Me - I saw a turtle the other day. It was crossing the road. I wanted to save it, but traffic was heavy and he was on a hill. I would've died.
Kyle - If I see this turtle again, I'm naming him. Probably Raphael.
Me - You favor that ninja?
Kyle - Yeah, not only is he named after one of the most powerful archangels, his color is red and he uses sais. Great stuff. Just wish he wasn't a teenager. But I can look past that since he's a mutant turtle humanoid.
Me - I love that reasoning.
Kyle - He is very efficient with his fighting. He is quick, precise and very powerful. What's not to like about a turtle totin' some sais?
Me - Nothing. You're right. I am being stubborn.
Kyle - Well, I mean, if you go by colors, you may like a different turtle.
Me - No, red and green are my favorite. I would choose red over green.
Kyle - What about shredder? What's he got against mutated turtles and a mutated rat?
Me - I'm going to tell you something, I never watched Ninja Turtles - don't plan on it. Haha. I know they have famous painter names AND they're turtles. Oh, their master is a rat.
Somehow, that tickled his fancy.
I bought a shirt. It's okay to be jealous:
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Why is this the only exciting thing to happen to me?
This reminds me, did you hear about the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie? It's got quite a lot of fans pissed off.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-KhoSo9Xh0
ReplyDeleteThat's it, right?
Looks positively awful. That girl is such a bad actress. I bet her and that turtle fall in love.
I don't think that's it. I don't recall there being any footage released, but I know Michael Bays only released a general synopsis of the movie. Pretty much, if I'm not mistaken, the movie is just being called Teenage Ninja Turtles because they aren't mutants, they are aliens from another planet. There some more if you want to look it up, but long story short. It's going to be a Busted-Sewer-pipe-on-fire-with-a-tornado level of a shit storm.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a horrible idea. Honestly. I don't know who okay'd that -- they've obviously given up on any set career.
ReplyDeleteHaha, their planet would have the environment of Yoda's home. And their home planet would still have to be so far advanced they can shuttle through galaxies. Good luck selling that.
ReplyDeleteThe unfortunate part is, it will sell, most likely enough to get a sequel. We live in a generation where as much as people moan and groan over how everything is CGI and just explosions, people eat it up and the worst part is they will continue to eat it. I don't go to the movies anymore (the last movie I saw in theaters was District 9). I just tired of everything just being rebooted or books and comics being turned into a movie. I can use my own imagination while reading a book, I don't need some over paid actress/actor to run their mouth for two hours. It seems like every medium from the game industry to the music industry is suffering from "in the moment productions" and it's sad.
ReplyDeleteAbout the only thing I can stand to stomach is the development phase where things are just concepts like art and reading a old classical books or books that are centuries old. Those stories and cultures will never be forgotten (and quite frankly I'll never run out of art and books to read haha).
I don't go anymore unless a friend truly wants me to. The book, with the characters in my head, is better. I know the book is always better, but reading, let's say, Harry Potter, and watching it were two different things. It was nice, however, to see all the magic tricks and Hogwarts itself, but it lacked definition to me. If any of this makes sense. Watching it doesn't make that lurch in my stomach, that defining moment where the plot thickens.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who won't read anything but smut. I don't see the point. A lot of the people I know will only watch romances, or stories that are so cliched that it's okay to continuously react it over and over again, just with different actors. I get so bored nowadays. I am looking forward to summer break to make a dent in the stack of books I'm already arranging by importance to read.
Art is never dying. There are so many associations with the images that it's easy to refine, to change one element to have an entire different meaning. I'm jealous of people who can paint.
And, "I don't need some over paid actress/actor to run their mouth for two hours." That literally made me lol.
Yeah I hear you. The problem with seeing something/watching it and reading it is that you lose the sense of imagination. The minute you see Hogwarts on screen you instantly (and I've had this debated before) lose your concept of what Hogwarts looks like, it is mentally replaced with an physical representation that takes a dedicated fan or someone with a good sense of knowing 'what-the-hell-is-thisitis' to overwrite that with their own imagination. When I read Lord of the Rings for the first time I had an image of what Aragon looked like...when I watched the movie, his face to me now is only the actor, I can't even remember what I envisioned him as.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I will NEVER watch or look at drawings or movies of any of H.P. Lovecrafts work. It is so important that the reader imagines the horror as opposed to seeing it. 95% of the time Lovecraft's beast are meant to be seen as they cause insanity. Pretty damn stupid when the audience just sits there staring at the a being that is suppose to be beyond their comprehension.
Yeah art will never die due to the fact there will always be a way a viewer and audience can interpret a painting. Makes me happy I went to the illustration and concept art field. It's what I do for a living.
You're lucky in that aspect. I just want to write my little stories. That's all I ever want to do, truthfully, but language first. Ha, when I'm in France one day, I expect writings from myself, like the others before me.
ReplyDeleteOh creating art for yourself will always beat creating anything for the masses. Are you a compulsive writer, haha I always imagine writers as being someone who carries a little journal everywhere to jot down everything. I had a friend who did that, it was like having a human blog around, which yielded some pretty interesting results.
ReplyDeleteI loved writing the moment I realized I could literally make anything happen. I am a compulsive writer. I carry a piece of paper and pens (always more than one, never know) and jot down whatever I think is interesting. I carry a moleskin journal around and write down my philosophical thoughts, haha. I have a bin in my room with everything I ever kept for my stories. It's getting pretty full.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so I have to say that you really should watch The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Really.
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