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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Reboot In The Capable Hands Of Platinum Dunes!
Beaks here...
Deadline New York's Michael Fleming is reporting that Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes cohorts, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, are set to produce Paramount's live-action reboot of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. Cowabunga?
Though I was a fan of the Eastman & Laird comic books in the late 1980s, I didn't think much of the first film and never bothered with the sequels. So I'm actually pleased Platinum Dunes is shifting their focus from remakes of horror classics (like THE BIRDS and ROSEMARY'S BABY) to reinvigorating less prestigious franchises like TNMT. You may feel differently. If so, please share your thoughts in the below talkback. I'm sure Platinum Dunes would love to read them.
According to Fleming, Platinum Dunes will begin meeting with writers next week. Any suggestions?
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Who gives a shit!
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and First
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Give a shit either.
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as The Shredder?
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Fuck you Dweller
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You weren't first. How sad.
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I want to make a ninja turtles movie. And probably every other guy in the country
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Maybe Megan Fox can play a turtle
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this will suck.
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The asshats that brought us all those atrocious, incoherent horror remakes? Never, ever again use the term "capable" in relation to anything involving Michael Bay again.
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"Everything-I-touch-turns-to-shit-even-though-it-makes-millions-of-dollars" hands of Michael "Boom-Boom" Bay.
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You are a bitch.
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...about Platinum Dunes making Turtles films. My response to that is, fuckin' really!? Because the first ones were such cinematic high points!? Please. I'm a life long TMNT comic book reader and I'm happy somebody is taking this series over and bringing ANYTHING to the screen to help me forget the earlier movies. The first one is barely passable, but it's still a joke compared to the tone of the comic books. So long as they lean a little bit more adult, say PG-13 style, I'm interested in seeing what they come with.
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This'll be worse than TMNT the rock concert.
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That's probably the only positive side to him being a producer. As far as directing, I secretly want David Gordon Green in the chair.
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but I hope this remake/reboot sticks with the original comic that wasn't all too kid friendly...
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"First" and I still had time to post AND fuck your mother at the same time!
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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN
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Fuck both your dads
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...kicked ass, I wouldn't mind a sequel.
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Fuck your boyfriend and your gerbil farm.
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The original comics are very dark and violent. I'd love to see a film that was aimed more toward those comics and not the children's genre it fell into afterwards.
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May 27, 2010 10:37:41 PM CDT
A hybrid of the original comics and the 2003 series would work
by terry1978
Make them deadly at their craft and willing to do it dirty, but the other side of the coin is that they were all still teenagers at heart and did act as such.
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Fuck your pedophile uncle doggystyle
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Michael "wasting potential" Bay will ruin this at every stage of production. Bay knows how to attract the Wal-Mart crowd with explosions and marketing gimmicks. That's it.
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I prefer the Big K myself
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Is it Platinum Dunes' mandate to only do remakes? No original projects allowed?Michael Bay is a waste of skin. Only he would set up a production company specifically to remake other people's work. What does he bring to the table? Have any of their projects added anything to the original works?
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Fuck your doggy pedophile style
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Who are you fucking kidding? Name me one thing PD has made that wasn't a God-awful fucking piece of rancid shit?
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Fuck Barrack Obama reverse cowgirl style and suck his light-skinned balls
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...Bloody! I would love to see Leo chop a foot soldiers head off. Screw the kids.
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I understand that you have to kiss ass in order to stay alive in this business, but bending over for Platinum Dunes like that? Have you no self-respect or are you truly that disillusioned? Those people only care about money and couldn't give two shits about putting out a quality product. Their bread and butter is taking other people's successful ideas and reupholstering for the iPhone generation.
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You found out about that shit decades later just like the rest of us did, and all of a sudden you want them all gritty and what not. I grew up on the 80s turtles just like the rest of you, man. Yeah, a darker take works, but don't remove the somewhat tongue in cheek nature they had either.
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From the issue 8 Cerebus crossover and for many, many years after. I've got an entire long box almost full of just TMNT comic books. I think you might be surprised at how many people my (our?) age read them, too. They were insanely popular at one time, triggering an entire B&W, anamorphic talking animal comic book genre.
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FUCK YOU with Rhino horn up your ass, on a Sunday. and that goes triple for Micheal Bay thanks a fucking alot.
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Then we could expect Splinter humping April's leg, Bebop speaking like an ugly black stereotype, and a close up of Shredder's hairy ass.
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Fuck Barney Frank is his liver-spotted backdoor then gargle that 120 years old Congressman-Queen's man-naise but leave some to spread on old Ballpark Frank's hotdog. He's be expecting you to return the favor.
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Squat-Fuck your mother without a condom while she's ovulating
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More like properties.
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so you're not gonna get a gritty, grown up turtles movie.
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pull out and push out a chocolate hot-dog across her face
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like in Lady and the Tramp
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1) Platinum Dunes is not capable. They managed to ruin the most visceral film villain of all time (Krueger).
2) The first TMNT film was awesome in the most 80's cheese-tastic way and you deserve more than a few slaps for that.
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FUGITOID!
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The second one had a cameo by Vanilla Ice and people are complaining about how Michael Bay is going to ruin the franchise?
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would we get to see the Turtles fuck April?
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The Phantom Menace...can't be any fuckin worse
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a better Star Wars movie than George Lucas right now....that dude has lost it.
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Beaks, dude, you said the 2 worst possible words when talking about film: Michael Bay.
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I was going to write some insightful comment, but then I just got wrapped up in the little burnfight between HARRYIZAFAGGOT and CellarDweller.
