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G.I. JOE Cinematic Universe
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02-02-2015, 08:30 AM
Jmacq1
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Trying to compare G.I. Joe's current state (or even pre-movie state) to pre Iron Man Marvel is utterly ridiculous.
Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and the Hulk had ~50+ years of comics, cartoons, toys, and pop culture cachet that ARAH GI Joe simply doesn't share. ARAH G.I. Joe only strongly appeals to one generation (children of the 80's)...Marvel had fans across multiple generations (Children of the 60's through today).
Yeah, Marvel's getting to more obscure characters now...after 10 successful films built on the more popular/well-known characters. Trying to argue that's proof individual G.I. Joe character movies could work is...not even close.
Trying to spin "individual character" movies out of ARAH G.I. Joe for anyone besides perhaps Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow would never work. Because on a fundamental level, G.I. Joe is about a team, not just one person, and a huge chunk of these stories is how the characters bounce off one another. Beyond that, the G.I. Joe Universe doesn't even come remotely close to the breadth and scope of the Marvel Universe.
With the Marvel Universe, you can make Captain America into a political thriller or a World War II period piece. You can make Guardians of the Galaxy into a quirky space opera. You can make Thor into an epic fantasy, or Iron Man into an action-packed character study. That universe is rich and varied enough that you can create countless stories within it, using the superheroes as the trappings for many different types of story.
With ARAH G.I. Joe, you can get "military stories" and "ninja stories" with an occasional stretch of "spy stories." And that's about it. Maybe you can reaaaaaaly stretch and make a sci-fi/horror film out of Cobra-La, but I rather bet that many ARAH Joe fans wouldn't exactly be clamoring for that. Go outside of that, and you're not really playing with G.I. Joe anymore, you're just using your G.I. Joe toys to play something entirely different from what they are.
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