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Marlon Wayans pulls the Ripcord and floats down to GI JOE!

Published at:  Jan 07, 2008 8:56:41 AM CST

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I've said it many times before and I'll probably say it many more times before I'm sitting in the theater and lights dim as GI JOE begins rolling through the projector (or spinning on the harddrive, whatever the case may be), but goddamn is this a weird project.

Marlon Wayans, who did the most amazing one-two punch of performances ever... with REQUIEM FOR A DREAM and DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, looks to be on the project now. He'll play Ripcord, a leader of the military unit.

The trades also mention Joseph Gordon-Levitt in negotiations to join the flick... Keep in mind this is a GI JOE movie, scripted by Stuart "COLLATERAL" Beattie, helmed by Stephen Sommers (yikes) and starring Darth Maul, Mr. Eko, Sienna Miller and now Marlon Wayans and possibly Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

How bizarre.




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  • Jan 07, 2008 8:59:25 AM CST

    what the hell is a

    by lost jarv

    "one-two punch of performances?" It doesn't even scanI thought he was good in Requiem and didn't DaD blow on every level?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 8:59:29 AM CST

    WTF?

    by beatlematt

    This is gonna blow chunks...

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:00:20 AM CST

    That is one terrible cast list, BTW

    by lost jarv

    and fuck Sienna "talentless" Miller. Useless OK magazine whore.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:00:33 AM CST

    Well...

    by jsm1978

    it either all comes together, or turns into a spectacular disaster... either way, should be entertaining.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:00:50 AM CST

    I SUPPORT SGT. SLAUGHTER ON THIS ONE.

    by pennsy

  • Jan 07, 2008 9:01:39 AM CST

    Yikes

    by shaw

    I'm not one to prejudge every movie but his is going to be terrible

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:01:53 AM CST

    Jarv

    by jsm1978

    Yes, D&D was terrible, but in a fun, horrifically overacted sort of way.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:05:36 AM CST

    huh?

    by flying spaghetti monster

  • Jan 07, 2008 9:05:59 AM CST

    I wonder if Fridgerator Perry...

    by redfive!

    Will join the cast.I defantly think they should get Sargent Slaughter and even the "The Fridge" was only a mail away GI Joe action figure why not,this movies cast is pretty awful.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:13:00 AM CST

    perhaps this movie isnt being aimed at 20-40 yr olds

    by palewook

    but 6-12 yr olds for the toyline which is sure to come from this pos.

    and to whoever said, "fuck "Sienna "talentless" Miller." Yeah, that would be nice.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:15:33 AM CST

    sigh

    by dwightschrute

    I was on board with Mr. Eko, even Sienna Miller, and I was even bracing myself for the best from Sommers. But why is a damn Wayans brother in G.I.Joe? And why is Rip Cord being billed as the "leader of the military unit"?

    There are so many ways to fuck this movie up, and it seems like they would attempt to avoid at least a FEW of them..

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:15:41 AM CST

    gerard butler as serpentor

    by acne scarface

    this!i!command!...while we're @ it, patrick stewart as golobulus, the rock as nemesis enforcer, angie jolie as pythona. cobralalalalalalalalala!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:17:01 AM CST

    Dont Do It!

    by tourist

    I hope Gordon-Levitt gets some big bucks big cred roles soon, cause hes too fucking good to have to slum it in shit like this for a pay cheque.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:17:11 AM CST

    Little Man in GI Joe?

    by yaknow

    Andy Dick must be next in line to be cast.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:17:33 AM CST

    WHICH ONE IS MARLON

    by happy boy

    im going to get you sucka!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:17:53 AM CST

    Again, the No Assholes policy.

    by anna valerious

  • Jan 07, 2008 9:18:30 AM CST

    Wait, text...

    by anna valerious

    This sounds more credible than the special effects-abusing movies the other Wayanses have done...but where is Kevin J. O'Connor?!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:20:21 AM CST

    Gordon-Levitt

    by doggus47

    He's a good actor, and he's impressed me in his movies. I can't picture who he'd play. Hopefully he'll be to make a nice wad of cash and enjoy some of the benefits of being talented.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:21:33 AM CST

    This movie needs Lance Henriksen!

    by derlanghaarige

    But everymovie does.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:23:43 AM CST

    Casting per IMDB

    by doggus47

    Sienna Miller ... The Baroness

    Rachel Nichols ... Shana 'Scarlett' O'Hara

    Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ... Heavy Duty

    Ray Park ... Snake Eyes

    Saïd Taghmaoui ... Breaker

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:27:34 AM CST

    nooooooooOOOOOOOOO JOE!

    by nivekj

    Please, oh please production of GI Joe, stop trying to ruin your movie. Transformers barely survived Anthony Anderson (playing to his manic strengths, but skirting minstrelsy - way to go, Bay), but Marlon Wayans in GI Joe? No franchise can survive Marlon, not even his own Scary Movie franchise. I have no doubt Marlon could be a great actor when he wants to be - he just never wants to be, apparently. This is a bad day for all Joes everywhere. ARRRRGH!! X-{

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:28:08 AM CST

    Hugh Jackman for Shipwreck?

    by spyguy

    Don't knock weird group casting too much, though. Remember, LORD OF THE RINGS had Magneto, Mikey from THE GOONIES, Alec Trevelyan, Dracula, Sallah and Agent Smith all together and that turned out halfway decent.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:28:18 AM CST

    YO JOE!!

    by dreadlock holmes

  • Jan 07, 2008 9:29:16 AM CST

    Another "personal day" for Cobra Commander

    by slone13

    http://tinyurl.com/yu6czw

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:30:44 AM CST

    Anyone cares about that "movie"?

    by cuervojones

  • Jan 07, 2008 9:33:40 AM CST

    what??? um...wrong. Ripcord is a white boy with a blond girlfri

    by fleshmachine

    white/black what difference right? well sure while we're at it why not make gung-ho asian or roadblock a big redheaded irish guy. seriously WTF??? ripcord was my favorite action figure, HALO JUMPER!...i re-bought him on ebay last year. his girlfrind was Candy...blond gal. (wasnt her dad the head crimson guard?) she was killed along with Soft Master by scrap iron. fucking douchbags..IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT!!!! this is all going to be one big pile of FUBAR!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:40:17 AM CST

    Stephen Sommers

    by blacklodgebob

    why does every mention of him on this site have a "yikes" type disclaimer? he's not THAT bad.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:41:52 AM CST

    Candy Appel

    by arcadiands

    She died in one of the silliest comic book examples of 'well this plot line is going nowhere so nuke it' devices I've ever seen. After half a year of cultivating the characters of Soft Master and Candy Appel, they are blowed up real good by a shoulder mounted rocket launcher. Did they know too much? Did their pasts finally catch up to them? Was some nefarious cobra plot behind it? Nope. Some random bad guy says, "hey look I'm such a big bad guy, I'm gonna launch a rocket into that random car as it waits at a railroad crossing. BLAMMO!"
    Oh and in typical bad comic book form (a recurring theme in the GI Joe comics), we find out 4 months later that Billy, Cobra Commander's son, didn't die in the splosioned car - he jumps out at the last second. But he lost his leg.
    So here in this one car we have the daughter of the leader of Cobra's Special Forces, the son of Cobra Commander, and one of the old masters who raised both Storm Shadow and Snake-Eyes - and they all get blowed up by a random bad guy who doesn't know who is in the car he just done blowed up.
    How can you even DARE TO FAULT A GI JOE MOVIE when you objectively consider the CRAPTACULAR SOURCE MATERIAL?!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:42:27 AM CST

    any movie with a Wayans bro in it is dead to me. good bye

    by bmacsmith

    especially after Ladykillers

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:44:41 AM CST

    Bawoooshhh......

    by kthakkar

    ... whats that? oh just the sound of all my hope and dreams for this project going down the toilet. hmm... I don't what whats more depressing... this casting... or the fact that I actually had "hopes and dreams" for this movie. Oh well.. back to my home office to play with my 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe figures.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:47:04 AM CST

    Never have understood...

    by philvis

    I just can't understand why these writers/directors mess with the core characters for movies that have an established history. I don't expect GI Joe to be an exact live action version of the cartoon, but you should keep the characters that made the show so iconic the same. Ripcord wasn't anything close to what Marlon Wayans will bring to the table. I guess we should be happy they even used the name Ripcord. This is definitely a film that has tons of possibilities with the wide variety of heroes and villains, so I hope they don't blow it like it sounds they are already doing. Yo Joe. I'm sorry, I am not being PC like the movie is supposed to be. Go International Team!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:51:03 AM CST

    Didn't We Warn People This Would Happen?

