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  1. That's why the whole Sunbow thing doesn't exist in my mind I have dutifully tried to erase it. The original Sunbow animation from Griffin-Bacal was done to promote the comic 4 times per year in order to get around the (at the time) prohibitions in toy advertising. I wish the cartoon had not gotten so crazy from day one. I mean I hated the mind control and mechs to carry FLAK cannon up the sides of mountains. I can barely tolerate the Mass device. The Weather Dominator and Pyramid of Darkness are okay, if fatal fluffies and creeper vines could be done away with. Don't get me started about giant tube worms. I can tell people who liked the Sunbow cartoon liked the movie. For me, both are awful.
  2. I am liked the whole new Chimera angle in the IDW book.
  3. See this humorous review: G.I.Joe: Is it awesome? This is how I picture the fans who liked it acting.
  4. I would like a complete reboot. What Universal did to Ang Lee's Hulk film; ignore it and start over.
  5. Now that its done to 39%, will fans who used Rotten Tomatos to justify the film admit that it wasn't very good?
  6. No, as you can deduce from the novelization and the trailers/commericals, many of the scenes were there or longer. Editing isn't merely the splicing together of film to create pacing or adding wipes or cross-cuts or emotions. It is also choosing which scenes and shots to use and which ones to remove or shorten. Yes, Sommers had final cut. He could choose the length and composition of the film. Bad choices for what was left in and what was cut. Bad editing. This review from the British Telegraph says it best:
  7. Here are some other issues that make no sense to me. Believe me, I want to like it. I have been investing myself in the comics and toys of G.I.Joe since 1982. The beginning of the movie with the convoy leaving from the MARS factory in Kyrgyzstan protecting the nanomite warheads perplexes me. I will also acknowledge that the geopolitical situation in the near future is murky. The novelization says Duke's team is a NATO team but in the film, it appears to be an American team. Why are NATO or U.S. military forces acting in either a central Asian country or a former Soviet republic? Again, why do the weapons need to be weaponized? What good are they and why do they need to be guarded if they aren't already dangerous or useful? I know real ordinance has certain components missing until they are readied for deployment but I don't understand the need for a light show. Part of the whole MARS/James McCullen plan is to be able to control and order the world by being able to influence wars and sell to both sides. One must presume that the scheme with Storm Shadow and the Baroness was to have plausible deniability for McCullen. He wanted to remain the respectable businessman and face of MARS. Doesn't being caught by G.I.Joe ruin that for him? I liked this Cobra Commander and don't mind the mind control elements of the nanomites. It was kind of fun. I think the film didn't do justice to the Rex Lewis subplot like Max Allan Collins did in the two novels. The film sped through it and gee, loyal soldier and scientist goes mad thirty seconds after seeing nanomites in a lab. The novels had Rex Lewis be betrayed by an accident. Rex Lewis was supposed to investigate the lab for possible chemical weapons. It really was a U.S. or NATO lab for nanomites and supersoldiers. So Lewis and Hauser's team were doing something bad, which is the first betrayal. Then, the bombing of the bunker went off earlier than expected because of the actions of G.I.Joe. That was betrayal number two. And just perhaps, Lewis didn't become madly in love with nanomites in seconds, but was badly betrayed and burned but Dr. Mindbender used the nanomites to save Rex Lewis, thereby turning him evil. Oh well, I blame Stephen Summers for bad editing, bad acting, bad CGI and ruining what might have at least been a decent plot.
  8. I watched the You Tube review posted above. The only thing I disagreed with was that its is necessarily wrong to have films that glorify violence, the military, or nationalism. I don't have a problem with that. That is why Michael Bay films can be so much fun. That review is pretty accurate in every detail. Except, I would not encourage those of you who liked the film to shoot yourself in the head.
  9. The AP put out this story at 11:00 am today, August 9:
  10. I took it to be McCullen's plan because, when he talks to Duke, he tells him that the world will turn to the man with the most power (I'm paraphrasing) and Duke replies you? McCullen says, no, you don't see the bigger picture. I also didn't mind all of the newness to G.I.Joe. I liked the new Cobra Commander and how he came to be. I liked more or less the novelization. What I saw on screen was poor: the acting, the dialogue, the CGI. I also would have liked it if Cobra had more conventional weaponry.
  11. I will tell you part I liked. The overall plot where James McCullen plots to use the Nanomite missiles merely as a ruse to replace POTUS with Zartan. That is a clever plot. What still doesn't make sense to me is why, since MARS made the warheads, he couldn't weaponize them. Unless that was just an elaborate ruse so that it looked as these terrorists had taken them. But, why the weaponized already? Also, why the glorified lift show at the DeCobray labs to do this?
