New 2-minute G.I. Joe trailer

[Admiral2]

What the hell is wrong with women in tight suits and showy battles?

Not a thing

If the plot is interesting or at least entertaining, what is wrong with paying ten bucks to shut your brain off for a couple of hours?

Again, not a thing, if...

Does a lot of SFX preclude a decent story and characters?

Nope

So many movies come out every year I don't see the need for all of them to be the best movie that has ever existed in its genre. And that seems to be the standard these days: it's either a GREAT movie or it's a piece of shit, all people do on the Internet is whine about how terrible things are because they don't match up perfectly with some kind of unreachable ideal.

Now we part company. The ideal I'm looking for isn't unreachable. The creators never tried to reach it. They went with what they think toy geeks will love and not with what we want.

Not every movie can be "Heat" or "Die Hard".

I didn't want Heat or Die Hard. I also didn't want Batman, Iron Man, Spider-Man, HALO or Watchmen.

If you don't want to see it that's fine, but you're telling me it's poorly written after seeing a minute and a half of a trailer.

They shot battery acid at the Eiffel Tower. Destro's HQ is Sealab 2021. Guys in Power Rangers armor are dodging missiles. I'm sorry, how should I judge that, exactly?

Perfect example of the mentality I'm talking about. What's wrong with waiting until some people you know see it or at least a review before judging it as a "piece of shit?"

Given that the purpose of a trailer is to present the movie's best scenes to entice you into seeing it, if it's best scenes are shit and turn you away from the movie, what exactly is the point of waiting?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I wonder if Christopher Eccleston ever regrets his decision regarding Doctor Who.

 

[Norrin Radd]

This kinda reminds me of that Thunderbirds flick directed by Frakes.

 

[Ethros]

I watched a lot of 80s cartoon as a kid (Transformers, Thundercats, MASK, etc) but for whatever reason I've never seen a single second of GI Joe and know almost nothing about it.
On that basis and watching the trailer now... I won't be seeing that. It looks like that Thunderbirds movie, all bang and whizz but there's zero soul and it's total shite

 

[Samurai8472]

I actually want more Resolute type G.I Joe movies.

 

[captcalhoun]

I watched a lot of 80s cartoon as a kid (Transformers, Thundercats, MASK, etc) but for whatever reason I've never seen a single second of GI Joe and know almost nothing about it.
On that basis and watching the trailer now... I won't be seeing that. It looks like that Thunderbirds movie, all bang and whizz but there's zero soul and it's total shite

the Joe cartoon was never shown in the UK to my knowledge, only released on VHS with bad dubbing to make it into [deep voice] ACTION FORCE[/deep voice] and with some of the GI Joe bits painted out on the vehicles...

 

[Trekker4747]

I here-by dub this movi "C.G.I. Joe."

 

[Thrall]

Looks awful.

Spoiler: Spoiler possible

First Cobra Commander as a crappy Doctor Doom?

Destro is a lanky dude with no mask?

The Real American Hero going PC and working for The UN? Because that worked so well for Guile and Cammy, the badass MI6 Agent, in Street Fighter 1.

Underwater City Bases? What the hell, is this Sea Lab 2021?

Iron Man battlesuits? Did these people even watch the damn show?

Good grief, this looks Street Fighter type bad. And this is a much easier concept to get right then Transformers. Steven Sommers is a mediocre hack, and he always has been. The only decent film he ever did was the first Mummy, and even that was forgettable at best. As soon as I heard he was attached, I knew it was in trouble.

Yeah, yeah I know. "Wait til you see it! Don't rush to judge!". Fuck that. This has stinker written all over it. I could be wrong. I don't think I am though. Shame too. This is decent action movie concept that could have been good.

 

[Good]

I actually want more Resolute type G.I Joe movies.

Seconded!

Sadly I finished watching Resolute and then watched this sad excuse for a trailer on the same day. It's as if they took everything popular (halo, spandex, iron man, transformers, etc.) and then slapped on some G.I. Joe names as an afterthought.

I'm not saying that the original G.I. Joe cartoon and comic were high art, but they had their moments (especially the comic). What they really had was potential. Resolute mined that potential to great effect. This movie ignores it.

In fact, the only thing I'm interested in is Ray Park as Snake Eyes.

 

[firehawk12]

It looks so... generic. But then again, I guess all they can show are explosions and stupid shit like that.

 

[Barbados Slim]

It's a bad call to bring out Resolute before this movie. My disconnect, other than the weak action and retarded power suits, is that the thing that G.I. Joe did so well was the diverse characters. You knew Wild Bill from Dusty, Shipwreck from Gung Ho. Flint & Lady J replaced Duke & Scarlet as the action couple and they were wholly different.

When I heard they were doing a movie it made sense, far more sense than a Transformers movie. Great characters, military hardware and great villains who promised to bring some popcorn-munching plots. It looks like Sommers has failed to bring any of that to the table.

Instead we get power suits (why add a fake action device when our heroes use tanks and helicopters), unmasked villains and The Baroness driving a Hummer that shoots missiles out of the doors as if it's a car from M.A.S.K. We get a costume designer who had hundreds of comics and hours of cartoons to draw from and the result is the black body armor that we see in lazy sci-fi like Doom and Doomsday. We get Cobra Commander's two iconic masks replaced by something out of Jason X.

I've said it before, this is a failure of vision on a project that had tons of visual source material. It's not LOTR or Harry Potter were a novel is being adapted.