View Full Version : LatinoReview's Script Review is updated - Please, merge if needed
Kanon
03-19-2008, 11:56 AM
I'm truly sorry for not taking more time to search for the right thread. Please merge if this is already known, and discussed somewhere else.
LatinoReview's just updated their script review with more super spoilerish stuff. And really controversial ****!
Go to the bottom for the new details
http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=73
MASSIVE SPOILER TERRITORY!
I HAVE RECENTLY COME UNDER REX LEE/THE DOCTOR/COBRA COMMANDER’S MIND CONTROL THROUGH THE NANOMITES BEHIND THE INCISION SCAR OF MY RIGHT EAR JUST LIKE ANA LEWIS AKA THE BARONESS AKA COBRA COMMANDER’S SISTER IN THE MOVIE!
IN OTHER WORDS EL MAYIMBE IS NOW A MEMBER OF THE DIABOLICAL COBRA ORGANIZATION!
I’VE GONE ROGUE COURTESY OF AMY POWELL, THE SR VP OF INTERACTIVE MARKETING OVER AT PARAMOUNT!
SO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE HUH?!
WHICH GIJOE ACTUALLY DIES? HOW?
COVERGIRL GETS IMPALED BY STORM SHADOW’S KATANA BLADE WHEN SHE ENTERS HAWK’S STATEROOM. STORM SHADOW THEN STABS HAWK IN THE GUT PARALYZING HIM.
WHO DOES ZARTAN CLONE?
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE END OF THE MOVIE THERFORE LEAVING IT WIDE OPEN FOR THE SEQUEL! ZARTAN SPENT 18 MONTHS STUDYING THE PRESIDENT, LEARNING HIS MANNERISMS, ADOPTING HIS EATING HABITS, AND LOSING SIXTY PERCENT OF HIS OWN MUSCLE MASS.
WHAT’S UP WITH COBRA COMMANDER?
DUKE’S BEST FRIEND IN THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE IS MEDICAL OFFICER REX LEE. DUKE IS GONNA MARRY REX’S SISTER ANA (aka the soon to be Baroness). REX WILL BE BEST MAN. DUKE PROMISES ANA TO TAKE CARE OF REX ON A MISSION THAT GOES TO HELL. REX IS SUPPOSEDLY KILLED OR SO WE THINK. REX REAPPEARS AS THE MASKED DOCTOR WHO BREATHES THROUGH A MASK AND BY THE END OF THE MOVIE BECOMES THE COBRA COMMANDER. THOSE JFX ONLINE PICTURES THAT LEAKED OF THE BARONESS? THAT IS ANA AT HER BROTHER’S REX FUNERAL. ANA THINKS REX IS STILL DEAD AND DOESN’T KNOW THE DOCTOR WORKING AT MARS IS HER BROTHER.
HOW DOES THE BARONESS BECOME DECOBRAY AND WHY?
SHE MARRIES LEON DECOBRAY WHO RUNS A LAB IN FRANCE. HE WEAPONIZES DESTRO’S WARHEADS. SHE IN TURN, DIVORCES HIM.
DIDN’T THE BARONESS HAVE FEELINGS FOR DUKE? WHAT GIVES?
SHE IS UNDER HER BROTHER’S MIND CONTROL. HAS A SMALL INCISION SCAR BEHIND HER RIGHT EAR. IT’S ALL ABOUT MIND CONTROL AND NANOTECHNOLOGY FOLKS.
ANY BIG TIME DESTRUCTION IN THE FILM?
OH YEAH! DESTRO GETS EVEN WITH THE FRENCH AND TOPPLES OVER THE EIFFEL TOWER! IT COMES CRASHING DOWN INTO THE SEINE. NANOMITES EAT THE **** OUT OF IT.
ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENS?
YEAH, DUKE GETS CAUGHT BY THE BAD GUYS JUST LIKE HE DID IN THE CARTOONS BACK IN THE DAY.
WHERE IS MARS HEADQUARTERS?
AT THE POLAR ICE CAPS UNDERWATER
HOW DO THE JOES GET THERE?
