G.I Joe Movie

[Stripes]

The trailier for the new G.I Joe movie is out. Christopher Eccleston is right in the begining. He is evil.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKVqPzm134U

I am not going to lie to you, CE looked pretty fine in the promo pictures.

[clocketpatch]

Is it bad that I really, really want to see this just for the CE content?

[Stripes]

I want to see it only because CE is in it.

[greatbriton]

I'm seeing it mostly for CE as well. So I can't say anything is wrong with that.

But I'm also looking forward to it cause I'm a big geek.

[lynda]

That link doesn't work, so I had to look around for the trailer. CE is indeed looking fine. Though when I was looking for the trailer I found that the entire movie's already online . Why can't they be lax like that with Doctor Who?

[magnusgreel]

I remember when GI Joe was just a doll boys played with but it was okay because it was a doll that killed people.

[merrythemad]

I didn't know CE was in GI Joe and I still wanted to see it, I'm such a nerd

also, just btw GB you earned karma for happy admittance of geekdom!

[greatbriton]

Sweet!! Who knew geekdom would be worth something!

[Stripes]

I put in a new link

[jjpor]

May 1, 2009 11:14:50 GMT magnusgreel said:

I remember when GI Joe was just a doll boys played with but it was okay because it was a doll that killed people.

LOL - well that is the crucial distinction. I think a GI Joe (in its original form), was the same as what was known as an Action Man here in the UK. They had little uniforms you could dress them up in, and little plastic weapons of death and destruction, and weird fuzzy hair...Yes, I remember the weird hair for the most part.

I think the movie is based on the 80s/90s little plastic action figures also known as GI Joes, correct? I remember my cousin had some, and on one of them the leg had broken off, although you could sort of wedge it back on temporarily. So, naturally, we would endlessly recreate that scene in Revelation of the Daleks where the Dalek shoots the fella's leg off. Happy days...

There was also a GI Joe comic book in those days, based on said action figures. It was really quite good, I seem to remember, by the standards of 80s toy-advertising comic books. There was one character in particular called Snake-Eyes, who was like some sort of disfigured Vietnam vet/ninja/martial arts expert/commando/assassin/deadliest man in the world/thoughtful Buddhist... God, I hope he's in the movie.

[merrythemad]

Snake-Eyes has to be in the movie, he was pretty prominent in the old cartoon as well as the 80's era animated movie. I loved GI Joe, they were always my barbies children, or mean little pygmies that stalked the pretty blonds, of course my barbies regularly traveled through time (which, for some reason, always meant spinning in circles; really, really fast in circles), hung out with He Man, and those aliens from Star Wars, and well, it was a mess really, once I even put my barbies in the oven after reading Diary of Anne Frank for the first time, in my defense I was perhaps six and just trying to understand not a little madwoman trying to recreate the holocaust, and many of you know, my genocide interest hasn't waned, I'm a member of Genocide Watch and Amnesty International, and am campaigning to have to the UNGC rewritten when they redo the UN charter, so please don't think I'm callous or horrid or the like

Snake-Eyes is in the trailer, so I assume he's in the movie.

[Stripes]

Putting barbies in the oven to try to understand the holocaust is so something i would do. Well I may not because i was (still am) scared of my mother and she would have gone bonkers, but something I would think about doing.

[magnusgreel]

In case anyone cares and doesn't know, and you shouldn't, in the 1960s G.I. Joe was nothing more than a doll of a contemporary soldier in fatigues. I'm vaguely aware that they made some cartoon in the 80s and added all sorts of fantasy elements, other characters, etc.. In the '60s though, GI Joe was just an army doll for all the boys who wanted to play war and pretend the dolls were shooting each other. The name came from what soldiers were sometimes called in WW2.

A weird toy for the Vietnam era, but the entire thing was weird.

I saw an Action Man cartoon once. I think he was more of a superhero than a tough guy in fatigues with a gun. I remember Lister talking about Action Man in Red Dwarf comparing Kryten to him... "plastic underpants with a trademark"!

One of my many misfit eccentricities in childhood was the fact that I had zero attraction to anything military and would sooner have eaten dirt than spent time playing with army dolls, as all other boys were. Not that the military isn't important, but enjoying it as a game... If I'm accidentally criticizing anyone here, I don't mean to, and you all seem to have turned out well I have to say... They still played cowboys and Indians then too, with cowboys as the heroes, which I also thought was nuts. But enough about my social alienation.....!

[merrythemad]

for the record children cope with stress and trauma through play, ever heard of "Ring Around the Rosie?"

[magnusgreel]

GI Joe army dolls weren't fun or stress-relieving to me.

"Ring Around the Rosie": You might be talking about the fact that the song was originally about the Plague, centuries ago, but children don't know that.

[IMForeman]

That's actually not true. I remember being disappointed when I found out because I always thought that sounded really cool and morbid.

Anyway, I do love CE but not enough for this movie. I hope this doesn't sound snobby, but it makes me a little sad that he's doing these cheesy movie roles when he's capable of a lot better. I mean, that said, maybe he needs the money, maybe he's having fun with them, I can't really judge. I'm certainly not saying anything about karma for doing only one year, because that would be mean and I think we're all over that by now. *cough*

[clocketpatch]

May 4, 2009 17:10:42 GMT IMForeman said:

That's actually not true. I remember being disappointed when I found out because I always thought that sounded really cool and morbid.

I knew that, but couldn't remember the actual story and as such was keeping my mouth shut. Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and... right? Nah, probably not.

Especially not for the Doctor, eh? lol

I miss Nine too. *is sad*

[jjpor]

"Atishoo, Atishoo, we all fall down..."

About as brave a face as you can put on deadly pandemic disease, I guess...Or not, as the case may be, LOL. ;D

Glad to see ol' Snake-Eyes in the trailer (having actually watched it now, as opposed to merely sharing my thoughts about no-longer-available 80s toy lines); that white-clad character he's crossing swords with is, I believe, called Storm Shadow, and he was another ninja (I think it turned out in the comic that he was actually Snake-Eyes' half-brother or something, or had at any rate trained under the same wise, venerable old Japanese ninja master...), only an evil ninja (or, at any rate, the sort of cliched conflicted/honourable baddie who only occurs in contrived storylines of that sort).

I have to admit, I kinda wonder about Eccles; he had too much artistic integrity to stay on for another series of Who, but he can happily appear in stuff like this??

[Stripes]

I thought the reason why CE left DW was because he didn't want to be typecast. Anyway, I just had a thought. I think the reason why I never liked CE at first is because I heared so much about him after he left DW that he was made out as real douche bag(?).
That and I was not to fond of Nine. Which I sam till not too crazy about, but hey, before I couldn't watch an epsiode with Nine in it. that changed.

[clocketpatch]

I've heard that he was having health problems because of the shooting schedule. Breaking out in crazy rashes or something. Yeah...

As someone who gets eczema I can see how that would be No Fun.

I've also heard stories about him being nice to random fans. So... *shrugs*