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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turns 25
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robot
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I remember begging my dad to take me to this movie the night it came out - he didn't want to but ultimately did.
I then saw it a 2nd time for my friends birthday, someone was selling plastic nunchucks outside the theater, we of course bought them and ran around the lot swinging them in the air and yelling turtle catch phrases.
My friends and I still quote the movie to this day:
"Bossa Nova! Chevy Nova?"
"Pizza dudes got 30 seconds" Followed missing your mouth with a toothpick and hitting your cheek.
I then saw it a 2nd time for my friends birthday, someone was selling plastic nunchucks outside the theater, we of course bought them and ran around the lot swinging them in the air and yelling turtle catch phrases.
My friends and I still quote the movie to this day:
"Bossa Nova! Chevy Nova?"
"Pizza dudes got 30 seconds" Followed missing your mouth with a toothpick and hitting your cheek.
Sectorseven
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Favorite scene is where the pizza guy delivers to a sewer grate and then bitches about not finding it.
Tizoc
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^Wise man say, forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for late pizza.
Please let us know how the video quality of them are please.
Please let us know how the video quality of them are please.
TheMagician
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The most underrated comic book movie IMO.
The atmosphere is great and the Shredder was a worthy villain.
The atmosphere is great and the Shredder was a worthy villain.
wat
I believe you are referring to the QTE Shredder that was this
Which, ironically enough, was 100x less effective than normal Shredder. Complete disappointment.
Watch the Nickelodeon cartoon. Now. Start from the beginning. Now. So good. I agree with everything you said, watch the current Nickelodeon version. So good.
Favorite scene is where the pizza guy delivers to a sewer grate and then bitches about not finding it.
That guy is the person who plays Michelangelo.
SonicMegaDrive
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I still love this movie. I remember quite well seeing it in the movie theater. It really is underrated as a comic book film. I'd probably put it up there with the best comic book films coming out today.
Oh, and I gave my little nephew a high five when he said he liked this one over the Michael Bay atrocity. Cowabunga, little dude!
Oh, and I gave my little nephew a high five when he said he liked this one over the Michael Bay atrocity. Cowabunga, little dude!
TMNT I & II unfortunately don't look so good. All three live action films are sharpened and filtered. Sadly of the three live action films the third one looks the best on Blu-ray. The CGI film looks pretty good. The US Warner Bros release is still worth picking up though because it doesn't look like there will be a better looking version in the nearby future.
The German region B locked releases of the three live action films look worse than the US Warner Bros release, but unlike the US release all three films have an audio commentary track.
Avoid the UK release of the three films at all cost. The trilogy set has all three films in 1080i50 with bad compression. The UK individual release of the first film is in 24p, but also suffers from bad compression.
MrCunningham
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I loved the original movie when I was a kid. I think I saw it more than once while it was at the local movie theatre.
It is definitely their best work at that point in time for sure. Though personally, my favorite piece of puppeteering that they did in a movie will always be Audry II from Little Shop of Horrors.
Apparently they didn't use any characters from the original animated series because of the way the character rights were distributed back then. New Line Cinemas only had the rights to use characters that were created for the 1984 comic book and didn't have access to the ones that were being used exclusively in the 1987 animated series.
But they did talk about using Bebop and Rocksteady in the sequel, which was something that Eastman and Laird vetoed. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were always more invested in the original comic book universe than the 1987 universe, so maybe they did try to push to keep the material as close to their original comic book as possible. Which it did for the most part. So many scenes from the 1990 movie were taken right out of the original comic series, Like Raphael meting Casey Jones, the farm thing , the battle in Aprils pawn shop or whatever, and the final fight on the roof.
Regular Shredder: Falls into the back of a garbage truck, gets crushed (which was Casey Jones doing... "Oops") and lives.
Super Shredder: Gets crushed by some wood planks and dies.
It makes perfect sense to me.
It is definitely their best work at that point in time for sure. Though personally, my favorite piece of puppeteering that they did in a movie will always be Audry II from Little Shop of Horrors.
Apparently they didn't use any characters from the original animated series because of the way the character rights were distributed back then. New Line Cinemas only had the rights to use characters that were created for the 1984 comic book and didn't have access to the ones that were being used exclusively in the 1987 animated series.
But they did talk about using Bebop and Rocksteady in the sequel, which was something that Eastman and Laird vetoed. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were always more invested in the original comic book universe than the 1987 universe, so maybe they did try to push to keep the material as close to their original comic book as possible. Which it did for the most part. So many scenes from the 1990 movie were taken right out of the original comic series, Like Raphael meting Casey Jones, the farm thing , the battle in Aprils pawn shop or whatever, and the final fight on the roof.
wat
I believe you are referring to the QTE Shredder that was this
Which, ironically enough, was 100x less effective than normal Shredder. Complete disappointment.
Regular Shredder: Falls into the back of a garbage truck, gets crushed (which was Casey Jones doing... "Oops") and lives.
Super Shredder: Gets crushed by some wood planks and dies.
It makes perfect sense to me.
Delta Assault
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Super Shredder never made any sense. Why would the mutagen mutate his clothing?
Kids are dumb, but not that dumb.
Kids are dumb, but not that dumb.
sixteen-bit
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I liked this movie when I was younger.
There's a Pizza Hut ad before the movie on the VHS tape lmao.
There's a Pizza Hut ad before the movie on the VHS tape lmao.
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The Real Abed
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It's on my list.
Bebop and Rocksteady would have been awesome. I loved their characters. They'd have been more entertaining than the childlike Tokka and Rhaza (sp?) we got.
