TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES MICHAEL BAY REBOOT (2014)

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118050298

let's kick some shell.

turtlecore: a genre of film

stoked for the madness.

Paramount confirms December 2013 release, 100m budget.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jQA9pyZfKiQohQXyzOhEjXfgWWfA?docId=N1102871331730746516A

ARGH

that's actually kind of a... low... budget?

But can you ever really improve upon The Secret Of The Oooze?

Can't wait for Bay to turn the TMNT into TMNTP.

http://io9.com/5894310/wait-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-might-not-be-mutants

When you see this movie, kids will believe one day that these turtles do exist, when we're done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable.

"Also, they're squirrels? And they're constantly fucking. And it's gonna take place in ancient Crete. But the kids are gonna love these Teenaged Music Whatever Whatevers!"

http://i.imgur.com/Kpbr0.png

http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forum/showthread.php?10389-Ninja-turtles

I love how some of the news bites about this are all 'confused? Well, first it was a cartoon, then a movie...'

Kevin Eastman has (ok, had) an army tank and a Julie Strain that indicate it might have been something before the cartoon...

Micheal, I trusted you with Transformers. I trust you with this.

lololol

Here's the thing. I don't get it when "creatives" take any property with an existing fanbase and make a project with alterations sufficient to a) piss off said fanbase and b) make one wonder why the "creatives" didn't just create their own, completely different thing. Like, I don't get it from a business standpoint, even. If you're banking on brand recognition, why make the brand less recognizable than necessary?

I guess Transformers is as good a response to my bafflement as any. "Fuck the fanbase: fans of shitty blockbusters are drawn to spectacle, not adherence to pre-existing continuity."

wonder if he is furiously cgi-ing turtles into this footage

http://i.imgur.com/Sa2hx.jpg

But who cares enough abt TMNT to get mad?

Again, though (debating myself here): if Bay had just made a big, dumb movie about random robots fighting, people probably still would've swarmed to see it, and the studio wouldn't have owed a dime to the Transformers rights-holders.

You'd probably be surprised, VG.

It seems from personal exp that TMNT was a p big deal for people 5 or so years younger than me

xpost

I will cop to liking the cartoon and the movie in early high school....but I also wanted to marry Rikki Rockett and wore neon everything so things change.

But who cares enough abt TMNT to get mad?

ans: THE INTERNET

http://www.themarysue.com/michael-bay-teenage-alien-ninja-turtles/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/mar/19/michael-bay-ninja-turtles-aliens
http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/20/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-michael-bay-michaelangelo-sodomizing/#.T2ic6GKXS0Q

great urls of our times

it was a dumb rhetorical question.

...ironically posed by someone who is an almost daily contributor to the IA thread,lol

Michael Bay is gonna regret those comments when he opens the door to these two
http://www.geekologie.com/2012/03/15/bepop-n-rocksteady-cosplay.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7222/6855001334_264ebe5261.jpg

i'm choosing to believe bay has only ever seen that internet porn cartoon ripoff, has no idea it was an afterschool show with toys etc

I had a LOT of the toys as a kid. One of my friends had the blimp though the bastard

My little brother had all the toys. AND the van. :D

Um, it wasn't just a van, it was a PARTY WAGON.

coolest one was Krang in his little walker thing

i'm ok w/ the turtles being aliens as long as there is a 1/1 pizza/explosions ratio

xpost yeah I liked the Krang action figure

so weird in hindsight that the two stooges were called bebop and rocksteady

yeah I completely blocked that from my mind until that photo upthread surfaced

- remember how aweseome Casey Jones was in the movie? I had such a crush on him

I vividly recall a friend introducing me to the (second-gen, kiddie friendly) TMNT comics.
He basically turned into Milhouse. "It's great -- these turtles are really kickass at ninja-fighting and they have a mentor who's a rat and they eat pizza ALL THE TIME!"

Why on earth was April O'Neil's always dressed in a yellow jumpsuit anyways? Wasn't she a journalist?
(Uh, oh my -- image-googlers be warned: turns out there's a pornographer by that name. Not to mention that a lot of people apparently have felt the urge to draw her being banged by the teenage mutant herpes turtles)

I think April wore that cos she was so sexy they had to put her in the least flattering costume ever. And she was still bangin'.

