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Slow down Katniss by 25% and what do you get? Will Ferrell.

Funniest thing I’ve seen all month.

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Michael Bay thinks “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” fans need to chill.

The 47-year-old director-producer incited outrage among fans of the superhero franchise when he revealed at the Nickelodeon upfront presentation in New York last week that the pizza-loving, crime-fighting turtles would come from an “alien race” in a “Ninja Turtles” film he is producing.

“Fans need to take a breath and chill,” Bay said in a statement posted on his site Monday night. “They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of ‘Ninja Turtles’ to help expand and give a more complex back story. Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world.”

“Ninja Turtles” debuted as a comic book in 1984 before spawning a franchise that included toys, TV shows, films and video games.

Fans took to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites to vent about the apparent change to the wisecracking turtles’ origins.

Robbie Rist, who voiced the character Michelangelo in the original 1990 live-action film adaptation, said Monday in a Facebook message that Bay is “sodomizing” the original movies and causing “the rape of our childhood memories.”

No Michael Bay, you chill. 

Man, the Michelangelo voice actor is awesome. Michael Bay is garbage and needs to take enough chill pills so he doesn’t make any more movies.

brain-food:

Michael Bay is rebooting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle franchise and he dropped a bomb at the Nickelodeon Upfront in New York stating they would be an “Alien Race” - because Michael Bay wants to ruin everyones childhood. 

“When you see this movie, kids will believe one day that these turtles do exist, when we’re done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race, and they’re going to be tough, edgy, funny, and completely lovable.” - Michael Bay

Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles? You’re just going to go and change the whole origin? 

Now, before anyone metaphorically (or semi-literally) explodes over Bay’s statement, don’t forget: going back to their comic book roots, the traditional backstory for the Turtles is that they were regular… well, turtles, who changed after being exposed to a radioactive substance. It’s a pretty ridiculous setup for even a comics series that started out as a satirical imitation of Frank Miller’s brutally grim and violent Ronin/Elektra comics – but eventually gave rise to a beloved property that stands on its own.

So, here’s the million dollar question: does having the Turtles simply be aliens (even “Mutant” ones) sound like a good idea, an inconsequential change – or a terrible decision?

However, now that the decision has been made, it’s really up to theTMNT reboot screenwriting duo of Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Procotol) to actually make that tweaked origin story work.

As for why the Turtles are now going to be aliens: perhaps it’s to allow for other sci-fi elements and characters to be more organically woven into the rebooted TMNT mythology. Not that non-earthlings like the classic villain Krang (who even hailed from another dimension) have really struggled to fit into the series before now, but still…

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot is tentatively set for a December 25th, 2013 theatrical release date (via screenrant)

Fuck Michael Bay.

brain-food:

SOLIPSIST

An experimental film dealing with themes of separation and connection, Andrew Huang’s latest is a jaw droppingly gorgeous visual symphony in 3 movements. What is even more fascinating about Solipsist though in this age of CG trickery (and considering Huang’s own CG expertise) is that evidently most of it’s stellar effects work is practical (see making-of video). Huang wrote;

“We shot the film in a tiny stage in Burbank, CA.  Everything was shot against greenscreen so the entire film required an immense amount of compositing, especially since much of the film involves practical effects.  The only real CG in the film are the tendrils and tentacles that cover the girls’ faces in the first scene.  We used a lot of footage reversal effects to create the effect of the girls’ wardrobe growing out over them.  The underwater scenes were shot in a 100 gal fishtank.  We puppeted the underwater creatures with rods.  They were made from a combo of fish bait/tackle, feathers and sculpey.  By the end of the shoot they were completely mangled.”

Incredible. Do yourself a favor, watch and share this incredible piece of filmmaking. Its absolutely trippy, and I swear you’ll get lost inside this short, but lost in a completely phenomenal way. 

Deserves to be reblogged and watched by everybody. Andrew Huang is incredibly talented.

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International Women’s Day

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Reminds me of Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Genius.

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azizisbored:

I’m doing the benefit mentioned above tomorrow at Largo in LA. Please come. Click the link above to buy tickets. 

If you read the really sad Rolling Stone article “Minnesota’s War on Gay Teens,”  this charity goes to help those kids out. The article made me really sad so I decided to put this show together to raise some money for the charity. 

If you haven’t read the article, its really worth your time.

Tickets avail here: http://largo.laughstub.com/show.cfm?id=136684&cart

Worthy cause by the great Aziz Ansari. Go support the charity!