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[Fletch]

I don't know who Danny McBride is.

You might recognize McBride from being near the bottom of the list of people I ever thought would write a G.I.Joe movie.

I think he turned up in an Alien movie pretty recently, but mostly he's been a comedic actor.

I'd guess he made his name in 'Eastbound & Down' and 'Righteous Gemstones.' He was the lead in 'Your Highness,' which is a guilty pleasure of mine, and was one of the principal characters in 'End of the World,' a pleasure I'm not at all guilty about.

Jordan Peele has taught me you can't dismiss a writer because he's a comedian, and I'm interested in seeing what he has to say.

 

[yojoebro82]

You might recognize McBride from being near the bottom of the list of people I ever thought would write a G.I.Joe movie.

I think he turned up in an Alien movie pretty recently, but mostly he's been a comedic actor.

I'd guess he made his name in 'Eastbound & Down' and 'Righteous Gemstones.' He was the lead in 'Your Highness,' which is a guilty pleasure of mine, and was one of the principal characters in 'End of the World,' a pleasure I'm not at all guilty about.

Jordan Peele has taught me you can't dismiss a writer because he's a comedian, and I'm interested in seeing what he has to say.

Yeah, sign me up. If Hollywood attached huge A-list names to this, I'd be just as skeptical. I hope something great comes of this.

 

[NORM]

The Springfield storyline makes it way more relatable to me. Suburban setting, infiltrated by a terrorist organization? Get your best spies and intelligence and wetworks operatives involved, it has plenty of potential.

 

[secondwhiteline]

The Springfield storyline makes it way more relatable to me. Suburban setting, infiltrated by a terrorist organization? Get your best spies and intelligence and wetworks operatives involved, it has plenty of potential.

Definitely. And I kinda feel like McBride's movie is riding a very sort of A24 indie horror/thriller tide that seems like a really interesting place to go with Joe. Centering on a paranoia concept like Springfield is a great idea in a movie era where stuff like Backrooms and Obsession and Weapons have all been such massive hits. Springfield is something Joe has that you can't really say about other toy franchises where an adult who doesn't care about toy franchises might be interested in seeing it.

 

[AceofKnaves]

It’s always been my opinion that if you *do* pull from Sunbow for live action, it’s stuff like “There’s No Place Like Springfield” they should pull from. Not “weird-goofy”; “weird-unsettling”.

 

[docsilence]

It’s always been my opinion that if you *do* pull from Sunbow for live action, it’s stuff like “There’s No Place Like Springfield” they should pull from. Not “weird-goofy”; “weird-unsettling”.

I'm always amazed they got away with the alternate timeline two-parter with all those dead Joes. The show could get very unsettling when it wanted to. I think the comic was more CONSISTENT and grounded but the cartoon took bigger swings.

 

[AceofKnaves]

I'm always amazed they got away with the alternate timeline two-parter with all those dead Joes.

That completely blew my mind as a kid. Steeler tripping balls on bug venom and screaming about them being in Hell? Holy shit, man. Amazing stuff.

The show could get very unsettling when it wanted to.

“Oh by the way, Destro’s extended family are a folk-horror cult of mask-wearing Lovecraft-monster worshippers. And yes we will show you the monster.”

WHAT?!?

I think the comic was more CONSISTENT and grounded but the cartoon took bigger swings.

The comic was the “A” story, but yeah the best parts of the cartoon were like wild Weird Tales Magazine insanity. Like when Cobra Commander raised historical ghosts to fight the Joes and then a skeleton that seemed to be possessed by a demon told CC that the underworld was gonna claim his ass and then CC *flipped the fuck out*??

Oh yeah.

 

[Ru1977]

 

[Revox]

The naughty Scotsman turned up today, and yes, he is pretty great.

While I was at it, I got some other recent acquisitions together as well. The original plan was to have the fam and all the Dreadnoks together but there's just so many of the bastards now I figured it was best to split them up. While I like Zanya's acid green greebo locks, ultimately, the Tank Girl look is just irresistible to me so that's how I'm going with her for now.

Obviously, I swore I would never get a Night Creeper because they're rubbish and there are far too many ninja types running around as it is...but then the bastards just had to go and make one for what's rapidly becoming Cobra's best sub-team ever and so I was helpless to resist.

Finally, I've started shipping over my boys for the fight of the century. First up, the main man himself:

Really looking forward to getting the rest of them in hand but gonna wait until the Roboskull chaps get the Skeletrons out so I can finally have the whole gang together.

 

[Damien]

If we had 3-5 mass-arrow attacks a day in this country we'd be having a different conversation, I reckon.

I totally get this line of thinking and that's why I don't get down on anybody for feeling the way they do about guns. But it IS a very US-centric view. Knife crime and stabbings are a huge problem across the world. Basically, the United States is the only place that has gun deaths to the level of actual war zones. Yet, people don't get upset about knives and blades the way they do about guns in fiction.

I just personally have an issue with 'violence is fun in my fiction as long as it's not this one specific kind of violence/weapon.' I get why people feel the way they do about it, but I very much don't. I really had to get myself to square with either I am okay with violence in my fiction, or I'm not. My brain wouldn't accept a middle answer.

 

[AceofKnaves]

I just personally have an issue with 'violence is fun in my fiction as long as it's not this one specific kind of violence/weapon.' I get why people feel the way they do about it, but I very much don't.

I completely get this, and if I’m honest I don’t really find any violence “fun”. It’s more about a sliding scale of distaste, for me.

Also; my ick about the “too real-world, too contemporary” nature of guns also extends to torture-porn and even slashers and many “action” films. I have a deep aesthetic appreciation for the Grand Guignol and theatrical/practical special effects including gore, but that is very much linked to horror-fantasy and theatricality for me. Violence that evokes horror works for me; violence that evokes a glorifying “thrill” doesn’t. And mostly, guns are linked with that “thrill” in fiction, at least from my perspective.

And just . . . I don’t like guns. They are yet another dangerous piece of technology that we as the human race adopted for use way way WAY before we had evolved intellectually and morally enough to handle responsibly and deal with the consequences. Like many many many MANY other things in this world, humans are too brutal and stupid to be allowed to use what they themselves made.
And yet, here we are.

 

[Damien]

They are yet another dangerous piece of technology that we as the human race adopted for use way way WAY before we had evolved intellectually and morally enough to handle responsibly and deal with the consequences. Like many many many MANY other things in this world, humans are too brutal and stupid to be allowed to use what they themselves made.

For sure. I just don't (personally) view this as an effective argument against guns in fiction because it's true of everything we've ever developed that is intended to be, or can be, used to hurt other people. Again, it's just me and not a universal statement of how other people should feel, but if I can handle a character getting stabbed with a knife - then I can handle a character being shot with a gun. They are functionally the same thing to me.

But also, I just don't feel as 'ick' about it as some people do. Whether that's a good or bad thing would probably require me to pay your hourly rate to figure out, though. Haha.