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06-20-2009, 05:38 PM | #291 |
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I swear most of you never saw an episode of the cartoon.
You are boycotting because Marlon Wayons has a few jokes? Do you forget Roadblock, Shipwreck, and pretty much every other Joe in the old series that would crack jokes every two seconds. One of the best episodes ever was 'the Viper is Coming' which was a full episode based on a running gag of a bad European accent. And plenty of movies have comic moments without being a sequel to 'Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood.", which was honestly one of the most racist things I've read all day Barefoot Jedi. Oh and I know, alot of you hate the cartoon and were comics fans only. Problem is most people know Joe from the cartoon not the comics. Maybe not fanboys on message boards, but society as a whole thats the Joe they know. The wisecracking, sometimes funny version. |
06-20-2009, 05:41 PM | #292 |
IRON GRENADIER
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Don't you dare bad mouth MOTU.
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06-20-2009, 06:14 PM | #293 |
Warrior Of Bad Taste
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c'mon
it goes down as the worst movie ever. When I was a kid it was the first movie I ever walked out of. on a side note, did the rounds of the toy stores today, was in Target looking over the clearance and saw a kid whose parents were trying to get him a Python patrol x-30, he said "no,what is it? it doesnt do anything....I want TRANSFORMERS!!!!" and like went crazy over it. Unless this movie has some insane robot action or the toys transform and then they make a cartoon or a japanese trading card game from it, the kids aren't gonna care.
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06-20-2009, 07:18 PM | #294 |
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I swear most of you never saw an episode of the cartoon.
You are boycotting because Marlon Wayons has a few jokes? Do you forget Roadblock, Shipwreck, and pretty much every other Joe in the old series that would crack jokes every two seconds. One of the best episodes ever was 'the Viper is Coming' which was a full episode based on a running gag of a bad European accent. And plenty of movies have comic moments without being a sequel to 'Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood.", which was honestly one of the most racist things I've read all day Barefoot Jedi. Oh and I know, alot of you hate the cartoon and were comics fans only. Problem is most people know Joe from the cartoon not the comics. Maybe not fanboys on message boards, but society as a whole thats the Joe they know. The wisecracking, sometimes funny version. If there were BATs on the battle field being thrown around by these guys in the accelerator suits and they LOOKED Like BATS I might be supporting this flick. If Cobra Commander looked like a Terrorist leader and not GD Doctor Vader then I might support this flick. If storm shadow was not such a weeny looking EMO kid who sits in the coner cause no one likes him I would support this flick. If snake eyes could wear proper pants like his action figure does and loose his lips, I might support this flick. If They got someone other then Dennis Quaid and Marlane Wayans to play thier parts I would support this flick (prefer NO NAME NO BODIES like the rest of the actors in this movie) over half baked crappy actors who have had thier time on the big screen. If they got a Russian chick to play the Braoness like that hot one from Hitman (although she was pretty skinny) The Braoness would be so perfect I would see it just for that alone....however we have this steaming pile of bat shit... This is not GI JOE, this is some frankenstein hack job a monkey put together in a blacked out basmenet with a flourescent light bulb shoved up his ass..... After all this is supposed ot be a live action version of GI JOE that is supposed to leave all the kiddish jokes out and fantasy unbeilievable sci-fi and explain in a real life manner in the future how the GI JOE force and Cobra might have come into existance. I dunno why they strayed off that concept...they wrote it that way to begin with...but as sual they take too much libverty to make it unique to thier own perspective and not stay true like Resolute so boldly did. I salute those over there who worked on Resolute, you guys did a 100% stellar job. I hope they give you another chance soon as ROC bites the tail wind of a trashtruck wizzing by...
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06-20-2009, 07:24 PM | #295 |
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Im with ya...this movie looks horrible. And I don't have to see it to know that. I wanted a Joe movie really bad. But this is nothing that resembles anything like G.I.Joe....Hasbro/Larry Hama....you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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06-20-2009, 07:48 PM | #296 |
Aspiring Supervillain
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I swear most of you never saw an episode of the cartoon.
