I saw in another recent thread that is was expected that GI Joe was going to suck the big one. I just saw this article on MSNthat says Paramount isn’t going to let critics see the movie.
I had such high hopes for this movie, but now… I think I have to realize it’s going to suck. 
And blowing is half the battle!
They’re wearing power suits akin to Iron Man in the trailers. Of course it’s going to suck.
:eek:
You had high hopes? For the love of God, why?!
My thoughts exactly. I just kind of hung my head and shook it when I found out they were making this. Good movies typically come from ideas for good movies, not from ideas to cash in on a powerful demographic’s nostalgia.
I had little doubt that it was going to suck, still it’s kind of disapointing that it would.
Maybe we’ll be lucky and it will suck in an entertaining way.
When I first saw the GI Joe Trailer, my reaction wasn’t “oh my god, I have to go see this movie,” but “huh? THAT was GI Joe?”
I’ve since seen multiple trailers and still cannot grasp what about this movie makes it GI Joe.
My best guess as to what happened, and I sincerely doubt I’m far off from the truth, is that some scriptwriter somewhere laid out an idea for a standard action flick with suits of armor, cool special effects, and wicked martial arts. It got sheleved. Then some producer said “holy crap. You guys seen that Transformers movie? It made like 6.2 Giggityillion dollars! I want that. You know what would be great? A GI Joe movie!” And some other producer remembered this script that had been shelved three years previously and said “no problem. let’s pay another guy to rewrite this, and sub out the names of the characters, inserting GI Joe characters instead. Tada!”
Go Joe.
Shouldn’t your sig say con queso, Enderw24?
possibly. It’s hard going all Lolcats in Spanish where the point is to deliberately misspell and misuse words while making the message clear. Maybe “conz.” I may change it 
Hah, conz would work. Or quesoz. My dog speaks Spanish but I’m afraid that isn’t much help. The cat that hangs around outside doesn’t talk much.
I’ll admit, the first trailer (which specifically de-emphasized the power suits) was pretty fucking awesome. Cobra blowing up the Eiffel Tower (and being EEEEEEE-vil about it) is something the cartoon actually did. So I had hope.
Then I realized… wait a minute… why aren’t they showing us Cobra Commander? Then I saw another trailer… power suits? The hell? Then I realized Destro is not wearing a mask. Then I watched Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers most recent movie before GI Joe), good Christ was it bad.
So yeah, this was just the final nail in the coffin. I don’t have hope anymore.
Don’t take this as gospel, but from what I understand, Stephen Somers didn’t know jack about the franchise. Couple that with obvious missteps in the story like power suits, making G.I.Joe some kind of international operation (gotta sell DVDs in Europe), destroying the Eifel Tower (the Eifel Tower destroyed in a movie? Whoda thunk it except everyone who’s done it before!), and screwing with everyone’s backstories and you have a gigantic clusterfrack mess of a movie.
Maybe someone thought using the cartoon as a starting point was a good idea. They should have looked at the comics instead. With the exception of the Unbeatable Ninja Scorpion Tower, the comics leaned pretty much towards a semirealistic look at a super modern military unit.
Oops there goes another rubber tree movie.
12 year old kids don’t care what critics say. They only care what Mark down the street says.
I’m waiting for “Strawberry Shortcake: The Battle For Porcupine Peak” myself.
Isn’t one of the Wayans brothers in this movie? Even without seeing a trailer, that was all I needed to come up with my “It sucks” critique.
I had hope, especially when I saw the first trailer. I didn’t realize it was G.I. Joe but turned to a buddy and went that looks fun and then the name popped on the screen and I was thinking it would be fantastic.
The more I hear about this move the less excited I get but I will still go see it Saturday I’m just expecting something on the level of Transformers 2; no plot or characterization, but lots of potentially cool fight scenes ruined by a million cuts.
But it crushes the Eiffel Tower, so it’s awesome! I am SO SICK of that stupid thing!
There are two things that could ruin this movie for me: shitty editing and a Bay-ish sense of humour. I’m still hopeful - even if it’s not as smart as I’d like, as long as the creators don’t deliberately make the movie worse, it still might be enjoyable.
Although normally that works, but he was really good in “Requiem for a Dream.”