So it looks fun and exactly the kinda thing I'll watch with Kiddo but:
The thing that kinda left me shook watching this trailer is that I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever seen the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look, act, and sound like actual fucking teenagers as opposed to like early 20s college fratboys.
Like I guess its a consequence of the fact that almost everyone playing a teenager in highschool on TV, in the 90s especially, was a 30 year old...but still...kinda weird on reflection.
All I want is a TMNT film or show that's based on the original comics and has that dark & gritty feel. Is that too much to ask?
The first movie exists.
Yeah I couldn't imagine a dark and gritty TMNT aside from the first movie until it fell into general use I guess?
The first movie is not bad and is probably the closest thing to the comics, but still falls a little short imo.
Still probably gonna be the closest you'll get. I've got a soft spot for that movie cause it made the Foot Clan seem fucking awesome. I wanna be like that Sid Vicious shirt kid and hang out at a sweet indoor skatepark and smoke cartons of regular or menthol cigarettes.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I first saw it. Their hideout awesome and as a kid I've always dreamed of living in some place like that.
I saw it as a super little kid a couple years after it came out, as an early teen and in my 20s a few times cause I'm a movie nerd and it's a fascinating film behind the scenes. The whole time, I still feel like the Foot Clan was just the scruffy working class skater kids to the Ninja Turtles suburban brats.
Foot Clan are Chain Punk, Ninja Turtles are egg punk