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Leonardo T Dragon · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: Fox News on the GIJoe movie.

This has probably been posted in another thread but now that the film has its own forum, it will get its own topic.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296054,00.html

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Rockshield · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

from the article = "I find it outrageous that they'd want to drop everything American" from the character, said conservative blogger Warner Todd Huston, who wrote about the rumors this week on Newsbusters.org and his own blog. "That's nuts."

Retired Army Col. David W. Hunt, a FOX News military and terrorism analyst, called the scheme to make a whole new Joe "a shame."

"G.I. Joe is a U.S. guy," Hunt said. "What are we going to call it — Global Joe? International Joe? It's kind of stupid. It's ridiculous that they're doing that."

- Yeah. I thinnk this is the general sentiment. Hopefully Hollywood will get the idea before it produces a bomb.. that it will then blame on G.I. Joe instead of its own gay liberal politics. Then we will get no more G.I. Joe love...
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Jmacq1 · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

It's the general sentiment from conservative bloggers and military (and ex-military) personnel.

Note that not too many people are "polling" the "new Joe" that may or may not end up on the big screen outside of focus groups that would by nature be opposed to such changes. They're fishing for the negative and more controversial statements.

Biased reporting at its' finest. Particularly when statements like "taking everything American away from the character" are being made when that's never been even rumored.

Adding/altering some global/international characters does not equal taking away all the American characters and elements.

Werecat · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

Rockshield · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject:

Compulsive Collector · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

M6D · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject:

Jmacq1 · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

They're making the movie, official "greenlight" or not.

Or more accurately, the fact that the movie is getting made is well beyond "rumor" stage. It's all-but officially confirmed.

What's not past rumor stage is anything that'll actually be in the movie. So yeah, pretty much everyone (ourselves included) is jumping the gun on this "Un-American" stuff.

M6D · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject:

Caravankidd · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

I'm pretty liberal with some liberal friends and on the other side there is also some worry that the GI Joe movie might not be American enough. The scene in the comic book where Roadblock tell the looter no one ever died for a typewriter is something just begging to be put up on the big screen. Plus it's not like GI Joe has ever been about conservative or liberal but about the sort of Americans we want to be when our goverment is doing things that don't seem to be the American Way.

Being Fox News though they did not bother to investigate that some changes have been made already and I'd place bets they did not even try to interview the director or writer to find their view on the early dropped scripts.
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Compulsive Collector · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject:

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Tambo · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:17 am Post subject:

GI JOE = USA
COBRA = Terrorist bad guys

without this combination this movie is going to bomb.