Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Hello? I think we are products of the 80's here. I loved the Turtles movie. I think I liked III the best, but it has been YEARS since I've seen any of them.

Heh, the third film wasn't bad at all; I like it. Certainly better than the second's story and Vanilla Ice cameo (neither of which I was never very happy with when I was younger). Otherwise, the first movie is by far the best in my mind; it was grittier, darker and more realistic. Plus, the Turtle suits and animatronics that Jim Henson and his company made for that movie looked so great on film. Fluidly smooth and full of emotion. The latter two paled by comparison in this regard where the turtle designs were worse and had a jerky, irregular motion with the animatronics. Too bad Jim Henson died after the first movie was made.

Otherwise, the scene I remembered from the first film, after seeing it in the theater, had to do with the scene where they are communing with master splinter telepathically. I could have sworn in the theater that they had their eyes open and talked to the phantom in the fire directly, but when I got the movie on VHS their eyes were closed through the entire sequence and it seemed shorter than I remembered. That conflict between my memory and what I watched on VHS really weirded me out for some reason. Though I was younger then and it does seem trivial now.

Oh, and here's a quick fact: as far as I know, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was the top grossing, idependantly made film of all time, which is cool.