I hate how they killed off almost all of the cast from the first. How the hell are gonna explain that to kid?! " Hey, Billy, you know that guy you thought was really cool? Yeah, he died a slow painful death in a fire...Sorry." -_-
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Awesome for the male characters, disturbing for Scarlet because of how f-ing creepy her emaciated arms look in comparison to her body. Freaky....damn get that woman a cheeseburger
It's a damn good thing that this isn't coming out directly against The Avengers, because dammit, I'm excited for both films.
Godamnit this comes out a month later in France ! To feel better I'll try to remember that Avengers comes out next Wednesday here.
They're still feeling bad about toppling the Eiffel Tower in the first movie. Give them time to come up and apologize on their own, mmmmkaaaaaay?
Aw, no Flint?
If you go to the link, the large size posters all send the internet spiraling out of control. Wake me when someone posts JUST the posters and I don't feel like I'm off on some scavenger hunt for pieces of the M.A.S.S. Device.
Snake Eyes and Cobra Commander look GREAT! In fact, I'm getting a chubby from how GREAT Cobra Commander looks.
The other two could be from any war movie. I don't even know who the chick is supposed to be in the context of GI Joe. Lady Jaye? If so, where's the dyke hairdo?
I swear, when I looked at these, the super awesome "Seven Nation Army" remix they used for the movie promos played in my head out of respect for the sheer badassery of these posters. Well done, fellas! You've saved the franchise! Well done!
Here comes my irrational fanboy response: Not that it's a deal breaker, but I just wish Lady Jaye's hair was short. Modernizing and tweaking old designs to bring to the big screen is fine. For instance, this Cobra Commander isn't the same design as the toy, but the essential iconic elements are in place and that's why fans like us like it. Same with Snake Eyes. For me, since Lady Jaye's costume didn't have anything outlandish about it (it was just an olive drab flight suit and ball cap), the thing that visually made her "Lady Jaye" was the short brunette hair. Like for Flint, I think Beret and Shotgun, for Beach Head it's gotta be the balaclava, for Destro the silver mask, and so for Lady Jaye...the short tomboy hair.
Exactly. I want my Lady Jaye with short hair damnit!
And the lack of Flint in this movie worries me. Who are they gonna partner her up with? (you know it's somebody, they won't keep her single)
She definitely had a "Ripley from Aliens" feel, especially because she had all of the little and wild curls. With the poster, I looked and thought, "hey, is that Beyonce taking on a blockbuster action role?"
Well the more key part was the fact that her army shirt was pretty much unbuttoned down to the navel-- (it was even used as a plot point in several of the comic books)
Oh My God Oh My God Oh My God !!!! Look at that CC!!! Oh My God Oh My God Oh My FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP AAAAAAAARGHHHH !!!!!!!FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP COBRAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP
Also - that Cobra Commander poster isn't either of the costumes we've seen so far, but does match up with a repaint of the CC figure that's been floating around the internets for the past couple of days.
Actually, they've shown that costume in the trailers a couple of times now. You can actually see it in the still image for the french trailer here:
"GI JOE: Retaliation: Everyone has a burning sensation when they urinate." At least, that's what these posters scream to me.
In all seriousness...stoked for the film, and the SS/CC posters are pretty bad ass.
I'm confused. I see a picture of a woman on a movie poster but her ass is not facing me. I don't understand.
As long as Snake eyes doesn't have lips, I'm cool with it.
I used to make the Dreadnoks bang the lone female Dreadnok by wrapping their arms around her then pounding on the couch so the "humped". True story. Ho Joe!
If I was the guy who plays Flint, I'd be annoyed. Pretty much every other major character (save Firefly) has a poster, even Duke (although Tatum's inexplicably turned into something of a box office draw since the original movie, so at least that I'd understand).
Of course, since I don't think he wears the beret in the movie, he'd be pretty unrecognisable.
Also, notice how Roadblock's got a bunch of dog tags in one hand? Nice storyline hint there.
Apparently there's two Lady Jaye posters, one in the desert / combat gear. Then again, I'm not complaining; just disappointed that there isn't one of her in the red dress.
I'm actually glad they got rid of the javelins. To this day I'm not sure what Hasbro's designers were smoking when they decided that she should be the GI Joe version of Green Arrow.
Probably the same thing they were smoking when they decided Cobra's accountant needed to dress like a hawk, and the Joe team desperately needed football players in a firefight.
He wasn't Cobra's only accountant, or even recruited for that. Larry Hama just liked to mock yuppie types during the 80's.
Well the costumes are spot on this time. Guess the costume department actually watched the cartoon and realized.....KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE!!!!
He was bad, the stupid acceleration suit where pretty dumb too. The bigger crime (to me) was lame last minute Cobra Commander and a non evil/brainwashed Baroness (seriously her being brainwashed is so retarded).
I didn't find Tatum any more annoying than Tom Cruise and not nearly as bad as Ben Browder who is like nails on a chalkboard to me, however the acceleration suit sequences interfered badly with the movies pacing... as did the overly long flashback sequences but at least those served a purpose where the acceleration suits were there because some goofus thought they were cool.Oh and I thought the brainwashing was an interesting way to rationalize things.
While I think this will stink like Destro's ass reserve judgement on how this movie will turn out, at least the one thing they're getting right is the motley look of the Joes. They're not just a bunch of guys in black armor who look like they were caught in the mid-stages of a Borg transformation anymore.
