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05-14-2021, 04:07 PM | #21 |
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The complete and total "man of mystery" thing is great purely for young kids who can imagine themselves behind the mask. Thing is...they can do that even if they get an origin story.
I don't have a problem with this Snake-Eyes having a name. It's not the first time we've known the name of the person behind the mask. Maybe it'll be great, maybe it'll suck, but it's a new dawn for GI Joe and hopefully it gets us some cool toys along the way. It's never going to be the 80's again. Life goes on. |
05-14-2021, 04:14 PM | #22 |
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Maybe.
It's certainly the 80s again in terms of action figure collecting. G.I. Joe, Transformers, and He-Man are in the midst of resurgences. Transformers is doing the best job translating the G1 cartoon into excellent figures (both Masterpiece and WFC versions), but I'm mostly satisfied with G.I. Joe so far. This is the best time to be an 80s IP collector since . . . the 80s. * *For me, it's even better than if I had unlimited money when I was a kid. Everything looks MUCH better now. I'll take Classified (or modern era 3.75"), MOTUC, and War for Cybertron over the vintage stuff from these properties any day.
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05-14-2021, 04:14 PM | #23 |
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Apparently wanting accurate character portrayals, not pcified, bastardized versions, is wrong especially if the character is straight, or caucasian or male. In this woke climate straight white males seem to be only allowed to be bad guys.
Maybe in the next origins movie roadblock will be a big white dude or a tall lesbian woman, they could call her C*ckblock.
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05-14-2021, 04:24 PM | #24 |
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Apparently wanting accurate character portrayals, not pcified, bastardized versions, is wrong especially if the character is straight, or caucasian or male. In this woke climate straight white males seem to be only allowed to be bad guys.
Maybe in the next origins movie roadblock will be a big white dude or a tall lesbian woman, they could call her C*ckblock. |
05-14-2021, 04:36 PM | #25 |
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The number of people who care about GI JOE’s adherence to 30 year old source material is insignificant from a box office point of view. The general public is not invested in the established mythos like they are with Batman, Superman and SpiderMan. Snake Eyes is still technically white (just not white enough for some) This is aimed at the masses, and I’ve seen multiple friends who don’t collect action figures posting images and expressing excitement. They know Snake Eyes, the love Snake Eyes, and they love martial arts flicks. Iwo, Koji... this looks like the ultimate NINJA movie. The rollout is working. I, for one, am glad they are reinventing the franchise for the 21st Century.
GI JOE is a toy line that has been reinvented multiple times. |
05-14-2021, 04:37 PM | #26 |
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And I’ll keep repeating this:
Henry Golding is white (or Caucasian or whatever) if you care about arbitrary and meaningless biological boundaries. The most important thing about Snake Eyes is that he is an American and an Outsider, not that he had two white parents. Last edited by TheSteelBrigade; 05-14-2021 at 04:40 PM.. |
05-14-2021, 04:43 PM | #27 |
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The number of people who care about GI JOE’s adherence to 30 year old source material is insignificant from a box office point of view by calling it backwards thinking. The general public is not invested in the established mythos like they are with Batman, Superman and SpiderMan. Snake Eyes is still technically white (just not white enough for some) This is aimed at the masses, and I’ve seen multiple friends who don’t collect action figures posting images and expressing excitement. They know Snake Eyes, the love Snake Eyes, and they love martial arts flicks. Iwo, Koji... this looks like the ultimate NINJA movie. The rollout is working. I, for one, am glad they are reinventing the franchise for the 21st Century.
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And I’ll keep repeating this:
Henry Golding is white (or Caucasian or whatever) if you care about arbitrary and meaningless biological boundaries. The most important thing about Snake Eyes is that he is an American and an Outsider, not that he had two white parents. |
05-14-2021, 04:48 PM | #28 |
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I get all that but it still no reason to belittle or devalue someone else's opinion. Plus how do you know that the source material from a 30 year old comic book is insignificant when it comes to the Box office when that type of movie has never been made? From day one GI Joe has not been based on the 30 year old comic book. It's been like you said, reinvented.
People just want a good movie. |
05-14-2021, 04:54 PM | #29 |
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I would bet that 80% of people that collected GI JOE in the 80’s, and are familiar with Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow have no idea what went on in the Larry Hama comics. The brand is familiar but no one cares about the mythos as presented in the comics. I mean, people don’t even care when MARVEL strays from the source material. The MCU is significantly different from the comics. The MCU is about as faithful to the comics as SNAKE EYES seems to be.
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05-14-2021, 04:56 PM | #30 |
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The number of people who care about GI JOE’s adherence to 30 year old source material is insignificant from a box office point of view. The general public is not invested in the established mythos like they are with Batman, Superman and SpiderMan. Snake Eyes is still technically white (just not white enough for some) This is aimed at the masses, and I’ve seen multiple friends who don’t collect action figures posting images and expressing excitement. They know Snake Eyes, the love Snake Eyes, and they love martial arts flicks. Iwo, Koji... this looks like the ultimate NINJA movie. The rollout is working. I, for one, am glad they are reinventing the franchise for the 21st Century.
GI JOE is a toy line that has been reinvented multiple times. But wanted to add, outside of new people not knowing who snake eyes is, the die hard fans deserve an accurate snake eyes STORY movie.
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