So this weekend I went home for Easter and it was fun. My mom still buys us 2 dozen eggs every year...just in case. I went out Sunday night to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a friend of mine. When we were kids my friend used to make me play TMNT with him, and in exchange he had to play barbies with me. It was a sweet deal until the day I got slimed, that ooze must be radioactive because it took several washings to get it out of my hair. Anyway, the movie was great. We felt a little childish watching with young kids in the theatre, but it occured to me that the makers of this new TMNT version would probably be counting on the patronage of former fans. That eventhough the story is meant for children, the event itself appeals to all ages, from kids to thirty-year olds.
Video game nostalgia brings older games to newer systems like the Wii and XBox360 which both offer the feature of downloading old favorites. The only downside to this that I've noticed is that the lag time between the action you take on the new system's controller and the response to that action on the screen. My NES never took half a second longer to respond to my jump comand, and that is a very irritating aspect to playing old games on new consoles. Frankly, I'd rather think back to 1989 when I got my first Nintendo (also the year I found out Santa was a hoax) and keep the original gaming experience a fond memory. It changes, sours when you go back to game you played as a child and you realize that it isn't as much fun as you remember, or nearly as exciting. My reflexes have changed, games today aren't as predictable.
TMNT has nothing to do with this, it just popped into my head. But TMNT was a new experience too. The animation was great, your standard save-the-world scenario, and new villains, but the ending suggested that a new TMNT would be out soon, and this time with Shredder (crossing fingers). I noticed though, that while watching the movie I was paying less attention to the plot than I was to the details, for instance do these new turtles sound like the original ones? Oooh, look, there's the scepter that brings you back in time...stuff like that.
My friend laughed every time one of the turtles made a cheesy remark that is so characteristic of TMNT style.
Overall, my friend and I had a lot of fun reminiscing, but I'm wondering if there was ever an old TV show, well old for me...80s-ish?, that was remade into a feature film specifically for an adult audience.
Video game nostalgia brings older games to newer systems like the Wii and XBox360 which both offer the feature of downloading old favorites. The only downside to this that I've noticed is that the lag time between the action you take on the new system's controller and the response to that action on the screen. My NES never took half a second longer to respond to my jump comand, and that is a very irritating aspect to playing old games on new consoles. Frankly, I'd rather think back to 1989 when I got my first Nintendo (also the year I found out Santa was a hoax) and keep the original gaming experience a fond memory. It changes, sours when you go back to game you played as a child and you realize that it isn't as much fun as you remember, or nearly as exciting. My reflexes have changed, games today aren't as predictable.
TMNT has nothing to do with this, it just popped into my head. But TMNT was a new experience too. The animation was great, your standard save-the-world scenario, and new villains, but the ending suggested that a new TMNT would be out soon, and this time with Shredder (crossing fingers). I noticed though, that while watching the movie I was paying less attention to the plot than I was to the details, for instance do these new turtles sound like the original ones? Oooh, look, there's the scepter that brings you back in time...stuff like that.
My friend laughed every time one of the turtles made a cheesy remark that is so characteristic of TMNT style.
Overall, my friend and I had a lot of fun reminiscing, but I'm wondering if there was ever an old TV show, well old for me...80s-ish?, that was remade into a feature film specifically for an adult audience.
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