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GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/19/2007 7:22:58 PM
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peculiar_lady2
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Today's Army Times paper (which I can't find a link to the story online) has a small blip about our favorite American Hero...G.I.Joe. It seems that this broke in "Variety" which reports on Hollywood and upcoming events and movies and they got it from there. Variety reports that a new movie about G.I.Joe that is scheduled to begin production early next year is changing the American Hero part and making it a more globally accepted force. They are changing it to an acronym that is....G.I.J.O.E. which stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity. They will be part of a Brussels Belgium based special op unit that fights the Scottish led army that seems to be the bad guys of the movie. Their reasoning for changing it was this... (taken from Variety and quoted in the Army Times)
"A Real American Hero is being done to broaden the movie's appeal for international audiences because America and it's military are not popular in some areas of the globe today."
So what do you all think....are you upset about how they have changed an American iconic figure that for the past 40+ years has become the embodiment of the American Soldier? Are you shocked? Do you think this is a good move for the film industry?
What do you think?
I will keep looking for links to stories online about it and wil post one if I find it.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/19/2007 7:35:19 PM
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Only if they have Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow. Those were my faveys!!!
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/19/2007 7:36:30 PM
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They will be part of a Brussels Belgium based special op unit that fights the Scottish led army that seems to be the bad guys of the movie.
... seriously?
This day and age and they have the SCOTTS coming to get us?
If they wanted to be PC and all they could have had some sort of alien invasion force going on, but... SCOTLAND? What in the world?!
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/19/2007 7:40:51 PM
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Dancre
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They will be part of a Brussels Belgium based special op unit that fights the Scottish led army that seems to be the bad guys of the movie.
... seriously?
This day and age and they have the SCOTTS coming to get us?
If they wanted to be PC and all they could have had some sort of alien invasion force going on, but... SCOTLAND? What in the world?!
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! THEY'VE GOT BAGPIPES!!!!"
"Is he going to be alright?"
"I'm not sure, sir."
*moan* "... the plaid, the..." *cough, urk, expires*
No, No, No!!! They got it all wrong!! It's COBRA that's the enemy!! Gesh!! Don't they ever watch Saturday Cartoons or read comic books? Geesh!! Do I got to do everything???
LOL!! Zhi, you're just sad! LOL!!!!
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/19/2007 8:34:42 PM
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Stephanos
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I wonder if someone financing the movie, or making it is a English loyalist. Making the Scottish the bad guys as Scotland gets closer and closer to voting for independence.
As for the GIJOE thing, it saddens me but is not shocking. Just like the new Superman movie "Truth, justice...all that stuff" line, the liberals in the movie industry love to either make America the bad guy, or push its role in movies/tv to the side.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/20/2007 8:21:36 AM
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It's COBRA that's the enemy!!
yeah that's the name of the group that is led by a Scottish guy (according to the paper)
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/20/2007 8:27:50 AM
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GIJoe is a great American Hero i don't care what some whiny movie execs think.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/20/2007 8:49:18 AM
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Will Sgt. Slaughter be in the movie?
Get'em Sarge.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/20/2007 8:55:24 AM
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Will Sgt. Slaughter be in the movie?
Get'em Sarge.
The way things are going he will probably be taken out because he is too macho and replaced by a less offensive member who is in a same sex marriage.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/20/2007 11:00:43 AM
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If that's true, that movie's gonna bomb big time. No one's gonna watch that kind of junk.
GI Joe is too well known, people know what it's about. Trying to go PC with it is just going to drive fans away.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/20/2007 11:29:52 AM
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So what do you all think....are you upset about how they have changed an American iconic figure that for the past 40+ years has become the embodiment of the American Soldier?
If GI Joe is the embodiment of the American soldier, then we as a culture have bigger fish to fry. Guns and bombs are not toys and unlike in the cartoon, people actually die in war.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/20/2007 12:42:07 PM
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Your in the toy business to make money, if they wanted to make G.I. Joe gay I wouldn't care. It's there product. Personally I never played with the things.
Am I shocked? heavens NO. Business is business.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/20/2007 4:41:12 PM
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It's COBRA that's the enemy!!
yeah that's the name of the group that is led by a Scottish guy (according to the paper)
I don't seem to remember Cobra Commander being Scottish. I think he was American. I know he had a son, who wanted to kill him. Storm Shadow was training him at one. Man, I'm such a nerd. And I wonder why I can't get dates. 
kim
yeah that's what my hubby said about the old one...but here in this paper it says...
"The JOEs will be part of a Brussels, Belgium-based special operations unit battling the evil Cobra army, which is headed by a Scottish bad guy, according to Variety, the newspaper that reports on the film industry"
So I guess they have decided that even the bad people can't be American anymore because of lack of mass appeal.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/21/2007 12:54:38 PM
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ORIGINAL: peculiar_lady2
Today's Army Times paper (which I can't find a link to the story online) has a small blip about our favorite American Hero...G.I.Joe. It seems that this broke in "Variety" which reports on Hollywood and upcoming events and movies and they got it from there. Variety reports that a new movie about G.I.Joe that is scheduled to begin production early next year is changing the American Hero part and making it a more globally accepted force. They are changing it to an acronym that is....G.I.J.O.E. which stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity. They will be part of a Brussels Belgium based special op unit that fights the Scottish led army that seems to be the bad guys of the movie. Their reasoning for changing it was this... (taken from Variety and quoted in the Army Times)
"A Real American Hero is being done to broaden the movie's appeal for international audiences because America and it's military are not popular in some areas of the globe today."
So what do you all think....are you upset about how they have changed an American iconic figure that for the past 40+ years has become the embodiment of the American Soldier? Are you shocked? Do you think this is a good move for the film industry?
What do you think?
I will keep looking for links to stories online about it and wil post one if I find it.
How bland and boring. "Brussels, Belgium based unit"?LOL. Isn't the EU's capital Brussels? Is that why that particular city was chosen? We all know what G.I. Joe really stands for, G.I. stands for government issued (as in, U.S. government)...who came up with the idea for "global integrated joint operating entity"? What a mouthful and sounds so bureacratic and boring.  Anyways, I am not surprised at this. Hollywood is always about the almighty dollar and so I can see why they would change it all around to try to generate mass appeal among the world, not just including an American audience.
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RE: GI Joe no longer a "Real American Hero" - 10/21/2007 2:57:53 PM
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gi joe will always be a real american heroe to me, no matter what hollywood does to change.
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