Hmmm. Did not know that...
GI Joe: Renegades (New Animated Series Debuting 11/26/10)
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Hmmm. Did not know that...
Darth Cruel
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I am not happy. Don't know what happened, but I just lost a post I made for this thread...I'll paraphrase:
Character designs need to gro on me. Like the cartoon so far. No interest in Sideshow figures from this cartoon.
Edit - Oh, yeah...and just watched and enjoyed "The Package".
Character designs need to gro on me. Like the cartoon so far. No interest in Sideshow figures from this cartoon.
Edit - Oh, yeah...and just watched and enjoyed "The Package".
piccolodaimaoh
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Watched the first two episodes and then later that night watched Young Justice on Cartoon Network. Not digging this or Transformers Prime especially after watching Young Justice. I'll have to give it a chance but so far the character designs are gonna take some getting use to.
ProgMatinee
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i liked the last episode, though Breaker will be annoying if he doesn't grow a pair.
Darth Cruel
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I justed watched Episode 3 online. I actually kinda like this show. 
It was neat seeing Bludd use a rocket pistol and lose his eye. I can't remember what happened to Ripcord last episode, did he really die?
It was neat seeing Bludd use a rocket pistol and lose his eye. I can't remember what happened to Ripcord last episode, did he really die?
They sure made it look like he did, and the team said a few words for him. I still think he will show up later.
And I like the eye thing too.
And I like the eye thing too.
Clancy Brown as Destro? Okay now that's actually badass. Check it out, he states that he played with GI Joes in the 60's, watched ARAH cartoon when he was in college, but passed on watching Rise of Cobra. 
https://www.channelguidemagblog.com...joe-resumes-fight-for-freedom-with-renegades/
And the guy who voices Flint is Johnny Messner from "Tears of the Sun." Looks like they should have cast him as Beach Head instead!
https://www.channelguidemagblog.com...joe-resumes-fight-for-freedom-with-renegades/
And the guy who voices Flint is Johnny Messner from "Tears of the Sun." Looks like they should have cast him as Beach Head instead!
DinoDB1975
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He doesn't look as hickish as the Beachhead sculpt, but a great real world counterpart.
Great, underrated movie. Think I'll watch Tears of the Sun this afternoon.
Great, underrated movie. Think I'll watch Tears of the Sun this afternoon.
thenammagazine
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snakeeyes171
Super Freak
I watched the 3 episodes and got to admit a fresh look for the joes with the history beginning story they have has got me wanting more to see who will show up next.
the angry orc
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The special edition with added footage was even better.
the special edition is one of my favorite movies. absolutely love that SEAL unit...every one of those actors does an amazing job. and the scene where they assault the village is just bad ass.
haven't watched any of these episodes yet. might try and watch them with the kids this weekend.
thenammagazine
Super Freak
Village assault < Jungle counter-ambush.
Watching them do the counter ambush gave me the chills. First time a movie's ever got that right! Even in Black Hawk Down, despite being Deltas, they hunkered when they got ambushed. Take note people, if you ever get ambushed, turn into it and fight!
the angry orc
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Village assault < Jungle counter-ambush.
Watching them do the counter ambush gave me the chills. First time a movie's ever got that right! Even in Black Hawk Down, despite being Deltas, they hunkered when they got ambushed. Take note people, if you ever get ambushed, turn into it and fight!
omg yes that scene is awesome as well. i remember watching some of the documentaries about the making of, or maybe it was in the commentary by fuqua, saying that the SEAL advisor for the film, harry humphries, wanted to make sure that scene was done right...that SEALs attack in a situation like that. and that despite what some of the reviews said about it, it was 100% tactically correct. little things like that are why i really dig that movie. or like during the village assault when you only hear the sound of the bolt clicking on the suppressed weapons...so cool! especially to a military fanboy nerd (like me
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thenammagazine
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omg yes that scene is awesome as well. i remember watching some of the documentaries about the making of, or maybe it was in the commentary by fuqua, saying that the SEAL advisor for the film, harry humphries, wanted to make sure that scene was done right...that SEALs attack in a situation like that. and that despite what some of the reviews said about it, it was 100% tactically correct. little things like that are why i really dig that movie. or like during the village assault when you only hear the sound of the bolt clicking on the suppressed weapons...so cool! especially to a military fanboy nerd (like me
Yeah, when you tell armchair generals that you're actually supposed to turn into an ambush and fire aggressively at full-auto, most of them look at you like you're out of your ____ing mind.
