Recondo? Isn't that just Wild Bill with his sunglasses off? And a stitch to hold up one side of his brim?
Buncha crap, that Recondo.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
he looks a little like wild bill but come on recondo is a dude.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Destro was bigger than any of the other figures - I remember him not fitting into the Cobra helicopter without the blade hitting his head.
I also loved GI Joe and never gave a shit about Transformers, He-Man, Ninja Turtles or anything else except Star Wars but I have absolutely no interest in ever seeing this even though I probably will at some point.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
This film is going to be great.
― (bracket name) (jel --), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Cosign. This will be the greatest film ever.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Is no one excited by this?
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I can neither confirm nor deny that.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
why does everyone who posts here like garbage? this is a gi joe movie. it will be crap. duh.
― galumphing lummox (bug), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
What will make it crap? Bad acting? Bad effects? Bad plot? Why is the subject matter automatically cause for scorn?
― I am over wieght and I have angelical quilities (HI DERE), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
because it's based on toys.
― galumphing lummox (bug), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
zing!
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The first "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie was based on a theme-park ride and that turned out pretty well!
― I am over wieght and I have angelical quilities (HI DERE), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
the best thing about this movie will be the Armond White review
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
lol no it didn'txpost
― galumphing lummox (bug), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Ohmigod I am so eager for that now.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Pirates of the Caribbean was more of a branding thing, its not like the ride invented pirates. Pirate stories/movies are great and there is a long history of them.
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
like, the film Pirates of the Caribbean could exist completely independently of the ride - apart from a handful of throwaway visual gags, it doesn't rely on the ride to provide any characters, narrative, etc. You can't say the same of stuff like Transformers or GI Joe or Care Bears or whatever, which exist exclusively as specific products.
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I plan on getting drunk & seeing this & Transformers 2 on the same day as some sort of masochistic mourning ritual celebrating the further exploitation of already-exploitative elements of my childhood.
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP
― chip dumstorf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
my expectations being so low that I will consider it worth the price of admission if they can just do a halfway decent job w/ Snake Eyes (& for the explosions as well, naturally).
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not very religious but a sobering bible quote seems in order for some of you:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11
― chip dumstorf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
What's next, a movie based on Popples?
― chip dumstorf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
this is what's next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLnoLmCqT30
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
you know what else is based on toys, is the song "Get Back Home" from Cabbage Patch Dreams, and that is a sweet song if you ask me
― nabisco, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, I blew most of my GI Joe dudes up with firecrackers before I had a chance to become a man and put them away.
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
well the sensible thing to do is re-buy them and put them away. then you'll truly be a man!
― chip dumstorf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
buy them from e-bay though, the greedy toy companies DO NOT deserve your money
― chip dumstorf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
;-)
actually a laser tag movie would be sweet.
― chip dumstorf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11"
I hate these cynical nostalgia merchants as much as anyone, but if a pyrotechnic GI Joe movie somehow leads to more secularism, yooooo JOE!
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
thing is, judging by the ads, this film has approximately nothing at all to do with G.I. Joe
― nabisco, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, sometimes religion has nuggets of wisdom in it.
I like to call it "wisdumb".
― chip dumstorf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things and became an insufferable blowhard who pretended to be interested in the maintenance of my lawn.
― Keep your wolf in your wolf pants (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to the hilarious backstory/explanation they come up with for Destro's solid-metal head encasement & how it might be advantageous, or even practical, in times of battle.
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
?
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe I'm seeing the wrong TV ads, but if they didn't say "G.I. Joe" at the end, I would have no idea whatsoever that they were in any way intended to have anything to do with G.I. Joe. I know they have to update things and make them all fresh and sexy, but the ads look more like refugees from The Fast and the Furious have started up some kind of covert international spy group / leather importing service
― nabisco, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"refugees from The Fast and the Furious have started up some kind of covert international spy group / leather importing service"
That does kind of sum up 80s-era GI Joe frankly. They never seemed like any branch of the US military.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Only way I'll see this is if it's in Japanese with no English subtitles. Then I'll leave after the trailers.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
they had navy guys and army guys and village people guys...they pretty much had the whole military covered
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post
I strenuously disagree! For one thing they were still put together as the sort of beefy midcentury types who'd have been chomping on cigars if they hadn't been for children. For another, they had plenty of giant pitched militaristic battles with Cobra! I mean, there was no spy stuff happening during the whole race for all the stuff needed to create Serpentor, it was like red/blue laser crossfire across half the Pacific.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Did their chain of command ever go past Flint? The whole thing smacked of some weird blackwater oceans-11 type operation.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
(Also these people in the commercial do not seem to me to have ANYTHING useful to say about fire safety or downed power lines)
― nabisco, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i remember aircraft carriers and that sorta thing
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/fb036f533ba020ffa7bf55eab526b0f8974277ef.jpg
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Did their chain of command ever go past Flint?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe_Team#Chain_of_Command
― I am over wieght and I have angelical quilities (HI DERE), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
nb by "Flint" you mean "Hawk," who is apparently played by Dennis Quaid in the movie -- a still of him in costume actually reassures me that possibly it's just a matter of ads making this look over-conventional, and possibly the film itself still retains some of the proper flava
― nabisco, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, g.i. joe had the lamest characters
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"quick kick"
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"Arise, Serpentor, Arise!" made the chain of command abundantly clear.
I'm more interested in finding out which mask Joseph Gordon-Levitt wears as Cobra Commander: the sick-sick helmet or the scully thing with eyeholes.
― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link