Stretch Armstrong: The Movie!

[Raph's Girl]

"Dear Hasbro, we don't need this!"

Coming to a theatre near us in 2012 in glorious 3D! Gah.... Starring Taylor Lautner! Ugh.... Taylor, I love ya and all but boy you just lost some brownie points..... :ohwell:

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[The Stryker]

Sounds fun. Lighten up.

[Brodie]

This actually sounds like the ONLY movie that would make sense in 3-d.

Interested.

[Hannah]

This guy is so ugly.

[Cure]

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Speak for your self.

[Guitar_Raph]

Coming to a theatre near us in 2012 in glorious 3D! Gah.... Starring Taylor Lautner! Ugh.... Taylor, I love ya and all but boy you just lost some brownie points..... :ohwell:

This guy is so ugly.

I see both your statements about Taylor Lautner & raise you this...

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Not a bad singing voice.

[Peanut]

"Dear Hasbro, we don't need this!"

Because God forbid they ruin the storied history of the Stretch Armstrong franchise!

[Leo656]

It's like putting honey and pickle brine on your breakfast cereal. It might not hurt anyone, it may not even be the worst thing in the world, but what would make you think it was a good idea in the first place?

Whatever the case, I hope at the end he meets the same fate every kid's Stretch Armstrong does: some random kid gets curious/bored, stabs him in the gut with scissors, and he bleeds out sticky crap and dies. Y'know, just to "keep it real". :lol:

[Spitfire]

I heard about this awhile ago. Apparently he's quite popular in South America. Sounds retarded to me but making movies out of toy lines and crappy old cartoons seems to be the new thing to do now. Whatever keeps the industry alive. Every once in awhile a good movie will slip through the cracks so I can't complain.

[Brodie]

Every once in awhile a good movie will slip through the cracks so I can't complain.

Yeah...But you liked Avatar, so...

I think there are probably quite a few toy-based movies that'd be more interesting than that flick.

[Spitfire]

Yeah...But you liked Avatar, so...

I think there are probably quite a few toy-based movies that'd be more interesting than that flick.

Avatar was a film I enjoyed, but I enjoy most of James Cameron movies. He honestly just jeeps making the same movie over and over again with different characters and settings. The moral value of the story might change but the same character archetypes are always there and he does sci-fi action better then anyone else. It's like listening to the new album from my favorite band, only it takes them several years to write it.

While you might be able to make a toy based movie more interesting then Avatar no one's done it yet, at least in my opinion. I'd rather see people adapting books or comics with strong stories then trying to make movies out of He-man and Missile Command.

[Peanut]

Spit, what the hell, man?! Why would you rail on the story of Missile Command? The depth of fiction created to flesh-out that world is second to Lord of the Rings, and maybe Stretch Armstrong.

[Leo656]

People keep ragging on a He-Man movie, but the fact is that toy line had the most dense mythology of like, any toy line ever, especially if you add in all the stuff from the cartoon, comics, mini-comics, etc. People often refer to the cartoon as being a shallow toy commercial, but the fact is only like the first dozen or so figures made it into the cartoon, the next few hundred never did, ever, and that didn't change until they introduced the Horde and She-Ra later on. Likewise, the cartoon had hundreds of characters that never had toys made. Out of all the cartoon/toy line experiments of the 80s, He-Man was by far the closest thing to being a "real" show with an actual plot. Star Wars meets Conan meets Lord of the Rings should be a ridiculously easy concept for a kick-ass movie, but there's that whole gray area of overthinking it, wondering how serious it should be or not be, etc. But it lends itself way better story-wise to being a flick than, say, Transformers. Or Stretch Armstrong, for that matter.

Point being that you can in fact make a good movie of a toy if there's a story there.