Cobra Commander

[Barbados Slim]

Of course a literal translation is impossible but people a good, fun action film should also be well-made and filled with talent and...exciting when pictures and trailers come out. And an adaptation should remind you what you love about the source material.

The "All I care is if its a fun movie or not" crowd is why we got two Fantastic Fours, two Pink Panther remakes and Two Garfield movies. No need to ever shut your brain off.

Being played by Joseph Gordon Levitt, I sincerely doubt there'll be any badassness in the performance.

Joseph Gordon Levitt is one of the best young actors out there today. I mean, phenomenal. Check out, Brick, The Lookout or Mysterious Skin. I'd say he's the strongest actor in the cast, even moreso than Dennis Quaid, and I like Quaid.

 

[Admiral2]

Joseph Gordon Levitt is one of the best young actors out there today. I mean, phenomenal. Check out, Brick, The Lookout or Mysterious Skin. I'd say he's the strongest actor in the cast, even moreso than Dennis Quaid, and I like Quaid.

He also spoke thusly about the role:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs4RYwl7fa0

Anybody this dismissive about the part is not going to go out of his way to take it seriously enough to make it "badass". I see the absolute worst aspects of Cartoon CC on the rise, without even the benefit of Chris Latta's voice work to make the ham and cheese palatable.

Actually, Slim, I think we're on the same side on this. Just for slightly different reasons.

 

[Guartho]

What's wrong with the bad guy evoking images of the klan?

 

[dru]

JGL is "perfect" casting if you want to evoke the original cartoon. The costuming choice made is pitiful, however.

How are they going to do this film anyway? GI Joe are in black when Cobra was the dark outfitted (Crimson Guard and later bizarre dayglo designs excepted) ones.

 

[Unicron]

I have to admit, and I'm probably in the minority, but I always preferred the animated movie's origin of Cobra Commander over the comic version.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

I have to admit, and I'm probably in the minority, but I always preferred the animated movie's origin of Cobra Commander over the comic version.

Mind posting that in spoiler code for those of us who were to young to see the movie when it came out.

 

[Chess Piece Face]

They are blowing a huge opportunity here to make an iconic onscreen villian. Here's what I mean:

Imagine Darth Vader. Most iconic villian of all time, it could be argued. Now remove his cape. Remove his suit and replace it with black pants with a lot of cargo pockets and a black set of rubber abs. Put on top of that a leather jacket. Now, take off his helmut. Give him some kind of smaller face mask.

NOW YOU HAVE SOME SHIT CHARACTER THAT LOOKS LIKE HE BELONGS IN A LATE NIGHT SCI-FI CHANNEL MOVIE.

Cobra Commander could be a complete badass - even without his cape, even without his kick ass amazing hood. Just give him the mirror helmut, that would still be ten times sweeter than this stupid shit which will be a blue leather jacket with a tiny cobra logo on the chest pocket and a surgeon's mask over his mouth.

Again, try to take Darth Vader and "Joe" him up the way they have the joes and storm shadow in this movie and you have not only an epic fail - you blow your chance to have one of the most iconic badass villians of all time.

 

[Barbados Slim]

I agree. Plus the Joes are army guys. Soldiers are real American heroes right now. Look how kickass the soldiers in Transfomers are. So why make the Joes look like spacemen?

 

[Maestro]

Just as long as we're not going with the ultra-lame, ultra-stupid, epic FAIL backstory of Cobra-La.

If that happens, someone's nose is going to get broken, followed by a kick to the head. I'm not shitting you, either.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

In the 8's animated movie, there was a race of creatures of intelligence whose technology was based on organisms.  Everything seemed to be alive. When the ice age came, the remains of their civilization was forced to go into hiding under the Himalayas.  The called this race the Cobra-La though the writers had intentions of replacing the name with soemthing else, but the marketers loved it.  Anyway, the leader of this group took on a member of this race, who, though disfigured by a laboratory accident, to be his envoy to the world, to go out and raise an army that would help wipe out mankind so that the Cobra-la could reclaim the earth.  From there, the origin of the character I would assume isn't much different than other versions: he probably started out as a terrorist, until meeting with Destro who I guess dealth with arms dealing.  I kind of always like this bersion of the story. It wasn't better than than the comics where the character was mysterious, but it was more creative and a hundred other "sci-fi" villains.  In the film, he returns Cobra to the Himalayas in retreat, as the Cobra-la leader has new plans

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I don't know how t do spoiler code, maybe someone could help

 

[ALF]

Do we know what the plot of the film is?
I'm wondering if his motives are in relation due to his appearance.

Spoiler: CC

From what I've read, Cobra Commander was a special forces guy and buddy of Duke who got left for dead on a mission. He ends up working for Destro at MARS as a sort of mad doctor who has to wear some sort of life support suit. He uses his experiments to take over MARS and create Cobra.

I wonder if his first order of business is a lengthy intellectual copyright settlement with Lucasfilm?

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Did IQs just dropped sharply while I was away? [/ripley]

Part of Cobra Commander's awesomeness was that he a) looked cool in his masks, not like Jason X and b) that he had no backstory.

He had one in the comic, revealed over a few spread out issues.

He was once-of all things-a used car salesman who decided to start his own secret organization to gain power and wealth for himself. That organization eventually turned into Cobra.

And his brother killed Snake Eyes' family in another back story I believe. The Pyramid Scheme thing works for Cobra.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I don't know how t do spoiler code, maybe someone could help

Spoiler: SPOILER CODE

Use "SPOILER" instead of "CODE". Quote my post to see how.

 

[Chess Piece Face]

I agree. Plus the Joes are army guys. Soldiers are real American heroes right now. Look how kickass the soldiers in Transfomers are. So why make the Joes look like spacemen?

Great point and awesome avatar.

 

[Unicron]

Mind posting that in spoiler code for those of us who were to young to see the movie when it came out.

I'm not really sure what I'd put in code, since I only said it differs from the comic version. That's precisely why I didn't write any more details about the animated version.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Did IQs just dropped sharply while I was away? [/ripley]

Part of Cobra Commander's awesomeness was that he a) looked cool in his masks, not like Jason X and b) that he had no backstory.

He had one in the comic, revealed over a few spread out issues.

He was once-of all things-a used car salesman who decided to start his own secret organization to gain power and wealth for himself. That organization eventually turned into Cobra.

And his brother killed Snake Eyes' family in another back story I believe. The Pyramid Scheme thing works for Cobra.

One of the failings of the Marvel comic book was that more and more people were tied into Snake-Eyes' past...all the major villains, even a seemingly non-entity like Firefly did...and it only hurt the mythos by making it a ninja-soap opera.

And there's a new comic by Hama that's redoing the origins of Cobra and GI JOE. So basically, GI JOE has been rebooted a few times. Nothing is sacred.

THat doesn't mean that the movie Cobra Commander won't still suck though.