I hope the movie is just like cartoon

SnAkEyEz · 12-03-2007, 04:21 AM

I have every episode of GI Joe on DVD & I was watching some of the older episodes today. I just gotta say I hope the movie follows the cartoon exactly. What a masterful piece of art that show was. Best cartoon ever. I dont believe GI Joe became popular because of the comics... it was the show that gave life to every charactor. If u go back & watch that one episode call "pit of vipers".. you'll see what I mean. Everything was so well put together. I dont even feel like Im watching a cartoon.. more like a movie. good stuff. I would suggest that the people who are gonna make this movie go back & watch every episode that ever came out... from the very 1st all the way thru to GI Joe the movie... after that was BS. If they do, they will definitely get a full feel of what GI Joe is.

tkprime · 12-03-2007, 09:24 AM

SnAkEyEz, I get what you're saying and while it has merit, the comics have a following as well. I think if the movie is going to be a blockbuster, they have to have Larry Hama, there has to be a killer movie score, ILM must handle the Special Effects, and the original art dept who brought us the Joe and cobra mythos should partake in the film in some sort of status.

Irid70 · 12-03-2007, 09:51 AM

I have to disagree.

I don't want laser weapons. I don't want troops who are unable to fire with any accuracy. I don't want Cobra to exist solely to try to destroy G.I. Joe.

I really hope the movie isn't at all like the cartoon. I don't want silly MacGuffin based plots where Cobra tries to assemble/steal some stupid device only to be foiled by a scrappy Joe team whose rifles seem to disappear whenever they get within 8 feet of an actual Cobra operative, so that they can manfully punch him out.

I enjoy watching the tv show as nostalgia. But, sorry, I just can't imagine it as "masterful art," and a movie that is just like the cartoon would be miserable.

Compulsive Collector · 12-03-2007, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Irid70

I really hope the movie isn't at all like the cartoon. I don't want silly MacGuffin based plots where Cobra tries to assemble/steal some stupid device only to be foiled by a scrappy Joe team whose rifles seem to disappear whenever they get within 8 feet of an actual Cobra operative, so that they can manfully punch him out.

That says it all.

xFlintx · 12-03-2007, 10:57 AM

Well I love the old cartoon and with all the Joe mythology out there, they could certainly take elements from all of the media. Don't forget they couldn't kill anyone in the 80's cartoon hence the lasers. It's like the way He-Man had a sword, yet he rarely used it as a weapon. Certtainly standards and practices have changed.

G.I.Eddie · 12-03-2007, 11:21 AM

a quote from me from another thread...
[quote=G.I.Eddie]…I guess, as it turns out, is that what I am hoping for with this movie is kinda what the comics were - a bit (a lot?) more realistic than the cartoon...also, I want to be able to undoubtedly recognize each and every character, ya know, still resemble their cartoon/comic counterpart...I'm afraid the end "realistic" result will be to put everyone in the same basic military-esque uniform for realism...I'm so damn afraid that Hollywood is gonna put their own twist on it, ala movie Megatron = WTF?!...
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like I said, the part I want most transferred over from the toon is characters…I want their looks/costume, and personality used verbatim...the PC crap can go!

Lo-Wan Bing · 12-03-2007, 02:44 PM

The cartoon was little too goofy to be the storyboard for a motion picture (as much as I loved it back when it first aired, I can't really watch it today w/out shaking my head... and that's not just the Cobra-La-La-La stuff... even as a kid I thought it was stupid when a captured Joe still had their sidearm and grenades... that's just plain old lazy/cheap animation) I would more like the movie to follow along the first 30issues or so of the comic... that was 'classic' joe to me (and on a modern side: I wouldn't be against a WWIII movie from what DDP is publishing now.

Monkeywrench · 12-03-2007, 07:43 PM

I loved the cartoon as a kid. The biggest influence on me was the toys/FC's and the Toon. The comics was last as my influence. With that said, there is no way the movie can be like the toon, for reasons that have already been said. A good mixture of all the phases would be great, with the FC's and Comics leading the charge is what's needed. However I think they will create there own branch in the storyline and make a bunch of garbage that won't make sense and ultimately suck. Oh well we'll just have to wait and see.

SnAkEyEz · 12-04-2007, 07:15 PM

ya, I know what you guys mean about the toon being corny sometimes & how they shootin lazers & nobody gets hit.. but come on, Its a cartoon.. of course there's not gonna be people getting killed all bloodied up! But just the fact that they had real lookin guns & stuff was gettin blown up all the time amazes me.. That kind of animated violence would never make it to after school cartoons nowadays, when I said I wanted the movie to be like cartoon, of course I meant it to be an updated realistic version. But basically using the elements that made the cartoon so great. The music, the personas, the stories, you gotta admit the stories from the old cartoons were way ahead of their time. the writers had good knowledge of millitary & science subjects. I swear if you go back & watch the early episodes, you will know what I mean..

xFlintx · 12-05-2007, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by SnAkEyEz

ya, I know what you guys mean about the toon being corny sometimes & how they shootin lazers & nobody gets hit.. but come on, Its a cartoon.. of course there's not gonna be people getting killed all bloodied up! But just the fact that they had real lookin guns & stuff was gettin blown up all the time amazes me.. That kind of animated violence would never make it to after school cartoons nowadays, when I said I wanted the movie to be like cartoon, of course I meant it to be an updated realistic version. But basically using the elements that made the cartoon so great. The music, the personas, the stories, you gotta admit the stories from the old cartoons were way ahead of their time. the writers had good knowledge of millitary & science subjects. I swear if you go back & watch the early episodes, you will know what I mean..

I agree. The cartoon had many great elements that could work, especially the characterization. My first window to the world of GI JOE was the cartoon and as good as the comics were the cartoon started to flesh the characters out for me. But when I got older and re-read the comics, they gave me a new perspective on the team. While I really like the comics, it's still the cartoon and all it's cheesyness that enthralls me.