I discovered TMNT one day in Elementary school when some kid had a bunch of action figures. The first two movies are really fun to watch. The first one, in particular, is pretty dark and gritty. The cartoon was a staple of my Sat. mornings and the arcade games are some of the coolest licensed games ever.

The CGI movie was pretty fun, good times. Don't understand why they are going live action rather than CGI cos frankly you can't top the turtles from the first movie.

Also someone who think Bay is sodomizing the franchise must not be aware of "Ninja Rap", the third film, the TV show with the lady ninja turtle, or the Coming Out Of Their Shells musical tour.

One other point about the upcoming movie: the OG creators were never sticklers about cross-media (or even cross-book) continuity. Like, there are easily a half dozen variants of the origin story, for example. But none of those veered as far afield as Bay's proposed vision.

Also, for those who didn't know, the TMNT are owned by Nickelodeon now, not Eastman & Laird. Which may go some way towards explaining why (wrt this particular instance, anyway) Bay just don't give a fuck.

People crying about the Bay-ificsation of TMNT have apparently forgotten about this abomination...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGDeLkTlo_Q

XP there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lWW4Pis2_E

Crimes against humanity.

Ninja Turtles, cartoon on, was never a high-quality piece of thoughtful entertainment (I never read the original comics of it). It's really irritating to me that kids are being marketed the same things their parents were 20-30 years ago. Maybe this trend's gone on for a long time but I never noticed it. Today's children need their own pile of singular inane, commercialized shit to cherish.

I pretty much deny all knowledge of the turtles after the first movie

and even the live turtles in the first movie were a liiiiiiiiiiittle creepy

more fun as a cartoon imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxigNvJxGn4

the comic was great once eastman and laird quit. some very interesting zulli and veitch work.

BTW, Michael Zulli's three-issue run on TMNT in 1991 is the benchmark of the whole series...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqy135L4471qly3yjo1_500.jpg

http://www.comicspower.com/items/TMNT-xx2-NM.jpg

More Zulli art here: http://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/michael-zullis-ninja-turtles/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&&v=AlfjNTqbFLA

^ second after the Mark Martin ones

never realised this cover was by Totleben iirc

http://miragelicensing.com/comics/mirage/casey/01cover.jpg

http://miragelicensing.com/comics/mirage/casey/0101.jpg

i was a total tmnt nerd as a kid btw
LOVED mark martin tmnt

http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/703/157031/8373611_1.jpg

feel like the bay movie is likely to skew toward the zulli look

and that zulli will see zero money

whether or not there's any validity to the complaints, can't we all at least agree that professional grief being heaped upon michael bay is net gain for humanity?

calm yourself veg girl

http://mutantooze.org/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/30cover.jpg

oh hai casey jones

anything that causes michael bay pain is a win for america, yes

TMNT FANS, RISE UP, TAKE TO THE STREETS, OCCUPY MICHAEL BAY

Thing I liked most about the first couple of movies was the connection they had to NY/bboy culture, however vague. It was like watching a live action anime about a bunch of breakdancers. Also hands up everyone who can sing the verse couple of verses of the T.U.R.T.L.E. Power rap from the 1st film....?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsTr0kGAqU

ooooohhhhhhhhhhhh I hate you for posting that

never forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K6971WmAs
http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/46020/ninja-a-short-history-of-a-less-troublesome-word

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still better than the shitty music we have now.
TheDragoxter 2 weeks ago

I would stab you for that forks

xpost - on every youtube music video ever, fuck I am so sick of reading that

vanilla ice's hair is so interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVeUuzTRlhY

are eastman and laird the luckiest men in the twentieth century?
Possibly matt groening is a little luckier.

It's really irritating to me that kids are being marketed the same things their parents were 20-30 years ago. Maybe this trend's gone on for a long time but I never noticed it.

lol aren't you the world's biggest Archie stan

Also hands up everyone who can sing the verse couple of verses of the T.U.R.T.L.E. Power rap from the 1st film....?

Sheepish handraise.

