Blood for the Baron!

I have seen trailers to all 3 I don't like the way they changed characters in GI Joe just like they did in Transformers. Transformers 2's trailer looks the same cardboard cut-out mute robots that smash things like the first. Star Trek apparently ignores any continuity with the original series and simon pegg looks like Wallace with a toupee I wondered where Gromitt was

http://www.superherohype.com/news/gijoenews.php?id=8296

or even today.

ironblood, you ever watch a superhero movie? or ANY movie based on a book? stuff always gets changed.

I do but Transformers was a total travesty and if they wanted a black character in GI Joe they could have had Stalker or Roadblock not mess up Ripcord like they have

well, i've seen worse. Clear and Present Danger the novel features a fifty-odd year old Coast Guard cutter captain who's a real old-man-of-the-sea type and a pretty heroic dude who joined to rescue people and is a bit out of his depth dealing with the modern anti-drugs mission. CPD the movie features a bit-part for a thirty-odd year old woman captain of a USCG cutter.

and don't even start me on 'The Sum of All Fears'

I haven't seen The Sum of all Fears but the way Ryan keeps changing age is absolutely stupid

well, SOAF was supposed to be a reboot origin pic. but they've never made any more.

Were any books written after it I haven't read them myself?

yes. the series runs:

Without Remorse (John Clark's origin)
Red Rabbit (prequel written later)
Patriot Games
Hunt for Red October
Cardinal of the Kremlin (REAL spy stuff involving SDI)
Clear and Present Danger
Sum of all Fears
Debt of Honour (America fights Japan for the Soloman Islands)
Executive Orders (US vs Iran)
Rainbow Six (stars John Clark and Ding Chavez leading a NATO anti-terror team)
The Bear and the Dragon (Russia and America vs China)
The Teeth of the Tiger (stars John Jr. and deals with a secret agency that doesn't exist and mid-East terrorists)

Thanks I may look into these to read

teeth of the tiger is crap.