    by jaysmack

    Don Dickhead Murphy, the asshole who brought you such quality movies as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Bayformers is at it again, mining 80s nostalgia for cash. Now that the two-headed monster of Orci-Kurtzman are putting their satanic fingerprints all over Star Trek's tender genitals and Murphy is about the make G.I. Joe "smart and cool" the same way he did Bayformers, why is it there are still some folks who are just too dense to get that? They cheered Transformers and we warned them that if something as enormously simple as Transformers was raped while the retards cheered it wouldn't be long before the studios took it's success as permission to do what they want with every damned movie out there. All the work that Bryan Singer and Chris Nolan did to establish the importance of sticking to cannon when doing these comic-book/cartoon adaptations has now been erased, replaced with dumbass directors who want to turn every movie into American Pie-type shittiness. Well, you fuckheads who cheered that shit all last year, you're reaping to blame for this. You said "smart doesn't matter, it's just a 30-minute toy commercial." What you assholes didn't realize is that line of non-logic is the same reasoning Orci-Kurtzman used for their "reboot" of Trek, and same thought-process Murphy and company are using for G.I.Joe. But AICN has gotten all kinds of interviews and "access," not to mention ad dollars for the site, by cheerleading this turdbomb so I expect them to run interferance for their buddy Don, and not let too many negative things about this flick be said until after the premiere. AICN--what a bunch of stand-up guys you are. And you jackasses who supported Bayformers--I hope you get assraped by a herd of AIDS-infected goats. Knowing you retards you would think that was hilarious.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:51:39 AM CST

    looks like paragraphing is gone in talkbacks

    by arcadiands

    yeah - dont update the forums, but remove any ability to make the forums even readable. morons. Anyway the rest of my giant wall of text says that basically the other person who was in the car, who we thought died but survived with a lost leg, was Billy, the son of Cobra Commander - another 'cheap comic book' story twist. Bottom line: YOU ARE A MORON IF YOU THINK THIS MOVIE WILL 'RAPE YOUR CHILDHOOD' - THE SOURCE MATERIAL WAS JIVE, MORONIC CRAP IN THE FIRST PLACE.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:55:17 AM CST

    I'll grant you Reqium..

    by skimn

    who knew he had that in him? But Dungeons and Dragons???? He might as well as been bugging his eyes, saying "Oh pleeze, doan hurts me!!" Gordon-Levitt was VERY good in The Lookout, the best Non-Elmore Leonard-Elmore Leonard movie this past year. It's terribly clear that the budget for this is not going for the cast. They might as well throw in Vernon Wells and/or Robert D'Zar.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:00:26 AM CST

    Good Lord . . .

    by nice marmot

    . . . I was enjoying learning each additonal bit of stupid casting for this train wreck, but I am just baffled by the Gordon-Levitt casting. WTF is he thinking??? I can see him playing Flint though, if I remember the action figure correctly. Speaking of Gordon-Levitt, when the hell is that Killshot adaptation coming out? From what I read about it, they got it all wrong, but I still want to see it.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:01:51 AM CST

    ArcadianDS

    by inwosuxred

    Virtually every long running comic book type property had some terrible runs. Spider-Man grew six arms and drove a spider-car. Nobody expected that to make it into the movie, but you can still respect the Spider-Man cannon by doing things like not treating Venom like a minor and unimportant character, or by not altering the death of Uncle Ben from one film to the next. The same can be said for G.I. Joe. You leave out the blatant shit, but you don't change core things that did work.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:08:02 AM CST

    THIS IS STARTING TO SOUND LIKE A...

    by burgertime

    G.I. Joke. Huh? Huh? C'mon, give it up.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:11:04 AM CST

    Aren't Wayans Bros Outlawed?

    by m_prevette

    Wasn't there some Presidential Directive that they were to be shot on sight? Damn where is Jack Bauer when ya need him?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:15:01 AM CST

    Jay Smack wins World Biggest Retard Prize

    by nomeking

    Murphy is not involved in GI JOE. It is a guy named Lorenzo who is fucking it up.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:22:25 AM CST

    WHY!!!!

    by kenjinattix

    Sienna Miller as Baroness? What? Adebesse from OZ as Heavy Duty not Destro....What? And now.....Marlon Waynes....REALLY...Marlyn F-ing Waynes???? Marilyn(AND OH I'M SPELLING HIS NAME DIFFERENT EVERYTIME ON PURPOSE) "White Chics" Wayans???? An auteur that brought us such hits as Mo' Money and Senseless and Little big man or some shite where he plays a baby sized MAN!!! AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE THIS MAN IS HEAD OF A TACTICAL UNIT???! He was only good in one movie and that was Requiem For A Dream where he had to take the leaps and bounds as an "ahem" actor to actually play....himself...on heroin. Wow...I know that its GI Joe...I know we shouldn't care...Hell they didn't give a crap about Transformers when they raped the hell out of everything I loved as a kid to have John Turturro where SECRET organization Section 7 underwear and gave Prime LIPS and have Jonathon Dumal actually say WICKED and mean it and turned Megatron into flying scrap metal...so WHY am I surprised that they don't give a crap here...hell has a director gone from..."FUN ACTION" Director to "OH GOD NO, NOT HIM" director faster than Stephen Sommers? Stuart Beattie...WHY? WHY did you write this...this is soooo beneath you....I don't know what Hollywood wants to do...Fuck me...I think I have some old comic books in my garage Hollywood if you've run out of things from my childhood to wipe your ass with...HEY lets cast Steve Zahn as Flint...I mean what the hell right? The "Just Jack" guy from Will and Grace as Lifeline...just...cause...MAN!!! I'm sorry...I'm going to quietly sob now.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:33:15 AM CST

    Y'know, I actually kind of dig this

    by freakemovie

    The randomness might turn into something inspired. And any news about Marlon Wayans that isn't accompanied by "teaming up with his brother Shawn Wayans again" is great, great news. Please no White Chicks 2!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:35:32 AM CST

    Lets Finish the Cast For Them

    by kenjinattix

    Lets Have Contest to see who could cast this movie worse than Sommers.
    I'll Start

    DUKE - Nick Nolte
    Flint - Patton Oswalt
    Cobra Commander - Jack Black
    Lady J - Rosie O'Donnell
    Snake Eyes - Ryan Seacrest
    RoadBlock - 50 Cent
    Shipwreck - Dad from Veronica Mars
    Destro - Tall Black Dude from Last Comic Standing
    Snake Eyes - Zach Efron
    Sgt Slaugter - Sgt Slaughter
    Zartan - Adam Brody

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:36:44 AM CST

    Ving Rhames as Roadblock plz!

    by bustahwolf

    Not that eh can possibly save this film, but making him spout a stupid rhyming one-liner every five minutes could be a nice distraction for any poor soul that accidently watches this.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:41:08 AM CST

    Oh, dear...

    by hueyfreeman

    I can't believe I'm going the path of playing the race card, but wasn't Ripcord a Caucasian? Don't get me wrong, I'm a black guy myself. But cast according to the correct color, for goodness sake! We've had a Kingpin and Trask who weren't white, an Invisible woman who wasn't white, among others. It's like getting an asian guy to play Martin Luther King and OH MY GOD, look how bigoted I'm sounding.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:43:22 AM CST

    I'll be very surprised if he's the first killed

    by pipple

  • Jan 07, 2008 10:46:00 AM CST

    Hmmm

    by moviemaniac-7

    Big GI Joe fan in the 80s as a kid, but I don't know if I should be too happy with everything that is happening here. I think they are casting too young, but I first want to read a script before judging, but I think this will be the lesser one compared to the animated movie from 1986

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:47:47 AM CST

    Uh, wasn't Ripcord a WHITE guy?

    by iamjack'suserid

    Ok, someone else already addressed that. Stupid casting decision. So lets vote for Karl Urban for Roadblock and we'll be even!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:50:35 AM CST

    Oh and good to see Transformers(INO) hate

    by iamjack'suserid

    I can't believe so many mindless morons fell for that crap! I hated that movie, and in my area, everyone couldn't believe why I hated it so much. Uh, its Michael FUCKING Bay!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:53:17 AM CST

    Lucas ain't got nuttin' on these guys

    by iamlegolas

    Speaking of raping childhoods... sheesh. Didn't we smart enough from Transformers? Hopefully Robotech pans out.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:55:22 AM CST

    Is the movie a comedy now?

    by abominable snowcone

    Because with Wayans in it, it's gonna be whether they want it or not. The more I think about it, the more silly it seems with GI Joe to have one "expert" for every possible area or nuance. It's dumb to have a designated halo jumper, who is deemed the "expert" to the exclusion of everyone else. Or a "heavy machine gunner" who is the expert of that weapon, even though everyone ought to be proficient at something so basic. Am I wrong?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:56:42 AM CST

    Why does anyone give a fuck about this?

    by lost jarv

    Did/ Do you really care that much? It's bound to be shit, but if can you explain why it's getting to you so badly? It pisses me off because we seem to be awash with dreadful, overfunded summer movies. I didn't understand why people were so upset over TF either till I read the script.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:00:04 AM CST

    http://tinyurl.com/2wdz4u

    by lardassesrevenge

    http://tinyurl.com/2wdz4u

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:04:05 AM CST

    Speaking of Marlon, why isn't hasnt he been in better things?

