Other super hero teams comparing themselves to TMNT

[Jephael]

My dad told me about a news article that says the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie is gonna kick TMNT's butts! My dad doesn't even know what the ATHF but I've seeb plenty of episodes on Adult Swim so when I heard about this I nearly busted a gut!

[Angelo]

My dad told me about a news article that says the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie is gonna kick TMNT's butts! My dad doesn't even know what the ATHF but I've seeb plenty of episodes on Adult Swim so when I heard about this I nearly busted a gut!

Lolz i don't even know what athf is and it sounds like a bad name... no offense. But if your on TMNT's side then you are going the right way. Nothing can beat the turtles. Except maybe Sonic the hedgehog i like him too.

[Michaelangelo]

I don't know if they're going to do as well as TMNT, really I don't think they did enough promotion for it either.  Cause the poster and trailers haven't been around enough.  I saw more out for the TMNT movie and I felt that promotion wasn't all that well.

[Raphael]

Yeah, but the promotions for TMNT didn't grind a major city to a screeching halt, costing many many dollars and keeping emergency personnel occupied for hours.  

[Michaelangelo]

eh?

[Raphael]

Just referring to that advertising campaign gone wrong that ATHF did a few months ago - they posted electronic devices in subway stations and other transportation places in some major cities. Most places paid them no mind, but Boston, possibly on higher alert than most cities due to their unintentional involvement in 9/11, went to battle stations and treated the devices as possible bombs. Transportation was shut down for hours, bomb squads were everywhere, the city on high alert..

In the end, it was a stupid advertising tactic that has ended up costing the Cartoon Network a chunk of change (they paid Boston the money that was spent on this 'situation') and I even think one of the head guys may have quit over the mess.

Did Boston overreact? Probably...but in this day and age, people should know better than to put electronic devices into places like subway stations and such.

[HUN]

Well, my take on that bold statement is that TMNT shouldn't lose any sleep.
I think that so-called movie will bomb big time!
I defenitely think that ATHF is hands down the most ridiculous concept I've ever heard of, and NOBODY will convince me otherwise! Even my brother can't stand them. I can't believe they could waste money making a movie out of that junk!  
Raph's comment is right on the money. That publicity stunt cost Cartoon Network a lot, and their head guy was fired for it. We'll see how many Adult Swim fans flock to it, though I'm sure it won't be a million dollar hit(maybe a thousand dollar hit, maybe?)  

I'm like AngeloRocks! TMNT and Sonic the Hedgehog rules!
Maybe Sonic will have a decent movie someday; who knows?  

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

ATHF got a limited release and opened with maybe 3 million dollars. I guess it did okay depending on how much they spent on it.

[Andrew Modeen]

My dad told me about a news article that says the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie is gonna kick TMNT's butts! My dad doesn't even know what the ATHF but I've seeb plenty of episodes on Adult Swim so when I heard about this I nearly busted a gut!

TMNT doesn't have much of a butt left for kicking, but ATHF itself has sunk faster than the Titanic.

From what I gather it is chock full of Family Guy-esque pop culture references, but I have no interest in seeing cheap-looking, Flash-animation-style movies or cartoons.

[Michaelangelo]

Though true with this movie, my dad went and saw it and said it is really bad.  It's like a long version of the show on TV, a badly done long version... which is just way too long.  He feels he really wasted his money going to it.  At least he only spent $4.    I had a feeling this movie wasn't going to do that well.

TMNT has kicked many movies butts

Premonition (Came out a week before TMNT and is behind) : $46,836,048    
Shooter (which came out the SAME week as TMNT is even behind TMNT!) : $42,092,524
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Came out the week of TMNT) : $20,132,160
The Last Mimzy (Came out the week of TMNT) : $20,033,215
Amazing Grace (Came out 4 weeks before TMNT) : $19,962,129
Grindhouse (2 movies) : $19,792,200
The Reaping :    $19,765,297
Reign Over Me (Came out the week of TMNT) : $19,085,807
Prefect Stranger : $11,206,163
Firehouse Dog : $10,206,420
The Namesake : $8,661,334
The Lives of Others : $8,142,845       
Pathfinder : $5,001,214
The Lookout  : $4,419,224    
Redline : $3,962,385    
The Hoax : $3,413,521
Slow Burn : $778,123
Black Book  : $384,819

That is just a HANDFUL of movies that have not done as well as TMNT.   So please just give it a rest, TMNT is NOT a failure movie!  True it would of done better if the promotions were better for it, and if "Meets the Robinsons" did NOT come out the following week.  But it held it's own and is not the lowest scores in the box office.

And the TMNT are still bringing in money, as they're still in the theater.  So we'll see what the top amount is, when it is out of every theater.  I know I'm still seeing it 16 more times this month alone.  I know that's not much towards the box office, though at least I'm doing what I can to help.

[Leonardo]

So The Reaping isn't all that hot in the $$?
They sure pushed the heck out of that movie. Saw waaay too much at WonderCon, too. In fact, between that and some other icky promos for movies we saw, I drew a funny TMNT sketch while we were sitting in the crowd waiting for the TMNT portion of that panel.
I wouldn't say TMNT was under-promoted, I don't really watch tv at home, but when I was over at Aig's a few times I saw ads for it.

When it all wraps up, I think it won't be considered a total flop, but it won't be considered a great success story either. It'll be in-between. And we'll see what happens on the DVD side of things, too.

[Raphael]

Anyone think that "Meet the Robinsons" is the reason that TMNT's premiere date changed from March 30th to March 23rd?

[Michaelangelo]

Yeah I heard that it was move because of that.   Which is good, cause it would of been very bad if they opened up on the same day.  Though it may have been better for TMNT if it opened two weeks earlier instead of just one.

[Andrew Modeen]

TMNT has kicked many movies butts

Premonition (Came out a week before TMNT and is behind) : $46,836,048    
Shooter (which came out the SAME week as TMNT is even behind TMNT!) : $42,092,524
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Came out the week of TMNT) : $20,132,160
The Last Mimzy (Came out the week of TMNT) : $20,033,215
Amazing Grace (Came out 4 weeks before TMNT) : $19,962,129
Grindhouse (2 movies) : $19,792,200
The Reaping :    $19,765,297
Reign Over Me (Came out the week of TMNT) : $19,085,807
Prefect Stranger : $11,206,163
Firehouse Dog : $10,206,420
The Namesake : $8,661,334
The Lives of Others : $8,142,845       
Pathfinder : $5,001,214
The Lookout  : $4,419,224    
Redline : $3,962,385    
The Hoax : $3,413,521
Slow Burn : $778,123
Black Book  : $384,819

Good examples -- and it is nice to know that TMNT, at least, didn't flop as bad as some of the other flops this year -- but you do realize... all those movies are flops, too, right? Some of them massively.

It's rather like a kid with a report card with all Fs on it defending it to his parents by showing them report cards from other students at his school with F Minuses on it. It's still an F.

[Michaelangelo]

Sorry but looking at this, it's not an F, if anything the TMNT have a C not F...

Why are you so against the movie?   Why do you keep insisting that it's doing so bad?   Instead of trying to do something to help it, or encourage others to see it?   Did you really not like the movie that much?  To where you're just going to give it a bad name no matter what?

You know what ever you say, you're not going to convince me this was a flop.