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06-01-2009, 05:41 PM | #1 |
Crimson lady of the Guard
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(Shakes head slowly)
Will the movie suck? Will the movie rock? Will... Oh we all have heard the questions You know what, none of those questions matter. None of the good thoughts nor the bad thoughts matter now. The movie is in the can and no amount of smack talk nor positive hype will change the end product. I know how passionate one can feel over something they love. I have the same kinds of passions, I don’t want to see a bad joke made out of something I care deeply about but we can’t change any of it now. What will happen in August is beyond our control, if it ever was in our control. GI Joe to me is a fantasy; I built it up in my mind and my heart. As a child I didn’t care about the story line, I made up my own. Sure I watched the cartoon and loved it, yet as an adult re-watching it now I see all of the flaws, but I don’t tear the 80’s cartoon apart. There is no need to, it is what it is and I can accept it as cannon or choose not to, no one can make me do otherwise. Inside me my fantasy GI Joe verse lives, irregardless of what has been put on a screen or in a comic book. For the last several months I have seen arguments on both sides of the fence. This group hates this, that group loves that. We divide ourselves then re-divide ourselves again as new material comes out. “The movie will suck”, “The movie looks great”, I have seen and read so much of those statements that I can’t even begin to count the posts any more. Is it our love and passion for GI Joe so intense that we must spend so much effort on fighting it or defending it? I do not in any way claim to be any better, my passion is just as strong and it is that passion that has driven me to write this. I want to be able to have a conversation about the Movie and GI Joe in general after the film comes out, I will be hurt equally so if it flops and I am robed of that. How do I defend the mythos of GI Joe, if the Movie my friends are exposed to is a rotten egg? Yet I also know that due to my passion I am looking at the film through a lens that the general public will have no context for. Thanks to my foreknowledge I am going to judge this movie based on my ideal GI Joe universe and while we all may not realize it, our personal universes are not the same. So once more I say, I know why we are doing this. I know why we are spending so much time and energy on the Movie topics. That answer is fear, the fear that we will have our precious GI Joe fantasy torn down and perverted into a form we won’t like. It is hard to love something so much that we can’t stand to see it warped beyond our vision of what we would have done had we had control. The movie is done guys; it is in the can and being copied for theatrical release as we type. There is nothing we can say or do now to change any part of it. All we have power over is our viewing habit, if you are so opposed to the movie stay home, OK. Don’t go to the theater and make yourself any angrier. Take a chill, watch a movie on TV and forget about this film. Or if you think it will be great go and buy your ticket and enjoy with a nice bucket of hot buttered popcorn, you deserve it. This is not a jab at anyone so please don’t take it that way. I am not promoting nor hating the ROC Movie I am just trying to say this, “we can not change the movie and it will be what ever it will be irregardless of how we feel.” I have grown to love this board and the people on it; you all are some of the best members on the web. I think very highly of many of you and am glad for the friendships I have forged. I just needed to say that all of the bad vibes I am seeing flying around the list seem to be creating rifts that need to be mended. We all love the same thing here, which is why we are here after all, so let’s try to be kind to each other, OK. With warmest regards Samantha
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06-01-2009, 05:43 PM | #2 |
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Sam, well put.
And you are complety correct.
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06-01-2009, 05:47 PM | #3 |
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thanks for sharing!
Nicely put and, some valid points. Now...food fight!! j/k
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06-01-2009, 05:48 PM | #4 |
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French fry to the head. (smack)
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06-01-2009, 05:57 PM | #5 |
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06-01-2009, 06:02 PM | #6 |
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too bad i can't chew that sucker right now :(
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06-01-2009, 06:04 PM | #7 |
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It is a civil war on the Tank between the North (Movie Lovers) and the South (Movie Haters). I am somewhere out west playing with the Buffalo and Indians (Don't care, it's just toys)
I prefer Sam over the movie as well
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06-01-2009, 06:05 PM | #8 |
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lol
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06-01-2009, 06:07 PM | #9 |
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Nicely put Samantha. I enjoy the people and friends I have made on the tank and I know even if we don't all see eye to eye all the time, we all share the same love for Joes....Now lets all hug it out...
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06-01-2009, 06:09 PM | #10 |
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Blah bridge building.
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