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Oh, I know there's all kinds of technological enhancements and strength-boosting exo-skeletons in development, but when you are able to compare something to the Flash you're in the realms of wacky sci-fi that Sigma 6 reveled in. I imagine there's going to be virtually nothing that resembles conventional military in this movie, apart from maybe Hawk in uniform...
I can understand them playing up the sci-fi for the movie, especially since they'll want to sell this movie to countries who aren't necessarily going to jump behind a (US) military unit as the sole protagonists (at least Transformers had heroic alien robot monkey-clowns to get behind). It just gets to a point, with all the "tweaks and improvements," where I find myself asking why they bother calling it GI Joe when it only shares names with the source material.
Last I heard (haven't gone looking for a proper source, admittedly): Snake Eyes will wear shades but no mask, and will be a speaking role (Ray Park's Englishness helping the international team thing, I guess) and Baroness might be blonde. What is it with actresses not changing their hair colour for adaptations, do they think it won't fulfill the star's "brand identity" or something? (Nicole Kidman's character in the Golden Compass has black hair in the book as, I believe, did Michelle Pfeiffer's character in Stardust...)
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