    by blindambition238

    I remember seeing Requiem for a Dream and being blown away by how the dumbass from a WB sitcom could be not only decent but excellent in a serious dramatic role. When I rewatch it I still wonder why he didn't bother taking on other types of roles rather than Scary Movie sequels and the other shit his brothers have been making. While this movie is going to be more Transformers than There Will Be Blood, itll still be interesting to see what he does.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:06:04 AM CST

    I hate Gordon-Leavitt

    by unlabled

    he looks retarded

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:06:40 AM CST

    because he isn't a very good actor

    by lost jarv

    Requiem was the exception not the rule

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:08:52 AM CST

    >>> Only COBRA can save us now <<<

    by jeditemple

    I'm going to find my nearest COBRA recruiter and sign up. If I can be on a mission that wipes out Marlon Wayans and the cast, I'm so there. HAIL COOOOOOBRRAAAAAAAAA!!!!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:13:01 AM CST

    Someone

    by series7

    involved with this movie saw Major Payne and called up the Wayans Manor and said send me a Wayns promptly! They replied, Which one? Producers response, the cheapest!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:17:52 AM CST

    Dept. of Homeland Security, do your research

    by shut the fuck up donny

    and you'll probably find that the funding for this film came directly from Al-Qaida. Who else would want to discredit a distinctly American Icon along with delivering a bomb at the same time!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:21:44 AM CST

    Sorry folks, I can't accept this movie without Shia LaBeouf.

    by epitone

    There's just no way Joe Gordon-Levitt can bring the same level of gravitas to a good "No no no no no NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!"

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:23:50 AM CST

    O boy Obnoxious comedy relief

    by rufferto

    Marlon Wayans. WOW. ...

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:26:38 AM CST

    This is getting sillier than TINO! Come on...

    by finky089

    Will Duke have flames on his outfit? Will Snake-Eyes has nipples? What next???

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:27:22 AM CST

    Still Doing My Part To Help Cast

    by kenjinattix

    Mike Myers as Dr. Evil as Golobulus

    Kris Kristoferson as Serpentor

    Dom Deluise as Deep Six

    Tom Sizemore as Gung Ho

    David Allan Greer as Stalker

    Ashton Kutcher as Falcon

    Breckin Meyer as Dusty

    Tom Green as Beach Head

    Masi Oka as Quick Kick

    Sandra Oh as Jinx(Alright lady its time for lights out!)

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:30:56 AM CST

    I'm just fascinated by this production.

    by kikuchiyoboy

    Friggen G.I. Joe... hee hee.


    What's going on with "Where The Wild Things Are"?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:32:50 AM CST

    I thought I couldn't care less about this movie...

    by rbatty024

    but it turns out I could care less. At least this is fair warning that the movie will suck and anyone who drops hard earned cash on it have no one but themselves to blame.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:32:53 AM CST

    Something I learned playing "The Movies" game...

    by zerocorpse

    On "The Movies" for Windows, I learned that a studio can be pretty profitable if they just crank out a bunch of shitty, poorly-written, underproduced movies. It's the Uwe Boll effect.
    GI Joe isn't meant to be "good"-- It's meant to stir fanboy nostalgia, thus getting butts in seats, thus making a profit and possibly tying in with the toys making a comeback.
    It's a money-grab, not an artistic project.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:34:02 AM CST

    Mr. Saxon

    by finky089

    Hahahahahahaha Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us, too.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:36:10 AM CST

    ZeroCorpse, how is Marlon Wayans appealing to fans?

    by finky089

    I had a lot of fun with my GI Joes when I was a kid and watching the cartoon after school. But somehow, I don't really care too much about this movie being made.

    ?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:36:24 AM CST

    THIS MOVIE IS A STILLBORN JOKE

    by uss cygnus

    This is beyond embarrassing. How will they even film this?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:37:03 AM CST

    Ladykillers was terrible, and Marlon didn't help

    by grammaton cleric binks

    I didn't even finish the movie. I just kept waiting for it to get funny, and it didn't. Although I must actually give kudos to Wayans for one of the funnier moment. They're in the diner discussing their plans and he goes off on J.K. Simmons' character repeatedly how he brought his beotch to their meeting.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:38:08 AM CST

    Marlon was awesome in Requiem

    by ganymede3010

    His problem hasn't been acting, its' the been the roles he's chosen. Most directors type casted him as a baffon. Once he a chance at a real role, he knocked it out of the park. Never doubt the Wayans.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:38:26 AM CST

    Continued....

    by finky089

    For some reason, the second half of my post got deleted. So... That said, how is any of the casting that has been done for this film so far appealing to nostalgic "fanboys"? Most of it has been more concerning that what we originally heard on Bayformers (the abominable designs aside).

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:39:09 AM CST

    I hear...

    by kenjinattix

    If you watch this movie you'll get AIDs...true story...Medical Proof you ask? Oh...lets just say a little thing called...Dailies.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:43:46 AM CST

    the two things this turd is missing

    by palewook

    Uwe Boll directing.

    amanda peet in a supporting role.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:54:42 AM CST

    Being on the set felt like being at a cosplay convention

    by orionsangels

  • Jan 07, 2008 11:56:55 AM CST

    marlon is the black one

    by ironic_name

  • Jan 07, 2008 12:24:40 PM CST

    So long as the Refrigerator has a football on a stick

    by the winged doucheman

    I'm in. There must be a role for the Hulkster here somewhere too.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 12:31:33 PM CST

    Its a shame that Charles Nelson Reilly passed away

    by darth busey

    He would have been great in this as Cobra Commander.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 12:33:45 PM CST

    Does the story involve all 8 original G.I.Joes?

    by diagnostic

    Please keep lame Joes like Alpine and Sgnt. Slaughter our of the movie.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 12:51:44 PM CST

    Casting

    by xprufrock

    Can't be any more effed up casting than that new Dungeon Seige movie starring the Transporter, Hellboy, Shaggy, the Terminator, Henry Hill and...well, Burt Reynolds.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 12:58:31 PM CST

    Diagnostic

    by abominable snowcone

    The eight originals...you mean, Swan, Snow, Rembrandt, Fox, Ajax, Vermin, Cochise and Cowboy?
    Oh wait.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 12:59:23 PM CST

    damn,damn,damn!!!

    by stalkeye

    This is gonna suck balls! i suppose casting Wayans is for comedic purposes right? why not aleast recast him as Alpine and pair him up with bazooka for comedy relief? Not looking forward to this shit.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:03:19 PM CST

    oh, man.

    by dollar bird

    They had better get some great character actors for COBRA, or this movie—ah, who am I kidding? This movie is already dead. I agree with the post above, how come Adabisi is not playing Destro? Also, on a slightly related note, do you think Serpentor only had one testicle, considering he was cloned from the "greatest military minds in history" and didn't they use Hitler (who, as the song says, "only had one ball".)

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:05:32 PM CST

    Lame Joes

    by abominable snowcone

    Alpine is another example of a "lame joe" where they look cool, and the concept is sort of cool, until you realize "hey, why does this guy have to be the only mountain-climbing expert? No one else can do it?" You'd think the Joes would do more cross-training so they don't have to go get the "hostile environment guy" every time they trudge into a swamp, or Barbeque or Charbroil every time they come up against something that, you know, is HOT or ON FIRE or something. Or call a guy named Dusty if they need to visit a desert. Because, you know, he's DUSTY. Like SAND, get it? He KNOWS about that.
    I guess it makes too much sense to give Joes the training they need to, you know, be good at ALL kinds of shit. "What are you doing with that HANG-GLIDER, Scarlett? You know that hang-gliders are CROSSWIND's area of expertise!!"I should just shut up, because it's all silly to begin with.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:05:41 PM CST

    Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-Roc's Street

    by flying spaghetti monster

    The funny thing is its a real title...written by Marlon Wayans

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:08:46 PM CST

    Stalkeye

    by abominable snowcone

    Wayans can't be the BAZOOKA guy if he's RIPCORD. Because BAZOOKA is the BAZOOKA guy. I think he had green fatigue pants and a red football jersey or something, and probably some hilarious backstory where as a baby he slepped with a LAWZ rocket and grew so attached to it that it is now like an extension of his OWN BODY. Point is, in GI Joe, you can only be good at ONE thing. So no one other than the bazooka guy may fire a bazooka. And if they do, it's got to be with much less proficiency, so there's no chance of one-upping the expert of said skill.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:10:37 PM CST

    I meant 'slept'

    by abominable snowcone

    Slepped...ugh. Must be the drugs. YO JOE!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:12:33 PM CST

    aw heeeeeel naw!

    by rickey henderson

    seriously, who amongst you still has hope for this movie?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:15:06 PM CST

    They should send the Joes on a mission

    by abominable snowcone

    where they blow up third world nations under the pretense that the dictators pose a global threat, but really we just want cheap oil. And in the process of protecting humanity, they blow up every major landmark and historical artifact all over the world. "Team America World Police" was great for that. Protect my freedom! Defend the USA! Blow up that nameless desert I couldn't find a map inside of thirty seconds!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:17:43 PM CST

    Snowcone

    by zyuray2

    Following suit, Ripcord will be the only one who can parachute. So when the plane blows up, everyone will fall to their death except for Ripcord, because he is the parachute guy.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:19:08 PM CST

    Rickey Henderson

    by abominable snowcone

    Not me! Yo JOE!! Maybe comedy is the route to take with this. I can see Stormshadow somersaulting over a rail to confront Snake Eyes for their "big showdown." Storm Shadow pulls out a nunchaku with one hand and twirls it menacingly. In the other hand, he draws his katana and spins it like a propeller. Then Snake Eyes just pulls out a pistol and shoots him dead. And then maybe he runs off to the edge of the forest and drops trou, because he has to take a dump, and we see he's wearing ordinary trailer park tighty whities...and he can't find any TP, so he wipes with his gloved hand.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:19:16 PM CST

    hilter, only had 1 ball! goebbels, had 2 but they were small

    by ironic_name

  • Jan 07, 2008 1:22:59 PM CST

    Weak

    by picardsucks

    Too bad this could be so fucking cool if they made it into an over the top badass patriotic film with a top cast instead of direct to video mtv hip hoppy poo. Can't we get Keenan Ivory as our Wayans instead???

