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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...
unholy stimulating travel guidebook
  04/18/24
i thought it was great, esp Casey Jones
Chrome razzle-dazzle business firm cuckold
  04/18/24
apparently that actor wore a wig during filming due to his I...
unholy stimulating travel guidebook
  04/18/24
There was a weird tension between him and the April actress
boyish marketing idea
  04/18/24
he was great in Sopranos, Thin Red Line, and anything else I...
silver half-breed
  04/18/24
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pink disrespectful nursing home
  04/18/24
Batman, TMNT, Dick Tracy all that same kind of vibe in 1989/...
razzle state wrinkle
  04/18/24
Yep. Love the gritty, grimy comic book era.
concupiscible school
  04/18/24
Also Darkman
Lemon arousing office elastic band
  04/18/24
underrated
Tantric frisky toaster
  04/18/24
I was oblivious to it as a kid, but honestly the craziest th...
Multi-colored School Cafeteria Mad Cow Disease
  04/18/24
He was human when he left Japan
boyish marketing idea
  04/18/24
That's the cartoon only. For purposes of the comics and th...
Multi-colored School Cafeteria Mad Cow Disease
  04/18/24
I thought it adequately stayed true to the source material, ...
boyish marketing idea
  04/18/24
My mom checked me out of Kindergarten to see it in the theat...
concupiscible school
  04/18/24
https://kemono.su/patreon/user/3618469/post/73920476
Confused shrine circlehead
  04/18/24
wow
silver half-breed
  04/18/24
180 film
Exciting saffron public bath
  04/18/24
I liked it
Spectacular Haunting Corner Stain
  04/18/24
women on birth control with fridge bodies and those weird hy...
deep zippy crackhouse
  04/18/24
I saw it in the theater and had TMNT shirts and a lunch box.
Cocky Mildly Autistic Telephone
  04/18/24
someone mentioned Darkman and Dick Tracy (and Batman 1989). ...
Razzmatazz library striped hyena
  04/18/24
It was trying to stay true to the original graphic novels wh...
Odious menage
  04/18/24
first movie I remember seeing on the big screen, my mom took...
wild wonderful stage doctorate
  04/18/24
zomg me toooooo
silver half-breed
  04/20/24
All fathers love their sons.
primrose bespoke pocket flask
  04/19/24
not clsg’s
silver half-breed
  04/19/24
That's actually a pretty fucked up line to throw in a kid's ...
Multi-colored School Cafeteria Mad Cow Disease
  04/19/24
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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:43 AM
Author: unholy stimulating travel guidebook

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: Chrome razzle-dazzle business firm cuckold

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: unholy stimulating travel guidebook

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: boyish marketing idea

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: silver half-breed

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: pink disrespectful nursing home



(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: razzle state wrinkle

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: concupiscible school

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: Lemon arousing office elastic band

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: Tantric frisky toaster

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: Multi-colored School Cafeteria Mad Cow Disease

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: boyish marketing idea

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: Multi-colored School Cafeteria Mad Cow Disease

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: boyish marketing idea

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: concupiscible school

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: Confused shrine circlehead

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: silver half-breed

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: Exciting saffron public bath

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: Spectacular Haunting Corner Stain

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 zippy crackhouse

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: Cocky Mildly Autistic Telephone

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: Razzmatazz library striped hyena

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: Odious menage

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: wild wonderful stage doctorate

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: silver half-breed

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: primrose bespoke pocket flask

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: silver half-breed

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: Multi-colored School Cafeteria Mad Cow Disease

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: primrose bespoke pocket flask



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