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01-20-2010, 09:16 PM
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You take a day off from the debate thread and it becomes the people that didn't like RoC 100% agreeing with each other thread.
The Marvel comics were great, but I don't think they were as realistic as people remember them.
The Sunbow cartoons were great as well, and are as viable a source to draw inspiration from for a GI Joe movie as the comics, the toys or what have you. Perhaps more so as I suspect more kids watched the toon than read the book.
I consider GI Joe in general to be more of a fantastical property, than realistic military property in general, but I suppose others have a right to their own interpretations.
I watched RoC again last night. I was going to leave it on in the background while I got some stuff done because I had already seen it several times, but I found myself focusing more on the movie because I was so into it.
It's too bad more Joe fans didn't like it.
As I type this and think about it now, I guess those that didn't like it have a point. I can't say for sure that some of the changes they would propose would make me enjoy the movie any less, so if there were a way to satisfy more people without loosing any that were already satisfied than I guess that would be a good thing.
For that reason I'm sorry to anyone who's ire I may have raised in the debate thread.
I guess there was a certain amount of tongue in cheek satire I assumed would have come across that didn't and I legitimately regret any heat I may have created, if I did.
No heat at all from me, and I think I might have figured out why I may view Joe a little differently then some around here. I stopped collecting and following Joe around 86. Most of the comics I really remember were those early issues, long before everyone became a ninja apparently. I mean, sure I remember the SE origin and that was some great writing, but I think the last NEW character I remember wanting was a B.A.T., The Greenshirt original 13 style Joes were real characters to me. Characters I cared about, and felt like I knew. I think, while Joe wasn't necessarily "Realistic" even early on, it had a much more military feel and wasn't as goofy, as the Day-Glo stuff that came later on.
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