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The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film was a bizarre spectacle
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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:43 AM Author: Twinkling contagious sneaky criminal a strange mishmash of family drama, eastern pop-mysticism, science-fiction, crime vigilante fantasy, urban noir, and puppeteering. the rat/father character spends half the film chained to a wall being abused by his captors while delivering the occasional wise apothegm to teen delinquents.
it's not a good film, but the whole conception and execution is so goddamned strange that it's kind of interesting to watch in hindsight. most of the film is extremely dark in terms of lighting and setting, with noir-homage camera angles as characters skitter through the sewers or bare corridors. i assume that the look of the film was influenced a lot by the tim burton batman movie which had been released the previous year. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:45 AM Author: laughsome lodge i thought it was great, esp Casey Jones (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592507) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:50 AM Author: Twinkling contagious sneaky criminal apparently that actor wore a wig during filming due to his IRL baldness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592513) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:14 AM Author: Mahogany telephone quadroon There was a weird tension between him and the April actress (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592544) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 7:09 AM Author: Curious Buff Famous Landscape Painting Codepig he was great in Sopranos, Thin Red Line, and anything else I can remember him in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592654) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:41 AM Author: provocative fishy senate circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592871) |
Date: April 18th, 2024 12:55 AM Author: Mind-boggling jap Batman, TMNT, Dick Tracy all that same kind of vibe in 1989/1990 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592518) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:21 AM Author: Duck-like principal's office mental disorder Yep. Love the gritty, grimy comic book era. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592555) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:00 AM Author: Slate Excitant Stage Son Of Senegal Also Darkman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592597) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 6:38 AM Author: Embarrassed to the bone jew underrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592646) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:59 AM Author: Snowy Police Squad Piazza I was oblivious to it as a kid, but honestly the craziest thing is that the whole thing just happens to take place in New York City. Shredder and Splinter have a shared past in Japan, but there's no connection to them both being in New York City; Splinter as a mutated rat just randomly chose it as a place to live and also Shredder as a crime lord just thought it was a great place to do his own thing. It's just a kooky coincidence that they both randomly decided to move 7,000 miles to the same city. Also: I understand Shredder can just book a plane ticket, but logistically speaking how does a mutated rat get from Japan to New York City (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592526) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:13 AM Author: Mahogany telephone quadroon He was human when he left Japan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592543) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:15 AM Author: Snowy Police Squad Piazza That's the cartoon only. For purposes of the comics and the movie, Splinter was always a rat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592545) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:03 AM Author: Mahogany telephone quadroon I thought it adequately stayed true to the source material, which was dark and foreboding, while staying pg-13 and seemingly marketable to kids (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592530) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:19 AM Author: Duck-like principal's office mental disorder My mom checked me out of Kindergarten to see it in the theatre. One of the best days of my childhood.
Watch the Netflix “Toys that made us” about TMNT, if you haven’t. They talk about how the movie was made totally unsupervised and my a guy who had no experience with such a thing and how everyone was horrified at the initial internal viewing. They did not expect it to be the hit of the summer. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:02 AM Author: Sepia vivacious kitchen https://kemono.su/patreon/user/3618469/post/73920476 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592601) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 8:40 AM Author: Curious Buff Famous Landscape Painting Codepig wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592691) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:27 PM Author: lime lay 180 film
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:31 PM Author: geriatric know-it-all halford I liked it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47593337) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:32 PM Author: talented misunderstood ladyboy keepsake machete women on birth control with fridge bodies and those weird hyperthyroid skinny legs on fat bodies kinda resemble ninja turtles if you think about it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47593342) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:34 PM Author: thirsty sandwich institution I saw it in the theater and had TMNT shirts and a lunch box. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47593356) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:36 PM Author: Cocky dark main people legend someone mentioned Darkman and Dick Tracy (and Batman 1989).
there was a kind of 1989-1991 'dark' comic book aesthetic. the aborted Punisher movie from 1989, Total Recall, Robocop 2, all fit into that same pre-CGI grainy TMNT look. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:36 PM Author: Lemon hospital It was trying to stay true to the original graphic novels which were never really intended for children afaik (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47593367) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:37 PM Author: idiotic wild haunted graveyard first movie I remember seeing on the big screen, my mom took me and my best friend to it and we were obsessed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47593369) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 7:23 AM Author: Curious Buff Famous Landscape Painting Codepig zomg me toooooo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47596915) |
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Date: April 19th, 2024 12:47 PM Author: Razzmatazz Ultramarine Rehab Stain All fathers love their sons. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47595399) |
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Date: April 19th, 2024 12:49 PM Author: Curious Buff Famous Landscape Painting Codepig not clsg’s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47595407) |
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Date: April 19th, 2024 12:50 PM Author: Snowy Police Squad Piazza That's actually a pretty fucked up line to throw in a kid's movie. Some of the kids in the audience really did have fathers that don't care about them at all, best not to get their hopes up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47595414) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 11:33 AM Author: Razzmatazz Ultramarine Rehab Stain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47597337) |