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News Credits: 226 · Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:44 pm

Marcdachamp wrote:I'm really happy to hear it doesn't suck. Now let's do the crossover flick! Seriously.

Let's not.

Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:46 pm

Here's Cobra Commander's toy:
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/images/pr ... S17405.jpg

But yeah, at least Destro seems spot-on.

Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:58 pm

Look, I'm a Transformers fan, not a GI Joe fan when it comes to toys and collecting.

All I can say is, ROC can't be worse than ROTF

Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:06 pm

Shadowman...

The movie poster you put a link up to does NOT show Destro.....The black-masked guy between the Baroness and CC is a Neo Viper.....there have been no released photos of Destro actually in his mask....Hes unmasked for almost the whole movie from what Ive read.......

News Credits: 8 · Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:10 pm

dablues7 wrote:Shadowman...

The movie poster you put a link up to does NOT show Destro.....The black-masked guy between the Baroness and CC is a Neo Viper.....there have been no released photos of Destro actually in his mask....Hes unmasked for almost the whole movie from what Ive read.......

You are SPOT ON about the Viper, but I don't think it is a "Neo Viper", the toys just call him Viper.
I am not certain whether or not Destro is masked early on or not, but I hear there is enough of it in mask to enjoy it.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:14 pm

Shadowman wrote:
NuclearConvoy wrote:Am i the ONLY person who had no trouble at all following the plot in RotF?

No, I followed it easily as well.

vectorA3 wrote:Minus side: A friend of mine who worked on the movie (& is diehard Joe comic fan) said he didn't think the film will be that good. Don't know what his opinion is now though.

He was an extra, he hasn't seen the final product, which as we've seen includes heavy CGI. That's like criticizing a comic even though you've only seen the pencils, not the inks, colors, or even text.

vectorA3 wrote:Rumor has it that director Stephen Sommers was kicked out of the editing room & a new editors were brought in -things got so heated. Unfortunately the studio/money men get final say.

It never happened, it was just a rumor that got out of hand. Sommers never got fired or kicked out of anything.

Sabrblade wrote:
DetectiveFork wrote:I'm having trouble getting past the really shitty-looking Cobra Commander they went with in the film. Totally screwing up an iconic character can be a dealbreaker.
Can you point me in the direction of a pic of this new Cobrs Commander? I've been dying to see what he looks like.

Right here. Sorry it's so small, could soemone find a bigger pic?

The good news, that's Destro wearing that mask. Bad news, that's Cobra Commander on the far right.

Major assumptions you made. First, my friend wasn't an extra he worked in the assistant directing department for the run of the film. Not some schmuck dayplaying extra. Second, I heard the Sommers rumor from 3 different people -one of whom works on the Paramount lot. I didn't say he got fired -just kicked out of the editing room. This doesn't happen very often, but it happens & as I said, the moneymen have the final say & they have carte blanche.

Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:20 pm

Heres the thing with critics if they hate a movie it's proberly awesome the more they hate it the better it is. this doesn't always happen but 95% of the time it is true. I don't think the G.I. Joe will be better than ROTF. for me the new transformers movie was awesome the story was good for me. to be honest when has a movie or show of transformers really have a deep story it's always the same, big ass robots kicking the **** out of each other. i love it and i will always love it.

News Credits: 5 · Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:24 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
5150 Cruiser wrote:And this power up suits aren't really doing it for me either. I don't recall seeing these in the orignal cartoon. Were they ever a part in other GI Joe series?
G.I.Joe: Sigma 6 had similar enhancer suits called "Sigma Suits".

Shadowman wrote:
As for the suits, they referred to them as "Delta Six Accelerator Suits" in the trailer. "Sigma Six" would have been a better choice, but that's just me.

Ahh. Ok. Thanks guys.

NuclearConvoy wrote:Am i the ONLY person who had no trouble at all following the plot in RotF?

Nope. I followed it just fine as well.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:28 pm

vectorA3 wrote:Second, I heard the Sommers rumor from 3 different people -one of whom works on the Paramount lot. I didn't say he got fired -just kicked out of the editing room. This doesn't happen very often, but it happens & as I said, the moneymen have the final say & they have carte blanche.

Well it wasn't true any way.

