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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie leaves Netflix on June 1 but will remain on HBO Max. It’s also got a very young Sam Rockwell in a minor role! - PV Produced by legendary Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest and distributed by New Line Cinema, TMNT was a surprise box office smash hit, holding the record for highest-grossing independent film until The Blair Witch Project. The use of real suits also allowed for talent specialization (different performers were used for puppetry, voice acting, martial arts scenes, and skateboarding stunts), allowing the production to swap in different people under the suit without breaking audience immersion. The suits - designed by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, one of the Muppet master’s last projects - look incredible and bring a real tangibility to this appropriately comic book-like adaptation.
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The movie follows intrepid TV reporter April O’Neil (Judith Hoag) as she works with the turtles to stop a crime ring from taking over New York City. Where this pre-Code movie differs from even modern versions of that story is what happens next: They try to make it work as a three-person relationship.ĭelightfully silly and overwhelmingly ’90s (for better and worse), the original TMNT is a fun time for all ages.
She falls for both of them, and they fall for her - a classic love triangle situation. The movie follows an artist (Miriam Hopkins) who meets two men (Gary Cooper and Fredric March) on a train to Paris. One of the best examples is Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 romantic comedy Design for Living, adapted from the Noël Coward play.
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If you’ve ever wondered why many old Hollywood movies have couples sleeping in separate beds, the Hays Code is why!īetween when “talkies” fully burst onto the scene in 1929 and when the code was first widely enforced in 1934 (also known as the pre-Code era), there was a lot more freedom in terms of what Hollywood was allowed to depict. Cluelessįrom 1934 until the 1960s, movies made in the United States abided by what was commonly known as the Hays Code, a set of conservative moral guidelines meant to restrict what people, stories, and events movies were allowed to depict on screen (examples of things that weren’t allowed include interracial relationships, gay people, and criticism of laws and people in power). With a new version of Blade coming to the MCU, what better time to revisit one of the all-time superhero movie greats? - PVīlade and Blade II leave Netflix on June 1.
The second movie is directed by Guillermo del Toro and brings in Ron Perlman, Norman Reedus, and Donnie Yen to the fun. The movie’s opening vampire rave scene is an all-timer, dropping you instantly into the movie’s universe and delivering an unforgettable action sequence. Goyer (the Dark Knight trilogy, Man of Steel), the first movie introduces us to the vampire-hunter Blade, a human-vampire hybrid. Directed by former special effects artist Stephen Norrington (who worked on Aliens) and written by superhero movie staple David S. Arguably the first true massive hit for the genre was 1998’s Blade, the sleek vampire horror thriller with the coolest leading man in the game at the time in Wesley Snipes. Superhero movies take up a disproportionate amount of box office space these days, but that’s a relatively recent phenomenon.