MOST INEXPLICABLE CASTING CHOICE FOR THE LIVE-ACTION G.I. JOE MOVIE

Also I can't remember this character's name and maybe I'm just missing him on the full cast list, but it would appear that there is none of that campy piratical Cobra dude who (in my memory) sounded like half Australian and half Cockney and said "bleedin'" all the time.

colonel bludd

MAJOR Bludd

That dude ruled

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r117/robster001/Majorbludd.gif

I feel like he was sort of the Boba Fett of G.I. Joe

umm I mean apart from Cobra Commander's facemask

Destro also wore a pimp ass medallion that hung down in his man cleavage.
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JGL might be ok imo, i mean isn't cobra commander a sneering howling sissy?

nabs i really hate that i am going to engage in this discussion but snake eyes is clearly the boba fett of g.i. joe

as someone who truly, sincerely loved 80s gi joe to the exclusion of transformers, ninja turtles, or any of that bullshit, i am both terrified and obligated to see this movie.

Snake Eyes is Spock -- you can tell because they both got trapped in contaminated rooms behind glass doors and "died"

haha I dunno, I guess the Bludd/Fett connection would be that they're both mercenaries who work for the bad guys but seem kinda cool either way. except Bludd talks too much and isn't that bright, whereas Fett is a cool customer

btw this conversation somehow just led to my editing a Wikipedia page about Snidely Whiplash -- wtf has happened to my life

lol post that on fmylife.com

wasn't there an Aussie GI Joe guy...? mustache, hat with the brim bent on one side...? driving me crazy that I can't remember this lolz

Recondo, I think

NB looking over the character list, I feel like you could very easily assemble a Village People / G.I. Joe crossover franchise:

http://www.joeheadquarters.com/charpics/gungho.jpg
http://www.joeheadquarters.com/charpics/shipwreck.jpg
http://www.joeheadquarters.com/charpics/spirit.jpg

my first thought was this guy but i don't think he was supposed to be an aussie:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/gijoe/images/thumb/a/af/Recondo_RAH.jpg/250px-Recondo_RAH.jpg

Recondo
Personal information

File Name
Daniel M. LeClaire

Gender
Male

Birthplace
Wheaton, Wisconsin

my brain has just called up the fact that lady jaye went to bryn mawr

Recondo first appears in Battle Action Force as an Australian who is recruited along Flash and Ripcord in Action Force (G.I. Joe's British name) under the command of Duke.

but I think that's talking about comic books

^^ Hugh Jackman cameo

whoa recondo origin story multiverse controversy!

they loved the thing where the g.i. joe temperature/climate specialty guys grew up in like the opposite climate of the one they specialized in.

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.

he looks a little like wild bill but come on recondo is a dude.

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.

This film is going to be great.

Cosign. This will be the greatest film ever.

Is no one excited by this?

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

why does everyone who posts here like garbage? this is a gi joe movie. it will be crap. duh.

What will make it crap? Bad acting? Bad effects? Bad plot? Why is the subject matter automatically cause for scorn?

because it's based on toys.

zing!

The first "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie was based on a theme-park ride and that turned out pretty well!

the best thing about this movie will be the Armond White review

lol no it didn't
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xp Ohmigod I am so eager for that now.

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.

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.

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.

RIP

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).

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

What's next, a movie based on Popples?

this is what's next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLnoLmCqT30

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

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.

well the sensible thing to do is re-buy them and put them away. then you'll truly be a man!

buy them from e-bay though, the greedy toy companies DO NOT deserve your money