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New GI Joe Movie To Revolutionize Blockbusters With Character, Says Producer

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SeeingI
10/30/08

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By the way, that's JOSEPH Gordon-Levitt. Or JoGoLev, as my peeps call him.
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doomfan215
10/30/08

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Characters? Even as a child, I could see how flat and one-dimensional most of the Joe's were. They picked they blandest Joe's of all to appear in this flick, aside from Gung Ho. There's no Lady Jay with her javelins and man-do, no modern-day pirate Shipwreck, and no jive-speaking Roadbloack. Heavy Duty, who is the giant black guy that appears in this flick, does no rhyming. And who the f--- is Ripcord, another generic Joe who never had his own story arc? I know his a-- was not black...

I guess either they are really, really trying to make this a serious flick, or they didn't want to offend anyone. But wouldn't Marlon Wayans have made a better Alpine? Marlon Wayans climbing mountains and what not. And what about Big-Lob from the cartoon movie; the scene where he did the play-by-play of himself running the obstacle course was gold ("Whoa... aggresive defense"). No Iceberg either, huh? Black guy who prefers absurdly cold weather is more of a character than giant black guy with gun who has no flow.

The only thing that redeemed most of these characters back then was their comraderie with one another. Flint and Lady Jay, Alpine and Bazooka, Xamot and Tomax, the Dreadnaughts.

I'm guessing there isn't going to be any "Cobra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la"ing either, huh? As long as Zartan still freaks out whenever he's in direct sunlight, maybe there's still hope for this one. In my opinion: Needs more Serpentor.
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Heresiarch
10/29/08

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All you need is Gung Ho, Scarlett, that chick with the short hair who was probably gay, the sailor, and Snake Eyes. And a few tanks.

Just don't make the villains suck.
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Pope John Peeps II
10/29/08

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I'm sorry, but what more "character" do you need than "giant black guy who rhymes".

Seriously, you do not mess with gold. Especially gold who will invariably be played by Ladies Love Cool James.
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redmanlaw
10/29/08

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What will really slow down the film is the "well-drawn" characters needing a pull on the cord to say their lines.
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Gawd
10/29/08

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ROTFLMAO

MTV? Um... sure... credibility out the door!
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SinisterBill prints in color on both sides
10/29/08

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Awesome, I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong with that quote, thanks for fixing!
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92BuickLeSabre
10/29/08

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"I think that, more than anything, what differentiates it from a lot of these big movies is that there are eight or nine very well-drawn characters...and what makes that so unique is that it is impossible really. I mean, if you actually try to fit in eight or nine characters into a feature-length movie. Well, it's pretty much going to be crap isn't it? I mean, even on television - think about Heroes or Lost. They can usually keep maybe 5 even 6 characters juggling at once, but when you get farther than that, things start to kind of fall apart and you lose your audience. It's just too much to try to do. And that's over the course of years. Yet, we've managed to do it in a single movie about action-figure-army-men! Really, it's pretty much magic. And I'm, in fact, a Wizard. Please don't tell anyone. Oh look, there's my winged unicorn Poopity-Doo, I'm off now. Ooooh Pretty Colors!!!!! Jibbity Jeeeeeee!!!!!!!"

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Moff
10/29/08

@92BuickLeSabre: As James Carville put it in Old School: Oh...it...we...have no response. That was perfect.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
10/29/08

@92BuickLeSabre: Especially an action film. It's impossible.

8 or 9?! Imagine if they tried to do 12? and if that dozen were unclean?
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92BuickLeSabre
10/29/08

@Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege: *shakes fist*

Let's just say that you're better off with a handful of samurai (and even then you need twenty-hundred hours and a solid director in his prime.)
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HerrIssyvoo
10/30/08

@92BuickLeSabre: Counter-example from television: Twin Peaks. Counter-example from movies: Nashville. (Neither of those are sci-fi--though I guess you could make the argument about Twin Peaks--but still.) I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm certainly not saying that GI Joe is going to have anything in common with David Lynch or Robert Altman. Just saying it's not impossible.
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92BuickLeSabre
10/30/08

@HerrIssyvoo: Never saw Nashville, but I'm not sure I'd agree Twin Peaks pulled it off. (And I loved Twin Peaks.)
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