GI Joe Official Movie Publicity Photos - LARGE PICS!

[thenammagazine]

Don't read back a few pages if you don't want to know (if that makes any sense ).

The absence of the "cough cough" Commander (I guess I need to see a doc about that cough ) and the lack of Zartan would either be good marketing or else it shows that the character designs are so weak that if shown there'd be an uprising.

I liked the Baroness--- that was about it from the trailer.

He's in it. Played by Arnold Vosloo

Look this movie isn't meant to be a "saving private Ryan" or a "band of brothers" it's a popcorn movie based on TOYS. Quit your whining and go back and play with your 3/4 Joes on your living room carpet.

Still going to see and enjoy it for what it is...mindless entertainment. Anyone who goes to see GI Joe expecting Citizen Kane is a pretentious ****** in serious need of a comeuppance. All these fanboys really need to get a life and realize that GI Joe is made for kids, not 30 year old losers debating the artistic merits of a movie based on a toy line.

I guess expecting a movie based on G.I. Joe A Real American Hero to actually be about G.I. Joe is asking too much, huh ? Perhaps you guys should actually pick up a magazine and read some of the promotional interviews about this film. The movie is called G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and being marketed to the very "30-year-old losers" you're putting down, not children (but then you'd know this had you read said promotionals). So given that what we've seen and read has to date, so thoroughly raped that nostalgic lineage, the very lineage they're attempting to capitalize on while bastardizing the property, I'd say it's justified. Trying to pass this movie off the way they're marketing it is like rolling a turd in hair, adding a tinsel bandoleer and saying it's Chewbacca.

 

[ActionFigureLegend]

Just watched the TV spot - what a piece of ^^^^. From what I've seen I can't spot a single redeeming thing beyond the Baroness' outfit. I rank this with the Jean Claude Van Damme version of Street Fighter.

I was thinking the same thing. But I hope im not right. All we can do is just wait and see and hope for the best.

 

[DarthNeil]

He's in it. Played by Arnold Vosloo
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I know. And that's why since there's been nada shown of him that's either very good (unlikely) or verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry bad.

 

[Darth Cruel]

Ahhh...feel the hate. I love coming to this thread. It is very entertaining and I can hate vicariously through this thread so that I don't have to truely hate anything myself.

I am still hoping to see the trailer soon. I caught a glimps of it during the Superbowl. But the MC at the bar I went to was a Superbowl commercial hater and had fun talking over them. But from what very little I did see, I thought it looked like it might be entertaining enough.

I do see the extreme removal from the style of the comics and cartoons. I like the re-vision enough to see the movie, though. As long as they didn't show all of the best action in the trailer, that aspect looks to have promise.

 

[Khev]

All I want from a GI Joe movie is for it to either be faithful or cool. Unfortunately as of right now it looks like we won't be getting much of either.

 

[the angry orc]

i just want it to be entertaining. i don't care if they change it. i don't feel my childhood is being 'raped' or anthing like that. it's a movie. it's gonna be different. i'm fine with that.

 

[IrishJedi]

So seeing that preview really made me rethink my early bashing of this movie, they might not totally butcher it afterall. It won't be what I wanted it to be, but it still looks good enough to go and try to enjoy.

Don't fall for it, dude. Just remember these 2 things:

Marlon Wayans
Stephen Sommers (director of VAN HELSING)

Snap out of your marketing-induced haze.

There. Better?

 

[BadMoon]

I think the trailer looked cool. Plus the red head is hot! So I will see it.

 

[bumblebee]

I think the trailer looked cool. Plus the red head is hot! So I will see it.

Good enough reason for me.

 

[IrishJedi]

Yeah, but she'll be covered in stupid black armor and getting hit on by Marlon Wayans the whole time.

You like hot red heads? Just throw in the BEASTMASTER dvd.

 

[Sick Boy 82]

I think the trailer looked cool. Plus the red head is hot! So I will see it.

Yup, good enough reason for me too!

 

[galactiboy]

Still looks like crap, but I'll still see it just because I feel its my responsibility

 

[IrishJedi]

I'll see it too (out of morbid curiosity, as much as anything)... but I'm buying the ticket to see something else.

