GI Joe 2: Retaliation

[Kuzeh]

Yeah that was a huge spoiler...

 

[CelticPredator]

They also showed the big main super device exploding in the last trailer.

So...

 

[Khev]

Sounds like the main reason they pulled the film for reshoots last year wasn't just to add 3D but rather to tweak it due to poor test screening reactions. Supposedly any additional Tatum footage is minimal.

https://screencrush.com/g-i-joe-retaliation-reshoots-channing-tatum/

 

[Natrix]

[ame]https://youtu.be/a6wFpovHtnc[/ame]

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Was that Keith David?

 

[CelticPredator]

Of course it was. He does the commercials for all the Army/Navy/Marines commercials.

I love that. Probably the best thing to come out of this movie series.

 

[RIDDICK]

Doesn't look like COBRA... At all... >__<

 

[CelticPredator]

That would give it away.

 

[DiFabio]

That was pretty good.


I hope Cobra Commander sounds like this and not like Joseph Gordon Levitt,



[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbANBxbmLfw[/ame]

 

[CelticPredator]

It's one of my favorite voices ever. Doing the Cobra Commander voice is one of the more fun impressions to do.

 

[Bardoon]

Retaliation is either going to give G.I. Joe some mild-to-moderate hope for a sequel and continuation of the G.I. Joe franchise.

Or completely nuke it and be done for like Rise of COBRA did.

This is one of Hasbro's top two, homegrown franchises. After Battleship sort of fizzled and with Transformers extremely successful, they're better off promoting and showing off G.I. Joe then letting it die. More cash money for them!

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Looking forward to this, i've no personal history with the franchise and the first was okay just kinda silly, but from the trailers it looks like it'll be a good time

 

[hunnipot85]

Yeah, the first one was quite bad... this one certainly looks better. I just wish Baroness and Scarlett were in this one also. I hope they don't get killed off because that would be idiotic.

 

[Viking Spawn]

So... cool Ninja scene...


https://youtu.be/5THgCERowTQ

Looks great! Can't wait to see the MMS Roadblock figure!

 

[screamingmetal]

Retaliation is either going to give G.I. Joe some mild-to-moderate hope for a sequel and continuation of the G.I. Joe franchise.

Or completely nuke it and be done for like Rise of COBRA did.

This is one of Hasbro's top two, homegrown franchises. After Battleship sort of fizzled and with Transformers extremely successful, they're better off promoting and showing off G.I. Joe then letting it die. More cash money for them!

Having just recently seen Transformers Dark Side of the Moon, despite it not being a great movie, the last third of that movie seemed like a far better GI Joe movie then Rise of Cobra was.

It just goes to show you that it's possible to turn GI Joe RAH into a cool fun flick.

 

[karamazov80]

I saw the first and third TF movies, I thought both sucked, but I also thought both blew the doors off of the awful GI Joe movie (or at least as much as I could sit through).

I dig the faux commercial for Cobra.

 

[CREG Customs]

Cool to see the Rattlers and HISS

 

[Bardoon]

Having just recently seen Transformers Dark Side of the Moon, despite it not being a great movie, the last third of that movie seemed like a far better GI Joe movie then Rise of Cobra was.

It just goes to show you that it's possible to turn GI Joe RAH into a cool fun flick.

I was and am still a HUGE G.I. Joe fan.

I don't collect like I used to, but when I did, I had a lot of old RAH figures, vehicles, and boatloads of the modern, more recent GI. Joe stuff. I went to the Joe conventions to buy figures, I customized, and I even collected the comic books.

G.I. Joe "adult" fans usually look to the Marvel Larry Hama-written comics as the "definitive" G.I. Joe storyline. Just like Transformers fans look at the "Generation 1" TV series. Hama didn't shy away from portraying Cobra as a ruthless organization and Cobra Commander was painted as a genius mastermind who wasn't afraid to kill his enemies to protect his own role and power. He even tried killing his own son.

The challenge is that G.I. Joe is owned by a toy company whose main focus is always aiming the property at kids. There is the HUGE potential for a very serious storyline because an organized TERRORIST (which Cobra was said to be in the early days before the word "terrorism" became not PC and was replaced with "evil") group is one of the real world's greatest fears. I still hold out hope that they might one day do this.

Hasbro has to border the line between being realistic and fantasy military to attract all movie-goers. Rise of Cobra showed that you can't air an hour and a half toy commercial and hope to draw success. So far Retaliation LOOKS like it's on the right track. Gone are the Power Ranger suits and COBRA looks much more serious than it has been. At least Cobra Commander looks right!

I have better expectations for this movie, but I'm not hoping yet for the picture-perfect G.I. Joe movie that I've always wanted.

 

[CelticPredator]

Transformers 3 had Optimus Prime shooting an unarmed dude in the face. 2 had Prime shoot another unarmed dude in the face, and then he RIPPED OUT another guy's face.

Optimus Prime hates faces.

Why can't Cobra Commander hate faces?

 

[Devil_666]

It's one of my favorite voices ever.

If you talk about military stuff it's CC, but if you start talking about Energon and robots it becomes Starscream.