IN THE NIGHT RAVEN
DOES DESTRO WEAR HIS FAMOUS MASK?
AT THE END. HIS FACE GETS BURNED THAT THE NANOMITES FORM A MASK AROUND MCCULLEN’S FACE HENCE DESTRO IS BORN.
ANY COOL TECH?
YEAH, THE JOES HAVE MARK ONE ACCELERATOR SUITS LIKE THAT VIDEO GAME CRYSIS. MAKES YOU RUN FASTER, JUMP HIGHER AND HIT HARDER. BAD ASS!
SO NOW YOU KNOW!
The Avatar
03-19-2008, 01:18 PM
ugh, not a fan of some of those plot points.
DocHoliday
03-19-2008, 01:38 PM
I am happy to see his anticipation for seeing the film.
QueerMike
03-19-2008, 02:26 PM
I'm not feelin' this.
What a p.o.s.! This will BLOW. It's g.i. joe in name only (and even that is up for debate). Seems like the only thing worth seeing in this is going to be SE and SS (and thats praying they haven't screwed that up either with dumbass costumes).
Sigh.....................honestly, how friggin hard is it to make a g.i. joe flick?
Wolverine_05
03-19-2008, 04:21 PM
Wow, that sounds awful. Everything about this is pissing me off.
SHADOWBAT69
03-19-2008, 05:13 PM
OMG, is this frickin' real? This is terrible, imo. Sounds like no one is even in their actual "character" costumes until the very end. The whole Baroness/CC/Duke story sounds like it belongs on the CW. Accelerator suits!? WTF! LMAO. Toy sales anyone? Also, the Night Raven is a friggin Cobra jet, not transportation for Joes. Or, maybe, gasp!!, did they capture the jet!? Dun Dun Dun! I have no ecitement for this movie at all.
DISCLAIMER: Im basing my comments on the prospect that the spoilers I just read are from the actual movie script.
Kanon
03-19-2008, 05:28 PM
DISCLAIMER: Im basing my comments on the prospect that the spoilers I just read are from the actual movie script.
I have my doubts too, but it's consistent with the pic of the baroness in the funeral...
Rogles
03-19-2008, 06:32 PM
Wait a minute didn't this guy already read the script a while back and went ga-ga over it? What gives? At any rate, this guy still needs to learn about lower-case letters.
EDIT: Man, I can't tell if he's being serious or sarcastic or what.
TheVileOne
03-19-2008, 06:33 PM
I wonder what this was about and why Paramount let this leak, unless some of these might've been tweaked.
Mind controlled Baroness . . . Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. El Mayimbe in one of his stupid rants basically did confirm no Scarlett/Snake Eyes in the movie though since it doesn't "work" or some crap like that.
Ripcord/Scarlett here we come.
SHADOWBAT69
03-19-2008, 09:07 PM
Ya know, when all this movie stuff began and there started to be alot of fan backlash about what we were hearing, Hasbro made the public statement of how they were not going to allow this to be anything but G.I. Joe that fans have known and loved for years. Well, was that all just fluff? Cuz Im not seeing what I grew up with.
copywrite
03-19-2008, 09:50 PM
How come the link doesn't work and there is nothing at Latino Review about his?
Anyway, the only thing that's different from the comics is Rex/Duke/Baroness thing. Big deal, it's more interesting this way.
copywrite
03-19-2008, 09:56 PM
Mind controlled Baroness . . . Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. El Mayimbe in one of his stupid rants basically did confirm no Scarlett/Snake Eyes in the movie though since it doesn't "work" or some crap like that.
Ripcord/Scarlett here we come.
Ugh, you're still on about this. He never implied that, you are just taking what he said way out of context. I'm starting to think you actually want to see Ripcord/Scarlett since you won't let it go. :O
Theweepeople
03-19-2008, 09:59 PM
I feel like I'm about to experience all those angry emotions I felt when the transformers script was reviewed. Fortunately, some changes were made and the movie turned out to be okay for me despite all of it's flaws. However, this script sounds worse then the transformers one. I'm glad I was only a moderate GI Joe fan during my childhood. I'm still wondering how Lorenzo Di Bonaventura got work from Paramount after warner brothers fired him for ruining the Batman franchise and for wasting millions on the ill-fated superman lives project.
