So the GI Joe movie doesn't look like total garbage.

[Spike]

I shall fourth this sentiment!

And add wanting to marry Rachel Nichols. She's a genius, too, by the way. Seriously.

[Rob]

Wanna see what cobra commander looks like from the joe movie?

Are you sure?

Here's what one of his toys looks like. You've been warned.

http://forums.toynewsi.com/index.php?showtopic=2060827

[Speedbreaker]

New theatrical trailer

[Thunderchild Maximus]

Cool master chief suits d00d!

[Rust]

Honestly, I don't know what to think of this flick any more.

On one hand, I actually *like* Cobra Commander's look. It's a nice marriage between his original costume and his Mid-90s Post-Movie Life Support Armor get up. Not to mention, throw a hood over the apparatus, and you have a way to have a unmasking of Cobra Commander while still keeping his identity a secret.

On the other hand, that Trailer was not made to make me feel enthused to see the film. On it's own merits, it's not a bad trailer, but I find the "Accelerator Suits" completely and utterly unnecessary. I mean, I was hoping when pictures first leaked that they'd handle the Joe team as a covert, special ops unit and try to give them a ground in realism.

Instead, they went to the polar opposite of the village people get up and made the whole lot of them Spartans, like Thunderchild said. Also it throws my suspicion that those were B.A.T.s right out the window.


Not to mention couldn't we have gotten at least one instance of "COBRAAAAAAA!" instead of Baroness' half hearted "This isn't over!" I mean, if we're going to throw seriousness out the door and put the Joes in power suits, at the very least have the villains hamming it up.

[Rhinox]

there a place to DL this trailer in HD?

[Speedbreaker]

Cool master chief suits d00d!

Instead, they went to the polar opposite of the village people get up and made the whole lot of them Spartans, like Thunderchild said.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Maxx]

Powered armor suits are a cliche at this point.

[Thunderchild Maximus]

Honestly, the rest of that trailer was brain meltingly inane before they got to the Iron Man suits with ODST helmets.

[Speedbreaker]

An AWESOME cliche.

Really, you all are getting the point, but missing it at the same time. Yes, the powered armor is derivative of Iron Man or Halo. Yes, it's there solely to attract 14 year olds. But guess what, THEY'RE a bigger demographic this movie is aiming at than cynical 20 or 30something fanboys. And also to sell toys. But it's GI JOE. What did you expect?

Besides, every big budget summer action movie nowadays has to have a gimmick to explain why the stars are capable of doing insane, missile-dodging, computer-enhanced gun-kata wire-fu. Matrix had "the world is a computer program", Wanted had that "curve the bullet" bullshit, G.I. Joe has "the suit accelerates you" Really Ripcord, what else would a human-sized suit accelerate?

[Thunderchild Maximus]

An AWESOME cliche.

Really, you all are getting the point, but missing it at the same time. Yes, the powered armor is derivative of Iron Man or Halo. Yes, it's there solely to attract 14 year olds. But guess what, THEY'RE a bigger demographic this movie is aiming at than cynical 20 or 30something fanboys. And also to sell toys. But it's GI JOE. What did you expect?

Posting this or any variation of this should probably be a bannable offense (I'm guilty of doing this in the past as well) because everybody always posts it like it's new information.

Yeah, GI Joe is goofy shit, but there's a point of absurdity that trailer just drilled past. But then I know very little about GI Joe aside from the fact that the Baroness is hot. Or should be, anyway.

Besides, every big budget summer action movie nowadays has to have a gimmick to explain why the stars are capable of doing insane, missile-dodging, computer-enhanced gun-kata wire-fu. Matrix had "the world is a computer program", Wanted had that "curve the bullet" bullshit, G.I. Joe has "the suit accelerates you" Really Ripcord, what else would a human-sized suit accelerate?

I want somebody to do a movie that is nothing but bar fights to counter all the CG wire-fu bullshit.

[Spike]

Honestly, the rest of that trailer was brain meltingly inane before they got to the Iron Man suits with ODST helmets.

I feel where you're coming from.

[Dusty]

I talked about this with Speedbreaker, but basically I echo most everyone else's sentiments. I think it looked pretty good until we got to the Iron Man armor, and the effects work looks shoddy (though that you could just blame on a super early trailer).

I really want to like this, but I want it to be military guys fighting snake terrorists with some whacky gadgets and vehicles thrown in for good measure. I don't need to see Halo Army versus Doctor Who and Sienna Miller in a van.

[Maxx]

what with the van were snake themed?

[Speedbreaker]

Yeah, GI Joe is goofy shit, but there's a point of absurdity that trailer just drilled past. But then I know very little about GI Joe aside from the fact that the Baroness is hot. Or should be, anyway.

Trust me man, there IS no end to the absurdity when it comes to G.I. Joe. It's one of the most ridiculous cartoon/action figure franchises in existence, don't let the comparatively "realistic" premise of special ops vs. terrorists fool you. There was an episode where Cobra trapped the Joes in a booby-trapped funhouse. In another episode, known international terrorist Cobra Commander was given equal time with Duke on a 60 Minutes-esque show. In another, Cobra took over a single elementary school and tried to teach the students revisionist Cobra history. Then there was the time they used subliminal messages in rock music. And the time they had a football game with the Joes.