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:24:19 PM CST

    And Shipwreck would have to carry...

    by abominable snowcone

    ...and anchor with him everywhere he goes, because he's like, Shipwreck--the boat guy. Likewise, Barbeque would be required to run into battle pushing along a backyard patio grill in front up him, and he has to wave a spatula around in his hand for no reason. Or at least carry a hibachi on his shoulder. Because he's the HOT FIRE guy. And he could wear an apron, or a bandolier with a couple squirt guns in it, and varieties of travel size tobasco sauce bottles like a row of shells.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:25:43 PM CST

    And THIS WOULD BE THE PERFECT BAY MOVIE

    by picardsucks

    Bay should direct this he's made for it!!!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:29:42 PM CST

    Zyuray

    by abominable snowcone

    Ezzactly! The only other plausible way to do it would be to have RipCord demonstrate to the Joes how to utilize their chutes, one-by-one, in painstaking detail. Because he's the expert of that. Meanwhile, we can see out the window at the flames flickering on the engines... Heavy Duty and Rock 'n Roll can use their .50 cals to shoot the fires on the engines, because that's like, their thing, and Snake Eyes can hurl throwing stars into the fire, because like, what else would he do? He's not an expert of FIRE.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:32:18 PM CST

    This will be shit

    by pdennett316

    Also

    Just seeing if this works.

    Why can't they make it easier to paragraph?

    Shit! I just turned paragraph into a verb.

    I hate me!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:33:17 PM CST

    Watching Transformers

    by bloo

    when the camera swoops up on the Aircraft carrier I was like "man, this guy would be great for a GI Joe movie" I think Bay is taiolered for GI Joe with his love of all things American military.I'm a conservetive and _I_ get sick of his military handjobsthis movie is lsowly dissovling in front of us, I'm thinking we are approaching Eragon levels of suckiness here

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:33:47 PM CST

    just digitally resurrect Raul Julia and we're set

    by spandau belly

    to make a worthy followup to the Street Fighter movie!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:42:03 PM CST

    Gordon-Levitt is wrong for this film

    by zooch

    He's a good actor but won't he look a little scrawny standing next to Mr. Eko and Darth Maul? I could maybe see Marlon Wayans as long he's NOT the playing the funny black guy which he probably will be.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:46:39 PM CST

    Star Trek casting all over again...

    by cruel_kingdom

    Thank you, Hollywood, for systematically destroying every property I ever gave a shit about as a child.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:51:04 PM CST

    ruven76

    by abominable snowcone

    You know I'm joking around with all that "expert" stuff, right? Another example, if the Joes need to cross a bridge, who do they call? Say it with me. TOLLBOOTH. Because he's the bridge-crosser-expert guy. Maybe maybe MAYBE someone else in the real world could accomplish this task, but on GI Joe, it's his bag, so he'll be in charge of the doing-whatever-needs-to be done to traverse this gorge stuff. Of COURSE it's a gross exaggeration of the specialized skills thing. So I may be "retarded," but it's not for that reason. All my little jokes are merely suggestions that, with the way it's going, maybe why not have it be a comedy and really go all out with the Joes-as-Experts thing, to the point where at eight or nine times throughout the movie, a group of Joes will be trapped and facing certain doom, all because THE ONE GUY who's singular skill would save them isn't there.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 1:56:46 PM CST

    Bollocks to this

    by sebastianhaff

    What the fuck is with all the pretty boys? It's GI-JOE, get some Rambo looking motherfuckers and blow shit up right!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 2:05:35 PM CST

    wow

    by spacekicker2001

    this movie is going to blow.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 2:09:33 PM CST

    Snooze

    by faust_8

    Zzzzzzz.....

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  • Jan 07, 2008 2:11:58 PM CST

    Mo' Yo! Mo' Yo! Mo' Yo!

    by grandmufftarkin

    Somewhere in Los Angeles, Damon is sitting on his couch waiting for the phone to ring.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 2:12:14 PM CST

    Um, what??

    by bizarrojerry

    I mean... what?? First, why Marlon Wayans? Does this mean, comic relief or something? Secondly, why Ripcord? In the grand scheme of things, he's a little known character. And he's in command? That doesn't even make any sense. Are we sure this isn't some news outlet posting some story too quick to confirm its true? I just don't get it...

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  • Jan 07, 2008 2:19:27 PM CST

    btw why is this news?

    by pipple

    I could understand Daymon being worth a headline, but Marlon? bad form...

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  • Jan 07, 2008 2:30:33 PM CST

    My favorite

    by xprufrock

    Who are they gonna get to play the guy who lugged around the great big green periscope... I think his name was... Periscope... He sure came in handy when the Joes had to look over some sort of vision-blocking object. And why did they only have ONE guy who knew how to drive the bridgelayer? If I were Cobra, I'd just have Stormshadow steal the schematics for the bridgelayer, and then build a moat around my base a foot wider then the bridgelayer's maximum bridge size...

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  • Jan 07, 2008 2:35:24 PM CST

    BLANKET-ANT : Elite picnic planning Joe!

    by iamjack'suserid

  • Jan 07, 2008 2:36:12 PM CST

    SUDS : Expert at washing other JOE's cars!

    by iamjack'suserid

  • Jan 07, 2008 2:43:14 PM CST

    I don't give a fuck about G.I. JOE

    by gilkuliehe

    Just wanted to say that corner animation rocks.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 2:51:07 PM CST

    LINT-VIPER : COBRA clothes washing trooper!

    by iamjack'suserid

  • Jan 07, 2008 2:57:32 PM CST

    CLEANSWEEP: Junkyard and Mutt's

    by grammaton cleric binks

    pooper scooper operator and canine bowel movement eradicator.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:01:40 PM CST

    What the fuck??

    by mezzanine

    Wayans?!?! Not that I had any hopes for this movie at all, but on an intellectual level, hearing this just killed the movie. I'll still probably see it though. As long as some of the Cobra dudes are totally fucking badass.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:04:47 PM CST

    I smell something...........

    by riddleman1674

    Can't quite put my finger on it, but kinda like Cobra Commander just took a big steaming turd and whiped it all over the GI Joe cast list. I mean you just don't get any bigger than Ray Park, Sienna Miller, & Marlon Wayans. Fuck while they're on a role here, I vote for Vern Troyer to play Mini-Destro! We're equal opportunity employers here people! Way to go, studio fuckheads! This is gearing up to be another Razzie Awards contender and they haven't even started shooting! Keep up the good work raping the moviegoer experience with your million dollar film schlock! WooHoo!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:14:14 PM CST

    no subject

    by mezzanine

    "They see GI Joe as some sort of mini army, with privates and cannon fodder. When in reality its a special ops group made up of selected members from all ranks of the armed forces as well as former special ops team members.
    They are the elite of the elites."

    Actually dude, they're fucking cartoons. But whatever, that's cool.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:19:33 PM CST

    WHAT. THE. HELL?????

    by theghostwholurks

    Dungeons and Dragons was THE #1 WORST film I've ever SEEN! WORST than Batman & Robin, by far!!! And when Marlon Wayan's character died, by falling off a castle parapet, the entire audience actually CHEERED, because his Steppin Fetchit character, "Snails," was so hated, even though he was one of the good guys!Between this casting and the travasty of abandoning the United States G.I. Joes in favor of an "international, politically-correct" group of pansies, this film isn't even worth complaining about anymore, much less watching.What an insult to the soldiers that originally inspired this franchise half a century ago! >:(

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:20:48 PM CST

    Mark walberg as Duke

    by buck.starblaster

    mark walberg would be perfect as duke.now you know and knowing is half the battle.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:29:48 PM CST

    Uh, hello? White Chicks!

    by shitstorm23

    Sheesh, everyone forgets the hits. This is a weird grouping. I'm wondering if Cobra Commander will be masked the whole time or if they'll try to do some weird CGI snake-face-thing.

