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http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/19/showbi...tml?hpt=hp_bn7
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to describe what an atrocity this will be. First, he destroys Transformers somewhat....now THIS? Uggg.... 
At the annual Nickelodeon upfront presentation last week, über-producer Michael Bay revealed details for Platinum Dunes' upcoming live-action "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie, including a new origin story for the half-shell heroes that is sure to raise the ire of diehard fans.
"When you see this movie, kids are going to believe one day these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie," said Bay as he took the stage to discuss his new vision for the reptilian reboot. "These turtles are from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable."
In the original mythology, four baby turtles fall into the sewer and come into contact with glowing radioactive ooze, which mutates them into four bad-ass warriors trained in ninjutsu by astute rodent Splinter. But could the rewriting of the Turtles' origin story dissuade some fans from embracing the newest incarnation? A comic book-to-movie adaptation's worst nightmare is bad pre-publicity, and Bay may have generated that in about 30 words.
On the flip side, it might seem outrageous to non-fans of the series that "Teenage Mutant Ninja" purists are offended by the new mythos of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo. Truth, we might sound a wee bit ridiculous when we cry out, "I can't believe Bay says they're aliens when they're obviously derived from radioactive slime!" But Bay is essentially erasing almost 30 years of love for transmogrified adolescent reptile ninjas by claiming each turtle is less of a fearsome, fighting toxic anomaly and more of a forest green E.T. with nunchucks. What would Shredder think!?
How does this new origin story make you feel? Are you a purist for the original backstory, or will you embrace Bay's vision? And who would you cast for this live-action TMNT reboot? Personally, I think Splinter's a toss-up between Morgan Freeman and Kate Upton.
"When you see this movie, kids are going to believe one day these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie," said Bay as he took the stage to discuss his new vision for the reptilian reboot. "These turtles are from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable."
In the original mythology, four baby turtles fall into the sewer and come into contact with glowing radioactive ooze, which mutates them into four bad-ass warriors trained in ninjutsu by astute rodent Splinter. But could the rewriting of the Turtles' origin story dissuade some fans from embracing the newest incarnation? A comic book-to-movie adaptation's worst nightmare is bad pre-publicity, and Bay may have generated that in about 30 words.
On the flip side, it might seem outrageous to non-fans of the series that "Teenage Mutant Ninja" purists are offended by the new mythos of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo. Truth, we might sound a wee bit ridiculous when we cry out, "I can't believe Bay says they're aliens when they're obviously derived from radioactive slime!" But Bay is essentially erasing almost 30 years of love for transmogrified adolescent reptile ninjas by claiming each turtle is less of a fearsome, fighting toxic anomaly and more of a forest green E.T. with nunchucks. What would Shredder think!?
How does this new origin story make you feel? Are you a purist for the original backstory, or will you embrace Bay's vision? And who would you cast for this live-action TMNT reboot? Personally, I think Splinter's a toss-up between Morgan Freeman and Kate Upton.
There isnt a big enough
to describe what an atrocity this will be. First, he destroys Transformers somewhat....now THIS? Uggg....
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i have lost all faith in hollywood-... i'm tired of just seeing nothing but crap! are they trying to get back @ us for downloading or something?
i seriously cannot think of the last good movie i saw-... sherlock holmes maybe?
it seems that one movie will start and era of the same crap over and over again (i guess we call this technology). i'm tired of watching fight scenes where everything is soo fast paced that i can't even see who's doing what-... not to mention, it's not even believable.
all we've been getting lately is remakes of timeless movies, and over the top c.g. crap.
and what is with the board game movies lately!?!?!?! leave jumanji out of this (it was a book/movie first then a game). did we seriously have a movie about rock em' sock em robots-...no, it was about how the robots came to be (hollywood stop doing that!). now there's battleship-... c'mon!
but coming this summer-... a small rural area deep in south america is attacked by savage a beast and an elite crew of specialists must skower the rain forest to stop this beast. armed w/ mulitple bits of technology crap that no one ever needs, this team of experts has what it takes to stop this vicious beast. what they weren't expecting is that they were out numbered-...
vin diesel "hurry we've gotta get out of here! there's more than one!"
gary busey "run! they're hippos and they're hungry!"
there you go hollywood! that one's for you. need more? gotcha covered. let's see how about the one where the man is in desperate need of a life saving procedure one that consists of removing the butterflies from his stomach, and the charlie horse from his leg-... better yet how did he get there? were the items surgicly implanted when he was a child?
has this been going on since we were kids? i found out the other day that fast and the furious is kinda a remake of a 1955 film.
i miss actors and actresses. i miss movie sets. i miss actual paper and pencil animation. i miss creativity. i miss originality. i miss real movie effects. i miss not having a sequal to everything. i miss not having a prequal to everything else. i miss black actors who didn't cross-dress. i miss parodies of movies that didn't suck in the first place. i miss movies about a badass character just being a badass character (i don't care about how they were brought up or whatever daddy issues they've been through). i miss when they didn't fu<k a classic plot just to make a new movie.
thanks for fu<king w/ another classic hollywood!
i seriously cannot think of the last good movie i saw-... sherlock holmes maybe?
it seems that one movie will start and era of the same crap over and over again (i guess we call this technology). i'm tired of watching fight scenes where everything is soo fast paced that i can't even see who's doing what-... not to mention, it's not even believable.
all we've been getting lately is remakes of timeless movies, and over the top c.g. crap.
and what is with the board game movies lately!?!?!?! leave jumanji out of this (it was a book/movie first then a game). did we seriously have a movie about rock em' sock em robots-...no, it was about how the robots came to be (hollywood stop doing that!). now there's battleship-... c'mon!
but coming this summer-... a small rural area deep in south america is attacked by savage a beast and an elite crew of specialists must skower the rain forest to stop this beast. armed w/ mulitple bits of technology crap that no one ever needs, this team of experts has what it takes to stop this vicious beast. what they weren't expecting is that they were out numbered-...
vin diesel "hurry we've gotta get out of here! there's more than one!"
gary busey "run! they're hippos and they're hungry!"
there you go hollywood! that one's for you. need more? gotcha covered. let's see how about the one where the man is in desperate need of a life saving procedure one that consists of removing the butterflies from his stomach, and the charlie horse from his leg-... better yet how did he get there? were the items surgicly implanted when he was a child?
has this been going on since we were kids? i found out the other day that fast and the furious is kinda a remake of a 1955 film.
i miss actors and actresses. i miss movie sets. i miss actual paper and pencil animation. i miss creativity. i miss originality. i miss real movie effects. i miss not having a sequal to everything. i miss not having a prequal to everything else. i miss black actors who didn't cross-dress. i miss parodies of movies that didn't suck in the first place. i miss movies about a badass character just being a badass character (i don't care about how they were brought up or whatever daddy issues they've been through). i miss when they didn't fu<k a classic plot just to make a new movie.
thanks for fu<king w/ another classic hollywood!
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Agree with your whole post 100% Steve. But this particular phrase made me
though. They've tried everything to get people to stop ripping off movies. They've tried legislation, fines, peer pressure, threats, technology, etc. Now the only thing left is to make a movie that's SO bad that NOBODY would want to see it, no less download it. I think they're on to something here! 
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Did you notice how they're bringing back old movies just to make them into 3D as well? First Titanic, and now Jurassic Park is coming back later this year in 3D...although seeing dinosaurs come off the screen may not be such a bad thing... 
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Jurassic park in 3D? Sorry to derail a little bit, but holy crap that would be the coolest thing in the world.
This is one of my favourite scenes, ever>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G73HXVrSyE
This is one of my favourite scenes, ever>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G73HXVrSyE