Comments on: UPDATE: Sommers STILL A Real American Hero http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/stephen-sommers-is-still-a-real-american-hero/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Plus1http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/stephen-sommers-is-still-a-real-american-hero/#comment-5481 Plus1 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:32:57 +0000 http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/?p=5455#comment-5481 I noticed that the studio had been pushing the movie 2 months before the release with tons of commercials during the NBA Finals and NASCAR on TNT. The concept was there but they are trying too much to do the Matrix meets Transformers with G.I. Joe character names. Acceleration suits? Really? G.I.Joe was a special forces group consisting of the top people in each field of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, National Guard, and Coast Guard.As a fan that grew up with G.I.Joe it is a shame that this product could be a great franchise that will be destroyed before it even gets off the ground. As for the character "Action Man," there was an animated series at one time and the character was later brought into G.I.Joe by Hasbro Toys. In Europe the G.I.Joe comic was called Action Force and I think the Action Man character may have been published by Marvel Comics in Europe under the Action Force title when G.I.Joe ended.Bottom line is that this movie was a victim of the writer's strike and when the strike ended, they should have pushed the release back to allow for re-shoots and re-writes (same thing J.J. Abrams did for Star Trek). I noticed that the studio had been pushing the movie 2 months before the release with tons of commercials during the NBA Finals and NASCAR on TNT. The concept was there but they are trying too much to do the Matrix meets Transformers with G.I. Joe character names. Acceleration suits? Really? G.I.Joe was a special forces group consisting of the top people in each field of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, National Guard, and Coast Guard.

As a fan that grew up with G.I.Joe it is a shame that this product could be a great franchise that will be destroyed before it even gets off the ground. As for the character “Action Man,” there was an animated series at one time and the character was later brought into G.I.Joe by Hasbro Toys. In Europe the G.I.Joe comic was called Action Force and I think the Action Man character may have been published by Marvel Comics in Europe under the Action Force title when G.I.Joe ended.

Bottom line is that this movie was a victim of the writer’s strike and when the strike ended, they should have pushed the release back to allow for re-shoots and re-writes (same thing J.J. Abrams did for Star Trek).

]]>