Bengals1181 Posted March 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 [quote name='PutWittyNameHere' timestamp='1332370075' post='1110097'] Rumors going around that Michael Bay is making a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie...except he's changing the story to make the turtles aliens instead of mutants. You can't make this stuff up.... [/quote] read that the other day. Think the outrage is a little over the top. Sure, it kind of screws with the "mutant" part of the title, but its not like them being aliens is any more outlandish than them being mutants, and its not like TMNT is such a great franchise that they're beyond their origin story being tweaked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PutWittyNameHere Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 [quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1332381769' post='1110173'] read that the other day. Think the outrage is a little over the top. Sure, it kind of screws with the "mutant" part of the title, but its not like them being aliens is any more outlandish than them being mutants, and its not like TMNT is such a great franchise that they're beyond their origin story being tweaked. [/quote] I dunno, I might have to disagree there. I'm not going to go as far as to say it was right there with Transformers and GI Joe, but I don't think it was that far off, either. I think most people (myself included), are a little more nostalgic about the early/mid 80's cartoons since that was kind of the golden era of action cartoons. But I remember TMNT being pretty huge. There was sort of dead space when Transformers and GI Joe started losing popularity, and TMNT came in and kind of took over. I honestly cant even remember what competition TMNT had. Power Rangers (puke) came in after TMNT was already past its prime. Other than that, you had some B-level cartoons like Captain Planet, Captain N, and maybe a few others, but no other action cartoons that rivaled TMNT, as far as I can remember. Look back on everything that the cartoon spawned. Two pretty major live-action films (plus one straight-to-video film), a whole bunch of mostly well-done video games (the infamous NES game which is probably the exception, the awesome Arcade cabinet game that was later released on NES and XBox Live), a sequal to that arcade game on NES (The Manhatten Project), and Turtles in Time for the SNES), a huge line of action figures that are still being produced, comic books (although the comic books came before the cartoon, and were much darker). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 [quote name='PutWittyNameHere' timestamp='1332387098' post='1110238'] I dunno, I might have to disagree there. I'm not going to go as far as to say it was right there with Transformers and GI Joe, but I don't think it was that far off, either. I think most people (myself included), are a little more nostalgic about the early/mid 80's cartoons since that was kind of the golden era of action cartoons. But I remember TMNT being pretty huge. There was sort of dead space when Transformers and GI Joe started losing popularity, and TMNT came in and kind of took over. I honestly cant even remember what competition TMNT had. Power Rangers (puke) came in after TMNT was already past its prime. Other than that, you had some B-level cartoons like Captain Planet, Captain N, and maybe a few others, but no other action cartoons that rivaled TMNT, as far as I can remember. Look back on everything that the cartoon spawned. Two pretty major live-action films (plus one straight-to-video film), a whole bunch of mostly well-done video games (the infamous NES game which is probably the exception, the awesome Arcade cabinet game that was later released on NES and XBox Live), a sequal to that arcade game on NES (The Manhatten Project), and Turtles in Time for the SNES), a huge line of action figures that are still being produced, comic books (although the comic books came before the cartoon, and were much darker). [/quote] the co-creator of TMNT calls it a potentially genius idea. [url="http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=56750"]http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=56750[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincyInDC Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 Everyone thought Leela was an alien, but it turned out she was a mutant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 [quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1332381769' post='1110173'] read that the other day. Think the outrage is a little over the top. Sure, it kind of screws with the "mutant" part of the title, but its not like them being aliens is any more outlandish than them being mutants, and its not like [color=#ff0000]TMNT is such a great franchise[/color] that they're beyond their origin story being tweaked. [/quote] bite your toungeMy tops Transformers GI Joe TMNT Thundercats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 [quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1332365683' post='1110046'] the actor's name or the character's real name? [/quote] Actor's name (she was in American Beauty as well back in 1999). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PutWittyNameHere Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 [quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1332388260' post='1110245'] the co-creator of TMNT calls it a potentially genius idea. [url="http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=56750"]http://www.comicbook...1/news/?a=56750[/url] [/quote] Yeah, if you read the updates below the article, the ask him if he was being sarcastic or genuine, and he responds with "Both, actually". From reading that whole article, I come away with the impression that he's open to the idea, but not terribly excited about it. I think this is the most important line in the story: [quote] [color=#262626][font=Calibri, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]It's possible that with enough truly creative brainpower applied to this idea, it might actually work. I'm not saying it's probable, or even somewhat likely… but it IS possible. [/font][/color] [/quote] I agree with that statement. It is "possible". But I think it's extremely unlikely with Bay at the helm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatorclaws Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='Go Skins' timestamp='1332352614' post='1109793'] I saw American Reunion on 3/20 (comes out 4/6). I thought it was funny and the humor was in the right parts. There are two cameos in it (and what I mean is, neither of them were in the prior movies). Mena Suvari looks really lousy as a blonde, I have no idea what she was thinking. What also made me laugh, which was a goof, was in two seperate scenes, "Oz" gets called by his real name. Stay through the credits. [/quote] We must have fairly different taste. It was funny in parts but really is a movie that doesn't need to exist. Kind of a waste of time even though I saw it free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Michael Bey needs to be punched in the penis on a daily basis by Uwe Boll... Who then needs to punch himself in the penis on a daily basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 so anyone have ideas for how on earth they are going to pull off the Hangover 3 well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelWeston Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1332381769' post='1110173'] read that the other day. Think the outrage is a little over the top. Sure, it kind of screws with the "mutant" part of the title, but its not like them being aliens is any more outlandish than them being mutants, and its not like TMNT is such a great franchise that they're beyond their origin story being tweaked. [/quote] TMNT is a pretty huge franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='MichaelWeston' timestamp='1332512521' post='1110910'] TMNT is a pretty huge franchise. [/quote] still, its not like he's re-inventing the origin story of Superman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='gatorclaws' timestamp='1332469183' post='1110755'] We must have fairly different taste. It was funny in parts but really is a movie that doesn't need to exist. Kind of a waste of time even though I saw it free. [/quote] More often than not, people don't agree with me on movies. I wasn't blown by this by any means but I was entertained. One of my female friends saw it last night in DC and enjoyed it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 wow, The Hunger Games had already broken pre-sale records, and its being reported that they took in "north of $25 million" in midnight screenings this morning. Analysts expect it will break the record for a March opening weekend by Alice in Wonderland ($116 million) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValleyBengal Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 For me, every movie until this comes out will be ho-hum: [url="http://www.darktowermovies.com/20120314/warner-bros-to-back-dark-tower-movie/#more-540"]http://www.darktowermovies.com/20120314/warner-bros-to-back-dark-tower-movie/#more-540[/url]. [b] Warner Bros to back The Dark Tower movie[/b] by Mike on March 14, 2012 in [url="http://www.darktowermovies.com/category/news/"]General News[/url] [img]http://www.darktowermovies.com/images/warnerbros-logo.png[/img] After several months lost in the wilderness we finally have another studio showing interest in adapting Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic Western; The Dark Tower. Mike Flemming is [url="http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/stephen-kings-the-dark-tower-wjavier-bardem/"]reporting[/url] that Warner Bros are in talks – in fact very close to closing a deal – with director Ron Howard and partners, to fund their adaptation of this epic fantasy. If you remember, Universal Pictures originally took up the option to back Howard on this hugely ambitious project with Akiva Goldsman writing the script for a full movie trilogy, plus a couple of TV series. But, last spring Universal put the whole thing on hold asking Goldsman to drastically cut the budget until two months later, in July 2011, [url="http://www.darktowermovies.com/20110720/universal-quits-the-dark-tower/"]Universal walked away[/url] after deciding they still couldn’t handle the cost of making such a project. That Warner has taken an interest in this shouldn’t be such a surprise when we recall that just a few months back Brian Grazer was interviewed by MTV News stating that the TV segment of the project would be taken up by critically acclaimed studio HBO ([i]Game of Thrones[/i], [i]Band of Brothers[/i]). As HBO is a Warner Bros sister studio, this indeed bodes well for Dark Tower fans. Warner Bros themselves are no