Today's children need their own pile of singular inane, commercialized shit to cherish.

Massively OTM! When current generations hijack the nostalgia of previous generations, we get Woodstock '94. And '99. Never forget.

xxpost but I thought that they don't make any scratch off TMNT? something about their deal with Nickelodeon screwed them out of the glory? or am I totally wrong

nickelodeon is hella broke right now too iirc

lol aren't you the world's biggest Archie stan

ha fair enough
I guess I just like old stupid shit better than new stupid shit

Also kids have plenty of their own dumb shit and I'm sure they were trying to market "the Apple Dumpling Gang: the next generation: the animated series" or something when I was young.
I have to say it is p weird working w/eighth graders & they try and school me on who the Ninja Turtles are, though.

Today's children need their own pile of singular inane, commercialized shit to cherish.

Judging from my niece's favorite shows, look for Olivia and Yo Gabba Gabba hologram reboots in 2042

I was a huge TMNT nerd as a kid, but the only thing I'll really rep for these days is the Archie Comics series (geared more towards kids and ostensibly an offshoot of the not-so-hot cartoon) and some of the original black & white stuff.

xxpost sometimes it's cool though - my niece's path into anime started with Robotech when she was about 10, and as her grownup Aunt and Uncle, Mr Veg and I couldn't have been more psyched to hand her the armload of dvd box sets.

xxpost but I thought that they don't make any scratch off TMNT? something about their deal with Nickelodeon screwed them out of the glory? or am I totally wrong

The Nickelodeon sale was two years ago - first issue came out in 1984.

(Eastman stopped working at Mirage when Tundra launched c. 1991, sold all his share bar a creator interest to Laird/Mirage in 2000, and Laird bought the rest out in 2008.)

I guess I just like old stupid shit better than new stupid shit

otm!!!!

i mean this is nothing new, we just had 1000 post on muppet babies last week.

also, like:

http://i.imgur.com/8YaTV.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/6CGgZ.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/IOE2i.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/M17bR.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/DTgT8.jpg?1http://i.imgur.com/Ks2Rp.jpg

are eastman and laird the luckiest men in the twentieth century?
Possibly matt groening is a little luckier.

at least 'life in hell' used to be great. tbh i think eastman and laird's original comics are pretty mediocre. my fondest TMNT memories are of the arcade game.

hell yeah the arcade game- NEW and game boy iterations also p good

NES

NES version was great except for that one level where you had to defuse the underwater bombs. prob among my most frustrating childhood experiences.

wau at 02:16 in Partners In Kryme video

tbh i think eastman and laird's original comics are pretty mediocre.

I don't think any tbh qualifications are needed here

still looking for a copy of #50 though :( >:(

someone i cant even remember how i became fbook friends just added me to a fbook group called "Michael Bay is a DICK & the Turtles are MUTANTS not ALIENS"

http://i.imgur.com/8YaTV.jpg
Loving this old Supes!

Maybe it's like there's an alien fungus that comes down and mutates the turtles.

His suit looks like it's made of wool, which has to be nice when flying around in the upper reaches of the troposphere! xp to self

Forgot an important one:

http://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/media/library/images/movies/superman-lives-nicolas-cage.jpg

His suit looks like it's made of wool, which has to be nice when flying around in the upper reaches of the troposphere! xp to self

um, he's Superman

superman was from an alien race iirc

Superman can love wool even with super powers.

Why would an alien race not appreciate a versatile, insulative, and comfortable textile?

If the new Ninja Turtles make a point of loving wool, I'll watch this movie.

Also v practical for re-entering earth's atmosphere, as wool doesn't burn (in comic book sense, not so much irl)

Smart guy, that Superman

If Superman were genuinely concerned with indestructibility, we would've woven a costume out of his own pubic hair.

(I am so, so sorry.)

