I'm getting the feeling that there will be a great divide amongst ourselves when we finally get the chance to see that movie with the giant robots with mechanical testicles blow shit up. However, I think there is one thing that we can all agree on. G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra is going to suck larger balls. Don't believe me? Second trailer after the break. If you dare.
I think that trailer is awesome. Way better than the first one. So it has some cheesy humor in it... Everything else looks super fun. Re-watch the trailer, pretending it's not a Hollywood adaptation of GI Joe... Imagine it's a new Japanese action film about super soldiers or something. heh It's badass and I'll be there on opening weekend.
And the weird smear campaign about the studio hating the film and firing Sommers was squashed the same day it was "reported".
Trailer is actually better then the first one lol.
Maybe if I was 12 years old again, this might seem ultra cool. Unfortunately, I'm not and this just looks like another Hollywood attempt at cashing in on nostalgia. I have to say, the Transformers bothers me more, as I cannot stand the moving piles of scrap metal fragments that became their new 'look', but this still looks pretty bad. And 'They're real American Heroes'? As a line??? Really?! Come on. How badly did they have to write that one in. Is there going to be a 'knowing is half the battle..." line too? Sheez.
Nitwits.
I'm pretty sure most people here are open to all sorts of movies, whether they be summer blockbusters or obscure foreign films. Its just that the recent track record of the director and the shiny CG doesn't exactly inspire a vote of confidence. Also, theres a Wayan in it.
If I hear from friends and sites that I like that this happens to be good, I might give it a go, but until then I ain't feeling it.
My eyes >_
Sorry but this film still looks like another cgi crapfest, padded out with "humorous" scenes.
This year is turning out to be a real corker for Hollywood, what with DBZ, Street Fighter AND this coming out.
In these fragile and frugal days of mine, I have to be well... picky with the movies I go and see in the theater... but even if I had a bit more entertainment bucks to blow, I wouldn't on this or the movie featuring mechanical testicles.
It has been said before, but bears repeating. This is a sad and un-ironic version of Team America. Sad that the parody kills the turkey before it is even born, but likely this will be the case.
This movie looks like they could've called it Super Suit Commandoes and it wouldn't make a bit of difference. Unless someone told me it was GI Joe The Movie there's no way I'd know. Nothing about it reminds me of the cartoon. I don't mind updates, reboots, or translations but if what you make isn't even recognizable then what's the point? It's like making Transformers WITHOUT giant robots. Why do that? This is one that would've been better off staying a damn cartoon. Anyone who'd go see this and enjoy it probably isn't old enough to remember GI Joe.
oh yeah this one's doing its rounds too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQM31QCufI
As i've mentioned before we didn't get GI JOE in the UK so we have no nostalgia to fall back on. I actually like the look of the movie but I hate the crappy attempts at humour.
In somebody's mind was there an option in which this movie WOULDN'T be a big-budget CGI cash-in? Can GI Joe really even be something that isn't a huge merchandising cash-in?
BtoFu: I don't know what hurt more. Watching that trailer or the pained expression and plastic presentation of that web host. Woot.
brbro4: I wasn't a transformers kid. I was a G.I. Joe kid. I am pretty sure there is still a stack of G.I. Joe comics from when I was in Grade 7 at my parent's house. My brother and I had two large boxes full of figures and vehicles. Those damned thumbs kept breaking!
MikeOutWest: I remember there being some British comics of Joe that we could buy at the comic books stores that had them brought in. Couldn't get them at the retailers. You had to get your dad to drive you into town to the real comic book stores to find them.
I'm running out of free movie vouchers. It would be the only way I would go and see this. May the movie gods shine kindly upon and grant me more free movie passes.
I totally grew up on GI Joe and Transformers, ended up having literally boxes of both. While I can see the 8 to 14 year old being SO psyched about these films, I really wanted to be too!
I'm just not on both counts. And I think this trailer is easily as bad as the first. Oh well...
All the marketing for both GI Joe and Transformers has been ass-tacular. They have provided me with two reasons not to go to the theatre this summer.
I'll be seeing Duncan Jones' MOON this weekend instead.
Having missed the whole Transformers and GI Joe craze when I was a kid (I was into Star Wars figures, so Hollywood already raped my childhood), I can honestly say that I have no emotional ties to these properties whatsoever. The Hollywood marketing engine obviously hasn't done any favors for either of these franchises. However, based on the trailers alone, I would have to say that this movie looks slightly more appealing than the Transformers sequel, if for no other reason than it doesn't suffer from the choppy editing and unrecognizable barrage of CGI of which Transformers is guilty. When paying for a movie ticket, it's always a plus when you can at least make out what's happening on the screen. They should have probably named it something else, seeing as how it's better suited as a campy generic action/comedy, rather than a real attempt to bring GI Joe to the big screen. I doubt that it would have changed the overall ticket sales all that much in the long run (although marketers would probably say that any press - even the negative feedback from irate fans - is good press).
Not a real fan of Wayans myself, but based on the trailer alone, it doesn't seem like the "Jar Jar" factor is much of an issue here with them. I think this could be a moderately entertaining film (by Hollywood standards) if one could just check their brain at the door and enjoy it in the spirit in which it is intended.
Maybe it's just me, but I think that the "American heroes" line in the trailer sounded like sarcasm. This would certainly fit better with the overall comedic theme of the trailer, if this were the case.
Looks nothing like G.I Joe, the cartoon I dearly admired as a kid in the 80's... This looks like Cashern part II or something...
Trailer seems good...
When the images of Ray Park as Snake Eyes first came out, I had a little bit of hope (very little) for this. But then everything thereafter released about the movie has since shattered that hope-why does Storm Shadow look like a Stormtrooper?!?! . Maybe they'll do GI Joe Origins: Snake Eyes?
Looking at the poster - I don't recall the Baroness's ass being the leader of Cobra...
Considering my only contact with G.I Joe being G.I Joe: Resolute, I think I'll pass.
Coming back to that poster: why are the Cobra people standing in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon?
"G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra is going to suck larger balls. Don’t believe me? Second trailer after the break. If you dare."
I could identify what was supposed to be happening. Advantage: GI JOE.
This trailer is far more entertaining if you watch it as a live-action version of Team America. Then it is very funny indeed. I plan to watch the whole movie pretending that it was made by Parker & Stone.
Again, this is from the guy who directed The Mummy and Van Helsing, why the surprise?
The action gags look great, the humor looks really bad... i'm really just hoping for some really good over the top action sequences, and i'll be happy...
fingers crossed for the he-man reboot.
"fingers crossed for the he-man reboot."
I'm waiting for the voltron reboot as well...
He-Man? Voltron? You people really want more crap in the cinema?
Can't say it really sucks until we all see it. Let's all go together. I live in Indiana, but I don't have a car, so everyone has to come here. Then we'll know for sure how bad G.I. JOE is or isn't. And knowing is half the battle.
come on, this looks fun as hell. but I loved the Mummy movies and i even liked Van Helsing. so i guess to each their own.