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07-26-2021, 07:45 PM | #51 |
Crimson Guard
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I think it's definitely time to think about considering the possibility of the likeihood that it's almost time to be bothered.
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07-26-2021, 08:25 PM | #52 |
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Not at Marvel, Snake-eyes Declassified from Devils Due. He's talking to his Dad before he goes to Vietnam "Luck runs out quick, though you step up to gamble one more time, and the next thing you know...SNAKE-EYES. End of the line.".
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08-29-2021, 05:59 PM | #53 |
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Snake-Eyes was fleshed out in the Marvel comic quite a bit, he was often the main character.
Hama had his own crazy subplot revolving around CC, Zartan and Snake-Eyes and family ties and the origins of Cobra. For ROC they appeared to have used Duke in place of Snake-Eyes(and Wayans Ripcord in place of Stalker) to drive the origins and contrived plot & connected him to Cobra Commander, but more directly. |
08-30-2021, 09:32 PM | #54 |
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You should be bothered. These are our cultural myths. Touchstones that we all know. Star Wars, Gi Joe, Star Trek, Ghost busters etc. What we have now are skin suits. They wear the skin of our cultural myths, that is the brand and names of characters, but what's inside isn't the characters or stories we love. The soul, what really counts, what we loved and admired about that cultural myth has been stripped and what is left is worn as a poor imitation to make money. There's not an established market for say... Slashing Dragon, but call it Snake Eyes and you have an established audience. They put a skin suit of Snake Eyes on a generic martial arts movie to sell the movie to us. What has come before is not acknowledged and has been discarded in favor of a new myth.
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08-31-2021, 12:37 PM | #55 |
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Quote:
You should be bothered. These are our cultural myths. Touchstones that we all know. Star Wars, Gi Joe, Star Trek, Ghost busters etc. What we have now are skin suits. They wear the skin of our cultural myths, that is the brand and names of characters, but what's inside isn't the characters or stories we love. The soul, what really counts, what we loved and admired about that cultural myth has been stripped and what is left is worn as a poor imitation to make money. There's not an established market for say... Slashing Dragon, but call it Snake Eyes and you have an established audience. They put a skin suit of Snake Eyes on a generic martial arts movie to sell the movie to us. What has come before is not acknowledged and has been discarded in favor of a new myth.
Even on a surface level though... it's offensive from a marketing perspective. You're tricked into consuming something that you wouldn't be interested in if it wasn't dressed up something you're fond of. My argument is always... if your story is good enough, make it on its own. Don't shoehorn it into the skin of something I love just to sell it to me. |
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09-02-2021, 09:59 PM | #56 |
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It took me three attempts to watch this movie. The whole time I was like, “this isn’t GI Joe, this isn’t even Snake-Eyes…”
Who is supposed to care about this stuff if the creators don’t even care about the fans caring? |
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