*points to door*

i am still flabbergasted almost 20 years later on how much of his tmnt money kevin eastman managed to flush down the toilet and STILL be a multi-gazillionaire.

peter laird always seemed like an alright dude though.

speaking of: Laird's eyes roll out of his head, tongue bursts through cheek in reaction

haha that's pretty great

it also gives me stomach cramps thinking about just HOW many turtles will be in this terrible Michael Bay movie

i'm ok w/ the turtles being aliens as long as there is a 1/1 pizza/explosions ratio

― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

post of thread

who is that Supes between the Lois and Clark dude and recent rubbish '.. Returns' guy? guess i haven't kept up with the many incarnations of late.

from the 00's tv show "smallville"

dude from the superman tv show "smallville" xp

if they don't call this film "TEENAGE MUTANT HERO TURTLES" in the UK, well, fuck off

The UK title was always more sensible. If they were meant to legitimately be ninjas, they did a pretty shitty job of it.

in the Mirage stuff?

The original movie has ninja in the title in the UK iirc

Well, in the early Mirage issues, our band of turtle warriors were much more faithful in their adherence to the ancient art of ninjitsu, but in subsequent appearances, they simply employed a number of martial arts techniques against their increasingly-bizarre rogues gallery, without much of an attempt at achieving or maintaining ninjitsu's trademark aura of invisibility. If I were given the opportunity to speak to the foursome, I would ask them to reconsider the cavalier usage of the word 'ninja' in their self-styled nomenclature.

That should all be read in the voice of Kip from Napoleon Dynamite, btw.

Foot soldiers were changes from humans to robots in the cartoon. I'm sure there was pre-internet fan backlash then.

NES version was great except for that one level where you had to defuse the underwater bombs. prob among my most frustrating childhood experiences.

truth bomb

i have never known or even heard of anyone who has seen that game beyond that point.

fuck i wonder if it's on youtube

I beat that game after a month of playing nothing but that underwater level

IIRC, you are rewarded with another underwater level

you're shitting me

I don't think it's immediately after but I do vividly remember there being two of them because it caused some of the finest cursing of my life

haha this is a total trigger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tc4Jcc1dE

I haven't heard this music in 22 years and all I want to do is shout FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK GODDAMN STUPID FUCKING SHIT-ASS GAME EAT MY NUTS AND BITE MY ASS YOU SHITTY WHOREFACED DICK

also that insane jump you have to make on the level just before the underwater level used to drive me nuts

oh god it's like that platforming element in double dragon 2

That underwater level is a cakewalk compared to the Technodrome. That game is brutal.

http://i.imgur.com/vALJm.png

now the party can start

Vanilla Ice super OTM about this

I've had a few people on Facebook going absolutely bonkers over this (in a bad way), and it's crazy. The last TMNT movie got awful reviews and the franchise has always been commercial as hell so what's the problem?

what if they were frogs

lol @ how some news outlets are reporting on that sarcastic peter laird blog post as a legit endorsement of bay's alines thing

maybe they do need a universal sarcasm font after all

I just hope they make April O'Neil super hot, both movie versions were kinda meh.

alien race of april o'neils

why would you even announce something that's only happening in 2014 now, that's cruel

december 2013 now

ah, ok cool

; ]

I beat that game after a month of playing nothing but that underwater level

IIRC, you are rewarded with another underwater level

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're shitting me

― goole, Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

irl lolz

I didnt even fuck with the first NES game; I went straight to the second one, which was an adaptation of the (first) arcade game...

the first NES game is like stockholm syndrome for a whole generation of children

It's got great music, absolutely horrible controls. If you lose Donatello/Leonardo you may as well hit reset. The underwater level gave me strife as a kid but i think after 4 or 5 tries I figured it out and it's actually pretty easy to beat once you get through it. Wading through the relentless respawning armies in the following stage, however...

I didnt even fuck with the first NES game; I went straight to the second one, which was an adaptation of the (first) arcade game...

