Storyboard Director Larry Houston Reflects on his iconic Intro for G I Joe The Movie!

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Storyboard Director Larry Houston Reflects on his iconic Intro for G I Joe The Movie!

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Ай бұрын

#marvel #gijoe
Storyboard artist and Director Larry Houston (X-Men) reminisces about his experience when working on the G.I.Joe animated series and how he came up with the ideal for the movie's spectacular opening sequence!

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@jayconant3816 Ай бұрын

One of the best animated intros ever!

@ChrisCrazyHouse Ай бұрын

So true.

@CB-ke7eq Ай бұрын

Toei Animation was really ahead of their time in the 80s. Their "Pryde of the X-Men" pilot is still one of my favorite Marvel things ever.

@mrdexs Ай бұрын

Yes.

@comicbooksincahoots9578 Ай бұрын

Yo JOE!

@diezel2kable Ай бұрын

Agreed, still my #1 intro!

@BovineDesigns Ай бұрын

This intro is one of the greatest things in cinema. It perfectly captures what goes on in a kids head when they're playing with toys.

@omegon88 Ай бұрын

😊

@00ghostcobra Ай бұрын

Yes indeed..

@adriantrela Ай бұрын

Yes IT IS. It's EPIC but after all these years I see and it hurts me to say how many plot holes this movie opening has and how...stupid it is.

@chrisdaugherty8265 Ай бұрын

Absolutely, it had everything this Joe fan could ever want.

@supamilkchanbitches3730 26 күн бұрын

@@adriantrela ngl... its posts like yours is why I wish youtube never disabled their thumbs down feature

@davidw706 Ай бұрын

This WAS the National Anthem for us kids in the 1980's

@spidey-67 Ай бұрын

I hope Larry sees these comments and knows how much fun he helped make our childhood with this cartoon and how much we truly appreciate him!

@popticnerve Ай бұрын

@@spidey-67 He actually thanked me for reposting this on social media. Larry more than deserves his shine!

@CB-ke7eq Ай бұрын

@@spidey-67 In my head canon I've now assigned Snake Eyes the first name "Larry" in honor of both Mr Houston and of course Mr Hama. I thank both of you gentlemen greatly, you shaped so many childhood memories with your creativity.

@AhtoNajeebRashied Ай бұрын

Oh, so you speak for everyone. Interesting. No thank you. I don't require anyone to speak on my behalf. It's quite rude.

@CB-ke7eq Ай бұрын

@@AhtoNajeebRashied Mental illness is a helluva drug!

@Fenrir72 24 күн бұрын

@@AhtoNajeebRashied Wha?

@DestroyerOfWombs Ай бұрын

Larry Houston is a real American Hero.

@dannyhernandez1212 Ай бұрын

I hope he knows the impact he had on millions of children and grown men. This intro was everything a kid imagined his GI Joe's doing while playing with them.

@hthrun Ай бұрын

Probably the best 3 minutes of animation I've ever seen.

@somegamer7958 Ай бұрын

It's really remarkable. GI Joe had the best explosions, fire, and lasers ever. Those animators were incredible

@steelman4ever 21 күн бұрын

Agreed

@RandomBlackGamer Ай бұрын

Keep in mind that this guy not only did the storyboarding for this intro. But also the 90s X-Men cartoon. And would return to do the intro to X-Men 97 with new animations.

@MegaEmorey 25 күн бұрын

INDEED and you can tell too

@tonywalker2334 Ай бұрын

Absolutely blown away This gentleman played a monstrous part of my childhood with that movie intro. Yo Joe !!!!!

@ianbrewster8934 Ай бұрын

Honestly I can never get tired of seeing the opening. It is a 10 out of 10 there is nothing you can say bad about this opening. I know people will say it's over the top 80s jingoism at its best. But I don't care it is freaking perfect.

@creoleDJ Ай бұрын

On behalf of ALL the old GI Joe cartoon fans, I want to say THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR CHILDHOOD EXCITING!

@movedbycompassion Ай бұрын

Yo Joe!

@MegaEmorey 25 күн бұрын

and knowing is half the battle

@blayzej Ай бұрын

I think it's the best intro of all time, any cartoon, anime, manga, whatever... you can argue about the movie's story, but that intro is untouchable

@wilcee238 Ай бұрын

OG Thundercats is close.

@paulholyfield Ай бұрын

@@wilcee238 I was just thinking that the other best intro is the original Thudercats!

@blayzej Ай бұрын

@wilcee238 Yup, it's close Thundercats intro is great for sure

@jonathandavenport5326 Ай бұрын

Agreed

@chrisdacosta9663 Ай бұрын

Both were untouchable

@bw2273 Ай бұрын

Thank you Larry! Im 43 now and still remember this fondly

@WonderSparkPuppets1 Ай бұрын

Larry Houston is the GOAT, what a legend

@namelessjedi2242 Ай бұрын

Best part of the movie. Could have been the climax and no one would have been disappointed.

