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[thenammagazine]

Seriously, the script isnt that bad. Theres only 2 lines that just utterly suck so hard, the rest is just your average summer popcorn stuff...and the end is pretty cool too.

Action is entertaining, the characters are developed very little...but you get a sorta feel for Duke, Baroness, Ripcord, and Rex....

Destro dude is kinda cool...how he gets the mask isnt original...but still.

And theres only ONE scene with the suits. Thats it.

1) It's not just the lines, but the overall look & feel of the picture that utterly suck. Just have a look at that puzzle image Khev posted.

2) Lots of action, little character development - from a series so full of unique characters? ...refer to point #1.

3) Destro redux? Refer to point #1.

4) Only 1 scene with IronMan suits? Well babo, last time I checked this is supposed to be G.I. Joe, not IronMan. That's 1 scene too many. Again, refer to point #1.

Basically, given what's been said by the director and producers, and the fact that not even the actors are taking this seriously (scroll back for posts regarding actor comments, for both Duke and Cobra Commander), and the fact that Ray Park shied away from any real response when I asked at WonderCon (that's back there too), I don't care how good the script reads. Basically, you can put all the sprinkles you'd like on a turd, it's still gonna taste like $#!+.

 

[IrishJedi]

1) It's not just the lines, but the overall look & feel of the picture that utterly suck. Just have a look at that puzzle image Khev posted.

2) Lots of action, little character development - from a series so full of unique characters? ...refer to point #1.

3) Destro redux? Refer to point #1.

4) Only 1 scene with IronMan suits? Well babo, last time I checked this is supposed to be G.I. Joe, not IronMan. That's 1 scene too many. Again, refer to point #1.

Basically, given what's been said by the director and producers, and the fact that not even the actors are taking this seriously (scroll back for posts regarding actor comments, for both Duke and Cobra Commander), and the fact that Ray Park shied away from any real response when I asked at WonderCon (that's back there too), I don't care how good the script reads. Basically, you can put all the sprinkles you'd like on a turd, it's still gonna taste like $#!+.

I also have a funny and anecdotal story about Ray Park & this movie: Last SDCC, Adam Stinson and I went to a party at the Hard Rock Hotel that was co-hosted by Harley Davidson. Apparently, they made Snake Eyes' motorcycle for the movie (which had just completed initial principle photography, including the scene with the bike). Well, they had the bike there on display in the center of the main bar. Ray was there and when he went up to look at the bike I said, "I bet that was fun to ride..." to which he answered, "Actually, this is the first time I've even seen it!".



Keep in mind, this is the guy who plays Snake Eyes... and who broke into the industry (and got this role) by being a stuntman. And he had not seen his characters' bike until he went to a con party after filming. I don't even think the SW prequels were that bad as far as the actors not knowing what the hell was going on.

Here's a pic we snapped of him with the bike:

The moral of the story: Even the anecdotal tales about this movie point to it sucking as much as anything possible.

 

[CelticPredator]

Well, the script still wasnt that bad. At all. The movie could still suck....but I enjoyed the read. It was entertaining, quick, and thats it.


I just saw a GI JOE action figure with a space suit...so, a mech suit isnt much of a strech. Just sayin...

And Ray might not know how to ride a Cyke...thats not his fortee.

I'm not defending it, i'm just saying the script wasnt the worst thing ever written. It was better then Wolverine..heh.

 

[CelticPredator]

Who's Rex???

Spoiler

look at your sig...heh....but replace the hood with the clear vagina mask...

 

[IrishJedi]

Spoiler

look at your sig...heh....but replace the hood with the clear vagina mask...

Well, I guess that's slightly better than "Cool Dude". (Anyone who's been following this train wreck remember that? )

 

[Khev]

I love how the guy playing Duke thinks the "fans" are just going to eat up lines like Marlon Wayans saying "He has a Kung Fu grip!"

Because as we all know Batman fans were high fiving each other left and right when Uma Thurman said, "That's why every Poison Ivy action figure comes with Bane!" in Batman and Robin.

Idiots. It was doomed before it started the moment Hasbro agreed to let Steve Sommers "direct."

 

[EVILFACE]

Seriously, the script isnt that bad. Theres only 2 lines that just utterly suck so hard, the rest is just your average summer popcorn stuff...and the end is pretty cool too.

Action is entertaining, the characters are developed very little...but you get a sorta feel for Duke, Baroness, Ripcord, and Rex....

Destro dude is kinda cool...how he gets the mask isnt original...but still.

And theres only ONE scene with the suits. Thats it.

Doesn't matter what the script is like, they ^^^^ all over the characters.

Hey, lets watch a movie where Batman is a black guy and a comedian, Robin is a blood lusting psychopath who wears a mask like a vagina and Superman fights crime in drag. It would be fine, as long as the script is good.