    And while I don't give a shit about this movie, it's kind of fun thinking about it put together. I just can't see how this movie will go or what the hell it will be about. Terrorism angle? Beginnings of GI Joe? It just all sounds absurd. I can't wait!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:49:22 PM CST

    MandalorianSage

    by fievel

    Actually, Ted from QE4TSG would make an excellent Destro so your suggestion has some merit.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:53:09 PM CST

    Kenneth Johnson as Duke

    by stalkeye

    He used to star in the Shield as Curtis "Lemonhead" Lemensky and the guy looks like Duke and even sports damn crew cut. Yeah he should be considered for the part especially since he's back to waiting on tables after having his character killed off. (Season 5 of the Shield) back to wayans, I thought his performance in Don't be a menance while drinking your juice in the hood was legendary, but to play a more serious role as Rip cord, has left me with plenty of skepticism, then again Keaton got the part as Batman...

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  • Jan 07, 2008 3:59:42 PM CST

    as long as they don't fuck up Billy

    by sith_rising

    I could give a shit. This movie doesn't sound like it could get worse, but they could always cast Justin Long as Cobra Commander's son-turned-badass, Billy.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:02:14 PM CST

    I'm sorry but, I will ONLY eat Gumbo made by Roadblock

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 4:03:15 PM CST

    At some point will Roadblock say:

    by finky089

    Who wants a body massage? ...if Roadblock was goign to be in the movie, that is.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:04:03 PM CST

    Which Joe will say "Porkchop Sandwiches!"

    by finky089

    God, I hope one of them does. I would go see it just for that. And Justin Long as Billy. Ha ha ha

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:04:47 PM CST

    Rick Moranis could be Destro ala "Dark Helmet"

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 4:05:58 PM CST

    Would sooner pay to see Cobra Commander's Day off

    by finky089

    in theaters before this movie. CoBRA!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:06:18 PM CST

    CoBRA!!

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 4:15:59 PM CST

    Okay, Wayans is BAD news...

    by mosquito march

    ...but, the rest of the casting is fine, some of it even great. The key to a good GI JOE movie is a good Snake Eyes, and they couldn't have picked a better guy to play that part. As far as Sommers goes - like someone else said, he's a weak-to-bad writer, but he's a good shooter and good director of action. And, whether you like it or not, he's got a recognizable visual style, and leans more toward '80s-style adventure movie action, instead of just rehashing THE MATRIX like everyone else has for the last 10 decade. I think a he's a far better choice than a hack like Len Wiseman, who has no visual style at all and yet ends up holding the reins to DIE HARD after two shitty MATRIX-wannabe werewolf/vampire movies. Seriously, there are far worse directors who could have taken on GI JOE and you all know it.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:21:48 PM CST

    d00d

    by zozma

    aussie convicts have already seen cloverfield and you sluts havent posted a spoiler laden review? CMON! oh, and G.I. joe, i would not expect shit from. Its fucking g.i. joe, really.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:25:43 PM CST

    HOW MANY G.I.JOE`s do exist?

    by travis-dane

    Is this some action figure/comic thing?Like Transformers?I am afraid!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:27:01 PM CST

    Kenny Johnson is too stoner-ish for Duke

    by grandmufftarkin

    Bruce Willis would be better, but he's abit long in the tooth for it.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:28:02 PM CST

    This just in: William "The Refrigerator" Perry is in!

    by mr. sardonic

    He will be working at the craft services table.

    I hear he will do "The Superbowl Shuffle" for a dollar.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:31:38 PM CST

    PORKCHOP SANDWITCHES!

    by frankenfickle

    ...help computer!....

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  • Jan 07, 2008 4:43:59 PM CST

    You know who would make a good Serpentor?

    by tacoshack27

    Clive Owen.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 5:10:47 PM CST

    Will Zartan be in the film???

    by timmy grrr

    He sure as Hell isn't in this one:

    http://tinyurl.com/27hy62

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  • Jan 07, 2008 5:26:59 PM CST

    who cares?

    by virtual_ninja

    everyone knows this movie is going to turn out to be a 1hr 30min shitfest.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 5:37:19 PM CST

    bigger shitfest than TINO, that's for sure

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:37:43 PM CST

    GI JOE; THE MOVIE questions to ponder...

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:38:04 PM CST

    Will Blowtorch yell "PORK CHOP SANDIWCHES"?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:38:22 PM CST

    CAN FINKY TYPE CORRECTLY?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:38:47 PM CST

    WILL CUTTER HAVE A BURPING CONTEST w/ KIDS?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:39:11 PM CST

    WILL DEEPSIX BE MISTAKEN FOR BUZZ LIGHTYEAR

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:39:38 PM CST

    WILL DOC SING SOME SICK REGGAE TO KIDS?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:40:21 PM CST

    WILL GUNG HO LIKE SKATEBOARDING BOYS?

    by finky089

    what cute little hats!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 5:40:46 PM CST

    WILL RECONDO TRAP A KID INSIDE A FRIDGE?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:41:24 PM CST

    WILL LADY J LOSE HER PINK VINYL PURSE?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:41:53 PM CST

    WILL BARBECUE VAPORIZE A COUPLE OF KIDS?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:43:51 PM CST

    WILL QUICK KICK SAVE KIDS IN A TREEHOUSE?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:44:57 PM CST

    WILL ROADBLOCK ASK Who wants a body massage?

    by finky089

  • Jan 07, 2008 5:45:51 PM CST

    I have lost much interest in this movie

    by finky089

    Perhaps Bay would have been better suited for GI Joe and left TINO untainted.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 5:47:12 PM CST

    WILL SNOWJOB GIVE THAT KID THE STICK?

    by finky089

    forgot that one.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 5:52:36 PM CST

    hey Yack

    by finky089

    Whazzup? Yeah, I loved them Fenslerfilms.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 5:53:15 PM CST

    I read about things like this...

    by otm shank

    and then I think about how very wrong things could go on Robotech and I get nauseous.....I really do.

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  • Murphy is ONE of the producers on this film, DiBonaventura is another and neither one of them is worth a shit--kind of like you. Murphy was doing pre-production on G.I.Joe for the last few years, he produced the Skip Woods script that the Stuart Beattie one hasn't strayed too far from. Have you read it BTW? Can you read? Get a clue before you go getting an attitude, fuckwad. Now pull your head out of your ass, that will make it easier for you to suck Michael Bay's dick.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 6:41:13 PM CST

    YOU PUKES BETTER BRING SGT. SLAUGHTER

    by guy who got a headache and accidentally

    DISMISSED!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 6:45:26 PM CST

    W.T.F

    by sonnyfern

    This IS a crazy project. I can't wait to see some pics, are they going to keep the same costumes, make it funny? Dark? Are they keeping Cobra Commanders voice? Is it going to place in kind of a semi-real world with real weapons? I mean really...what the hell?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 7:04:17 PM CST

    I love J G-L.

    by king_knut

    Seriously, if I was a girl, I'd have a wide-on for him. There might be better actors (although not many), but you cannot fault his choices of project. If he's signing up for this, there's bound to be soemthing interesting going on. Next thing you know, we'll have Crispin Glover climbing on board too, and then we'll party.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 7:06:09 PM CST

    Hey McFLY,still humming baby?

    by travis-dane

  • Jan 07, 2008 7:10:05 PM CST

    CLAY AIKEN TO PLAY SNOW JOB

    by la_sith

  • Jan 07, 2008 7:14:30 PM CST

    Cobra will be played by a slumming character actor

    by the winged doucheman

    Either Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Alan Arkin or Ben Kingsley (they are interchangable), Jon Voight, Ed Harris, or Dustin Diamond (actually that would be awesome).