@cheeseburger12 Ай бұрын

It was the climax of the movie! Sigh.

@hamothemagnif8529 Ай бұрын

@@cheeseburger12haha!

@nikolaispence4370 Ай бұрын

That introduction is one of the best introductions to any movie ever! The popping of the fireworks always get me!

@DrexelRivers Ай бұрын

hands down one of the best cartoon intros ever!! that intro still holds up today and is ingrained in every kids mind when that movie first came out. the music, the action, showcasing almost every character, etc...just incredible!! thank you Larry houston for giving me an awesome childhood memory.

@cowpuddles4851 Ай бұрын

Imagine if the whole cartoon series was of this quality!

@maybetoby Ай бұрын

A television show doesn't get that kind of budget. Especially in the 80s.

@davezanko9051 26 күн бұрын

Or at least the whole movie. The opening blows the rest of the movie away in style and content.

@maybetoby 26 күн бұрын

@davezanko9051 it's cuz they animated it first. It was meant to be the final battle of the movie. Then they got the script, so obviously changes had to be made. So they pushed it to the beginning of the movie instead.

@aworldmadeofcardboard3692 Ай бұрын

This is the most iconic sequence in GI Joe ARAH History! It is just beautiful! GI Joe fans of My generation stand to attention when this plays. It is the definitive showing of a PURE AMERICAN HERO!

@Spartanpotato117 Ай бұрын

I watch this intro with my kids every 4th of July 😂

@slimthumbtak Ай бұрын

That intro is so incredible. CRASHING THROUGH THE SKY!

@jgatzby7798 Ай бұрын

One of the best animated opening scenes ever. It really draws you in from the animation to the score. Congrats Mr. Houston

@LH74 Ай бұрын

It was the most amazing intro to any cartoon ever.

@cesarc.4230 Ай бұрын

It still holds up.

@aaronmarshall5694 Ай бұрын

Possibly the greatest intro to an animated film ever made; it certainly fit the theme of the show itself. I definitely have mixed feelings about the rest of G.I. JOE: The Movie, though, like Snake-Eyes getting quickly KOed by the Cobra-La Guard (he NEVER got the respect he did in the comics), the whole Duke/Falcon "half-brothers" subplot, the same usurping of established characters by newcomers (one of which...Big Lob...was never even in the toy line or comics) as in Transformers: The Movie, the awkward "death/coma" of Duke, and so on. It did have its fun moments as well as some that transcended the mostly bloodless nature of the animated series, but just like Transformers I personally feel the writers made a mistake by not making the core characters we fans were already familiar with central to the plot as opposed to shoved out of the way in order to promote the next wave of consumer products.

@sportjames23 Ай бұрын

Well said.

@oneoftheskull3158 Ай бұрын

Nah man, that's what made those movies great. The core characters had their run, it was time for some fresh meat. That's what made those movies cool, seeing new, fresh characters. What would those movies be without those characters? Nothing. We were introduced to Unicron, Ultra Magnus, Galvatron, etc.. And on the GI Joe side, we were introduce to The Slaughterhouse, Cobra La, Nemesis Enforcer, Pythona, Jinx, those characters and more were awesome. Snake Eyes, Prime and them had like 2 whole seasons to show out, it was new characters turn at the mic. Embrace it. 🤷🏾‍♂

@dieterdengler Ай бұрын

This opening is perfect.

@RM2011ish Ай бұрын

Dude. THIS GUY IS LEGENDARY. That Opening was one of the greatest damn things I ever seen. I wonder how he felt to see Toei Animation bring it to life?!

@JuggleHead Ай бұрын

Appreciate all the art and good memories you've given us, Larry!

@ryanradcliffe Ай бұрын

I love that intro, I would watch it over and over again. Play, rewind, repeat.

@rodneyadderton1077 Ай бұрын

That is my favorite part of the movie.

@AndrewReevesArt 2 сағат бұрын

It’s amazing, Larry, thank you for making our childhoods amazing… YOOO JOE!!!! 🇺🇸

@samwest1097 Ай бұрын

These kids don’t even know that intro goes so hard. Thank you sir

@themightythor1974 Ай бұрын

The best part of the movie, it's downhill after the intro. Larry Houston is a genius to include almost every GIJoe character in a 3 and a half minutes intro.

@TexasHollowEarth Ай бұрын

.... nope. Research Nazi billion $ expedition to the Himalayan Mtns, expedition. They were after something. There's photographic proof that they found people to lead them to it.

