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How would you fix ROC ?
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05-23-2018, 09:55 AM
backhawkdown
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I guess the next question would be which is better? ROC or Retaliation?
My main gripe with Retaliation is the very beginning of the movie, where they wipe out all of GIJOE? That's like 1000's of people. The PITT too? It is just a weak premise to begin the movie.
Had they been Action Force in ROC, and dismantled by the governments that formed it in Retaliation then it makes more sense. Then just the one team gets killed, by some worm hole technology, (Tatum as Steeler goes to the World without End and gone for good, same with the Clutch and Grunt we saw). Then Roadblock can seek out Colton to actually form GIJOE. What happened to Hawk and Scarlett? (Maybe they got promoted to the Pentagon, but can come back later)
However suspend belief after the opening scene and it's not too bad a movie, as it fits in with the more cartoon aspects of Joe we all know.
Good Fun with the razor thin plot lines. The only difference is I would have called Firefly Copperhead and I think the character would have made more sense the way Ray Stevenson played him.
The Ninja scenes were great.
The Project Zeus device is the sort of stuff we always grew to love about the cartoons.
I just realized Matt Gerald was Zandar. I had no idea. He was a great character in the movie.
Jinx was great.
Warden Nigel James may have been my favorite character. He could have been General Flagg though as a shout-out to the Coffin in DDP comics, where the Joes sent their prisoners. Then if he is killed they can name an Aircraft Carrier after him.
Retaliation was worse. I tried to watch it last night and it’s not really a cohesive storyline but random scenes jumbled together. Opening extraction scene — meaningless and serves no purpose for the overall story. Steal the nuke scene — generic idea that has nothing to do with the overall story and is a contrived convenience for Zartan to attack the Joes. The only redeemable part is the mountain scene. The rest is a bad 80’s low budget action movie script with a $100 million budget.
The character designs were better in Retaliation, though, and if the Joes were in the more realistic digital camo unis in ROC instead of Sigma 6 base layers it could have been a much more pleasing movie.
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