G.I. Joe Trailer To Air During that Bowl that is “Super”
There’s only one thing I’m kind of looking forward to during the Super Bowl, the G.I. Joe live action movie trailer. I really don’t care for many sports and I especially don’t care about football. Sure I’ll watch the occasional game or I’d even go to one, but if football disappeared off the face of the Earth I wouldn’t care a bit. Well there’s one thing that’s compelling me to watch the game and it’s the G.I. Joe film trailer (that and the fact I’ve been invited to a Super Bowl party and I desperately need to socialize). A ten second tease was aired already on the usually worthless show Entertainment Tonight to super tease the hell out of us, but here’s a 30 second trailer right here:
Look, I’m not someone who thinks this thing is utter dog crap without seeing it, but I really don’t have much hope. The Baroness looks cool, but I’ve had enough of Matrix-like missile dodging to last me the rest of my life. And I have to admit it, this trailer got me a little bit excited. I can’t help it, it’s friggen G.I. Joe!
Oh yeah and the Transformers 2 trailer will also debut during the “big game.” I wasn’t a super huge fan of the first film, although it didn’t dissapoint me very badly either. It was just kind of there. Hopefully this next film will have less “hilarious” hijinks.
Thanks to: /Film and The Braxcave
January 31st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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January 31st, 2009 at 11:33 pm
I have been very soured on the Joe movie based upon different comments and the still pictures but the trailer looks pretty bad ass and if not for Storm Shadow looking so dumb, I would say that this trailer has undone almost all damage that the forums have done to me.
February 1st, 2009 at 2:02 am
It fricken looks badass. I really enjoyed the Mummy movies, so I’m now VERY MUCH looking forward to GI Joe now.
February 1st, 2009 at 5:41 am
It’s got Christopher Eccleston, so I’m kinda sold on it. How bad could it be with Eccleston, right?
Baroness also looks rather tasty.
February 1st, 2009 at 7:22 am
Well, it looks better than the 10 second tease on ET, so maybe there is some hope.
I didn’t expect much from Transformers with Bay directing and I liked that, so maybe this will surprise me too.
February 1st, 2009 at 8:16 pm
At least in this case, you know the missile dodging won’t be closely followed by 20 minutes of pseudo-philosophical nonsense that really doesn’t mean ANYthing. And as someone who got two graduate degrees in the liberal arts I feel qualified to cry out BULLSHIT at something falsely proclaiming how deep it is when I see it; that was the Matrix. In GI Joe, the rocket dodging is going to be followed by more explosions, asskicking, and hawtness in the form of Scarlett and Baroness. So I’ll take it.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 am
I still have three main beefs with the movie.
1.) I was looking forward to nostalgia, but this will be far from the sunbow, marvel, and devils due joe verse that we know.
2.) The origins of cobra commander are going to be questionable due to the lack of that nostalgia, which also causes the team to not be the original 13.
3.) Ripcord isn’t black. I mean really it isn’t like they didn’t have dozens of other characters that he could have played. Just because Will smith can play Jim West in a bad movie doesn’t mean that a wayans brother even had to be in my movie….. and ripcord isn’t even a pilot.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 am
Right, you can’t mess with RIPCORD because he’s such an ESSENTIAL and UNCHANGEABLE and ICONIC character…who was barely (if ever?) in the (shitty) cartoon, had a few issue feature run in the comic then disappeared, and has had ONE action figure actually called “Ripcord.”
He was a minor character, a bit player, a tiny fraction of the Joe universe. I understand that people would probably like to see Stalker…but if they included him and his ties to Snake Eyes then the movie might start to mimic the SE-centric comics run.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I don’t think the movie can do much to screw up the character of cobra commander from the background I know of him. We have two options:
1. He’s an ex used car salesman.
2. He’s an otherworldly scientist.
Yeah, not much to mess up. heh
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February 3rd, 2009 at 11:15 am
Also it’s people that don’t care about the wayans thing that caused Will Smith’s name to be brought up as playing Cpt. America.
