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No idea , i just know i had to carry a stupid draft card on me till i turned 26 lol. I dont see that girl looking old enough to have the experience that the barroness would have. Unless the do some dumb back story like they do in anime where she was a 8 year old soldier in her country and grew up to be a cold blooded killer lol .. I say get someone a little older in her late 30's early 40s .. There are plenty of Hot actresses that age out there , Kate Bekensale someone mentioned before.. She could kick some major ass like she did in underworld.

Kayevcee wrote:
Technically it was the Russians who beat Hitler by holding back his conquest of their country by sheer weight of numbers at a cost of millions of lives. On the other front the Nazis were overwhelmed by a combination of British and American armed forces, Italian rebels, French resistance fighters etc. Allies are important no matter who you are. Piss off the rest of the world and you could find it's lonely at the top

-Nick

I did a lot of studying on this particular subject. The Russians did in fact do their part. However, so many forget that Hitler wasn't the only threat. The U.S. almost single-handedly fought the Japanese in the Pacific: one of the main sticking points of US entry into WW2 was Allied support in the Pacific. The fact remains that if the Allies had lost any one of three key battles in WW2- the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Midway, and the Battle of Britain- the war would have gone on a lot longer and potentially gone the other way altogether. The loss of 600,000 German troops in Stalingrad was huge; however, equally as important was the sinking of ALL of Japan's aircraft carriers at Midway and the holding of England by the RAF-"so much owed to so many by so few"- without which the only possible invasion point would have been through Africa and the full force of German forces.

And thus ends our history lesson for the day.

Shadowman wrote:

PrimulArchangel wrote:pretty dumb choice if you ask me , i dont know who the actress is , shes cute and all but i pictured the Baroness as someone older and not some 20 year old looking bleached blonde bimbo, yeah i know her hair will be black and all but will look pretty dumb.. I can see it now, that movies entire line up is going to be pretty boys and bimbos.. Hey How about Paris Hilton to play Jady (B)J LOL ..

I say get actors you would have in a real true to life war movie , ones that look like they see many wars and the scars to proove it.

What's the cut off age for military service?

I don't know if that will have anything to do with her role. I'd wager they make her into the "deadly seductress" type or femme fatale character.

PrimulArchangel wrote:No idea , i just know i had to carry a stupid draft card on me till i turned 26 lol. I dont see that girl looking old enough to have the experience that the barroness would have. Unless the do some dumb back story like they do in anime where she was a 8 year old soldier in her country and grew up to be a cold blooded killer lol .. I say get someone a little older in her late 30's early 40s .. There are plenty of Hot actresses that age out there , Kate Bekensale someone mentioned before.. She could kick some major ass like she did in underworld.

No...no Dear GOD! No! The Baroness was never very old. Late twenties, early thirties at most.

And for the record, cut-off age is, I think, 36.

Shadowman wrote:

PrimulArchangel wrote:No idea , i just know i had to carry a stupid draft card on me till i turned 26 lol. I dont see that girl looking old enough to have the experience that the barroness would have. Unless the do some dumb back story like they do in anime where she was a 8 year old soldier in her country and grew up to be a cold blooded killer lol .. I say get someone a little older in her late 30's early 40s .. There are plenty of Hot actresses that age out there , Kate Bekensale someone mentioned before.. She could kick some major ass like she did in underworld.

No...no Dear GOD! No! The Baroness was never very old. Late twenties, early thirties at most.

And for the record, cut-off age is, I think, 36.

Well that is up to interpretation. The Marvel age had her pegged about lates 20's early 30's. She was in Vietnam when she was 16 when the Tiet offense started, but Devils Due have her as a much older, possibly early 40's. But then age doesn't matter in comics
Anyway I am would've gone with Kate Beckinsale, but Siena Miller is still a good choice. I'm guessing they will show the Baroness's path to Cobra, in that, an American bomb killed her parents or a soldier and she grew up hating the US, to which Cobra Comander swung in to take hold of her strings.

