Re: I know it's only 12 reviews, but I am a bit shocked!
Perhaps not, but considering the negative heat this movie has been receiving, more-so than even Jar Jar Binks or when we got a look at Michael Bay's group Transformer designs for the first flick, it has me surprised that even 11 out of 12 reviews are positive.
I just want to chime in here and say that I don't think this is even close to being true.
For starters, you could walk up to most random people on the street and say "what do you think of Jar Jar Binks" and they would know what you were talking about AND they'd groan.
Secondly, the little whiny fanboy nitpicks on Transformers were everywhere even if you weren't following the movie. I couldn't give two ^^^^s about Transformers and I got tired of hearing about the flames, the changes in cars etc. I have slightly more interest in GI Joe and I've been following it somewhat and the whining is pretty much isolated to specific GI Joe-related discussion. As it stands you aren't going to hear people ^^^^^ing about the way Cobra Commander looks unless you go onto a forum where people are already discussing GI Joe.
Furthermore, a great deal of GI Joe fans have pretty realistic expectations for what a movie based on a cartoon based on little plastic men should deliver. Those who have the unrealistic expectations are particularly vocal but they're still in the minority. Overall the world isn't expecting much out of this movie and isn't ^^^^^ing every single aspect of the movie.
I'm gonna see the movie tomorrow but like many people, I wasn't clamoring for a "great" GI Joe movie nor do I think one is even a reasonable possibility but guess what? I don't care, and this particular faction of the GI Joe fanbase needs to accept their minority status.
Sometimes a movie is made and all the signs are there that the movie will be terrible and the final result comes out and just solidifies all the complaining in the months leading up to the release and there's a unanimous consensus that the movie was awful after all and the naysayers have their "I Told You So" moment (both "AvP" movies are great examples of this) but this isn't that movie.
Like the Transformers movies (which I never saw, by the way) people are digging this movie in general for what it is and they're digging it in spite of its flaws, flaws that many people accepted as inherent from the very beginning.
LOL I say if you want to see it see it and tell us what you think...Me I'm passing I don't want to feel the way i did when Indy 4 came out.
