"Yo Joe!" G.I. Joe Discussion Thread

Wizard magazine is apparently claiming that by the end of the movie Ripcord has won Scarlett's affections and Snake Eyes somehow actually approves of this.

 

This movie is going to be so dumb, unless you're 9 years old. Nothing, absolutely nothing about this movie looks remotely good or G.I. Joe like.

-T_S_R

 

That's true, but I didn't get the sense Snake Eyes approves of it. He just hasn't torn Ripcord apart yet.

 

I got a chance to see the finished product and just wanted to say it was better than Transformers in my opinion. There were a couple of things that bugged me plot wise and a couple corny moments but otherwise it was a good popcorn flick. Won't talk about plot points and such til it comes out so I don't spoil it for anyone.

 

Thanks for the input.

Stephen Sommers's official site has posted three early reviews.

http://stephensommers.com/site/?p=1136

 

Naturally he is not going to post links to reviews which say his new film is utter garbage. However, at least one of the people was lambasting his earlier failures (albeit nicely). As I've said before, I will wait until I actually see it to comment. It has a chance, but it might not live up to it...

 

Well, judging by the two latest advance reviews, it would be a great movie... if it wasn't for Marlon Wayans.

Latino Review:

Chud:

 

I believe these reports about Wayans. He was also the absolute worst thing in an already horrible movie, Dungeons&Dragons. He is so godawfully unfunny in that "film" I simply cannot understand why a producer would hire him. Marlon Wayans is probably the single worst actor I've ever seen in my life.

 

Yeah, I'm not really sure why anyone thought casting him would be a good idea, let alone as the comic relief...

 

Cocaine's a helluva drug. [/rick_james]

 

Yeah, just like film ads done after a movie's release always focus on the negative comments about it.

Oh, wait...

 

Wayans provided 1 of the 2 reasons to see Dungeons&Dragons.
Reason 1: 2 minutes of Tom Baker
Reason 2: Watching one of the Wayans brothers being tortured to death and killed. Probablly the best scene in the movie!

 

The thing that concerns me is that, rather than the film being a Sc-Fi war film as it should be, it looks more like a big budget episode of Power Rangers. I think maybe the film makers went all PC and got too far away from the core material by making it all Matrix rather than war orientated.

 

They've probably missed the mark. Especially since the Craig-era Bond is now using little to no gadgets.

 

What "Matrix"? The black suits? Other than that rather generic costuming choice, what I've seen of this movie looks very much like what I imagined in my mind whilst playing with my figures in the 80s. I also don't know what you mean by "PC" in this context. What is "politically correct" about what you're seeing in this movie? It seems like a vague criticism that needs no support, just another way to bash the movie without having seen it.

As to the "James Bond vibe", Jedi_Johnson, it's the spirit of fun and adventure of the older 007 movies the filmmakers are trying to capture here, not the adult-level seriousness or realism of the Craig-era Bond.

 

I read an interview with Stephen Sommers a while ago, and he said he was going for a James Bond feel. The underwater base is a direct homage to the finale of Thunderball.

The approach isn't something I would've done, but I think it works well -- especially since I love that era of Bond films.

 

Honestly, I've seen this point brought up so many times I'm not even sure I believe it anymore. Okay, so he was supposedly good in one single, dead-serious film, but the vast majority of his career seems to have mostly consisted of playing slight variations on "Snails" over and over again, and it doesn't look like Rise of Cobra's going to be any different.

 

The film was premiered for the military at Andrews Air Force Base.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-08-01-GI-joe-premiere_N.htm

Rachel Nichols is just too hot.

 

More's the pity.

 

Pity? An article about a military premiere with attendant cast members evokes pity?

 

No, the thought of Rachel Nichols' hotness being given up to Wayans' clumsy, aggressively unpleasant dork in this film does.

 

Oh, right. Couldn't agree more, in that case. I'm excited about this movie, but the presence of Wayans is giving me reservations about its quality. We'll see in a couple of days.....

 

That's too funny. I actually thought that when I was reading the novelization.