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i was introduced to the turtles via the 80s toon rendition and, as such, would prefer they keep *some* of its attributes (ie, multi-colored bandanas, love of pizza, pupils, etc.). hell, that's how most of you bastards recognize them anyhow.
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Sorry Harriza, I have to get back to the materpiece I was working on earlier: A bukakki painted, living sculpture fearturing your mom, grandmother, sister, aunts, female cousins, ex-girlfriends (before you turned gay) It's gonna rival Jackson Pollack's most impressive splatter-style art. I'll post it on Facebook and Ebay for all to see. Enjoy listening to your Liza Minnelli and Barbara Streisand record collections and enjoy the 3-D IMAX show of Sex and the City 2 with your boyfriend, gay dad, and the priest who molested you in high school.
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I bet I can do a better job than a lot of the cronies out in Hollywood and I'm much cheaper.
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I hope the same sex offender that kidnapped Jaycee Dugard captures you, rapes you in his backyard for 19 years, and has 3 kids with you.
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...pupils (although their weapons, as well as the fact that they have audibly different voices in film, should be enough to differentiate who is who). I just want them to have a more comic book associated tone. Both the characters and their environments (sewer and city). If they get that right I don't really care about the other stuff. I mean, the comic books were b&w. I'm certainly not expecting that!
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I never read the comics but I loved the 1st movie when I was a kid and continue to find reasons to love it today. I just rewatched it last week to get the bad taste out of my mouth from watching the new cgi bullshit. That said, this'll probably suck, Bay will sprinkle his explosive nutjuice all over it until it's unrecognizable.
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...business. You could do the Turtles justice with a PG-13 rating, which most parents just ignore and assume is no worse that a PG. Can't say I really expect kids much younger than 13 to be into them, anyway. But I'm probably wrong about that as I'm just stuck on getting something, ANYTHING, resembling a serious Turtles movie.
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Weak dude. Not "first" and your last comeback was an epic FAIL. Just not your night is it douchesicle? Goodnight Nancy.
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Like hardcore style. Hanging her head off the side of the bed and just stuffing their Turtle cocks down her throat until her neck veins bulge and she gags up that thick throat phlegm
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Me. I'm not kidding. Hear me out. I was an avid fan of the Turtles for years, especially the original comics. They had the right amount of grit and the perfect amount of parody. I'm an aspiring screenwriter, and am a huge Turtles fan. I know these characters inside and out. Want proof of my ability? Check out http://youtube.com/callmedeebo
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I hope you don't wake up in the morning
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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I'm going to Hang your head off the side of the bed and just stuff my cock down your throat until your neck veins bulge and you gag up that thick throat phlegm
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May 27, 2010 11:20:56 PM CDT
A PG-13 level Kick-Ass is probably what would be the closest
by terry1978
But just tone down the comedy a little from that flick.
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...which has actually been very entertaining (good job, both of you), is that you ALWAYS think of something else to say an hour later. Like, "Shit! Why didn't I think of that then!?"
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Your comebacks are so lame, you're already recycling your own shit. Do yourself a favor and drink some Drain-O.
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but I'm having a blast now
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you recycle your own shit by eating it
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Actually, I do my part to save the planet by shitting into the mouths of your equally unoriginal and illiterate family members. Then I make then shit out my shit, eat and repeat.
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I cum in your dads mouth
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into your mothers wide open pussy hole...and that's how CellarDwellers are made
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I'll see you there in a minute Dweller....I'm going to crush your tailbone tonight. Lol, I wanna feel you tear :)
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Who's feeding you these "gems" now? The 2-year-old kid your fathered with the crack-whore who lives with you under the same bridge? Where'd you get the internet connection to type these lame lines? Is there wi-fi up your ass?
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as a big "W" for me. Thanks for playing
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I pounded it up there through his ass
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Yes folks. Forrest Gump is real and he has a retarded cousin named Harryiza... Dude get's his comebacks off the back of his extensive beastiality porn collection. Real original.
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Amy Winehouse and Gary Coleman
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First you mistakenly declare, "first!" Now you're mistakenly declaring this a "win" for yourself. Hmm... That's objective. Let's let the people decide.
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May 27, 2010 11:42:35 PM CDT
WATCH THIS NOW!!! EFFECTS REEL FROM PASPAR NOE'S ENTER THE VOID!
by tehcreepythinman
Keep in mind that Enter the Void only cost 13 million Euro's - 16 million Dollars. http://www.buf.com/visual_effects.php?display=movie&id=882
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Well I doubt they are going to vote for a registered Sex Offender fag like yourself
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DAMMIT!
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the first movie was fucking rad. looking forward to it.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
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Are possibly the only things so shitty the addition of Michael Bay makes them better. Give this guy more 80's cartoons and he'll look like a fucking genius.
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Highly unlikely to vote for an unregistered Tranny Corpse Fucker such as yourself Harryiza...
I hear once your giant, black butt plug is in place, you nod right off to sleep. It's like the gay version of a pacifier. G'night. -
It was actually a half-decent adaptation of an actual Eastman & Laird story.
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That was actually a pretty damned good movie all around. Pretty competently put together, and if you're a fan of the original comics you might realize that it was based loosely on the very first one they made. Now it's in the hands of the uninspired fucks that crank out remade shit. Fantastic. The franchise doesn't even need a fucking reboot. We all know the original story of the Turtles. Give us some more fucking Shredder!
