Yo No! - Jon Cu to direct GI Joe 2
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GI Joe was a big budget movie that had to be adapted to an international market if it had any chance of making it's money back.
And Roger Corman's Fantastic Four movie was never intended for release. The company that had aquired the rights to the property were contractually obliged to produce a film within a certain time span. So they made it on the cheap in order to keep the rights for longer. Under $2 million and less than a month.
And Roger Corman's Fantastic Four movie was never intended for release. The company that had aquired the rights to the property were contractually obliged to produce a film within a certain time span. So they made it on the cheap in order to keep the rights for longer. Under $2 million and less than a month.
the hilarious part of all this 'GI Joe has to be American' crap is that Joe toys were sold outside the US as GI Joe and often with international characters with no problems for years. Canada sold them as 'GI Joe' with some characters made Canadian. South American countries sold them as 'GI Joe: Heroic Commandos' or 'GI Joe: Commandos in Action' with some 'foreign' characters. Britain switched from 'Action Force' to GI Joe and still kept making some characters British.
Japan sold Joes as GI Joe, as did Australia. it doesn't seem to have harmed the sales hugely. and no one seems to take great offence at the GI Joe name.
so, why can't they have some international characters in the unit?
Japan sold Joes as GI Joe, as did Australia. it doesn't seem to have harmed the sales hugely. and no one seems to take great offence at the GI Joe name.
so, why can't they have some international characters in the unit?
Why do you hate America?
i don't. i actually quite like America and it's ethos of anyone can be the best, if they just try. and their values of freedom and equality for all.
it's just the xenophobic right-wing hate-mongering from certain Americans i hate.
it's just the xenophobic right-wing hate-mongering from certain Americans i hate.
I was joking, Cap. I'm on your side here. 
Again, GI Joe is simply too gaga-militaristic to expose to impressionable young children. If movies must be made based on the franchise for money's sake, the very least they can do is be heavily multicultural. Hell, I'd like to see them include a gay Joe or two while they're at it. Or were there no homosexuals on those precious cartoon shows animated in God's own hand, to which Paramount must be slavishly faithful?
Again, GI Joe is simply too gaga-militaristic to expose to impressionable young children. If movies must be made based on the franchise for money's sake, the very least they can do is be heavily multicultural. Hell, I'd like to see them include a gay Joe or two while they're at it. Or were there no homosexuals on those precious cartoon shows animated in God's own hand, to which Paramount must be slavishly faithful?
Shipwreck's orientation was questionable. I know, I know he fell in love with the mermaid during that one episode, but he spent most of his time in long metal tubes full of seaman. That can change a man.
the only Joes in the comics you can definitely say are straight are Snake Eyes, Hawk, Scarlett, Clutch, Grunt, Gung-Ho, Ripcord, Flint and Lady Jaye.
Snakes and Scarlett were an item as were Flint and Jaye. Ripcord dated Candy, Clutch lusted after Scarlett and tried to get her and Cover Girl to mud wrestle. Gung-Ho was interested in dating Snow Job's cousin (iirc) until he found out she was 12 and he was pulling his leg. Grunt dated Lola after he left the Joes and was in university. Hawk fell for a female senator in the Transformers crossover.
cartoon wise, you can add Duke, since he was involved with Scarlett, Falcon and Jinx, who were flirting in The Movie and maybe a couple others.
Snakes and Scarlett were an item as were Flint and Jaye. Ripcord dated Candy, Clutch lusted after Scarlett and tried to get her and Cover Girl to mud wrestle. Gung-Ho was interested in dating Snow Job's cousin (iirc) until he found out she was 12 and he was pulling his leg. Grunt dated Lola after he left the Joes and was in university. Hawk fell for a female senator in the Transformers crossover.
cartoon wise, you can add Duke, since he was involved with Scarlett, Falcon and Jinx, who were flirting in The Movie and maybe a couple others.
Nah, Duke was using Scarlett as a beard. He totally had a thing for Duke.
You mean straight or bi.
Any kind of romance (gay or straight) would be an improvement over Ripcord and Scarlett in "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra". Despite all the hideous overdone CGI and pathetic back story flashbacks, I think the most cringe-inducing part of the first movie was Scarlett and Ripcord's 'flirting'. And they said they cast Marlon Wayans because they were impressed with his work in "Requiem for a Dream", as if this movie was meant to push him as an actor like that one did. 
Any kind of romance (gay or straight) would be an improvement over Ripcord and Scarlett in "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra". Despite all the hideous overdone CGI and pathetic back story flashbacks, I think the most cringe-inducing part of the first movie was Scarlett and Ripcord's 'flirting'. And they said they cast Marlon Wayans because they were impressed with his work in "Requiem for a Dream", as if this movie was meant to push him as an actor like that one did.
Going off what I've heard, I don't think there's going to be much of a problem with the Scarlett/Ripcord romance in this one.
http://twitter.com/RachelNichols1/status/43488923665702912
(If accurate, there's going to be some changes - some spoilers there if you're trying to be totally spoiler free)
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN... 50% of what made the movie any good is gone: namely Rachel Nichols!
oh well, i REALLY hope we get Lady Jaye next time out. and that she's played by someone like Jennifer Garner or Lena Heady...
oh well, i REALLY hope we get Lady Jaye next time out. and that she's played by someone like Jennifer Garner or Lena Heady...
It's kind of funny how they would cut all the main characters out of the sequel except the worst actor and worst written character in the bunch (Duke/Tatum) and the two that can't talk. 
Does this mean no Cobra Commander, either, or at least no Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cobra Commander? That would suck, but I guess it's understandable. After some of the movies he's done since, maybe he thinks he's too good for this franchise.
Does this mean no Cobra Commander, either, or at least no Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cobra Commander? That would suck, but I guess it's understandable. After some of the movies he's done since, maybe he thinks he's too good for this franchise.
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Joseph's press junkets all seemed like he had a positive experience with the first film. I think that the only reason he might not do the second film is due to scheduling conflicts with other projects. It would be a shame if he wasn't back. He was one of the film's very few bright spots.
I would classify Ripcord and Scarlett as having flirtations with each other...not a romance and I agree it seemed out of place in the movie. Seemed to me she was pretty committed to Snake Eyes. Ripcord was probably testing his boundaries with both of them.
I would classify Ripcord and Scarlett as having flirtations with each other...not a romance and I agree it seemed out of place in the movie. Seemed to me she was pretty committed to Snake Eyes. Ripcord was probably testing his boundaries with both of them.
when they were blathering about cast the other day, they said JGL wouldn't return due to scheduling conflicts.
^ I thought so, unfortunate. The film now has a August 10, 2012 release date.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74964
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74964
Yeeeeah that's not gonna work for me. There are a couple staple characters I believe Joe fiction like a movie should include and if they're not in, neither am I.
I tried to be optimistic about this movie, even with the announcement of such a dubious choice for director (because at least it had talented writers attached), but I'm thinking with the announcement of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and every major cast member except the worst one leaving, this has disaster written all over it. "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" level disaster. The first one may have a lot of problems, but it had potential. A sequel even worse than something so shoddy in the first place would be hideous.
