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Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 2nd Trailer Discussions
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06-22-2021, 04:19 AM
TheVileOne
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People really lose me when they go on the anti-woke and anti-SJW tangents. It's just tiresome.
When you get right down to it, do you all know what woke really means? I mean I find the term annoying, but what woke really means is awareness of social issues. That's it. Being aware of social issues or issues that plague society, and there are plenty of them, is not a crime.
And believe it or not, if you hate being woke, a lot of our favorite movies and TV shows have expressed "woke" views for years. Look at the Filmation Masters of the Universe cartoon. Every week, He-Man and his friends deliver some sort of moral message about treating people with respect, not judging people because they look different, things like that. Is that not woke messaging? It's essentially a veiled way of teaching kids not to be prejudiced or racist. So was 1980s He-Man woke? By the very definition of what woke means, yes it arguably was. Do you hate He-Man and Masters of the Universe now because of that?
Do any of you even know how the final issue of Marvel's GI Joe comic ended? Snake Eyes receives a letter from an old war buddy whose son wants to join the military. In the letter, Sean expresses that he wants achieve glory and adventure by enlisting.
Snake Eyes then writes an honest and candid letter back to this kid writing about the harsh realities of being a soldier and part of the military. Is this not a social issue? The horrors of war and the harsh realities that soldiers have to face? Snake Eyes in his own words explains there's no glory in war or parties and there's inhumanity to it, but he also expresses there can be honor, dignity, bravery, and compassion. Snake Eyes also expresses that despite everything he's lost and given for his life in the military, he has no regrets.
I'm sorry but that's powerful. But you can also argue that's social awareness and messaging and WOKE. There are no big action scenes or cool vehicles. It's a soldier who has given his life to the military offering a young boy his honest thoughts and feelings about serving. That's the GI Joe Larry Hama created
I think when people complain about "woke" what they really mean is they feel that the things they love are being attacked and treated as lesser by liberal progressives. They feel what they loved is being attacked and mistreated. "Well, this thing was a product of its time, so we're going to fix it and modernize it." I think people also get angry when clickbait journalists or so-called intellectuals try to deconstruct or attack beloved IPs and assign malicious intent where none was truly intended.
And you know, I get things like GI Joe being sacred to us.
As far as Henry Golding playing Snake Eyes, what's more important to me are his backstory and where he came from, how he gets injured and permanently scarred and loses his voice. So, if they throw out the military and lost family aspects, I will be disappointed. I know this is an origin story, but if we're going wait like 2 hours just to get like 2 minutes of a scarred, mute Snake Eyes, I will be disappointed. The previous movies already jettisoned his superior origin story, along with his romance with Scarlett, and I didn't care for that either. He didn't talk because of that vow of silence BS because his master was murdered.
As far this movie goes, none of the trailers or footage have been all that inspiring to me. It looks fairly generic. Very little of Snake Eyes actually being Snake Eyes. Why does an organization of ninjas care about distributing justice to the world? Snake Eyes' origin looks like a carbon copy of Cole Turner from that awful Mortal Kombat movie. They created a new, original character to be the center of the story and it was awful. This looks very much of the same. I don't think the people working on this franchise truly like or understand GI Joe.
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