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May 28, 2010 12:10:59 AM CDT
Mim-ick-ing-my-mas-ter's-move-ments-from-my-cage...
by nasty in the pasty
Ah, the Turtles...like most guys in my age bracket (i.e. around 13 when the TV series premiered), I was introduced to the franchise via the AWFUL 80's cartoon (I sometimes shake my head sadly when I think about the shows I watched back then), and only gradually got into the B&W Eastman/Laird comics towards the end of the decade. Fuck, I still wish I had those (sold off the lot of them at a flea market around 1991/92). A PG-13 Turtles movie that adapted some of the best storylines from the original series (like the epic "Return To New York" three-parter) would be great. There's no way in HELL anyone would greenlight an R-rated TMNT flick, because, like James Bond, the more silly, bubble-gum big screen version is now the "correct" version in the eyes of the public at large, as opposed to the more gritty novels/comic books that spawned them. Still, if they make a new movie, they HAVE to have a stacked April O'Neil wearing that tight, bananna-yellow jumpsuit from the cartoon. Hottest 'toon woman EVER at the age of 15 (aside from Princess Lana from Captain N).
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Would you two just get it over with and fuck already....?
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I'm 30 years old. I used to LOVE the Ninja Turtles when I was a kid. The movies were kind of goofy, and by the time they were released I was on the verge of losing interest in them. To me, there's a way to revamp (yet again) the turtles successfully, but only as "adult" as that last animated flick was. To bring the turtles to the point everyone seems to be asking for here on this forum, like "The Dark Knight", would be stupid, IMO. No one is going to take them seriously to that extent.
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it's a shame they're choosing now to reboot movies. "Let's take a familiar classic and dumb it down for modern-day audiences."
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This quite possibly could be one of the most insulting posts I've ever read here on AICN. FUCK THIS BULLSHIT, and this stupid ass news post. Damn.
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Both made me laugh but I love the kidnapper joke. Keep it geek.
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IRON MAN: colorful, fun, and with A-list talent.
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With as much blood, violence and humor as the original comics?
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Not (just) because they are nostalgic...but because they rule!
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May 28, 2010 1:19:10 AM CDT
the only thing left to do with the property
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
that would be entertaining and relevent would be to do the more serious comic adaptation, with the red masks. the tv show was top notch and the movies's were probably as good as you're going to get for a live action cartoon.
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Everything, and I mean everything, Michael Bay has ever touched is pure shit.
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But with Platinum Dunes involved, I doubt it. And there's no way it'll be as good as last year's Turtles Forever. Just look at this and tell me it's not fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t2BtzQpoWg
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The first movie passes, and I too have fond memories of it. But the Turtles shouldn't be goofy or silly. They should be sarcastic, smart asses, sure. Like a Bruce Willis kind of sarcasm. But not all knee slappin' silly with it. And the violence shouldn't be so "safe". It needs to be very physical and threatening. Maybe bordering on darkly threatening - a little scary. I don't know, maybe I need to watch it again. But I don't think the first movie came off like that. By the time it was made the Turtles were being portrayed as lovable, kid friendly heroes. That's not really what they were all about. They were more into their own thing. And their "thing" dealt with a lot of messed up shit. I want more of that, less "heroes in half shell - Turtle power!"
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viable franchise. For what it's worth, they've been around for twenty frickin YEARS! Read the comics, then watch the original film, and there is a great adhesion to the original material. Sure, there's some of the goofy cartoon stuff, but, that's the reason the movie got made. Watch it again ( I have a four year old, so it's on a constant loop at my house) but, for me, and him, the story and film still hold up. It's not perfect, but, for me, it seems like one of the first comic films to stay pretty true to the source material. I look forward to any incarnation of TMNT. I'm a life-long fan.
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With the giant fucking leeches that kill people and is all dark and fucked up and latched on to my boner and sucked out all the blood and then spit it in my mouth like a strawberry snowcone
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This had to happen! This just had to happen! This is hysterical! Mickey Bay, not contented with ucking up and raping in the ass a beloved 80s childhood iconic show like TRANSFORMERS, now he will doe the same thing with another, The Teenage Ninja Turtles.Guys, prepare to have your childhod to get raped in the ass again, by Bay again.This shit is hillarious!
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I liked the Friday remake because they crammed about 3 movies of strewn out mythology into one mainline experience it's pretty hard to fuck to fuck up a Jason Vorhees movie when they took away all the strange supernatural elements of the later films. This is Jason kills topless horny teenagers. It wasn't a by-the-numbers remake like Nightmare on Elm Street. So if it's an easy franchise, and TMNT is pretty easy (Ninja Turtles. Fight Shredder. The end) if you keep out all the alternate dimension hopping of Eastman and Laird's original run.
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If you're THAT worried about your "childhood being raped" by some movie, it's time to put down the remote and step outside. The graphics are awesome.
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the only Platinum Dunes remake/reboot... whatEVER they think they're doing...worth a view is the first TCM w/R. Lee Ermey. To date.
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The more I read, the angrier I get. Friday Re-...thing was awful - acting=terrible. TCM at least had some solid/mildly believable dialogue and natural delivery.
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To codename "HARRYIZAFAGGOT" - your screen name is making your parents...and the human race proud. "Faggot" is totally relevant and legitimate term, and it speaks volumes of your societal worth. Keep on keepin' on.
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Yeah fuck it i hate all of the PD horror remakes. Every single one, but TMNT's the tv show was watered the hell down the movie was pretty fucking lame as well. Of course most of the kids who saw it including myself knew no better because we found the curseword violence black and white comic book after the fact. If PD is aiming for an R rating and maybe a 80's era. I wont have anything bad to say about it.
