Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News saw it and thought it was great for what it was. And he hated Transformers 2 and Terminator 4.
Actually there are quite a few good reviews for it on Rotten Tomatoes. A silly action packed summer romp type movie that never takes itself too seriously and knows what it’s trying to be.
Sounds like they are just keeping it away from critics since they may view it as something it’s not.
I don’t have high hopes… but I am probably going to go see it any way.
I had high hopes that it would live up to my low expectations. Does that make sense?
Only on the Dope do people correct the grammar of lolcatz.
Come now. G.I. Joe is a DOLL. A children’s toy.
ANYTHING that tries to take a children’s toy and use it as the basis of a canon of [del]literature[/del] storytelling is going to suck.
G.I. Joe has sucked ever since some pencil-necked marketing dweeb at Hasbro first got the idea to whore the doll out to the Saturday morning cartoon vultures.
grumblegrumbleStoopid trailer nearly put me off the Harry Potter movie experience.grumblegrumble
Speaking of power suits and Iron Man, why is it that in the trailers and commercials I’ve seen for *Iron Man *movies I don’t get the impression that Tony Stark is seriously injured, and weak to the point that he would actually die if he wasn’t wearing it (the suit)?
That’s how the TV show played it in the seventies. Or maybe the sixties.
I always have to scratch my head when I hear people are anxious to go see a movie they think is going to suck. I just can’t understand why anyone would go see a movie that has every indication of stinking when there is probably a critically-acclaimed and audience-loved movie playing next door or at least nearby.
That said, at this writing, the movie in question has 10 reviews cataloged at Rotten Tomatoes and 8 are positive. That’s not enough of a consensus to convince me to buy a ticket just yet, especially when there are about 25 other movies with positive ratings on the top box office list that I haven’t seen.
Movie franchise just says he needs to keep the magnet keeping shrapnel out of his heart running. Other than that, he’s [del]golden[/del] iron.
Well, modern movie Iron Man won’t die without the suit. What he needs is a fist-sized atomic pacemaker gizmo permanently implanted in his chest, which is visible in the trailers. I seem to recall Stark’s heart damage being described by his fellow captive in one of the extended trailers, but I wouldn’t swear to it.
Anyway, one of the limitations of a modern CGI-driven action movie is that you may end up completely losing your main actor, so he needs as much “civvy-suit” time as possible or, if you’re Spider-Man, getting your mask torn off with surprising frequency.
It’s not a doll, it’s an ACTION FIGURE!
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Only if you put the wrong person in charge. And by “the wrong person” I mean “someone who thinks adding wrecking balls to a robot that doesn’t have wrecking balls to shoehorn in a testicle joke isn’t a shooting offence”.
It’s a DOLL. Like Barbie.
Unless you want to call Barbie an “action figure.” :rolleyes:
Sheesh. Boys play with dolls. Big deal. There’s no need to be so homophobic about it that you insert neologisms into the language.
I wouldn’t have thought they could make a good movie out of a log ride, but the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was pretty decent.
Dolls don’t have Kung-Fu grip!
But they do have Corvettes, so go figure.
It’s also a joke.
It wasn’t a joke. I’m sitting here in genuine anger with Nemesis Enforcer in an action pose on my desk.
Well, if it’s posed it’s not exactly an action figure, is it?
I’ve got him fighting Snake Eyes in between posts.
Yeah right! As if shopping and cooking dinner could reach the level of “action”