27 years later, I Finally watched TMNT III - Page 3

*Coola Yagami* · 08-24-2020, 11:30 AM

I always thought it was like... A failed movie pitch for something else and it only got the approval because 'um... I know! Let's add the ninja turtles in it! Replace the main characters with the turtles. Kids still love them, right?"

*Galactus* · 08-24-2020, 11:34 AM

I don't know the turtles are ninjas and were no strangers to time travel stories by the time the third movie was starting production so sending them back to ancient Japan would have seemed a no brainer. You could even make a case that it was inspired by Michael Dooney's Masks. I think another NYC set movie were the turtles fight Shredder would have been received better as that is what more people expected from the franchise but conceptually this isn't so un-TMNT like that it couldn't have worked. It just wasn't very good.

08-24-2020, 11:30 AM	#41
Coola Yagami Overlord Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 14,004	I always thought it was like... A failed movie pitch for something else and it only got the approval because 'um... I know! Let's add the ninja turtles in it! Replace the main characters with the turtles. Kids still love them, right?" __________________ "I was down with TMNT once, but then they changed what TMNT was. Now what I was down with is no longer TMNT and what TMNT now is seems weird and scary. And it'll happen to YOU." Check out my blog for Comic Reviews and other things. https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/ I also started The AEW Crew, the All Elite Wrestling Fan Club! https://www.facebook.com/groups/637508120044168/

08-24-2020, 11:34 AM	#42
Galactus Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,949	I don't know the turtles are ninjas and were no strangers to time travel stories by the time the third movie was starting production so sending them back to ancient Japan would have seemed a no brainer. You could even make a case that it was inspired by Michael Dooney's Masks. I think another NYC set movie were the turtles fight Shredder would have been received better as that is what more people expected from the franchise but conceptually this isn't so un-TMNT like that it couldn't have worked. It just wasn't very good.