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I liked the first Expendables, I'm sure I'll love the sequel. Having said that, I would love to see someone sleeping before Terry goes off with the AA-12 near the end of the film. That would wake their *****ass up. :wink1:

Anyway, the generations growing up right now, the ones getting cell phones at 8 and facebook pages at 12, or earlier, are the ones that are in for some serious trouble... and as such, so are we. The world is already moving at too fast a pace as it is and now I fear time will pass too fast and before I know it, I'm old and dying. I'd rather not be rushed to my grave, if I can help it.
 
Before I die I just want to make sweet love to the stay puff marshmellow man. That would be a dream come true. Lmao
 
DarthBakura said:
I liked the first Expendables, I'm sure I'll love the sequel. Having said that, I would love to see someone sleeping before Terry goes off with the AA-12 near the end of the film. That would wake their *****ass up. :wink1:

Anyway, the generations growing up right now, the ones getting cell phones at 8 and facebook pages at 12, or earlier, are the ones that are in for some serious trouble... and as such, so are we. The world is already moving at too fast a pace as it is and now I fear time will pass too fast and before I know it, I'm old and dying. I'd rather not be rushed to my grave, if I can help it.
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The first one is pretty boring. The second is everything made better.
 
EXCLUSIVE: Review Of Bay’s Failed ‘Ninja Turtles’ (Now With Bay’s Response)

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Latino Review said:
First question: Did Michael Bay just neglect to make a Shredder pun while addressing his ‘Ninja Turtles’ fiasco? It would have been soooooo easy.

Second question: Does Michael Bay think February was a “long time ago?” The script that was illegally leaked online and widely reviewed had a 1/30/12 date, which would seem like almost 2 years after Bay and Platinum Dunes were attached to the project in LATE MAY 2010.

And who better to help lay the blame on Bay than Peter Laird, one of the Turtle’s creators:


I think the script that I read is so fundamentally flawed, and — more to the point — so NOT a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, that trying to make piecemeal changes to it in an effort to make it into something halfway decent is probably a fool’s errand.

In my opinion, the thing should just be tossed out, deliberately forgotten, and the process of generating a new script really a new outline, then treatment, then script — should be started again. I have no insider knowledge of what’s going on with the movie, but from the bits and pieces that have slipped out, it seems like that may be exactly what is happening.

While we’re on the subject of this script… I have to say that while reading it, and especially reading the last twenty pages or so, I couldn’t help but think of the brouhaha which erupted a few months back when Michael Bay was heard to say that in the upcoming movie, the Turtles would be revealed to be “from an alien race”, and following that, all the mental gymnastics indulged in by people who wanted to parse his words and make it seem like “No, he didn’t REALLY say they were going to be ALIENS!”… and then this script makes it way out onto the Internet, and if it is legitimate, it’s painfully clear that YES, the Turtles WERE, in fact, going to be ALIENS.



Don’t let Bay off the hook, guys. Even if this wasn’t the script he was executing, he’s still asking you to trust him when it’s fairly obvious we can’t.

While we’re on the positivity of the fandom side, I got a really nice e-mail forwarded on to me yesterday:


Hey man, I just thought I’d throw a little positivity on the TMNT out there.

We’re just going into post-production on the definitive history of the TMNT and it’s looking awesome.

Check out a teaser and some behind the scenes stuff at www.turtledoc.com and enjoy a happy Turtle story in all the gloom.

Cheers,

rl

I watched all the videos. Can’t wait to check that out, especially the voice actors and the revelation that Michael Ian Black might have spent the most time in a Turtle costume of all actors to ever portray them. Neat!

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UPDATE #1: I know the script was out there before it got cease-and-desisted, so this is now being used as a rally point for the stupidity of the movie. As such, I thought I’d stop by and add some TMNT bonus materials as this conversation continues.

Commenter MIXTER posted a link to a Leo sculpt he did inspired by the new movie (before he heard it was this bad, I’m guessing):

‘The Blue Door’ seemed like it was dependent on a new Turtles design that made their entire body shapes different. Raph has linebacker shoulders and Leo is smaller and leaner.

Jorge Luis Castilla Jr points out that there’s a Boycott Michael Bay’s Ninja Turtles Facebook page.

Commenter BuckD4wg says: “You know what, I actually thought it sounded half decent. Sure, the inter dimensional side might be a tough pill for many to swallow, but anyone familiar with turtle lore knows how far-fetched some of the previous story lines have been.”

And here’s the thing – I totally get it. I’m not a huge fan of the non-canonical Volume 3 comics run (Cyborg Donatello, etc), but I know that the Turtles can be stupid. They were kind of made that way. Laird and Eastman created them to be a spoof of a few 80s comics that were popular at the time, so they were gritty like Frank Miller’s ‘Ronin’ and the name Splinter came from Daredevil’s master Stick (a literal chip off the ol’ block). Turtles have always been a little stupid, but they’ve had a certain degree of logic to that stupidity.

One of my favorite Turtle projects in existence is 2009′s ‘Turtles Forever’ direct-to-TV movie where the 2003 animated Turtles cross over with the 1988 animated Turtles and eventually they all meet the “prime” Mirage Comics Turtles. It deals with three different iterations of these characters interacting with each other in fun ways and it’s the second most enjoyable Turtles movie (the first movie will always be the purest translation from comics to film, we’ll never get closer).
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CelticPredator said:
Damn right.

I'd also make him cancel Family Guy. He has the power. :lol
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that's a good idea, lol,

If I could talk to Michael Bay I would beg him to do a Power Rangers movie,
the subject is stupid enough and he would make an amazing movie, it would truly be amazing :thud:
 
Not enuff massive explosions, transforming female robots or turtle highway chase scenes in that last script.
 

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