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View Poll Results: Ideal directors | |||
Rob Cohen | 0 | 0% | |
Dean Parisot | 1 | 4.55% | |
Chuck Russell | 0 | 0% | |
Neil Burger | 0 | 0% | |
Anne Fletcher | 0 | 0% | |
Jon Favreau | 10 | 45.45% | |
Trish Sie | 0 | 0% | |
Louis Leterrier | 0 | 0% | |
Scott Speer | 0 | 0% | |
Other | 12 | 54.55% | |
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03-09-2022, 08:31 PM | #31 |
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Gotta clear the decks for the new toys!
The Joe Movie more or less did the same thing, just with Cobra La capturing all the Joes except the "new guys" and a couple others |
03-09-2022, 08:35 PM | #32 |
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03-10-2022, 06:07 AM | #33 |
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03-10-2022, 04:18 PM | #34 |
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I'm not sure who I'd pick to be honest. GI Joe should be a Bond or Indiana Jones type action/adventure in my book, neither as dark and gritty as a war movie or as goofy as a comic book film.
Spielberg, Martin Campbell or Joe Johnston would probably be the closest to the ideal director from those still active, but 1) I doubt any of them would do it and 2) you'd need Spielberg from the 80s. Campbell from the era of Goldeneye, or Johnston from the days of the Rocketeer or something. If we're talking realistic choices, to be honest, after the failure of Fake-Eyes, I doubt there will ever be another GI Joe film, so...nobody, I guess? |
03-18-2022, 04:01 PM | #35 |
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Michael Bay:P
I'll see myself out. |
04-01-2022, 10:07 AM | #36 |
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The clear and unimpeachable choice to write and direct a GI JOE movie is Chris McQuarrie, the writer of the last three MISSION IMPOSSIBLE movies and the director of the last two.
A GI JOE movie should NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT (infinity) be a dark gritty war movie. The Mission Impossible series, mixed with the Bond series is the perfect template. And for the love of Pete please set it in the 80s!!! That said, there is a part of me that is curious as to what someone could do if they took a "Sicario" tone to it, although I'd still prefer the Mission Impossible style. |
04-01-2022, 10:25 AM | #37 |
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Didn't Retaliation more or less share the same tone as the Mission Impossible movies? Moreover, Rise of Cobra had a Roger Moore/Bond tone. I don't think tone has been the issue, so much as the characterizations. The Marvel/Sunbow characters were infinitely more interesting than their flesh-and-bone counterparts. |
04-01-2022, 01:25 PM | #38 |
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I don't think tone has been the issue, so much as the characterizations. The Marvel/Sunbow characters were infinitely more interesting than their flesh-and-bone counterparts.
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04-01-2022, 01:43 PM | #39 |
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04-01-2022, 03:05 PM | #40 |
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Rise of Cobra was just a weird animal all around. In a lot of ways it got the rhythms and tropes of the old Sunbow mini-series "events" down really well (Cobra steals the MacGuffin, A major Landmark gets destroyed/stolen/whatever, Duke gets captured, all ending with a big fight at the bad guy base!)
But then Sommers grafted the one scene he'd managed to storyboard out for his abandoned "Accelerator" project onto things and nobody did anything beyond maybe the tiniest bit of research as to who the various characters were supposed to be (beyond...you guessed it...Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow). Which was quite a shame. It's got a mostly-good cast, all things considered, it's just got a really bad script (which I guess makes sense given it was a "strike movie" as I recall). I also felt like they were trying to re-frame Duke as the center of the "Joe-verse" instead of Snake-Eyes with his connections to "Rex" and "Anna" and it just...wasn't executed well, even if it's an idea that I could see as having a little bit of merit out-of-universe. I mean, in a vacuum I think the accelerator suits were kinda cool and I definitely enjoyed the figures they made of them, but while I was totally on board for a 2000's Joe having "Near future" tech as opposed to 80's "near future" tech they just didn't mesh well, and the story didn't do them any favors either. Retaliation is...kind of better? But it's really got its' own problems, just from a whole different angle. Once again most of the characters really don't feel like the characters they're supposed to be (Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow notwithstanding). Major characters are unceremoniously killed off, and the whole thing just feels a whole lot "smaller" due to a reduced budget. The only thing that can be said with a certainty about Joe movies is that Storm Shadow is pretty consistently the best thing in them. Last edited by Jmacq1; 04-01-2022 at 03:13 PM.. |
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