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Did Snake Eyes: G.I. JOE Origins Help The G.I. JOE Brand?
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07-27-2021, 01:01 AM
JediJones
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Fred Broca
Ironically, di Bonaventura DID want to want seemingly would have been a military themed movie.
https://uproxx.com/movies/lorenzo-di...of-the-beasts/
And in the same interview he says, "I have this funny reaction about Cobra Commander, which is he kind of looks like he’s from the KKK." ... ""I probably was the first person who went, “Are you guys sure? Doesn’t he look a little, like from the KKK?” And everybody’s looking at me like, “How dare you say that.” Some of the Hasbro guys were horrified."
Then he goes on to say he thinks he was responsible for Hasbro not putting out a hooded CC in the Classified line. So, not only did this guy ruin the movies, he's doing his best to ruin the toy line.
Does this sound like a guy who "gets" G.I. Joe? Does it sound like a fanboy who grew up on the property? When you're a fanboy, or are somehow able to immerse yourself in the property and "get" it, you understand all the unique weirdness about it and don't question it. This guy sounds like that producer, Jon Peters, was it, who wanted to put a giant robot spider in "Superman Reborn" and who Kevin Smith ridicules as a Hollywood hack to this day. These types of producers are all over the industry. And the way Leonardo DiBuenaVista speaks, he just sounds like the same kind of clueless rambling idiot we have always known is out there in Hollywood ruining everything, who is desperately trying to sound like he deserves a paycheck.
Then he goes on to talk down G.I. Joe vs. Transformers, and even claims Alien vs. Predator was a bad idea, something every fanboy in the world wanted to see. Based on this interview, I wouldn't hire this guy to clean my gutters.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Fred Broca
The short version of it it was, one of the Joes is taken. The command says, “Nothing we could do.” Four or five of them band to say, “All right, we’re taking our leave.” They dress up in civies. And they go into a territory
The plot he gives, doesn't even sound like a full movie. And he brags that the Joes aren't using their firepower. Once again playing down the military angle and bragging about it. And there's no mention of Cobra. He's talking about a plot for a small spy thriller, when G.I. Joe is almost always about huge epic plots where Cobra is trying to take over the world.
Thanks for the interview. It makes it clear that everything I thought about Leonidas DiJesseVentura was twice as true as I thought it was.
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Fred Broca
Wasn't
Ghostbusters
just a trash movie regardless of the female cast?
The issue isn't that S.E. was unmasked and spoke. The problem was S.E. was unmasked and spoke in
Snake Eyes: G.I. JOE Origins
.
The issue with both is they were made by people who weren't adapting the source material faithfully and/or giving the fans what they wanted to see. They were "doing their own thing." So first they get basic character details and backstory wrong, then they get the tone wrong, then they get the look wrong, etc. It doesn't play out, "we're going to completely change who the character is, but other than that, it'll capture everything you know and love about the franchise."
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