GI Joe Movie: Greengrass gritty or Sommers campy

[Jordacar]

The title says it all:

Do you want to see the GIJoe movie done dark and gritty with realistic (PG-13) action and violence like the Bourne movies or Nolan's Batman,

Or a more campy, one-liner dropping, over-the-top implausible action like Stephen Sommers or the Transporter movies?

Or a completely different feel entirely

 

[CobraCommander]

The more realistic the action the better. But obviously your ninja fights can have your over-the-top stuff. But please, not with a fast and jiggly camera ala Batman Begins.

 

[TheVileOne]

I think if it looked like X-men 2, something like that.

It should be FUN, but serious.

To me when Devil's Due relaunched the books, a tone like that would work great for the movies. It seemed much more down to earth than the cartoons.

Cobra Commander was not this silly get rich quick schemer. He was egotistical and crazy, but he was also COMPETENT and cunning. Just recently he was able to infiltrate the White House and become a member of the President's cabinet. He disguised Cobra agents as a US govt. special ops task force.

That's the Cobra Commander I would want to see. Evil and crazy, but also cunning and smart. And he's still human. Meaning he doesn't have super powers, super strength.

 

[RONDC20]

To be totally honest with you guys I was happy to hear that Stephen Sommers was attached to direct. Im a fan of his work. I think that GI-Joe should have a high sense of epic and somewhat light hearted adventure.

Im sick of gritty and real. I kind of want to see over the top action sequences. I think that there should be a balance though. I don't know I just don't really want to see a dark and gritty GI-Joe. I want to see adventure and crazy action. Epic in scope and somewhat over the top and I thought that Stephen Sommers would have been perfect for that, but alas that will not happen.

 

[Warhammer]

The Transporter films were crazily unrealistic, but very fun to watch.

 

[The Shredder]

A more dark and gritty G.I. Joe film, with realistic (PG-13) action and violence like the Bourne movies would be preferred.

 

[BobJM]

PG-13, but fun. In the same vein as Transformers.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Yes one can only hope Thundercats and He-man fallow the darker PG-13 rating like Tranformers. Come on GI-JOe hop on the Bay wagon.

 

[OptimusCannabis]

I think if it looked like X-men 2, something like that.

It should be FUN, but serious.

To me when Devil's Due relaunched the books, a tone like that would work great for the movies. It seemed much more down to earth than the cartoons.

Cobra Commander was not this silly get rich quick schemer. He was egotistical and crazy, but he was also COMPETENT and cunning. Just recently he was able to infiltrate the White House and become a member of the President's cabinet. He disguised Cobra agents as a US govt. special ops task force.

That's the Cobra Commander I would want to see. Evil and crazy, but also cunning and smart. And he's still human. Meaning he doesn't have super powers, super strength.

I agree most with you. I say write it primarily as a dark and gritty series but in order for it to be G.I. Joe it should also be a lighthearted and humourous in parts. The characters in G.I. Joe are the best of the best so when not on a mission or in combat they would in fact be very cool and
humourous and silly, in a dry sort of way.

In other words, when the JOES let loose... hide the women and children and keep the animals in the barn. It'll be a party and someone is going to
stick their **** in the mashed potatoes. That may be a bit extreme but you get the idea.

 

[Jordacar]

I agree most with you. I say write it primarily as a dark and gritty series but in order for it to be G.I. Joe it should also be a lighthearted and humourous in parts. The characters in G.I. Joe are the best of the best so when not on a mission or in combat they would in fact be very cool and
humourous and silly, in a dry sort of way.

In other words, when the JOES let loose... hide the women and children and keep the animals in the barn. It'll be a party and someone is going to
stick their **** in the mashed potatoes. That may be a bit extreme but you get the idea.

That's the best idea I've heard so far about how the JOES should be depicted. During their downtime they're wisecracking and relatable (most of them), but when it's time to go to work, they're all business, with very little joking on mission.

On to the more difficult question, how do you see COBRA being depicted?

 

[blind_fury]

surrealist, gritty, and pure bad ass.

 

[blind_fury]

I like Paul Verhoeven tongue-in-cheek campy rather than Sommers' cheesy mind-numbing garbage.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I would say something dark,gritty and realistic...different..

