Wil GI Joe no longer be the "Real American Hero"?

Originally Posted By Darkbeer

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>>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."<<



>>Coming up at dawn, battalion executive officer Major Odell M. Conoley was the first to discover how many able-bodied United States Marines it takes to hold a hill against two regiments of motivated, combat-hardened infantrymen who have never known defeat.

On a hill where the bodies were piled like cordwood, Mitchell Paige alone sat upright behind his 30-caliber Browning, waiting to see what the dawn would bring.

The hill had held, because on the hill remained the minimum number of able-bodied United States Marines necessary to hold the position.

And that's where the unstoppable wave of Japanese conquest finally crested, broke, and began to recede. On an unnamed jungle ridge on an insignificant island no one ever heard of, called Guadalcanal.

When the Hasbro Toy Co. called some years back, asking permission to put the retired colonel's face on some kid's doll, Mitchell Paige thought they must be joking.

But they weren't. That's his mug, on the little Marine they call "G.I. Joe." At least, it has been up till now.

Mitchell Paige's only condition? That G.I. Joe must always remain a United States Marine.

But don't worry. Far more important for our new movies not to offend anyone in Cairo or Karachi or Paris or Palembang.

After all, it's only a toy. It doesn't mean anything.<<

 

Originally Posted By peeaanuut

i am willing to bet that the Street Fighter movie will be better than this movie.

 

Originally Posted By DAR

You don't change Superman's cape, Donald Duck should never wear pants and G.I. Joe should always be "A Real American Hero"

 

Originally Posted By SuperDry

It's all part of the UN global conspiracy. I'm putting on my tinfoil hat right now.

 

Originally Posted By DAR

We all know that the UN is probably the real life COBRA, and knowing is half the battle.

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

During the Vietnam war, the popularity of the military sunk so low that GI Joe was almost no longer made, because they were just not selling.

 

Originally Posted By WorldDisney

No offense, but sometimes, okay, MANY times I always have to scratch my head what constitutes 'World Events' here? The Myanmar protest doesn't get one thread from anyone. The former Prime Minister of Pakistan almost got blown to bits on her return home to Pakistan last week, nada, and Argentina getting its first Woman President since Eva Peron TODAY, and zero.

But THIS makes World Events page??? Um, okay.

 

Originally Posted By DAR

<<During the Vietnam war, the popularity of the military sunk so low that GI Joe was almost no longer made, because they were just not selling.>>

Just another glowing example of the wonderful hippie movement.

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

It wasn't the hippie movement. It was the general population of the entire nation.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

What a shame. Kids will no longer be able to pretend that a couple of American icons, Joe and Barbie, are getting it on.

Might as well sell her Beach House to someone else. It just won't be the same without Joe.

 

Originally Posted By DAR

<<It wasn't the hippie movement. It was the general population of the entire nation.>>

I blame the hippies.

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

"I blame the hippies."

That's convenient.

By the 70's, most of the public had indeed soured on the war. And GI Joe had a period of decline; these things tend to be cyclical.

(RT): <What a shame. Kids will no longer be able to pretend that a couple of American icons, Joe and Barbie, are getting it on.>

LOL! Everybody knew she wasn't doin' it with Ken.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

<<I blame the hippies.>>

No one took the hippies seriously. The country turned against the war when Mr. & Mrs. Middle America got tired of seeing their sons come home in body bags.

 

Originally Posted By DAR

<<when Mr. & Mrs. Middle America got tired of seeing their sons come home in body bags.>>

And that is legitmate. I'll just never understand the hatred the hippie movement sent towards our soldiers back then, spitting on them and calling them baby killers.

 

Originally Posted By DAR

But getting back to the point of the story, GI Joe is an American. Flint, Duke, Roadblock, Lady Jaye, Scarlett, Shipwreck, Wild Bill, Snow Job, Snake Eyes, Sgt Slaughter, William the Refrigerator Perry. They were all part of a highly capable branch of America's military whose purpose is to defend the world against enemy attack. Their main adversary is the COBRA Organization, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world.

"He'll fight for freedom whenever there's trouble.
GI Joe is there.
GI Joe, a real American Hero, GI JOE."

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

William the Refrigerator Perry is on this strike team? What does he do, sit on people?

 

Originally Posted By DAR

You received the Fridge with six proofs of purchase from other GI Joe products.. If I remember he had a football on a chain and swung it around.

 

Originally Posted By peeaanuut

<<I blame the hippies.>>

That usually works for anything you don't like.

 

Originally Posted By DAR

Like Turkeyburgers?

 

Originally Posted By MPierce

>> During the Vietnam war, the popularity of the military sunk so low that GI Joe was almost no longer made, because they were just not selling. <<

No the popularity had sunk to an all time low against the war, and against the draft. The vast majority of Americans still consider the military to be filled with mostly honorable men.

>> It wasn't the hippie movement. It was the general population of the entire nation. <<

I would again dispute this claim. Radicals dispised the military, and the Government. The vast majority of Americans were opposed to the war, not the military.
The crowd you ran with during the Viet Nam war might have felt the popularity of the American military was at an all time low, but I can assure you the crowd that I ran with did not.