G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra will kill a great Franchise
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- By drvenkman
When I first heard G.I. Joe was finally going to get its big screen debut I was ecstatic! I am one of the biggest G.I. Joe fans on the planet. I grew up with this group of elite soldiers and it plays a big part of my childhood. Not only did I own the majority of the figures but I also owned most of the vehicles including the giant aircraft carrier that took up all the space in my bedroom. I would like to say there was no fan bigger than myself but I know there are tons of G.I. Joe fans in the world that feel the same way I do about these characters. When a movie was going to be made about G.I. Joe it had to be true to the source material, true to the characters and design. I wanted to see my favorite characters brought to life in the way they were meant to be seen.
Enter Stephen Sommers. As soon as I heard this guy was attached to direct I knew our characters were doomed. I didn’t want to believe it though! I shut that negative attitude out and pushed it deep inside my gut hoping that I was wrong, that Stephen Sommers was going to make a badass dream come true G.I. Joe movie. Then the costume designs were released and I was lividly pissed off! There was no more holding it back he ruined the characters. He didn’t even come close to who they are. Not only that, but the costume designs were shit! Everybody is wearing the same back outfit! There is no individuality! They gave Snake Eyes face mask lips for hells sake! Lips molded into his face. What the hell is that all about!? That’s just as gay as giving Batman nipples for cryin-out-loud! And what in the hell is up with these stupid ass giant shoulder pads? What are they dressed up in!? Are they robots?
I am not sure what kind of vehicles these guys are going to sport. But I saw one vehicle at comic-con that just looked retarded. It was like a drill. I am sure it will be used to travel underground, but what the hell!? I want to see some of the iconic vehicles that I use to play with come to life. I can live with the vehicles being modified to an extent. Who knows hopefully there will be some cool vehicles.
The most recent news to hit the web is Joseph Gordon-Levitts description of the new Cobra Commander. He won’t be wearing the blue outfit or the iconic mask or hood. I assume he will be wearing black just like everyone else in the movie. He talks about how they went ahead and reinvented the character. Well hell, it looks like they reinvented the whole damn franchise now didn’t they?
Here is what Stephen Sommers and all these other producers went and did. They took the character names of the original G.I. Joes including the title because it has marketability and made a movie that in no way will represent G.I. Joe.
This movie is going to be mediocre as hell. The original animated G.I. Joe movie will end up being better than the trash it looks like they are making. I hate this, because we may never get to see a decent G.I. Joe movie now. We got a description of some footage that was shown the other day:
we saw a number of unfinished scenes including introductions to Duke, The Baroness and Snake Eyes. We also saw a computer generating scene which acted as a story board for the eventual filming. There was a scene where the baroness comes home to France and we got to see the mansion, another scene where a member of GI Joe is captured by COBRA, Chris Eccleston and Arnold Voslo both look on form. Finally we saw a scene which involves a MASSIVE car chase and the eventually toppling of the Eiffel Tower. The film itself look like typical Steven Sommers schtik, massively enjoyable, Sienna Miller looks amazing but I do not think it will fare well with critics, action is very stylised from the scenes I saw, the character development is terrible, Marlon Wayans in particular looked bad!!
Character development is terrible, I also imagine the story and dialogue will be terrible as well. Transformers can get away with it because it’s big distracting giant robots. So what do they do to distract the audience from the bad story and dialogue? They have a massive car chase scene and bring down the Effie Towers. Bloody wankers. G.I. Joe could have been an amazing film that would live on as a classic film! But they put the movie in to the wrong hands and now it is doomed to suck forever. Fans like me are already getting pissed off.
There is still about 5% of me that is keeping a little hope open. I am interested in what the first trailer will look like because that is its last line of defense. If the trailer is as bad as everything else that I have heard and seen, then all hope is truly lost. Well, I guess all good things must come to an end. G.I. Joe started in the 60’s and had a good run, Leave it to Stephen Sommers to destroy it.
Out of all this crap though, I will admit that Baroness looks hot. What are your feelings on G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra?
The New G.I. Joe Cartoon looks like it is going to kick ass though! Check it out!
I couldn’t agree more. I shutter to think of how my beloved Joes will be desecrated. I was wondering though can you tell me what, if anything Larry Hama is saying about the movie?
Michael
Cobra!
WTF is with Destro?Please tell me that he does get his mask?Please tell me that they just havent released any photos of him with it?I was so excited when I first heard about this movie and the more research I do the more dissapointed I get.You pretty much sum how Im feeling in the write up.
The more I look into the movie the more im getting turned off to it,its like a tacky futuristic GI joe that nobody is familiar with,I hope it good and no over done and kill the whole gijoe image.
I’m with you 100%. I’m not at all confident that this movie will be representative of the GIJoe I grew up with in the 80’s. With Sommers as the director the camp of bright colored vehicles and costumes would have been fine. Hell they could have even brought back Sgt. Slaughter! But no, everyone has to wear black and be indistinguishable from the next guy. And to ‘reinvent’ Cobra Commander?? WTF!? The only possible redeeming features are the Stormshadow/SnakeEyes characters, but even they cannot save the entire movie. They would have been better off doing a movie with just those two…maybe.
If this movie is bad as it starting to look then i will go to the extreme to open a class action lawsuit!!!! g.i joe was and still is a huge apart of me..hell im 26 and still buy the toys and even set them up as if im playing with them…As i joe fan i will walk out in the middle of the show if this suck!! COBRA!!!!
Well, it could be worse, Steven Spielberg could direct it.
Best thing people can do is boycott it with massive smear campaigns. Let these jerky producers/writers know how you feel.
stephen somers … wow i mean this really sucks … I am not a member here but guys i agree with you 110% i just hate that this has happened … the commander looks like crap … and he was my favorite … without the iconic silver mask and helmet or hood they can forget my 8 bucks!
One more thing … after vanhelsing and the scorpion king people in Hollywood still green light giving him money for films? Who ever is in charge at the studios aught to be slapped.
im only 14 and iv watched gi joe sigma 6 3 times. i was exited when i hard there was a gi joe movie coming out until i saw who were playing as joe. no afence but gi joe was a blond not a brunet, and how you destroyed all the caractores by picking peaple that dont even look like the real deal. But iv got to admit Baronitus looks almost 100 persent origanal and i hope she has the russin acsent
When I saw the trailer in theaters, I remember thinking it looked promising. I was like, "Wow! I wonder what the name of it is." Then I saw G.I. Joe slapped on the tail end of the trailer. I mean, they might as well have called it SpongeBob Square Pants. It is no way reminds me or resembles GI Joe. Why do we get crap like this when there no one has even started working on a Halo movie? Oh wait… I think they just hired Stephen Sommers to direct it. I'm guessing it will be an animated movie about a zebra love triangle and they'll just stick the Halo name to it. Hurray!
IM WITH YOU 100 %!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY RUIN IT ..where is rock and roll and falcon they RUIN SO UNCOOL..the costumes are all 100% wrong..THE RISE OF COBRA IS A WRONG THIG TO DO I KNEW THE FILM would ruin it
I was just looking at the trailer again. I remember seeing this in theaters and thinking it looked a little too Mission Impossible. I mean there's no actual characteristics to the individual characters. In an attempt to make them look even more badass they've given them fucking cybernetic suits or some bullshit. Absolute shit. And I'm sorry but the song they chose in the trailer also sounds like shit, American badass or something. How very very sad.