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Sunday, October 28, 2007

GI Joe Is No Longer An American Hero

Sigh...

Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line, Joe’s—well, “G.I.”—identity needs to be replaced by membership in an “international force based in Brussels.” The IGN Entertainment news site reports Paramount is considering replacing our “real American hero” with “Action Man,” member of an “international operations team.”

Paramount will simply turn Joe’s name into an acronym.

The show biz newspaper Variety reports: “G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer.”

Well, thank goodness the villain—no need to offend anyone by making our villains Arabs, Muslims, or foreign dictators of any stripe these days, though apparently Presbyterians who talk like Scottie on “Star Trek” are still OK—is a double-crossing arms dealer. Otherwise one might be tempted to conclude the geniuses at Paramount believe arms dealing itself is evil.

Apparently Hollywood has just resigned itself to making crappy movies.

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Scotland?!?!  That’s maximum BS.  Scotland gave us golf, the bagpipes, and most importantly SCOTCH.  What would I do without Johnnie Walker? What would I do without Glenfiddich?

I’ll never watch this piece of trash… And I’ll be drinking my scotch while I don’t watch it!


“Hope is not a method.” - Common Military Saying

The above is a statement of pro activity.  If any Soldier were to tell me that he hoped what he was briefing was going to come to fruition, that would be unacceptable.  We in the Army do not have the luxury to ‘hope’ that things will end well.  Hope will get us killed.  Instead, we must plan and take action.  Hope is not a method.

As a leader I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers have the proper training.  I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers have the proper logistical supplies.  I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers will survive the next mission.  Hope is not a method; I live in the real world.

Paulie B on October 28, 2007 at 08:41 pm

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WOOF on October 28, 2007 at 09:12 pm
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These bastards are trying to use GI Joe to sell toys around the world.

What bastards. 

I mean, originally GI Joe was about ... sellingtoys to Americans.

Lestat on October 28, 2007 at 09:55 pm

GI Joe was about finding Barbie a more manly man. Everyone knew Ken was a girly man… Ken liked Allen.

Zsa Zsa on October 29, 2007 at 03:16 am

This has already been done. Where is the news?
Don’t y’all remember that goofy movie with the guys on motorcycles with rocket launchers? Back in the ‘80s. They were sued and had to change it, they wanted to call it GI Joe v Cobra. I’ll try to find that piece of crap for your viewing nausea.


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2Hotel9 on October 29, 2007 at 03:43 am

We need a movie goers guild, like the actors guild…

These guys have lost all creativity!

Meanwhile truly creative ideas are trashed and the writers go back to whatever jobs they can get.

Same in music. It’s not just the internet that’s killing the record companies.

What’s next, a remake of Gone With The Wind from the gay perspective?

golfmann on October 29, 2007 at 04:32 am

Now what’s Rob going to play with?


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on October 29, 2007 at 05:28 am
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They should make GI Joe work for the UN.  He could be named Inaction Man!

foutsc on October 29, 2007 at 06:08 am

Wow...some really great comments in this thread:

Paulie (who is obviously a man of taste even though I prefer Glenlivet):

What would I do without Glenfiddich?

Zsa Zsa:

GI Joe was about finding Barbie a more manly man. Everyone knew Ken was a girly man… Ken liked Allen.

Ken was a metrosexual gay doll. We knew that before we knew what any of that was.

Foutsc (this is the one I wish I’d thought of):

They should make GI Joe work for the UN.  He could be named Inaction Man!


The future ain’t what it used to be.....

Pilgrim on October 29, 2007 at 08:12 am

Pilgrim… I had Ken and Allen both. I don’t think either would be qualified to be considered Metro or Homosexual. Their package just wasn’t there. I never saw GI Joe nude. BUT I can only imagine he had to be better equiped than those two.?

Zsa Zsa on October 29, 2007 at 09:55 am

Nope. He was a neuter, just like the others.


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2Hotel9 on October 29, 2007 at 10:09 am

I don’t want to know why you know that 2h9.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on October 29, 2007 at 10:18 am

G.I Joe is an American and will never be a traitor to our country.
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Anna on October 29, 2007 at 10:23 am

It’s just like Sgt Slaughter.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on October 29, 2007 at 10:28 am
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I don’t see why they have to make this movie so grounded in reality, especially Cobra. Why make him Scottish? Why can’t the bad guy just be a half man/half snake with a lisp that lives in a giant fortress in the middle of a swamp like he is supposed to? That’s some evil stuff right there.

adam on October 29, 2007 at 12:13 pm
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