G.I. Joe 2 (2012) Casting, Rumors, Pics till release

[DWMarch]

Well I for one loved The Rise of Cobra. The action was non-stop, the jokes were funny ("Damn bro, you got some lifelike hair over there!") and the CGI was slick. I didn't think Channing Tatum was intolerable, especially since he was supposed to be the straight man of the duo. Remember, he wasn't born, he's government issue! But if he's too wooden to carry the sequel, kill him off. Replace him with Flint. Remember, they already killed Cover Girl. If we have an escape sequence where Cobra Commander and Destro bust out of jail, we could have Duke heroically sacrificing himself to save the Baroness. When this doesn't work out as planned, she can slip back into the black leather and be a villain again.

Now if they seriously want to take this up a notch, they'll add Stalker... as portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson. "I've had it with these MF Cobras on this MF..."!

 

[JRS]

Well I for one loved The Rise of Cobra. The action was non-stop, the jokes were funny ("Damn bro, you got some lifelike hair over there!") and the CGI was slick.
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When this doesn't work out as planned, she can slip back into the black leather and be a villain again.

I liked the first film also
I hope they keep the cast from the first..but also add some new characters to the mix.
Baroness definetly needs to be a villain again I was disappointed that she became "good" in the end of the first film.
Im also curious of how they use/solve the stuff about the US President..

 

[Guy Gardener]

The Ballard of GI Joe on Youtube was a billion times better than that shit movie.

(Destro and the baroness, and Practising their clarinet! Destro and the baroness, and Practising their clarinet! Destro and the baroness, and Practising their clarinet! Destro and the baroness, and Practising their clarinet!)

Give Ben Stiller the job and retool the bugger into something watchable.

 

[Holdfast]

The movie was pretty crap, but it was crap that somehow still hit enough right notes to probably get me to watch a sequel.

 

[Captain Craig]

Well I for one loved The Rise of Cobra.

I liked the first film also

Im also curious of how they use/solve the stuff about the US President..

It was fun and I'm frankly thinking that's my best adjective for it. I didn't love it or like it that strongly. It was tolerable and that isn't even meant as a backhanded compliment.

I saw this news yesterday and wondered if we had an ongoing thread. Glad to see it pulled back up.

As to the Presidential ending, I see where you are going, it doesn't set a particular President. He's just random fictional President. He's never meant to be a stand in for Bush(cause he's white). Hell we could still be in the middle east post Obama so I don't see it as big plot point worth addressing.

 

[Corran Horn]

I thought Pyramid of Darkness would've made a decent movie. Arise, Serpentor, Arise might've been good too.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

It was a horrid, brainless movie. And a bit of a guilty pleasure. It killed an early evening last year, and it was nice seeing kids go goobers for Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, if only for a summer. I especially liked Channing Tatum as he seemed to be the emotional and intellectual equivalent and stand in for all those sawed off red necks I knew in the 80s who dreamed of growing up to be Duke.

Sure, I'd see a sequel.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I finally saw it a couple of months ago and thought it was exactly as advertised...a prequel movie actually set in sequence of a planned trilogy. Channing Tatum was by far the worst part of the film. The dude can't act and has no charisma with his actors at all and I just couldn't see him as Duke at all. Chris Eccelston shined as Destro and did what he could with not much (as a good Doctor should). I loved Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance as The Doctor/Cobra Commander (I did geek out at the end when he tells Destro you may call me Commander!). Rachel Nichols was cute as Scarlett (who I think in the novelization and the tie in merchandise was supposed to be Canadian which as a Canadian makes me smile and laugh). Sienna Miller was a decent Baroness. So while I'm not excited for the sequel I will most likely check it out.

 

[God Magnus]

I'm glad to see a sequel in the works. G.I. Joe has needed a shot in the arm as a brand the past few years and all the attempts thus far have been short and not particularly successful. "Resolute" was awesome, but it's only a standalone.

I'm a much bigger Transformers fan than Joe, but the two properties are linked together strongly and I do want Joe to be successful. I enjoyed the first movie for all the reasons mentioned by many above, and frankly while the CGI in "Revenge of the Fallen" was better, Joe had a much better story and characters. At least no one in the Joe movie outright offended me with stupidity the way the "twins" did.

