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05-01-2009, 04:18 AM
Basile
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But you gotta stop thinking as a long time fan, a movie like that is designed to appeal to a broader audience, especially kids (who don't know anything about nostalgia, quite logically).
What is GI Joe in a nut shell ? It's a bunch of specialists with funky code names who fight an organization known as COBRA. Period.
X-Men die hard fans screamed like hell when the first movie introduced the leather costumes instead of the spandex bright outfits. Well the movie was a popular hit and people found the X-Men cool.
I've never had any GI Joe figure when I was a kid (actually I was a bit too young to be caught up, but even so, the 3 3/4 height didn't appeal to me). When I see the Sunbow cartoon today, I just can't help laughing. But then I discovered GI Joe Resolute. And as somebody put it on the Warren Ellis website :
"Damn you Ellis, damn you, I made fun of GI Joe my entire life and now I found it cool".
Well I just discovered the existence oh Snake Eyes and boy that was a shock
(since then, I bought my first figure and I ordered 3 more, Firefly, Cobra Trooper from Resolute and Snake Eyes V1)
My point is, kids have changed, and when you were playing with your Joes in the 80s, I'm pretty sure you didn't care about the toys made in the 60s. So you gotta evolve and offer something different, get rid of the 80s aesthetic (and in my opinion, there's not much Sigma Six influence in the movie) because it won't appeal to kids. If the Ray Park Snake Eyes makes all the little boys (and girls !) crazy while offering a good action flick, then the job is done.
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