G.I. Joe

[HellboyOne]

I don't care what it's like. It's GI Joe. I wanna see Stormshadow and Snake Eyes fight. If that's in the movie, great. I don't care about anything else.

[drugmassacre]

I don't care what it's like. It's GI Joe. I wanna see Stormshadow and Snake Eyes fight. If that's in the movie, great. I don't care about anything else.

they weren't in the original film as very major characters 9if at all), were they? how strange. maybe they became more popular later

[Animal Qwacker]

I don't care what it's like. It's GI Joe. I wanna see Stormshadow and Snake Eyes fight. If that's in the movie, great. I don't care about anything else.

they weren't in the original film as very major characters 9if at all), were they? how strange. maybe they became more popular later

The figures, tv show and comics came before the movie. Snake Eyes and Stormshadow were always popular. The movie was to introduce new characters and hey, more toys! And to give a messed up version of Cobra Commander's origin.

[HellboyOne]

I don't care what it's like. It's GI Joe. I wanna see Stormshadow and Snake Eyes fight. If that's in the movie, great. I don't care about anything else.

they weren't in the original film as very major characters 9if at all), were they? how strange. maybe they became more popular later

The Hasbro GI Joe came out when you were born. (I'm old, remember?) It was all about Snake Eyes and Stormshadow when I was a kid. Snake Eyes especially was always a difficult toy to find. I don't know if I ever got to see them fight one on one, but they should have.

[Toonimator]

I THINK the cartoon had 'em battle. I'm fairly certain the old comics did. I know for a fact that the more recent comics (2000+) have 'em battle regularly, no matter if it's a revamped story, if they're also fighting against/with Transformers, or what. The 2nd Snake Eyes figure which came with his wolf, Timber, and a sword was probably when they started linking the two together.

And yes, they've ALWAYS been popular.

[digitaldreammachine]

I don't care what it's like. It's GI Joe. I wanna see Stormshadow and Snake Eyes fight. If that's in the movie, great. I don't care about anything else.

Heck yeah! I'm with you on that. Growing up the Hasbro G.I. Joe's as one of my all-time favorite toys, comic series and animated series, I've been waiting for a decent live action remake. My cousin and I used to pretend to be Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow all the time. To see these guys in real uniforms could be quite cool. And the rest of the incredibly diverse characters should be fun to watch. Zartan could be a potential bigger role too.

While Van Helsing was definitely not the film it should have been, I've enjoyed Sommers other films and he has the potential to handle diverse characters really well. Deep Rising shows some signs of modern action, while The Mummy series shows the diverse locations that would work well for G.I. Joe. Maybe not my first choice for a director after Van Helsing, but I'll allow him that 'bad day' in hopes of really putting his all into G.I. Joe. This needs to be like Jim Cameron's Aliens or Michael Bay's The Rock, definitely not Street Fighter. If it ends up like that, I'm sure Sommers will likely not direct again for a long time. It's been a while since Van Helsing. haha.

I recently snagged the second G.I. Joe CG movie from the DVD bin at Zellers here in Canada. Overall, mediocre at best and not as cool as the 2D animated series, but it's great to see characters I grew up with continuing to live on and fleshed out.

And I remember trying to find Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow characters at the toy stores. There used to be massive rows of G.I. Joe Characters, but when you found those 2, you begged your parents to no end or borrowed until you'd 'pay them back immediately' to get those guys especially.

Oh, and the Christmas I got the G.I. Joe base...I played the hell outta that thing!

[Musashi]

I think the comic was way more about Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow than the cartoons. I remember reading the books as a kid and being frustrated about not seeing them fight in the TV show. Storm Shadow for some reason always ended up fighting Spirit, for some reason.

[nilocomic]

Storm Shadow eventually switched to GI JOE in the comics. Seriously, those comics were less GI JOE and more ninja stories for a while there.

[digitaldreammachine]

So I'm eating Sushi here in Banff with some workmates, and I look over to my left and noticed this tattooed on a guy's forearm:



It was the Arashikage clan tattoo in black ink, but right away I knew he was a fellow G.I. Joe fan.

Man, I loved those Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow stories.

[drugmassacre]

yeah, i remember them in the comics playing a huge part, and remember them from the show, just not from the movie

[Captain Genius]

Cause the movie was shit.

Hey kids!
See all your heroes in the GI Joe movie.
Ooops......
Did we mention this was to sell you toys of these new guys?
I hope you like a blonde P.I. in a flower print shirt with a handgun.
YO JOE!

I mean Falcon was cool, and Tunnel Rat was my boy, but fuck that movie.
Fuck Cobra La, fuck Sgt. Slaughter.
Toughest GI JOE ever my ass.
Mutts' dog Junk Yard would have worn his steroid shrunken balls as a collar.



A few years ago at a small wrestling show, I was seated near the announcers table.
One of the guys doing color was CM Punk.
If any one watches WWECW, you know who he is.
Anyways, I go over and ask him a question about some shit during a break in the show, and while we were talking I noticed he had the Cobra logo on his shoulder.
So I was all, cool tattoo.
Then he started unwrapping the tape on his right arm and showed me just a fraction of this other tattoo.
He had the Arashikage mark on the under side of his forearm.
We both just smiled.

[HellboyOne]

Cause the movie was shit.

Hey kids!
See all your heroes in the GI Joe movie.
Ooops......
Did we mention this was to sell you toys of these new guys?
I hope you like a blonde P.I. in a flower print shirt with a handgun.
YO JOE!

I mean Falcon was cool, and Tunnel Rat was my boy, but fuck that movie.
Fuck Cobra La, fuck Sgt. Slaughter.
Toughest GI JOE ever my ass.
Mutts' dog Junk Yard would have worn his steroid shrunken balls as a collar.



A few years ago at a small wrestling show, I was seated near the announcers table.
One of the guys doing color was CM Punk.
If any one watches WWECW, you know who he is.
Anyways, I go over and ask him a question about some shit during a break in the show, and while we were talking I noticed he had the Cobra logo on his shoulder.
So I was all, cool tattoo.
Then he started unwrapping the tape on his right arm and showed me just a fraction of this other tattoo.
He had the Arashikage mark on the under side of his forearm.
We both just smiled.

This is possibly your most hilarious post ever. And not in the way you intended.

[Captain Genius]

I know, it's a totally gay post.
I didn't have that balls to take it as far as I should have.

Botch.

[HellboyOne]

Sienna Miller as The Baroness? She seems so tiny and frail to me. We'll see..

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797 ... id=13&cs=1

[Benjamin]

I know its a little late but...

I love the G.I. Joe movie. Love. Not like.

"Did we mention this was to sell you toys of these new guys?" The show from the beginning was to sell Action figures... so its a little late to get frustrated.

And even though he had a hawaiian shirt on, the blond P.I. found his calling... he started up that helicopter with his bare hands... THEN rode on top of that fucking thing as they flew right into cobra-la!

The movie is ambitious, fun and perfectly melodramatic.

I mean c'mon... the opening credits, seriously, they are probably the best opening credits to anything ever! Se7ens' opening credits? Miles behind my friends. MILES.