And it was one of the best card art actionfigures made, not just any action figure. And he was much more promenately featured in the marvel run of the comic than people realize… 38 appearances is more than a lot of joes got.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
Well, now we’re getting all subjective and setting up Straw Man and post hoc, ergo propter hoc arguments re: Ripcord.
Ripcord is not equal to, in any way, Captain America. Not even close. There’s no proof or real reason to believe that Wayans’ casting had anything to do with Will Smith’s name being bandied about in RUMORS for a movie that’s not even really underway yet. That’s silly, and it’s a straw man, AND it’s a post hoc.
Secondly, the subjectivity. So now Ripcord is “one of the best action figures made.” Well, says you. Sure, I liked the figure, but if he was so ragingly great and wonderful, why’d he never get remade? And yes, he got more appearances in the comic than many Joes did…but he’s still not on the Stalker/Duke/Flint/Lady Jaye/Snake Eyes/Storm Shadow kind of level, is he? Hardly. It is a change to a MINOR character that some people just can’t get over because of their own issues.
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Okay let’s tone it down a bit. We don’t need a full on nerd war.
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:59 pm
See, and thats why I would have rather seen roadblock, stalker, or even iceburg instead of a black ripcord.
I just think that if they made the movie for the FAN and not for marketting that they would have been truer to the nostalgia that we all know and love.
My opinion while being subjective, does not beg the question.
I’m sure most people didn’t care that the Juggernaught was a mutant in the X-men films.
While I know there are many that will argue that writing within continuity strangles a script and could be less proffitable. I believe that it is possible to still give fans a quality within continuity movie and rake in a boat load of money.
I’m excited about the movie. I know that it will be great for the Joe market and cause Hasbro to produce more figures in the long run. I personally won’t purchase many movie figures, especially if they are going to pass off a black crocmaster as a new figure. I may get a few for customs, but hopefully like the transformers line, we will get a boatload of classics remade.
I hope that the film is successful, I hope it becomes a stellar franchise with offshoots and sequals. I don’t have to like everything they do though. I can leave that mentality to the sheep.
It basically comes down to quid-pro-quo. They can crap on my nostalgia as long as they give me some thing good.
er tu, post hoc….
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I fail to see where I engaged in begging the question. I did not state an argument, assume it was true without evidence, then use it as evidence in a further argument.
I will, however, tone it down as Paul asked.
We are in definite agreement about the black Crocmaster; that is crap. But other movie toys I have seen look good to me, and I am hopeful for a GI Joe Classics line akin to the Transformers.
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I don’t think that I said anything about your argument at all. I only pointed out that I did not beg the question.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
My bad then. I didn’t think that you did nor accuse you of it.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I love Black Ripcord, almost as much as I love bad fan fics, this movie could be great if I look at it as a bad fan fic
February 6th, 2009 at 2:20 am
I just think that if they made the movie for the FAN and not for marketting that they would have been truer to the nostalgia that we all know and love.
And all six people who would have gone to see it would have loved it.
Yes, GI Joe is popular and longstanding, but it still needs to be adapted to appeal to a wider audience. Remember, “the fans” are the ones who bitched about the X-Men’s uniforms, Spider-Man’s organic webshooters and everything at all involved with the Transformers. They’re not trying to make a cartoon tie-in, here - they’re taking old familiar characters, picking and choosing what parts of them they want, and starting a new continuity that will hopefully appeal to a group BEYOND the fans.
The fans are great. They’ve kept the brand alive for 25 years, and will definitely be a big part of the audience, but they’re still just that: a part. The movie’s job isn’t to give the fans something to wank to, it’s to start at zero and introduce the concept of “GI Joe” to people who haven’t thought about it since 1985 - or maybe ever.
Nostalgia’s great. Nostalgia’s fun. Nostalgia makes me buy updates of figures I already have. But nostalgia isn’t a goal in and of itself, and the filmmakers would be fools to act like it was…
February 7th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
If Ripcord is black, there’ll be only 1247 other white dudes to potentially choose from for future roles/cameos/action figure remakes!
I hope Wanda Sykes shows up as Candy. How do you like them apples?
PS. I hope Black Ripcord isn’t a furry like white Ripcord was!