News Credits: 7 · Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:47 pm

I remenber when i knew nothing about Gi Joe i asked"who is Joe from Gi joe?"Ha ha! :lol:

Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:24 am

NuclearConvoy wrote:Am i the ONLY person who had no trouble at all following the plot in RotF?

I followed ROTF just fine. Just didn't like it between The Fallen landing on Earth and the Egypt fight.

Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:20 am

i actually wanna see r o c
unlike rotf

News Credits: 198 · Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:26 am

I was just commenting to a friend the other day that after being somewhat disappointed by ROTF (did like it better the second time though), GI Joe just could be the sleeper action movie of the summer.
Most people expect it to suck so it'll probably be pretty good. Guess we'll know in a few weeks.

Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:18 am

Every time I see a preview for Joe, it just reminds me how there's always something about it I dislike. The first trailer had the pretty badly CG Snake-Eyes doing a backflip over the car. Personally, I was looking forward to seeing Ray Park as Snake-Eyes, not a bad looking computer effect. I'll admit though I am a bit biased on the real vs CG argument. 99% of hte time I can spot CG, and this time especially I think doing it real, or even mixed (real backflip compositied into the shot) would have looked better.

But I decided to wait before making up my mind. And then we got the accelerator suits. And the really bad looking Cobra Commander. And the fact that Marlon Wayans is in every fricking promo for the movie. I mean seriously, whoever casted him really should have taken a look at Dungeons & Dragons and figured out he's not appropriate for an action film.

Still, part of me wants to see it, but not enough to see it theatrically. I might wait and see some of the comments after it comes out (No critics though. Many of them don't know a fun film from a hole in the ground.)

Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:16 am

I'm not surprised, aintitcool.com has so many Michael Bay haters it was nothing but inevitable. (:|

Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:02 am

Hrmm, well well well, just saw a tv spot for G.I. Joe... I say that Joe looks good--though it's not out yet, Joe and Formers in my opinion will be both good. but yes that site must be filled with bay haters, sure his humor is.. immature, but I say to the bay haters... "piss--OFF".

I'm a fan of both. though wasn't impressed with Sigma Six, but that's only because of my dislike towards the Anime style.

Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:05 am

I don't think it would be hard to make a movie better than ROTF, that being said I don't think GI Joe is it. I was psyched about GI Joe till I saw the "Exo-suits". exo-suit = epic fail IMO

Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:10 am

When I first saw the G.I. Joe Trailer (the one that begins with the Eiffel tower's destruction) I thought it was awesome. I had some doubts about it since it was directed by the guy who made the crappy Mummy films, and the "accelerator" suits bear a powerful resemblance to the Nano suits in the PC game Crysis I almost thought it was a direct, blatant, in-your-face plagiarization.

Oh what the heck, it still looks cool. I'll go watch it sometime after the release when the cinemas won't be so crowded.

News Credits: 9 · Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:36 am

Do people really think ROTF doesn't have a clear story line? I didn't think it coul be much clearer.

How can ROC be better than ROTF when ROC doesn't have any Transformers in?!

Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:04 am

Here's hoping Cobra Commander turns out awesome. :grin:

Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:30 am

one thing i don't like about G.I. Joe is that i probably can't relate with their Real American Heroes.(truth be told I'M ASIAN).

besides: NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY, I STILL BUY TRANSFORMERS TOYS!!!!!!!!

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:10 am

Shadowman wrote:
vectorA3 wrote:Second, I heard the Sommers rumor from 3 different people -one of whom works on the Paramount lot. I didn't say he got fired -just kicked out of the editing room. This doesn't happen very often, but it happens & as I said, the moneymen have the final say & they have carte blanche.

Well it wasn't true any way.

Alright -the editing room rumor was false, but you shouldn't tell me what capacity people I know worked on the movie. That's a huge assumption as well as insulting.

Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:14 am

I've been wrong before, but I was looking forward to G.I. Joe until I saw the trailers. It might be good, but I don't know.

Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:21 am

I think that G.I. Joe has its work cut out for it to top Revenge Of The Fallen. I'm not going to pass judgement just yet. And even then, I wouldn't really try to make a comparison because they're two different movies. I really want to see it. Although, I think the suits do look a little over the top, but we'll see how it all works out. This is the only other movie this year that I really want to see.