 

[TwilightPro101]

Dark, gritty and realisitc.

 

[OptimusCannabis]

That's the best idea I've heard so far about how the JOES should be depicted. During their downtime they're wisecracking and relatable (most of them), but when it's time to go to work, they're all business, with very little joking on mission.

On to the more difficult question, how do you see COBRA being depicted?

I see Cobra as being absolutely ridonkulously ludicrus, in an evil way. A kind of serious version of Dr. Evil.

Cobra Commander-Baroness-Destro = Menage y trois

Major Bludd = He's the 'F' in the 'Fringe Element.' I want people to see Bludd and say'He is the maddest human being I've ever seen.

Firefly = Definitely the head of a satanic cult of his own

Zartan and the Dreadnocks = The Blue Oyster Bar with guns and knives

 

[3dman27]

PG-13, but fun. In the same vein as Transformers.

second the motion

 

[CobraCommander]

I see Cobra as being absolutely ridonkulously ludicrus, in an evil way. A kind of serious version of Dr. Evil.

Cobra Commander-Baroness-Destro = Menage y trois

Major Bludd = He's the 'F' in the 'Fringe Element.' I want people to see Bludd and say'He is the maddest human being I've ever seen.

Firefly = Definitely the head of a satanic cult of his own

Zartan and the Dreadnocks = The Blue Oyster Bar with guns and knives

Where do I begin with this nonsense?

 

[OptimusCannabis]

That's the best idea I've heard so far about how the JOES should be depicted. During their downtime they're wisecracking and relatable (most of them), but when it's time to go to work, they're all business, with very little joking on mission.

On to the more difficult question, how do you see COBRA being depicted?

Yes, wisecracking and relateable in the downtime and unbelievabley focused killing machines in combat.

What MUST be kept in mind while writing is that these aren't ordinary soldiers so how they spend their off-time and how they prepare for and compete in combat MUST not be ordinary. In other words, no cliche's and complete originality.

 

[OptimusCannabis]

Where do I begin with this nonsense?

Where do I begin with YOU? How about cliche and BORINGGG.

 

[Hypestyle]

it should be hard action, with some light moments.. definitely not campy..

 

[DawnWarrior]

A combination of gritty violence and dry lightheartedness just might work. Two movies that I can think of that combine the two are James Cameron's Aliens and the first Blade movie. Not sure about the Cobras though; I'll have to think about a movie with an appropriately evil team of villains.

 

[deathshead2]

I want it like the comics. Where its serioues, but not to serious because you know. GI joe has ninjas everywhere.

 

[Jordacar]

COBRA ought to be some kind of twisted terrorist cult, kind of the way HYDRA is these days over at Marvel.

Maybe with Serpentor, Baroness, Destro, and CobraCommander, their names were handed down from previous incarnations of Cobra, and the new Serpentor is taking the menace of his cult to a global arena, so he's recruited like-minded individuals like the ones I've just mentioned.

Of course, I don't read the comics, so there are probably better ideas in there.

 

[The Question]

Honestly, I think when planning Cobra and Cobra Commander for a movie, they shouldn't model it after fictional terrorist organizations like HYDRA or SPECTRE, and shouldn't model it after real life terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. They should take their inspiration from the Weathermen and, at least in terms of organizational structure and forms of membership, the KKK. They're right wing, anti-government radicals and guerilla soldiers who want to overthrow the United States Government and create over 50, borderline anarchist states in it's place where most of the public officials that do exist are members of Cobra. They should have chapters all over the country, with members who are police officers, lawyers, politicians, and buisnessmen. And Cobra Commander should be your classic 1970s political radical. Always going on about "The Man" and "Shadow Governments" and calling government operatives "pigs" and other such terms. He should be unhinged, have violent mood swings, and be obsessive, as usual, but he should also be a man with a vision. And, as such, incredibly dangerous.

Also, as a side note, I see the Dreadnoks as being a massive, Hell's Angels style biker gang/fraternity, many chapters of which, including the founding chapter, fall in with Cobra.

 

[Max J Power]

PG-13, but fun. In the same vein as Transformers.

That's basically what I was going to post.