GI Joe: The Anything-but-American Hero
Last night’s Red Eye show discussed the upcoming film, GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra. It’s no secret that the film is drastically different from the show’s patriotic history. Host Greg Gutfeld said of the film:
“The characters are no longer a typical American soldier. Instead he’s part of an elite international force. MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch calls this a business decision; I call this a wussy decision.â€
Of course, Hollywood does not want American heroes. They would give everyone else credit for doing good in the world before allowing our heroic soldiers a title outside the realm of “murderer.â€
Red Eye regular Bill Shulz said:
“The original tagline was ‘The Real American Hero,’ here in this movie we probably have one, two tops. It’s a travesty!â€
This may or may not be the only honest thing Bill has said in months, but he is right. How can you take something so pure-blooded American and screw it up? Bill is usually sympathetic to the center-left agendas, but even he knows that GI Joe is only one thing, AMERICAN.
Greg goes on to say:
“The fact is, our mainstream media feels awkward about anything ‘American.’ But not the world, no, it loves America more than TV talking heads are willing to admit, which is why everyone risks their lives to come here, and get this, they like our heroes even more.â€
This is so true. Why do Hollywood elites have such a hard time understanding this? No matter how mercilessly they bash our country and tell the world how bad it is, people are still risking everything to land on U.S. soil for a chance to pursue their dreams.
An LA Times article quoted GI Joe director Stephen Sommers saying: “This is not a George Bush movie, it’s an Obama world.â€
Does this mean that with Obama in office, we can’t have anything purely American? Hollywood is marketing this film to those who grew up with the GI Joe show and action figures. Fans loved Joe for his patriotism. This film does not appear patriotic. If the buzz about this film is true, I hope it tanks.
It’s crap like this movie that make me miss my foot-high GI Joe dolls; real American looking dolls, with scruffy beards, torn up uni’s, that can talk via pull string, and an array of bad ass equipment to take out Nazis or (in today’s world) terrorists.
Now what is there for kids to play with? They have 3 inch molded plastic in the shape of something that may resemble a man in fatigues, or not, and another movie featuring caricatures of once great icons of the power the bad guys feared and the good guys sought to protect.
Just another reason I never go to the movies anymore.
I’m not going to see it and I love this stuff. And my 13 year old son hasn’t even mentioned it so there is no pressure there. I see tankage in its future.
Too bad………..I won’t be watching any NWO Joe movies.
Send the Hollywood leftie writers and directors to Swat Valley, let then hang out there for a while, they may come home
appreciating what it is to be an American.
MB Snow
Remember also the recent Superman Returns movie, in which the motto of Superman is changed from “truth, justice, and the American way” to “truth, justice, all that stuff.” Also, Tucker Carlson was on, I think On the Record, talking about how some districts have banned the term “American” in favor of “citizen of the United States.” What in the world is going on?
How can so many liberals call this the greatest country on Earth and yet spurn the idea that “the American way” is something to aspire to. How can it be that Americanism is now not a virtue but a mark of ignorance, naivety, or arrogance?
It’s funny that a film based on an action figure aimed at young boys is rated PG-13.
As Simon and Garfunkel similarly lamented about the loss of American heroes: “Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”
Open letter to Hollywood elites:
Get real guys, the only western country with a real fighting force (Army), is the military of the United states of America. There is no such thing as an International fighting force, there is a International Peacekeeping Force, which does not fight…but if an armed military fighting force existed, resisting tyranny, terrorism, bad guys or any other injustice in the world, them it wears an American uniform, and its nickname is…… G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe will be in a new movie in which he will knock America at every opportunity and apologize to the world for past American Aggressions against the peaceful peoples of the world. He’ll then holds out his hand to the ‘moderates’ in the world to offer American money ,if they’ll like us more. The moderate countries, who hate us even more because we caved in, will then sneak in and detonate a nuclear device killing millions of Americans. Within 8 years most Americans will forget and blame President Bush. G.I.Joe then has an affair with Iron Man and and becomes a spokesperson for George Soros Health care plan.
Now thats a movie the left can sink their teeth in!
During the campaign, many Americans were crying out for a leader, a hero. I am not sure when, where, or how, but I believe that leader will yet emerge inspite of Hollywood, Obama, or any other destructive force. May the rally cry of FREEDOM continue, and TRUE AMERICANS will ban together, rise to the surface, and stop this Communistic agenda.
What I can’t understand is why do so many people who say they are conservative pay good money to see anything put out by Hollywood?
I haven’t spent a dime of my hard-earned money to see any of these crappy movies in 20 years. (The only movie I did go see was The Passion of Christ. That was worth every penny.)