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Michael Bay changes title to TMNT movie

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tci said:
I fail to see how it is any different than some "goo" transforming them into what they are. And I have been a fan since my childhood.
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The main problem I could foresee, even if Bay and his crew were at all competent?

Even with all of the various permutations that exist in the TMNT "meta-verse", they've always had the same origin story, they've always been fighting Shredder and the Foot Clan, they've always lived in New York, etc. Nice thing about that? You could pretty much jump to any one entrant in the TMNT series, and barring a few things that an individual series might do differently from its predecessor or equivalent in another medium, you'd still have a good idea what's going on and what to expect.

But now, you've basically got a movie that stands to go completely to the beat of its own drum, all while a comic book series and ESPECIALLY a new cartoon series on Nickelodeon do more to adhere to the "status quo". Where's the solidarity amongst your "brand", as it were?

This would be like if the upcoming "Amazing Spiderman" went and did its own thing separate from how the character is presented in other media, all while one would think Marvel would want the movie to be a nice advertising vehicle for Spiderman comics and cartoon series. I would think you would undermine that much already, if you can't even get an origin story consistent across different forms of media being presented.
 
JumpingTheGun said:
I just want it to capture the darkness that was the original TMNT movie from 88 or 89, but alas I'm sure it wont happen.
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You mean 90 :P

G-Fex said:
How dare you, Secret of the Ooze is a classic, it's that CGI film that sucks.
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Secret of the Ooze... classic? HAH!

Though I guess it has merits of putting them 80's fans in their place when Laird (or was it Eastman?) said NO BEBOP NO ROCKSTEADY
 
Ookami-kun said:
You mean 90 :P



Secret of the Ooze... classic? HAH!

Though I guess it has merits of putting them 80's fans in their place when Laird (or was it Eastman?) said NO BEBOP NO ROCKSTEADY
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Yes, Tokka and Razor don't have sexy abs and nipples to persuade you otherwise, but they're pretty great in the movie.

The movie is fun and entertaining, a more light hearted sequel but a sequel I love none the less.
 
make them more bad ass looking, like the Jim Lee designs and go back to when they all had red eye masks and i'm good.

i always hated the colored eye band things. i know its for little kids so they can tell them apart but c'mon, they ain't Power "Rangers".......they "ninjas"....bad ass turtle ninjas.
 
Part of the awesomeness was calling them Teenaged Mutants, this is just weird now.
 
Ookami-kun said:
Turtles have interacted with aliens, yes.

The turtles themselves as aliens? No. Regardless of media or title, the turtles have always been experimental, regular turtles that became anthropomorphic.

Also why are people up and arms about the CGI film? While it's no first movie it's better than the second or third.
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I enjoyed the CG movie. Sure, the monsters were kind of crappy, but at least there was a firm understanding of the franchise. You could tell it was made by people who love the Turtles, where this movie will be made by people who took a passing glance at some action figures and decided to make a movie around them.

The more I think about this movie, the sadder I get...

April is screwed from the get-go. I couldn't stand the characterization of any female characters from the Transformers movies. They were basically degraded into mounds of grinding, writhing flesh with giant protruding lips that constantly hung open like they were weighted down by the massive amounts of collagen. It got to a point where they weren't sexy at all. There was almost a psychological conditioning to hate them because the only enjoyable thing about the movies were the scenes of robots killing each other and the only time that wasn't happening was when Bay stopped to circle around one of his bimbos in slow motion with her jaw hanging open like a moray eel.
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It sucks that that's what April will be reduced to.

Then there's the matter of action. While Bay's influence may be strong throughout, he's not directing this movie. That's not to say that I'm hugely disappointed that he's not in charge, but compared to what Liebesman's put forth so far, he's Stanley Kubrick. While in the past, the Turtles have been nerfed by being confined to clumsy Henson suits, or being in a kid-friendly universe, this movie would offer them an opportunity to have full fluidity of movement and throw punches a little harder in a PG-13 world. Liebesman's direction of Battle: LA and what I've seen of WotT is clunky, shaky, and confined. Shaky cam just isn't going to work for ninja action.

I could go on and on... and I may later.
 
Lionel brings up a good point every other person is forgetting, Bay ISNT Directing this.

This doofus from Wrath of the Titans and Battle: LA is, and I haven't a clue if his directing is garbage or not.
 
Yeah, all the people are up in arms about Bay's name being on this should've been up in arms about Speilberg's name being on all the Transformers movies.

BattleMonkey said:
According to Bay, he had nothing to do with this, and that it was Paramount's decision to change the name of the movie.
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It's mostly due to marketing. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is too long.
 
Hero said:
Yeah, all the people are up in arms about Bay's name being on this should've been up in arms about Speilberg's name being on all the Transformers movies.



It's mostly due to marketing. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is too long.
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that is a short title, lots of movies have long titles, Master and Commander to name 1
 
Amalthea said:
Then why not shorten it to Turt?
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You ask me like I have anything to do with this movie.

Black-Box said:
that is a short title, lots of movies have long titles, Master and Commander to name 1
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This is marketing basics. You want something short and catchy. Apple, Google, Yahoo, Coca Cola, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo for companies. Movies? Avatar, Batman, Harry Potter, Transformers, Spiderman, Avengers, Titanic, etc. Short and sweet. If you need more then you have a subtitle like The Dark Knight, Deathly Hollows, whatever. The point is people will be like "Did you see the new Batman movie?" Especially at something aimed at kids the less they have to say or remember, the better.
 
Keyser Soze said:
They cannot be Mutant if they are Aliens

They cannot be Teenage, because Aliens do not share the same ageing system of Earth

However, they are still Turtles, even though they are Aliens

And they can learn Ninjutsu, even though it originated in Japan, and they are Aliens
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What if they land as aliens, but then mutate?
 
I didn't have any problem with the CG movie other than the fact that it felt like watching a semi-decent yet forgettable Saturday morning cartoon for kids. I suppose that beats TMNT III, which felt like watching a really unfunny dopey comedy.
 
Personally I dig the whole TAINT name.

Teenage Alien Invader Ninja Turtles.

I know a few people that would go check out a movie called TAINT.
 
SonicMegaDrive said:
I didn't have any problem with the CG movie other than the fact that it felt like watching a semi-decent yet forgettable Saturday morning cartoon for kids. I suppose that beats TMNT III, which felt like watching a really unfunny dopey comedy.
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The only good thing about TMNT III was Splinter's 'I made a funny, HAHAHA' at the end of the movie. Otherwise it was a completely awful movie.
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
April is screwed from the get-go. I couldn't stand the characterization of any female characters from the Transformers movies. They were basically degraded into mounds of grinding, writhing flesh with giant protruding lips that constantly hung open like they were weighted down by the massive amounts of collagen. It got to a point where they weren't sexy at all. There was almost a psychological conditioning to hate them because the only enjoyable thing about the movies were the scenes of robots killing each other and the only time that wasn't happening was when Bay stopped to circle around one of his bimbos in slow motion with her jaw hanging open like a moray eel.
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