Comments on: G.I. Joe is a Meanie

By: SGT Angel Santiago USMC

SGT Angel Santiago USMC — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:49:45 +0000

GI Joe the movie is an insult to all Americans every where. Any person who participates in the movie should be considered a traitor to all uniformed personnel every where. GIJOE came about in WW2 when a U.S. military solider won the Medal of Honor. The name Government Issue Joe was formed. Every man and woman who server in the U.S. Military past and present is a Government Issue Joe. For paramount and Hasbro to take that from them and turn it more P.C. is a big slap in the face. Paramount and Hasbro are more worried they wonâ€™t make as much money globally if they make the movie about real American heroes. To add insult to injury cobra commander is an American CIA agent turned traitor and ends up running cobra. Talk about playing to the global crowed who hate Americans. Also as a member of the armed services there is now way the U.N. will NEVER run a true G.I. Joe team. I am calling for a boycott on the movie and all related items. If Hasbro and paramount are more worried about profits, then showing the world about REAL AMERICAN HEROS fighting terror where ever it may be. Then they donâ€™t need American dollars to support it and the toy line they are the works of changing to fit there new version of GIJOE. Global Intergraded Joint Operational Entity run buy the weaklings in the U.N.

By: Brian Layman

Brian Layman — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:01:59 +0000

It’s almost funny. The same thing happened after Vietnam early 70′s GI Joe was a international organization. When war breaks out, the toys are castrated.

By: bnpositive

bnpositive — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:26:36 +0000

THAT’S OUTRAGEOUS!!! I’ve got literally $1,000′s worth of old G.I.Joe stuff. He was a “Real-American Hero”. What a shame!

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:22:46 +0000

Cobra Commander is probably part of the U.S.A or it might as well be if G.I. Joe isn’t going to stay in America. I mean what other super power is there to defend against? Well that is some food for thought. Ha ha I can’t wait to see what kind of money this movie produces I’m sure it will be great because most people don’t take into interest the background info of the movie industry to begin with. They just like fancy movie ads and a lot of action films. Lets go G.I. Joe! = )

By: Travis Seitler

Travis Seitler — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:50:00 +0000

Aaron, you hit the nail on the head. Shoot, they could have set the movie in the 80s and probably gotten around the anti-American sentiment.

Why make a movie about a licensed property if you’re going to completely re-imagine it? It’s just a lousy attempt to sell tickets based on name recognition alone. In other words, it’s what a deceitful slimeball would do.

Omigosh. Cobra Commander must be behind this! He was pretty incompetent, too.

By: Chris Cree

Chris Cree — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:39:05 +0000

Aaron, It’s obviously a lame Hollywood attempt to get a bigger piece of the non-US market.

I keep reading Hollywood types whine that they can’t make money in the movie business anymore. People just won’t go to the theater now-a-days with all the competition. Blah, blah, blah.

If they’d just start making good entertaining movies I’d go. Four times in the last two months my wife and I wanted to go to see a movie, looked at what was playing and said never mind. That’s more than $100 of my entertainment budget they didn’t get even though I really wanted to give it to them.

When they start giving me real entertainment instead of preachy politically correct crap and I’ll give them some of my entertainment budget again.