strangers to mega multi-part movies having backed projects such as [i]Harry Potter[/i] and the [i]Matrix[/i], so they’re certainly going to have the willingness and resources to back something as grand as The Dark Tower. For now, everything that was in place previously is set to remain; Howard, Grazer and Goldsman, with Mark Verheiden ([i]Battlestar Galactica[/i]) being brought in to co-write the TV series, and [url="http://www.darktowermovies.com/20110408/javier-bardem-gunslinger-deal-almost-done/"]Javier Bardem in the lead role[/url] of Roland Deschain. A possible production start date is Q1 2013. It’s great to see a studio of Warner’s stature take an interest in the Dark Tower. With their recent big-budget movies and HBO’s quality track record I’m really getting excited by this news. This saga has been on-going for several years now; [url="http://www.darktowermovies.com/20070301/king-announces-dark-tower-movie/"]J.J.Abrams was first on the scene[/url] way back in 2007 when he famously bought the movie rights for $19, and yet each time we’ve been left disappointed. Still, summer is just around the corner and I’m getting lots of positive vibes, so I’m going to put my neck out and say I think this could be it; the Dark Tower will be a Warner Bros movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelWeston Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1332512886' post='1110913'] still, its not like he's re-inventing the origin story of Superman. [/quote] Now they are not mutant they are aliens. It would be as if spiderman got bit by a bat and became spiderman. I think its fitting that he is reworking the Turltes because he is a TAINT Teenage alien invader ninja turltes.....(there has to be a better I) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Skins Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1332522047' post='1111015'] wow, The Hunger Games had already broken pre-sale records, and its being reported that they took in "north of $25 million" in midnight screenings this morning. Analysts expect it will break the record for a March opening weekend by Alice in Wonderland ($116 million) [/quote] Ended up being about 19.6 mil off the midnights. Not bad at all, considering school is in session and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 saw Hunger Games today. Great movie, excellently acted. Might end up getting an oscar nod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 [color=#2A3435][font=Georgia, Times,]The industry seers [/font][/color][url="http://www.movieline.com/2012/03/21/report-hunger-games-could-hit-140-million-opening-weekend/"]pretty much nailed it[/url][color=#2A3435][font=Georgia, Times,]: "[/font][/color][i]The Hunger Games[/i][color=#2A3435][font=Georgia, Times,] opened with $68.25M grosses for Friday’s North American box office, including $19.75M in record-setting midnights. That should make for a first weekend of $140M with upside. This is the highest non-sequel opening weekend ever, and the highest debut single day for a non-sequel ever, and the highest March opening ever, and the 5th highest opening day ever." Read Nikki Finke's full report at our sister site [/font][/color][url="http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/hunger-games-scores-huge-1-8m-in-australia/"]Deadline[/url][color=#2A3435][font=Georgia, Times,].[/font][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 looks like Hunger Games is going to finish the weekend around $155 million (did $119 million friday and saturday), and a total of $215 million worldwide on its opening weekend. Third highest 3-day opening ever. the other 9 movies currently out in the top ten did a projected total of $49.5 million [b]combined[/b] this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 [b] [url="http://storyboardcomics.blogspot.ca/2012/03/this-is-what-i-expect-michael-bays.html"]This is what I expect Michael Bay's "Ninja Turtle" movie storyboards are going be like[/url][/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewdog Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 [quote name='Jamie_B' timestamp='1332708286' post='1111942'] [b] [url="http://storyboardcomics.blogspot.ca/2012/03/this-is-what-i-expect-michael-bays.html"]This is what I expect Michael Bay's "Ninja Turtle" movie storyboards are going be like[/url][/b] [/quote] Soon they will be the Adolescent Alien Samurai Salamanders. WTF is this world coming to when a director can't even do a re-make right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 [quote name='Lewdog' timestamp='1332709533' post='1111958'] Soon they will be the Adolescent Alien Samurai Salamanders. WTF is this world coming to when a director can't even do a re-make right? [/quote] rarely is a remake done the same way. If it was, there'd be no point in doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 [quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1332712986' post='1111994'] rarely is a remake done the same way. If it was, there'd be [b]no point in doing it[/b]. [/quote] That's very often the case yet they still insist on doing so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 also, while I think its the same trailer as the one posted in here, the trailer for the new spiderman movie looks bad-ass on the big screen. It's going to be a surprise summer hit IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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