@dejarnettedesigns Ай бұрын

Awesome!...Larry is one of my mentors and a great friend!

@oneoftheskull3158 Ай бұрын

I just wanted to add this piece. GI Joe the Movie randomly came on one afternoon on Fox. Randomly. No warning, no commercials, no nothing. And it didn't start from the beginning, it started like 30 minutes into the movie. And then when those 30 minutes ran out, like it began at 5:30, and at 6:00 o clock that's when the intro came on. Just imagine, you're a kid sitting there expecting another cartoon or show to come on, and then randomly there's GI Joe the movie, and you have no idea what's going on, or what it is. And then 30 minutes later, the intro starts. My mind is till blown till this day. Thanks to Larry and ALL who had something to do with that movie.

@NinjaVanish247 Ай бұрын

Incredible work.

@Medialover100 Ай бұрын

Brother!!! This intro was mind blowing back then & still holds up to this day! Thank u 🙏🏾 for giving this amazing piece of art that will be forever burned in our childhood memories! I’m glad that with the internet, we finally get to learn who these talented men & women who gave us “After School” cartoons are. They don’t have much of any good cartoons for kids/adults around these days.

@hr1meg Ай бұрын

An absolutely glorious intro! I remembered it then, and still to this day!

@XenoJehuty84 Ай бұрын

Larry, you and your teammates made one of the BEST animated movie intros of all time, as well as your other contributions! Thank you from an 80's kid who became the man he is thanks in no small part to what you, and other story-tellers and animators did to entertain, educate, and amaze us.

@bentonrp Ай бұрын

Had the honor of meeting this creative treasure of a guy at a Santa Clarita convention when away from my own booth. A true bookmark in our culture! ❤️ How he can remain so unbelievably humble, I don't know. Thank You Mr. Houston!!! 🥰

@oneoftheskull3158 Ай бұрын

Bruh! I never knew. That intro blew my pre teen mind. Salute. That guy is awesome.

@LVMILL1156 Ай бұрын

Was one of my "GO-TO" feel good moments from childhood that gets the blood pumping. They need to give G.I.Joe the (X-Men 97) treatment🤙🏾

@phillnorman Ай бұрын

If he did see these comments, then I would want to say thank you immensely... I love your work and was inspired by it so much that I joined the military in 89. Was in the "Rapid Deployment" unit out Ft. Benning, GA. Participated in 2 major conflicts: Operations Just Cause/Panama Invasion & Operations Desert Shield/Storm, trained with the 75th Rangers and other things. I would like to say thank you from an old soldier for being the inspiration, what for me, was my chance to be part of GI JOE, Real American Heroes 🫡🇺🇲

@popticnerve Ай бұрын

@@phillnorman I also had a friend that enlisted in the Armed forces thanks to G.I.Joe. Not only have the cartoons utilized marketing for the toyline but served as a recruitment tool!😁

@13lake Ай бұрын

I sent this intro to my cousins today. Fantastic.

@captainscomicsandcomments8079 Ай бұрын

Man, I'd love to shake this fellow's hand! He killed that intro!

@DIZeLAN Ай бұрын

This man, as a creative, is an American treasure!! Thank you for all you've done!

@Rocky-or4rz Ай бұрын

An artist making art. I love it.

@brileyblackburn3253 Ай бұрын

I watched the whole movie twice. Now this intro is the only thing worth rewatching

@Fenrir72 24 күн бұрын

Toei and Satoshi Urushihara animated this into reality. As Mr. Houston stated too.........he was floored when this was rendered. Team effort!

@sportjames23 Ай бұрын

Maaaaan, that intro was so freakin' EPIC.

@3Rayfire Ай бұрын

The sequence, the song, ingrained in our brains. It really was THAT DAMN GOOD.

@The_Mimewar Ай бұрын

DUDE! LARRY EFFING HOUSTON!! Is this man aware of the effect he had on my generation!?

@bjpalm1994 Ай бұрын

Best animated movie intro period!🥲

@ShinAdamSmasher Ай бұрын

I love when people who I think might have fun jobs say they have, or had, a fun job.

@JoseMartinez-df2db Ай бұрын

One of the best movie openings ever!

@Psyclonus7 Ай бұрын

SO many people died in that intro

@amitypredator9385 Ай бұрын

Hat's off to you, sir. As a person who always wanted to start his own comic books, I really appreciate the effort you made for that amazing opening to the movie.

@coreymcclammy1459 Ай бұрын

Supremely great sound bite. 🙏🏾🤟🏾

@bbuchmeier Ай бұрын

Love the movie intro. Epic.