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or read it. I've played the video game once or twice while in the arcade donkeys years ago. So I really have no emotional attachment to the property.That said, I do have one piece of advice for the Platinum Dunes people: KILL YOURSELVES! KILL YOURSELVES! KILL YOURSELVES! For the love of all that's decent about movies... kill yourselves. Please.
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LOL..fucking AICN...you ass clowns cant be serious
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So why should a turtles film be any different. I really liked the recent cgi film made by Imagi. I thought it had a good story, decent characterisation and a nice tone to it: y'know, pretty much everything you never get from a Platinum Dunes film...
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May 28, 2010 3:57:36 AM CDT
Change the name to "Adultized Genetically Altered Shinobi Testud
by thejudger
it's been 20 years and some change I'm pretty sure they aren't teenaged anymore. The word "Mutant" is racist. "Ninja" is played is out. "Testudines" sounds cooler than Turtles.
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Cliche these days with most movies, I think TMNT would be better if it did the gritty and dark thing.
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Coked Up, Cum Slut, Fucked Up Smurfers!
Coked Up, Cum Slut, Fucked Up Smurfers!
Coked Up, Cum Slut, Fucked Up Smurfers!
Cocking out thier assholes!
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What's the use to compare with the old TTNT movies? So what if the old one are not good? Since when two wrongs make a right? The new TTNT will be shit, thanks to Mickey Bayass involvement. You can bet your ass on that. also, TTNT are supposed to be kids' stuff. This should be PG movies. Those are the market, the real market for this franchise. They don't need to pump up the rating for them to be good. You can make good PG movies that would also please adults. All you would need is proper talented filmmakers. Which you will not get since it's Platinium Dunes making it now.
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You ar enot understanding. Platinium Dunes and Michel Bay want to turn the properties "The Birds" and "Rosemary's Baby" into franchises.
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May 28, 2010 4:38:46 AM CDT
Michel Bay wants another franchise to get himself stupidly rich.
by asimovlives
... while fucking it all up beyond all possible recognition. And while at it, helping fucking up and rape the ass of today's american youth. He has done a one hell of a kick-start with his TRASHFORMERS shitty fucking "movies".
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it was then and it is now. SO GO FUCK YOURSELF
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I stopped the fight as a TKO after Harryiza's lame one-line follow-up to the bukkake insult.
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CaveDweller probably would have squeezed out a decision afterwards
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Michael Bay continues to shit on everything I loved as a kid. I still have the originals but my hatred for Bay continues to grow.
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Though I did like the new "Nightmare on Elm Street" film...maybe because not all the victims deserved to be killed like in "Friday the 13th". But will Jim Henson's Creature Shop be involved?
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Let's see some rat dick pummel her ass with the turtles watching and whacking off. Then they spray their turtle cum all over her hair and face as Splinters squirts his rat cum into her ass. Make it happen Bay!
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Lucas lost it, and Bay never had it.
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It must be a considerable sum.
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What kind of naivité do you suffer from?
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Maybe Michel Bay pays them in sexual services. Bay allows them to suck his cock for exclusives.
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stayed close to the source material, though their choice for April was confusing to my 14yo self. But TMNT is still good because the comics all rocked. But I see it turning into this " Nerdy kid ( Shia ) tries to get with the hot chick at school, 45 minutes into it he meets the Turtles who tell him they need his help, when really they don't " *que Link'n Park music.
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The sarcasm was wrapped in deep irony. Because Mr Beaks has been one of the most unappologetic ass-kissing slave of Michelle Bay in the history of AICN. Read his glowing review for BAD BOYS II, for example, where he goes totally gay on Michelle Bay. Least you forget, it was Mr Beaks, in his complete gay lust for michelle, whihc coined the immortal expression "The evolving sensebilities of Michael Bay". and he said so without any hint of irony, he was being dead serious. So, the irony of his lame ass atempt at sarcasm didn't went unnoticed by me.
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May 28, 2010 6:48:04 AM CDT
"Less Prestigious Franchises"
by ooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuutttttlllllaaaaa
"I didn't think much of the first film." This makes me sad.
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Fuck Michael Bay.
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He will not know what he's looking at.
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Not contented with fucking up teenhood with his demented abonormalities TRASHFORMERS movies, now he wants to fuck up the modern american children with his version of TMNT. This is going to be hysterical. Serves it right for the stupid dads who have been supporting of Bay's shit and have helped made him a sucessful hack. And the repay that Bay does is to rape their childhood's ass,and of their children, by fucking up a well liked children oritneted franhcise. I can't wait to hear the screams of agony when the time comes. Serves you right for supporting Michelle Bay all this years. Teach you right! You should had know better, now you are going to rip what you sew. You only have yourselve to blame. Though shit, fuckers.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=15172Read. Shake head. Enjoy.
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I had been excited for the "ffith" film" thatwas supposedly to be live action but also a sequel to the CGI fourth film (evans and geller had apparently singed to reprise their roles in live action) but then the franchise was sold to paramount so i suppose a rebbot was inevitable. It could go either way depending on who they get to direct and whether it goes for down to earth feel of the first one of the cartoony aspect of the second and third ones. My guess is that this will be a kids movie, paramount/nikelodeon wouldn't have bought the franchise if it didn't think it could sell it to kids
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May 28, 2010 7:47:10 AM CDT
Whoever suggested the Fugitoid saga is a genius...
by shut the fuck up donny
Having the powers that be drop the the usual origin bullshit and throw the turtles into an intergalactic battle with Humans and Triceratons (and Utrons) would be fucking amazing.