^i played through this game so many times

yeah, it's really the first sewer/city level that's the worst

this is coming from someone who was readily able to beat the speeder stage in Battletoads

I salute you. That thing destroyed me

This is like the zenith of bad remakes

Wow @ speeder stage in Battletoads. You are a god among men.

my memory of being a kid reading Nintendo Power is that every other issue was about Battletoads (and the rest were inexplicably about Star Tropics)

lololol

Maybe this 300 page TMNT graphic novel I have from 88 will finally be worth something.

i wonder if this is the reason for all the tmnt references on tv shows l8ly

no thats because tmnt is a permanent part of the pop culture zeitgeist

oh man i had the sickest vocal sample of krang shrieking SHREEEEEEDDDDDERRRR that i used to loop over synth-y noize tracks o i hope i still have it

see?

i have to say tho that the cartoon and the snes game is probably a much bigger part of my pop culture zeitgeist than the og movies as much as i enjoy 'turtles in time'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlUlEpnBxNg&feature=related

(and the rest were inexplicably about Star Tropics)

this game is dope as fuck

cartoon was pretty big for me

can't believe there's not a chillwave band called Star Tropics. or Tar Stropics.

lol i have a song called 'star tropics'

haha

star tropics is my favorite game of all time most days

star tropics is good stuff.

was able to get aaaall the way to the technodrome in tmnt and some sadistic shit w an autoscrolling screen where you had to diffuse bombs in battletoads. could never beat either, and man, did i ever waste a lot of time trying.

god, even thinking about these games is basically giving me an aneurysm!!!

also getting mad at youtube for not letting me watch 'shredder's many jabs at krang' in my region of the world

yes

How were you able to beat the speeder stage? That part is impossible. Game-breaking bug and they never expected anyone to beat the game.

the other levels were nearly impossible - i never did beat the final tower, even using the warps to get there. but the speeder stage could be memorized and doable if you did it a million times. i probably still have it committed to muscle memory, considering how many times i died over and over again. i vaguely remember pausing a lot, training to learn the placement of the blocks and such

now the snake and unicycle levels, forget it.. i think i maybe beat them once ever, if that

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Battletoads_cartoon_title_screen.jpg

wtf

I REMEMBER THAT SHIT

dude on the right is totally on roids

fuck yeah i'ma play me some battletoads right now

http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/nintendo/b/Battletoads/big-game.php

yknow mikey bay should make a live action 'bubble bobble' movie that shitd be real

omg yes the whole point of bubble bobble is explosions basically

bubble bobble is about FRIENDSHIP

used nhex's method of pausing and memorizing nintendo power maps to beat the speeder stage of battletoads iirc

which turtle is Shia Lebouf playing. also what percentage of the Turtles' dialogue will be an offensively awkward attempt at street lingo as filtered through alien amphibians

as part of mikey bay's homage to silent classics like 'the artist' the turtles won't have any dialogue

the pause music in battletoads is better than 99% of other music

i think i always lost in in the speeder stage on one when you were supposed to jump twice?

turtles in time was at aladdin's castle in the mall, many a quarter rolled into that machine...it was right next to samurai showdown

fuckin loved BattleToads

fuck yeah brb still playin battletoads

I spent a lot of time playing the original ninja turtles arcade game at bowling alleys . First video game that I ever beat!

me too!

kind of felt like it was the day i became a man.

i'm still mad that the first time i ever played it I was getting my ass kicked by one of those robot-machine thingies and my friend (who was Michaelangelo) was nearby and his sister was screaming KURT SHOOT HIM! over and over but the dude kept jumping for whatever reason because he apparently couldn't master both buttons at the same time and finally after I died he figured out what he aws doing wrong and vaporized it.

I burnt his house down in retaliation. hope he's fucking happy.

My family started a Christmas tradition a few years ago where we sit around and eat Christmas snacks and watch my brother beat the NES Ninja Turtles game.

the OG one? aws that even possible? that game was insanely difficult

Yeah that's why it became a tradition. That game lead to so many fights between me and my siblings growing up. If my brother got a game over, he'd throw the controller at me and have a tantrum. Day ruined.

Like most video games, I really only liked the part where you're walking around on the overworld map (where you can still get your ass killed, wtf).

idk Mario Bros 3 might have been amusing if Mario could be struck by a vehicle while attempting to select the next World to enter.

Hammer bros. kind of approached this, but it just led into a RPG-style battle

do they even have wheels in the Mushroom Kingdom?

hey hey hey let's not take a swing at the not-so-well to do, they may be third world, but WE made them that way!

They have that sweet little boat in world 3.

