Hisstank.com reviews GI Joe script

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

http://www.hisstank.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4706

A little more reliable than El Mayimbe, I think.

[TheVileOne]

It does reveal and go into some more descriptions, but doesn't really tell us much else we don't already know. Though I'm not sure how well balanced the film will be, sounds very busy and like there's a lot going on.

Who the hell is the love of Duke's life if Scarlett and Snake Eyes are supposed to be involved according to El Mayimbe? I'm curious.

[D.P.]

Dude is bein' a jerk with the Cobra Commander info...Let it out already.

[TheVileOne]

The guys who've read the script, El Mayimbe and Destro have posted a lot of answers about it in the threads.

They do mention that Cobra Commander is there and he is masked. And they both I think seem to reinforce that this is the start of COBRA basically. And I suppose Destro is the main villain or basically I think one of them said the "Grand Moff Tarkin".

I suppose that makes Cobra Commander the Emperor Palpatine of the movie.

But I dunno. I wonder if Cobra Commander is actually there under our noses . . . or maybe the noses of the Joes.

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

It does reveal and go into some more descriptions, but doesn't really tell us much else we don't already know. Though I'm not sure how well balanced the film will be, sounds very busy and like there's a lot going on.

Who the hell is the love of Duke's life if Scarlett and Snake Eyes are supposed to be involved according to El Mayimbe? I'm curious.

It might be Cover Girl- he got involved with some chick who filled a similar role in the Lovett/Ellison draft.

[TheVileOne]

According to the thread, Cover Girl is basically a secretary type of character.

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

According to the thread, Cover Girl is basically a secretary type of character.

That's her job, but she can still have a relationship with Duke. The woman in the old draft had a similar role.

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

BTW- Here's how I phrased my email to Mayimbe:

"The Scarlett/Snake Eyes romance- is it in?"

The reply I got was "Of course."

I specifically used the word "Romance," for sure.

[Golgo-13]

O.K reading that i get the inkling that this is the origin of Cobra. This quote:

Even if the G.I. Joe Team manages to stop Destro, the Baroness and the rest of M.A.R.S, will they be ready for whats around the corner?

and the fact that he doesn't use the word 'Cobra', leads me to believe as such.

[tamron]

It might be Cover Girl- he got involved with some chick who filled a similar role in the Lovett/Ellison draft.

Cover Girl is a possibility. And she did have a crush on Duke in the Marvel comics, IIRC, so it has a small nugget of history.

[D.P.]

The guys who've read the script, El Mayimbe and Destro have posted a lot of answers about it in the threads.

They do mention that Cobra Commander is there and he is masked. And they both I think seem to reinforce that this is the start of COBRA basically. And I suppose Destro is the main villain or basically I think one of them said the "Grand Moff Tarkin".

I suppose that makes Cobra Commander the Emperor Palpatine of the movie.

But I dunno. I wonder if Cobra Commander is actually there under our noses . . . or maybe the noses of the Joes.

Ok, I can see Cobra being the Ducard/Al Ghul like figure.

[TheVileOne]

I was trying to suggest one of the CC is moonlighting as a Joe.

Like they turn Snake Eyes into Cobra Commander :p .

[4NutzinYoface]

Dude is bein' a jerk with the Cobra Commander info...Let it out already.


SO TRUE! I mean whats the deal here? There is no reason to review the movie but say absolutely 'zip' about Cobra Commander. What gives? What is there such a integral mysterious plot point like Scarlett turns out to be the Commander or something?!?

[TheVileOne]

That's what it seems to be hinting that. OK not Scarlett is CC, but that the identity of CC is probably a big plot twist. Maybe who we think is Destro is in fact CC.

They both talk about this like being COBRA Begins and compare it to Batman Begins. Well what happened there? Ducard and Ra's al Ghul, two comic canon characters. And they combined them. Who we thought was Ducard turned out to be Ra's Al Ghul.

Note that this is all just theories and pure speculation.

[4NutzinYoface]

I think it'd be kinda silly to have CC turn out to BE someone like Destro or something...that's retarded..they should be separate characters.

Now Hollywood LOVES ****ing cool stuff up because they think people will like it or because they think it'll get them lots of money..they just end up pissing people off...however from what I hear this flick is headed in the right direction.

I loved Transformers...I mean they toyed around with it a bit but overall a very very awesome movie! I just hope that G.I. Joe turns out to be the same is all....