  12. Part II is already out. I saw it on Friday. BTW, this was much better than the live action Paramount picture I saw this morning. Their winks to the fans were better. I hate the cartoon, but I can appreciate it for what it is. Part 2 is on the same site. It's deceptive. Click on part two and wait. Part 2 will begin.
  13. Sorry I wrote this line because I actually said it to my wife on the car ride home. I am discouraged that there were so many positive reviews. I didn't get the bad reviews until today. I don't get why so many people disliked Transformers 2 and liked G.I.Joe. I just don't see it. People can like the movie but there were so many bad things about the film making. The script was rushed as Stuart Beattie acknowledged because of the writer's strike. The acting as a whole was bad. Channing Tatum bugged me as Duke. It was his accent and flippancy. I had previously read the prequel novel and movie novelization so I knew what I was getting into. The nano-tech didn't bug me. I liked Destro, the Baroness, Storm Shadow and Rex Lewis. Those actors were good. It was the rest that bothered me. Also, I said this before I saw the movie, fans of the Sunbow cartoon are going to drool.
  14. I wish I had my $13.00 back. My mind cannot be made clean again. For entertainment sake, I wish I had taken my wife to see Julie and Julia or instead gone to Target and bought a new toy. Don't see it unless you need to confirm for yourself just how bad it could be. You've already seen most of the only enjoyable things in the film from countless trailers and commercials: Sienna Miller as the Baroness and the Paris chase scene. I feel like it's 1986-1987 all over again. Transformers gets the cool movie with Orson Wells and Leonard Nimoy and G.I.Joe gets Don Johnson and Burgess Meredith. First off, I saw it this morning with my wife at a 9:40 digital presentation. My wife, we barely knows who the main characters are, and barely watched the cartoon as a child, and not with me, groaned at every bad one lines or supposed fan boy reference. She also wants to know why Scarlet's "flak jacket" has built-in c-cups. Those are her words. She loves Kevin Smith, likes Star Trek, can enjoy Star Wars and enjoyed Transformers II more than she liked the first and she liked the first one. She loved Die Hard. So she isn't anti-sci fi or anti-geek. I thoughts some of the acting was terrible. Wayans, Eccleston, Taghmaoui, and Miller were good. Nichols was bad. The others looked like they were acting over the top. The CGI was bad. The scenes in the desert near the PIT were bad. I wish they would have just used semi-realistic technology for the G.I.Joe planes. The Osprey like jet things looked silly. The PIT looked unbelievable. The scene where they took the heavy elevator and Hawk explains what G.I.Joe is made me laugh out loud. Full underwater exercises in a underwater lake. The levels looked impossibly big. I also disliked the Neo-Viper concept. Why has Hasbro been stuck on Neo-Vipers since 2002. The fact they were basically invulnerable to flames or heavy blunt trauma or heavy weapons fire was ridiculous. The fact that each Cobra had a pulse cannon or magetic rail-gun or whatever they had didn't make the seem dangerous or threatening. It just made G.I.Joe seem pointless. I hated the underwater battle. I liked Snake-Eyes and the mouth thing didn't bother me. I liked Wayans as Ripcord. I liked Quaid as Hawk. I said this when I reviewed the novelization. Fans of the Sunbow cartoon will recognize and like this G.I.Joe. Fans of the Marvel comic will probably groan. To be fair, I never liked the cartoon and I had origin films. I wondered aloud with my wife if the fans who said they enjoyed this movie are merely suffering from fanboy delusions. They want their beloved property to be loved and respected that they cannot accept to see it besmirched or criticized. They want their movie to be enjoyed and be successful to be validated in some way. This is a film for those under 12. It was well made 2 hour toy commercial. Those kids will like the one-liners. Those kids will snap up the toys. Me, I will not buy any more movie figures than what I already did: Helix, wave 1 Stormshadow, Baroness, and Snake-Eyes, Desert Scarlet and Paris Snake-Eyes. There may be a sequel, but the fans who liked it will have to hope that the Saturday grosses don't drop precipitously from the Friday grosses.
  15. I liked the intentional gaffes like Cobra Commanders appearance changing in every scene. I like that the used Hawk. I loved the voices. The pairing of Breaker and Beachhead was funny. Shipwreck's Nicholson voice was cool. The Crimson Twins and Major Bludd sounded right. Also cool was that the Baroness didn't talk, a nod to the differences between her cartoon accent and the Hama-verse and now movie-verse voice. I liked how no one could hit anything. Shipwreck and Snake-Eyes with Polly and then a can of Yo-Joe Cola. Even a reference to mermaids. I also liked how they took the 1983 G.I. Joe HQ and put it on a gray foundation so it resembled the cartoon base and they even used the checkpoint. Whoever did that knew what they were doing. It was more an homage to the Sunbow cartoons, but it had Hama elements. It is a perfect lead-in to the Paramount film.
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