All the islands off the mainlands had mushroom houses and matching games...

Also some of the best parts of the game IMO.

Would like an iOS battle toads reboot.

World 3 is def one of my favorite levels (alomg with World 5)

i was just playing the original NES game and guess where i game over'd?

if your NES was anything like mine, before the damn thing even loaded

was your nes a cereal box

irl lol

hahahaha

http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/file/teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles_nes_hudson_bomb.gif

Michael Bay apparently bringing more creative reinventmentisation to the table, making the turtles not only alien, but non-teenaged, too.

meanwhile longtime main Turtle artist Jim Lawson has been posting pisstake art on the facialbook:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/535273_244637528964997_155495057879245_505751_588748507_n.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/375094_243496805745736_155495057879245_502508_1838993457_n.jpg

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/549062_244637788964971_155495057879245_505753_520910028_n.jpg

hahah! Now that I would watch

title may be shortened just to "NINJA TURTLES"

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/03/24/scoop-michael-bays-alien-turtles-apparently-arent-teenagers-either/

Next Week: Just ninja aliens but they're still green.

"NINJAS!"

World 3 is def one of my favorite levels (alomg with World 5)

yeah when i was older all the post-desert worlds except world 8 were such a revelation to me cuz when i was a kid i would always use the magic flute trick to skip past them. i think world 7's jungle archipelago was my favorite tho

Gah I was not patient enough for World 7; I think it was 7-1, with the undergrouynd pipe maze that sent you all the way back down to the bottom w/ one wrong move. It was such a pain in the ass and the level with its utilitarian 'black background and shitloads of pipe' aesthetic just didn't reward the ton of time I inevitably spent there. Pipe world just too draining...

World 6, the ice world, was even worse, bcz you couldn't maneuver for shit, but for some reason I loved the idea of ice world, so I tried to hang with it as long as I could before being o'ertaken with despair and double warping to level 8...

i liked the cartoonishly menacing minimalism of those pipe levels, all the black and green and space. i hated the cloud world tho the secrets in those levels were too punishing and unrewarding (all those finnick-y jumps!)

but i also really liked the snakeman levels of mega man

Ha its only recently (with a modded PSP that has most of the NES games on it that my sister had) that I've gotten the hang of any of the Mega Man games...

I spent a lot of time drawing my own World 7 pipe mazes as a kid but part of the thrill was just having mastered freestyling pictures of overlapping contoured tubes.

Ok that's awesome; my prior groans about World 7 aesthetics be damned

Next Week: Just ninja aliens but they're still green.

Since the character in the movie are alien life forms, they can't really be "turtles", can they? And since they come from another planet, which presumably doesn't have a perfect equivalent of Japan and Japanese culture, they can't be "ninjas" either. So logically the new movie should be called Aliens.

lol otm

Hoping someone will make a companion piece called Teenage Mutant. But I guess that's basically Toxic Avenger.

the comics and cartoons had so many levels of intergalactic and inter-dimensional travel, i could see the alien thing working even if its a departure from the origin story

Paramount marketing changed the name. They made the title simple. The characters you all remember are exactly the same, and yes they still act like teenagers. Everything you remember, why you liked the characters, is in the movie. This script is being developed by two very smart writers, with one of the original creators of Ninja Turtles. They care VERY MUCH about making this film for the fans. Everyone on this team cares about the fans. Just give them a chance. Jonathan the director, is a major fan of the whole franchise. HE'S NOT GOING TO LET YOU DOWN.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/46536/michael-bay-must-be-stopped-ninja-turtles-drop-%E2%80%98teenage%E2%80%99

Look, it’s great that Eastman, the original cocreator, gets a say (and a paycheck!) in this latest blasphemization/reinvention. But, like, if Paul McCartney wanted to re-release The White Album with, say, a 14-minute Lil B verse on every song, the mass-mind wouldn’t be cool with that, either.

at this point I want Bay to replace them with My Little Ponies just to watch online fandom implode

anyone who goes to see this must value meaning over pleasure.

are you sure it's not the other way around?

or is it truth over sleeping

there's a certain espirit de corps or instant kinship that develops under conditions of shared suffering and i think a lot of people have chosen michael bay movies and star wars prequels to facilitate this.

lol TMNT is not the Beatles

there's four of them and they're heavily influenced by eastern philosophy, and master splinter looks like brian epstein.

