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Title: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 03:43:54 PM
WTF

This makes no sense. What about their Brooklyn accents? What about their names? What about their weapons? This makes no SENSE.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169903-platinum-dunes-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-to-feature-alien-origin?fb_ref=.T2ZmHiEifU8.like&fb_source=home_multiline
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: FlameofCallandorReturns on March 19, 2012, 03:46:13 PM
I had a friend on FB that is 27 and was completely going off the wall over this announcement. I laughed at his nerd rage.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 03:47:32 PM
I'm not enraged or anything, but this makes no sense at all.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 19, 2012, 03:47:46 PM
lol
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 03:49:41 PM
Raph will talk in ebonics and appear in black face
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 19, 2012, 03:50:00 PM
Someone needs to figure out a way to harness nerd rage as a power source. It's cheap, renewable, and relatively clean!
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 03:50:55 PM
:rofl
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 03:53:36 PM
The Thor situation with Idris Elba was hilarious
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: FlameofCallandorReturns on March 19, 2012, 03:53:45 PM
Someone needs to figure out a way to harness nerd rage as a power source. It's cheap, renewable, and relatively clean!

genius
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 03:56:27 PM
First they came for the Transformers, and I didn't speak out because I never liked the Transformers.
Then they came for the Smurfs, and I didn't speak out because my nostalgia had waned.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because it's the Jews.
Then they came for the Ninja Turtles and there was no one left to cry with me.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: FlameofCallandorReturns on March 19, 2012, 03:58:48 PM
First they came for the Transformers, and I didn't speak out because I never liked the Transformers.
Then they came for the Smurfs, and I didn't speak out because my nostalgia had waned.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because it's the Jews.
Then they came for the Ninja Turtles and there was no one left to cry with me.

Nope. Nobody cares about ninja turtles either. Didn't they already reboot the franchise 6 or 7 years ago with a terrible movie?
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 03:59:45 PM
I don't know, I ctrl+c'd that post from reddit because it was fucking hilarious
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 19, 2012, 04:00:43 PM
As long as Splinter remains a radical rat, then I'm fine with whatever they do.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 04:10:49 PM
Michael Bay makes the most boring action films I've ever witnessed.

Bad Boys 2 put me to sleep. It's like 2 and a half hours of tedium despite the amount of ammo consumed and explosion ratio per minute.

The director of the new film directed Battle: Los Angeles and the recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So this movie is fucked out of the get go even without Bay as producer.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Mupepe on March 19, 2012, 04:28:50 PM
Michael Bay makes the most boring action films I've ever witnessed.

Bad Boys 2 put me to sleep. It's like 2 and a half hours of tedium despite the amount of ammo consumed and explosion ratio per minute.

The director of the new film directed Battle: Los Angeles and the recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So this movie is fucked out of the get go even without Bay as producer.
:yuck

Terrible fucking movies
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 04:31:01 PM
We still have Turtles 1990, guys.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Bebpo on March 19, 2012, 04:36:57 PM
Has about as much chance of being realistic as a mutation causing turtles to grow into humanoid pizza loving skateboarding vigilantes does.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 04:40:14 PM
The point isn't realism, Bebpo. Nothing is realistic about talking humanoid turtles. However, the fact they're mutations, born and bred on Earth, is the very core of their characters and one of the main points of the story.

It's like changing Superman's origin story to him being born from a Olympian God. Sure, it doesn't change the fact it's a man who can shoot laser beams out of his eyes, but it changes the entire identity of the character.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 04:49:30 PM
:rofl
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 19, 2012, 04:52:03 PM
I'm just not going to see the film, fuck it. No used in getting upset with Bay's bullshit
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Tasty on March 19, 2012, 05:08:46 PM
I'm not enraged or anything, but this makes no sense at all.

A movie about anthropomorphized rat and his adopted turtle sons fighting a bunch of Japanese ninjas inexplicably in New York City, and that's the part that makes no sense to you?
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Tasty on March 19, 2012, 05:12:12 PM
First they came for the Transformers, and I didn't speak out because I never liked the Transformers.
Then they came for the Smurfs, and I didn't speak out because my nostalgia had waned.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because it's the Jews.
Then they came for the Ninja Turtles and there was no one left to cry with me.

