Yo JOE!

Yeah, I knew this was coming.  Maybe I’ll see it, but I haven’t even seen Transformers yet.

I’ll watch it and I’ll probably have the DVD.  Looks like a good cast.

Awesome!

Dennis Quad is probably a good selection.  Dunno about choice for US President, he wasn’t exactly, if I remember correctly, a huge part of the story.

Wonder if they will break the general form of no bloodshed in this movie?  They were the first, I believe, American Made cartoon to show bloodshed which was the GI Joe Animated Cartoon when Duke was hit by Serpentor’s snake.

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@Cmdr:

Wonder if they will break the general form of no bloodshed in this movie?  They were the first, I believe, American Made cartoon to show bloodshed which was the GI Joe Animated Cartoon when Duke was hit by Serpentor’s snake.

I hope so… it would be kind of lame if they didn’t.

No blood in Transformers the Movie.  That’s why I ask.

I don’t seem to remember anyone being killed in GI Joe, but I haven’t seen a GI Joe cartoon in probably 20 years…

Nope, no one died as far as I know.  Both the Joes and the Cobras seemed to have all the accuracy of a platoon of Storm Troopers from Star Wars. :P

Duke was injured though.

I think Heavy Metal showed blood and it was American and shown prior to GI Joe.

Duke was supposed to die, but they reneged at the last minute.  That’s why the continuity is screwed up.  Don’t think they could show anyone dying on TV.

You might want to check that.  I think Heavy Metal came out a good decade after GI Joe, if not longer.

I did.  It’s younger than I thought ('81), but still predates the G.I. Joe cartoon series by 4 years.  It is, however, Canadian, but that still counts as American.  :wink:

Really, I woulda sworn Heavy Metal was released in the mid to late 90s like around 96 or 97.  Maybe that was a re-release or the first release in AMERICA (as opposed to Canada.)

Dunno.

Heavy Metal definitely pre-dates the GI Joe movie.  Heavy Metal is from the very early 1980’s (just check the soundtrack for confirmation).  I first saw it on HBO circa 1983.

It was re-released in the US in the mid 1990’s, and they changed a lot of the score (I prefer the original).

Then, since I am one who always admits when she is wrong, it must have been the re-release I remember putting on the shelves when I worked for Blockbuster Video in the mid 90s. (Which, btw, is the first time I saw it as well.  It was about two weeks after I first saw Akira.)

If it was the silver foil box, it was the re-release (15th Anniv I think it was)

Plain matte black box was the original release

(Both have Tarna on the front as the image)

The only one I ever saw was the “chrome” with holograms.  But then, we only had two boxes and four tapes, or some such quantity.  Not like I memorized everything, but that’s pretty much what we used to carry of sub-prime movies (ie movies that were not just released for the first time after running on the big screen for the summer.)

There was also a sequel around that time…maybe later 90’s.  It really wasn’t any good…