Reader Poll: Will You Go To ‘G.I. Joe’?

HELL NO! I WON'T GO!!!!!

fortunately we are a little too long in the tooth for such fare…

Not that even in our salad days we would go, not if it's a PC,' UN', feel good about world community affair.

When we know inherently the world to not be that way…

I will wait for "Lone Survivor," a true story of a real military hero; thanks for asking though.

I'll wait for reviews, but I can't help but say that the previews make it look like a fun movie. I just wish they weren't defiling the brand to try to give it an audience.

No, I won't go to see the film. One of the touchstones of my childhood was the enduring romance between Scarlett and Snake Eyes in the pages of the old Larry Hama G.I. Joe comics from Marvel, and the filmmakers have decided to shunt all that aside so they can have Marlon Wayans' "Ripcord" character obnoxiously hitting on Rachel Nichols' Scarlett every five minutes until she finally gives in/up/out, with Snake Eyes left forlornly behind.

No thank you.

I said heck yeah and I meant it. I don't really worry too much about "my Americanism" when I go to the movies.

I've got most of the Marvel books, though I was out of it towards the end and those are kind of expensive now. Still, I'm waiting for cable. I might have ignored the director's comments and his overall bad record if they had based it on the Marvel books, but it looks like they are pretty much ignoring them.

Lets consider this, okay? At the NYPost.com link up top is the claim that Rotten Tomatoes is being manipulated since the rating for G.I. Joe is so high.

But lets consider this statement…. "Paramount isn't showing it to mainstream reviewers and — in an experiment no doubt being watched closely by other studios — is subjecting its $175 million blockbuster only to the advance scrutiny of mostly handpicked fanboy bloggers."

Fanboy.

Who are the fanboys? And what does someone have to be smoking to believe some fantasy that FANBOYS are going to be uncritical about the film? The fanboys HERE hate it. They hate the whole idea of destroying what they love. They really and truly hate that the director seems embarrassed by G.I. Joe. How dare he!

How. Dare. He.

But we're supposed to believe that fanboys are uncritically inflating the rotten tomatoes ratings because the legitimate reviewers aren't being shown the movie in order to tell us what it is *really* like?

Reading the reviews it seems more like low expectations… watching the movie as if you were a boy instead of a middle aged man who knows the difference between "wow, cool" and something that actually has a plot.

Frankly, I think that's legitimate.

If you want to watch an art film. Go watch an art film.

Ahhh Larry Hama's incredible GI Joe run. Such fond memories. I still remember how awesome issue 21 the "Silent Interlude" issue was with no dialoge. I know the film will not be as awesome as that issue was but I really just don't care. This movie is for the inner 12 year old in me. I mean it can't be worse than Mega Force can it?

Maybe anyone thinking how aweful this movie will be should watch Mega Force the night before. Then GI Joe will look like it was written by William Shakespeare.

Reading the reviews it seems more like low expectations… watching the movie as if you were a boy instead of a middle aged man who knows the difference between "wow, cool" and something that actually has a plot.

Frankly, I think that's legitimate.

Frankly, I think that's a cop-out. Iron Man, <The Dark Knight, Spider-Man… these were not brainless reels of eye-candy. Neither were they art-films. The idea that a G.I. Joe could only be one or the other is a false dichotomy.

I used to LOVE going to the drive in! We had a huge triple screen deal here in Texas…I bet 3000 cars would pile in there..we'd take cases of beer and the guys with trucks would park 'em backwards and we'd usually miss the dang movie, out buzzing the blondies from the eastside schools…when "The Warriors" was showing it turned into total chaos…a bunch of idiots roam around lokking for sh!t…LOL! I remember NOT watching the "Exorcist" because it scared the crap outta me! A was a teenager in the middle to late seventies..good times…kinda like Linlater's movie about Austin, "Dazed and Confused"…"alright, alright, alright!

I read that they 'sandbagged' to basically keep the eat and west coast critics from killing it "in the womb" so to speak. I know that Harry Knowles saw a pre-sceening and liked it…he has alot of clout.

No

When I was a child, I spake as a child, and played with my G.I. Joe as a child. But then I became a man, and sold my other G.I. Joe (1964, still in its unopened box) on ebay for five grand.

I'm going to go see it, but I don't expect much. And if it really disappoints I sure as hell will tell everyone…accelerator suits? WTF?

I want to go see it, but the 1 year old and my schedule makes my trips to the movies very limited. As a result I've become extremely choosy about what I go see. As much as I want to see this, it's just not making the cut. I value the time with my daughter more than seeing this.

I keep hearing fanboys complain about people who expect action movies to have things like a plot and decent character development. I wish I could make them sit down and watch a marathon of movies like "The Dirty Dozen", "The Magnificent Seven", "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", as well as some more modern fare such as "Iron Man" and "The Dark Knight".