Nope. Nobody cares about ninja turtles either. Didn't they already reboot the franchise 6 or 7 years ago with a terrible movie?

The CG movie wasn't bad, it just felt like it was made for TV.

Turtles was before my time so I can't help but see them as some lame product of the 80s, their popularity always perplexed me. Transformers I sort of got but maybe that's only because Transformers kept going into the 90s and 00s whereas Turtles for the most part became a fossilized part of 80s children's culture.

I did watch and enjoy the 1990 movie when I was younger, though.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Enl on March 19, 2012, 05:51:00 PM

The CG movie wasn't bad, it just felt like it was made for TV.

Turtles was before my time so I can't help but see them as some lame product of the 80s, their popularity always perplexed me. Transformers I sort of got but maybe that's only because Transformers kept going into the 90s and 00s whereas Turtles for the most part became a fossilized part of 80s children's culture.

I did watch and enjoy the 1990 movie when I was younger, though.

Some of us didn't get into TMNT because of the show.  Originally they were a series gritty, bloody, and very demented comics that weren't really aimed for kids (Casey Jones in the comics was practically a mentally unstable psychopath).  It wasn't until the first cartoon series when they became the cheesy radical talking, multicolored bandana wearing mutants that was more for children. The first movie was a bit closer to the original comics, which is why you probably liked it, but still had a bunch of influences from the show. I do think the original TMNT style would be better suited for today's audience than the continuing use of the late 80's cartoon style.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Dickie Dee on March 19, 2012, 05:54:07 PM
Raph will talk in ebonics and appear in black face

3 Turtles will be black with the exception being Leonardo (who leads)
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Robo on March 19, 2012, 06:04:19 PM
The cartoon is essentially the result of mainstreaming alternative surf/skate culture in the late-80s, early-90s and the burgeoning adaptability of all things ninja. 

It really couldn't have come together more perfectly.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 06:24:46 PM
I'm not enraged or anything, but this makes no sense at all.

A movie about anthropomorphized rat and his adopted turtle sons fighting a bunch of Japanese ninjas inexplicably in New York City, and that's the part that makes no sense to you?

Uhh you can't be this dense.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 19, 2012, 06:24:46 PM
they weren't aliens originally?
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 06:26:02 PM
Raph will talk in ebonics and appear in black face

3 Turtles will be black with the exception being Leonardo (who leads)

Leonardo leads,
Donatello cooks collard greens
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 06:28:53 PM
First they came for the Transformers, and I didn't speak out because I never liked the Transformers.
Then they came for the Smurfs, and I didn't speak out because my nostalgia had waned.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because it's the Jews.
Then they came for the Ninja Turtles and there was no one left to cry with me.

Nope. Nobody cares about ninja turtles either. Didn't they already reboot the franchise 6 or 7 years ago with a terrible movie?

The CG movie wasn't bad, it just felt like it was made for TV.

Turtles was before my time so I can't help but see them as some lame product of the 80s, their popularity always perplexed me. Transformers I sort of got but maybe that's only because Transformers kept going into the 90s and 00s whereas Turtles for the most part became a fossilized part of 80s children's culture.

I did watch and enjoy the 1990 movie when I was younger, though.

lol

90's baby

(http://i.imgur.com/AKiGK.jpg)
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Dickie Dee on March 19, 2012, 06:33:52 PM
Raph will talk in ebonics and appear in black face

3 Turtles will be black with the exception being Leonardo (who leads)

Leonardo leads,
Donatello cooks collard greens

Raphael is still cool but crude tho
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: cool breeze on March 19, 2012, 06:34:34 PM
I don't see why this is a problem.

Aliens come to Earth.  Learn of Earth culture through television.  Michelangelo yells "come at me, bro" at Shredder.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 07:13:08 PM
I don't see why this is a problem.

Aliens come to Earth.  Learn of Earth culture through television.  Michelangelo yells "come at me, bro" at Shredder.

I don't see why this is a problem.

