A Little New Footage in the Latest 'G.I. Joe' Trailer

Paramount has found itself in damage control mode with G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Even though the rumors that director Stephen Sommers were fired turned out to be false, or at least blown way out of proportion, just the very hint that there was a changing of the guard reaffirmed what a lot of people already thought: This is going to be awful. I won't go that far. I certainly don't think lightning will strike twice and we'll have another Transformers on our hands, but provided this wants to be nothing more than a brains-off bonanza of explosions and effects, it could be worth the price of admission. Could be. I'm on the fence. The main reason is that in all the trailers to this point, it's been the same few scenes over and over again, and as I pointed out with the extended clip released a few weeks ago, if your best footage is the Eiffel Tower getting blown up, we've seen that kind of thing done a million times. There is a new trailer, which we presume might be the final one. At last we see a couple new scenes in play, but it's not enough to pull me down from the fence. It ends better than it begins, I guess. Maybe that's something. G.I. Joe opens on August 7th.

Comments

[NIronwolf]

Looks like there is yet another trailer out there.

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Personally I think it's fine that they're not showing off all the effects before you pay your 10 bucks. Story context and tension with the E Tower aren't bad. And you'll get a lot more detail of what exactly it is knocking the tower down on the big screen.

Granted it is a popcorn fluff movie, but those are the ones you have to see in a theatre.

[Asana]

Take everything that hasn't been repeated from trailer to trailer and you'll probably wind up with the best this movie has to offer. The Eiffel Tower effect must be the high point given how often it's been shown and yet the more I see it the less of an impression it leaves behind. The new footage has done nothing to raise my hopes but then it hasn't lowered them any further which isn't exactly a compliment. This film will tank utterly and completely and disappear from theaters in short order, you can quote me on that.

[Orinn]

eh popcorn tastic. If it has no competition it will be fine. It wont be transformers, but it should make a profit by the time it hits DVD's