Posted on 10/30/2007 11:39:39 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
America's battered international image has claimed a new casualty: the tough-talking comic book patriot named GI Joe.
GI Joe the movie is scheduled to go into production next year
The muscular character was created as a comic strip for US military publications during the Second World War and has been fighting America's foes ever since.
But in a new film version, scheduled to go into production next year, the all-American will no longer work for a covert US special forces unit.
Paramount Pictures and Hasbro, which makes GI Joe toys, have reportedly discussed the challenges of marketing a film about the US military at a time when the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have sunk America's standing in foreign opinion polls.
In a move that has horrified an unlikely alliance of comic book fans and conservative commentators, GI Joe is now to become an acronym for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity", with its star representing a multinational force.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Incremental Socialism at work. Now even our toys have gone global.
Yet another movie for all of us to avoid.
For me, G.I Jow will always be “A real American Hero.”
Jow = Joe
Is he going to become a girlie man?
***Hasbro, which makes GI Joe toys,***
Hasbro’s attempt to get boys to playing with dolls like little girls was the reason for the GI JOE doll. Yes, DOLL.
...and time for some other toy manufacturer to introduce a REAL American Hero -
BLASPHEMY! I DECLARE A FATWA ON THEIR METROSEXUAL EURO-PUNK A**ES!
I demand that they apologize now, stop this sacrilege, go to sensitivity training, and put the Stars and Stripes back on every GI-Joe box; or we will riot and whine and tell people about it!
Think the NYT will do a story about oppressed GI-Joe traditionalists?
/do I really need to?
Will he have a pony tail and a goatee? He will drive a Hybrid Hummer and have a blue beret and a night stick that he uses to nudge evil doers into respecting every woman’s right to free and unfettered abortions!
Global Joe is THERE! Now I know and knowing is half the battle!
“Hasbro’s attempt to get boys to playing with dolls like little girls was the reason for the GI JOE doll. Yes, DOLL.”
LOL! Read a freakin’ history book. Boys have been playing with toy soldiers as long as there have been soldiers.
There is a chain of sporting goods stores around here that has always been called “G.I.Joe’s”. The other day I noticed that they have changed their name to “Joe’s”.
Do you think that the new Global Joe will parachute into the Peace keeping Mission with a special John Edwards Hair Care Pack strapped to his back instead of a rifle?
This is all about $$$ for the overseas movie distribution. If they were smart, they would leave it American GI Joe for domestic audiences, and change it in the foreign language dubs. It isn’t as if the Chinese, Indians or Japanese do a direct translation on their movies.
He's a modern day metrosexual womyn's man. He's going to practice hand-to-hand diplomacy. He's going to "reach out to his enemies". He's going to "repair the damage done to American prestige". He'll also move forward on his action Segway taking on the Climate Change crisis... snicker, snicker
When you try to please everybody you end up pleasing no one.
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