‘GI Joe’ Hits Theatres August 7th

They brought down the Eiffel Tower? Well, that's a change at least. Is that France's wake-up call? Can't tell anything about where the plot is going from the trailer. Will there also be shots of the entire Middle East dancing in the streets celebrating the destruction of a French iconic landmark? Will the bad guys turn out to be neo-Nazis? Is GI Joe gay? Did the French wave a white flag and then give GIs permission to save their sorry asses? I think we need more information.

I second the brilliant genius of Dr. Nic. What is it with all these remakes being done by people who apparently have no clue about the original? This flick just screams "Generic Action Flick!" Stealing character names from my childhood does not count as "making a G.I. Joe flick." Hell, I'll just watch the original G.I. Joe flick. You can't beat the musical number they opened with.

I recognized Scarlet, General Hawk (only because he mentioned his name), & the Baroness (Destro's lover); overall, it looks to be a watered down version of the G.I. Joe I remember. I also read G.I. Joe is not an American force, but an International force. Where's Cobra Commander? He should have been easy.

COBRA has to do more than take down the Eiffel Tower to invoke terror.

I'm not a huge GIJoe guy…But I don't ever recall seing them use those iron-man-suit-things. And they looked pretty darned goofy… As for the rest, looks mildly intriging.

The only thing that makes this remotely interesting is the eventual Rifftrax that will be done on this movie. Now that is gonna be good.

Alright folks, let's start counting things that are wrong.

1. Accelerator 7 (or whatever) suits. The entire concept is like they're trying to turn GI Joe into 5 or so Iron Man suits. Bad.
2. Destro as the bad guy. Although he was supposed to be a bit of a bumbler, Cobra Commander is the real bad guy
3. The entire look of the weapons and the like. Nuff said.
4. Everyone wearing tigh black leather uniforms. S&M Special Forces. Wohoo.
5. CGI hell. Did they not learn from Star Wars prequels?

I hope you're right. I'm betting against it, though. We know this industry too well.

Yeah … don't get me wrong — I share your pessimism. I just think that it could surprise people.

If I remember correctly, people were hesitant when the first footage of Iron Man was released, and it showed him evading U.S. fighter jets.

There was even a little apprehension around the Dark Knight when at the end of Batman Begins, Gordon showed the joker card, while warning of "escalation."

I don't think there's any way this film is going to be a rallying point for the conservative movement, but I do think it will be an innocuous piece of popcorn filmmaking.

I know the "Cobra Commander" if that's what they're calling him, is the European-Irish sounding guy near the start wanting to launch the warheads.

Combine that with the earlier rumors of "international super-force", then the rebuttal by Hasbro Inc., I predict yet another example of Hollywood urinating all over the memories of 80's kids like me

The rumor's I've read is that in the movie, they are "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Gotta appeal to that international anti-American market.

Accelerator 7 (or whatever) suits. The entire concept is like they're trying to turn GI Joe into 5 or so Iron Man suits. Bad.

Flat-out wrong, buddy. Powered armour's been a part of the G.I. Joe mythos for decades now, as have unmanned attack drones, infantry-portable laser weapons, jetpacks, geneetically-engineered super-soldiers…

I heard they had to scrap that because too many people complained about it, so GI Joe went back to the US. I'm betting they had to keep most of what they shot so there are only minor changes to let us know he's still a real American Hero. If what I heard is true …

I'm reserving judgement for now, but it looks entertaining. If it can maintain a pro-military stance I'll be pleased.

From the director of Van Helsing and The Mummy 2 and a scene stolen from Team America.

Since US movies now make more money overseas than in the US, I was wondering how long it would take for the plots to go Euro-centric. Of course the average politics have been Euro oriented for some time, this is just the next step.

Zartan & the Dreadnoks need to make an appearance…

Arnold Vosloo is Zartan. I'm not sure if they properly made him look like Alice Cooper. I have no idea about the rest of the Dreadnoks.

I'll be sittin front row center nursing the extra large box of buttered popcorn. Dr Who is the bad guy, awesome. Then I'll hold my breath for Transformers. Maybe Sam Witwiky will get stepped on bringing this arc to a satifying close.

Another thing that just struck me. What drove G.I. Joe was the comedy – from Cobra Commander giving an interview in which he recalls having led a mutiny at his military academy, to the entire "The Viper is Coming" episode. This doesn't look like it has any of that.

That's funny… The reaction on many of the various G.I. Joe forums to interviews with the cast and crew has been complaints that it looks as though there'll be too much comedy in the film, that they won't take it seriously enough.

See also Sebastian Shaw's comment about the show being "personality driven". It wasn't toy driven.

Those rumors are untrue.

They will be based in the Pit, so don't worry about all of that.

