Comments on: GI Joe: FUBAR

By: WolfenM

WolfenM — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:51:32 +0000

Sorry for the delayed response — I don't get notifications for replies, and stopped checking after a while. To answer your q, no, I don't have anything against interracial couples. It;s just that I am a long-time, die-hard fan of Scarlett/Snake-Eyes and had waited a very long time for a live-action movie, eager to see their love play out on the big screen, only to find one of my all-time fave pairings turned into a "sibling" relationship. :/ I thought I made it abundantly clear that I am a rabid Snake/Scarlett shipper in the article, though. And by the way? While Snake is white in the comics, here, he's Japanese — just like Ripcord was white in the comics but black here. I still want Scarlett with Snake, regardless of his ethinicity in the film, so how could you think I have a problem with interracial couples if I still want the film version of Scarlett to be a guy who *also* happens to be a person of colour? *scratches head* Espeically since I also asked why they didn't pair Ripcord up with Cover Girl instead?

By: RickSwift

RickSwift — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:04:35 +0000

Very nice history on the REAL Joes – one thing I found troubling was the political correctness run a muck. I mean, weren't the Joes the Real AMERICAN heroes? I always thought it was cool having them with the different national origins, but all fighting for the USA. Now, they are a glorified extension of NATO, albeit a super secret extension. I too was disgusted by the way they used Miller as the Baroness. She is a solid actress, and I think could easily have pulled off an accent, and Wayans was so bad in this, every scene made me cringe with him. Ugh ugh ugh, and my favorite character – Flint – was in it so briefly you had to hunt for him like an easter egg in WOW!

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By: rosie

rosie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:10:22 +0000

I had no problem with the romance between Ripcord and Scarlett. Why do you? Do you have something against interracial romances?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:25:34 +0000

GI Joe the movie is awesome. it focuses mainly on nanotechnology. this movie should have been made a couple of years ago.

By: SxS

SxS — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:24:42 +0000

No, G.I. Joe was originally a “Comic Book” first by “Marvel Comics” and as someone has already said, there has yet to be a G.I. Joe show (cartoon, CGI and live action) to truly capture the real world of G.I. Joe since the comic book was very different from all of them.

So, no they haven’t “melatonin sleep aid”. Did you even read what Wolfen Moondaughter wrote????

By: Mac

Mac — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:35:13 +0000

Whatever the hell this is… it's not G.I. Joe.

"I mean, I'm totally still gonna see it. It's got Chris Eccleston and Ray Park, fer cryin' out loud."

Action junkies… it never takes that much…

By: VJC

VJC — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:55:38 +0000

Many of these changes that they've done make no sense whatsoever. There are somethings that would be too hard for them to put on screen in live action but what's so wrong and what would be so hard about having the Baroness being evil because she wants too, or having Duke with Cover Girl, or Ripcord being British, or having Snake Eyes being American, or having Snake Eyes and Scarlett together????

Just like with the new G.I. Joe cartoon… the film fails to show and capture the world of G.I. Joe.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:27:17 +0000

Huh. That'd kind of odd. Admittedly, I've never been a huge GI Joe fan — more of a Transformers and X-Men kind of girl — so the changes might not bother me on a deviation from canon level, but most of them don't sound like they make for a great story in its own right. Guess I'll just have to wait and see.

I mean, I'm totally still gonna see it. It's got Chris Eccleston and Ray Park, fer cryin' out loud.

By: WolfenM

WolfenM — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:09:40 +0000

I do actually like Max Alan Collins myself. I don't blame him for the debacle — he was just working with what he was given. But yeah, that's how I feel — why not make something entirely new if what they've made is going to bear so little resemblence to the original anyway? Or, if they want to bank on the name, why change it so very much? Especially something with a following as huge as Snake/Scarlett? Cover Girl is in the story; why not pair *her* off with Ripcord?

By: WolfenM

WolfenM — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:02:19 +0000

@Penny ~ I do actually like Max Alan Collins myself. I don't blame him for the debacle — he was just working with what he was given. But yeah, that's how I feel — why not make something entirely new if what they've made is going to bear so little resemblence to the original anyway? Or, if they want to bank on the name, why change it so very much? Especially something with a following as huge as Snake/Scarlett? Cover Girl is in the story; why not pair *her* off with Ripcord?

By: Penny

Penny — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:38:34 +0000

I actually liked the prequel novel ABOVE & BEYOND, but that's because I like Collins' writing. IMO he told a good story. There were changes from what I remembered from the cartoon and comic, but I've come to expect that in adaptations. The movies never get it exactly right. The strangest change was that the Joe team was no longer an American team, but an international team. I'll let pundits hash out the reason for that.

Still, after reading your summary, I have to wonder why they bothered calling this movie G.I. Joe? Why didn't they just call it something else and start a new franchise and leave fans the hope of a more faithful adaptation somewhere along the line? Oh well, at least I have my back issues.

By: actionchick

actionchick — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:35:08 +0000

These changes really seem to indicate that the filmmakers didn't have one clue as to why GIJoe was ever popular. The supersuits in the trailers made that clear even without revealing these many details. The woman playing the Baroness does look like she plays it well, but that's a reflection on her as an actress, not the moviemakers.

By: Vivian

Vivian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:07:31 +0000

A little vomit came up with this review. I knew it would be bad, but…it's just too much. Hollywood crapped on my favorite all time characters. This sucks!