G.I Joe....the real movie picture

I'm rather disappointed, to be honest. The suit needs more armour plating on the lower body, and that come-hither/check-out-my-butt pose belongs to the Baroness, or on the cover of Maxim.

 

Nice, but I was hoping for something closer to her look from the original cartoon.

 

After Snake Eyes, I think we all were.

Still, blue and tan spandex isn't very military looking, is it? Black seems more appropriate to a counter-intelligence operative.

 

Sadly, I must agree...they all look pretty but I just hope that the movie doesn't come out as a overblown videogame. Does anyone know who's writing it? and how long was Transformers in development? (since G.I.Joe wouldn't have gotten greenlit without it.)

 

No idea who's writing it, but Larry Hama has apparently been brought onboard as creative consultant.

 

I hope they don't "Doom" up this movie. And does anyone know how serious in tone this movie will be? I hope they play it straight and make the movie along the lines as a Batman Begins or even an X-Men movie.

 

I think we're in safe hands. The writers are Skip Woods and Stuart Beattie. Between them, they've written Swordfish, Hitman and the POTC Trilogy.

 

And in other news, photos of the main cast in their costumes have been released...

 

Those look badass...

 

Looks good.

 

Baroness!

I'm a little concerned about the all-black Joe outfits; GI Joe costuming has always been about creative individuality rather than uniform group identity. *shrug* I guess we'll wait and see what they do with the other characters.

Storm Shadow looks pretty cool, but I miss his mask.

 

Dennis Quaid looks more like Flint than Hawk to me from the above pics. The previous page had Quaid as Hawk. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cobra Commander? What's up with that. I hope that is not true.

 

Well I can't say I like the way any of the characters look except Snake-eyes. The Baroness's shoes are absolutely ridiculous looking. And Scarlet looks like she's modeling for a magazine cover.


Not to mention the fact that I can't even look at a picture of Marlon Wayans without thinking of him as Snails from the D&D film.

 

So are they all gonna look like X-men rejects or what?

Why is it that all these types of movies have to change the original look of the characters into the oh-so-hip Matrix-meets-Batsuit look?

I have to say, she does look HOT though.

D_M_S_L

 

Scarlett looks pretty good, I not really that bothered about how close they stay to her cartoon uniform.

 

I'd say they look more like Crysis-lite, actually.

Maybe because that's actually the look the US Army is going for?

A little too much so, actually.

 

There's no way the US Government would ever spend that kind of money on "cool new outfits" for their soldiers... It doesn't make any sense from a budgetary perspective.... It's just not practical. Not to mention this stuff isn't new, they're always coming up with some high tech lookin' gear to spin as "the new look for the military" and it never happens. Just something to put in the militaristic mags and Guns N' Ammo. You've got to pay attention to how the military spends money, just look at where the advances have been... Weaponry... not armor and fancy attire. It's far too expensive and doesn't do a whole lot of good. The look of our soldiers hasn't really changed in the past 8 decades. The newest look we got was the desert fatigues...

See they release articles like that every 10-15 years or so, because the technology is out there and people are always curios how close the "Star Wars/Starship Troopers" future we are. They do the same thing with space technology...

Funny how they seem to want our military to look more like Storm Troopers though. Or should I say, Scary...

D_M_S_L

 

Yeah but we have to remember these are supposed to elite troops, they would get way better equipment then regular troops.

 

Not to mention much more specialized training...

The Joes are supposed to be the very best of the very best. That probably makes them at least as good as Navy Seals, if not considerably better...

 

I'm pretty sure a lot of stuff the US Government doesn't make sense from a budgetary perspective.

Funny, last time I looked, the body armor was new (M69, then RBA, then SPEAR, then Interceptor OTV, and now the IOTV and Spartan), but US troops were still toting the same 1950s vintage Eugene Stoner-derived assault rifle, mounting the same WWII-era M2 .50 cal machine guns on their humvees...

Computer battle maps, infrared and thermal "snooper scopes", night vision, increasing focus on small, highly-trained units over massed formations, conscription done away with in favor of an all-volunteer force... all we need now is the powered armor and you can basically say hello to Robert Heinlein's Mobile Infantry.

 

Agreed. There are even steps being taken towards that. Once power armour becomes standard issue, all we'll need is the massive starships.