Memories of TMNT Movie 1

[Michaelangelo]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TMNT 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If anyone on here has not got to take part in this topic, please do share your first memories of TMNT 1 here!

Wow 19 years ago.... amazing huh?

[Mindy]

Yes, TRULY amazing. 19 years ago?!?!??! 

I saw it on tv and then bought it on videotape. I DO remember it being out in theaters and how all the kids in school were excited. They also wanted to shout the obscenities in the movie too

I wish it could be re-released in theaters across the country or at least some kind of limited release (other than just one area) because I would LOVE to see it in the cinema.

And it's also amazing how this movie still touches fans, young and old.

EDIT: so, hey, why don't we all take a bit of time and rewatch it?  TMNT 1 playing on monitors and tvs across the world.

[Nightwatchersonlygirl]

I saw it on it's opening night I went on my own,it opened on the30/3/90 in the U.k
I fell in love with Raphael 

[Ninjara]

   Time flies. 

    My grandson and I watched this last weekend together at home.  Funny thing, considering I really wasn't aware of the anniversary date at the time.....hmmmm.

    First memory.....Northampton.....and tagging along with the Eastman women to get cigarettes....and Judy standing on her head in the limo sticking her legs out of the sun roof in the freezing night. 

    Second memory.....back home and having a number of co-workers coming over and saying they saw the movie and how funny and lovable the Turtles were....and could I bring in the graphic novels again for them to look at.   

[arcade joe]

God, I remember watching the trailer for the movie and felt kind of skeptical. But when I saw the posters for the turtles, I was awe struck how good they looked, so I began anticipating the movie to a higher regard. And the anticipation paid off in full. I can remember seeing the huge lines of people in the mall waiting to go see it. It seemed like the movie was playing there forever too since it did so well in the box office. In May of 1990 was my first real job working at a video arcade just a few stores down the theatre. I got to know the managers there pretty well, so even though I've seen the movie previously, they would give me movie passes to go see it. Then some of the employees there thought i was kind of insane, but that's a point of view.

I think it's in my top 10 movies of all time list, it just NEVER gets old to me. I still tend to view it from time to time and it's still fantastic to this very day....

[ResidentEvil7]

I remember being 8 years old in 1990, and I with my brother's half brothers (who were my best buddies back then) had to go to the theaters over and over while it was out.  You know I looked for every exscuse to convince my dad and my friend's parents that we need to see this movie above anything else; birthdays, casual, anything.  I must of saw it about 9+ times.  In fact even up to today's date, there was no movie I saw more times at the theaters than the first Ninja Turtles movie.  I mean we were DIE-HARD turtle fans back then (I still am after all these years), and we had to make Ninja Turtles comics, NES game, TV series a part of our hangouts at either of our houses.  In fact I was first introduced to Ninja Turtles when my best friend and his brother came over for a spend over and we popped in a VHS tape containing "Hot Rotting Teenagers" and "A Thing About Rats" and that was when my interest in Ninja Turtles kicked in, and I haven't downed them since.  Although now that I'm an adult now, my Ninja Turtle material and drawings became for for adults (not sexual, but violent).

[Gobbledygook]

TMNT1... My parents both took me to see it in theaters and I was soooo excited.  It was the first movie I had ever been excited to see.  We had to wait in a huge line, and I remember my dad not being so happy about, he thought it was going to be a campy kids movie.  Boy was he wrong.  Haha.  Both my parents enjoyed it too.  It was so epic how it started too.  At first you don't even see the Turtles, during that first fight with the street thugs that confronted April.  Then you kinda see Raph's eyes from under the manhole cover.  Then we are in the sewer, and here them talking offscreen... Then OMG OMG you see their silhouette on the wall in the sewer BAM TMNT LOGO.  Finally all of a sudden they walk into frame. OH MAN do they look real.WOW.  The anticipation of seeing them was killing me, and then you finally see them and you are soooo happy.  That really kicked the movie off to an awesome start.  That's my favorite movie, especially because it held the most true to the original comics.  I love that darker edgier TMNT side.

[1987TMNTGirl]

Borrowed the tape from my neighbor at the time.  She had two kids, girl and boy, and both were a few years younger than me.  It was them, my sister and me.  We'd watch that tape over and over again.  Loved it.