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07-06-2009, 07:14 PM | #31 |
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Your singing to the choir. Check out my post on the "Recasting the original Star Wars trilogy" thread.
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07-06-2009, 07:16 PM | #32 |
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Look, if you don't like it, don't go to the movie. The movie is made, it's finished. We're a month away from release. I'm pretty much sure everyone else has come to just accept the fact that things aren't the same as before. If they were, we'd have the god damn village people running around (Shipwreck and Spirit) chasing off a group of dirty bikers while a chrome masked Hillary Clinton (pant-suit anyone?) yells retreat. It just won't work. Besides, GI Joe has never had a huge international following. Why not make it have a worldwide appeal?
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Look, if you don't like it, don't go to the movie. The movie is made, it's finished. We're a month away from release. I'm pretty much sure everyone else has come to just accept the fact that things aren't the same as before. If they were, we'd have the god damn village people running around (Shipwreck and Spirit) chasing off a group of dirty bikers while a chrome masked Hillary Clinton (pant-suit anyone?) yells retreat. It just won't work. Besides, GI Joe has never had a huge international following. Why not make it have a worldwide appeal?
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This quote deserves a special picture
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07-06-2009, 07:26 PM | #36 |
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I was saying that a group of individuals from all over the world were collected to make up the team GI Joe. Now if it's based in america, then of course it's going to have american flags and such all over everything. Since it seemed everyone was getting bent out of shape about WHERE the characters were born or came from, I made the point that unless you read the birthplaces, you really couldn't tell that the characters didn't come from foreign countries. Your retort to my post makes it seem as if you are concerned with WHERE the team is based, which is something we were not talking about. |
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Thats my only option, don't go see the movie? I want to see the movie, everything else has looked good (apart from the fact of being a BIG dumb movie / toy commercial) They said it isn't confirmed on the nationality of various characters, which at least gives me hope that they recognized they did something wrong and were willing to change. And I'm all for adapting a look to be changed to be taken more serious on screen. I'm not an advocate of seeing exactly what you saw (visually) in the cartoon on the silver screen. I know it wouldn't work. I'm all for look adaptation. I even dig the new Cobra Commander. But when and IF the core essence is changed to a mythology and its characters, it's straight up wrong.
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07-06-2009, 07:33 PM | #38 |
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Have them bound in the first gulf war 91. The fact of the mater is these characters had history. |
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Thank you! thats the best way to put it.
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No, America being the first country that was FOUNDED on ultimate freedom. It's been America's uncompromising vision of a free world that has been the driving force behind fighting "evil" at all corners of the world. And they have recruited others in their vision. They're the leaders and front runners in fights for freedom around the globe. Thats the American ideology. That's why those characteristics are ingrained in the mythos and culture of GI Joe: American Heroes. How do you not get that? Their personalities and methodology are totally American as well. I have no problem with a mainly compromised American military force that liason with various talents from other countries. As long as its majority recognized as being an American military branch. And no, it isn't a "minor change" in fact its quite major, and quite unneccessary. Last edited by 80sBabyFTW; 07-06-2009 at 07:42 PM.. |
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