay seems to be establishing himself as the face of the project-- and a face that the fans really just want to punch.
But Michael Bay is used to people being mad at him, particularly people on the Internet, and he's responded to all this criticism with a pretty typical, blase and slightly condescending attitude. On his own forums Shoot For The Edit, Bay had this to say to the outraged Turtles fans:
Fans need to take a breath, and chill. They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of Ninja Turtles to help expand and give a more complex back story. Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world.
What's not explained here at all, of course, is how building up the original world of the Turtles involves them being aliens, not regular turtles mutated by a toxic ooze. Something tells me that when he says "expand" he means "change for my own purposes." On some level, sure, he's entitled to do that-- he's a successful filmmaker who clearly knows what audiences want to see, and it's not like changing the origin of the Turtles changes their entire story. And yet, he's still not giving a convincing argument for why the change needs to be made at all.
A few posts down from Bay's comment in the forum is the promise, "Michael, I trusted you with Transformers, I trust you with this." For a lot of us, that might be the problem-- the Transformers movies were frequently garish, loud, and aggressively dumb, while the original Turtles series could be clever and all the right kinds of weird. Even if you did trust Bay with the Transformers, do you really want to see him give the Ninja Turtles the same treatment?
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I didn't *trust* Bay. I trusted Spielberg who trusted Bay. Original transformers was fantastic and best adaptation one could hope for. Bay is producing this time so we'll see how it goes. Bay is fantastic but always needs a leash. He should never ever ever be given the total creative freedom and power to edit as he just becomes an exploding version of Lucas.Best reason to have a license.
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i bet its that they were aliens from other planets who look exactly like humans, like superman
but i agree with you guys, pretty stupid thing to change
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Maybe something along the lines of them arriving with Krang from Dimension X, and throw the neutrinos in there somewhere.Comment
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LOS ANGELES — Michael Bay thinks “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” fans need to chill.
The 47-year-old director-producer incited outrage among fans of the superhero franchise when he revealed at the Nickelodeon upfront presentation in New York last week that the pizza-loving, crime-fighting turtles would come from an “alien race” in a “Ninja Turtles” film he is producing.
According to franchise lore, mysterious radioactive ooze transformed the turtles into superheroes who battle evildoers.
“Fans need to take a breath and chill,” Bay said in a statement posted on his site Monday night. “They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of ‘Ninja Turtles’ to help expand and give a more complex back story. Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world.”
“Ninja Turtles” debuted as a comic book in 1984 before spawning a franchise that included toys, TV shows, films and video games.
Fans took to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites to vent about the apparent change to the wisecracking turtles’ origins.
Robbie Rist, who voiced the character Michelangelo in the original 1990 live-action film adaptation, said Monday in a Facebook message that Bay is “sodomizing” the original movies and causing “the rape of our childhood memories.”
Bay, who directed the past three “Transformers” movies, said last week that “kids are going to believe one day these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie” and that they come “from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable.”
The new take on the “Ninja Turtles” is set for release next year by Paramount Pictures under the Nickelodeon Movies label.
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