You know, we moan and moan about Michael bay films and raping our childhoods but the bottom line is his films make money. They don’t make “my” money but it’s clear that the majority have spoken and the majority are quite frankly, easy to please. The rest of us, the minority, those that are less easy to please, it seems that we are destined to suffer in this world. And I use the word suffer very lightly in this context :)

I once mistakenly watched Transformers all the way through, I knew then that my life expectancy had been greatly reduced and heaps of joy had been sucked from my soul.
I wish I’d just watched Small Soldiers again instead.

Unless they scrapped that script, though I don’t see that change referenced in the article you linked to.

You are entitled to your opinion and to change it if you want, no contest there, but I don’t understand why you’re backing away from the point you and the folks at Latino Review made so well.  I don’t see any reason to believe Eastman, a consultant, provides much of an objective opinion..

And Liebesman as director, seriously?  This is a redeeming feature?  Jonathan ‘Wrath of the Titans’ Liebesman? Jonathan ‘Battle of OMFG DID YOU SEE HOW BAD THIS MOVIE WAS Los Angeles’ Liebesman?  This is not a selling point.

But hey.  Just my opinion.

Also, WRT the Avengers movie, without getting into a general discussion of investing emotionally in a movie being completely faithful to the work that it adapts (just one word: don’t), it’s worth noting the huge success of the movie measured against the ongoing contraction of comics readership. Trekkies who are still angry at the recent movie’s reboot of continuity have to come to grips with the fact that the old continuity had been pretty much exhausted and wasn’t of much interest to anyone besides hard-core fans (who still have an MMORPG to play around in), and similarly, losing Giant-Man and the Wasp was a small price to pay for expanding the appeal of the character well beyond comics fanboys, although I would like to see at least the Wasp introduced, just to bring a little more gender parity back. But expecting a panel-by-panel filming of the original Lee-Kirby comic is not a really good idea; the closest that there’s been to a big-budget literal translation of a comic has been Watchmen, and we know how that turned out.

So, with this Ninja Turtles movie… I’m not a fan of Michael Bay, but I don’t have the hate that a lot of Transformers fans have for him, either. The question comes down to: Who else should do the movie? Tim Burton turned out to be the wrong person to helm Planet of the Apes, but it’s possible that the superior sequel wouldn’t have been made without his movie. Who has both the right style and the credibility to get a decent budget for this? Peter Jackson?

Michael Bay has made some great and intense movies.

Cool!  Name one.

The Raid: Redemption is must-see for any action movie buff; but it’s already being remade…as the new Judge Dredd movie. So: way to jump on board last year’s hot thing.

I hold no special allegance to TMNT mythology canon, but the whole reboot for the sake of reboot because reboot is tedious, and Michael Bay at the helm guarantees tedious on top of tedious with tedious going all the way down.