First-Aid wrote:

Kayevcee wrote:
Technically it was the Russians who beat Hitler by holding back his conquest of their country by sheer weight of numbers at a cost of millions of lives. On the other front the Nazis were overwhelmed by a combination of British and American armed forces, Italian rebels, French resistance fighters etc. Allies are important no matter who you are. Piss off the rest of the world and you could find it's lonely at the top

-Nick

I did a lot of studying on this particular subject. The Russians did in fact do their part. However, so many forget that Hitler wasn't the only threat. The U.S. almost single-handedly fought the Japanese in the Pacific: one of the main sticking points of US entry into WW2 was Allied support in the Pacific. The fact remains that if the Allies had lost any one of three key battles in WW2- the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Midway, and the Battle of Britain- the war would have gone on a lot longer and potentially gone the other way altogether. The loss of 600,000 German troops in Stalingrad was huge; however, equally as important was the sinking of ALL of Japan's aircraft carriers at Midway and the holding of England by the RAF-"so much owed to so many by so few"- without which the only possible invasion point would have been through Africa and the full force of German forces.

And thus ends our history lesson for the day.

May they retain this knowledge in honor instead of distain.

But since they won't, may we smile if only to ourselves when the need is called upon and we answer in truth and over all not in vain...

First-Aid wrote:

Kayevcee wrote:
Technically it was the Russians who beat Hitler by holding back his conquest of their country by sheer weight of numbers at a cost of millions of lives. On the other front the Nazis were overwhelmed by a combination of British and American armed forces, Italian rebels, French resistance fighters etc. Allies are important no matter who you are. Piss off the rest of the world and you could find it's lonely at the top

-Nick

I did a lot of studying on this particular subject. The Russians did in fact do their part. However, so many forget that Hitler wasn't the only threat. The U.S. almost single-handedly fought the Japanese in the Pacific: one of the main sticking points of US entry into WW2 was Allied support in the Pacific. The fact remains that if the Allies had lost any one of three key battles in WW2- the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Midway, and the Battle of Britain- the war would have gone on a lot longer and potentially gone the other way altogether. The loss of 600,000 German troops in Stalingrad was huge; however, equally as important was the sinking of ALL of Japan's aircraft carriers at Midway and the holding of England by the RAF-"so much owed to so many by so few"- without which the only possible invasion point would have been through Africa and the full force of German forces.

And thus ends our history lesson for the day.

Correction: Japan lost most of their Aircraft carriers. One made it out.

I don't care much for Gi Joe, but damnit I love Sienna. And ironically enough I can see the resemblance to the baroness if she dyed her hair black.

Roadbuster wrote:

First-Aid wrote:

Kayevcee wrote:
Technically it was the Russians who beat Hitler by holding back his conquest of their country by sheer weight of numbers at a cost of millions of lives. On the other front the Nazis were overwhelmed by a combination of British and American armed forces, Italian rebels, French resistance fighters etc. Allies are important no matter who you are. Piss off the rest of the world and you could find it's lonely at the top

-Nick

I did a lot of studying on this particular subject. The Russians did in fact do their part. However, so many forget that Hitler wasn't the only threat. The U.S. almost single-handedly fought the Japanese in the Pacific: one of the main sticking points of US entry into WW2 was Allied support in the Pacific. The fact remains that if the Allies had lost any one of three key battles in WW2- the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Midway, and the Battle of Britain- the war would have gone on a lot longer and potentially gone the other way altogether. The loss of 600,000 German troops in Stalingrad was huge; however, equally as important was the sinking of ALL of Japan's aircraft carriers at Midway and the holding of England by the RAF-"so much owed to so many by so few"- without which the only possible invasion point would have been through Africa and the full force of German forces.

And thus ends our history lesson for the day.

Correction: Japan lost most of their Aircraft carriers. One made it out.

Correction: The quote was typed wrong: Never was so much owed by so many to so few.

Note: Japan used 5 carriers in the battle. 4 were sunk in a 5 minute span. The one that steamed away was later sunk in retreat by a group of American bombers that had gotten their navigations mixed up (also known as "they got lost"). This occurred roughly an hour after the primary battle.

