G.I. Joe 2

The thing with Cobra Commander though, is that he has two different actors: one's doing his body and the other is doing his voice. According to General Joes, his voice actor is Robert Baker.

Since his voice actor has a somewhat deep voice, I imagine that Cobra Commander will sound deep too.

New Cobra Special Forces spot. And because it's been pointed out, apparently Cobra failed geography... But on the other hand, we now know what Cobra Commander sounds like. Not sure how I feel about the voice. Will need to see the movie first.

... You know... In a universe where GI Joe exists, I think I can buy Brazil having annexed Iran, and Israel losing their country to Egypt...

They annexed Iran too? I thought it was bad enough that they had conquered China...

Is that China?...

Hrms... It is. Apparently I failed geography too...

Still, Brazil conquering China is not the craziest idea to come from the series... So I have no issue with believing it...

Just saw the movie. Thought that it was pretty decent. However, it was too fast paced. This movie would have benefited from some more scenes/time. Also, I was disappointed by the lack of villain screen time. However, I will see it again when it comes out on DVD. (Or if someone else is willing to pay my movie ticket to see it again.) Read that some scenes got cut from the final product, so I'm hoping that the DVD version will restore those scenes.

Anyways, both my friend and I found the scene where Cobra slow-walked it out of there while everything was going to heck for Cobra hilarious. As friend mentioned, he looked cool while doing it but priorities Commander, priorities!

I would guess that the scenes that were cut were the breathing room scenes that were abandoned to make way for more Channing Friggin Tatum.

Actually, he didn't appear all that much. He dies very early on in the movie. Like first 15 minutes early. But yeah, it did seem that the breathing room scenes did get cut.

YAY!!!!!

God I hate Channing Tatum in everything that isn't 21 Jump street.

So Channing Tatum being all over the trailers is another example of Wolverine Publicity then?

Just got back.

It was awful.

I'm ashamed to say I payed money to watch 90 minutes of live action GI Joe fanfiction that can best be described as a nigh unending stream of action scenes that are tied together without rhyme or reason to only occasionally be interrupted by something that kind of remotely resembled plot.

The jokes at North Korea's expense were funny though.

I think "awful" is a bit strong, though I won't argue that it seemed like a mis-mash of action scenes strung together by a shaky plot "infrastructure".

I think what bugged me the most, though, was that just about every character with significant screen time seemed to be connected to one another in some way, especially in regards to Stormshadow and Zartan.

(Note, though, that my exposure to Joe was mostly the 80s cartoon, and an occasional issue of the comic here and there from about the same time.)

edited 29th Mar '13 2:15:06 PM by Nohbody

Actually, that particular bit is from the comics, if I remember correctly.

edited 30th Mar '13 5:40:11 AM by DoKnowButchie

A thought occurred to me last night while I was at work (3rd shift): The US of the movie could probably save some money if they invested in, instead of the Joe team, a freaking competent intelligence service!

I mean, really, no one notices weapons development centers that manufacture what looks like at least a division's worth of tanks, and the lofting of multiple f-ing huge satellites that looked, in the first showing compared to the people around them, like they were probably some of the biggest sats ever lifted?

Yeah, with Zartan masquerading as the POTUS you can obfuscate a lot of stuff (using the National Security Council to task people to look elsewhere, or discourage certain lines of inquiry, f'rex), but not a single peep from anyone about anything even remotely suggesting the hardware that was deployed by the tail end of the movie?

All in all, the more I think of this movie, the less I think of it. Perhaps "awful" wasn't too strong a word after all, in retrospect.

So I take it that I am of the few that liked it? Personally, I felt that it was much closer in spirit to the cartoon, and the ridiculousness of the film only enhanced the feel of it bring a live-action cartoon.

But that's just me.

It found it to be a massive improvement compared to the first movie. The special effects were improved (not very hard to beat the first movie's though), the technology wasn't so insane and outlandish and was mostly based some more practical ideas, and the plot, while not terribly original or creative, did have a couple of good moments. For one, I can't help but admire the sheer balls Zartan and Cobra had for trying to blackmail the world into firing, and then subsequently self-destructing all of the world's nukes. Because insanity and random luck aside, that plan could potentially work in real life!

Can't say much about a lot of the character's genre-savviness, however. The biggest offender being the security detail posted at the underground prison, who were stupid enough to not only bring a prisoner's full gear in with them, but also HIS WEAPONS AS WELL totally deserved what was coming for overlooking such a thing for the sake of a director who's into keeping "trophies".

And they've left a ton of sequel hooks open too. Aside from Cobra Commander escaping, Destro is still alive at the bottom of that prison, the Baroness was strangely absent, Duke's death seemed too cheap to come out of nowhere, espeically given he and Cobra Commander's relationship and worst of all the US's reputation is gonna be down the toilet thanks to pulverizing a close ally, Britain, with a superweapon!

The secret service agents who were guarding the real president were also laughably incompetent. You are in a secure room with a blast door between you and any trouble and your first action upon hearing trouble is to open the door? What about hunkering down and calling for backup?

So, sounds like this is one of those dumb-dumb lol-splodey action films, like the first one.

Great, can't wait to go see it. Maybe this'll perk me up after how terribly boring the last Die Hard was.

Nothing Oscar-worthy, to be sure, but it was a fun movie. It was basically a big, dumb 80's action flick with modern special effects, and I really enjoyed it.

It stuck closer to the spirit of the cartoon while somehow at the same time being LESS cartoonish and stupid than Rise of Cobra.

So, should I see this? I liked The Expendables.

Oh yeah, definately. Not as bloody or morbidly funny, but definately similar and just as mindlessly fun!

So this is surprisingly improved movie when compared to first one?

HELL YES. No more stupid undersea battles, no more power armor, little to no use of nanomachines, no more highly implausible military technology (the COBRA tanks, guided bullet-cams, and the bomb-fireflies are the most technologically advanced things you'll see), more practical and realistic military tech, and a plot from Zartan and Cobra Commander that not only makes sense in a twisted way but also is rather ingenious due to what it could potentially accomplish. Seriously, if Zartan had thought twice about blasting London with the Zeus kinetic strike weapon and instead asked NATO and other allies to join the USA as a means of protection, he could've created one EXTREMELY powerful political position that would be near impossible to rout, Cobra Commander's lunacy be damned!

This was smarter than you made it out to be. Really good. And nice to see a Kinetic Strike Weapon on the big screen.

Better than the first. Also far better than Die Hard 5.

I like that Cobra solved world peace (!) for a few seconds too.