Is this real? I think this scene may be what made me kind of a cinephile and it would make perfect sense to use it in this context. For some reason seeing ninja turtles in a forest in broad daylight just struck me as very special and weird in a good way. You can do anything with the power of cinema… I still believe there is a kind of beauty in this movie that no other TMNT stuff has and even most kids entertainment of the era too
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It’s got the sweaty New York summer aesthetic of Dog Day Afternoon and the pop & verve of a Hong Kong action flick. Maybe even beats Big Trouble in Little China at its own game; contesting Carpenter is no joke. I’ve always felt it far outclassed its goofball dime-a-dozen sequel and it always pissed me off to see them talked about in the same breath.
I’ve never had any idea who was responsible for its lightning in a bottle quality (except the Jim Henson Creature Shop of course) so I looked up the director just now, apparently a guy named Steve Barron, known mostly for music videos - he did Billie Jean, Take On Me, Africa, and Money for Nothing? God damn.
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im biased but i wish any bits of the live action TMNTs had ever been filmed in Northampton since this is where Mirage Studios was based when they made it
like when they hide with April in the country in the 1st movie it’s supposed to be set out here!
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It absolutely does not do this and if you disagree, watch big trouble again
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I was grinning through the finale. I do wonder when they found out they were cleared for a second season though because it still very much felt like a story in progress rather than latching onto anything conclusive.
I do hope they consider reviving Scavengers Reign…
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Ebert’s review of the first turtles movie is one of my favorites. “I’m addicted to this Nintendo game that I hate, but this movie could’ve been a lot worse considering.”
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• Leo and Raph butting heads
• Leads to Raph storming out and getting beaten by Foot Soldiers
• Leo feels responsible for this
• Sits by him the whole time he’s recovering
• Is there when he wakes up and they apologise to each other
• Final fight with Shredder
• Shudder pins Leo and tells them to throw their weapons away
• Despite all their arguments Raph is the first brother to do it
This movie is great.
Turtle Power > Ninja Rap
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I think I’ve told this story before but I still remember when TMNT was coming out.
I was five years old and watched the show. My parents and my sister asked me if I wanted to see the movie in the theater the week it came out and I said no because my sister told me the turtles were going to be there in person and the thought of them actually being real weirded me out too much.
Did not register to me that they weren’t actually real despite me also knowing that they were just people in costumes. Just the possibility that there were really big talking mutant turtles walking around somewhere put me off of it.
I would watch it later on VHS instead. It’s a really solid movie and still holds up. It’s got the right combination of humor, action and drama. “What the hell was that?! I don’t know if looked sort of like a large turtle in a trench coat, hey you were going to LaGuardia right?” The themes of familial bonds and friendship building in the face of great evil were very resonant to me.
And I love movies and shows set in New York City in that time period. King of New York, Home Alone 2, The Critic, Sleepless in Seattle, NYPD Blue, TMNT, etc. All great movies/shows in part because of the NYC setting. And most of those weren’t even filmed in New York, except King of New York. TMNT was mostly filmed in North Carolina and NYPD Blue was shot in LA but that’s the power of some good establishing exterior shots. Real movie magic lol.
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i just remembered this and laughed for like 5 gay minutes
you gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket
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I think about Hoseiken Seiko all the time hahah
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Oh my God who is responsible for that lmao
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iirc, it was the uk bluray release
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First the “hero” nonsense and now this
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Jose Canseco was censored in Europe because they were afraid it would encourage kids to use performance enhancing drugs.
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I have rewritten this post more than once, but I feel I can’t do this justice. We didn’t deserve this cartoon, but I am glad it was made. I missed out on this in more ways than one, because it aired at a time I was only watching Cartoon Network during Adult Swim. I completely tuned out in the Juniper Lee, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner, Foster’s Home, etc. era. I was also still going through anime only views. The only western animation I would watch, of any kind, was Adult Swim shit sandwiched between the anime. But, holy shit, this one is really, really good. It is up there with Downtown, in my pantheon, of all time great media.