Peter Parker was born on the planet Arachnagora. One day while playing with his webs he found a pod that sent him to Earth. He learns how to be human by watching tv and his adopted parents. He dons the moniker of Spider-Man after Uncle Ben fell down a flight of stairs instead of being murdered because Peter was an immature kid playing with powers he didn't understand. Spider-Man shoots webs into Doc Ock's eyes and bangs Gwen Stacy.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 19, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
I'll just buy the original movie for $3 at some Walmart clearance bin and not even pretend to acknowledge this movie.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Boogie on March 19, 2012, 07:16:56 PM
I guess this is what we get for Eastman and Laird selling the rights and walking away from all things TMNT.

The 2003 series kicked ass, btw.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Huff on March 19, 2012, 07:17:20 PM
First they came for the Transformers, and I didn't speak out because I never liked the Transformers.
Then they came for the Smurfs, and I didn't speak out because my nostalgia had waned.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because it's the Jews.
Then they came for the Ninja Turtles and there was no one left to cry with me.

Nope. Nobody cares about ninja turtles either. Didn't they already reboot the franchise 6 or 7 years ago with a terrible movie?

The CG movie wasn't bad, it just felt like it was made for TV.

Turtles was before my time so I can't help but see them as some lame product of the 80s, their popularity always perplexed me. Transformers I sort of got but maybe that's only because Transformers kept going into the 90s and 00s whereas Turtles for the most part became a fossilized part of 80s children's culture.

I did watch and enjoy the 1990 movie when I was younger, though.

The first series was from 87 - 96. That was before your time?
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
I guess this is what we get for Eastman and Laird selling the rights and walking away from all things TMNT.

Eastman writes for the new IDW TMNT comic, which owns btw. It reboots the origin and makes it more interesting too.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 19, 2012, 07:20:11 PM
I can't wait to see what vapid bimbo Michael Bay will cast as April O'Neil :hyper
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 07:21:03 PM
Thankfully Bay is only the producer but the director doesn't give me much hope. I was really excited for a new live action Turtles film too.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Boogie on March 19, 2012, 07:22:04 PM
I guess this is what we get for Eastman and Laird selling the rights and walking away from all things TMNT.

Eastman writes for the new IDW TMNT comic, which owns btw. It reboots the origin and makes it more interesting too.

Yes, I see I slightly overspoke.  Still, this is the sort of fuckery that you can expect when you sell the rights to Nickelodeon.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 07:24:03 PM
Tin Tin was good. :(
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Boogie on March 19, 2012, 09:54:20 PM
Tin Tin was good. :(

yeeeah, and Tin Tin was directed by Spielberg, written by Edgar Wright and had friggin' Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg in it.

Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 09:55:16 PM
If only the turtles had that kind of backing.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 19, 2012, 10:11:08 PM
And Tin Tin wasn't even that great, just kinda okay.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 19, 2012, 10:46:25 PM
First they came for the Transformers, and I didn't speak out because I never liked the Transformers.
Then they came for the Smurfs, and I didn't speak out because my nostalgia had waned.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because it's the Jews.
Then they came for the Ninja Turtles and there was no one left to cry with me.

Nope. Nobody cares about ninja turtles either. Didn't they already reboot the franchise 6 or 7 years ago with a terrible movie?

The CG movie wasn't bad, it just felt like it was made for TV.

Turtles was before my time so I can't help but see them as some lame product of the 80s, their popularity always perplexed me. Transformers I sort of got but maybe that's only because Transformers kept going into the 90s and 00s whereas Turtles for the most part became a fossilized part of 80s children's culture.

I did watch and enjoy the 1990 movie when I was younger, though.

The first series was from 87 - 96. That was before your time?

Andrex is 12, so yes.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 19, 2012, 11:08:26 PM
I can't wait to see what vapid bimbo Michael Bay will cast as April O'Neil :hyper
Christina Hendricks, please.

If I had to guess, I'd say Andrex is about 20.  So, born in 1992, thereabouts.  The TMNT series did run until 1996 but it was definitely over the hill by then.  I'd say as an actual "cool" thing, the turtles were done by about 1992-93.  I honestly can't imagine anyone born later than say... '84/85 seeing the "pop culture" version of the turtles as cool.  So yeah, the TMNT generation is only a few years away from being 30 at the youngest. 

We be old, fools.

I have a memory of some punk-kid telling April to chill out because it's the 80s.

