#69 – Bayliens
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
So there is going to be a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie next year and Michael Bay, one of the producers, announced that the turtles will be an alien race this time around. It’s funny to see so many people freaking out about this. I’m guessing that this has been happening for decades but we just didn’t have the internet as an amplifier back then. The Turtles have already been rebooted 5 or 6 times and I’m sure each time the kids that grew up with the previous version got upset that “everything is ruined now!” There will be plenty of kids that will see the Turtles for the first time in this new movie (or movies) and will freak out 10 years from now when everything resets again. I was a reader of the original black and white comic from 1984 and still haven’t gotten over the multicolored bandannas and cowabunga pizza nonsense that started in the first cartoon series.
Tags: aliens, TMNT, turtles
I too have read the 84 comic, the first comic was great but then as it continued they switched up the style to more cartoonish instead of sharp and rough……
That’s because the general idea that defines the whole series (and maybe the subculture that grew around it) kept the same general ideas intact no matter the “fresh approach” they took to it.
It’s one thing to have something rebooted a bit to keep it contempoary (2k3 had far less April’s “help meeeee!” and her being more kick-arse and an overall cool look) and another to replace a pedastal with a toothpick and expect it to be as strong.
On a personal note, I grew up with the old school, learned to enjoy the 2k3 version, reluctantly enjoyed the movies, but have either hated or refused to watch the live action version, the CGI tv series, or the 2k3 series starting when they went forward in time. This next movie will not see my participation either for a premise that doesn’t hold up.
I totally hear you, but I also have to point this out: of those five or six reboots, they all kept the same basic story line. After the first “cartoon” remake, they all kept the same style, too (I agree on the comics’ superiority, and that of the tabletop RPG by Palladium based on them).
The problem with the Bay remake is that it’s such a radical (heh) overhaul; they’re not even *mutants* anymore, which is *right in the name*.
But yeah, Michael Bay mangles something. What else is new? are Tim Burton and Johnny Depp doing another kitschy, pseudo-gothy adaptation of a subculturally-beloved property? (yes, _Dark Shadows_) I’m more surprised at the audacity than I am upset about it.
»shrugs«
never really got into the Turtles…
They could be mutant aliens?
John Armstrong – agreed.
I’m less “surprised” at the audacity than utterly, utterly bored by it. There *are* new things under the sun…but we won’t see a lot of them coming out of Hollywood.
Wow. I think I’m officially over being mad at big-Hollywood for remakes/reboots. Thank you. Dude.
Do they come from the same planet as Poochie?
I don’t care about the turtles, but it seems kinda pointless/dumb to turn them into aliens.
Why was the caption changed?
The whole point of turtles was that they were transformed and adopted by a rat who knew kung-fu. Then they become vigilantes in a world that doesn’t get them, and receive words of wisdom from a giant kung-fu rat…OMG!!! Shi-fu is a shout out to the TNMTT rat!