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Film Thoughts...
 

I have thought a lot about this and I find it a bit worrying. Maybe its the cynic in me. I remember scare mongering back at the time of the 25th A pictures being revealed, that the 25th thing was just an excuse to reboot the line. But what is this movie going to do? If everything is true that has been released so far, Action Force would be a far more appropriate name!

That said, is this new movie gonna cause the G.I.JOE we all know and love to lose it's identity? Let's face it... The Joe's won't be the Real American Heroes anymore... That is what Joe is... Surely?

What will this mean for our favourite characters and their histories as know them? Will Flint end up a Frenchman or something?

I'm going to be really cynical again and say that Hasbro may well be about to do what Paramount is about to do with Star Trek. Completely F**K it up in otherwords...

The time for a Joe movie was in the 80's. To do one now can only be to reboot the brand and profit from the current political climate of the world. Okay so America and their military isn't too popular at the moment... So lets push Joe into a Counter-Terrorist Unit, which is essentially what Joe pretty much was back in the 80's, the Real American Hero... But it seemed more army than anti-terrorism... Well with Anti-Terrorism being the thing these days, I guess it's just free enterprise on Hasbro's part.

In my mind any Joe movie should have the characters we all know and love stomping snake, while wearing costumes as close to the figure as humanly possible, using vehicles which are as close to their respective toy counterparts as humanly possible too. It's just not going to happen is it?

There seems to be a lot of new guys involved in the line now... What are their plans? How big will their input be in the movie? Will Larry Hama fix it?

Jeez so many questions... I just want to get you all thinking... What does the future hold for our toyline? The Real American Hero? If the movie info is anything to go by, G.I.JOE isn't going to be what we expect or hope for.

I guess I'm just thinking out loud... and preparing myself for yet another Hasbro related disapointment! :rolleyes:

If anyone made any sense out of my concerns and rants please feel free to give your thoughts. I'd really like to know everyones take on this. :cool:

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With the movie rumours, and the one that Hasbro isn't going to renew DDP's comics license, and what they've already done in terms of the Sigma 6 universe, as far as things go for the GI Joe continuity I've grown up following I am on the verge of wailing "Death of teh line!!!"

I couldn't care less.
 

I couldn't care less about hasbro or the film. I agree with you about the timing, it's again a free meal ticket on the back of the current trend that is anti-terrorism and terrorist activities.
It's stinks of hasbro, and hasbro stinks.. simple as that.

I don't think hasbro would care who appears in the film as the chosen characters and we'll probably get something like a low par street fighter .. :rolleyes:

The fact they are calling the film GIJOE and then moving its operations into europe.. (yeah great move :o )
The fact that I heard destro & cobra commander are being merged as one bad guy called cobra. I love that...
The madness knows no boundaries.. they'll probably stamp the GIjoe logo on it and because there are hundreds of deluded, smacktards willing to pay to see it..
Thats really great... the movie will sell by the canyonload and then hasbro will release the movie figures based around a 25th style design.. wonderful hasbro wonderful.. I think the whole think stinks...
just I swear that I never meet a hasbro rep or person who makes the decisions.. :mad:

The movie doesn't interest me in the least. I couldn't care less what the plot is, or who stars in it. No way will I bother paying to see it. I'm already certain it will suck.
Most people know my opinion of the 25th stuff. As far as I'm concerned, Hasbro have killed the Joe line. I'm waiting for the announcement that the line has been cancelled any time now. And you know what, if the 25th stuff is the norm, I won't even miss it. Sad but true.

Honestly, don't expect much from a GIJoe movie. This isn't going to turn out like Blackhawk Down or Tears Of The Sun or any other serious soldier movie.

This is going to end up in the same category as Chuck Norris's Delta Force or Van Damme's Street Fighter in terms of military movies.

NAYSAYER!!! BLASPHEMER!!! We all KNOW GI Joe is GOD and everything Hasbro makes is cooler than MTV in the '80's.......

Whoa! What am I saying!! LOL!


Seriously, I agree with you 100%......with the War in Iraq becoming unpopular, these companies are shying away from war toys....it happens during every war since WWII!!! They are just looking for a way to drive the line to the bottom and cancel her! BLAH!!!

I hate what they do, and I hate what they have planned, but I remain hopeful that someone will infiltrate Hasbro and say..."uh, guys...if you wanna make money off this line....give people what THEY WANT...not what you and your marketing research companies that never play with toys tell you to make....has it worked for you so far???"

I hold hope that something will change, but for the most part, it's gotten awefully dark in the old joeverse!!

Don't give up the ship.
 

I'm not sure why everyone is so pessimistic about the movie. We really don't have much to go on right now. All we've got is a bunch of rumors. And we know some of those are false anyway.

No this won't be a real serious military movie. Its GI Joe. Come on. No
one is gonna make an R-rated movie based on a toyline. And I agree with that. I want to be able to take my son and my nephews to see it. Lets be realistic here.

Yes some of the early story lines may get re-written, but who cares. We already have cartoon and comic lines that don't completely agree. Some Joe fans are so obsessed with the comic story lines. GI Joe comic have been around in various formats for a long time, but even in it prime the comic audience was nothing compared to the number of kids who watched the cartoon. Hasbro produced figures, and then Larry Hama and others dreamed up story lines to sell figures. If Hasbro wants to make a movie and change some of the story so what. How many different Superman, Batman, Spiderman, X-men, Fantastic Four, Punisher, movies have been made. How many times have those stories been re-written.

From the rumors it sounds like the GI Joe team will be international. This seems to have annoyed people, but the GI Joe has always been international. GI Joe team members come from all over the world, and the settings for most of the cartoons and comics was international. People kind of freaked about the idea of the team being based in Brussels, but remember that NATO headquarters is in Brussels. Cobra is an international threat, so Brussels is the perfect place to headquarter a team tasked with fighting Cobra.

Hasbro has a bad reputation for screwing things up, but Hasbro is not making this movie. Sure they will have some input but they are not writing, directing, or producing it.

I'm not a Transformers fan, but the movie was really a pleasant surprise to me. It stayed true to the original concepts and ideas (if not the storyline -did Transformers comic have story lines?), and it was a pretty good movie. I'm expecting the same for the GI Joe movie.

I'm just hoping they have the common sense to leave out the lame ninja stoylines.

THANK YOU Uncle Flint!!!!!!

Stop p*$$ing on the movie BEFORE you have anything concrete to run with!!!!

'Transformers', ring any bells????

And now it's my turn to chime in. I'm all for doing a sci-fi action movie along the lines of Doom, just with Joes. :P Or Navy Seals.