Apparently the Turtles are aliens. And it'll be called Ninja Turtles.

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What did I ever do to Michael Bay were he feels this need to destroy everything in my childhood that I enjoyed?

I don't buy this even if Michael Bay said something idiotic in an interview.  Peter Laird would never approve something so stupid.  This isn't like Transformers, which is owned by a corporation.  A person with a brain in their head actually owns the rights to the franchise.

Peter Laird sold the TMNT franchise lock, stock and barrel to Viacom not too long ago. 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/21/idUS136562+21-Oct-2009+PRN20091021

Quote from: Ghidra on March 19, 2012, 07:34:38 AM

I don't buy this even if Michael Bay said something idiotic in an interview.  Peter Laird would never approve something so stupid.  This isn't like Transformers, which is owned by a corporation.  A person with a brain in their head actually owns the rights to the franchise.

Peter Laird sold the TMNT franchise lock, stock and barrel to Viacom not too long ago. 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/21/idUS136562+21-Oct-2009+PRN20091021

Ugh, Je*** Ch****.  Well, that explains why this is happening.  Laird would have not approved making the Turtles into freaking aliens.  I mean I don't blame the man for wanting to make a pay day for a nice retirement, but it's just better if the creator owns it.  For example, Don Coscarelli owns Phantasm, and when they wanted to make a terrible Phantasm remake, he had the power to shut it down.

Michael Bay is really the biggest hack on Earth.  This is not going to go over well.  The Turtles are extremely well known.  You may as well make a Superman movie where he doesn't come from Krypton.  Arrogant jerk obviously just wants to make another mindless alien invasion CGI shaky cam shlock fest.

I pray that he soon experiences a bomb the magnitude of the Dean Devlin Godzilla remake that will crater his career.  Either that or he some how gets the Poltergeist curse.  lol

Oh, Michael Bay is involved...pass.

Honestly, the 1990 movie adaptation was more than enough, and still stayed true to both the comic and the cartoon series...

What I find truly bizarre is that NOBODY I've ever met claims to like Michael Bay movies. I've never met an ardent fan in real life. So... who's going to see these movies? I mean, I saw the first two TF movies because I loved the overall franchise, and TF 1 wasn't that bad (probably doesn't hold up, though- I only saw it once). When the 2nd one was the worst movie I'd seen in years, I made it a point not to watch anymore.

But the guy's movies are still making MILLIONS. Who is actually watching them still?  We need to fight Hollywood with the one weapon they recognize- MONEY. Stop paying to see this junk.

What I find truly bizarre is that NOBODY I've ever met claims to like Michael Bay movies. I've never met an ardent fan in real life. So... who's going to see these movies? I mean, I saw the first two TF movies because I loved the overall franchise, and TF 1 wasn't that bad (probably doesn't hold up, though- I only saw it once). When the 2nd one was the worst movie I'd seen in years, I made it a point not to watch anymore.

But the guy's movies are still making MILLIONS. Who is actually watching them still?  We need to fight Hollywood with the one weapon they recognize- MONEY. Stop paying to see this junk.

I liked a few of his movies.

The Rock, Armageddon were pretty good movies. Yeah, the drilling and bomb thing...but all the actors made it believable.

He just got lazy. He just decided "I don't really need to direct as much as I need to have explosions! MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS!!!"  And being lazy made him horrible.

I mean, It took me time to watch Transformers...because I couldn't tell what was going on because of how horrible the robots looked and every time a character took a few steps, it was like there was an earthquake on set!

I could probably ignore him if it wasn't for the fact he's ruining franchises.

Transformers: Bay needs to watch Transformers Prime to see how to do Transformers and still have human characters. Seriously, it's called TRANSFORMERS. And yet they seem secondary to the human characters. Optimus Prime was also a psychopath. Transformers two is...okay it has the worse of everything bad in a Bay movie: No plot, annoying characters, stupid, juvinile humor, EXPLOSIONS. Even things that shouldn't explode must EXPLODE!!!

Nightmare on Elm Street: One of the best things about Freddy Krueger. He was a funny, charismatic guy. Yeah, he's a horrible monster, but you can't help but laugh. So they decide to make him not have a personality and horrible make-up. And cast the stupid biker kid from the Bad News Bears as Freddy. Robert Englund owns the part. He makes even the worse watchable. And how bad...just compare the floating death scene. How can anyone who has anything to do with the reboot look at what they did and consider it good? That was pathetic.

TMNT: Normally, I wait until the movie...but when you eliminate several of the core concepts (which are in the title!!!) then I make an exception. The Turtlers are mutants. It's just that simple. You've seen countless comics, movies, and cartoons each have their own take on this  and keep the core origin in place. Making the turtles into aliens is something you'd read on a bad fan fic. It shouldn't be a motion picture.

Friday the 13th: They crammed like five of the movies into one. Friday the 13th isn't too hard to do. You have a misguided spirit of vengeance in Jason, you have the main heroine and you have some really jerk characters. You kind of root for Jason when he's getting rid of bad crowd and turn on him and root for the hero when it's down to him or her. This movie...okay, why did Jason look like an alien without his mask?

Oh, and the last two did what I hate in horror movies: The heroes play by the rules of the movie, win...BUT THE MONSTER IS ALIVE!!!

Man, I hate that. It's like if I played the newest Mario Bros Game, I win, and during the end story...Bowser reappears and eats Mario.

And honestly, movies are generally going to make money, even horrible ones. To fail, it seems that a movie has to be so blantingly awful (Jonah Hex, Green Latern) or poorly advertised to the point where you just don't get the movie (John Carter...which looks to lose about two hundred million dollars) Bay lately is working on franchises that have a fan base.

What I'm saying is we're doomed.

Heh. The fact he had his best set of actors probably helped make those two movies enjoyable to me. Those two movies are probably the best cast of actors he had. Then he decided he just needed some guy who runs around all the time and some attractive woman. Acting...not really needed anymore.

And those are the only two movies, out of all he's done (directing, producing, or whatever else) that I like. I really like Armageddon (Hey, I like the Leprechaun movies, ) and The Rock is okay to watch when nothing else is on.

It's not the same with the Friday movies. I mean, in the first one Jason was just a dream and she died in the beginning of the second. I'm talking more: Heroes kills monster with deux ex machina, hero should win, but monster somehow comes back. 

I don't have a problem with the monsters winning, but

1. It has to make sense. If the cast isn't smart enough or fail, yeah. Saw made sense to me. But when you do what  you're supposed to to kill the monster, do it and then it works, but the monster comes back no matter what--it just makes me feel I wasted my time.

2. It just happens in every horror movie now! It's not creepy as much as it is lazy to me now.

Mike had it rough in all the Phantasm movies. Reggie is the most underrated horror hero.

Well, how about we compromise and say it was a premonition? Didn't happen, but was telling her that Jason is out there and will be coming for her.

I won't argue with you, I was okay with those because it made sense. Myers was an unstoppable, silent force of rage. I'm talking where you have a movie where it doesn't make sense. I'm watching a movie on the Chiller Channel with people being sold and kept in barns. The villainess gets a shotgun blast, point blank, through her chest. The hero (after losing a few fingers) takes out the other bad guy...only to get killed by the should be dead at most, paralyzed at least villainess.

And the good guys can win and it still be a good horror movie: Nightmare on Elm Street Three springs to mind.

I just don't like it when it feels tacked on or just done as one last lame scare. Worse is that everyone keeps doing it.