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Okay, I'm pretty sure Michael Bay doesn't know how anything works, but this takes the cake. Most likely one of these cakes.
He's supposed to be making a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. So he decided to make the world "richer" (um, what?) by making the main characters members of an extraterrestrial species instead of mutant turtles like it says in the title. Then, when TMNT fans reacted exactly the way anyone who has spent more than 17 seconds on the internet would expect, Bay responded by telling them to "take a deep breath and chill" because "they have not read the script." Dude, comics fans will go through the roof if you change a character HAIR COLOR! You cannot get away with acting surprised that they're mad about a radical departure from who and what the main characters fundamentally ARE! I am simultaneously laughing like a hyena because LOL, what? Is this guy new or something? and feeling a little bit guilty about that because I remember how I have raged over much less drastic departures in the X-Men movies.
You couldn't pay me to see this movie, but I am making popcorn for the internet storm around it.
He's supposed to be making a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. So he decided to make the world "richer" (um, what?) by making the main characters members of an extraterrestrial species instead of mutant turtles like it says in the title. Then, when TMNT fans reacted exactly the way anyone who has spent more than 17 seconds on the internet would expect, Bay responded by telling them to "take a deep breath and chill" because "they have not read the script." Dude, comics fans will go through the roof if you change a character HAIR COLOR! You cannot get away with acting surprised that they're mad about a radical departure from who and what the main characters fundamentally ARE! I am simultaneously laughing like a hyena because LOL, what? Is this guy new or something? and feeling a little bit guilty about that because I remember how I have raged over much less drastic departures in the X-Men movies.
You couldn't pay me to see this movie, but I am making popcorn for the internet storm around it.