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Monday, June 23, 2008 at 12:25PM New 'G.I. Joe' Poster Unveiled...in the Netherlands
It's impossible to say whether
G.I. Joe will be any good
for a number of reasons. I know I have my doubts. Shall we count them down? OK.
1 - It's directed by
Stephen Sommers from The Mummy and
Van Helsing.
2 - On the surface, it all seems a little silly.
3 - I can't overstate the Stephen Sommers thing enough.
4 -
Brendan Fraser as Gung Ho.
Now, on the flipside, I have yet to see a single
production photo that doesn't make this look like a hell of a lot of fun. And,
just for the hell of it, they gave
Sienna Miller fake boobs to wear to look more
statuesque as The Baroness. "They gave me these things that looked like
chicken fillets," admitted Miller. "The director said, 'I'm gonna be honest, I
like girls with big boobs', and I don't have them so we made them bigger."
OK, then.
And now we have the first official poster, spotted at the
Cinema Expo in
Amsterdam.
Once again, the images win out over my logic. Yea, G.I. Joe!
And it appears we have a new title: G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Don't love
that name. Think I'll have to add it to my list of doubts.
(Thanks to
Coming Soon for being on top of this story.)
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (what can I tell you; I just don't care about movies based on TOYS, unless we're talking about Toy Story)...
I'm going to be honest here. I'm looking forward to this. Especially because of the Stephen Sommers thing. I really like The Mummy and Van Helsing. Yeah, I know... They're not great films, but what they are is fun films. The Mummy is like a fun theme park ride (What a coincidence that there is one...), and Van Helsing is basically Castlevania the Movie. (I still hate the guy that played Dracula though. He makes me wince every time he speaks.) I hope this turns out to be as much fun. G.I. Joe isn't supposed to be serious. It's about weather dominators, red and blue lasers that fly over peoples heads, and a terrorist organization run by an ex-used car salesman. Yo Joe!
Stephen Sommers says it will have CGiI, a lot of CGI. It will look cool, and be a popcorn movie, but in the end it needs a half decent story else it just wont work. At least I'm sure there getting the look good part right, because it looks so good right now.
Bigger boobs are always better! Plus Snake-Eyes is Darth Maul who was a bad ass in Star Wars. Well, he did get killed by Ewan McGregor (who couldnt fight his way out of a wet paper bag), but that was George Lucas's idea and we all know what kind of bad ideas can come out of his head (i.e. Jar Jar Binks, pod racers, CGI Jaba-the-Hut, flanel shirts). I wonder if they will have everyone fight with kung-fu grips?
I hope they dont blow it! I have been talking to my wife for years about why they don't make a GI-JOE movie. So when i seen a pic of it on youtube, I was ready for it. Don't Blow It!!!!!
Thanks,
Rojas45
I watched ET Canada last week and Brendan Fraser is quoted as saying: "yes I'm in the new g.i. joe movie, but NO i'm not playing gung-ho"
Growing up my brother and I played with 4 primary toys...Star Wars, He-Man, Transformers, and GI Joe.He-Man movie was revolting. Star Wars is a given for greatness.I really thought that Transformers was going to be stupid and look how it turned out. Maybe it'll surprise us all?!
Can we say it will suck like the The Punisher. But a part of me wants to say that I wrong like The Transformers. Even seeing the trailer I though it would suck so bad.