Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Franchise

[Silver Nemesis]

Megan Fox is playing April O'Neil.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/22/megan-fox-joining-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles

It's like Transformers all over again. 

[The Dark Knight]

Ugh. They could have picked anyone and they chose her. Look, there's Megan Fox. Not a fan.

[thecolorsblend]

I try not to get personal about celebrities (ie, total strangers to me) unless they get personal first. And she has. So she can go piss up a rope as far as I'm concerned.

[Batman88]

I grew up on the Ninja Turtles cartoon and the movies. Now , they're f***in the legacy up.

[Azrael]

Yes... and you can't choose to ignore his movies because they print money. At least Uwe Boll's are DTV fare and largely based on IPs from the 00s.

[The Joker]

Looks like it's shaping up for the 1990 film to assuredly still remain the definitive TMNT movie for some time to come.

[Bobthegoon89]

The 1990 film will ALWAYS be the definitive Turtles movie. When I heard their still going to be using CGI to animate the Turtles I quickly lost interest in my whole excitement. I'll take actors in suits any day. CGI is never believable. There's something that remains so exciting to me to this day, and it's so stupid, of seeing real "flesh n blood" Turtles brought to life by a Jim Henson workshop than any cartoon or visual effects house. I imagine it would be so for newer fans today but unfortunately their denied that magic we had in the nineties by having Pixar related visuals that we've all seen to death.

And then I heard this news....oh dear. The original actress for April O' Neil was fine. Not completely like the cartoon but close enough. Megan Fox on the other hand is a sheer contrast in every sense of the phrase. I wish directors would experiment more with new collegues and not just rely on tried and tested people from their previous movies.

[Silver Nemesis]

Judith Hoag was my favourite April. And the practical effects work on the Turtles themselves was some of the best I've ever seen. It still holds up today. All in all, the 1990 movie was one of the defining movie experiences of my childhood.

I'm actually working on a comic-to-movie analysis of it right now, in case anyone's interested. I'll try and get it posted sometime in the next few weeks.

[thecolorsblend]

Judith Hoag was my favourite April.

Ditto, good sir.

And the practical effects work on the Turtles themselves was some of the best I've ever seen. It still holds up today. All in all, the 1990 movie was one of the defining movie experiences of my childhood.

In general, I think it would be fair to say that the 1990 movie straddled the tone of the cartoon show and the story of the comics. And maybe that's my beef with it. I loved it as a kid and have fond memories of it but it hasn't held up well for me. The dancing, the jokes, the occasional slap-sticky fight choreography, it just detracts from what the movie could've been. I liked that the movie was a little darker than the cartoon (which abandoned the relative seriousness it had going after, what, five or six episodes?) but now it just bothers me. The chuck-off between Mike and the Foot soldier is amusing but the nonstop jokes during what was supposed to be a life or death battle... ugh, it just grates on me now. If you guys all dig on it, more power to you, but it's hard for me to sit through now.

I'm actually working on a comic-to-movie analysis of it right now, in case anyone's interested. I'll try and get it posted sometime in the next few weeks.

Couldn't help too much with specifics but as far as the general story goes, I do know that there are similarities in the plot. The movie definitely has a fair amount in common with the Mirage comic. The plot point of the Turtles meeting the Foot, getting the crap beaten out of them and then leaving NY for a while happened in the comics. Too much more than that is above my paygrade but, hey, if you didn't know... well, now you do. I just hope I'm right or I'll feel real silly later on.

[The Joker]

I'm actually working on a comic-to-movie analysis of it right now, in case anyone's interested. I'll try and get it posted sometime in the next few weeks.

Count me in as interested, and looking forward to reading that.