Michael Bay is working on a live-action turtles movie but he's changing the origin and making them aliens.

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http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/michael-bay-changes-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-origins-for-new-movie-.html

Do they not have something else from our childhoods they can go and ruin (or possibly make really cool, but I doubt), they've certainly been raking up the ruins lately, GI Joe, Transformers heck even Thunderbirds.  Don't get me wrong they're good films I enjoy for what they are, but they have very little to do with what I grew up with.

That said, can't wait for this

Not only is this pointless, it's an absurd and needless alteration, who is possibly going to think alien space turtles are more believable for kids than mutated ones, I mean they called teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for a reason. Teenage Space Ninja Turtles?

Rose tinted glasses seem to make people hold these franchises up as though they are incredibly literary and shouldn't be touched. I don't know why, it's an action franchise, lots of Baysplosions can only be a good thing.

Quote from: Quixoticish on March 19, 2012, 21:50:59 PM
Rose tinted glasses seem to make people hold these franchises up as though they are incredibly literary and shouldn't be touched. I don't know why, it's an action franchise, lots of Baysplosions can only be a good thing.

I think most people would be forgiving and even welcoming of some of these reboots (or whatever vernacular is being used) if the track record was better and it was obvious that it was a particular passion of the directors and producers involved, but this isn't the case most of the time. Michael Bay certainly doesn't deal in those types of affair (half his catalogue as a producer is mediocre remakes) and while he is more hit than miss compared to some of the new breed of action directors it is pretty clear he has no interest in this beyond how many Baysplosions we could see and how much $ it will generate. I'd rather he made another Bad Boys (which it appears has been green lit!)

Sad fact is he's movies make a sh*t load of money. And until that changes people will let him do what he is doing. No matter what the actual fans think.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 19, 2012, 20:32:14 PM
Not only is this pointless, it's an absurd and needless alteration, who is possibly going to think alien space turtles are more believable for kids than mutated ones, I mean they called teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for a reason. Teenage Space Ninja Turtles?

I think they are going to allow the Turtles to eat the criminals on screen, including Bay...

The whole point to them is a Rat learning from its master, scraping the face off Shredder and being mixed up with ooze with some baby turtles and then training in the arts and becoming the Teenage NINJA mutant turtles.
Next he will be wanting to swap the colours around to make more sense to him.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 19, 2012, 23:15:23 PM

Quote from: Quixoticish on March 19, 2012, 21:50:59 PM
Rose tinted glasses seem to make people hold these franchises up as though they are incredibly literary and shouldn't be touched. I don't know why, it's an action franchise, lots of Baysplosions can only be a good thing.

I think most people would be forgiving and even welcoming of some of these reboots (or whatever vernacular is being used) if the track record was better and it was obvious that it was a particular passion of the directors and producers involved, but this isn't the case most of the time. Michael Bay certainly doesn't deal in those types of affair (half his catalogue as a producer is mediocre remakes) and while he is more hit than miss compared to some of the new breed of action directors it is pretty clear he has no interest in this beyond how many Baysplosions we could see and how much $ it will generate. I'd rather he made another Bad Boys (which it appears has been green lit!)

Transformers 1 & 3 aren't bad at all (Bay himself is the first person to slate the second one). They're good films based on what is actually a fairly ludicrous premise to put on the big screen. Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles is just as ludicrous if you try to make a big budget version of it, so I still maintain he's the best man for the job. As a direct his back catalogue isn't too bad for switch-off-your-brain films. The Island, The Rock, Bad Boys 1 & 2, Transformers 1 & 3, they're not atrocious by any means.

I know the fanboys will whine and bitch and cry and slather at the mouth as they did with Transformers but they're a very noisy minority.

I like many of Bay's films that he's directed (Transformers, The Rock and Bad Boys are great) but you can't argue with the stuff he's been a producer of being cash-ins, that was where I was making my distinction. He also didn't change anything fundamental as far as I'm aware to the lore/canon/whatever with Transformers, but he is here.