Ok I don’t know if you felt this way when watching the new GI Joe movie… but I am gonna put it out there.
I am a HUGE GI joe fan. I couldn’t wait for this movie.
I knew that is was hollywood’d out and there would be some major disapointments so I didn’t judge too harshly.
The first hour was pretty fun. Most of my favorite Chracters were all here and well cast ( why they didn’t have Wayens be my man Stalker, instead of ripcord, i’ll never know- not for race reason- I mean they wanted a comic black guy, GI Joe had a great chrater that was a black guy. Ripcord was a little known outside of the comics for a few issues. I am thinking about the little black kid that used to love some stalker maybe more than I did… is robed of one of the coolest heros (black or otherwise) on the team).
But to the point of my thread. They include Scarlet in a good way. They make her almost as badass as she was in the comics and cartoon. They stuck with the comcs in that she is apparently Snake Eye’s girl ( judgeing ffrom the way she was loungeing on him during the briefing). I don’t like they way they made her kinda socialy a science dork. Scarlet is the female version of the Baroness. She adapts to any scocial situation and can handle herself totaly. I can chaulk that up to the movie makers just not makeing a good character out of some really good stuff that they had to work with.
This brings me to the Baroness. I thought that Siennna Miller played her perfectly. She was exactly what the Baroness was. Baddass, a master of manipulateing people to get what she wasnted. Hot, and almost completely non-compassionate ( except where Destro was concerned).
So The first 3/4 of this move she was perfect. She is baddass! Even thou she is the Bad Guy- a strong female character. I argue best chracter in the movie! UNTIL they reveal that the only reason she is badddass is becuase they put that chip in her head. That taugt her to be a badass. She had no motivations of her own, and no real skills of her own. That totaly robs the character.
Now this is comeing from me- you know I am normaly a " get your ass in the kitchen, woman" kinda chauvinist. I don’t read too much into anything. I could care less if a movie sets women back so far they can’t vote. I don’t think Ripley is an important charcter in sci-fi just because she’s a woman. I just don’t care about those issues.
Granted Scarelet and Baroness are female characters designed to appeal to boys. They aren’t meant to be role models for little girls. Larry Hamma explained in a wizard article in 2002 that The female action figure was scarlet. Their sales figures showed that boy were buying scarlet, not girls. She was given a good ninja-ish story and the female figures that followed were always in low cut shirts , cat suits, or were ninja’s! In the case of the Baroness… she was 2nd or 3rd in charge of cobra ( usualy the field commander early on) and boys loved her! Girls could care less. He mentioned the success of these characters is that he made them real. THey weren’t girl’d down for a female audiance… they were made badass to appeal to boys. The Baroness so much so, becuase she was invented in the Comics… then appeared in the show for a few years before hasboro ever gave in to demands for her own figure.
All that being said… This movie pissed me off! I almost felt like they were saying that Scarlet couldn’t be badass unless she was an uber nerd! She couldn’t jsut be hot and a badd ass fighter and inteligence agent!
The Baroness is even worse! She couldn’t really be evil, have her own goals, and be bad ass and hot! She has to be motivivate by a mans manipulation… and the only thing that breaks the spell is the love of her man! Pathetic!
Cant’t they jsut be hot chicks that are awsome without haveing to have a reason to explain (make it ok)!
Plus it just makes the story WAY les intersting! They had a great script called file cards or comics… woulda taken five mins to review and do right. Same cast, same sets, same plot! They had to TRY to f’ it up!
All that being said good action flick.
So my question? You guys agree or did I acidently take my GF’s midol and I really jsut need to watch a footbal game, drink beer from a can, burp and reset my man- clock!?