Micheal, I trusted you with Transformers. I trust you with this.
lololol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Here's the thing. I don't get it when "creatives" take any property with an existing fanbase and make a project with alterations sufficient to a) piss off said fanbase and b) make one wonder why the "creatives" didn't just create their own, completely different thing. Like, I don't get it from a business standpoint, even. If you're banking on brand recognition, why make the brand less recognizable than necessary?
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess Transformers is as good a response to my bafflement as any. "Fuck the fanbase: fans of shitty blockbusters are drawn to spectacle, not adherence to pre-existing continuity."
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
wonder if he is furiously cgi-ing turtles into this footage
― bnw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
But who cares enough abt TMNT to get mad?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Again, though (debating myself here): if Bay had just made a big, dumb movie about random robots fighting, people probably still would've swarmed to see it, and the studio wouldn't have owed a dime to the Transformers rights-holders.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
You'd probably be surprised, VG.
It seems from personal exp that TMNT was a p big deal for people 5 or so years younger than me
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost
I will cop to liking the cartoon and the movie in early high school....but I also wanted to marry Rikki Rockett and wore neon everything so things change.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
ans: THE INTERNET
http://www.themarysue.com/michael-bay-teenage-alien-ninja-turtles/http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/mar/19/michael-bay-ninja-turtles-alienshttp://www.tmz.com/2012/03/20/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-michael-bay-michaelangelo-sodomizing/#.T2ic6GKXS0Q
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
great urls of our times
― goole, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was a dumb rhetorical question.
...ironically posed by someone who is an almost daily contributor to the IA thread,lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Michael Bay is gonna regret those comments when he opens the door to these two
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm choosing to believe bay has only ever seen that internet porn cartoon ripoff, has no idea it was an afterschool show with toys etc
― goole, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had a LOT of the toys as a kid. One of my friends had the blimp though the bastard
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
My little brother had all the toys. AND the van. :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Um, it wasn't just a van, it was a PARTY WAGON.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
coolest one was Krang in his little walker thing
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm ok w/ the turtles being aliens as long as there is a 1/1 pizza/explosions ratio
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost yeah I liked the Krang action figure
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
so weird in hindsight that the two stooges were called bebop and rocksteady
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I completely blocked that from my mind until that photo upthread surfaced
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
- remember how aweseome Casey Jones was in the movie? I had such a crush on him
I vividly recall a friend introducing me to the (second-gen, kiddie friendly) TMNT comics.He basically turned into Milhouse. "It's great -- these turtles are really kickass at ninja-fighting and they have a mentor who's a rat and they eat pizza ALL THE TIME!"
Why on earth was April O'Neil's always dressed in a yellow jumpsuit anyways? Wasn't she a journalist?(Uh, oh my -- image-googlers be warned: turns out there's a pornographer by that name. Not to mention that a lot of people apparently have felt the urge to draw her being banged by the teenage mutant herpes turtles)
― Øystein, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think April wore that cos she was so sexy they had to put her in the least flattering costume ever. And she was still bangin'.
I discovered TMNT one day in Elementary school when some kid had a bunch of action figures. The first two movies are really fun to watch. The first one, in particular, is pretty dark and gritty. The cartoon was a staple of my Sat. mornings and the arcade games are some of the coolest licensed games ever.
The CGI movie was pretty fun, good times. Don't understand why they are going live action rather than CGI cos frankly you can't top the turtles from the first movie.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also someone who think Bay is sodomizing the franchise must not be aware of "Ninja Rap", the third film, the TV show with the lady ninja turtle, or the Coming Out Of Their Shells musical tour.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
One other point about the upcoming movie: the OG creators were never sticklers about cross-media (or even cross-book) continuity. Like, there are easily a half dozen variants of the origin story, for example. But none of those veered as far afield as Bay's proposed vision.
Also, for those who didn't know, the TMNT are owned by Nickelodeon now, not Eastman & Laird. Which may go some way towards explaining why (wrt this particular instance, anyway) Bay just don't give a fuck.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
People crying about the Bay-ificsation of TMNT have apparently forgotten about this abomination...
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
XP there.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Crimes against humanity.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ninja Turtles, cartoon on, was never a high-quality piece of thoughtful entertainment (I never read the original comics of it). It's really irritating to me that kids are being marketed the same things their parents were 20-30 years ago. Maybe this trend's gone on for a long time but I never noticed it. Today's children need their own pile of singular inane, commercialized shit to cherish.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I pretty much deny all knowledge of the turtles after the first movie
and even the live turtles in the first movie were a liiiiiiiiiiittle creepy
more fun as a cartoon imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
― terrible rappin' barney rubble sounding thing (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
the comic was great once eastman and laird quit. some very interesting zulli and veitch work.
