Question about Ninja Turtles 1990 DVD movie
 

Hi, I hope I'm posting this in the right forum.

But a little about me; I've watched TMNT since the 1987 animated tv series.

Seen all 4 movies, favorite is the 1st one which is live action made in 1990.

Don't care too much for Next Mutation because Saban made them act goofy and that crossover with the Power Rangers made them goofier, in my opinion.

I've also seen the 2003 series.

Anyway, I had a question about the DVD version of the 1st live action Ninja Turtles movie.

I heard that with the scene where the Ninja Turtles are sparring with each other at the farm, that Leo's blindfold session is shown entirely.

I have the VHS version and it does show part of Leo's session where he is intimadating Raph and then he blocks Raph's sai's easily but does the DVD show the whole thing?

Does the German version show all of Leo's sparring session? Dang I wish they showed the whole thing cause I heard the movie theater version showed the whole sparring session at the farm.

I don't think there's ever been a longer version available to the public, but I'll check for ya. The German DVD is 3 minutes shorter for some reason. I'm told it's due to a speed-up effect from the NTSC to PAL process. Still, I think it's more likely that they just spliced in obviously extended scenes from the US version, but missed a few that weren't so obvious.

BTW, welcome.

Thanks so much gobo. :)

I am getting the US DVD version through NetFlix, so when I see that version, I'll post about whether or not the sparring scene was longer or not.

Thanks. Hope to contribute to this forum a lot. :)

That's all we ask for...

The only real extension of that scene I remember was a kid's book released back in the day.
http://ca.pbsstatic.com/xl/91/6691/9780679806691.jpg
That one...

I won't let you down. :)

Thanks for the info, I'll post about the DVD when I see it.

I have the US DVD it dosent show the farm scene. I got mine in the three pack so It might be different. Are you talking about the 25th anniversary rerelease?

The movies are all the same cut. The only bonuses you get in the German cut are the extended ending and some deleted scenes that were used to replace nunchucks in the European cut...

I posted something about this in another thread:

on the U.S DVD ninja turtles (1990) I have the full screen and the letterbox version.

the scene where Donatello and Michaelangelo are dancing during the "Tequila" music, in both versions, Mikey does something different.

In one version, he's dancing while saying, "Well this is like meditation" (his mouth never moves)

and in the other version, he stops dancing, and shrugs while saying "Well this is like meditation" (and his mouth moves)

I think the full screen version has the "still dancing talking" part and the letterbox has the other.

Just thought i'd mention this while we're on the subject of the DVD.

Huh? I don't recall that scene at all. Sounds awesome.

It's just right after when Shredder says "From the past.." and it was a quick shot of Leo sparring with his mask sideways towards Raph and into the series of shots of the Turtles training but mostly Mikey is the one being attacked.

I love that movie and rewatched it in the past 11 years(that was when I bought my vhs british copy from blockbuster video;)...) of my life so often that I know everything by heart easily;)but I too didn't pay close attention to the fact that leonardo practises blindfolded there...but I memorize his motions and that makes sense...loved how mikes nunchuku defend the katana in one of these scenes by the way...
to add to the question:I have the german dvd(I live in germany) and as I mentioned my other copy is the british cut on video...sparring session isn't longer at all in it, sorry.BUT if you check out another thread on this forum about the upcomming tmnt documentary there is a chance that we'll see more scenes, more stuff from the first movie that has never been share with anyone so far...keep your fingers crossed with us, as there may very likely be more sparring stuff in this footage(just follow the thread and listen to this interview about it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzA07qud07I)

one thing that is different between those releases is the fight with the foot in april's appartment is cut differently, I prefer the english version, even if it lacks michelangelos nuchuku action, but the dynamic fits much better with the music and there is ONE scene just before everybody is waiting for the floor to crash in where we see leonardo with a grim face and he is holding his swords in a cool way that always stood out to me and is missing from the us version)...

Oh, that... On my double-sided DVD of the movie, the fullscreen side has that scene run 25 seconds, but the wide side has it a full half-minute.

I had that book!!!!! But.... My dog ate it.....:cry:
Stupid dog….

Thanks for all the info.

I do look foward to that documentary being made. :)

This is weird. I checked out my brother's DVD and the full frame version oddly doesn't have Mikey stopping to say the line. Thing is, I've always remembered Mikey saying that line and his body movement, so I popped in my brother's original VHS tape and it's there. I don't know why the full frame version on the DVD doesn't have Mikey stopping to say the line, but just shows more footage of him and Donny dancing while he speaks it (as you said, without moving his lips, of course). Totally weird.