Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

The Tomatometer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is still hovering around 20%. So far, only 64% of the audience voting on Rotten Tomatoes "liked it." This is way lower than the 96% who said they liked Guardians of the Galaxy. This suggests that Ninja Turtles will be quite frontloaded an will fizzle quickly. It has a Cinemascore of B, which isn't bad but isn't great. It'll probably have a really bad second weekend. Who knows, though?

[Dalty]

Saw the trailer before GOTG - looked like sweaty ass, and the whole audience seemed totally non-plussed.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

The whole audience seemed utterly perplexed? You'd think they'd expect this kind of shit by now.

[omicron]

Apparently, being a shitty movie doesn't prevent you from getting a sequel...

http://www.deadline.com/2014/08/teenage ... to-return/

[Dalty]

I think we just have to accept the fact that Bay has completely transcended critique and is now unstoppable.

Fuck.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It looks like it's essentially Transformers, but with giant turtles in the place of robots.

[Dalty]

How do we make him stop?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

He can't stop. He has to slow down, first.

[Dalty]

I haven't seen the South Park Bay episode but I have heard it's good.

[Dalty]

[Mal Shot First]

My company moved into a new office complex today, and our new cubicles glass surfaces on top of each wall, where you can write or draw on with dry-erase markers. Since Ninja Turtles are one of the few things I can draw from memory, this was the first thing that I put on there today:



Just for the record: I always preferred Donatello, but they didn't give me a purple marker. The only other possibility would have been Raph, and you know I ain't gonna draw no Raph.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Apparently, they've really nerded Donatello up for the new movie. He was always a tech head, of course, but I guess they felt they needed to give us more visual cues of his nerdiness.

[Mango]

Met with some friends to see this tonight.

Our ratings:
Murdertrain: 3.5 out of 5
Me: one out of five
Charlemagne P: minus five out of what ever

M-train didn't even say he liked it, so i doubt the validity of his rating system. He friggin' loved "Guardians of the Galaxy" and only rated it a star higher. Anyways, he thought this was ok but hated the change to the origin.
CP got very sick during the movie due to the thumping bass and spinning movement.
I'd watch it on TV if there was nothing better on. Splinter vs Shedder was fun, better than Yoda vs Dooku. Megan Fox was ok as April but I really disliked the design of the turtles. six foot and ripped is wrong, four foot and turtle shaped feels right. I did kind of like Donnie wearing glasses, but the tech was a bit much.

[Dalty]

If 'Cinematic Piss' and this beat GOTG at the box office then there is truly no justice in this world.

[Dalty]

Seeing Mal's post reminds me to ask. How's the new jobbie going Mal? Right decision?

[Mal Shot First]

Thanks for asking, Dalty! It's going pretty well. The first month was kind of busy, since they were introducing me to new things all the time, but I've got about two and a half months under my belt now and I feel like I've got the hang of it. It's not a particularly challenging job, but the tasks are multifaceted and I'm never just doing one thing over and over again, so I stay relatively engaged. I'm enough on top of things at the moment that I can find plenty of time to surf the Web and read Huffy Flounce, for example.

I'm grateful to have received the opportunity to do this, since I had to get a foothold in the industry somehow, but I doubt that I will want to stay in this position for a long time (and I don't think anyone is meant to). This probably comes off as arrogance, but I do feel like I have more potential than I'm exercising at my current job. If I can't move toward something more demanding (and better paid) within the company, I'll probably try to look elsewhere for the kind of publishing job I would like to have. In fact, there's a Development Editor position at a textbook publisher that I am applying for, but I don't have much hope of landing an interview. I doubt that my two months of experience will count toward anything (but my Ph.D. might ).

[Dalty]

After only two months? Speculative punt rather than serious plan right now?

[Mal Shot First]

Just giving it a shot. I saw the job ad and thought it couldn't hurt to try - if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. It's not that I'm utterly dissatisfied with where I am, but the textbook editor job seems more closely aligned with my qualifications.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

This ad on YouTube keeps telling me Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the number one movie in America, but that ceased to be true as of Monday. Guardians of the Galaxy is back on top.

[Dalty]

Guardians, over here, seems to be reaching out to a wider audience. My PA went to see it with her son and loved every minute. Some of the other 'older ladies' on the floor have also been and loved it. A colleague went to see it with his two teenage daughters.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

My Pa couldn't go see it.

[Dalty]

None of the punchlines I can come up with here are even close to approaching respectful...... so I withdraw.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It's not like any of them would offend me.

[neglet]

You know why the older ladies love it: fuckin' buff Chris Pratt.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

He's pretty sexy.