Bug-Eyed Earl
03-19-2008, 11:04 PM
I really don't see why the bad guys have to be mind controlled.
On the other hand, Destro and the Baroness were trying to kill CC within the first 20 issues and vice versa. Maybe Rex is just smarter than the used car salesman. :)
And the mind control thing was in the comics- in the later issues, after several characters had severed ties with CC and Hama apparently had to bring back the old status quo.
And the acclerator armor is not that ridiculous- the military is working on similar exo-skeletons now- we could definitely have something similar long before we have, sat, BAT troops.
And I like the idea that Zartan has to work fairly hard on his disguises.
Conan the Barbarion couldn't be more different from the books, except for scenes taken from various novels, and it's one of my favorite movies, so I'm not too upset yet. Nothing I've read is as big a change as the origin of Conan in the movie.
Mal'Akai
03-20-2008, 12:21 AM
What a p.o.s.! This will BLOW. It's g.i. joe in name only (and even that is up for debate). Seems like the only thing worth seeing in this is going to be SE and SS (and thats praying they haven't screwed that up either with dumbass costumes).
Sigh.....................honestly, how friggin hard is it to make a g.i. joe flick?
With out making it look just like a live-qaction cartoon, nearly impossible.
TheVileOne
03-20-2008, 02:06 AM
Ugh, you're still on about this. He never implied that, you are just taking what he said way out of context. I'm starting to think you actually want to see Ripcord/Scarlett since you won't let it go. :O
I'm just curious why he would post all that stupid ******** on hisstank.
Gotham
03-20-2008, 02:56 AM
It'll still most likely be a fun ride. And we're seeing Snake Eyes this week!
With out making it look just like a live-qaction cartoon, nearly impossible.
Wrong. Sorry you just are.
Superman, Spider-man 1+2, X-men 2, Transformers.....not exactly looking like a live action cartoon on screen. Looked like people who genuienly loved the source material and us believe in the world/characters.
Mal'Akai
03-20-2008, 08:08 AM
Wrong. Sorry you just are.
Superman, Spider-man 1+2, X-men 2, Transformers.....not exactly looking like a live action cartoon on screen. Looked like people who genuienly loved the source material and us believe in the world/characters.
Didn't say it was totaly impossible, just nearly impossible.
Philly Phanboy
03-20-2008, 12:30 PM
It sounds like the screenplay writers adapted their version of G.I. Joe from the Korean version of the comics and none of the writers could actually read Korean or even bother to get them translated. :eek::up:
:cmad:
xisaacx
03-22-2008, 09:28 PM
very disappointing, i hope its not true
how RELIABLE is this latinoreviews site?
protocida
03-22-2008, 10:08 PM
Sounds good.
Sarracenia
03-24-2008, 06:44 AM
Sounds great! I love the 80's Joes as much as the next but this sounds like a great translation to the big screen. I want believability not some mortal-kombatish crap.
A little concerned about the Baroness arc (since she's my fave) but I'm just happy she's in it.
Cheers from me!
Raiden
03-24-2008, 02:47 PM
Ugh, those plot points are terrible, and if they are actually in the script I don't think GI JOE will turn out any better than Sumner's Van Helsing. As a GI JOE fan, I'm very disappointed.
Golgo-13
03-24-2008, 07:48 PM
I hope they don't make the movie so updated, that we'll never see the likes of Serpentor or the Cobra La lore....
..not a fan of all that mind control crap either.
copywrite
03-24-2008, 08:24 PM
eww Cobra-La? no thanks
Theweepeople
03-24-2008, 11:58 PM
eww Cobra-La? no thanks
Agreed. Cobra-La was way too weird for my taste. That story arc was pretty hard for me to accept in the first GI Joe film.
QueerMike
03-25-2008, 12:21 AM
Garbage Garbage Garbage. This is going to be so far from the original stories that's it is G.I. Joe in the names only. It literally makes me want to smash my computer and television and go pursue a career as a grave digger.
