The Viper episode and the one where they turn humans into half-animals are the only 2 that I still remember. The rest are a foggy haze of lazer blasts with the sights all wrong (how else does everybody miss?).
I used to yell at the screen everytime i saw GI Joe, how coud they fire like that, destroy helicopters, planes, etc AND NOT A SINGLE Casualty!.
The fury can be explained because i had moved to another city and the local TV had GI Joe instead of Robotech like in my previous home (i was 8), coming from Robotech where people died when the Zentraedi wanted to put off a fire to GI Joe was a little traumatic.
and Joseph Gordon-Leavitt is in this too??? Wow, I may have to go to the midnight showing.
…God, I love the internet. Thanks for the link. 
I’d forgotten how annoying Tomax and Xamot were… (Then again, it’s entirely possible this is the only episode I’ve seen with them in it - I was never a huge GI Joe fan - Transformers, Voltron, and Robotech were my shows* - and catching it was spotty.)
- It’s really sad that Robotech is the only one of the lot that held up. Later Transformers instalments have made up for the lameness of G1 and G2, however.
I’m from the era of 12" action figures (age 47). I even had one with “lifelike hair.” I couldn’t agree with the OP more. The trailer totally hooked me in; THEN I saw it was GI Joe! Well Played. I can’t wait to see it.
Well, when you’re doing stories about war and such, it helps to actually KILL people. Hell, at the end of Macross Saga humanity is reduced to, what, 50,000 people?
-Joe
I had talking G.I. Joe when I was little and the Real American Hero was my favorite toyline when I got a little older. I always thought the cartoon was stupid and cheesey, but it was fun and I watched it when it was on.
(Possible SPOILERS coming… read at your own risk…)
That being said, I just don’t know what to think of the movie trailers. Eccelson as Destro and Gordon-leavitt as Cobra Commander intrigue me. The Baroness looks pretty good and she’s booberific in every clip they show her, so that’s good, right? Ray Park as Snake Eyes, hell yeah!
But… Wayans as Ripcord? Mobile power suits? Is this Starship Troopers? Blowing up the Eifel Tower? Can’t you think of another way? That’s been done to death already.
Real funny thing about that - in Voltron, I apparently either missed or ignored the dialogue that explained various characters apparently killed had lived…'cuz I was convinced that show had a pretty good bodycount - of particular note was mention of the Robeasts being created from people (I think either Zarkon or Haggar threatens to Robeastify Lotor at one point), and an (apparent) lack of mention of…not KILLING the Robeasted Doomites.
I wasn’t planning on seeing it, but the preview I saw Saturday before XMen made it look good enough that I’ll give it a try. I fear it is going to be a poor summer for movies though.
Wayans was pretty good in Requiem for a Dream and it was a pretty serious role too.
I can’t remember. Did Sven die, or just get injured so then the Princess took over his lion?
Umm…if you cast a black actor in Hollywood there’s about a 20% chance of it being a Wayans anyway.
-Joe, lame, gay (not that kind), nerd
What about that Weeble screenplay by Arthur Miller? Y’know; After the Fall?
It’s been a LOOOOONG time, but, IIRC, in Voltron, he was taken to Planet Doom as a slave.
(In GoLion, the character died, and I think they conflated him with a second, separate character for the Planet Doom part.)
Boy, are you lucky that you haven’t heard about the upcoming Monopoly movie, directed by Ridley Scott.
We saw the trailer for this last night, and in the first few seconds I knew it was GI Joe just from the quick shot of the Baroness, so they totally nailed that one. My girlfriend was next to me and she said “Wow, what is this?”
I turned and said “GI Joe.”
“What? How do you know? No it isn’t. “
And then at the end when they showed the title she was bugged out a little. I could just tell from the trailer. I’m 31 so I am 100% in the target market for this one, GI Joe replaced Star Wars in the “guys you play with” department when I was a kid. I had EVERYTHING. Except the stupid Aircraft Carrier because that cost like $100. My friend Chandler had it because his parents loved him more. I hope the aircraft carrier is in the movie.
Anyway, I’m going to eat this one up. So when does the Thundercats movie happen?
ETA - The Rise of Cobra part means that there will be a sequel next year too doesn’t it?
Those suits do look weird, it’s like half Master Chief and half Usain Bolt
Ha! It’s Snarfield!
Ha, that’s almost exactly what happened to me last night. I was watching tv with my sister and her husband and we saw it. She said, “what movie is this” and my brother-in-law and I, at the same time, came back with “G.I. Joe!” She thought we were joking until the end.
For what it’s worth, I’m 32, I think I still have a couple of the old action figures in a junk box somewhere, and I will be seeing this movie.