No it is not.

Um, excuse me. I'm 51 and grew up with G.I. Joe. Had all of the military branch uniforms, had the space capsule, many vehicles, and just a ton of weaponry. I'm so old school G.I. Joe that I thought Hasbro jumped the shark with, "lifelike hair." Would someone – anyone – please explain to me how what I just watched has anything at all to do with G.I. Joe? The G.I. Joe that I know? Because so far as I can tell, the answer to my question could only be, "Nothing whatsoever."

How about launching GI Joe as what he was ORIGINALLY! An ordinary United States GI. In olive drab fatigues. How about placing him in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge? Or as a Marine at the defense of Khe Shan? Or a sailor on board USS Yorktown during the Battle of Midway? What's wrong with putting a "great American hero" in the middle of one of America's great heroic battles? Too hip for the room I guess?
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Isn't that Christopher Eccleston as the bad guy at the beginning? Probably shallow of me, but, being a Doctor Who fan, that immediately piqued my interest. Don't know what to expect from the whole film. I watched the cartoon as a kid and enjoyed it, but I'm not sure I'll recognize much of it in this. Might be a fun popcorn flick, though.

No, thats Destro. I dont get what everyone has against it being an international force, do you also cry about something like NATO being in other films? Though in the case of the U.N. its completely justified, what a mess that is.

This is the ONLY thing I actively want from this movie: A single scene towards the end of the second act (i.e. the mandatory "everything just went to hell, regroup and go get `em" bridge) wherein a defeated and demoralized main character (Duke, probably) is brooding to his ally and/or superior (Quaid, ideally) about all the various hard lessons he's learned in the course of his character arc; a sombre-yet-intensely-masculine monologue of regret and resolve that ends with a hard swallow and a determined declaration of "…now I know." At which point ally and/or superior gravely nods, places a firm hand upon his shoulder and sagely intones: "Knowing… is half the battle." Cue swell of main-theme, montage of weapons-readying, slow-mo hero group-walk toward camera.

They pull that, I'm in the bag. That's all there is to it

Kewl. Is that Gov. Sarah Palin’s first movie? I’m a big fan of hers.

Um, excuse me. I'm 51 and grew up with G.I. Joe. Had all of the military branch uniforms, had the space capsule, many vehicles, and just a ton of weaponry. I'm so old school G.I. Joe that I thought Hasbro jumped the shark with, "lifelike hair." Would someone – anyone – please explain to me how what I just watched has anything at all to do with G.I. Joe?

Sure thing. What you just watched has to do with G.I. Joe, an elite, top-secret counter-terrorism team, fighting Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world as the old Sunbow cartoons put it, but my father could probably tell you that. He's roughly your age, but having got me into the whole world of G.I. Joe right from the moment I was old enough to play with the small 1/18th-scale toys that replaced the original 1/6th-scale action figures, he's well aware that since 1983, "G.I. Joe" has primarily been about the aforementioned sci-fi counter-terrorism setting, at least as far as the manufacturer and owner of the licences is concerned.

Looks great — I will definitely be picking up this game.

thank you. Was wondering who else would notice how much of a direct copy that is!

Yeah, but here's what I can't quite wrap my head around. Christopher Eccleston quits Dr Who after one series because, by most accounts, he didn't find playing the Time Lord creatively satisfying.

*This* is what he decided to do instead!?! This is a better use of his talent than playing Dr Who!?!

It's got to be the paycheck.

I have heard you guys are purists and that can be a good thing when it comes to being true to books and in this case a comic book hero/cartoon. However, IF this movie is pro-military, and in particular pro-killing the bad guys and not so pure; I am still for it. As you all know, there have been far too many anti-military movies and the guys deserve a break no matter how impure the movie might be to the G.I. Joe origins.

So far, I would probably go to see it unless of course it does have any leftists themes.

As aside, my girls voted Barbie off toy island and demanded G.I. Joes from Santa. Until we got them some Chinese and Russian bad guys; Barbie was the bad guy! LOL!

This is not based on the G.I. Joe you remember, but the 80's revamp with "Star Wars" sized figures that now had an enemy, named Cobra. With the exception of the figure that came with the first G.I. Joe jeep the two series are completely different.

Actually you are wrong, power suits were not STANDARD issue in any of the Joe cartoon or comic series.

apparently you're basing your perception of Joe solely on the 1985-86 cartoon, which was only a portion of the franchise. following the prior 1960s incarnation, the Reagan update included G.I. Joe novels and a Joe comic book from 1982 onward which was one of Marvel's top sellers; that comic was written by the same guy who created the bio-cards on the back packages of the figures. The tone of the comic books and novels was sharper than the cartoon, something akin more to James Cameron's "True Lies"

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