It is a shame its second season was fucked internally by Cartoon Network when they restructured. At least they ended the show on a high note with a Christmas special. I am salty they did only release a single OST. If you want to hear the S2 and the Special songs by themselves, you have to get them as audio from the episodes. This hurt me, because you can stream the first OST with Spotify and official YouTube where the sound quality is better than hearing it in an episode recording.
That is life. I have got zero, I do mean zero, nostalgia for this show. It never aired for Latin America at all. Neither in Spanish or Portuguese. Wiki says the show is called MP 3000 in Spain, but I can’t find it a clip or any records to prove this. I read a French version exists because the wiki listed French voice actors, but I can only find clips with Russian, Romanian, and Polish.
Class of 3000 - Cartoon Network TV Rips 2006-2007 + Extras + HD Rips + Italian Dub
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I am going through some shit offline (as usual), so pretend my pfp is this Max wielding uzis and that it reads “Atari Teenage Riot” as its caption. I swear this joke makes sense in my head, because Atari Teenage Riot’s first album was called 1995 before it was reissued as “Delete Yourself!”
The original cover had an uzi with the band’s logo. Now, you know what was released during April 1995? A Goofy Movie. One month after “1995” came out. I bring it up because I have seen a documentary about A Goofy Movie on Disney+, which shed some light on production history, impact, and legacy by 2024. I came around to this movie.
My very first watch was when I found the Yeti scene, the Soup scene, and the Diner scene playing in the Disney Channel at a relative’s house. At that time, my native country had no LatAm version of the Disney Channel. It was all in English. I could not understand it for shit at 10, but left a good imprint in my head. This looked cool at least.
Fast forward to Thanksgiving 2006 (or 2007), the Disney Channel was showing A Goofy Movie. I caught it around the quarter point, at 19, I can follow it and understand English. The movie left a mixed impression. I used to think that it had too much from Max angsting and being a cunt to Goofy in most of the trip, so I could not relate.
Fast forward to the '10s, I get to see this again, now in my mid to late '20s, and the movie hit differently, because the narrative is more relatable to me as an adult who had to deal with hard and uneasy family issues. I thought it was a great movie from that point on.
The sequel, not so much (at first), but it has grown on me. It is like the 1990 Ninja Turtles movie, the first is a cold classic, while its sequel is flawed and fumbles a lot, but you can enjoy it as its own thing, despite falling short to its prequel. It is good, not crazy good like the first, but I still enjoy them way more than I did with Goof Troop and Quack Attack, which were the Disney series that were airing a lot during the mid to late '90s, in my country. Might have caught The Mighty Ducks show, with the crime fighting hockey ducks.
I have seen A Goofy Movie after the Not Just a Goof documentary. I must say that it still holds up. I think I enjoy it more at my current age, given that I had heard enough R&B after I turned 30, that I can appreciate what Disney went for on the vocal songs. I usually avoid Disney movies that have more than a few songs, because I just can’t like musicals, animated or otherwise.
No way I am watching the sequel with no one around after having seen this again, though. I could watch that one with a friend or a group stream. I can’t watch it by itself, because like I say, it is too flawed and fumbles a lot. I have heard how much A Goofy Movie was meant to be among the firsts of many B-Team Disney movies, such as The Return of Jafar, but A Goofy Movie is a labour of love. I prefer it to many of the Disney Animated Canon movies.
Maybe it is my age, but the down to earth stories in both Goofy movies is easier for me to watch than the epic, fantasy, or sci-fi storytelling that you have come to expect from the Disney Animated Canon. The sequel is only one of the two that does feel like the B-Team, straight to video, Disney shit we got in the late '90s to late '00s, but the first looks and sounds as good as I would expect for a 1995 movie from Disney’s smaller teams in other areas of the world. It is not a real problem.
For all their faults; being a mixed bag, some Disney straight to video movies are great, like A Tigger Movie. It looks good and has a strong narrative. You can see sometimes it is not their poor second studios at fault, but the scripts and the story boards they were given. You can’t polish shit, even if you can make shit look good, it is still shit, like some of the movies found on this list:
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