So old.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 11:10:22 PM
My last hope is a Rocksteady developed Turtles game :(

At least there's the IDW comic and Image comics reprints
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 19, 2012, 11:12:44 PM
If I had to guess, I'd say Andrex is about 20.  So, born in 1992, thereabouts.  The TMNT series did run until 1996 but it was definitely over the hill by then.  I'd say as an actual "cool" thing, the turtles were done by about 1992-93.  I honestly can't imagine anyone born later than say... '84/85 seeing the "pop culture" version of the turtles as cool.  So yeah, the TMNT generation is only a few years away from being 30 at the youngest. 

We be old, fools.

I saw the original movie in theatres release day.

My dad bought me some cartoon vhs tapes the very next day.

The following week we went to the drive in to watch Ghost. I just watched TMNT all over again just one screen away.

I later got into the comics via reprints available in the 90's. I ate those mother fucking ninja turtle pies and even the cereal.

Memories.  :(
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Positive Touch on March 19, 2012, 11:44:59 PM
THE PIES AND CEREAL WERE THE BEST PART
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Tasty on March 20, 2012, 12:24:51 AM
lol

90's baby

(http://i.imgur.com/AKiGK.jpg)

They're Back and More Dangerous than Ever (http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s284/dizzydom69/icon_metal.gif)

The first series was from 87 - 96. That was before your time?

Not strictly before I was born, but the fad had already passed by the time I could have cared.

If I had to guess, I'd say Andrex is about 20.  So, born in 1992, thereabouts.  The TMNT series did run until 1996 but it was definitely over the hill by then.  I'd say as an actual "cool" thing, the turtles were done by about 1992-93.  I honestly can't imagine anyone born later than say... '84/85 seeing the "pop culture" version of the turtles as cool.  So yeah, the TMNT generation is only a few years away from being 30 at the youngest. 

We be old, fools.

Close! You're pretty good.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Diunx on March 20, 2012, 02:12:40 AM
I used to have TMNT bed dresses and an obscene amount of turtle toys! not to mention the countless times I finished turtles in time in coop with the cousins :bow2
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 02:27:57 AM
Nothing makes nerds madder than making beloved white characters black.  People are still tearing their eyes out over black Green Lantern.
I know people that still has a weekly rage at Nick Fury
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 02:33:56 AM
Okay since we are here and there likely never will be another turtles thread on the bore I have 2 questions to ask.

1) Why the fuck do they wear masks? It's not like they can take them off and people WONT notice they are giant turtles.
2) Has April EVER done anything useful? I mean shit, shes always fucking things up in some form or another. Does she give good head or what?
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 03:24:01 AM
It looks weird, I mean I can understand if it's there to identify them, but it's ass backwards :lol

I had these turtles audiobooks as a kid and whenever the narrator mentioned April, bullshit was happening. These things/turtles live in danger of being killed/abducted for science all the time, one would think the last thing they need is a loud mouthed incapable human being like April around. Well not all friendships need cock sucking, but it's never a bad bonus.

I agree her shit got messed up because of them as much as the reverse, that's why I don't get the friendship.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 03:53:19 AM
The April I know was always spouting bullshit on broadcast pissing off shredder and trying to act cool while being kidnapped 5 mins later. I was 4/5 when I listened to those books, thats all I can remember of her.

I'll try and get the archie comics version, will sit nicely beside the clusterfuck that is Sonic the hedgehog archie comics.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 04:25:41 AM
Noted. Mirage it will be then. Great thanks for your guidance, my knowledge on these matters is minimal at best D:
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Dickie Dee on March 20, 2012, 05:24:40 AM
The April I know was always spouting bullshit on broadcast pissing off shredder and trying to act cool while being kidnapped 5 mins later. I was 4/5 when I listened to those books, thats all I can remember of her.

I'll try and get the archie comics version, will sit nicely beside the clusterfuck that is Sonic the hedgehog archie comics.

If you're going to go digging for comics, get the Mirage original series.  It's pretty awesome and unique although when it finally goes down, it goes down in horrifying flames, haha.  The Archies aren't awful and considering their root is the TUBULAR 80s animated series, it's surprising how decent they are, but the real deal is the Mirage series.