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Do you actually like movies? I repeat the question: do you actualyl like movies? Because any true movie fan and movie geek would receive any news about a new Michelle Bay project, specially one concerning an already and beloved franchise, with complete disgust and distress. A new TMNT movie could be cool news. A new TMNT movie to be made under the aegis of Michelle Bay is TERRIBLE NEWS.
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It is the patriot duty of any true american to oppose the constant assult Michael "Michelle" Bay perpectuates on the amarican youth, with the TRASHFORMERS franchise, and now with the upcoming TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. Think of your children. Think of your childhood, constantly raped for the sake of egomaniacal greed. Every able body american is to do bodly harm to the aforementioned Michael "Piece Of Shit" Bay if you come into contact. Your country needs you in this dire times of gnashing of teeth and national trouble. Do your duty to America.
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Let me get this straight. You are 63 years old and you're looking forward to a new TMNT movie. You are actually going to be in line at 63 to watch a TMNT movie. Oh. My. God.
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So we'll get a bad teen comedy for most of the running time and then maybe 20 minutes of the turtles running around with flames painted on their shells and Shredder will be voiced by some dude from Lord of the Rings. Also April O'Neil will be played by some skank of the moment.
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Long before the cartoon came out, my buddies and I saw the TMNT role-playing game at our local gaming store, and we thought it was all kinds of awesome.
Ironically, the actually four turtle characters weren't the central cool-factor of the game. There was very little of the turtle's backstory in it. More, it was about the coolness of mutant animals, guns, and martial arts.
Like others have mentioned, dark as fuck.
The best part was the villains known as the "terror bears", like the Care Bears' evil doppelgangers. Doom Bear, Death Bear, Fear Bear, and Pain Bear. Heh heh heh ...
I then watched the cartoon because I was already hooked on TMNT, but even back then it was never really that satisfying. The Eastman & Laird comic was awesome, but they took SO long to do the art for each issue! The art's amazing, but I was way too impatient to wait that long for the next issue!
Although, I still think it's neat that Eastman & Laird were able to work out a licensing deal that allowed them to publish their own awesome comics at the same time that Archie Comics was putting out comics based on the cartoon. How often do creators get to maintain that sort of control over their creation WHILE ALSO cashing in the bastardized version. Pretty genius.
As for a new movie: No need for a reboot, just continue the story. The origin story is so totally unnecessary. And also, I want to see blood. Blood blood blood!
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For some reason I can see him making a movie about gay robotic flying space cowboys work.
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You are pleased its in the capable hands of Platinum Dunes? I hope that is a joke, because all they pump out is garbage. AICN needs to have a Credibility clock kind of like the Doomsday clock. Everytime they print garbage, the the minute hand moves forward away from credibility. At this point, we are nearing midnight!
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Bring back Feldman bitches!
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I saw some of that Turtles Forever on a Saturday morning, and realized how much they change from decade to decade. Jesus they've gone through more changes and retcons than Marvel characters.
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Get Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and get McG (think about it) to direct.
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that last post by you cemented you as a loser imo. it's ok to like like something but you're drone mentality is an embarrassment to the rest of the geeks on this lame site. and the fact that you are put someone down for having their own opinion and proceed to try to recruit them into your hive mind is kinda wack. Anyways, considering how lame the old property was anything will be a step up, even if it is from a tasteless producer like bay. If you made a remake of the original now in that same style the modern audience would laugh it out of existence, I'm sure a cool new slick version with pop culture reference will atleast connect with the modern movie goer. The original was directed by a music video director if i'm not mistaken.
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bay will be as involved in this as spielberg was involved in transformers. last time I checked there wasn't any leg humping in the new nightmare film! nor was there any but shots or flames on trucks. enough with the hyperbole.
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Michael Bay will make sure the action looks good, the fact that Platinum Dunes is involved tells me it will be made relatively cheaply, but not look cheap.
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May 28, 2010 9:01:48 AM CDT
NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by geekhaterssuck
Platinum Dunes? Please say it ain't so! First off loved the original, 2nd eh, didn't bother with the third, but really liked the recent animated one. This news just ugh I don't want some blow up doll playing April O' Neil I don't want the Turtles talking like the twins from Transformers 2 and I don't want some roided up tin can wrestler playing Shredder and that's what we'll get with this. Just ugh!
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Travis Malloy and Christian Alvert who did Pandorum, it was sweet and never looked cheap.
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May 28, 2010 9:09:07 AM CDT
and take the grittiness of the comics with a grain of salt
by jackslater4
It was inteded as parody of Frank Millers Daredevil
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I have no confidence in Platinum Dunes whatsoever.
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Heroes on a half shell, they're on a mission / When there's a battle got the enemy wishin' / That they stayed at home, instead of fightin' / These ninja masters with moves like lightnin' / They were once normal, but now they're mutants / Splinter's the teacher so they are the students / Leonardo, Michaelangelo, and Donatello / Make up this group with one other follow / Raphael, he's the leader of the group / Transformed from the norm by the nuclear goop / Pizza's the food that's sure to please / These ninjas are into pepperoni and cheese...
For the sake of decency I will not post Vanilla Ice's song from the second one... -
When is the "Gobots" movie going to happen? Or, "Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light?"
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For some reason this news just feels right. Unlike Freddy and other flicks, I really don't see how the guys can screw it up worse than TMNT3. I'm pumped to see what they put out.
