[Deathx360]

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Originally Posted by DESTRO

I don't know how many of you got the chance to read the David Elliot, Paul Lovett story line (script) but it was way better then this.

Im sure this script is very early and Hasbro would never let them make this story line.

Personally I don't read scripts since I would rather see the movie without spoilers so I will take your word on that one Destro, which isn't hard to believe given what we have read about the current script. I just finished reading the whole article on the link you posted and I must say this quote from El Mayimbe sums it all up.

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Originally Posted by El Mayimbe

G.I JOE’s biggest foe is not Cobra, or Cobra-la, or extremist terrorists, arms dealers, or maniacal tyrants…

…G.I. JOE’s biggest enemy, its toughest challenge, a villain so narrow-minded in his vision and focus that he threatens to run this property into ground is none other than…

…LORENZO DIBONAVENTURA!

A studio exec!

I don't think we will get a true G.I. Joe movie so long as Lorenzo is in charge. Like you and El Mayimbe said the old script was a lot better and if Lorenzo past on it for his Duke and Action Man buddy movie then no matter what we say as long as he is in charge we will not get a G.I. Joe movie. I hate to say it and hope that I am wrong but it isn't looking good.

As for Hasbro, what worries me is that it was months ago that you posted a link from IGN that stated that the movie was taking the Duke Action Man buddy approach and Hasbro said nothing. I hope they jump on this fast but if not then I will be very worried.

[Autobot_Goldbug]

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Originally Posted by Deathx360

I wasn't too happy with the designs of the Transformers at first but some have grown on me, not enough to be a completest or even buy some of the movie figures (still up in the air on that right now). At least Transformers remains Transformers. My opinion has changed several times for that movie but for the last few months, not sure how many, I have really been look forward to that movie and how much it will rock. The designs are different but at it's core it is just a retelling of what we have grown up with.

G.I. Joe on the other hand is not. Maybe, and I know some will hate me for this, they should have had Bay do G.I. Joe also. At least it would be close to what we expected, I think. At this point I would settle for a Monty Python version of G.I. Joe, at least we would know what to expect from them.

Bay do G.I. Joe movie? Uh that is exactly what it sounds like the script is from... BAY! You've got the cheesy love triangle which seems to be in all of Bay's films.
The Transformer movie designs do not please me at all. They look like naked robots to me with all those wires etc exposed.

[grayman]

I haven't read either script, but from El Mayimbe's reviews, the first script souds very promissing and the second sounds like complete caca. They really missed the source material completely. It's one thing to change Wolverine's costume to black, add flames to Optimus Prime, but this G.I. Joe script throws everything that is G.I.Joe out the window.

[anyril]

the line that a real g.i.joe story line won't sell is a load of crap....

all you need to do is throw in a couple of original characters from other countries like the O.G. and put in some good real action sequences and RESEARCH the line for the proper character tie ins and you could make a great movie the would make a fortune.

[squirrelcar]

Ooo. That's rough.

I've never seen him so livid about a review. He just detonated there, didn't here?

As a TF fan first, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't get a kick out of seeing this movie come out and having it be further from the source material than the upcoming TF movie is. But that'd be offset by not getting a movie that has the potential to ROCK in favor of some original-Street-Fighter-movie garbage.

[Gerrorism!]

Im so storked over this script Im changing my name posting name to Cool Dude... then Im gonna give myself an enema with a boiling vat of hot fudge while smashing my balls with rusty hammer

[Shogi]

Yeah sure, politics may make us not have the movie we want.....whatever. Here's a script for ya:

Start with a briefing room in the Pentagon with a bunch of high level officials discussing intel about some new terrorist cult that seem to worship snakes (Cobras specifically) have a lower ranking official suggest they reinstate something like the "Action Man Protocols", other officials argue about how it was a failed experiment with "enhanced soldiers" or something. Then have the guy who suggested it propose a New, updated team of covert specialists from all over the world called GI Joe (Lets say, in honor of the team leader from the Action Man Protocols) Then show a bit of the recruitment procedure with say, Duke, Snake-Eyes and maybe a few others while also cutting a bit to show Cobra Commander doing the same thing recruiting Desto, Baroness, Firefly, etc... Have a few skirmishes between the two ending with a big battle in dowtown DC or something and allow the main guys of Cobra to escape while a lot of the troopers are caught and arrested. Boom, roll credits! Now you have a fairly decent movie (If a better writer than I wrote it ) with a set up for a sequel. And if you have to have a love triangle then by all means go with Scarlett, Duke and Snake-Eyes. Heck, you can even have Snake-Eyes talk in the beginning of the movie but in one of the skirmishes he gets scarred by an explosion saving Scarlett's life thus taking away his ability to speak and cutting Duke out of the love triangle

[apacolypse]

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Originally Posted by Gerrorism!

Im so storked over this script Im changing my name posting name to Cool Dude... then Im gonna give myself an enema with a boiling vat of hot fudge while smashing my balls with rusty hammer

That about sums up my enthusiasm also.

[C.I.A.D.]

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Originally Posted by apacolypse

That about sums up my enthusiasm also.

Amen

This will never see the light of day. However, that being said, if Hasbro would allow this "DETH OF DA LINE!!11!1!!1one!!bbq!!uno!1" to happen, then it would be fair to say where we as fans would know where we stand.

[Ra88]

And I thought it couldn't get worse then the script with Cobra Commander as a Bane wannabe.:(

I hope this either never sees the light of day, or that it is HEAVILY rewritten. The basic plot COULD be good, if you replace the surfers with actual villians, get rid of the idiotic love triangle and not letting Scarlett die. They could call themselves Action Force, and at the end of it some leave the team (with Action Man being the first to go), with the remaining team members calling reestablishing themselves as GI Joe, to answer the newly arised threat of Cobra in the sequel.

And you know what's funny? They have Action Man in it, but not his arch nemesis: The dreaded Doctor X, a wannabe cyborg scientist with the robotic, green left hand. xD