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The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film was a bizarre spectacle

a strange mishmash of family drama, eastern pop-mysticism, s...
Smoky shrine skinny woman
  04/18/24
i thought it was great, esp Casey Jones
Rambunctious multi-colored philosopher-king
  04/18/24
apparently that actor wore a wig during filming due to his I...
Smoky shrine skinny woman
  04/18/24
There was a weird tension between him and the April actress
frozen office elastic band
  04/18/24
he was great in Sopranos, Thin Red Line, and anything else I...
lake athletic conference quadroon
  04/18/24
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Pea-brained cerebral school cafeteria antidepressant drug
  04/18/24
Batman, TMNT, Dick Tracy all that same kind of vibe in 1989/...
mentally impaired piazza
  04/18/24
Yep. Love the gritty, grimy comic book era.
Razzmatazz maniacal parlor
  04/18/24
Also Darkman
fishy turdskin
  04/18/24
underrated
balding center
  04/18/24
I was oblivious to it as a kid, but honestly the craziest th...
Bronze corn cake
  04/18/24
He was human when he left Japan
frozen office elastic band
  04/18/24
That's the cartoon only. For purposes of the comics and th...
Bronze corn cake
  04/18/24
I thought it adequately stayed true to the source material, ...
frozen office elastic band
  04/18/24
My mom checked me out of Kindergarten to see it in the theat...
Razzmatazz maniacal parlor
  04/18/24
https://kemono.su/patreon/user/3618469/post/73920476
underhanded light old irish cottage
  04/18/24
wow
lake athletic conference quadroon
  04/18/24
180 film
honey-headed faggot firefighter den
  04/18/24
I liked it
cowardly brindle cuck
  04/18/24
women on birth control with fridge bodies and those weird hy...
Deep provocative church
  04/18/24
I saw it in the theater and had TMNT shirts and a lunch box.
sick dark chapel
  04/18/24
someone mentioned Darkman and Dick Tracy (and Batman 1989). ...
charismatic forum double fault
  04/18/24
It was trying to stay true to the original graphic novels wh...
soul-stirring pontificating base round eye
  04/18/24
first movie I remember seeing on the big screen, my mom took...
stimulating ivory mother
  04/18/24
zomg me toooooo
lake athletic conference quadroon
  04/20/24
All fathers love their sons.
scarlet nofapping theater new version
  04/19/24
not clsg’s
lake athletic conference quadroon
  04/19/24
That's actually a pretty fucked up line to throw in a kid's ...
Bronze corn cake
  04/19/24
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  04/20/24


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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:43 AM
Author: Smoky shrine skinny woman

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592504)



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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:45 AM
Author: Rambunctious multi-colored philosopher-king

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: Smoky shrine skinny woman

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: frozen office elastic band

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: lake athletic conference quadroon

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: Pea-brained cerebral school cafeteria antidepressant drug



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592871)



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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:55 AM
Author: mentally impaired piazza

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: Razzmatazz maniacal parlor

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: fishy turdskin

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: balding center

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: Bronze corn cake

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: frozen office elastic band

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: Bronze corn cake

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: frozen office elastic band

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: Razzmatazz maniacal parlor

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47592552)



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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:02 AM
Author: underhanded light old irish cottage

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: lake athletic conference quadroon

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: honey-headed faggot firefighter den

180 film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47593319)



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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:31 PM
Author: cowardly brindle cuck

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: Deep provocative church

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: sick dark chapel

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: charismatic forum double fault

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47593364)



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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:36 PM
Author: soul-stirring pontificating base round eye

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: stimulating ivory mother

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: lake athletic conference quadroon

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: scarlet nofapping theater new version

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: lake athletic conference quadroon

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: Bronze corn cake

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: scarlet nofapping theater new version



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5518994&forum_id=2#47597337)