 

[galactiboy]

I'll see it too (out of morbid curiosity, as much as anything)... but I'm buying the ticket to see something else.

That's not a bad plan

 

[IrishJedi]

That's not a bad plan

Seriously. You can see the movie without having the complicity of encouraging more crap like it. That's what I'm doing.

 

[Darth Waller]

Not asking for Citizen Kane, just a movie that respects 25 years of established characterization.

I'll see it too (out of morbid curiosity, as much as anything)... but I'm buying the ticket to see something else.

That's too funny. I may have to try that one.

 

[Darth_Pain]

I completelt forgot a GI JOE movie was being made.
Then I saw the preview last night during the SuperBowl and WOW! It looks BADASS!!!:chew
SIDESHOW...PLEASE, make SNAKEYES AND STORMSHADOW PFs!!!

 

[DarkArtist81]

Don't fall for it, dude. Just remember these 2 things:

Marlon Wayans
Stephen Sommers (director of VAN HELSING)

Snap out of your marketing-induced haze.

There. Better?

I know... It has the possibility... a HUGE possibility to really really suck. I know I won't see it opening night, I will wait and see what the overall vibe is before going and spending money to see it. If the response is at least better than the Spirit, I will go and check it out.. But if it is a colossal mess like that film was.. I will wait to see it via Netflix.

 

[preeny101]

He's in it. Played by Arnold Vosloo





I guess expecting a movie based on G.I. Joe A Real American Hero to actually be about G.I. Joe is asking too much, huh ? Perhaps you guys should actually pick up a magazine and read some of the promotional interviews about this film. The movie is called G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and being marketed to the very "30-year-old losers" you're putting down, not children (but then you'd know this had you read said promotionals). So given that what we've seen and read has to date, so thoroughly raped that nostalgic lineage, the very lineage they're attempting to capitalize on while bastardizing the property, I'd say it's justified. Trying to pass this movie off the way they're marketing it is like rolling a turd in hair, adding a tinsel bandoleer and saying it's Chewbacca.

It's a movie. Based on a toy. This is a movie made for a mass audience, obviously not hardcore GI Joe fans. I love GI Joe as much as anyone on this board but I think its a little far fetched to expect it to make a great movie. And I definitely don't think Stphen Sommers is raping my childhood because he is making this film. Look, crap like this sells. If you want to blame anyone, blame the mass consumer mindset that doesn't ask for nor require any kind of artistic integrity in their entertainment. It doesn't offend me. This isn't the GI Joe we grew up with, then again, I grew up during the cold war. The world has changed and if COBRA was portrayed as the organization it was during the 80's, a 500 lb. daisy cutter would have made this movie about 5 minutes long. All I'm saying is take it for what it is and don't get worked up over a 2 hour toy commercial. If you're an adult there are many more things that should be scaring the **** out of you right now. Vote with your wallet.

 

[thenammagazine]

It's a movie. Based on a toy. This is a movie made for a mass audience, obviously not hardcore GI Joe fans. I love GI Joe as much as anyone on this board but I think its a little far fetched to expect it to make a great movie. And I definitely don't think Stphen Sommers is raping my childhood because he is making this film. Look, crap like this sells. If you want to blame anyone, blame the mass consumer mindset that doesn't ask for nor require any kind of artistic integrity in their entertainment. It doesn't offend me. This isn't the GI Joe we grew up with, then again, I grew up during the cold war. The world has changed and if COBRA was portrayed as the organization it was during the 80's, a 500 lb. daisy cutter would have made this movie about 5 minutes long. All I'm saying is take it for what it is and don't get worked up over a 2 hour toy commercial. If you're an adult there are many more things that should be scaring the **** out of you right now. Vote with your wallet.

I'm not expecting a great movie. But I sure as @@$#% wasn't expecting crap, let alone this which is arguably worse than the TNT Hulk Hogan movies. And having expectations on par with Transformers isn't unreasonable since not only Hasbro was involved in every step of the journey, but apparently Larry Hama as well. All I'm expecting is that a movie which calls itself G.I. Joe and is being marketed, again, almost exclusively to the hardcore Joe fans (why bring in Hama if it's not?!), to be a little more faithful to it's roots and not blatantly and admittedly rip off other properties such as Iron Man. Apparently, to you, that's too much to ask?