[Golgo-13]

No Tomax and Xamot. :csad:

[Philly Phanboy]

I guess having Shipwreck as the submarine commander makes more sense of having him as part of the character list now. They're really trying to hit home the Joe motto "fighting for freedom over land and sea and air"...well either that or Hasbro is making them try to promote as many new toy tie-ins as possible.

[Voyeur]

Given who they've hired to play Duke, maybe the "love of his life" is a dude. We did hear a rumor that Cobra Commander was suppose to be Duke's "friend" at one point in time...


...kidding...sorry, I'm still irked by Tatum's casting. :(

[Rogles]

Man, I missed it! How much more did it give away compared to the latinoreview one?

[TheVileOne]

Very little, besides some more descriptions of the vehicles.

They both give away some more in the actual threads for the reports.

Interesting that Paramount had it taken down from Latino review, but you can still read the whole thing in full here, LOL!

[QueerMike]

Who the hell is the love of Duke's life if Scarlett and Snake Eyes are supposed to be involved according to El Mayimbe? I'm curious.

Ripcord? Rex?

[TheVileOne]

Brokeback Joe?! GAY AMERICAN HEROES?!!! Don't ask don't tell?!

[mr. peasant]

Brokeback Joe?! GAY AMERICAN HEROES?!!! Don't ask don't tell?!

Don't see anything wrong with gay heroes. But back to the original question, maybe they're going to pair Duke up with a new (non-Joe) female side character? Or maybe they could use Cover Girl instead.

[Heretic]

There is absolutely no reason to invent a character in a world where there are hundreds of characters already and no9ne of them have been explored in this medium.

[Timstuff]

But back to the original question, maybe they're going to pair Duke up with a new (non-Joe) female side character? Or maybe they could use Cover Girl instead.

Roughly 99% of men in the military are boyfriends to civilian girls. I could easily see them having Duke in a relationship with a new civie chick character with no military connections, and that would be realistic. Still, I could see them using Cover Girl as Duke's main squeeze if they want a girl who's a bit closer to the action.

Really, Duke has no room to complain about Snake Eyes getting Scarlett when he gets to come home to thist:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4404/230pxcovergirl2pp8.jpg

[TheVileOne]

Just FYI,

Currently in the classic Joe-verse continuity for the comics, Cover Girl is engaged to be married to . . . SHIPWRECK.

[TheVileOne]

BTW- Here's how I phrased my email to Mayimbe:

"The Scarlett/Snake Eyes romance- is it in?"

The reply I got was "Of course."

I specifically used the word "Romance," for sure.

All he would say on HissTank.com is that they were "close". Doesn't exactly mean romance.

I'm still somewhat skeptical they will keep it intact.

[Darthkush]

someone please repost it or pm it to me or something.

[TheVileOne]

Oh sorry. It wasn't posted in this thread, and Hisstank had to take it down due to Paramount complaining. However, as far as I know the Latino Review report is still here, which was also taken down because of Paramount. But you can still read it all here I think.

The Hisstank guy and El Mayimbe dropped a lot of info on those forums though.

[Philly Phanboy]

All he would say on HissTank.com is that they were "close". Doesn't exactly mean romance.

I'm still somewhat skeptical they will keep it intact.

For what it's worth, since those reviews were posted, Hama has supposedly re-written some things that fans were rather vocal against.

The article doesn't go into specifics but hopefully the romantic interest(s) are cleared up and that vow of silence garbage with Snake-eyes is now gone.

[TheVileOne]

For what it's worth, since those reviews were posted, Hama has supposedly re-written some things that fans were rather vocal against.

To respond to that Hama never re-wrote anything. He said he "fixed" things that would've upset GI JOE fans. There's no implication the Scarlett/Ripcord business and Scarlett/Snake Eyes as brother/sister type was changed.

The article doesn't go into specifics but hopefully the romantic interest(s) are cleared up and that vow of silence garbage with Snake-eyes is now gone.

Until we hear otherwise I'm going by the initial reports.

[Rick Roll'd]

Yay for dumb **** hollywood writers they should have just junked the whole lot of them for a new batch with good ideas.

[mr. peasant]

To respond to that Hama never re-wrote anything. He said he "fixed" things that would've upset GI JOE fans. There's no implication the Scarlett/Ripcord business and Scarlett/Snake Eyes as brother/sister type was changed.

Of course, that's assuming they were true to begin with.

[TheVileOne]

Of course, that's assuming they were true to begin with.

They were.