Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Forum

So they finally grew up and dropped the whole mutant thing... whoopee...

@Royce_McCutcheon said:

Honestly, I would have made the same title change.

Lets not play any games here, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a silly, silly title for a movie, something the producers of the last movie were also well aware of when they titled it TMNT. Ninja Turtles is still pretty goofy, but less so.

See it's the opposite in my view. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sounds ridiculous enough to get your attention. Calling your movie something drab like"TMNT" or "John Carter" does not get people interested. Also its an established brand and the audience your aiming for, males 12-40, wouldn't be deterred by it. If you wouldn't want to see a goofy movie I would imagine the turtles aren't for you in the first place.

I'm okay with the name change, but making them aliens just over complicate things.

I saw the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in concert*, before they sold out.

*concert brought to you by Pizza Hut

No big dealie as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series was already a harshly, childish bastardization of the original farcical but dark and gritty comic series that I originally read so it's all payback for the lies of your collective childhoods chumps.

That TMNT movie from a few years ago was needlessly convoluted, but aside from that, a great way to do a kids franchise CG whilst still making it appealing to older, nostalgic fans. I was hoping it'd get a sequel.

Not...this.

In other news, Bay went to the deepest depths of the ocean by the trench. Why? Something to do with his underwater movie perhaps? Who knows, but he was the third or fourth man in the world to do it.

Okay? I guess? TMNT is an incredibly, inherently, and very deliberately stupid concept. The idea of trying to tone that down seems... odd.

I don't really care about TMNT enough to worry about this movie. 'Ninja Turtles' will be way more palatable to marketing.

Although this is Michael Bay we're talking about. Hopefully it leans more towards The Rock and away from the Transformers movies.

I watched the 2007 one just the other day for the first time and it was surprisingly pretty good, I like the style they went with it, and I'm not really a fan or anything. Sort of a shame they won't be continuing with that.

I'm still gonna see this because I'm an idiot.

"Don't worry! We're not going to let you down!"

Sounds like BioWare over the last 6 months.

BOOM!

Why do they even need to be turtles?

TMNT isn't worth seeking out, but you won't hate it if you watch it. I'm fine with this, even though it seems silly to me. And I was right in the age range where the Turtles were the coolest thing ever.

@Royce_McCutcheon said:

Honestly, I would have made the same title change.

Lets not play any games here, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a silly, silly title for a movie, something the producers of the last movie were also well aware of when they titled it TMNT. Ninja Turtles is still pretty goofy, but less so.

The title is the concept, and the entire concept of the turtles is dumb as fuck, but it also manages to be a whole lot of fun and made two nobodies a whole lot of money. Cutting the title in half and making them from space doesn't make the notion of fighting bipedal turtles any less ridiculous. Or maybe it does? Maybe there's some market research out there that says that kids these days hate mutants and hate teenagers, but if you give them aliens then they'll give you money.

In any event, the new Nickelodeon cartoon doesn't seem to be taking any cues from where the movie is headed, so this'll all be just as confusing as the first movie was when every kid wanted to know where Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang were at.

Rorie, you should definitely check out TMNT if you care for anything TMNT-related. It's way better than the live action sequels. I must confess that I geeked out pretty hard in the theaters, though, during a certain fight scene. Highly recommended!

While Michael Bay ruins everybody's day, maybe this will help someone feel better.

The TMNT from a few years ago wasn't bad, it would of been better as a live action film, but it was a sequel to the third film and did the characters and the universe some justice...it just moved a little too quickly is all and tried to do a little too much emotionally.