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Paramount Explains Their New Movie Agreement With Hasbro & Snake Eyes Movie
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05-07-2018, 08:25 PM
CADPAT
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Duke19821994
I was a kid then. I liked it.
I found it oddly mean-spirited, in addition to displaying an aggressive disregard for the lore for no discernible reason (how does it improve the story to make Duke an officer and Baroness his brainwashed ex, or Snake Eyes a perfectly normal-looking man sworn to silence, rather than a tragically-disfigured mute, to cite just a few examples), and just generally being loud, dumb and derivative.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Duke19821994
I agree. Don't get me started on how they killed the Joe team.
Yes, that was rather like the first
Mission Impossible
movie killing off virtually all of the Impossible Mission Force except Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt character, except Tom Cruise actually seem to
enjoy
making
Mission Impossible
movies.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Duke19821994
A friend of mine said she quit GI Joe when retaliation killed of most of the Joes.
LOL
I had a friend who had a similar reaction to Ironhide getting killed off in
Dark of the Moon
or whichever instalment it was. I also seem to recall that more than a few female fans were pissed off that Ryan Hansen from
Veronica Mars
, despite ostensibly being cast as Grunt, amounted to little more than a blink-and-you-miss-him extra, in effect.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Duke19821994
That is True, But I thought at the time that was because they were a unit. I do love me some neon Joes though...
I'm rather fond of many of them myself, but I
really
love the "20 minutes into the future" aesthetic of "Pursuit of Cobra" that Massive Black cooked up, which felt like a perfect updating of the original near-future design ethos that characterised the vintage RAH line, at least to start with. There are so many of those concepts that I wish we could still get figures of...
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Sgt Major Haley
Did you forget his line and joke about not being able to afford any more X-Men?
More X-Men means more complicated and more expensive special effects. When your main casts' special character power amounts to "is really good with guns," you can go further with less, as with
John Wick
, which had a comparatively microscopic budget of only $20 million.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Sgt Major Haley
Dont blame Star Wars on Disney, that falls on the hands of Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy.
Kennedy and Johnson work for Disney. If they're rapidly destroying what was formerly a license to print money, Disney as an organization cannot escape blame for it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Duke19821994
I agree. Have you seen how Marvel legends is cutting back on gear? I was lucky to get the Juggernaut wave Dead Pool at retail and man, he came packed out with weapons! There are some new Dead Pool figures coming out later this year, and from what I've seen they will only have swords and/or pistols. Same with Punisher, he used to come with a lot but the new "Vintage Style" one only comes with a Bazooka.
One of the new Deadpools has two swords as his only accessories (not counting the new harness and leg-bandolier), but the other has two swords, a rifle, pistol and the head of the Sasquatch Build-a-Figure. The accompanying version of Cable has three very large guns, a tactical harness on steroids and Sasquatch's leg (in addition to being almost as large as some BaFs himself). Wave-mate Deathlok appears to use entirely new tooling and features a backpack, pistol, belt-fed mini-gun and the usual BaF part. The Walgreens-exclusive Punisher that came out slightly ahead of the Toy Biz tribute version had an additional shoulder harness, a rocket launcher, shotgun and an M-60. I think if any line is suffering from reduced accessories right now, it's Star Wars's "Black Series."
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