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02-01-2009, 11:31 PM | #341 |
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No but I don't want a GI Joe movie that wins an oscar. I don't want an art film. The best GI Joe cartoons and comics wouldn't come close to winning any awards in story or acting categories. I can appreciate darren arnofsky, scorsese and hitchcock alike, but I don't think they would make a joe film I'd have fun watching.
Do you not have fun when you watch a Hichcock or scorsese movie? Of coarse you do. If you don't then why do you watch them? |
02-01-2009, 11:37 PM | #342 |
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I'm not saying anything untill I watch the full movie. I'm just glad we've all been blessed with lots of GI Joe stuff!
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02-02-2009, 12:19 AM | #343 |
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I hope this movie takes in more than the original TF movie.
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02-02-2009, 02:07 AM | #344 |
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We will see. Like you said...what is good for the movie will be good for the line in general, so for that I hope the movie will succeed. I'm still not going to see it though. |
02-02-2009, 02:48 AM | #345 |
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Obviously, Joe means different things to different people. Part of the fun of jumping on a message board is to discuss what we do and don't like. |
02-02-2009, 03:15 AM | #346 |
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Well... that didn't change any of my first impressions.
I have no issue with the director. I don't mind it being a "dumb" summer action movie. I love some of the cast (Snake Eyes, Baroness, Hawk, Scarlett, Storm Shadow). I think the SFX look just fine, and the action looks exciting. But I have two main issues with it: The biggest issue for me is that I think the costumes (with the exception of SE and Baroness) are complete and utter CRAP. Just look at that shot of all the Joes walking in a line. Cover their heads. Who's who? I have no idea! They've all been completely stripped of their individuality (look-wise, of course). Same for the power suits. Why on Earth would anyone want to buy toys of these things??? Every figure will be wearing the same outfit, with a differant head sculpt. The whole thing that made GI Joe so fun was their individuality and the way they each had their own getup that was themed to who they were. Is it militarily accurate? Hell no! But again, that's not the point. I understand not all of the costumes could possible be pulled off in live action without them looking like the new millenium's village people. But they could have just toned them down a bit and kept their individuality. Secondly, some of the cast is completely wrong. Primarily Marlon Wayons. But Breaker also looks very weak and out of character. And while I like Eccelston, I don't think he has the physical presence to pull off Destro. I will definitely see the movie, and I expect to enjoy it on some level. However, I pretty much hate the look of most of the designs I've seen. I have concerns that Hasbro has really blown it and the toyline is going to bomb. I just can't imagine any kid wanting to collect 25 black outfitted figures that are nearly identical. I guess that would be good for me, as they would likely refocus back to doing the figures I want to see, but I really hoped Hasbro would find a way to make this movie (and toyline) successful with both myself and the general public. I thought Transformers was handled with a lot of respect (granted, I was never a huge Transformers fan so I had much less to lose). Some of the comedy was hokey, but the whole concept is hokey (just like Joe). But the designs retained much of the spirit of the originals, and the changes made seemed much more appropriate. |
02-02-2009, 03:32 AM | #347 |
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which is completely accurate to the v.2 figure. heck, its probably the only aspect of RAH actually recreated identically in the moie, and yet, surprisingly, people still bash it while simultaneously disliking the movie for straying from RAH (maybe not you, I'm just using your post as an example). hypocritical? you be the judge.
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02-02-2009, 03:36 AM | #348 |
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02-02-2009, 05:01 AM | #350 |
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For me,
I liked Transformers. & I'm liking Transformers 2. But Rise of Cobra hasn't exactly won me over yet. If I didn't go on the internet & look at all the posters with the characters names, I never would have known who they were supposed to be in the trailer. Except for Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, & Baroness. My big gripe about the movie before I saw the trailer was that The costumes didn't really look like GI Joe & nothing I was hearing about the movie sounded like GI Joe. & Everything I heard about the movie was actually in the trailer. So all the internet GI Joe news was true. Well after the trailer, it looked further distant from Joes. The trailer looked less like GI Joe. The all black suits, which is there normal Joe movie uniforms, didn't look like anything GI Joe. But I move on anway. Then the trailer shows the power suits. All black & silver cyborg suits with silver helmets. That looks even less like GI Joe, it looks like Judge Dredd or Robo Cop. The power suit thing isn't even a GI Joe thing, Hollywood just made it up & called it GI Joe. Now you take the all black armor uniforms & add the power suits wit helmets, now this isn't looking anything like GI Joe at all. It doesn't sound like GI Joe