 

[Silvercrest]

Speaking of "twins":

There was a leaked script a week or so ago that was said to feature Tomax and Xamot, but it was discredited by the studio.

What good are Tomax and Xamot anyway? All they do is finish each other's sentences. And when one gets punched out, the other one goes down with him. They'd be a liability.

Of course, come to think of it, the original, immature, tantrum-throwing Cobra Commander was a liability too, and look what they did with him.

 

[Too Much Fun]

The Ballard of GI Joe on Youtube was a billion times better than that shit movie.

It was from 'Funny or Die' and while this is true, I thought the movie showed potential. Except Duke. Channing Tatum was the worst possible lead...they'd be better off recasting him. Marlon Wayans was an annoying stereotype and Rachel Nichols did some horrible acting too, but I liked the rest of the characters/actors.

I just wish there hadn't been so many clumsy, laughably shallow flashbacks to connect the characters in the most hack-y way, awful dialog, and terrible acting. I liked the simplicity of the story ('good guys vs. bad guys who are trying to take over the world!') and the performances of the villains, though. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was fantastic. The only thing I would change about him was I liked his doctor voice more than his voice in the last scenes and they should give him the blank mask/helmet.

Now that they've got new writers (who wrote the very fun "Zombieland"), I think this movie could be a lot better. If Tatum, Wayans, and Nichols are coming back, the acting may not improve much, but the new writers should at least be able to improve the dialog and storytelling.

 

[captcalhoun]

the writers are said to be fans of the comics, so if they get more help from Hama, it should be shit hot.

i loved it, it was the kind of movie i would've loved as a nine year old Joe fan, even if i would've like Flint and Jaye in it. (hopefully, in the sequel)

 

[T J]

The last G.I. Joe was sooo bad can anyone tell me why I should even bother? I mean the acting, story, just everything was just sooo bad.

I think I'll preemptively save an hour and a half of my life.

 

[Nick Ryder]

GI Joe was a popcorn flick not great, but entertaining to say the least. And hey anything that put Siena Miller in tight black catsuits and low cut dresses... lol

But I kind of think that everyone was still trying to figure out what the hell was going on, which I THINK is one major flaw with this whole movement to basically make movies where the CGI is the set and not practical. So actors are kind of playing around going "Oh wow look at... that spot on the wall." or trying to react to some "kewl awesomeness" and sort of reacting like "oh wow... look at that ping pong ball go."

Plus I think if they had stuck closer to the comics and the old tv show's style of the characters, it might have been easier. Baroness never had ANY link to Duke before. Or Cobra Commander for that matter. She was Destro's babe. Going against that is kind of like doing a Silverhawks movie and having Steelheart as Commander Stargazer's daughter and she's Quicksilver's ex. And Melodia was Stargazer's ex. It's setting up drama and relationships where there was never any.

BUT... I did like that Baroness sort of wasn't just a 1 dimensional villaness. So... I could forgive them for the BS past they set up, but Cobra Commander is Baronesses little brother... uhmmmmmmmmmm... and then he gave her nanites to control her? Uhmmmmmmmmmmm?

Maybe they'll just gloss over that in the next flick and say that she was only faking (hah) and she wanted to be evil and could give a flying feck about Duke.

GI Joe vs Cobra was always a silly battle, you had tons of guys fighting each other and barely any shots landed and Cobra Commander had a lot of dumb ass ideas. "Letsssss make Rock Mussssic and corrupt young minds into joining COBRAAAAA!"

 

[Agent Richard07]

I enjoyed the first one. It actually turned out better than I thought it would and I'm glad a sequel is getting made.

 

[KB24]

Why did this have to be a young popcorn flick with cgi and hotties and mindless whatnot? Why couldn't Duke have been a veteran, show Shipwreck with his past. That would have been unique amid all these repeatedly same films. Is the same cast in Gi Joe as was in Clash of the Titans as was in Avatar? I can't tell the damn difference.

When it comes out on video I might give the sequel a chance, but if its making the same mistakes as the first, goodbye. I just wish they wouldn't run this great cartoon into the ground. What franchise will they kill next, Thundercats?