THIS MOVIE IS GOING TO SUCK **** THROUGH A STRAW AND SAY ' YUMMY!' It is nothing more than one great big giant **** monster.
GO JOE! And please, don't come back.
Chris B
03-25-2008, 05:06 PM
I can't say I'm a fan of how they are handling the Baroness. Everything else I could accept, though Destro only wearing the mask because his face is scarred seems odd as well.
mr. peasant
03-25-2008, 07:45 PM
I can't say I'm a fan of how they are handling the Baroness. Everything else I could accept, though Destro only wearing the mask because his face is scarred seems odd as well.
However, they have been fairly faithful to the comics given that she becomes a terrorist following the death of her brother. The main difference being that her anger is directed towards Duke as opposed to Snake Eyes.
UltimateJustin
03-26-2008, 01:57 AM
More like G.I. Blows.
copywrite
03-26-2008, 03:41 AM
They really shouldn't allow children on the internet.
TheVileOne
03-26-2008, 04:01 AM
However, they have been fairly faithful to the comics given that she becomes a terrorist following the death of her brother. The main difference being that her anger is directed towards Duke as opposed to Snake Eyes.
According to the script review her anger is because BRAINWASHING NANOMACHINES.
copywrite
03-26-2008, 04:28 AM
I think she joins MARS before she gets brainwashed. I'm thinking CC brainwashes her because she still has feelings for Duke, and CC blames Duke for what happened to him. Just my thoughts.
Bug-Eyed Earl
03-26-2008, 07:02 AM
To expand on my earlier point about Conan:
Conan the Barbarion books:
Conan is a Cimmerian (based somewhat loosely on the historical Cimmerians), a barbarian of the far north. He was born on a battlefield and is the son of a blacksmith. Conan matured quickly as a youth and, by age fifteen, he was already a respected warrior who had participated in the destruction of the Aquilonian outpost of Venarium. After its destruction, he was struck by wanderlust and began the adventures chronicled by Howard, encountering skulking monsters, evil wizards, tavern wenches, and beautiful princesses. He was enslaved for a short period of time and escaped.
Valeria is a character who he encounters from time to time and he shares adventures with her, though they never become romantically entangled. Thulsa Doom is a character who lived centuries before Conan who is a skull faced sorceror who fought Kull of Atlantis.
Conan movies:
Conan's people are slaughtered when he was a boy by a party of Vanir led by Thulsa Doom, and he ground grain on an enormous wheel with other slaves until young adulthood, where he was sold to fight in gladiatorial combat and bred with other slaves. He was freed by his owner and met Subotai and Valeria (who became the love of his life before her death) and fought against the dark skinned, blue-eyed, and straight haired Thulsa Doom(who had these features to imply he was the last of a lost race), who was leader of the cult of Set.
NOTHING this GI Joe movie has done compares with what was done with Conan. And I enjoy the books, and the film is one of my favorites.
If you wanted to be more accurate, I would say that it was the SKip Woods draft had a good shot at being that far from GI Joe as the Conan movie was from the novels- but it still didn't sound like it came too close.
Heck, the whole CC/Rex thing reminds me of the way screenwriters will condense novels by combining characters and storylines.
I'm just saying this because of the way people say "THIS WILL SUCK!" based on a plot synopsis. No, changes do not make something suck. They disappoint, but they do not effect actual quality.
I'm saying this now because I have started re-reading the Conan books and am struck at the differences, but they don't keep me from liking the movie any less.
REally, in terms of characterization and background, they have only messed with two characters- CC and the Baroness. Duke just got in on the whole "interconnected history" action.
Just trying to put things in perspective. I would have written it closer, mind you, but it could have been far, far, worse.
TheVileOne
03-26-2008, 01:32 PM
Valeria was in the book Red Nails and Conan hooks up with her in it. Conan pursued her for the simple reason that he thought she was hot and he wanted to bed her.
How is CC/Rex a condensing? There is no Rex from any version of GI JOE.
Philly Phanboy
03-26-2008, 03:07 PM
Rex seems closest to the Fred VII character from the comics. Oddly enough Fred VII posed as Cobra Commander for a while.
