Memories of TMNT Movie 1

[Michaelangelo]

Man, thinking back to early 1990 when the word hit that there was going to be a Ninja Turtle movie, the surprise that filled me.  I was only just beginning to become a fan, since I learned of them in late 1989.  Though when I heard it was going to be live action it intreged me.   I loved costumes because my father was a costume maker.  So the idea of seeing the Turtles on the screen live was exciteing.  Even my mom was impressed as the pictures started to come out from the movie.   One of the first things we found was the TMNT movie novel.  This inspired my mom to try something out.

For those of you who don't know me that well I am dyslexic, I was a 1st grade reading level in 5th grade (which happens to be the year that this story is taking place).   I could not read any of the books the teachers wanted me too, and they refused me reading help that year because I was to old.  At least that's what they said, as they took me out of their reading help class.  My mom was trying anything she could think of to get me to read, though with the way things were it wasn't easy.  I was not the only person in my family who is dyslexic really my family was the first full family in Michigan to be tested and found that all of us are dystexic.  So it wasn't easy to get me to read when even my folks had reading problems.

My mom saw my interest in the Ninja Turtles and decided to give something new a try.   And held up the movie one novel, she told me if I read this book I would be able to see the movie on opening day.  Not just on opening day, but first showing.  That meant a morning movie on a school day.   I would be allowed to skip school for Ninja Turtles?  What kid could turn that down?   It took me almost the full three months that I had the book to read it, though it was the first book I ever read.   And because I did finish it and answered the questions my mom asked me about the book I was able to go and see the movie on opening day, and called in sick to school.

Oh the costumes, I remember just being swept away with how perfect the costumes were.  We saw the movie over 15 times at the theatres.  And it remains one of my favorite movies to this day.    

That is my memories on TMNT 1, what is yours please do share.

[Raphael]

*snicker* See my comment for movie 2...there's no option for the 2-10 time viewers.  

[Leonardo]

*snicker* See my comment for movie 2...there's no option for the 2-10 time viewers.  

*baps Raph with a tossed Snickers bar*

There is now!
Look again!

 

[Aignatius]

Hmm, my comment was deleted. O-kay...

[Michaelangelo]

Huh... deleted... I never saw it...   Wonder what happened...  unless you mean the comment in the "TMNT 2 topic" that's still there.

[Aignatius]

Oh, I got it, now.
This is for TMNT *1*. I think Raph's comments threw me off, they seemed to be the same as the other one. *baps Raph for the heck of it* That's for confusing me, you lug.
   

[Aignatius]

*makes note to remove age from profile*

Yes, movie ONE, I rented the tape for my nieces, nephew and daughter way back in New Year's Eve of 1990, watched it with them, they went to bed, I watched it again, fell asleep in the recliner, and it played one more time while I was sleeping, so that I was fed all these subliminal messages. I think I was brainwashed, or something. How typical of ninja to do this.  

[Leonardo]

LOL!
This is almost as good as the night in IRC when Raph spoke of mastering the art of Speed Bapping.....

I saw Movie 1 several times in the theatre. 3 or 4?
And I was actually dragged to it the first time by friends. When your first experience of TMNT is the old cartoon "the Great Cufflink Caper", that's a "bad foot" to start on. My friends Promised I would like it....
And I enjoyed it so much, that very night I borrowed my sister's First Graphic novel collection of the Mirage comics. (I had already been reading Titans and X-Men comics, among some others loaned to me by friends.) And then I was completely hooked ever since on TMNT, staying up until 2 am on a work night to read through Return to NY....
And this happened because the quality of the story and the characters in the first movie was so good. The costumes (so awesome for the time period it came out) was secondary, so that even now, as it it looks a bit dated, the movie still holds up well. A couple years ago they had an old print of it they showed at San Diego Comic Con on older projectors, it was great fun to see it on a "big screen" again.

[OnnaRaphael]

My first memory of the first movie was not seeing it.  