@jimmyju76 Ай бұрын

Gen Hawk with that gun shell all over the place 🫡

@tomichel1 Ай бұрын

I always wanted to see/hear an actual US Army music collaboration for instilling THAT kind of patriotism to be proud of your country to the kids! That's as close at it could get, to my humble opinion. I am a French (bilingual) Canadian and when I saw as a young kid that intro on the Big Screen, I was Blown-Away!! Thank you ey! 🇨🇦🇺🇲

@kristijankontrec2123 Ай бұрын

General Hawk on full auto!!!! One of the best intros and my favourite of all time U S A baby!!!

@ThisIsTrent Ай бұрын

Wow! Great story! He made a lot of our childhood memories!

@IAmAHeater Ай бұрын

God bless this man for creating something so inspirational.

@RRFTube Ай бұрын

Thank you Larry Houston!

@TheScareglow Ай бұрын

Thank you! This is one of the coolest openings of all time. Top tier.

@maximusprime3459 21 күн бұрын

Thank you Mr. Houston. To this day, the intro is still a masterpiece of animation.

@Transfixed Ай бұрын

Legendary work. I think all Joe fans can agree that the movie intro was the peak of G.I Joe animation.

@mams1701 Ай бұрын

I'm over 50 years old and I remember seeing this the first time broadcast on a New York station. My brother and I absolutely lost our minds when this movie started. We could not believe how incredible this opening was. To this day I still watch it and hear that theme song and I still get that excitement. This was the single greatest opening of anything animated I think I've ever seen with the only things even coming close would be Wolverine and the X-Men. This was phenomenal.

@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 Ай бұрын

I haven't seen a single episode of GI Joe, but I love when creators admit that they had a lot of fun doing something. In general.

@CrunchyRhombus Ай бұрын

Youre the man, Larry

@checkityhold 21 күн бұрын

I love this intro. You can just tell by watching it was made by a true fan. The best artists who work in a franchise are almost always true fans.

@stephenyervasi6246 Ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing and a Core Memory from my childhood! Thank you, sir!

@nightlam3419 Ай бұрын

Toei Animation with a stacked japanese animation crew really kicked ass in that era of intros

@Frank-fh2qn Ай бұрын

Thank you for cutting loose.

@reedfantastik Ай бұрын

Larry Houston is a baaaaaad man! I hope he feels the appreciation. This is what you get when someone loves what they do.

@calogero2947 Ай бұрын

When I saw the 87 movie intro as a kid I remember being absolutely blown away!!!! Best Intro still to this day!!!!

@TH0MASBR00KS Ай бұрын

it's on my KZfaq playlist I look at it at least once a week

@isaacescalera9643 Ай бұрын

That intro is incredible!!! As a kid i was like Holy Crap THIS is just the opening!!!

@R.L.Sutton Ай бұрын

Love the opening. It was great.

@LEEMAN-X Ай бұрын

That's awesome! Kinda reminds me of when I 1st saw Transformers the movie after watching it on TV, I was blown away at the movie animation vs TV as a kid.

@SethMcFartlane 28 күн бұрын

The shot of the Cobra ship with the full moon in the background as Cobra troopers parajump down toward the screen will never cease to be epic.

@aldeniro1983 Ай бұрын

Iconic asf i remember taping this movie on regular tv with a vhs in 1988 good times man👌🏾

@MegaEmorey 25 күн бұрын

🥺 LARRY you made my childhood even better, THNAKS BRO

@mike-zt8uc Ай бұрын

i enjoy watching this cartoon movie.....

@chaospoet Ай бұрын

Having a full on war battle at the Statue of Liberty with that awesome music is still THE best intro to any movie ever made. I mean 3 minutes in and you got your money's worth and were hyped beyond belief for the actual movie itself.

@mediaj2k126 Ай бұрын

Thanks Larry, for the best Battle On Liberty Island YOJOE!!! In order of Epic Scenes on Liberty Island: 1) G.I. Joe: The Movie 2) Spider-Man: No Way Home 3) X-Men (2000) 4) Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins IMHO

@chrisbent5734 Ай бұрын

Props to the animators at Toei Animation in Japan too!

@omegon88 Ай бұрын

@phillnorman: Thank you for your service, sir, and I'm glad the show was a good memory for you. It was fun to create.

@popticnerve Ай бұрын

@@omegon88 For anyone attending this year's San Diego Comic Con, stop by to give Mr. Houston a personal shoutout. Thanks for stopping by to drop a comment or two, Larry! 🤜🤛

@MrBlink1980 25 күн бұрын

If you ever read this Larry, this intro made this movie. It is the most patriotic cinema that came out of the 80s. As a kid, this is how I imagine fighting Cobra and defending America. I will just go find this intro and watch it. Just to relive a little bit of my childhood.