I had to double check the MMT album cover to make sure one of them wasn't wearing a turtle mask.

hahah

what's the over/under on whether Raphael says "sup bitches"

there's going to be a small turtle humping someone's leg in this

i swear to god if these turtle/aliens dont love pepperoni pizza i dont know what i ill do... theres go my childhood... no point in living

otm

truthbomb

do you guys have a preference of which pizza chain gets the endorsement prize?

i guess just not one of the ones that fund abortion bombers

although i suppose if the movie bombs than it just less money for abortion clinic bombings so idk

i'm gonna take a wild guess -- that's dominoes isn't it?

are you telling me that papa john's is telling me what to do with the human body??

Ving Rhames as Shredder

"It’s so funny — if everyone was such a die-hard fan, they would know that the TCRI canisters where the ooze comes from. That is alien ooze."

many why did the turtles have to be green...not gonna lie kinda ruined it

http://allhiphop.com/2012/04/09/hip-hop-rumors-is-kid-cudi-starring-in-the-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-movie/

hint hint mane

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platinum dunes producer says ninja turtles may be mo-cap ala rise of the planet of the apes:

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/brad-fuller-ninja-turtles-jgiro.php

Can't wait for this grounded film about ninja turtles.

The suits could now be a little cheesy in a modern setting.
Yeah, yeah, I don't think we're going to go in that direction.

Yes, CGI ninja turtles are in no way cheesy.

I would love to see some Hollywood mavericks go all-analogue with the effects now and then. I miss that shit.

otm.

Teenage Mutant Dogme 95 Turtles

Can't wait for this grounded film about ninja turtles.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:07 (24 minutes ago) Permalink

Irony free over here.

Didn't know about the aliens and dropping of Teenage from the story and title. Feel like it's too late for me to get angry. Still ordering pizza tonite

i hope they get into their EMOTIONS

Teenage Mutant Emo Turtles

Hoping 1/3 of the film will be them training with new ninja master on a mountain top in Japan.

under a waterfall, with voiceover of koans

"does the shell protect you.... or do you.... protect... the shellllllllllllllll"

Definitely some helicopter flyovers.

Maybe they train on an aircraft carrier at sunset.

pizzas.

Yeah, pizzas are too cheesy. They're going to be eating something more grounded.

falafel?

Raw milk

http://i.imgur.com/CR7i7.jpg

twitter campaign to get donald glover cast as donatello

http://perezhilton.com/2012-05-02-donald-glover-for-donatello#.T6GbmlIrqSo

xpost to is this racist

looooool

You had a cameo in the second Ninja Turtles film in the '90s. Would you consider appearing on the soundtrack for Michael Bay's Turtles reboot?

I hope so. I don't have anything in writing, but you never know (lifts his pant leg to reveal a Ninja Turtles tattoo). I'm a Turtle fan.

http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3561812

Vanilla Ice offers no cold judgements

just testing this font

damn

Lol

The Hollywood Reporter has broken word that the upcoming, live action, big screen reboot of the popular characters has been shut down, with Paramount pulling the plug and laying off the Vancouver based staff who had already been hard at work on pre-production. At issue, apparently, is a script that the studio had no confidence in.

re: that Vanilla Ice cameo in that second movie

In middle school, some sort of schoolyard fight broke (though I don't recall it getting too violent -- may have just been an intense showdown) and I led a chant of "Go Ninja, go Ninja, Go!" that caught on with the group that was circled around watching the fight.

r.i.p. alien turtles

they should have wes anderson do a reboot faithful to the comic book's origin story

anderson is holding out for directing a "Peanuts" movie but first he's gotta prove he has the chops to direct comic books movies.

http://i45.tinypic.com/w1toh2.jpg

The more worrying thing is the idea that for all other Michael Bay films, there was a script that the studio did have confidence in....

that thought did cross my mind

My guess is there just weren't as many marketing tie-ins available for the premise

Bay prob didn't articulate that you can tell the turtles apart by which color headbands its wearing, thus children will, indeed, need to buy four different turtle toys at every opportunity

ha... well, I mean in comparison to say, the car stuff in Transformers or Bad Boys, much better sponsorships than Hasbro

True, although the piazza sponsorship deal could be huge. Ive dedicated my diet to pizza probably because of the turtles.