either. If I were told that there was going to be a live action movie of GI Joe, I would never imagine power suits or the other stuff. Now I can tell who Storm Shadow is, but his costume doesn't look like they put much effort into it. He's just a normal white ninja, nothing thrilling about it. If you wonder what more I might want. Well, Shadow's design, the white cloak, his mask, they all look generic. Other than just being a ninja in white clothes in a movie called GI Joe, Shadow don't look much like Storm Shadow. Miller is a pretty girl as Baroness, but thats not going to get me to the theature. Baroness' costume looks alright, but just only alright. Something just comes off as corny for me. She looks like Baroness alright, but her costume looks like little effort too. So now Destro, which in a live action movie I'd be ok with this, but if you have this & other stuff added to it, my tolerance starts to go down. Destro is just a guy in a suit. Later he uses his mask, but until that point, he's just a guy in a suit. I don't like Snake Eyes' costume. While he's moving around, like jumping over cars, he looks fine because you can't really get a close up look of him. But when Snake Eyes is up close, he looks stupid. He has lips on his mask, & I may have seen a nose too, not sure. The entire head looks like a mannequin head. It looks so awful. His upper body has abs & stuff. Then after that he's just wearing black slacks like I'm wearing right now. I've seen action shots, during shooting, of Snake Eyes & it looked dumb. They pulled a 90's Batman with Snake Eyes' costume. The trailer only offered me fast CGI action spots, a pretty Baroness in a dress or her suit, a few old action movie phrases with the traditional action poses, & just your average action movie stuff. If your asking what more could there be? Then I'll answer you. Snake Eyes shouldn't be ugly to the point as to wear I don't want to look at him. Seeing the Joes should remind me of Joes, not make me think, "what is this?" Seeing the Joes in their all black armor uniforms, which will be what they wear for most the movie, & then walk around in black & silver power suits with helmets for I'm not sure how long, will not make me think GI Joe at all. I'm going to think they look like Robo Cop. I'm not getting a GI Joe vibe here at all, I'm getting a United Nations Universal Soilder, Judge Dredd, Robo Cop, futuristic cop movie vibe. This looks more like Resident Evil 2. This actually heavily reminds me of Star Ship Troopers. I didn't even like Star Ship Troopers. & The Joe characters with all their black suits & flying power suits & helmets, looks just like Star Ship Troopers. Movies like Jumper, that just focus on action sequences with fancy CGI don't appeal to me. & Since the GI Joe's trailer was 97% just fancy CGI action sequences, I'm not seeing much appeal. I just saw Underworld: Rise of The Lycans, it has plenty of action & CGI in it, it has story & everything else. & All with just around a small 35 Million dollar budget. So if they can create several where wolf battles with so little money, I ask why does GI Joe need 170 million for? Transformers 2 with all of its CGI characters is only 150 million. & GI Joe has literally no CGI characters so why 170 million? I hear alot of bashing about Transformers 1, but that movie rocked, it didn't fancy itslef with senseless action sequences, it just had fighting sequences between the robots. The Transformers weren't needlessly jumping through trains in slo-mo, jumping over cars to only land on another car so dramatically, or flying through the streets while doing cart wheels & back springs to dodge a missle. Whether you believe TF had a story or not, there was a story there. & Most importantly TF actually resembled & looked liked Transformers. The TF movie was what TF was supposed to be, transforming Autobots & human side kicks vs. transforming Decepticons. Prime was even voiced by his original 80's cartoon voice actor, Peter Cullen. So TF Movie had alot of old original TF in it. I dare you to say the same about this GI Joe movie! Take a look at only Heavy Duty, Scarlett, Ripcord, Duke, & Breaker in their all black outifts. & Can you tell me that resembles GI Joe? Aren't Duke & Scarlett main charcters? If a robot in the TF movie looked different like Ratchet for example, his robot form looked nothing like his comic form, but his vehicle was still an ambulence type vehicle. He was easily identified. & A good example would be Starscream, Starscream in the movie looks completely different. But he is still a jet & his robot form body structure is about the same too. With his wings sticking out the side of his back like a cape, I easily identified Starscream. Bumblebee & Optimus Prime were basically identical enough to their 80's originals, along with several Decepticons like Brawl & Blackout. The main characters stayed the same like Prime & Bumblebee, but Duke ain't nothing like Duke & Scarlett other than her long red hair has got nothing in common with Scarlett. Snake Eyes looks like an ugly cheap version of Snake Eyes. In conclusion, The Transformers 2 teaser trailer looked 10 times better than the GI Joe full trailer. I can name tons of movies that look cooler than Rise of Cobra, Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li & X-Men Origins: Wolverine look better than Joe. Average Joe: The Rise of Cobra's Crap If it wasn't supposed to be GI Joe & just some other action movie, maybe called "U.N. Freedom Fighters" or something, I might watch it & be entertained. But if you call it GI Joe, than I expect to see GI Joe, not some crappy version of GI Joe where you changed all the costumes & added some things that Joe's never had, like Power Ranger Robo Cop suits.
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