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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2014 10:12:27 GMT -5
It will do better definitely. It's still the Turtles and most people who probably want to see it are fans of the Nickelodeon show, so that's where it'll get most of their money.
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Post by The Tank on Jul 26, 2014 10:25:52 GMT -5
I know I joked about it before, but seriously...what's the over/under that this "outperforms" Last Airbender? Oh, it's going to, no question. You have to remember, all critical acclaim for the animated series aside, The Last Airbender was just M. Night Shyamamalamalan making a kids movie. TMNT is a household name franchise and has been for twenty years at least. It would blow Last Airbender out of the water even without Michael Bay's name on it. ...even though it's probably going to be just as bad of a movie.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jul 26, 2014 13:45:56 GMT -5
I know I joked about it before, but seriously...what's the over/under that this "outperforms" Last Airbender? Oh, it's going to, no question. You have to remember, all critical acclaim for the animated series aside, The Last Airbender was just M. Night Shyamamalamalan making a kids movie. TMNT is a household name franchise and has been for twenty years at least. It would blow Last Airbender out of the water even without Michael Bay's name on it. ...even though it's probably going to be just as bad of a movie. And the latter is more of what I had in mind. Which will artistically be a bigger disgrace to its source material?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2014 14:15:41 GMT -5
Yesterday I was wearing my t shirt of the original black and white Turtles (it's an actual Eastman/Laird piece of art from the first issue) and someone randomly yelled "Michael Bay" at me from their car to be an asshole.
I admit that while I was embarrassed, it was pretty funny.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Jul 26, 2014 14:17:31 GMT -5
Oh, it's going to, no question. You have to remember, all critical acclaim for the animated series aside, The Last Airbender was just M. Night Shyamamalamalan making a kids movie. TMNT is a household name franchise and has been for twenty years at least. It would blow Last Airbender out of the water even without Michael Bay's name on it. ...even though it's probably going to be just as bad of a movie. And the latter is more of what I had in mind. Which will artistically be a bigger disgrace to its source material? Depends on what irritates you more - race-swapping or wiener jokes.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 16:51:47 GMT -5
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 29, 2014 18:52:01 GMT -5
Oh it's likely to do huge numbers. It looks TERRIBLE, but it'll make a shitload of money.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 29, 2014 18:54:27 GMT -5
I couldn't look at the article, mostly cause my antivirus kept closing it for trying to install something on my system. Is it worse than the whole "Shellfie" commercial?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 18:59:29 GMT -5
I couldn't look at the article, mostly cause my antivirus kept closing it for trying to install something on my system. Is it worse than the whole "Shellfie" commercial? Mainly it's controversy over this poster coupled with the AU date being September 11th
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 29, 2014 19:01:19 GMT -5
I couldn't look at the article, mostly cause my antivirus kept closing it for trying to install something on my system. Is it worse than the whole "Shellfie" commercial? Turtles jumping off an exploding building with the date of the Australian Release at the bottom...which is September 11th.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 29, 2014 19:05:30 GMT -5
Someone's really reaching to be offended there. If they were jumping out of a plane or something, I could see the hubbub.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 29, 2014 19:08:48 GMT -5
Eh considering it's a New York City building I can at least see the reasoning why people would complain.
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Post by hisinsanity on Jul 30, 2014 12:34:00 GMT -5
I don't see any reason to complain. It's New York.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jul 30, 2014 12:38:12 GMT -5
This movie might be a terror attack on our intelligence though.
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Post by Display Name on Jul 30, 2014 19:28:28 GMT -5
Someone's really reaching to be offended there. If they were jumping out of a plane or something, I could see the hubbub. I don't get offended by shit and I'm not offended by this,but I could see how it could be insensitive to the families of all those people that jumped out of the buildings to their deaths,because they didn't want to be burned alive.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 30, 2014 19:33:54 GMT -5
Someone's really reaching to be offended there. If they were jumping out of a plane or something, I could see the hubbub. I don't get offended by shit and I'm not offended by this,but I could see how it could be insensitive to the families of all those people that jumped out of the buildings to their deaths,because they didn't want to be burned alive. Maybe, but it's not like it's the Twin Towers or anything in the background; and it's not an American ad. I see your point, I just think it's a lil much.
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Post by Display Name on Jul 30, 2014 19:44:15 GMT -5
I don't get offended by shit and I'm not offended by this,but I could see how it could be insensitive to the families of all those people that jumped out of the buildings to their deaths,because they didn't want to be burned alive. Maybe, but it's not like it's the Twin Towers or anything in the background; and it's not an American ad. I see your point, I just think it's a lil much. If the infamous September 11th date wasn't on display,I would laugh at anyone that got offended by it...and make no mistake,plenty of people still would be offended,because that's the sensitive ass world we live in nowadays.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 20:23:11 GMT -5
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Post by andrew8798 on Jul 31, 2014 19:53:55 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 19:58:57 GMT -5
Pretty much the same comments in my post
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