Once again, I am making a post from my iPhone, so please forgive the shortness.
One of my earliest childhood memories was receiving my first tmnt a action figure for my 3rd birthday. It was Donatello, and probably the coolest thing I'd ever seen in my life, up to that point at least. I started watching the cartoon with a near obsessive fervor. When I was in middle school orchestra, I learned how to play the theme song on my viola.
I remember seeing the original movie in theaters, and coming out a changed man; it was my first moviegoing experience where I watched something from a cartoon universe become real before my very eyes. And now, over two decades later, a whole new generation of turtle likers (I made my mom write "Cody is a turtle liker on all of my notebooks when I was in kindergarten) will get to have that experience for themselves. But times have changed; children are growing up in a different era of cinema from when I was young.
There isn't even a teaser out for Michael Bay's rendition of our favorite "heroes in a half shell" yet, so I'm going to refrain from jumping on the band wagon of trashing a movie that I haven't seen a single frame of yet. And in a way, it's no longer my generations movie, this one belongs to a new audience. But it is nice knowing that a fresh helping of nostalgia-pie is coming.
Cody Hobbs
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