what’s your opinion on the 1990s movie trilogy fir TMNT I mean?
Weeeeeell I was 15 when the first movie hit the cinemas and I went to see it there seven times--once two sessions one after the other--so that should tell you how much I enjoyed it! I never really liked the idea of it being live action because I didn't think they could pull it off, but when I went to see them on the big screen it worked just fine. My only incredibly superficial gripe was that they had Raph be the one beaten up by Foot and thrown through a window, and that's purely because I was heavily into the Mirage comics and that whole fight of Leo's across the city and the way it ended was an iconic experience for me, so I was disappoint they switched Raph in because he was more popular, ROFL. (And by disappoint I mean I had a moment of "aw. well, anyway.") They did well to bring some of the OG darkness to a kids movie and have it appeal to multiple levels of the audience, their Casey Jones was fantastic, their April was stellar, and I listened to that soundtrack on repeat for months.
Then Secret of the Ooze came out and I went to see it expecting more of the same, and... ngl my first reaction was kind of:
It was dumbed down, they weren't allowed to use weapons anymore, everything got slapstick, April got replaced, Casey got vanished, Donnie's voice actor had changed... but we call that Breaking Expectations. They'd been forced to make the movie a lot more slanted at kids and I was no longer really a kid at that point. I went to see it again with an adjusted bar and enjoyed it a lot more. They were still ninja turtles. I love me some ninja turtles. I saw that one four times at the cinema.
I liked the third one better than the second even with the obvious budget cuts and some laughable effects, and shout out to that one guy trying to date me at the time who decided to surprise me by meeting me outside the cinema as I left one screening-- and then goodnaturedly agreed to turn right around and go back in and watch the next one with me. (Guy was been down bad, okay, I took advantage.) Saw it three times.
So yeah, it's safe to say the trilogy was a welcome part of my whole coming of age thing. How they stack up now? I will happily watch the 1990 movie at any point, any time, and I owned it on VHS and still do somewhere in the house, though I no longer have anything to watch that VHS on. But the movie is very available in other formats and I'll watch it again every couple years! It is probably my most watched movie in history. By the time I hit 18 I'd watched that movie 27 times, and I've watched it a whole lot more since then. I can quote it back to front.
Nah. They're too young, and I appreciate that they exist and I don't think they're bad movies, and they've got some great scenes. But they're not really for me and they never were. I probably will sit down and watch them again at some point in the future just for kicks, but they're probably a once every decade kind of thing at best.
Heavily quotable, though. And I'd still take the original trilogy in its entirety over... whatever it was Bay was trying to do.
Thanks for the question! <3
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