I still remember reading when Splinter's Master's rival attacked the Master's woman and was all BOOBIEEE  :o :o :o :o

/10 year old self
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 05:48:33 AM
^I think we got the TMNT stuff way later than america hence our time seemingly timewarped tastes
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 06:33:37 AM
South of the Border

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Africa South
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Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: tiesto on March 20, 2012, 08:53:33 AM
Raph will talk in ebonics and appear in black face

3 Turtles will be black with the exception being Leonardo (who leads)

Leonardo leads,
Donatello cooks collard greens

Raphael is still cool but crude tho

Michaelangelo raps like Devin tha Dude
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 20, 2012, 10:12:02 AM
Yup, I stopped watch the cartoon in 92/93. I attended a private daycare that went all the up to 1st grade. So when we "graduated" from 1st grade, I got to stay home for a bit, and I remember I watched my last ep of the cartoon that day. "Wow this show sucks now" and I turned it to Bobby's World or Batman: TAS or something on Fox.

Fall that year, Power Rangers aired and TMNT was pretty much done.

By 93, they put out the crappy sports turtles figures and the figures where you squeeze their legs and their heads pop out of their shells!!!!!!

Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 20, 2012, 10:13:26 AM
92/93 was all about Sonic and Street Fighter. Sorry TMNT.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 20, 2012, 10:15:37 AM
to be fair to wrath, there was a brief turtle resurgence when they brought out the crappy live action show with the girl turtle. but it lasted only a few months. This was in 96 or 97, i dunno.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 20, 2012, 10:19:58 AM
I was definitely into the Power Rangers and Sonic but I didn't leave TMNT behind, would be stupid to do so. I wasn't into anything other than the videogames 95 on though.

my childhood obsessions:

1. mr. rogers/sesame street
2. fraggle rock
3. ninja turtles
4. baseball
5. bill and ted
6. ahnold movies/jcvd movies/stallone movies
7. back to the future
8. tim burton movies
9. the simpsons
10. nickelodeon
11. vidya games
12. basketball
13. books
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 20, 2012, 10:21:36 AM
i forgot rap and comics oops
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Diunx on March 20, 2012, 10:45:59 AM
to be fair to wrath, there was a brief turtle resurgence when they brought out the crappy live action show with the girl turtle. but it lasted only a few months. This was in 96 or 97, i dunno.

whaaaa! never heard of this!
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Cravis on March 20, 2012, 10:54:31 AM
LOVED the Turtles when I was little. Still have a special place for them but I fell in love again when I started reading the original Mirage series. When
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Leonardo
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finally kills
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Shredder
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in the comics....man that was badass. He walks into the sewers with the dead body wrapped up. They then proceed to burn the body in Hudson Bay.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 11:01:58 AM
Whenever I hear/see the word limited or unlimited that disgusting Hatsukoi theme plays in my head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmw8qeuqhyE

Yes I watched it to the end, I sometimes marathon crappy anime
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on March 20, 2012, 12:53:00 PM
Aside from Boogie, there seems to be a distinct lack of 2k3 acknowledgement from this thread, which is the best animated series.  It still wasn't as grimdark as the original Mirage interpretation but it had a nice balance of action, wit, and the occassional implication of fucked up shit.  Baxter Stockman in particular spends the entire series incrementally mutilated as punishment until he is only a brain in a jar.  Things did start getting weird in the later seasons, though.

The anniversary movie was a nerdgasm for me , the turtles teamed up with their 80s counterparts to stop the Shredder from destroying all the turtles timelines ( anime, mirage, live action, etc.)  Lots of referential silliness and the occassional acknowledgment of the 4th wall.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 01:10:31 PM
Except turtles are smooth like a baby's bottom
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Robo on March 20, 2012, 01:45:32 PM
This thread is about 2 seconds away from "where were you when you realized you were a furry"

8-years-old, Grandparent's dining room, Pepe Le Pew.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Boogie on March 20, 2012, 02:59:58 PM

Except turtles are smooth like a baby's bottom

Yeah, putting it that way doesn't make it sound better.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 20, 2012, 03:18:54 PM
 :smug
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 20, 2012, 07:26:25 PM
Ummm actually the Ninja Turtles were definitely big when I was a kid in both Saudi Arabia and America, and I was born in 1990.

