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View Poll Results: Like it or hate it? | |||
Like it! | 436 | 68.02% | |
Hate it | 121 | 18.88% | |
On the fence | 84 | 13.10% | |
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08-07-2009, 11:02 AM | #651 |
Cobra Viper
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I hope they really do fire Sommers. I'm so upset! It looked like that movie was made in 10 minutes.
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08-07-2009, 11:03 AM | #652 |
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Overall, your review was good. But what is this about. Seriously? Did the brain cells that carry your memory of 80's Joe spontaneously die while watching the movie?
I'm not trying to be insulting, but I still absolutely, utterly, and completely fail to see how anything in the present day can actually ruin the past when it comes to an entertainment franchise. I mean, are you saying this movie actually made you like G.I. Joe as a whole less? Quote:
Of course they can't really erase his childhood, but think about it this way: GI Joe ARAH was what he grew up with. RoC is intentionally erasing/writing over/bastardizing that continuity. So yeah, in a sense, something is lost. Or think about it this way: when you grow up somewhere, and they bulldoze a building or something that's always been there, or a store closes that you always used to go do, it kinda feels like they're taking something away from your childhood a little bit, doesn't it? It certainly feels that way to me.
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08-07-2009, 11:04 AM | #653 |
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I said I would 'probably' screen it first. It's looking like I will given a few of the opinions above. And I figured other people might like to know as well, as I did a search for this specific info, and it was not centrally located.
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08-07-2009, 11:04 AM | #654 |
Cobra Viper
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Overall, your review was good. But what is this about. Seriously? Did the brain cells that carry your memory of 80's Joe spontaneously die while watching the movie?
I'm not trying to be insulting, but I still absolutely, utterly, and completely fail to see how anything in the present day can actually ruin the past when it comes to an entertainment franchise. If you don't like the modern interpretation, the older material is all still there to go back to. I mean, are you saying this movie actually made you like G.I. Joe as a whole less? |
08-07-2009, 11:12 AM | #655 |
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They make sense if you really try to understand what the poster is trying to say instead of taking it as literally as possible. It's a semantics issue, dudes.
Of course they can't really erase his childhood, but think about it this way: GI Joe ARAH was what he grew up with. RoC is intentionally erasing/writing over/bastardizing that continuity. So yeah, in a sense, something is lost. Or think about it this way: when you grow up somewhere, and they bulldoze a building or something that's always been there, or a store closes that you always used to go do, it kinda feels like they're taking something away from your childhood a little bit, doesn't it? It certainly feels that way to me. Maybe that makes Troynos and I optimists, but if Hasbro follows the same patterns they've had for about 10 years now, RAH Joe will rise again...again. In some form or another. It's only a matter of time. I mean heck...you've got books, comics, and a massive DVD set that are coming out in conjunction with the movie that totally celebrate the RAH era of Joe. You've got the "then and now" sets that are on the way, and go all the way back to the classic O-Ring style of construction that Hasbro had previously said we "wouldn't see again." It isn't like Hasbro's trying to sweep RAH under the rug. They're making it more prominent than it's been since the 80's. Last edited by Jmacq1; 08-07-2009 at 11:17 AM.. |
08-07-2009, 11:13 AM | #656 |
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Ugh, spoilerse in this thread. Oh well I shoulda stayed off the internets if I didn't want spoilers.
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08-07-2009, 11:15 AM | #657 |
Hector Delgado
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G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra was fast paced well laid out punch to the face. Blink and you will wish you had a remote to rewind what you missed flying by you at Mach 6. From start to finish it's all action. Filled with Hi-Tech gear, weapons and vehicles that you would expect Cobra and G.I. Joe to deploy in battle. I was really surprised at how good this film turned out. It was fun and gives the next generation of G.I. Joe fans (you know the kids) a really cool updated look at "Our G.I. Joe."......
again.. don't take our words for it on the screen infront of you Get out there and see it! YO JOE!!! |
08-07-2009, 11:17 AM | #658 |
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hey Hector did Polly enjoy it to or did you leave him back on the Flagg?
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08-07-2009, 11:20 AM | #659 |
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Or think about it this way: when you grow up somewhere, and they bulldoze a building or something that's always been there, or a store closes that you always used to go do, it kinda feels like they're taking something away from your childhood a little bit, doesn't it? It certainly feels that way to me.
I can remember going grocery shopping with my mom and going to a mini-mall. Shaws was on one end and well she was in the store, I'd leave Shaws, walk a couple stores down and hit Toy City and look at the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms novels and the D&D/Forgotten Realms RPG books. Then I'd walk a couple stores to the other end of the mini-mall and hit Rich's and walk around and check out the new toys. The point is both Toy City and Rich's are gone. There's some Plus Size Woman's store where Toy City was and Rich's changed into Borders and Staples. Does that mean my memories were affected? No. Whenever I go to that mini-mall, which is often (I love Borders and still go to the same Shaws for shopping), I get a nostalgia feel and mentally trace the path I'd walk every saturday as a kid. If you go by the idea that RoC "rewrote" and "did away" with the ARAh continuity (which is semantics, because really, all that exists still in some form or the other; the cartoon just got released and IDW has been publishing the Marvel runs, and the toys are available on EBay, so really nothing has been rewrote, it just ended), then have to apply that to Resolute and IDW as well. If you say RoC killed a little part of your childhood, then you have to say Resolute and IDW did the same thing, because both of those rewrote and did away with the ARAH continuity (and just because IDW and Resolute is closer to ARAh doesn't mean anything, they aren't direct interpretations/continuations of ARAH and that means they rewrote and did away with ARAH).
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08-07-2009, 11:27 AM | #660 |
Cobra Viper
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you kno i already posted my thoughts on the movie, and now that a few hrs have passed since seeing it and i've gotten some sleep, i still feel the same way. i was lookin at the figures this morning, and appreciated my sgt. stone figure more. i wish they gave him a little more screen time, like in the battle in the pit.
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