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Vissssionarrrrrieeessssssss... dunna dunna dunna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ51AjHAato&feature=related -
T-U-R-T-L-E POWER, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!
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I think if they made a Dungeons and Dragons movie based on the cartoon it would be awesome. It was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid and I have no other interest in Dungeons and Dragons whatsoever
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take those boys to Dimension X and let them fight Kang in only a way Micheal Bay can bring to life! (note sarcasm).
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.....DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY. Seriously, this isnt good news at all. Teenage mutant ninja turtles was one of the reebots I was actually looking forward to- the 1990 orignal was a good movie (fuck you, it was) but a remake in a time where comic book movies are finally being taken seriously by audiences and film makers alike, sounded like a great idea! Well, it did sound like a great idea until this news came along. Shit.
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How it feels to be a sanctimonious bore?
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May 28, 2010 10:49:27 AM CDT
Michelle Bay's latest movie project is getting mixed reactions
by asimovlives
The smart people are appalled that such a charming kids franchise is in stinking paws of Michelle Bay and his merry band of retards.The idiots, however, are loving this shit and eating it all up.Again it proves to which crowd Michelle Bay's movies appeal to.
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I know a lot of you were toddlers when this came out but I wasin my late teens, twenties. The only turtles thing I ever liked was the video game. Other than that I thought the entire franchise was retarded.
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Yes, the sequels sucked. I wish I could get only the first one on Blu-ray without having to buy the 3 sequels.
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...yeah, keep dreaming. Not gonna happen.
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Seriously it wont be hard- we just get harry to arrange some kind of michael bay marathon at the alamo draft house and get bay himself to come down as a special guest. When it happens, we all go there, dressed in transformer and turtles costumes, and when we see him... BAM! we all just beat the shit out of him. Will it solve anything? Probably not, but it would give us some kind of closure after all the shit he's put us through, you know? Well, thats my idea, Just throwing it out there....you know...
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As long as it has casey jones chopping up veggies with a sword again, im in!....
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going in the live action series, please?
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That all these guys post "First" and are all excited about posting first only to say like this guy "Who gives a shit".
Obviously if you don't give shit or don't have anything interesting to say DON"T POST ASSHOLES. Obviously if you don't care than the information isn't of value to u. Stop being morons -
If you're gonna bastardized a franchise, go all out.
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Depends of which Star Trek you are talking about, if you know what i mean.
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The cartoons, toys, vidja games, comics... I had them all growing up but FUCK YOU MICHAEL BAY! He'll probably bring in Venus Di Milo and blow up the Technodrome.
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Keeping in mind that the events of Star Trek 2009 are hard canon that have undone the continuity clusterfuck of all other previous Star Trek adventures excluding Enterprise which no one has ever seen.
And as much as I loved Star Trek 2009 and liked some of the other Star Trek movies, Ninja Turtles has been a source of greater joy for me, even though a lot if it was shit. -
I think the first movie is actually a rather faithful adaptation of the early comics. It still holds up and is quite well done. I think it's a tighter and more focused movie than TDK.
The Turtles were a spoof of the Miller Daredevil stuff, so I can see them trying to do something similar in a reboot. A tongue-in-cheek film that's kinda making fun of the melodrama of TDK would be very fitting. -
The only thing they fucked up was Spinters origin, having a rat practicing martial arts pre ooze was stupid.
That's the one thing they need to work out is the origin of Splinter and the Turtles without being too stupid. I understand it's ooze that mutates turtles and a rat and the rat teaches them ninjitsu, but they've got to get a more cohesive version of how it would have happened, even if it means government military experiments. -
They need to scour the earth for good martial artists under 5 ft tall and whoever plays April and Casey should be tall to make the turtles look even shorter.
Too bad Ray Park is 5'8 -
May 28, 2010 12:46:20 PM CDT
JackSlater: Splinter's origin is straight from Eastman & Laird.
by royston lodge
Splinter's origin was the one thing the cartoon actually did better than Eastman & Laird.
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you're all nuts if you think that this shouldn't be remade, and beaks, you're talking out of your ass on that one. didn't care for the first film??? you're crazy. the first turtles was a dark, fun, entertaining kids movie and equally awesome for adults. The action scenes were great, dialogue fun and well written and contained a splash of realism with the social commentary on crime in the streets. You're correct, the rest of the films fell way down hill, but the first one, don't nobody be talking bad on the first turtles, especially if you were born anywhere from 1979 to 1984. I say beaks you need to give it a second viewing pal.
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Ever see him as the cook in Wet Hot American Summer? He can play crazy, but good!
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It's evolved beyond parody and should be updated, but can keep all the best parts.
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Also, it's still one of my favorite Sam Rockwell movies, and that's sayin' a lot.
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You can't seriously believe that. These fucks will probably rename Splinter to Slant.
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That's a bingo.
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Why doesn't someone put that thing on DVD? Besides the first movie, the 2003 cartoon was probably the best adaptation we're ever going to get. It's a shame large chunks of that series were never released to DVD.
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Dude, that's great casting right there. I don't know if anyone can top Elias Koteas' 'Whoooops' from the end of the first one, but Meloni would be an inspired choice.
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May 28, 2010 1:00:15 PM CDT
This is incredibly random.......................................
by crackerfarmboy
A horror remake company led by Michael Bayis about to remake TMNT? Not sure what to think about this...
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Nic Cage's hairpiece would be an acceptable old bald Casey Jones.