Bug-Eyed Earl
03-26-2008, 04:59 PM
Valeria was in the book Red Nails and Conan hooks up with her in it. Conan pursued her for the simple reason that he thought she was hot and he wanted to bed her.
How is CC/Rex a condensing? There is no Rex from any version of GI JOE.
Condensing- combining CC with the Baroness' brother and giving them a new name. I've seen lots of movies that combine characters.
It's been awhile, like I said, since I read the books, but Valeria was not the love of Conan's life like the movie implied, even if he did hook up with her.
BTW- I just realized- the only words Conan spoke to Valeria in the movie were "Who are you?" Heh.
Mr. Credible
03-26-2008, 05:51 PM
i used to watch gi joe and play with the toys and all, but i never really got into the mythology of the whole thing, short of 'gi joe good, cobra bad'...
but i think a lot of that sounds kind of cool. kind of reminds me of metal gear solid. it all really just depends on how summers depicts it. if he goes goofy like... well, all of his other movies, it will come across as stupid... if he can make it actually half way serious, it could turn out really cool.
i used to watch gi joe and play with the toys and all, but i never really got into the mythology of the whole thing, short of 'gi joe good, cobra bad'...
but i think a lot of that sounds kind of cool. kind of reminds me of metal gear solid. it all really just depends on how summers depicts it. if he goes goofy like... well, all of his other movies, it will come across as stupid... if he can make it actually half way serious, it could turn out really cool.
What I'm wondering is, why does it seem like they are making Baroness this huge central character??
I never got into the comic but grew up watching the cartoon everytime it was on. Although it has been quite a few years I don't recall Baroness being that big of a player all of the time.
Don't get me wrong, she was in a lot/most episodes along with Destro but she never seemed like the character they would have central to the story/plot.
Mr. Credible said it best for the most part. GI Joe = Good, Cobra = Bad. I guess I don't have as much vested interest in the mythology since I was only into the show and not the comic.
With that being said I still dont' think GI Joe in general comic or not was all that deep to begin with.
TheVileOne
03-26-2008, 07:39 PM
Condensing- combining CC with the Baroness' brother and giving them a new name. I've seen lots of movies that combine characters.
That's not combining a character at all really. Since Baroness never had a brother that was a US soldier in the military that was best buddies with Duke and Baroness never was engaged to Duke nor did she turn evil from being brainwashed by EVIL NANOMACHINES!!!
They've simply turned Cobra Commander into a totally different one. Besides that you were wrong about Valeria as well.
It's been awhile, like I said, since I read the books, but Valeria was not the love of Conan's life like the movie implied, even if he did hook up with her.
In the book Conan saw Valeria as an equal like he did in the movie. Valeria was also a bandit originally like she was in the movie. Conan's had many loves and conquests in the comics and books. So the movie took a bit of artistic license but it was generally faithful to the material and characters. And yes they did take some aspects from another love of Conan and give them to Valeria, but it was a character that Ron Howard actually created and wrote about. However, Valeria in the movie also basically looks like her description from the novella which they pretty much kept for the new animated movie, RED NAILS, which is supposed to be a faithful adaptation of the novella as well.
BTW- I just realized- the only words Conan spoke to Valeria in the movie were "Who are you?" Heh.
This is Arnold "Everything is on the table" Schwarzenegger we are talking about. He's already gone back on his promise of not raising taxes on me.
copywrite
03-26-2008, 08:14 PM
That's not combining a character at all really. Since Baroness never had a brother that was a US soldier in the military that was best buddies with Duke and Baroness never was engaged to Duke nor did she turn evil from being brainwashed by EVIL NANOMACHINES!!!
I'm starting to think you do this on purpose to be annoying. And yes it is combining. She had a brother she thought was killed by a Joe in the comics. They just made her brother Cobra Commander and the Joe will probably be Duke, or they'll blame Duke. They just added that she is with Duke to tie all three of them together.
I'm going to stop analyzing this movie and go with that other poster. All I care about is GI Joe vs Cobra/MARS. The rest is just filler to me.