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  • Jan 07, 2008 7:19:17 PM CST

    Carrot Top as Serpentor

    by the winged doucheman

    Brett Ratner as Blow Job.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 7:34:15 PM CST

    finky089, while Roadblock was a good chef

    by grammaton cleric binks

    but Gung Ho, the cajun was the gumbo cook.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 7:36:26 PM CST

    Won't be REQUIEM caliber, given his track record

    by immortal_fish

    Not that it's his fault, given the way this abortion of a film is shaping up.What pisses me off the most about Marlon Wayans is that there is a damn fine actor in there somewhere, as evinced by Requiem for a Dream. He could achieve greatness, but he instead pisses his talent away on awful 'comedy'.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 7:39:13 PM CST

    Winged Doucheman, re: "slumming character actor"

    by immortal_fish

    All those actors, excluding the last, are fantastic actors. But after reading your last suggestion... yes... YES!! That would be a damn awesome match. Again, given how this abortion of a film is shaping up.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 7:46:38 PM CST

    "Fail Mobra!!"

    by buffywrestling

    Excellent Robot Chicken bit.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 7:49:30 PM CST

    WILLEM DAOE AS COBRA COMMANDER!!!

    by shermdawg

  • Jan 07, 2008 7:49:50 PM CST

    *DAFOE

    by shermdawg

  • Jan 07, 2008 7:58:02 PM CST

    PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!

    by violator90

    THIS IS GOING TO SUCK! Plain and simple. This is nothing more than a mixture of different shit, blended to a smoothy of cream crappiness. Damn, I hate Hollywood!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 8:11:25 PM CST

    BRUCE CAMPBELL AS SHIPWRECK!!!!

    by wackybantha

    Hell, why not?? Looks like it's gonna be a yuk-fest anyhow.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 8:11:41 PM CST

    i thought transformers...

    by burgerking

    would be impossible to market seriously or realistic, but fuck, this is going to need Gods fucking blessing to be serious, I guess if they did it with Tformers they can do it with anything. But the fucking name is so ridiculous that I don't know how it could do well. I'm going to assume it's a kids movie from here on out, just to keep my mind sane.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 8:14:47 PM CST

    Bruce Campbell as shipwreck?

    by cruel_kingdom

    Shipwreck's gonna be fat now?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 8:29:51 PM CST

    this sounds like a suckfest that can only star: Ted McGinley

    by palewook

  • Jan 07, 2008 9:00:29 PM CST

    Mr. Saxon

    by terrymalloy

    I believe McFly has been silenced. For now. I will relish these moments of peace.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:01:14 PM CST

    I stand corrected

    by terrymalloy

  • Jan 07, 2008 9:05:44 PM CST

    McFly

    by terrymalloy

    How old are you? 13? I'm not judging you, I'm just curious.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:06:22 PM CST

    And I can handle the truth

    by terrymalloy

    that Harry liked Superman Returns. It's really not that hard to fathom.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:09:29 PM CST

    That's defamation right there

    by terrymalloy

    I'll see you in court.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:15:32 PM CST

    Your paranoia brightens my day

    by terrymalloy

    Big Oil runs this site McFly! So do those Lefty Communist Treehuggers in Hollywood! Harry is an alien! I hope everyone reads his SR review and knows the truth!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:16:22 PM CST

    Apology accepted

    by terrymalloy

    Except I got it after my post. So I'm pretty sure you'll take it back. Lol.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:20:24 PM CST

    I do what I can McFly

    by terrymalloy

    One day at a time.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:22:05 PM CST

    How the hell is the director of Van Helsing still getting work?

    by gravyakira

    G.I. Joe The Movie could have the potential of greatness, and you gotta put it in the hands of a hack. Now ill have to watch a PG-13 watered down mess. Thanks Hollywood. Thanks a lot. Marlon should be fine though.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:22:29 PM CST

    I think Harry just really likes movies

    by terrymalloy

    and he always go to those kick-ass premieres with a crowd that is really excited to see the movie. Those two factors explain the large number of positive reviews.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:26:02 PM CST

    I missed One Day At A Time

    by terrymalloy

    It was before my time. But it looks amazing.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:27:28 PM CST

    You're welcome

    by terrymalloy

    And aren't everyone's reviews biased?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:28:55 PM CST

    Master P as Roadblock

    by the winged doucheman

    Andre Agassi as Dr. Mindbender.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:35:31 PM CST

    Jesse "The Body" Ventura as Dr. Mindbender!

    by rei-ginsei

    Get the man a monocle and he's all set!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:35:45 PM CST

    Please get Robin Williams to play Destro.

    by yoda's ball sack

    This movie needs a funny tin man.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:35:45 PM CST

    Please get Robin Williams to play Destro.

    by yoda's ball sack

    This movie needs a funny tin man.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:40:37 PM CST

    But if Harry was a studio lacky

    by terrymalloy

    he wouldn't post negative reviews of these same films by other contributors. For example, he posted Vern's scathing review for Transformers. I'll grant you his reviews are overwhelmingly positive, but so what? It's a major stretch to call him a studio lacky. If you even mean that seriously. As far as what the site used to be like, I don't know. I started reading it like four years ago. How was it different besides the "old news" complaint?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:40:51 PM CST

    i'll bet anyone here $100,000 to your $100 that...

    by bmacsmith

    Harry will love Hellboy 2. Same for Ironman, Batman 2, and about 95% of the other movies he reviews. and probably invent a new gross catchphrase in the review. The checks are already cleared.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:45:28 PM CST

    I'll take that bet

    by terrymalloy

    But if he doesn't invent a new gross catchphrase, I win.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:45:41 PM CST

    Is anyone else REALLY bothered......

    by byobkenobi

    .....that Marlon Wayans is a black guy playing a white action figure from my youth? This shit ain't White Chicks, and the source material shouldn't be open to that much artistic license as to change a character's race. I didn't like it in Daredevil and I sure as fuck don't like it when you mess with my G.I. Joe. Please remove the brother and have him play a character of his own color of he MUST be in the film. Shit, have him play the generic G.I. Joe in training from the original animated feature, ya know, when Tunnel Rat and him had to get to the finish line while the black guy did a hook shot with a grenade?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:48:02 PM CST

    Ummmmm.............

    by spyhunter89

    I'm still waiting to see who's going to be cast as Duke, Cobra Commander, and Gung Ho. That should be interesting.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:51:57 PM CST

    No one else is bothered

    by terrymalloy

    by the fact that he is black. Besides Silverfinger. And you. It's color blind casting.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:52:49 PM CST

    BYOBkenobi, Since they are casting outside of race

    by the winged doucheman

    Will Smith will be cast as Duke. Ben Affleck as Refrigerator Perry. Tyler Perry as Sgt Slaughter. Box Office guaranteed.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:55:20 PM CST

    Jennifer Love Hewitt as Nemesis Enforcer

    by the winged doucheman

    Busta Rhymes as Leatherneck

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  • Jan 07, 2008 9:55:26 PM CST

    Some people are bothered

    by terrymalloy

    by the fact that he is Marlon Wayans. Which is understandable.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:03:00 PM CST

    Mr. Saxon

    by terrymalloy

    Now I'm all hot and bothered.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 10:47:03 PM CST

    Harry, no Rambo news?

    by cyclo

    Who cares about a politically correct "GI Joe" movie, when the politically incorrect RAMBO is going to be released in 2 weeks.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:22:27 PM CST

    I still want Ving Rhames as Roadblock

    by br1947

    Fuck, while we're tossing out crazy shit, get Depp as Shipwreck. Tell him it's Pirates 4 and get him a parrot.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:24:48 PM CST

    And Michael Jackson as Cobra Commander

    by br1947

    just because it'd make me laugh.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:27:47 PM CST

    I FEEL SICK...

    by bigblackdude

    Geez, if your gonna throw in a token black guy at least get somebody with talent. It's like they just snatched up the cheapest black hack they could find. Hey while you're at it how 'bout J.J. from "Goodtimes" as Roadblock. He could totally nail the rhyming thing!

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:34:42 PM CST

    Bruce Campbell as Shipwreck...

    by bootskin

    C'mon, you know it'd be awesome.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:36:31 PM CST

    Well, if this follows the Transformers route...

    by br1947

    The movie will end with Ripcord dead in Duke's arms, about a 1/2 second of half-assed sadness, then they'll all go get pizza.Damn, I'm still pissed about that movie!They fucked up Dukes of Hazzard, destroyed Transformers, and G.I.Joe is a trainwreck. Hell, make a live action Smurfs and Thundercats movie and complete the destruction of anyone with a 70-80s childhood.

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:38:02 PM CST

    I'd much rather see Bruce Campbell

    by br1947

    as Sgt Slaughter w/ CGI muscles. It'd be funny as hell! At least I'd get a few good laughs out of this

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:41:37 PM CST

    Speaking of Bruce...

    by br1947

    anyone know when/if Burn Notice is coming back on? I know the strike pretty much screws everything up, but did they get any more eps made?

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  • Jan 07, 2008 11:45:35 PM CST

    They haven't filmed anything yet

    by terrymalloy

    on Burn Notice, that is.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 12:27:04 AM CST

    forget GI JOE, where the hell is RAMBO?

    by cloudrider`

    where's the stallone rounds is what i want to know. the movie is almost upon us. i dont even particularly care whether the movie will be good or bad, i just want the Q&A. the last time was a million times more entertaining than the combined power of last year's entire movies. heck, i wish stallone will keep making movies forever just so we could have the Q&A in here. HARRY, MAKE IT HAPPEN AGAIN! please.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 12:27:30 AM CST

    Russell Crowe for ZARTAN!!!

    by wackybantha

    His dreadnoks can be 3 Aussie no-names. BTW< what is up with Zartan? Why so weird looking? Is he an alien or something? I mean WTF?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 12:28:16 AM CST

    Ray Park for Snake Eyes!!!

    by wackybantha

    Oh, wait! Nevermind!

