Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles - Page 21

Originally Posted by cinemablend.com
In short, despite Bay's claims that the turtles would be "exactly the same" as the ones many of us loved as kids, they are now aliens destined to presumably fight a great evil in the form of Colonel Schrader. There's no mention made of their sensei and father figure Splinter at all. (I guess rat aliens aren't edgy?) And Casey Jones and April O'Neil are two bickering high school sweethearts. But beyond all this, it seems they've also swapped the personalities of the turtles, attempting to make the typically brooding Raphael into the jokester Michelangelo was known as, and not much of one at that.

On August 30 2012 06:26 Obscure wrote:
So the script for Michael Bay's upcoming Ninja Turtles movie has leaked and as expected, it's not good.



+ Show Spoiler +

More here http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Disturbing-Details-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Reboot-Screenplay-32683.html
and here http://latino-review.com/2012/08/28/exclusive-bays-failed-ninja-turtles-script-review/

On August 30 2012 06:30 Jaaaaasper wrote:

Gah, is there a topic he can't make terrible? Welp here comes another movie that makes a big enough profit to get a sequel, and then just gets worse from there.

On August 01 2012 05:35 sjperera wrote:
I don't know if this should be on a different thread or something, but there's a gritty, violent TMNT project named "Dawn of the Ninja" it already has two chapters and is beautiful and extremely violent... for anyone interested in checking it out and supporting the artists, check em out here... there's 53 pages already up

http://www.dawnoftheninja.com

On September 01 2012 15:10 lukekeith wrote:


Yo, this is Luke Keith. I'm the guy responsible for that TMNT graphic novel, I also happen to be a HUGE Sc2 fan!!! I'm absolutely thrilled that our project would be mentioned on the forum of the greatest Sc2 clan in the world! I absolutely love Team Liquid, I watch all the videos, so you can imagine my excitement when you discovered our TMNT graphic novel =).

Please feel free to continue talking about our project as much as you can. Maybe I can even put together some special Sc2 meets TMNT artwork at some point.... between Sc2 and TMNT, I'm not sure which I like more =).

Thanks!

On September 01 2012 16:58 Xpace wrote:


This better not be a troll. You better not be a troll.

'Cause the artwork in that novel completely fits the style of SC2......................

On September 01 2012 18:29 lukekeith wrote:


I am definitely not a troll. The artwork is done by Ray Dillon and I'm the producer. I'm also a designer and artist myself, and I must admit the Starcraft UI and game design is very inspirational to me. You may even see traces of it in my personal website (mostly only portfolio page) LukeKeith.com. So yea.... I'm definitely not a troll. I just freaking love TMNT and Sc2!!! Can't help it if I have good taste =). I actually started writing DOTN back in 2005 while stationed over seas in the Air Force after seeing Batman Begins on a base theater... I thought to myself "TMNT needs to be told in a serious and gritty way like this", so Steve and I immediately got to work on the story. I didn't bring Ray and Jeremy on board until 2009 to start development on the graphic novel. The second chapter was supposed to be done two years ago... but Ray is moving quite slow, only a few more pages to go!!!

Nice art and website you got there. However in my opinion while appearing to be interesting at first, at your portfolio page I found it hard to see your pictures since the screen is so small. I'd prefer to see the picture instead of scrolling around. Same thing goes for the list of pictures in green which only appear if I mouse over it.... You can make it move or something but don't make it disappear >_>

On September 02 2012 09:36 huStl.e wrote:
this man is truly america's answer to Uwe Boll... what even worse is people are giving him enough money to keep shitting on everyones childhoods

On August 30 2012 06:53 Necro)Phagist( wrote:

And Hollywood gets richer by shitting all over my childhood T.T Transformers, Dragon ball Z and now this.... On the bright side, it can't get any worse can it?

On August 01 2012 05:35 sjperera wrote:
I don't know if this should be on a different thread or something, but there's a gritty, violent TMNT project named "Dawn of the Ninja" it already has two chapters and is beautiful and extremely violent... for anyone interested in checking it out and supporting the artists, check em out here... there's 53 pages already up

http://dawnoftheninja.com/Home.php

On September 02 2012 11:34 WolfintheSheep wrote:

The Transformers from your childhood was several magnitudes campier than any of the movies, and made a lot less sense.

Dragon Ball Z...well, yeah, the movies were all horrendous garbage. But a movie adaptation that stays faithful to the anime? Once again, pure camp and garbage plot.

And for the people puking over the supposedly leaked TMNT scripts...those lines might as well have come from the cartoon series. Or the 1990's movies.

On September 02 2012 09:36 huStl.e wrote:
this man is truly america's answer to Uwe Boll... what even worse is people are giving him enough money to keep shitting on everyones childhoods

On September 02 2012 11:34 WolfintheSheep wrote:

The Transformers from your childhood was several magnitudes campier than any of the movies, and made a lot less sense.

Dragon Ball Z...well, yeah, the movies were all horrendous garbage. But a movie adaptation that stays faithful to the anime? Once again, pure camp and garbage plot.

And for the people puking over the supposedly leaked TMNT scripts...those lines might as well have come from the cartoon series. Or the 1990's movies.

On August 30 2012 06:26 Obscure wrote:
So the script for Michael Bay's upcoming Ninja Turtles movie has leaked and as expected, it's not good.







But I'm sure there will be plenty of explosions. Huge, glorious, explosions.

More here http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Disturbing-Details-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Reboot-Screenplay-32683.html
and here http://latino-review.com/2012/08/28/exclusive-bays-failed-ninja-turtles-script-review/

On September 02 2012 09:36 huStl.e wrote:
this man is truly america's answer to Uwe Boll... what even worse is people are giving him enough money to keep shitting on everyones childhoods

On September 02 2012 23:52 NicolBolas wrote:
It's funny. In one breath, you defend crappy lines as "might as well have come from the cartoon series," but in your other breath, you attack the original cartoons as being "pure camp and garbage plot."

I'll be the first to admit that Transformers Generation 1 was not the best written TV show of its era. It was an action series with a good, compelling gimmick, that was written just well enough to keep 8-12 year old boys entertained. Most of the good feelings come from nostalgia; from a modern perspective, the writing was weak and the characterization broad and generic.

And I say this as someone who likes G1 enough to buy the DVD set.

HOWEVER, that does not excuse crappy adaptations today. However "campier" G1 may have been compared to BayFormers, it never made me want to punch the writers in the face the way BayFormers did. And not because it shat on my childhood, but because they were, more often than not, shitty movies that pander to the lowest-common-demoninator.

Beast Wars and Transformers Prime (possibly Animated if I'd ever watched it) prove that you can take the basic concept of Transformers and make it work without creating something that is campy or just Godawful. And again, it's not about taking liberties with the property; both of those shows are marked departures from G1. It's about being respectful of what made the property work in the first place.

You cannot have TMNT without Splinter. Not because he was a beloved character from the 90's cartoon. But because he was important to what TMNT is ultimately about.