Though, when you look at it, you have four options:
1) Drop your weapon, scream like a _____ that you surrender and take the full brunt of the assault, killing you.
2) Hunker down, which usually results in the ambushers walking on your position and killing you.
3) Turn and run like a _____ which will get you shot in the back, most likely killing you.
4) Turn into it and be just as aggressive. Chances are, you're gonna get taken out anyway, but you've just knocked the odds down to 50/50 and if you can dish out more suppressive fire than the opposition, you will have successfully ambushed the ambush. This is the most tactically correct move.
Even in Black Hawk Down, despite being Deltas, they hunkered when they got ambushed. Take note people, if you ever get ambushed, turn into it and fight!
Black Hawk Down followed the actual events pretty closely (save for a couple of obvious "Hollywood" moments like Hartnett running out into the open to mark the enemy position for the choppers.)
the angry orc
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i think i could have watched just a 2 hour movie with bana as hoot. he was awesome in that flick. as was fichtner. i just believed bana in that role...like i did when he was in the movie 'chopper'.
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thenammagazine
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This post is filled with so much fail. Most of the key characters were amalgamated, the story was limp dicked and really made the Rangers look inept. Hell, despite how good Delta looked in that flick, they still weren't portrayed as good as they should've been either. Try reading the book Khev. Not only will it give you a more accurate perspective on what happened, but you'll see many of Ridley Scott's intentional fumbles to make a better "Hollywood" movie.
FYI: Rangers and Delta would not _____ about running out of ammunition and bunk in depression when literally surrounded by dozens if not hundreds of dropped rifles and magazines. It makes for great film/tv, but it also makes them look incompetent.
DinoDB1975
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Village assault < Jungle counter-ambush.
Watching them do the counter ambush gave me the chills. First time a movie's ever got that right! Even in Black Hawk Down, despite being Deltas, they hunkered when they got ambushed. Take note people, if you ever get ambushed, turn into it and fight!
Funny how we're discussing Black Hawk Down; I just finished reading it for the fifth time. A lot of the Deltas did want to take the fight back to the Somalis, but they were ordered by the mission planners in the Little Birds to maintain guard positions around the downed Blackhawk.
Off topic movie wise, but we got Rangers, SEALs, and Green Berets with the RAH Joes. Wished we could have got a Delta Force guy...although in retrospect, the Joe force is one big Spec Ops unit.
Not taking anything away from the actual person, but reading the book after watching the movie I was kinda baffled that the movie makers had Hartnett portray Sgt. Eversmann as the main character in the movie; in actuality, Sgt. Eversmann was on the first Humvee convoy back to the base.
Agreed. Bana was a badass as Hoot in the movie...although in reality Hoot was a amalgram of several Delta Operators.
I recommend you give the book another read. The entire situation was triggered by one Ranger's "ineptness." In the movie you can't really blame Orlando Bloom for falling out of the black hawk since it was dodging an RPG. That wasn't how it happened in real life. Scott was actually quite gracious in that case.
Yes but he was actually a combination of several real life soldiers. If you ignore the fact that his name is Eversmann he did do a lot of things that actually happened, (and a number of things that didn't, as already mentioned.)
The movie obviously wasn't an hour by hour recreation of the actual events, but I don't know anyone who watched it and thought that the US soldiers (rangers and Delta alike) were portrayed as inept or shy about fighting back.
Still my favorite war film of all time as a matter of fact.
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