[Drill]

I've been seeing a lot of flack about Mr. Chu and I don't think he deserves it. A vast number of people have immediately decried him as a wannabe fan and that he does not care for the property. I have to counter that claim, I think his problem was that he is TOO much of a fan and as such isolated the generic Hollywood blockbuster audience. His enthusiasm has shown throughout all of his tweets and the various interviews that were performed. This wasnt a case of a director getting a crash course on the mythology and cherrypicking concepts that look cool or are visually appealing.
This is probably a giant cause of why the movie was pushed back. What normal movie audience would go into a movie that is marketed as a war movie and yet features a 16 minute period of a silent ninja breaking into a castle (if the Silent Interlude homage is anything like the comic). It is a hard sell and while I dont think he will fail us, sadly he might have to cut some of that out. That is a major reason why I think it has been moved (along with Spider-Man as competition).

[luigi]

serious we all know retaliation should have less ninja in it

[eddy-arashikage]

I am inclined to agree, A friend had seen a preview of Retaliation and it made him even more excited and we have yet to see anything negative about the film before the delay, and if something was bad why throw more money at it?

Now the innitial shock has worn off I have to wonder at the logic that the film is that shit.

I would be keen to hear of a big gi joe fan that had watched the screener to get there opinion on it.

Military heroes and ninjas are a lot like marmite(british thing) you either love it or hate it.

I think the general holywood enthusiasts may not appriciate Joe. Even Ninjas are either taken with a smirk or massive fanboy love.

We are still getting some of the toys, this gives me a financial break to track down my wants list im bidding on low light now and next will be zarana. If there was an abundance of Retaliation toys to buy for me and my children then I could not afford to buy things off my wants list!!

Ive been with Joe off and on since the 80's so I won't give up now, its easy to get carried away with the moaning especially on here, for a close community there is a lot of bitching and moaning compared to other toy lines, but don't worry guys it will all come around!

[eddy-arashikage]

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Originally Posted by luigi

serious we all know retaliation should have less ninja in it

No it shouldn't the RAH comics featured Ninjas heavily.... Firefly, Jinx, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Slice, Dice, Red Ninja clan, Billy, Ninja force, Scarlett to a lesser degree.

Don't forget that in many a Joe fans opinion the RAH comics are Joe lore!

[Frank Talltree]

Where's Muggum? I would think he would know something about what's going on with the movie that he could share with us.

[Derek]

I have a decent joe collection and there was nothing about retaliation I wanted to see. I already own ninja assassin.

[CrimsonGuard101]

The problem is he cared too much and he got slapped by paramount and DiBoneventurasshat...he tried to give us something better then ROC and they would not have it apparently...

[drunknmunky]

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Originally Posted by eddy-arashikage

No it shouldn't the RAH comics featured Ninjas heavily.... Firefly, Jinx, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Slice, Dice, Red Ninja clan, Billy, Ninja force, Scarlett to a lesser degree.

Don't forget that in many a Joe fans opinion the RAH comics are Joe lore!

They already tried live action Ninja Force.

[CrimsonGuard101]

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Originally Posted by drunknmunky

They already tried live action Ninja Force.

I could go so a full feature film of that...better then ROC thats for sure lol...

[kennywr22]

I agree on most points. I truly believe that the film is not bad. As I've said before, it's a case of how movies were trending and they felt they had a decent movie that was just gonna get lost in this summer of huge movies. I mean this movie had some fantastic buzz happening and then avengers happened. Now spider man and then the dark knight. It's no surprise the buzz has kinda faded. I think come march they will have the hype built back up with not much to take away from it. I for one am still very excited and will be waiting for opening day! Yo joe!