Everyone else it too fucking old fatman. And too fucking BLONDE! -
May 28, 2010 1:23:01 PM CDT
The words "Capable" and "Platinum Dunes" DON'T go together!
by violator90
Platinum Dunes is a shit factory and nothing more! I would tolerate ANY other company handling the Turtles but NOT Bay and his frat house buddies! I can just imagine the horrors that the Turtles will be doing: Mickey farting on Donny, or Leo taking a dump on Splinter. The crude and ridiculous humor that Bay will subject them is just teeth-grinding horror.
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thinking you'd gone bug fucking nuts, chopped off your junk and ate your nuts. I just had to read the rest to see what dumbass thing you'd say next.
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hope it's in the trailer.
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Really? The people who did the amazing remakes of Friday the Thirteenth and Nightmare on Elm St? Wow. There is now way this can turn out good.
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Someone had to say it.
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Different strokes rule the world...
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Not merely rote and perfunctory like the F13 remake, the NOES remake was truly stupid, puerile, insipid garbage. That said, maybe what the turtles need is a touch of Bay kickassery. Normally, I wouldn't trust Bay to produce anything but a stool sample, but this may-MAY-work out ok.
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Suck!! Bay is a ugly Ass wart on society, this will be yet another horrible mess of a movie.
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There aren't a lot of young actors I trust to pull off "crazy" just right.
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You are a strange person.
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They can't even get simple horror remakes right. I didn't even know the company cared aboutfinding writers or even had scripts for all their pieces of shit.
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the movie will blow coz nothing is worse than hobo ninjas who arent human.
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Right DioxholsterReturns?
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David Mamet. There I said it.
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will NEVER EVER HAPPEN.
It's not even necessary, really. PG or PG-13 is perfectly acceptable for the turtles. -
Fuck Whedon
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Michael Bay only made Platinum Dunes for money...do you guys honestly believe he's gonna sit in on more than two meetings? Platinum Dunes has been the launching pad for passionate, upstart directors, who have consistently gotten work after these projects. Whoever directs this is gonna give a shit. Anymore of this "Bay buttfucked my childhood" nonsense only proves you're uninformed.
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Mr. Beaks raises a very valid point. It's an incredibly smart move for Dunes to broaden their demographic. They're gonna hit a whole new market of kids who haven't REALLY experience TMNT, as well as snag all of us fans of the good, old stuff. Regardless of what you say, you're all gonna go see it.
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How much did Michelle Bay payed you to say that shit? Or he just allowed you to suck his cock?
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Sorry, I'm still recovering from the brain hemorrhage I suffered while reading that. The first Turtles movie is GREAT, almost a miracle that it didn't end up being watered down for the kiddie market - excellent cinematography (maybe the most Warriors-like movie I've ever seen aimed at the children's market), a decent script (the few groaner lines aside, they could've played it safe and gone cute when instead they decided to go fairly harsh for a younger-themed flick - April gets slapped in the face in a dark subway! That just wouldn't happen in a live-action kids movie now), and a charming low-budget, handmade feel - it plays its harsh city world fairly straight (Danny has a Sid Vicious t-shirt for fuck's sake - would any studio exec allow that now? He's be a fucking Strokes fan). The sequels aside, it more than still holds up, and I'd even venture to guess it's largely due to the success of the Burton Batman that it even got made at all, as dark as it was (you could almost say the same thing about Watchmen - would it ever have been greenlit without the success - or presumed good word-of-mouth - of TDK? Even if I'm wrong about that, I suspect the marketing muscle behind it must have been encouraged - or at least qualified - by the billions earned by the 3-hour dark Batman sequel). Michael Bay is a hack who couldn't properly set up the geography of an action sequence if you gave him a map and compass, and I can't imagine any of his hack disciplines improving on an already-decent movie. How about some original ideas?
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BULL SHIT. The TMNT cartoon just ended last year. Some places like Toys R Us still have the toys even.
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What I mean is - the TMNT property isn't really what it used to be. It was all the rage in the 90's, and was EVERYWHERE. Now it's a tiny queef (like Asimov) in the public eye. This franchise can rise again, I'm telling ya. Stay Positive.
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Ok so when you were a kid you just saw spin kicks and pizza, but you're an adult now, you should know better!
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May 28, 2010 3:16:54 PM CDT
"Regardless of what you say, you're all gonna go see it."
by royston lodge
That is SO not true. If the trailers reveal that it's a cinematic abortion, nobody's gonna bother.
Just look at the talkbacks for the Jonah Hex trailers. If any movie was going to get geeks out "no matter what", it would be Jonah Hex. And yet, the reaction to those trailers are a pretty uniform "meh". -
...are a much more awesome thing than shucking and jiving robot twins that can't read. Retarded? Oh yes. Awesome? FUCK yes.
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Touche. The Jonah Hex dodge does apply.
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May 28, 2010 3:29:14 PM CDT
1st TMNT is one of the best comic book movies of all-time
by darthvedder81
Seriously, it is.
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As a pretty solid comic book film. Ninja Turtles 2 had it's moments too..
just tone down MichaelAngelo a little and you're on to a winner, sadly I think he'll end up like the Transformers twins. -
was the SHIT. My friends and I still quote that movie.
"Pork rind?" "Pork rind." -
He knows how to use voice work. Transformers had REALLY solid voice actors all around for the bots, and I feel TMNT can do the same. I maintain Robbie Rist, who still voice acts, should make his return to Mikey.
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It was the first time Donatello had a personality.
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Wasn't so bad either.
But yes, bring back the Feldman, too. It's not like we'll be LOOKING at him. -
Accept maybe Lost Boys 3, maybe.