Comics, cartoon and videogames. TMNT has always been the shit, Donatello 4 lyfe!

Can't speak for the Saud, naturally, but in North America, by 1993, we were at the TMNT 3 film era of the Turtles' popularity.  Shit was pretty much over.  The animated series even got booted down to half-episodes at that time.  The Power Rangers had arrived, they wrecked the Turtles' old asses, that was that.

I thought TMNT was dead sometime in 1992.  The obvious proof is the significant decline in box office revenue from each TMNT movie.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 20, 2012, 07:35:24 PM
TIL that in some origins Splinter is a mutated karate master, and in other origins Splinter is the mutated pet rat of a karate master
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Huff on March 20, 2012, 08:11:34 PM
If I had to guess, I'd say Andrex is about 20.  So, born in 1992, thereabouts.  The TMNT series did run until 1996 but it was definitely over the hill by then.  I'd say as an actual "cool" thing, the turtles were done by about 1992-93.  I honestly can't imagine anyone born later than say... '84/85 seeing the "pop culture" version of the turtles as cool.  So yeah, the TMNT generation is only a few years away from being 30 at the youngest. 

We be old, fools.

I was born in 88, so still young and pretty. But I remember watching the TV series, having all the toys, pajamas, and Halloween costumes. Watched the 3rd movie in theaters. Maybe from having older cousins, i dunno.

Of course I dropped TMNT real quick for Power Rangers
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 20, 2012, 08:15:58 PM
I dropped TMNT for Power Rangers pretty quickly.

I remember whenever they'd bring on Green Ranger.  Whenever he'd call out the Dragonzord, I'd get so excited that I'd get euphoric.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 20, 2012, 08:19:27 PM
TIL that in some origins Splinter is a mutated karate master, and in other origins Splinter is the mutated pet rat of a karate master

yep
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Robo on March 20, 2012, 09:35:40 PM
I never liked Power Rangers.  I think I stopped watching kid's shows altogether around the same time I lost interest in TMNT—a bit before TMNT 3 came out, which I've never even seen—which unsurprisingly coincides with the beginning of Beavis & Butthead and, inherently, of my MTV phase.  I was only 10 in 1993, but I think a lot of it has to do with my best friend at the time being nearly three years older than I was.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: FlameofCallandorReturns on March 20, 2012, 09:37:59 PM
I was born in 84 and I always thought Power rangers was pretty gay. I remember distinctively thinking the commercials for it looks so stupid.  :lol
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Robo on March 20, 2012, 09:38:56 PM
I remember making fun of people in school for watching that crap.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Himu on March 20, 2012, 09:47:20 PM
I was into Power Rangers for all of two years. Then, like Robo I started shifting towards MTV mainly because of Beavis and Butthead. Sure, I'd watch stuff like X-Men, Batman: TAS, or Animaniacs, but for the most part I turned into a MTV/VH1/BET watcher with a decent helping of Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. When Nick started going down the drain in the late 90's I became a Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, BET and CN watcher.

In 93 I was 8 years old, so I was in Power Rangers target demo. But when they did Power Rangers Turbo I started to realize that they were going to do this charade and reboot the story every fucking season but with new Rangers and stopped watching.
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 21, 2012, 02:02:37 AM
I thought I'd do that thing people do where you post the in intro in an unfitting language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTcwZ6gRXnQ

The Power Rangers fad had me for about 5 episode at best, I realized that shit was stupid way too fast. :lol
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 21, 2012, 02:18:50 AM
Michelangelo looks fucking stoned when that fairy floats over them ... oh god .. super mutation WTF am I watching. Screw you Oscar ;A;

Cant gets worse at least. Saint mutation?... all I can say is

Japan :bow :'( :bow :'(
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 21, 2012, 02:20:26 AM
Kick wa boom boom :'(
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: The Sceneman on March 22, 2012, 02:48:03 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzkVxkiOqGA
Title: Re: Michael Bay and the new Turtles movie - the Turtles are now aliens wtf
Post by: Momo on March 22, 2012, 11:49:35 PM
Went down exactly like that, in hindsight ironically so