― terrible rappin' barney rubble sounding thing (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
BTW, Michael Zulli's three-issue run on TMNT in 1991 is the benchmark of the whole series...
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
More Zulli art here: http://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/michael-zullis-ninja-turtles/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&&v=AlfjNTqbFLA
― terrible rappin' barney rubble sounding thing (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ second after the Mark Martin ones
never realised this cover was by Totleben iirc
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was a total tmnt nerd as a kid btwLOVED mark martin tmnt
― terrible rappin' barney rubble sounding thing (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like the bay movie is likely to skew toward the zulli look
― terrible rappin' barney rubble sounding thing (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
and that zulli will see zero money
whether or not there's any validity to the complaints, can't we all at least agree that professional grief being heaped upon michael bay is net gain for humanity?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
calm yourself veg girl
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh hai casey jones
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
anything that causes michael bay pain is a win for america, yes
― terrible rappin' barney rubble sounding thing (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
TMNT FANS, RISE UP, TAKE TO THE STREETS, OCCUPY MICHAEL BAY
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
pizzas.
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 30 April 2012 23:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, pizzas are too cheesy. They're going to be eating something more grounded.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 April 2012 23:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
falafel?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 April 2012 23:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Raw milk
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
twitter campaign to get donald glover cast as donatello
http://perezhilton.com/2012-05-02-donald-glover-for-donatello#.T6GbmlIrqSo
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost to is this racist
― The world is your urinal. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
looooool
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
You had a cameo in the second Ninja Turtles film in the '90s. Would you consider appearing on the soundtrack for Michael Bay's Turtles reboot?
I hope so. I don't have anything in writing, but you never know (lifts his pant leg to reveal a Ninja Turtles tattoo). I'm a Turtle fan.
http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3561812
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Vanilla Ice offers no cold judgements
― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
just testing this font
― PSOD (Ste), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn
Lol
― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Hollywood Reporter has broken word that the upcoming, live action, big screen reboot of the popular characters has been shut down, with Paramount pulling the plug and laying off the Vancouver based staff who had already been hard at work on pre-production. At issue, apparently, is a script that the studio had no confidence in.
― polyphonic, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
re: that Vanilla Ice cameo in that second movie
In middle school, some sort of schoolyard fight broke (though I don't recall it getting too violent -- may have just been an intense showdown) and I led a chant of "Go Ninja, go Ninja, Go!" that caught on with the group that was circled around watching the fight.
― Cunga, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
r.i.p. alien turtles
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
they should have wes anderson do a reboot faithful to the comic book's origin story
anderson is holding out for directing a "Peanuts" movie but first he's gotta prove he has the chops to direct comic books movies.
― Cunga, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Cunga, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
The more worrying thing is the idea that for all other Michael Bay films, there was a script that the studio did have confidence in....
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
that thought did cross my mind
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
My guess is there just weren't as many marketing tie-ins available for the premise
― Nhex, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
Bay prob didn't articulate that you can tell the turtles apart by which color headbands its wearing, thus children will, indeed, need to buy four different turtle toys at every opportunity
― Cunga, Saturday, 16 June 2012 19:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
ha... well, I mean in comparison to say, the car stuff in Transformers or Bad Boys, much better sponsorships than Hasbro
― Nhex, Saturday, 16 June 2012 19:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
True, although the piazza sponsorship deal could be huge. Ive dedicated my diet to pizza probably because of the turtles.
― Cunga, Saturday, 16 June 2012 21:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
Piazza sponsorship to say nothing of the piazza deal.
Mike Piazza IS Casey Jones
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 16 June 2012 21:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor probably best known for his role as "Head Thug" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the motion picture (1990)
Lol Wikipedia
― le hague, Sunday, 17 June 2012 07:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
bless them
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 June 2012 07:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.slashfilm.com/krang-bebop-rocksteady-featured-ninja-turtles/
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 21:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
Latino Review’s El Mayimbe got his hands on the script by Kevin Eastman and Andre Nemec
Reading a script called THE BLUE DOOR by Nemec & Applebaum.
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Thursday, 12 July 2012 00:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://www.themarysue.com/ninja-turtles-cast/
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
Shiamania is truly over
― abanana, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://natmonitor.com/2013/04/03/will-arnett-megan-fox-join-cast-of-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/
p lol after the megan fox/michael bay kerfuffle on transformers
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
she tepidly apologized iirc which, lol
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 April 2013 14:08 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
sorry, transformers 4 has been cast already... but are you familiar with april o'neil?
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 25 April 2013 15:01 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
'i don't do that kind of movie, michael'
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 April 2013 15:37 (4 weeks ago) Permalink