She ain't that great. I agree that Sienna Guillory would have been a much better choice.

First aid: Quite correct. If I appeared to suggest otherwise I apologise. In fact, when I visited some relatives in East Malaysia I was told about the sliding scale of pricing that the local shopkeepers have, on account of Allied intervention in double-ya double-ya two:

Cheapest: locals
Next cheapest: Americans, Australians and Scots (long story) because their grandparents may have saved them from the Japanese.
Normal: Everybody else.
High: Chinese, not out of any particular grudge but because the tourists are usually loaded.
Highest: Japanese, because their grandparents may have invaded them. Also, usually loaded.

I'd have taken more advantage of it, but my cousins count as "local" so I just let them do the talking

Anyway, yes, GI Joe. Sienna Miller is lovely, but can she act? I can't remember seeing her in anything. The film in general looks like it's going to be a car crash, which only makes me want to see it more.

-Nick

Kayevcee wrote:Anyway, yes, GI Joe. Sienna Miller is lovely, but can she act? I can't remember seeing her in anything. The film in general looks like it's going to be a car crash, which only makes me want to see it more.

-Nick

If I can sit through a particular Adam West movie (Involving "Shark Repellent Bat-spray") I can sit through anything.

EDIT: Let me elaborate: I want to find Burt Ward, and I want to stab him.

I didn't know we liked GI Joe.

Dangit, i don't want to get hooked onto another franchise.
I'm already spending too much money on TFs.
This movie better suck, cus Sierra Miller is hawt enough to make me wanna watch.

Jazzz wrote:I didn't know we liked GI Joe.

We like a lot of franchises here.

But Transformers and GI Joe have always been closely related. They're both from Hasbro, both targeted at boys. Hell, not only did they do a crossover comic series, but Cobra Commander appeared in G1. (In the episode "Only Human," referred to as "Old Snake," he was voiced by Cris Latta, and even yelled "COBRAAA!" before coughing uncontrollably) And Marissa Fairborne is supposed to be the daughter of two of the Joes. (Though I can't remember which ones)

Jazzz wrote:I didn't know we liked GI Joe.

I think there's always been a connection and a friendly rivalry between Joe collectors and TF collectors. We all kind of team up against Star Wars collectors...then we rely on SW collectors for numbers against Pokemon collectors. Once we eliminate the Pokemon collectors we will destroy the Yu-Gi-Oh collectors, but not until we've used their numbers to destroy the Power Rangers forever.

It's an 80's thing.

Of course it's all in the timing of "US Fighting Terror". Think about this. If Cobra was a real terroristic organization where would they get the money to support them with all their weapons and tanks and jets?

Shadowman wrote:

Jazzz wrote:I didn't know we liked GI Joe.

We like a lot of franchises here.

But Transformers and GI Joe have always been closely related. They're both from Hasbro, both targeted at boys. Hell, not only did they do a crossover comic series, but Cobra Commander appeared in G1. (In the episode "Only Human," referred to as "Old Snake," he was voiced by Cris Latta, and even yelled "COBRAAA!" before coughing uncontrollably) And Marissa Fairborne is supposed to be the daughter of two of the Joes. (Though I can't remember which ones)

Well in the comic it was lady jaye and Flint, and that episode where the Quints were playing with time, when marrisa's father comes, he sounds like Flint.

Oh great one of so called "it" girls *roll eyes*.Whatever she wears become a fashion fad for chicks to follow, not a Baroness thing at all. Yet another classic character(one the greatest villianesses imo) raped by the crapola that is Hollywood. There are other way better actresses around.

Tetsu Aero wrote:Hm, i wonder why they bothered with doing this movie. For all i know GI Joe is only famous in the US. Oh well.

Don't they make movies about things that are popular in countries that find them popular?

Dagon wrote:

Tetsu Aero wrote:Hm, i wonder why they bothered with doing this movie. For all i know GI Joe is only famous in the US. Oh well.

Don't they make movies about things that are popular in countries that find them popular?

...from the Department of Redundancy Department...

oh hells yeah! tight black leather here we come!