 

[Khev]

"When All Else Fails..."

"...We Somehow Fail Worse"

 

[MANDO]

 

[Khev]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Cobra Commander Voice Is ‘Respectfully Inspired’ By The Cartoon

“I think that it’s respectfully inspired by the cartoon voice,” Gordon-Levitt explained during an interview promoting his soon-to-be-released Sundance hit “500 Days of Summer.” “But it’s just like how in ‘Wolverine’ you don’t want to see Hugh Jackman dressed up in a yellow jumpsuit like the Wolverine in the comics.”

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt shared with MTV News that, while his take Cobra Commander in this summer’s “GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra” may not match the cartoon exactly, it was certainly influenced by it.

This matches Levitt’s older claims, that his costume is intensely heavy on prosthetics and that he’ll be wearing a mask for much of the film.

Gordon-Levitt, who grew up with both the cartoon and the action figures, has been very up front in the past about his enthusiasm for Latta’s work. Even if the live action film doesn’t head in the cartoon’s direction exactly, fans can take comfort in the fact that the late voice actor’s delivery was very much on Gordon-Levitt’s mind throughout the production.

https://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/05/...oice-is-respectfully-inspired-by-the-cartoon/

 

[MANDO]

I wish they would try to make a costume work before just writing it off. They could've put Wolverine in yellow they just opted to go the god aweful biker route with the whole team. I look at Watchmen and then look at X-Men and it just completely boggles me. I'd gather that a great deal of the time it's the producers/directors going "I don't wanna do that I want it to look different".

Back on track with CC, I can't imagine how anyone would consider that freakish facade more aestheticly pleasing and more believable than the Chrome Dome look.

 

[creature4000]

the funny thing is, after seing the preview in the theater... nothing says GIJOE about it until you see SE an SS fighting. I bet it's going to be alright... but still won't be GIJOE too me.

 

[SweeneyTodd]

the funny thing is, after seing the preview in the theater... nothing says GIJOE about it until you see SE an SS fighting. I bet it's going to be alright... but still won't be GIJOE too me.

You hit the nail on the head about
the trailer! As soon as I saw Snake
Eyes and Storm Shadow fighting, I
thought, "Well, there's something I
recognize."

It's so sad that a franchise with so much
potential as G.I. Joe will probably be a
forgettable summer movie...at best.
It really deserves more than that
and so do we.

 

[thenammagazine]

https://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/05/...oice-is-respectfully-inspired-by-the-cartoon/

WTF is that guy smoking?! Nothing about this turd of a flick even remotely resembles the characters, cartoon or the comic!

 

[CelticPredator]

Hawk looks like Hawk....and thats about it.

The worst line in the whole movie is said by Hawk....

It's something like "We need to find out who this person is....because knowing is half the battle."

The thing is, the script never says anything about the costumes and whatnot...

Oh and Snake Eyes talks. That was lame. 2 lines...but still.

Maybe some fan can redo the script to make it more GI JOE esq....and it could easily be.

 

[CelticPredator]

I wish they would try to make a costume work before just writing it off. They could've put Wolverine in yellow they just opted to go the god aweful biker route with the whole team. I look at Watchmen and then look at X-Men and it just completely boggles me. I'd gather that a great deal of the time it's the producers/directors going "I don't wanna do that I want it to look different".

Back on track with CC, I can't imagine how anyone would consider that freakish facade more aestheticly pleasing and more believable than the Chrome Dome look.

Watchmen worked because the costumes are ment to look silly....I couldnt take it seriously if Wolverine ran around in a yellow jump suit...now if they made it black, it mightve worked. But hell no on the yellow.


And a hooded blue CC wouldnt be bad at all....especially with a trenchcoat.

 

[BadMoon]

I haven't been keeping tabs on this movie. I wanted to just go see it. So I saw the trailer last night. Looked pretty good. Then I hung my head in shame when they put those stupid suits on and were running around like fighter jets. Epic Fail! Although I will still go see it.

 

[Cryoguns]

Oh and Snake Eyes talks. That was lame. 2 lines...but still.

Dammit. One of the most unique things I always liked about Snake-Eyes was him being mute. Hell, I even thought Resolute's new twist that he was actually shot through the throat rather than the old Marvel helicoptor explosion was a decent idea. But they can't even keep Snake Eyes as a mute!?

I wasn't planning to see this in the theaters and had relegated it to my netflix list. Perhaps I was being too optimistic even with that.

 

[CelticPredator]

They may have taken it out. If not...ugh.

It wasnt a "bad" line persay...just uneeded.

 

[Buttmunch]

Hawk looks like Hawk....and thats about it.

No he doesn't. He looks like Flint.