I'd rather rent a season or two of "The Unit" than spend money on this turkey.

Can't add much more to that other than "Ditto"………………….

Does someone need their snakedoc/coolbreeze fix?

yup, I miss that show too.
CBS should have pared the main cast of the Unit with their new show, NCIS LA. Or Fox could have stepped up and bought half a season, you know, something to tide you over until 24 comes back on.

I think the poll needs two new options.

- No, but I'll probably pirate it.
- No, and it's not even worth the effort to download.

If President Obama wants to apologize to the world for American actions, he should apologize for the slew of unimaginative hack work that Hollywood has foisted upon us all over the past couple of years… "…and I really, really want to apologize for the half-baked piles of cinematic offal that Hollywood has foisted on the world-at-large over the past few years – I mean Rosie O'Donnell as Betty Rubble in 'The Flintstones'? Ellen DeGeneres as a bride in 'Mr. Wrong'?! Honestly, what were you people in Hollywood THINKING?!"

Silent interlude was the BOMB! My favorite out of the whole line. I'm glad the movie is keeping the ninja aspect in it (though I doubt they will keep Snake Eyes and Scarlett as a couple like in Larry Hamma's run).

LMAO! yes, Mega Force would make this movie look grand in comparison, but that old bomb is also one of my guilty pleasures. That entire movie was one cliche after another, but was so bad that it's too much fun not to watch. Don't have it yet, but one day it will have an honored place in my collection, right between "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" and "Howard the Duck."

I would go in full uniform as well (complete dress blues with all medals shined up), but it's many years since those days and I highly doubt my well kept uniform will fit – indeed, it shrunk on me (or at least that's what I keep telling myself).

*grins* indeed. I love using my almost 4 year old as en excuse to see some of those kids movies in the theater.

My wife and I got around that by going to first matinee showings on Sundays (or Saturdays), waiting a minimum one week after release. The lack of patrons at said early shows made bringing our little one with us much easier. On the rare occasions he got fussy, we would take turns taking him out of the theater to deal.

Of the few reviews I've read so far that actually touch on this, the general consensus is it's awkward, perfunctory and simply doesn't work, in addition to Marlon Wayans' generally being an excruciating pain to watch, so with any luck, perhaps he'll end up going the way of Jar Jar Binks in any subsequent movies and the story can concentrate on Snake Eyes/Scarlett.

I just don't think it is appropriate to bring a one year old to a theater on general principle – their attention span isn't up to even a brief children's movie. I certainly wouldn't bring her to a PG -13 or higher rated movie. There's nothing in this movie that would capture her attention and I'm pretty sure that the violence in it would scare her.

Quite frankly, I find people who bring very young children to the theater (especially to movies not aimed at children) to be selfish and disrespectful of the other patrons of the theater.

I handed my BDU's down to my daughter when she was 12. I'd actually had a new set issued when I was in preggers uniforms with her and had never even sewn on the patches and tapes.

She's a tiny thing and mostly grew out of them by the time she was 14 and *still* tiny which brought on one of those horrible "and I wasted my time then thinking I was fat?!?!?!" moments.

*sigh*

The "fanboys" were ready to hate it, but at least they'll give it it's due if it's good.

Exactly. Knowles has a reputation for being too soft on some of these movies (he even raved about Emmerich's Godzilla), but several of the other reviewers on the site have loved this (and they are really obnoxious about comic book movies done badly). Everyone is up front that there isn't character development, or even that much of a plot, but even the reviewers who haven't liked it have said things like, "It's better than the Mummy," which I enjoyed a lot.

For everyone who's looking for something deeper, they only have to wait a week for District 9, which is at 100% on RT at the moment, and several reviewers have said is the best movie this summer. But at what point did we become slaves to the opinions of lightweights like Roger Ebert? Ick…

Me too. Park is great, and I'm looking forward to seeing him as a good guy for once. He was easily the best villain in Star Wars, and would have made a much better foil than Count Duku if they'd written it that way.

As you said, it depends on the child. Ours was always just fine and, depending on the movie, actually paid attention and got into it (something about a 1.5 year old pretending to sword fight during Pirates III was a blast). But, as I said, we always waiting at least one week (sometimes two depending on the mass appeal of the movie) before going and only went to the first matinee showing on Sunday. Theaters are almost empty at those times and plenty of room for the patrons there to sit as far away from each other as they want. Now, obviously, there are some movies you dont take children to (just about any R rated and some PG 13's) regardless, but any good parent knows what their child can deal with and what they cant.

Hell yeah! How can one get better than a dune buggy with lasers?

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