In a serious manner? Yes, but it had precedent so it would be normal to 'expect' that.

What in GI Joe's history would warrant expecting a dark and serious movie??

dark and serious is batman, but hasn't always been so on film. Take the earlier movies with Kilmer and Clooney for instance. Surely (with the right director) an interpretation of G.I. Joe can appear realistic on the big screen. The current joe film looks like a George Clooney take on batman, where (if done right) can look like a Bale take.

Agreed, but a dark serious take on GI Joe would be a novel concept, it would be ground breaking because it had never been done before.
Not so with batman.

I'm not saying dark or serious. I'm saying realistic. Not everyone is looking for a straight up comic book version of a movie. I don't want to see Bumblebee as a VW. I don't want to see the Riddler with a bright green suit. I don't want to see Wolverine running around in a bright yellow outfit with blue horns. I'd like to see what it would look like if it were applied to the real world... as if those comic books were just animated stories of the real thing.

There was no comic of GI Joe.

If you want to see what GI Joe would look like in the real world, did your GI Joe Toy out of the closet and take a picture of him in the foreground of a pretty landscape or something.

lols

I mispoke, the comic was borne from the toy, quite the opposite of the case with batman.

ie: Batman was always an artform

Gi Joe was and is essentially still a toy. a doll really.

Expecting batman quality and depth and reality from GI Joe to be on par with batman is not having realistic expectations.

Actually, the original big GI Joe dolls from the 50s and 60s were quite realistic.








Production of the original Joes stopped during the Vietnam war, and when they reappeared in the 80s it had morphed into the goofy GI Joe toys we know today.

oh that reminds me.. the whole time I was watching the GI Joe movie I was wondering what ever happened to all my GI Joe figures. heh flashbacks.. I haven't thought of them since I was pre-teen.

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and presenting.... The 20 Stupidest GI Joe Vehicles Ever!



#20.

You’re going to see this a lot in the next couple minutes: a whole bunch of guys hanging off the back of nearly every god (*)(*)(*)(*)ed vehicle. I don’t know why – nowhere in the Joe canon does it specify why they’ve taken their design cues from a Central American public transit system.


#19.

Famously no-one ever actually gets shot in the GI Joe universe, which is why they have such curious ideas about how to armor vehicles. We’re approaching Pope-Mobile territory with all this glass.


#18.

A multi-cultural group of friends are out for an adventure and learn what matters more: the size of your tank, or the size of your heart.


#17.

The Buzz Boar is easily the most devastating weapon in the COBRA arsenal, if viewed from the perspective of a weary parks groundskeeper.

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#16.

The D.E.M.O.N. can raise itself vertically on extendable legs, and is thought to be the only tank in the world capable of launching the deadly Teabag ordinance.


#15.

Here the “dudes hanging off the side” motif has gone a smidge too far. If that boat is symmetrical, I have no idea what that poor scuba diver is standing on. A seal? It’s a mystery.


#14.

The Fang is possibly the most fragile air vehicle in history, and during the COBRA Wars of the 1980’s, American forces shot down 14,982 of them, injuring close to a dozen pilots.


#13.

Equal parts dangerous and hilarious; I particularly like the alternate spelling of “trouble.”

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