TheVileOne
03-26-2008, 08:32 PM
So are you saying she believes Duke kills her brother in the movie and isn't brainwashed to be evil by nanomachines?
copywrite
03-26-2008, 08:39 PM
Not kills him, but thinks he's responsible. And I really don't think she turns evil by being brainwashed. I think Cobra Commander does the brainwash thing to keep everyone in check.
TheVileOne
03-27-2008, 06:30 AM
That makes no sense.
tamron
03-27-2008, 02:37 PM
Makes sense to me. He didn't make her evil, he's just making sure she stays that way. Probably because, if she found out the truth, that Duke wasn't responsible, CC knows she'd go back to him.
copywrite
03-27-2008, 09:18 PM
That makes no sense.
Try to muster up some intelligence and re-read it. I know you can do it champ!
TheVileOne
03-28-2008, 04:06 AM
Sounds like you are still analyzing copywrite.
DocHoliday
03-28-2008, 12:52 PM
The movie sounds cool to me.
Ben Troupe
03-28-2008, 01:39 PM
Sounds awesome! :)
copywrite
03-28-2008, 06:07 PM
Sounds like you are still analyzing copywrite.
Sounds like you have nothing else to say on the topic because you know that my astute hypothesis sounds better than your cynical, smart ass comments. :)
Kokoryu1
03-28-2008, 08:44 PM
Sucks monkey ass! This movie will be the biggest bomb since Ultraviolet. The writers obviously spent their time playing with their sisters Barbies and reading their mothers magazines.
:cmad:
CorpusBlack
03-29-2008, 12:33 AM
I'm not happy with any of this. I'm preparing for the biggest cinematic disappointment of my life.
deathshead2
03-29-2008, 12:36 AM
Stop your *****ing.
And think of this movie as an elseworlds type of thing ok.
Its Gi Joe, but its not Cartoon joe, or comic Joe, its movie Joe.
All three are different in thee little ways ok.
Geez some of you people act like babies. Grow up.
CorpusBlack
03-29-2008, 12:46 AM
Who's *****ing now?
deathshead2
03-29-2008, 12:48 AM
Who's *****ing now?Not me.
I don't want "elseworlds" g.i. joe, I want G.I. Joe!
Kokoryu1
03-29-2008, 12:48 PM
Elseworlds? Jesus Horatio Chris! I guess Sigma six should be seen that way too. As well as Extreme. They sucked big balls because the weren't G.I.Joe. Even the Cobra La line failed because it wasn't really G.I.Joe. A lot of us have been looking for this movie for a long time. We don't want to see someones rendition. Keep it as true as possible. We real joe fans have supported the Joe team via book, cartoon and/or toyline for most of our lives. We are owed something better than a half assed effort. Thats not whining. Its our due.
mr. peasant
03-29-2008, 01:45 PM
Elseworlds? Jesus Horatio Chris! I guess Sigma six should be seen that way too. As well as Extreme. They sucked big balls because the weren't G.I.Joe. Even the Cobra La line failed because it wasn't really G.I.Joe. A lot of us have been looking for this movie for a long time. We don't want to see someones rendition. Keep it as true as possible. We real joe fans have supported the Joe team via book, cartoon and/or toyline for most of our lives. We are owed something better than a half assed effort. Thats not whining. Its our due.
Actually, it is whinning. Nobody owes you anything. Nobody forced you to support G.I. Joe. Besides, technically speaking, this whole 'Joe vs Cobra' bit isn't G.I. Joe either. G.I. Joe was a military-themed comic during World War II. Except, it changed over time, reinventing itself according to current popular suitability. Of course, it hasn't always been successful, but it is no less necessary. After all, if change never occurred, we'd all still be free-floating microorganisms in a pool of water somewhere.
Kokoryu1
03-29-2008, 03:58 PM
Actually, it is whinning. Nobody owes you anything. Nobody forced you to support G.I. Joe. Besides, technically speaking, this whole 'Joe vs Cobra' bit isn't G.I. Joe either. G.I. Joe was a military-themed comic during World War II. Except, it changed over time, reinventing itself according to current popular suitability. Of course, it hasn't always been successful, but it is no less necessary. After all, if change never occurred, we'd all still be free-floating microorganisms in a pool of water somewhere.
