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07-22-2008, 05:39 PM | #11 |
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89% ? what a weird percentage.
and im sure its a 100% chance that movie ripcord gets a figure. |
07-22-2008, 05:42 PM | #12 |
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you guys may be pissed of the ethnicity swap, but poor gingy Rip Cord was getting tired of having to cary sun block everywhere and apply it constantly throughout the day just to avoid getting sun burns from the halogen lights in the Pit. he is much happier being black, with stronger skin pigmentation that can stand up to the power of the sun.
this is a good thing for Rip Cord. |
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07-22-2008, 05:45 PM | #13 |
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you guys may be pissed of the ethnicity swap, but poor gingy Rip Cord was getting tired of having to cary sun block everywhere and apply it constantly throughout the day just to avoid getting sun burns from the halogen lights in the Pit. he is much happier being black, with stronger skin pigmentation that can stand up to the power of the sun.
this is a good thing for Rip Cord. |
07-22-2008, 05:50 PM | #14 |
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07-22-2008, 05:50 PM | #15 |
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makes no difference what-so-ever to me as long as Wayans does a good job playing him. Probably 95% of the Joes aren't even "characters" to begin with, their descriptions on file cards... that's all. The cartoon and comic gave characterization to so few of the team (Ripcord had what? 3 or 4 issues of dating Candy the Balloon Bear???) that it doesn't matter what Paramount does with them, that nothing is "out-of-character" for anyone except those with concrete, well-defined personalities (Destro, CC, Duke, Scarlett... etc.) RipCord could be any race/nationality at all and it wouldn't make any differance to the "character" He'll stand proudly next to the rest of my Joe team as Ripcord. But that's all just my opinion and nothing more.
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07-22-2008, 05:50 PM | #16 |
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Hey, maybe he's like Robert Downey Jr.'s character in "Tropic Thunder" and he's actually white.
"I'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude!" |
07-22-2008, 05:59 PM | #17 |
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I didn't this was going to be a horror film. I can see his death happing though and then they give the name ripcord to some else in a later movie. |
07-22-2008, 06:04 PM | #18 |
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If the movie figures share the detail, posability and body style of the 25th line (and reports suggest they will) then I expect to like them all and will buy the entire 'cast'.
That'll mean I'll have another Duke, Scarlett, Breaker etc. so will be keeping them seperate from the current line. As such, Ripcord will remain Ripcord and stay on the 'movie section' of my shelf.
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07-22-2008, 06:06 PM | #19 |
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While everyone is having this discussion I'm looking at a Watchman trailer that shows the "inkblots" on Rorshac's mask actually moving. This is a detail so obscure and glossed-over in the comic that there are people who've read it that probably don't even know, or notice the patterns change between panels, yet Zack Snyder included it. A detail so superflous that 90% of even the die-hard fans would have given the director a pass on not including it due to the trouble and expense for something that has no real bearing on the story, and yet he did it. Hell, I don't even WANT to see Dr Manhattan naked through half the movie, and it looks like they're going in that direction. Why? 'Cause that's the way the character looks in the book. Sweet effin' Mary, he allegedly even fought the studio to keep the book's ending. The Dark Knight is worth seeing just for that trailer if nothing else.
Guys, I'm sorry, but there is no reason whatsoever why we should compromise on movies based on properties we love. There should be no argument as to the costumes, ethnicities, or nationalities of the characters. If Stephen Sommers really cared about this property he'd know how much love fans have for the original characters, and wouldn't mess with them and their costumes (you know, those functional military outfits?) so casually. |
07-22-2008, 06:26 PM | #20 |
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Guys, I'm sorry, but there is no reason whatsoever why we should compromise on movies based on properties we love. There should be no argument as to the costumes, ethnicities, or nationalities of the characters. If Stephen Sommers really cared about this property he'd know how much love fans have for the original characters, and wouldn't mess with them and their costumes (you know, those functional military outfits?) so casually.
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