Piazza sponsorship to say nothing of the piazza deal.

Mike Piazza IS Casey Jones

Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor probably best known for his role as "Head Thug" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the motion picture (1990)

Lol Wikipedia

bless them

http://www.omega-level.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Sam-Rockwell-TMNT.jpg

http://www.slashfilm.com/krang-bebop-rocksteady-featured-ninja-turtles/

Latino Review’s El Mayimbe got his hands on the script by Kevin Eastman and Andre Nemec

Reading a script called THE BLUE DOOR by Nemec & Applebaum.

http://www.themarysue.com/ninja-turtles-cast/

Shiamania is truly over

http://natmonitor.com/2013/04/03/will-arnett-megan-fox-join-cast-of-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/

p lol after the megan fox/michael bay kerfuffle on transformers

she tepidly apologized iirc which, lol

sorry, transformers 4 has been cast already... but are you familiar with april o'neil?

'i don't do that kind of movie, michael'

whoopi is in this

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=80563

She must have Phil Spector's hair stylist.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha of course

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2013/06/24/william-fichtner-confirms-shredder-role-in-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/

How hard could it be to just get James Avery to be Shredder's voice?

was it clear that whoopi goldberg was in this?

i'm gonna go see this, aren't i

is whoopi krang?

whoopi is in this

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=80563

― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Tuesday, June 4, 2013 3:43 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/uploads/goldberg4.jpg
new armscrossed.gif replacement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osPfORITFI

Huh, I'll try that again

http://youtu.be/1osPfORITFI

Oh well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osPfORITFI

pretty impressive

those BLASTED turtles

i got to "cretins" and just gave up

"the repartee of the actors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kez172Y4Kak

Holy shit I can't believe I didn't know uncle Phil was Shredder until now.

But I was a boy heard many legends of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I remember any early days they were small comic book characters within arms then they truly were cute and lovable they weren't the nightmare monster destruction that they put gum in the minds of the crazed Disney corporate mentality

say whaat?

"the relationship i had with krang"

lol

"There were alot of levels." I truly love hearing actors make more out of a part than it is. Great interview.

just watched the original movie for the first time since 1990 (i'm old) and hey, it's actually kind of awesome! i can't say it's especially 'dark,' but pretty much any time the turtles themselves aren't onscreen it plays fairly straight and serious. they seemed to be going out of their way to make as adult-friendly a turtles movie as possible without going over the top with the 'darkness' shit that everyone seems to want from their comic book movies these days.

also kind of stunned by how much product placement there is in this movie -- there's a can of diet pepsi or something in the foreground of almost every other scene!

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/4445/51/original/640.jpg

Did this ever come out?!

oh, duh, even the thread says 2014. I thought it was due two years ago

loving the accessories. Raph's bitchin' shades in particular.

Rule number one:NO NOSES

"cccccccum in my mooooouuuutthhhhhh"

that poster is everything i feared about this

that a 30-year-old man would have any sort of reaction whatsoever to a children's movie about fighting turtles?

Looks less like a movie poster more like the side of a vending machine advertizing a new flavor of Mountain Dew.

if that's the colour palette of the movie then the world can look forward to a 150 minute headache.

donatello immediately made me think of
http://cdn.madamenoire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Kadeem-Hardison53084.jpg

Pain & Gain & Pizza & Turtles

How hard could it be to just get James Avery to be Shredder's voice?

― billstevejim, Monday, June 24, 2013 5:17 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:( rip big man

is raphael pink now?

glbtmnt

that poster is everything i feared about this

no surprises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCjsWpM9zFU

bay's not even bothering to direct this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zss1EHSuT1A#t=69

http://www.theonion.com/video/comiccon-exclusive-michael-bay-gives-fans-sneak-pe,36528/?playlist=recent-news