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  • Jan 08, 2008 12:29:50 AM CST

    What else does Hasbro have from the 1980's?

    by wackybantha

    After G.I. Joe, is that it? What the hell did they make back then?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 12:30:31 AM CST

    I will not rest until....

    by wackybantha

    .....a live action Rainbow Brite movie is made!!!

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  • Jan 08, 2008 12:31:06 AM CST

    I will not rest until....

    by wackybantha

    .....a live action Gem & the Holograms movie is made!!!

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  • Jan 08, 2008 12:31:50 AM CST

    I will not rest until....

    by wackybantha

    .....a live action My Little Pony movie is made!!!

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  • Jan 08, 2008 1:30:34 AM CST

    Joseph Gordon Levitt is the man

    by spyhunter89

    He better play tunnel rat or flint.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 2:04:31 AM CST

    WOW!

    by mister shaw

    Some of you people coplain just a tad too much, It's a movie, and no matter how much you bitch and moan , It's a movie that atleast 95%, of you (us) are still going to go see regardless of the damn casting

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  • Jan 08, 2008 2:09:36 AM CST

    Yo Crap!

    by skywalkerfamily

  • Jan 08, 2008 2:10:14 AM CST

    Ewan McGregor for Major Bludd

    by skywalkerfamily

    That dude rocks.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 4:20:12 AM CST

    It seems...

    by ghostball

    ...that this is gonna be a DTV babby. Not one name in the cast. Isn't Schwarzenneger's term just about over? Cuz as Cobra Commander, he could really get on Destro's nerves: 'Camaahn! Duhw iit!! Duhw iit!!'

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  • Jan 08, 2008 5:07:40 AM CST

    not to mimic Mr. Saxon's post above but

    by lost jarv

    Good fims Sienna Miller has been in? erm, Layer Cake and she wasn't even good in it. That is all you need to know as to why this will be shit- the woman couldn't pick a good movie if her life depended on it. She shoud just go back to taking her clothes off in FHM.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 5:11:03 AM CST

    Daniel Day lewis as Dr. Mindbender

    by stalkeye

    There will be Venom!

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  • Jan 08, 2008 5:59:43 AM CST

    stalkeye speaks truth! ddl as dr.mb!

    by ironic_name

  • Jan 08, 2008 6:59:36 AM CST

    If they go for too much comedy...

    by bizarrojerry

    I fear we've just got another group of producers / directors / writers who have decided "We don't need to take this so seriously. This isn't Shakespeare." It's always a bad sign when someone takes over writing something and belittles it and doesn't see any greater potential in it. Hacky, shit writing at its worst. "Oh, c'mon, it's only Transformers! They're giant robots that turn into cars. It's not Shakespeare."As an aside, everything Shakespeare wrote was not great. He has many little-known unpopular plays, too.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 7:19:44 AM CST

    Did they BAN my humming buddy McFly?

    by travis-dane

    Can anybody confirm?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 7:44:32 AM CST

    Wait... more info

    by bizarrojerry

    An interview with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, here: http://tinyurl.com/368fbo
    Not to worry. Wayans isn't playing the leader. He's playing the leader's funny, wise-cracking best friend who gets him into trouble. Maybe this movie will have the same racist characters that Transformers had! Ya know, like Bernie Mac and his mother "Mammy", or maybe the hispanic guy who annoys people by speaking Spanish too much? Apparently, a movie with a sense of humor means a movie with a wacky sidekick. God, make it stop. It's starting to hurt. Too bad everyone went to see Transformers. It only encouraged them.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:05:35 AM CST

    JJ from GoodTimes

    by lecter1914

    Already did the rhyming thing...didnt you see The Guyver?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:13:43 AM CST

    They couldn't have him play Alpine, really?

    by sid 8.0

    So many before me have said the same thing. This is going to SUCK! No hope for this one. It's already too international with the casting of an All American Hero. Hey I have an idea. Why don't we make a movie about an international counter terrorism team. We could call it "Rainbow Six." I know, I know it's crazy but it just might work. Seriously I can't see Marlon Wayans as any of the Joes.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:25:49 AM CST

    LMMFAOOOOOOOO Bizarro Jerry

    by stalkeye

    Thanks for pointing that shit, good observation. I knew the minute I heard of Wayans' casting, that he would be used as teh stereotyping wisecraker and that's not a good sign. but hell, to even the playing field they can always cast Adam Sandler as the dim witted Bazooka, for extra comedic relief.
    Now some of you are overeacting about Ripcord being black as he was always a mediocre character regardless of his silly storyline in the comic with "Bongo the bear" (Candy)BYOBkenobi, I would find it more offensive if Wayans was cast as Big Lob (the basketball joe from the 1987 animated movie.)if not ripcord.At least he may be able to put some dignity to said charcater's portrayal.As for the furor of Kingpin being Black, well MCD (Micheal Clarke Duncan) manage to pull it off especially before taking on DD he says to wesley: "I was raised in the Bronx,This is something YOU wouldn't understand.." The movie tanked anyway, due to no fault of MCD's casting whatsoever. My friend also suggested Ving Raines as Roadblock, but Duncan looks more able to easily handle a 50 cal Browning than Ving.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:31:20 AM CST

    Re: Guyver

    by stalkeye

    If not for Jimmie Walker's stupid dialog and Mark Hamil turning into a giant cockroach, I would have taken this Anime based movie more seriously. At least Guyver Dark hero was taken more seriously plus it starred David Hayter of Metal Gear Solid and screenwriter of the first two Xmen flicks.Now the big question is who's gonna play Hawk or Flint? Shit, if you can have Ripcord, you gotta have Flint.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:32:27 AM CST

    The Olsen Twins as Tomax and Xamot

    by stalkeye

    You know it to be true. (0:<

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:49:28 AM CST

    Oh and about Transformers..

    by stalkeye

    the most overhyped POS popcorn(y) Movie of 2007 and here's why I digress:
    1.Shia Lebouf
    2.Robtos sneaking around Shia's annoying parent's house.
    3.Jazz the Black Autobot with dialogue: "what's poppin' bitches"?
    4.Bumblebee gives John Tutoro a Golden shower??!!?
    Anthony Anderson's annoying nerd character. but he has range as witnessed in his part as Antwon from the shield.5.Shameless prouct placement: Mountain Dew,Xbox 360,Nokia..WTF?
    6.Shia defeats Megatron, saves the world and Optimus and gets the girl in the end: A nerd's fantasy.
    7.Dorky Lebouf taps Brianna's ass
    and cries like a bitch when she ends the relationship (sure it had nothing to do with Gayformers but i thought I'd throw that one in as a bonus.)
    Movie's only saving grace ws the fight scenes,FX and of course Peter Cullen reprising his role as OP. And no Frank Welker as Megatron, fuck this shit! Josh Durnhell (Fergie's fiancee) should play Duke however.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:53:55 AM CST

    Joel McHale IS RAINBOW BRIGHT

    by inwosuxred

    seriously, do a search on youtube.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 9:42:42 AM CST

    kurt russell as everybody

    by ironic_name

  • Jan 08, 2008 9:43:34 AM CST

    Naw, Stalkeye...

    by bizarrojerry

    Josh Whatshisface would be a better Flint.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 9:49:51 AM CST

    Just one more comment

    by bizarrojerry

    I know I've made a lot of them. But do people realize how ridiculous it is to scoff at the idea that a silly property like G.I. Joe should be taken somewhat seriously, while this site is filled with endless debates over how they should be making nearly religious films about people in brightly colored tights who fly and shoot laser beams out of the eyes and/or run around in bat costumes beating up clowns?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 10:21:52 AM CST

    The Guyver

    by lecter1914

    I dont know...maybe because I was really young but I remember absolutely loving the flick. I thought it was awesome and the asian girlfriend was really cute. And it had a giant dinosaur alien at the end...how could you go wrong with that?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 10:32:38 AM CST

    Is this the Untitled Army Horror Flick?

    by finky089

    Oh, my mistake. I saw Marlon Wayans was cast in GI Joe and thought.....

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  • Jan 08, 2008 10:47:50 AM CST

    Speaking of Joel McHale...

    by finky089

    If the studio isn't interested in making a GI Joe film that resembles the GI Joe we know from the 80's or before, perhaps they should just scrap the current incarnation of this film and recast. Keep Marlon Wayans, but recast with current & former Talk Soup hosts: Joel McHale as Flint Aisha Tyler as Lady Jaye John Henson as anybody, just so long as they make that skunk spot HUGE Greg Kinnear as Duke keep Ray Park as Snake-eyes, whatever and, as suggested above, cast Crispin GLover as Cobra Commander. Let the Joes improv and bungle their way to victory. I mean, they're not taking this property seriously anyway, so why not just go the whole 9 yards with the satire?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 10:48:37 AM CST

    This film will end up smelling worse than TINO!

    by finky089

    bet on it

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  • Jan 08, 2008 10:49:59 AM CST

    They can even have a contest for fans to pick a line

    by finky089

    like in TINO. ALthough we know the winning line will be: PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!!!

