Save the Turtles. Keep them out of the Bay.

[Galactus]

Originally Posted by unclanrhino

In the first live-action movie they screwed up with the origin (as told by the cartoon), saying Splinter was a pet rat. Why disconnect from the cartoon on that??? I think it's WAY more realistic and deep as told by the cartoon version; Splinter being a human that was hiding from the bad guy in America's sewers when he got mutated...

As TurtleTitan said the reason the 1990 movie differs from the Fred Wolf cartoon is because it's a loose adaption of the original Mirage comics books taking a few tropes from the very different cartoon. I think we'll have agree to disagree on which is more "realistic". A fair asessment would be that both takes are unrealistic.

Another movie along the same lines but transposed to modern sensibilities would be the best route to go down creatively and commercialy imo.

I seriously want this new one to be great, and I want to watch it in the theaters with my kids and call it so, but as far as I can tell the ONLY good thing that Bay brings to the table is his money.

I wouldn't go that far but he's not engendering faith in me so far.