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02-28-2017, 01:42 PM | #1 |
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TMNT doesn't need an "R" rating to capture the spirit of the original Mirage comics. It does need someone who respects the source material though.
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02-28-2017, 01:51 PM | #2 |
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Oddly enough, the Twitter page doesn't seem to have any traction to it since last summer and the page doesn't seem to play the video on the IndieGoGo...
https://twitter.com/Rated_R_TMNT EDIT: Just noticed the "closed" status.
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02-28-2017, 01:55 PM | #3 |
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Probably Nickelodeon shut it down.
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02-28-2017, 02:34 PM | #4 | |
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Besides, the Mirage violence is probably a heavy PG-13 at best.
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02-28-2017, 02:39 PM | #5 |
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There is no reason that a Mirage-centric movie couldn't be hard-PG-13. Though there's weird things within PG-13... you can quick-cut show a head shot (as long as there's no blood or gore), but you can't show someone getting kicked in the face.
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02-28-2017, 02:48 PM | #6 | |
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Maybe the tmnt need an "R" more than I realize. It's highly debatable. I would love a tmnt film with the tone and irreverence of Deadpool. Not to say they need to be the same formula. |
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02-28-2017, 02:50 PM | #7 |
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That I can see working. As long as it doesn't push into EdgeLord territory of dark grittiness.
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02-28-2017, 10:17 PM | #8 | |
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TMNT is comradery and family. I don't mean "family" as in "Family film," but brotherhood. It's not "my roommate is an old lady on crack." A lot of people don't like that the Fred Wolf animated series created a connotation that TMNT was just jokes and random action. I don't see how making the jokes R-rated and making it cynical is respecting the franchise. Maybe it's because I'm in my 30s and I have been watching R rated movies since I was 5, but the fact that a movie is R rated no longer impresses me. I don't mind that Logan is R-rated. That's interesting. But that's not what makes good films or effective films. If I like that movie, it won't be because I saw his claws go through someone's cranium. It's like the horror genre and its fans who are always clamoring for horror to be exclusively R rated. Yet, when I think of the horror films that have made me jump or have made me fear something -- and its only a handful of horror films -- most of them are PG or PG-13. I think, out of those films, Halloween is the only one that is R. That's because you don't need to see someone's intestines to scare people. Last edited by sgtfbomb; 02-28-2017 at 10:29 PM. |
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02-28-2017, 10:36 PM | #9 |
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$100 tickets, free alcohol and possible nudity
Mark Cuban? He's not going to help make a TMNT movie. The Dallas Mavericks are rebuilding $20 million, what was this guy thinking?
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03-01-2017, 10:14 AM | #11 |
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I almost had the thought it was just a guy trolling, but his fundraiser seems genuine. He really believes he "has" something there.
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02-28-2017, 03:07 PM | #12 |
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I think the logic there is that the MPAA in dealing with PG-13 wants to avoid things that impressionable audience members can easily imitate. Like kicks to the head - very easy way to hurt someone, maybe very seriously. Easy to do.
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