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G.I. Joe State of the Union July 2021 – G.I. Joe Classified and Snake Eyes Movie
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07-26-2021, 04:20 AM
byk500
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I also want to add that there's a pervasive "Manbaby Mentality" when talking about films like Snake Eyes.
No, it's NOT for you.
It was NEVER intended for you.
It was NEVER intended to be like ARAH or a replacement.
What matters isn't that manbaby fans get into this movie...it's that the general audience gets into the movie and cares. The Transformers point is very much on the ball. As someone who is also a Transformers fan, I cannot even begin to tell you how much Transformers benefitted from movies that, were TOTAL SHIT, yet made big bucks at the box office. There's a reason why GI Joe fucking died twice during the timespan Transformers kept growing and growing. No one cared about GI Joe and we fans couldn't buy enough GI Joe to keep it alive.
If it's only fans buying Classified, I'd wager in two years time the line will probably die again. It's unsustainable without new blood coming into the franchise. Fans like me will at least give Snake Eyes a chance. Hell, I gave all the Transformers movies a chance even if I knew they were almost all going to be hot garbage after Revenge of the Fallen. I'm mature enough to understand that this is merely just a different kind of GI Joe, not meant to be a replacement for the GI Joe I grew up with.
**IF** this movie does well and we actually get a second one, GI Joe is certainly going to go places. As long as kids keep buying and turning into new fans, it's likely the brand will take the trajectory that Transformers did.
I agree with your points, but I grow tired of the overuse of the adjective "manbaby". Can't we just agree to disagree on context or content, good story, bad story, faithfulness to canon vs reinterpretation for creativity sake? People are allowed to complain. Remakes have been happening for over a 100 years now. Some people like the old stuff, a new generation is introduced to the new stuff. Either flavor is fine.
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