Agreed! I love Little Shop (I even bought the soundtrack) and if you showed me that movie today I'd swear the plant was CGI. It's so damn good. The fluid animation of mouths and other body parts they were able to do back then without computer aid is mind-blowing. I was so happy when I learned they were using puppets in the Hitchhikers Guide movie 10 years ago too. (So sad we didn't get a second movie.)
The title is misleading. But it's not a big deal
The Real Abed
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The title did confuse me too but once I saw the photo in the OP I knew what it was referring to.
sixteen-bit
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Maybe that fellow behind the grimdark Power Rangers bootleg will take a stab at it.
I saw it in theatres, the first movie I ever saw opening night since I would not shut up about it from the day I heard about it. Loved every minute of it, I actually was somewhat familiar with the comics even back then as for some reason there was a TMNT trade paperback in the school library. As a kid I consumed all turtles-related media with a rabid passion but I liked the darker comic stuff a lot more. So the movie being kind of a combination of the comics and cartoon was right up my alley.
One thing though, I swear there was a scene in the version I saw in theatres that didn't make it to video. It was when the turtles were hiding out on the farm, as some kind of training exercise the other 3 turtles had to fight Leo. And Leo was blindfolded, I think he just turned his bandanna around or something. He kicked all their asses, and that's why he became my favorite turtle at the time. There's no way I'm just making this up because I remember it in vivid detail but I never saw it again outside of the theatre.
One thing though, I swear there was a scene in the version I saw in theatres that didn't make it to video. It was when the turtles were hiding out on the farm, as some kind of training exercise the other 3 turtles had to fight Leo. And Leo was blindfolded, I think he just turned his bandanna around or something. He kicked all their asses, and that's why he became my favorite turtle at the time. There's no way I'm just making this up because I remember it in vivid detail but I never saw it again outside of the theatre.
Delta Assault
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It is interesting how the TMNT fandom never came up with a designation to distinguish between the formats. Star Trek came up with TOS, Transformers has G1, Tim Burton's Batman movie is called Batman 89, etc. But TMNT never got any mark to differentiate between the comics, cartoon, and film.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Was that not in the VHS release... it definitely happened.
Raph was still my favorite, but that was a cool scene. I feel like that was in the video though.
pixelation
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The superior TMNT live action movie (The Secret of the Ooze being a close second).
youbastards
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Favorite scene is where the pizza guy delivers to a sewer grate and then bitches about not finding it.
Apparently Dominos still shows this scene in orientation videos for new hires.
Mikey is the best. He was kicking ass during the training scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AkIJobcu4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AkIJobcu4
MoonsaultSlayer
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So edgy. The movie was perfectly fine given the subject matter. (Didn't watch the linked video).
Twenty-five years, huh?
uhhh am I seeing the actors mouth inside? Freaky
Twenty-five years, huh?
tired old meme
MoonsaultSlayer
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Yep. The original movie is still great as is the 2014 movie. People crying about that but prefer the original series are delusional.
Fun Fact it is the last movie that Henson worked on personally before he died.
Also best Casey Jones to date still.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Was obsessed with this (and everything turtles) when younger... unfortunately didn't think it held up well in a recent rewatch though.
Not as bad as rewatching that Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie... *shudders*... but yeah it hasn't aged particularly well imo.
Not as bad as rewatching that Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie... *shudders*... but yeah it hasn't aged particularly well imo.
It's a meme now? Nahhh
Takamura-San
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Great movie, sadly it cannot compare/compete with the TMNT Anime. Best representation of the turtles.
MrCunningham
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This made me laugh:
Yup, and this Casey Jones is the template for all other versions of the character that followed. He was the only good part of Turtles III as well.
The movie also has the definitive version of Rafael as well. In the original cartoon series Raphael was nothing more than a sarcastic one note mouth piece for the writers, and he really didn't serve any other purpose as a character outside of that. This movie turned him into the angsty loner that he is much more commonly known as being.
MisterHero
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Off in the distance
the game's dragging on
there's strikes on the batter
some runners are on
And suddenly everyone's looking at me
my mind has been wonderin' "what it could be?"
they point to the sky
and I look above
and a baseball falls right into my gloove
I play right field
it's important to know
you gotta know how to catch
you gotta know how to throw
That's why I play in right field
way out where the dandelions grooooow
fuck that 2014 movie. The Nickelodeon movie COULD HAVE been better, they just don't have the vision for it.
the game's dragging on
there's strikes on the batter
some runners are on
And suddenly everyone's looking at me
my mind has been wonderin' "what it could be?"
they point to the sky
and I look above
and a baseball falls right into my gloove
I play right field
it's important to know
you gotta know how to catch
you gotta know how to throw
That's why I play in right field
way out where the dandelions grooooow
fuck that 2014 movie. The Nickelodeon movie COULD HAVE been better, they just don't have the vision for it.
mariachi507
Member
Off in the distance
the game's dragging on
there's strikes on the batter
some runners are on
And suddenly everyone's looking at me
my mind has been wonderin' "what it could be?"
they point to the sky
and I look above
and a baseball falls right into my gloove
I play right field
it's important to know
you gotta know how to catch
you gotta know how to throw
That's why I play in right field
way out where the dandelions grooooow
fuck that 2014 movie. The Nickelodeon movie COULD HAVE been better, they just don't have the vision for it.
This is the greatest post.
Edit: Didn't see the bottom part, I'm a big fan of the 2012 series.
Cow Mengde
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Still the best comic book movie to date.
it's a tired old dumb picture that gets posted in every goddamn tmnt thread
I'm not lying!
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