Wow.... you all bitch alot... yeah I know the GI Joe movie isn't the GI Joe that we grew up with and they may end up screwing it up, but I fully intend to go see it as a modernized GI Joe movie and from their I'll take it or leave it.

Transformers was a great remake and I couldn't be happier with the new "look" of them. If giant alien robots came to Earth do you really think they would look like the blocky TFs from the 80s? No.

Same applies to GI Joe, if the Joes really exsisted, do you think they'd run around in miss-matched outfits fighting a vastly out numbered battle without some kind of "advantage"? The new movie has issues, don't get me wrong, but the issues are (IMO) miniscule compared to the over-all idea behind it.

In short.... I'm all for the new movie. You can label me a traitor to GI Joe, but I'm sticking with it and accepting change. I already converted to the new figures over O-Rings, and I fully intend to see the new movie atleast 2 times. (once IMAX, once regular)

I've no problem with matching outfits.
My problem is with the Accelerator Suits, the stupid story, the ugly Baroness and the excessive use of CGI.

Not me.
 

I don't now General Scarlett, and i haven't taken figures from anyone. I think you're confusing me with someone else. Perhaps with a similar name.

You're mixing up UNCLE Flint with Flint.

Greetings!

Too bad about the Joe film. Today at the bookstore I was talking to some folks who are not Joe fans at all, don't even know the names of the most prominant characters, talking negative about the film. One person, the manager of the store, said he was talking to someone at Office Depot recently about it and that person also was talking bad about it. People talk to others and the talk seems to me to be mostly negative.

The trailers are what they are seeing and they are not seeing anything that attracts them to the film.

Of course, these are just ppl I know.

But this is worrisome, none-the-less. The more I see the trailers the more my stomach sinks. The movie may be great--it may surprise me--but so far from all that I've read, and from the vehicles and some of the figures, I'm not impressed so far.

If I were to complain, where do I even begin? There's so many places to pick bones at. Reviews of the film get me down, the trailers too, the toy line (with the exception of some figures photo'd here) don't get my hopes up. I'm at a point where I am unsure about even bothering to see the film.

Anyway, some trivia that seems fun:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046173/trivia


But then again, maybe it'll be the best thing since sliced bread.

Excited for movie debut
 

I have to admit that I'm excited for the movie opening. Its going to be a lot of fun, even if the movie is awful. Its a series reboot, and I'm okay with that. My only real complaint at this point is that the characters aren't recognizable. I think that's a huge marketing mistake. Recognizable characters draw people in, and add continuity. (Even in a reboot.) If you're really trying to grab the attention of former fans who haven't paid any attention to GI Joe in decades you've got have recognizable charters.

In the recent Star Trek actors with appearance similar to the original cast were chosen. Uniforms were updated, but recognizable. This is obviously harder to do with GI Joe, but it bugs me that they made no effort at all.

Would it have killed Sommers to have chosen and actor old enough to rent a car and had blond hair to play Duke? Did they have to change Stalker's name to Ripcord, and couldn't they show him just once in promo posters wearing BDU's and a beret?

TRAITOR! LOL!!!

Movie Impressions
 

That is the best way to look at it.


LH: It’s always “cooler” to be negative; If you are a socially retarded anal-retentive developmentally arrested proto-adolescent with hostility issues. No, the movie does not adhere to the comic book canon. So what? It was a lot of fun to watch, I liked the characters, and it made sense. To me that’s much better than a sharp stick in the eye or two and half hours of “art.”

So what Hama is saying is its ok to be positive about something as long as your on the payroll but if you dont like the film it's because your a retard and not because you prefer 'art' over slapstick.

I like slapstick, but give me jim carrey as the mask or Ace Ventura I'm fine... just dont add it to Special Anti-Terrorist Teams that fight around the globe.



You've seen how Will Smith is in independance day right? That's the kind of hollywood B.S your going to see in this film.



Cheers for that... not entirely sure if its related to this subject though.. :o



I am pretty much in an agreement with Trench-Viper on this.. a good GIJOE film would be shot similar to the Bourne style or as the Soldiers/Military were in the Transformers film.

Finally it wasn't just ninja force that killed the line, there were a number of very bad marketing decisions and overall choices hasbro made with the gijoe line. Starting with Neon and ending in the cut off of support through comics and cartoons. Factor in the bad marketing and poor product choice and you have a grade A winner for failure. Take a look at the 1983-84 figures and match them to stuff like eco warriors or the mega marines and star brigade :p

I've learnt now to accept Hasbro will never satisfy everyone, I think it stopped trying somewhere in the 80s if I'm honest. I used to care and back the line 100% but whats the point if they aren't willing to listen? They do what they want to do and make it appear to the public like they listen. We've all at some point had the automatic response letter from H. "We're looking into it" kind of thing.

They didn't need to use accelerator suits in the film, they didn't need to change the background of characters from the filecards (Ripcord) as most of the history had been written in for them. Updating the franchise just like TF1 would of been quite fine with me. Shot in the same style as the Soldiers in the film and with a mission to stop a terrorist plot to rule the world.
Just wait until GIJOE 2 : The Commander Arrives.. in this film Cobra Commanders sordid past will be revealed.. how he used to date lady jaye in college and got her pregnant... and how she gave birth to a son who turns out to be firefly..
the film will carry on from where the 80s film did.. with falcon dating jinx as a trainee... it will be falcon who will have to battle a cobra commander clone aboard destro's star destroyer... where he will save the world and save his girlfriend... :p

I think it was around 1991 (Spring loaded missle launchers was the begining IMO) but after that the line begins to devolve.

I like the spring loaded missile launchers!

I agree, Rich. I'd prefer a military story that has characters that resemble our fave Joes and are even called them. Look at Predator. Yeah, it's sci-fi but it's got enough 'real world' elements to make it great. I'd use Aliens, but that's a tougher sell. It'd almost be MORE fun to do it like STar Trek where you got a crew that's thrown together, they go thru some gnarly mysterious stuff and they just kinda earn their codenames thru the first missions in the movie.

By the end, you could have General Abernathy saying, "Listen up people, we now know this terrorist group called Cobra is for real and we've been tasked to combat them. You Hauser, you call yourself "DUKE", you're in charge. The world's change and so has the battle. We are designated GI Joe. Let's do this!"