#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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@jayconant3816Ай бұрын
One of the best animated intros ever!
@ChrisCrazyHouseАй бұрын
So true.
@CB-ke7eqАй 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.
@mrdexsАй бұрын
Yes.
@comicbooksincahoots9578Ай бұрын
Yo JOE!
@diezel2kableАй бұрын
Agreed, still my #1 intro!
@BovineDesignsАй 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.
@omegon88Ай бұрын
😊
@00ghostcobraАй бұрын
Yes indeed..
@adriantrelaАй 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.
@chrisdaugherty8265Ай бұрын
Absolutely, it had everything this Joe fan could ever want.
@supamilkchanbitches3730Ай бұрын
@@adriantrela ngl... its posts like yours is why I wish youtube never disabled their thumbs down feature
@spidey-67Ай 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!
@popticnerveАй бұрын
@@spidey-67 He actually thanked me for reposting this on social media. Larry more than deserves his shine!
@CB-ke7eqАй 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.
@AhtoNajeebRashiedАй 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-ke7eqАй бұрын
@@AhtoNajeebRashied Mental illness is a helluva drug!
@Fenrir72Ай бұрын
@@AhtoNajeebRashied Wha?
@DestroyerOfWombsАй бұрын
Larry Houston is a real American Hero.
@davidw706Ай бұрын
This WAS the National Anthem for us kids in the 1980's
@hthrunАй бұрын
Probably the best 3 minutes of animation I've ever seen.
@somegamer7958Ай бұрын
It's really remarkable. GI Joe had the best explosions, fire, and lasers ever. Those animators were incredible
@steelman4ever29 күн бұрын
Agreed
@dannyhernandez1212Ай 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.
@tonywalker2334Ай бұрын
Absolutely blown away This gentleman played a monstrous part of my childhood with that movie intro. Yo Joe !!!!!
@RandomBlackGamerАй 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.
@MegaEmoreyАй бұрын
INDEED and you can tell too
@ianbrewster8934Ай 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.
@bw2273Ай бұрын
Thank you Larry! Im 43 now and still remember this fondly
@blayzejАй 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
@wilcee238Ай бұрын
OG Thundercats is close.
@paulholyfieldАй бұрын
@@wilcee238 I was just thinking that the other best intro is the original Thudercats!
@blayzejАй бұрын
@wilcee238 Yup, it's close Thundercats intro is great for sure
@jonathandavenport5326Ай бұрын
Agreed
@chrisdacosta9663Ай бұрын
Both were untouchable
@creoleDJАй бұрын
On behalf of ALL the old GI Joe cartoon fans, I want to say THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR CHILDHOOD EXCITING!
@movedbycompassionАй бұрын
Yo Joe!
@MegaEmoreyАй бұрын
and knowing is half the battle
@WonderSparkPuppets1Ай бұрын
Larry Houston is the GOAT, what a legend
@dieterdenglerАй бұрын
This opening is perfect.
@nikolaispence4370Ай бұрын
That introduction is one of the best introductions to any movie ever! The popping of the fireworks always get me!
@DrexelRiversАй 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.
@NinjaVanish247Ай бұрын
Incredible work.
@cowpuddles4851Ай бұрын
Imagine if the whole cartoon series was of this quality!
@maybetobyАй бұрын
A television show doesn't get that kind of budget. Especially in the 80s.
@davezanko9051Ай бұрын
Or at least the whole movie. The opening blows the rest of the movie away in style and content.
@maybetobyАй 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.
@namelessjedi2242Ай бұрын
Best part of the movie. Could have been the climax and no one would have been disappointed.
@cheeseburger12Ай бұрын
It was the climax of the movie! Sigh.
@hamothemagnif8529Ай бұрын
@@cheeseburger12haha!
@cesarc.4230Ай бұрын
It still holds up.
@dejarnettedesignsАй бұрын
Awesome!...Larry is one of my mentors and a great friend!
@aworldmadeofcardboard3692Ай 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!
@XenoJehuty84Ай 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.
@slimthumbtakАй бұрын
That intro is so incredible. CRASHING THROUGH THE SKY!
@Medialover100Ай 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.
@jgatzby7798Ай бұрын
One of the best animated opening scenes ever. It really draws you in from the animation to the score. Congrats Mr. Houston
@LH74Ай бұрын
It was the most amazing intro to any cartoon ever.
@JuggleHeadАй бұрын
Appreciate all the art and good memories you've given us, Larry!
@samwest1097Ай бұрын
These kids don’t even know that intro goes so hard. Thank you sir
@Spartanpotato117Ай бұрын
I watch this intro with my kids every 4th of July 😂
@rodneyadderton1077Ай бұрын
That is my favorite part of the movie.
@oneoftheskull3158Ай бұрын
Bruh! I never knew. That intro blew my pre teen mind. Salute. That guy is awesome.
@TheScareglowАй бұрын
Thank you! This is one of the coolest openings of all time. Top tier.
@ryanradcliffeАй бұрын
I love that intro, I would watch it over and over again. Play, rewind, repeat.
@RM2011ishАй 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?!
@captainscomicsandcomments8079Ай бұрын
Man, I'd love to shake this fellow's hand! He killed that intro!
@Rocky-or4rzАй бұрын
An artist making art. I love it.
