Ruining our Childhood?

I don't have high hopes for GI JOE. I mean, come on. Are you really going to have one of the Williams brothers in it? I can't take hime seriously. I don't want him to be sterotyped as a comedy relief. It had become annoying to me. If they could make a Silverhawks or BIONIC SIX....now there is something to shake a stick at. Time will only tell. I will make a post about 80's shows that should be made into movies and what I think shouldn't be touched. I am not being mean spirited about The Williams kid. I am just saying that he is usually just there to make jokes. I hope he is dead serious. Ok, let me get off my soapbox

thanks guys. scorpioxfactor@ i was gonna do the same kind of article, but went this way instead. i will look forward to reading yours.

durkin@ i would say voltron was my second favorite. i had both sets of voltrons, the lions and the vehicles. and your right, silverawks were the same vioces i beleive. they sound the same anyway. ofcourse all of them were basically the same show. a set of five or six team members with special powers and vehicels etc....they were great. better than that pokemon and dora shit they make today.

teabag@ i thought about buying the dvds...but then i discovered youtube :) and im ok with them making these movies. its kinda cool. if we had sons and not daughters, we could take them to the new movies and then introduce them to the dvds and connect. but instead we'll get stuck with princess movies and dora :)

Superdog: Whats up with taking us back to the good ole days. I remeber quitting toy bowl football when I was 7 because I was missin my toons lol. I never quit again and end up playing in the mighty SEC, but this another story. Silverhawks,Thundercat,He-Man and anything DC or Marvel could put together were my favs. I noticed the art work was always better with the Hawks and the Cats...REMEBER THE SUPERFRIENDS and later on they introduced the legion of doom. The art got a little better, but it still came up short...even now watch a disney cartoon and look at any comicbook animation it doesnt compare. Do I feel like hollywood is ruining my childhood I guess you could say 50-50. They get some things right and other times they flop...I shouldnt be complaining I remeber a time you'd never see any of our characters on the big screen. So I say let's get behind Hollywood support the movies with sites like these and go out and see the movies.

Scorpioxfactor: I agree with you 110% WHY DID THEY CAST A WYAN(not Williams)in this movie. I think if he has too large a role and I mean 10-15min the movie is doomed. Putting him in it in the first place tells me your not really going hardcore with a military action based movie in the first place. We'll see but Im saying its going to tank.

thundercats, and danger mouse all the way!! and some may not like the transformer movies, or think that the gi joe movie will suck, but i bet they're both a thousand time better then dolph lungrens masters of the universe. really he-man with no orco, travisty.

@Tobuttica...nostalgia is a big deal to people...no one likes to see something that reminds them of their childhood being tampered with. That's human nature. And the fact that they're all "frickin' grown men" doesn't make them "douche bags" for wanting to discuss it...I mean it's a common interest that they share. How is it any worse than a bunch of fat ass dudes in their mid-thirties, who peaked as atheletes themselves TWENTY YEARS AGO, spending hours drinking beer, and getting even fatter, talking non-stop about professional sports and watching baseball and football games thirty hours a week?

I understand what you're saying, and personally I could give two shits about GI Joe or Transformers (I was a Voltron man)...but be respectful of other people's opinions, we're here to talk about stuff we like, not to put eachother down.

Superdog...I would just let it go man...some people come on here strictly to break balls...Consider it hate mail or something...it was the only dispectful post out of like twenty...that's like what .5%? Not bad overall.

i remember seeing that in theatres. back then like the cartoons i thought it was cool. now ofcourse it sucks. courtney cox....hilarious.

back then that was like 20 mil tho!

Really? All these years later and i had no idea that scene existed....apparently not too good at fortune telling either:)

Not just our childhood but our comics too The live action movie have made people stop buying comics because they think the movie are better for example DC got a letter from a couple of fan of the dark Knight movie asking them to kill off the Joker because its Ledger character now.

So Yes these movie are nothing but a pain of the ass

@supermike, i admire your persistence in commenting. your an asshole.

So do you 3 like acting like asshole or i mean i get it your mad because Im better then you

i think the problem is they are confused with which direction to go. since its based on a cartoon they think it has to appeal to kids. but since its a cartoon that was watched by people who are now adults they try to appeal to them too. which is tricky. shrek and the pixar movies have figured out the right balance. with the cartoon movies they still seem to be struggling.

