On one of my many voyages to yahoo! today to either check my fantasy hockey team or to somehow will my march madness pool teams to win on thursday and friday, I happened upon this. Now, I know what you're thinking: "oh my god it's GI Joe I loved that show when I was growing up." Yes, so did I..to a lesser extent than transformers but still loved the show. And the picture of snake eyes is awesome. My brother and I used to have the action figures (cobra commander was my favourite) but being that I'm a twin one would be storm shadow and one would be snake eyes. Anyways I love the cast and the idea of a GI JOE movie and I know I'll be there opening day but I feel like my childhood is being raped now. I know it was a comic book first and then the tv show but you know they're just trying to cash in on the twenty something year old guys who used to watch it as kids ( I know one girl fan, Tina and if I didn't give her a shout out it'd be awful). Trying to take their hard earned dollars and translate it into a couple hundred million dollars for the studio. Plus another few hundred million dollars for sequels. I feel sad now with all the comic book movies and 80s show spin offs that I'm one of the common denominators that film execs are looking to exploit. I guess it's too be expected the younger of our generation are in school and have more OSAP then they can spend on beer and the older of our generation are trying to start a family and possibly hook their kids on shows they enjoyed when they were young. All and all playing off our nostalgia makes economic sense but please don't mess this up hollywood. So help me if they try to pull a topher grace is venom....I'm going to go down to hollywood and just start shooting.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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Did you have to use the word rape in the title, what about "the coercion of sexual-type actions on non-garbage sexual-type beings"
Ok... here goes, putting this mildly, G.I. Joe is a terrible idea for a movie. At least not a live action one. A person can suspend their disbelief with a movie like Transformers But really, amidst a war with the Middle east in general that the U.S. have gotten themselves into and all the garbage that goes along with it, do you really think audiences of any age are going to think America's new enemy is the TERRORDROME? Come on now... Stay away from this flim Bad Ju Ju!
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