Lost Boys 2 was unwatchable, I couldn't finish the movie, even with hot ass Autumn Reeser. It was on par the the Dusk Til Dawn DTV sequels. -
First Transformers, now this. This man must be stopped before someone hands Tron and Star Wars over to him and I have no reasons left to remember my childhood fondly.
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Anyway, yeah. No visual Feldman. But the perks to all that - he'll be cheap. Noone really wants him. All the more reason just to voice Donny, and slowly earn back cred.
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Cheetara gotta eat (my balls..)
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I wonder if Bay & co will go after MASK eventually?Ironically, I think Bay could have done MASK justice. There was never much depth to that show, just badass '80s animated vehicle action.
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Funny, I always hated Feldman's Donatello. Thought he was a terrible voice actor. Always seemed so flat and raspy. "Of course Leo, we all think he's alive." I thought the guy they got for part II (another former child star IIRC, I think Feldman was in jail or rehab at the time) was better.
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TMNT was the shit back then, and it still holds up fairly well. I don't remember much about the sequels, but the first film has always stuck with me.
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The Turtles return to April's apartment after Splinters abduction. She opens the door and asks what's wrong. One pathetic word escapes Leo's lips: "Splinter." The delivery of that line plus the very subtle movement of his mouth got me every time.
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Fuck yeah!!
T-Bob (?) was a dick too..
Bay could pull that shits foreskin back y'all! -
he doesnt slice or slash or cut anyone with them he just blocks lasers with them which is stupid.
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Sam Rockwell for Baxter Stockman.
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TURTLES - DOUG JONES. Voiced by Rist and Feldman. Nolan North played a MEAN Raph. And give James Arnold Taylor another shot at Leo.
CASEY - Jared Padalecki or Jensen Ackles
APRIL - Rachel Nichols
SHREDDER - Ken Watanabe
BAXTER STOCKMAN - Rockwell
SPLINTER - James Hong
KRANG - Paul Giamatti -
Just because Karate Kid realized it was the superior martial art, doesn't mean I need to see it in a turtles movie.
Jost talk to the guy they brought on Deadliest Warrior to represent samurai he kepts shooting an arrow through the eye of the gel torso's head. -
May 28, 2010 6:42:05 PM CDT
I nominate Jorge Garcia for the voice of Michaelangelo!
by royston lodge
Few are able to find the balance between dramatic and "dude". Garcia could pull it off without going over-the-top.
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He does awesome voice work
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I did it. I beast fucked her
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If you make a movie about "The Tick" and had the production level of TDK, it would be completely awesome. Patrick Warburton gotta eat, man!
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Shia?
The Bale?
Emil Hirsch? -
Take his KITT voice and put a TEENSY bit more humanity into it, and you'd have a great Donatello.
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Serious without sounding too stuffy.
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May 28, 2010 8:01:32 PM CDT
Jonah Hill could do Raphael's "pissed-off outcast" voice.
by royston lodge
There, now I just have to come up with a voice for Splinter.
Please, no Jackie Chan... -
I wanna hear Sam Jackson yell now.
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You know this to be true.
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He was a great Splinter in the CGI TMNT flick from 2007 (also Uncle Iroe on Avatar: The Last Airbender. A shame he didn't get to finish the series). The idea of Hurley as Donatello is rather funny, but what I *don't* want to see in a new Turtles flick is that "Pizza Dude...!" shit that was lame at the time and is HORRIBLY dated now.
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Seriously, guy in hockey mask kills the fuck out of horny stupid teenagers. That's what the series is. I have no idea how the remake is any better or any worse than the films that proceeded it. Yes, Nightmare on Elm street was uninspired with a lame makeup job, but Friday the 13th is not a great source to begin with.
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was made by Imagi and was shut down right after Astro Boy bombed.
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First Bay destroys transformers now this??? oh my childhood is gone forever.
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought the first Turtles movie was good. I watched it just a few weeks ago for the first time in years and was amazed at how well it's held up over the years. The puppetry used for the turtles was unbelievable, proof that physical props will always outdo anything done with cgi. With Bay and co. running this we can expect to see a bunch of special effects that will look cheesy 4 years after it comes out.
Best line from the original "Why can't I ever dream of Harrison Ford?" -
Was the shit When I was 7 I had everyone I could afford with the money I made sorting leeches.
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Alphabetically?
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This totally reminded me of the Turtles movie when I saw the picture. lol http://tinyurl.com/22l66ha
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... while running and laughing to the bank.
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...I'm now fantasizing about how good Henson's creature workshop would be able to do it today, considering the advances in robotics over the past twenty years (TMNT came out in 1990).
Splinter's mouth movements are, in hindsight, pretty rough.
Hell, look at how much the puppetry had improved for Babe. Babe was released in 1995, only five years after TMNT.
If The Hobbit falls through, ya think Guillermo Del Toro could be enticed to do a TMNT movie? -
...making music video clips - all his films suck.
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Go Ninja Go Ninja Go
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Even though there was alot of puppetry in babe, the mouth movements were CGI I believe
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These pimple ridden arse cheeks are full-to-bursting with puss, shit vomit and piss, every pathetic mindless attempt Bay and his team of felchers make at film is akin to each throbbing pimple exploding and covering the cinema screen in the most vile and repugnant concoction ever known. Bay and people like him are quite possibly the single biggest problem facing mankind and the earth today. What to do about Bay, and studios that embrace his type of yawn-inducing material, is a question that warrants asking in as much as it needs answering. Somebody kill theses people please!!!!
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