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  • Jan 08, 2008 10:50:55 AM CST

    I would consider seeing this movie if the trailer has

    by finky089

    one of the Joes saying "pork chop sandwiches". Or, Roadblock soliciting to give body massages.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 10:51:57 AM CST

    Shit, just stitch the Fenslerfilms together and give it

    by finky089

    a theatrical release. Sure it would only last like 8 minutes, but I'd still go see it. Pay $12, no, but maybe $1.50, which is more than I'll pay for GIJINO!

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  • you know it to be true Whether you care or not is a completely different matter.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 11:20:29 AM CST

    This movie's going to suck so bad....

    by thelordofhell

    I'm suprised that Shia Lebeouf hasn't signed on.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 11:21:09 AM CST

    pick a line?

    by ironic_name

    who wants a body massage?!

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  • Jan 08, 2008 11:27:40 AM CST

    pork chop sandwiches?

    by arcadiands

    You noob. the winning line would be: "Chocolate covered donuts and grape soda!"
    see what I did?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 11:58:02 AM CST

    I heard Tay Diggs will be Alpine

    by abominable snowcone

    and he'll be bringing along his purple kanagroo from Blues Clues, and you're all going to love it as Alpine and Purple Kanga pluck your heartstrings.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 12:00:54 PM CST

    I meant Tyrese

    by abominable snowcone

    Tyrese Gibson with the kangaroo. Tay Diggs will be somebody else, but he'll have a stuffed animal too.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 1:27:19 PM CST

    I like the douches that think Transformers is

    by skywalkerfamily

    high art. Lol.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 1:30:21 PM CST

    flava flav as cobra commander

    by bigtexas42

    i'm going to smile the rest of the afternoon thinking of how silly that looks in my brain

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  • Jan 08, 2008 1:56:02 PM CST

    Marlon Wayans as Cover Girl

    by abominable snowcone

    a white chick, girlfriend.
    Gary Oldman should be C.C. and that's all there is to it. I said so like twenty years ago. Steve Buscemi as Wild Weasel.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 3:14:53 PM CST

    Mr. T as The Fridge!

    by skywalkerfamily

    I still have that Refrigerator Perry figure

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  • Jan 08, 2008 3:47:48 PM CST

    I believe Bay could indeed have done it...

    by le chevalier noir

    ... if he only had had an intelligent enough (only superficially jizzed) script like the one on THE ROCK. Otherwise -- nnno. _________ Btw, anyone feeling sick reading this stuff should go and check www.yojoe.com and the links there, plus 80stees.com and stylinonline.stores.yahoo.net for some soothes and laughs. Then play a couple hours of C&C and after that of course, take out your toys (whatever you have) and make Da Ultimate Drama. And then look up "David DeAngelo" and "Neil Strauss".

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  • Jan 08, 2008 3:51:30 PM CST

    Zartan and the Dreadnoks

    by sauce diesel

    Surely such a set of highly coveted roles will be scooped up immediately by the likes of some of the greatest actors of our times - I'm thinking Ben Affleck for Buzzer, the guy who plays PC from the Mac commercials for Torch, and Maaaat Daaaaaamonnnnn for Ripper. Obviously the only character who could possibly pull of Zartan is Ben Kingsley...

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  • Jan 08, 2008 4:35:42 PM CST

    Ben Kingsley does turn colors when you wet him

    by arcadiands

    ive seen that for myself.
    As for the rest of your casting suggestions, my friend, you are right as rain.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 4:41:22 PM CST

    Adrian Pasdar as General Flagg

    by arcadiands

    you know im right.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 5:27:54 PM CST

    Is Destro jewish or polish?

    by yoda's ball sack

    Does he wear the mask because he is ashamed of his people or is he cursed?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 5:29:20 PM CST

    My bad.

    by yoda's ball sack

    I'm thinking of Doctor Doom.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 5:37:05 PM CST

    Token time!

    by alienindisguise

    all hope just vanished

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:43:12 PM CST

    "Mr. T as The Fridge!"

    by shermdawg

    Uh, why not The Fridge as The Fridge?

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  • Jan 08, 2008 8:53:02 PM CST

    ruven76

    by byobkenobi

    Well, racist or not, casting a black actor for a white character is really fucking stupid. They're shoehorning a Wayans into the film and who the fuck knows why? But as for being racist....well.....kinda.

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  • Jan 08, 2008 10:32:47 PM CST

    Here we go again!!!

    by prefect maximus

    Ripcord is supposed yo be a WHITE guy!!!

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  • Jan 09, 2008 2:46:48 AM CST

    G.I. Joe Gordon-Levitt?

    by jivetalker

    Holy bajeezus, what is Gordon-Levitt thinking?! If he's got a sudden hankering to be in bigger budget or higher profile stuff, fair enough, but surely there's got to be better projects out there than this career-suicide tripe? It boggles the mind. Why on earth would he sacrifice all the respect he's built up over the years by gambling his rep on this sure-fire piece o' dookie? He can't be THAT strapped for cash, can he? Someone please explain.

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  • Jan 09, 2008 7:03:06 AM CST

    It's not his race...

    by bizarrojerry

    It's his being known mostly for outrageous, usually moronic, comedies. The guy cast as Breaker seems to be of a non-white persuasion and nobody seemed to care. And now we're hearing he's the best friend who makes funny quips. A fairly stereotypical Hollywood "funny black guy" character. The idea of a "funny best friend" character connected to the leader of the elite unit just doesn't sound right either. Also... Breaker? Ripcord? Heavy Duty? These are not exactly G.I. Joe's most famous characters. Where are these people coming from?

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  • Jan 09, 2008 11:18:23 AM CST

    Who (besides a Wayans) looks at a script and says...

    by cletus van damme

    "...hey, we could put a Wayans brother in here."

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  • Jan 09, 2008 11:18:54 AM CST

    Oh, and by the way...

    by cletus van damme

    "WHO WANTS A BODY MASSAGE?"

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  • Jan 09, 2008 12:24:49 PM CST

    It's not that Wayans himself SHOULDN'T be in the movie

    by finky089

    the probalem is that he's playing a stereotyped black character and we don't need yet another shining stereotype. I personally have my doubts about his serious acting (pork!)chops, but if he "wowed" them at his audition by playing it straight, I'd be more encouraged. But instead it sounds liek they want this to be a "funny blak guy stereotype" in what should have been a fairly serious movie. And maybe it will still be serious, but GI JOe didn't need a character with the "wise-crackin black guy" before and it doesn't need it now. I'd be jazzed to be part of a GI Joe movie too, but it'd be better if Wayan's part was going to allow him to show some acting versatility instead of the same stereotyped stuff we've seen countelss times. Then again, work's work, so I guess I can't blame the guy for taking their money and not having to "stretch" his abilities.

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  • Jan 09, 2008 12:25:23 PM CST

    Hell, maybe Wayans will say "WHO WANTS..."

    by finky089

    "...A BODY MASSAGE?"

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  • Jan 09, 2008 12:33:15 PM CST

    And it isn't racist to say Wayans should play Ripcord

    by finky089

    because of his color, it's just ignorant. Unless there's something integral to the character that will change if the color of his skin changes, then it doesn't matter. What difference does it really make whether Ripcord is black or white or purple? I understand having a basic desire to see things on screen mirror they way they were in 3 & 3/4 Hasbro scale, but when you get past the nostalgia for our old toys, you'll realize the color of the character doesn't make a difference. It's how the characters and story are written that will make it "true" to the source material or not. Case in point: Transformers: Most people threw-up in their throats when we first saw the leaked designes in 2006. But we also got over them (mostly...Megatron's face is still unforgivably FUCKED). The gripe that truly underlaid most people's problem with the film was the incredibly shitty writing. And that the robots weren't really the central characters. They FUCKED UP the source material. If they were keeping things relatively "true" to the source material with this GI Joe film, the casting wouldn't be such a sign of disaster. Even with geo-political changes since the 80's cartoon series hit, tweaks would be fine; even expected. But this just sounds like GI Joe in-name-only.

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  • Jan 09, 2008 12:34:26 PM CST

    I know this thread is dead, but I wanted to state the

    by finky089

    above anyway. by the way Elvis is BACK and he's the Cloverfield monster.

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  • Jan 09, 2008 12:35:25 PM CST

    (2 posts up) I meant "shouldn't" play Ripcord

    by finky089

    but you knew that

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  • Jan 09, 2008 2:18:46 PM CST

    Can we just leave serpentor out of this movie?

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  • Jan 09, 2008 5:16:25 PM CST

    Isn't Serpentor the Cloverfield monster?

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  • Jan 10, 2008 1:24:12 PM CST

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    Jon Lovitz in negotiations for Destro! might as well....

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  • Jan 10, 2008 4:02:25 PM CST

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    by justyhakubi

    Please don't ever put those two together again in the same sentence. Unless it's like, "It's amazing that Dungeons & Dragons movie didn't suck any worse." If I were Wayans that movie would not be on my resume.

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