When I was a kid living with my mom and biological father we were poor, my mom didn't drive and my dad... well he was kind of a jerk, let's put it that way.  I was such a huge TMNT fan that when the movie came out I just had to see it in the theater!  I'd been to the theater twice in my life and that was it, so if I'd thought about it I probably would have known my chances were slim, but hey I was a kid!

So I begged... and I begged... and I begged.  I made a sign and marched around the house as if I was in a picket line begging to go.  No dice.  My mom couldn't take me and my dad didn't want to go.     So I waited for it to come out on video.

When I finally got it on video though I watched the crap out of that tape!  *L*  I remember first hearing Raph swear and it was just the biggest deal to me, it's like he'd gotten so much more grown up than he was in the cartoon.  I have to admit I thought it was really cool.  *L*  I knew that the turtles weren't real but suddenly it's like they were more real than cartoon.

And that's about that really.  

[Jephael]

I'll never forget the day I went to see it! My parents went away that weekend so my sister and I were spending the weekend with our cousin Amy and her then-married parents who knew I was just starting to get into the Turtles so that day they told me we were going to see it.

While sitting in the car with Amy while her mom ran some errands, she started telling me how she how she had gotten to see it before, meaning this would be the second time she got to see it. I've always been a sucker for spoilers, so I asked what happens and of coarse she tells me that Shredder dies. That had me very excited when we got to the theatre!

So that evening when we got to the theatre, I saw this awesome looking neon lighted poster of one of the cartoon Turtles saying "Hey dudes, this is no cartoon!" which I was not at all prepared to take into account. At the time I knew next to nothing about the TMNT except for the cartoon so when Splinter started to tell the origin, I thought for sure we would see an image of Hamato Yoshi being changed into a rat. It was a very odd altercation to me, but I decided to go with it.

About an hour and 20 minutes into the flick, I started nodding off and right when they got to the part where the turtles met and fought with Shredder I fell asleep and rested against my uncle's chest until me cousin jolted me awake just in time to see Casey pulling the lever that activated the dumpster that crushed Shredder's armour.

[Mint]

Movie 1 was the second tmnt movie I saw. After watching movie 3 (having taped it off the TV some years ago), I suddenly remembered my big obsession with them when I was a kid. It all came back. I phoned my best friend, because I had to share my love, and asked if she'd seen TMNT. I was about to recommend the movie I'd taped to her, but she surprised me by telling me she had both the first and second movie..... I was just so shocked. Anyway, skipping a bit of hyper details, I immediately went round to her house and she popped the first tape in to play. I remember how excited I was when they started speaking in the sewers. My most vivid memory was of Raph's voice as he said "I lost a sai!" Because I was anticipating hearing his voice. I'd gotten so used to 3rd movie Raph sounding tough and older, then 1st movie Raph sounded funny to me back then. But when the movie ended I was just so in love.

Unfortunetly the 1st movie version I saw was an edited version. Britian doesn't like Nunchucks, and so any mention or shot of them was taken out, including the but where Splinter throws the book at Mikey on the phone. And not even a full year ago, the unedited version showed on TV, and I got to see everything that was taken out. Man that was one of the best days.

[Mily]

Aw, they took away the best weapon! Lol,

I was actually kind of young but I do remember watching the video of the first movie, vaguely..., when I was older I rented the video and watched it a lot. I didn't care, I still love this movie, but I dont' have that many memories of watching it when I was young...,

[Lisardo]

I wish I had now seen it in the movie theater.  I dunno why I didn't.  *baps myself*  But I loved it when I did see it on tape! *secretly hopes all three movies, or at least the first one will come out to theaters for a short run before the new movie comes out next year*

[WolfofMibu]

I saw the movie somewhere between 18 and 20 times in the theater.... I forget now....

*laughs*

I loved this movie. It was the first movie I went to that I sat the whole way through and didn't say a word... and I guess when friends went with me I wouldn't let them talk either... *laughs* My poor family... being forced to see this film so many times....

 

[Kazari]

I only saw it like maybe once