@phillnormanАй 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 🫡🇺🇲
@popticnerveАй 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!😁
@DIZeLANАй бұрын
This man, as a creative, is an American treasure!! Thank you for all you've done!
@aaronmarshall5694Ай 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.
@sportjames23Ай бұрын
Well said.
@oneoftheskull3158Ай 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. 🤷🏾♂
@brileyblackburn3253Ай бұрын
I watched the whole movie twice. Now this intro is the only thing worth rewatching
@stephenyervasi6246Ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing and a Core Memory from my childhood! Thank you, sir!
@LVMILL1156Ай 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🤙🏾
@hr1megАй бұрын
An absolutely glorious intro! I remembered it then, and still to this day!
@oneoftheskull3158Ай 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.
@ThisIsTrentАй бұрын
Wow! Great story! He made a lot of our childhood memories!
@RRFTubeАй бұрын
Thank you Larry Houston!
@coreymcclammy1459Ай бұрын
Supremely great sound bite. 🙏🏾🤟🏾
@IAmAHeaterАй бұрын
God bless this man for creating something so inspirational.
@bjpalm1994Ай бұрын
Best animated movie intro period!🥲
@13lakeАй бұрын
I sent this intro to my cousins today. Fantastic.
@PV1230Ай бұрын
Brilliant work, Larry.
@CrunchyRhombusАй бұрын
Youre the man, Larry
@bbuchmeierАй бұрын
Love the movie intro. Epic.
@tomichel1Ай 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! 🇨🇦🇺🇲
@maximusprime345928 күн бұрын
Thank you Mr. Houston. To this day, the intro is still a masterpiece of animation.
@MrCIADАй бұрын
I watch that intro constantly! Thanks for posting this!
@Fenrir72Ай бұрын
Toei and Satoshi Urushihara animated this into reality. As Mr. Houston stated too.........he was floored when this was rendered. Team effort!
@ShinAdamSmasherАй бұрын
I love when people who I think might have fun jobs say they have, or had, a fun job.
@AndrewReevesArt7 күн бұрын
It’s amazing, Larry, thank you for making our childhoods amazing… YOOO JOE!!!! 🇺🇸
@sportjames23Ай бұрын
Maaaaan, that intro was so freakin' EPIC.
@bentonrpАй 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!!! 🥰
@JoseMartinez-df2dbАй бұрын
One of the best movie openings ever!
@Brinn1971Ай бұрын
Beautiful job! Love your sequence, and I’m glad it was picked! Such an amazing sequence and very inspiring when I was young, before I started my animation career. Thank you!
@themightythor1974Ай 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.
@TexasHollowEarthАй 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.
@samuelgardner8550Ай бұрын
Larry...you did an phenomenal job! The Gi joe the movie intro is by far, the most memorable and the most iconic! Thank you for this!
@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253Ай 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.
@Frank-fh2qnАй бұрын
Thank you for cutting loose.
@ericpowell4350Ай бұрын
Thank you, Larry! Great Job!
@checkityhold29 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.
@TH0MASBR00KSАй бұрын
it's on my KZbin playlist I look at it at least once a week
@calogero2947Ай бұрын
When I saw the 87 movie intro as a kid I remember being absolutely blown away!!!! Best Intro still to this day!!!!
@3RayfireАй бұрын
The sequence, the song, ingrained in our brains. It really was THAT DAMN GOOD.
@TransfixedАй бұрын
Legendary work. I think all Joe fans can agree that the movie intro was the peak of G.I Joe animation.
@amitypredator9385Ай 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.
@the4thtribe709Ай бұрын
Wow so this is the guy, that did that?! Excellent work great job!
@The_MimewarАй бұрын
DUDE! LARRY EFFING HOUSTON!! Is this man aware of the effect he had on my generation!?
@mams1701Ай 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.
@LOKNES1Ай бұрын
Intro was so awesome, kudos my man. 👍🏾
@MegaEmoreyАй бұрын
🥺 LARRY you made my childhood even better, THNAKS BRO
@reedfantastikАй бұрын
Larry Houston is a baaaaaad man! I hope he feels the appreciation. This is what you get when someone loves what they do.
@chrisbent5734Ай бұрын
Props to the animators at Toei Animation in Japan too!
@nightlam3419Ай бұрын
Toei Animation with a stacked japanese animation crew really kicked ass in that era of intros
@omegon88Ай 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.
@popticnerveАй 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! 🤜🤛
@MildredDronesАй бұрын
It was dope af. I remember the music to go with it also.
@mike-zt8ucАй бұрын
i enjoy watching this cartoon movie.....
@jimmyju76Ай бұрын
Gen Hawk with that gun shell all over the place 🫡
@R.L.SuttonАй бұрын
Love the opening. It was great.
@isaacescalera9643Ай бұрын
That intro is incredible!!! As a kid i was like Holy Crap THIS is just the opening!!!
@matthewmarek1467Ай бұрын
All the respect in the world, that is a masterful work of cinematic art.
@thunderchief7585Ай бұрын
Build a statue of this man! That intro is epic.
@danoeel3909Ай бұрын
He did a fantastic job with the visuals! It holds up very well even to this day
@LEEMAN-XАй 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.
@petemarqdadonАй бұрын
Bruh this scene is still fire 🔥 to this day!
@somegamer7958Ай бұрын
This guy did AMAZING work
@jayg473Ай бұрын
One of my greatest childhood memories!
@SethMcFartlaneАй 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.