You are boycotting because Marlon Wayons has a few jokes? Do you forget Roadblock, Shipwreck, and pretty much every other Joe in the old series that would crack jokes every two seconds. One of the best episodes ever was 'the Viper is Coming' which was a full episode based on a running gag of a bad European accent. And plenty of movies have comic moments without being a sequel to 'Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood.", which was honestly one of the most racist things I've read all day Barefoot Jedi. Oh and I know, alot of you hate the cartoon and were comics fans only. Problem is most people know Joe from the cartoon not the comics. Maybe not fanboys on message boards, but society as a whole thats the Joe they know. The wisecracking, sometimes funny version. As for the rest of your "argument," everything you say about G.I. Joe could've been applied to Batman twenty years ago.
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06-20-2009, 08:27 PM | #297 |
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You do realize that Wayans co-wrote and starred in "Don't Be a Menace," right? I don't know how anyone but a drooling moron could construe that comment as "racist." You owe Barefoot Jedi an apology.
As for the rest of your "argument," everything you say about G.I. Joe could've been applied to Batman twenty years ago.
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06-20-2009, 08:33 PM | #298 |
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o0nly if they batman movie you refer two is the two 90 minute gay jokes(batman forever and batman and robin) joel schumacher turned the batman movies into. Thank God Chris Nolan took back to its dark roots. Granted burtons films were very burtonized but they were still damn entertaining (minus Kim basigner)
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06-20-2009, 08:55 PM | #299 |
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Before Burton came along, as far as most of the world was concerned, Batman was Adam West. I'm sure there are still people who don't think Batman should ever be anything more than a campy comedy show ... just like there are some people who think G.I. Joe should never be anything more than a moronic Saturday morning cartoon.
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06-20-2009, 09:13 PM | #300 |
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I never really had any high hopes for this movie. I thought it could just be "okay" but not in the same league as "totally f*cking awful". I'm still not totally hating it, but there are some major strikes in my book:
1. The design I can't see why they wanted to go with a total balls-out science fiction deal with the film (I know GI Joe has some sci-fi styling's, but not to this degree) That, and the fact that everyone's suits are black. It totally robs Snake-Eyes of his visual distinction; everyone now blurs together visually. 2. The stupid jokes. I scoffed aloud when the Baroness, after storming a building with Storm Shadow and some Cobra Troops said "nice shoes". Ha... ha 3. The total ignorance of the original stories they are basing their movie off of. Why does the Baroness not speak with her Eastern European accent? Why did Duke leave her at the altar, and why did the writers think they should get married in the first place? Why do the Joes have super suits? I though Cobra were the ones to dabble in super-science? 4. Cobra Commander's look Apparently the hood looked too much like a KKK hood. I guess that's why Hasbro pulled the hooded version of CC off the shelves, to avoid public outcry... But seriously, Cobra Commander leads an organization called "COBRA", what's more, he's called "COBRA COMMANDER"! Cobra's in nature tend to have hoods, thus the thematic connection. The visual connection to the KKK in my opinion is pretty faint, with only the lower half bearing some resemblance. The designers were reading to much into it, in my opinion. Finally, did ANYONE think to use the traditional helmet? 5. The lack of the Scarlett/Snake-Eyes relationship Larry Hama wrote Scarlett and Snake-Eyes relationship as dysfunctional. Similarly, my first major introduction to GI Joe was the Jae Lee/John Ney Rieber WW2 epic Transformers/GI Joe, which depicted Snake-Eyes and Scarlett's love for one another as really heart wrenching, as they were worlds apart, and Snake-Eyes couldn't face her because of his disfiguration. The way this was written made me respect romantic sub-plots (I know that is an alternate version of GI Joe, but it's the one I tend to think of) The cartoon had her with Duke, and Resolute in turn split the difference with a love triangle being hinted at between the three. Those are some examples of how the Scarlett/Snake-Eyes dynamic could have been handled. Instead, they have Scarlett going out with... Ripcord? A role essayed by... Marlon Waynes?! From Little Man?!? They apparently went with this out-of-the-blue relationship because it would have been too hard to convey the attraction between a mute man and a speaking woman (even though in the first damn issue of the comic they were paired off, and Scarlett translated his sign language for everyone, so I don't know what they were researching). If that was the case, then why not have her with Duke? As is, since it is Marlon Waynes, I can only assume that it is going to be less compelling and elegant as Scarlett falling in love with a disfigured mute (the writers said that "Ripcord and Scarlett have a flirty relationship") There are others, I'm sure... I know I sound real harsh, but I still, for some reason even with all the stupid decisions they made listed above, I'll reserve judgment until I see the movie. I see movies for free, anyway, so I won't feel totally cheated.
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