Hahaha. The naivate of youth. We all have our opinions. True, no one forces you to do anything. But is it to much to expect some level of quality in the events and objects you look to for recreation? The companies making these products are obliged to put forth a decent effort for you, me and anyone else who willingly partakes of what they offer. Brass tax Padawan No fans, No Joe or anything else for that matter.
G.I. Joe stood for government issue or general issue and the slightly less known general infantry during WWI. This reverts back to military law which says that all military personnel, like the bunks they sleep in, the clothes they wear, and the guns they carry, are the property of the Government. What started as a common joke among soldiers that they were, in fact, Government issued military property, became the standard ready reference. They were, quite simply, issued by the government and, therefore, Government Issue. There was no WWII Comic the G.I. Joe Comic started in 1982. Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity is what it stands for in the movie.
copywrite
03-29-2008, 08:35 PM
The original GI Joe still had nothing to do with Cobra or anything this movie is about. It was just military themed 12'' action figures. The movie is an adaptation on the comics and cartoon. A lot of the rumors of what is going to happen in the movie, have happened in the comics or cartoon in some fashion. Stop acting like they're just totally going a different to piss you guys off because they really aren't. I think you guys just like to find things to ***** about. There are even people saying that Snake-Eyes looks too much like the comics. Wow. Nothing will please some of you. My advice is to go into this movie with the absolute lowest expectations your brain can comprehend. Or, just don't even see it since you think Hollywood is trying to sabotage your sacred childhood hero's.
mr. peasant
03-30-2008, 06:05 AM
There was no WWII Comic the G.I. Joe Comic started in 1982. Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity is what it stands for in the movie.
I'm not sure about its general usage in WWI but what I do know is that there was a G.I. Joe comic strip during WWII. It was written by David Breger, who is generally credited with originating the term 'G.I. Joe'. Here's a link to the article: Link (http://www.lileks.com/comics/kingfeatures/4b.html=)
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle ;)
Kokoryu1
03-30-2008, 06:02 PM
I'm not sure about its general usage in WWI but what I do know is that there was a G.I. Joe comic strip during WWII. It was written by David Breger, who is generally credited with originating the term 'G.I. Joe'. Here's a link to the article: Link (http://www.lileks.com/comics/kingfeatures/4b.html=)
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle ;)
I have to apologize on that. My sources were in err and I can admit when I'm wrong. You are correct. Wikipedia David Bregers' name. Movie is still going to suck donkey balls however and on that I am comletely right!
terry78
03-30-2008, 10:19 PM
You can't do this thing exactly like the comics and cartoons, and you all know why. They have to change up some of the stuff and take a few liberties, same as they do for every movie based on a book, tv show, or earlier property. It has to be a little fantastical. If it wasn't you may as well just get the director of the Jack Ryan movies and make it a political thriller.
I read a script (draft - November 3rd, 2007) and I totally love that. I'm not a big G.I. Joe fan so I can say that this script is almost perfect, there's a lot of fun, many action scenes... My rating is A- and I really want to see that.
LazloSpeeker
06-12-2008, 12:37 PM
I am hoping that this movie totally bombs and we get a completely different version in 3-4 years, similar to what happened with 'The Hulk' and 'The Incredible Hulk.'
Hypestyle
06-18-2008, 01:16 PM
uh, is this ancient news?
DACrowe
06-22-2008, 05:46 PM
Meh. This sounds like it is closer to Van Helsing and X-Men: The Last Stand than to the source material and the still-pinnacle of super-team movies, X2.
Kokoryu1
06-22-2008, 11:50 PM
I read a script (draft - November 3rd, 2007) and I totally love that. I'm not a big G.I. Joe fan so I can say that this script is almost perfect, there's a lot of fun, many action scenes... My rating is A- and I really want to see that.
Read the same script and hated it since I am a G.I Joe Fan. The action the script and just about everything else about this movie sucks.
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