Hey superdog, I'm sorry I acted like a douche bag, and that goes for everyone else too! I just get a little upset sometimes when this topic comes up because I to enoy the nostalgia of the old cartoons, but the movies take my enjoyment to a new level. I will admit that there have been some crapfest of movies out there (ie; anything with Dolph Lundgren that isn't Rocky IV, Ang Lee's Hulk...never mind there's too many), but I think there is some deep hatred for Michael Bay that I don't understand. Sure both TF movies aren't the greatest movies in the world, but they are very enjoyable. Why do people hate him so, and do you think Stephen Sommers will take a load of that off of Bay's shoulders after GI JOE bombs?

I deleted that comment because even I found it offensive. Sorry to anyone that it offended, except Supermike, he's an asshole.

I don't hate bay. He's done some of my favorite movies. I loved bad boys, ar
armegeddon, the rock and I really liked the 1st transformers. But Im sorry I couldn't stand the second one. The normal Michael bay stuff was good (action scenes etc) but all the over the top comedy killed it for me. I'm sorry, seeing a transformer hump someones leg is just too far out there for me. That is disrepectful to the source material. The first one had humor but it didn't go that far.I enjoy his work for what it's worth, but if I think it's a bad film (pearl harbor) I'll say so. Same with somers. I actually enjoyed the mummy movies alot. Van Helsing was acceptable. But gijoe looks like shit so far. I'll see it and judge from there, but if I thinks it's shit I'll say so. Doesn't mean somers is a bad director, same as bay :)

masterbater? what?

I'm a wee bit older, and remember the pre-cursors to those god-awful 'Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' - classic shows like 'Ultraman', 'Johnny Sokko and his Giant Flying Robot' and 'Space Giants' (anyone remember these? ... Bueller? ... Bueller? ...Fry? ...Fry? ...anyone? ...anyone?). I also loved 'Doctor Who' (still do!).

Speaking of which, translating a classic series to modern audiences can be done PROPERLY. Take for example, 'Doctor Who' - even though it offically went off the air in 1989 (after a 23 year run that started back in 1963 - I don't really count that Fox TV movie made in 1996, although parts WERE brilliant), it re-launched in 2005 and is stronger that ever thanks to a producer (Russel T. Davies) and crew who ABSOLUTELY loved the show growing up! That's the key - find talented people who grew up adoring the shows and let them do their JOBS (the Wachowski brothers' 'Speed Racer' aside...)! Hollywood, are you listening?!!!

Superdog -

'Johnny Sokko and his Giant Flying Robot': Johnny Sokko is an ordinary kid, who while on a voyage meets a young man who befriends him. The boat is suddenly sunk by the minions of the terrorist organization known as the Gargoyle Gang who have a penchant for giant robots for their attacks. Finding themselves on an island base, the pair meet up with a scientist who has constructed the most advanced and powerful robot of all. Upset that his creation will be used for evil, the scientist shows the pair the robot and the wristwatch voice controller, set to imprint the next speaker as the sole person who can command the robot. Impulsively, Johnny speaks into it and becomes that controller. With the robot's power, they escape and Johnny learns that his new friend is an agent of the worldwide intelligence and anti-terrorist organization, Unicorn, which is dedicated to opposing the Gargoyle Gang. With no alternative, Unicorn recruits Johnny as a full regular agent. Now, Johnny has a vital role in this new war as the one person who can bring the tremendous strength and firepower of the giant robot to bear against the forces of evil.

'Space Giants': An evil alien, Rodak, brings destruction to Earth by unleashing a series of giants monsters and legions of "Lugo men", men clad in black leotards who are almost capable of kung-fu. An old wizard, who follows Rodak around the cosmos, settles down inside a volcano where he creates a giant robot, Goldar, from the energy of the volcano. He also creates a feminine robot of human size, Silvar. A young Japanese boy--the son of a journalist--is recruited by the old man to help fight Rodak and his legions of monsters and Lugo men. He is given a whistle. Three blows signals Goldar, two signals Silvar and one blow signals Gam, a "mirror image" robot of himself (although he looks nothing like the protagonist). All three robots are capable of transforming themselves into rocket planes.

Looking back, they were pretty corny (much like the Power Rangers are to me today)... but hey, I was just a little kid back then, and to me this was some pretty cool [excrement]! I think you can find episodes floating around You Tube, if you want to check it out...

gambitfreak@ thanks man. i am the man.

logan@ they were all pretty corny when we look back on them now. but we were kids, as i say in my article, so ofcourse they were fantastic to us. which is why i say they can never ruin them, cause they more than just cartoons to us. they represent our childhoods and out memories.