colonel bludd
― goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
MAJOR Bludd
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
That dude ruled
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r117/robster001/Majorbludd.gif
― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like he was sort of the Boba Fett of G.I. Joe
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
umm I mean apart from Cobra Commander's facemask
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Destro also wore a pimp ass medallion that hung down in his man cleavage.many xposts
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
JGL might be ok imo, i mean isn't cobra commander a sneering howling sissy?
― little pomegranate, king of the lily (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
lol post that on fmylife.com
― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Recondo, I think
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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.jpghttp://www.joeheadquarters.com/charpics/shipwreck.jpghttp://www.joeheadquarters.com/charpics/spirit.jpg
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
RecondoPersonal information
File Name Daniel M. LeClaire
Gender Male
Birthplace Wheaton, Wisconsin
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
my brain has just called up the fact that lady jaye went to bryn mawr
― goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ Hugh Jackman cameo
whoa recondo origin story multiverse controversy!
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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
;-)