I do believe that's a HISS tank.
And there's no mistaking these Rattlers.
Accurately recreating the thing you're basing the movie on? Radical concept!
Images come from the Cobra Special Forces website - check out their recruitment video after the jump.
If that's Keith David doing the voice-over, and I think it is - mad props to the U.S. military for having the sense of humor to let him do what is essentially a sarcastic parody of the stuff he does for them.
via Badass Digest
It's a shame that Cobra Commander has all of 10 minutes of screen time, maybe? And Bruce Willis doesn't show up until late in the movie, so it's impossible for him to carry it. The Rock is decent, believable, but everyone else falls way short, as does the story.
I love that promo. I have been looking forward to this movie for well over a year and through a fit when it got pushed back. I can't wait to see it. Just from the trailers alone makes me think of the cartoon and comic book.
Weren't the HISS and Rattler already in all the previews, even the ones from last year?
@EliasAlgorithm @Kozmik_Pariah It's a new shot of the HISS (first time we've gotten a front view). The "rattlers" are Joe Ghost Hawks.
nice that the producers are finaly dipping into the source material better. love the look of the rattlers wonder what military plane they based them on ? or are those actuly joe vechiles instead
@demoncat_4 The movie versions you mean? The originals are based on the A-10 Thunderbolt II but fictionalized into VTOL.
@EliasAlgorithm @demoncat_4 the movie version since that is what the article is about thanks for the info
The way the HISS Tank is framed makes it look like a Tsunami Tank from C&C: Red Alert 3.
George Takei as Serpentor.
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This is exactly how they need to be marketing the movie. They also unveiled a bunch of "JOIN COBRA" billboards around the US yesterday morning.
The fact that they've figured out that the Cobra logo is iconic is a big step up from the first movie, which ran away and hid from any association with the 80s concept of GI Joe.
(That said, I do like that the first movie finally gave the Joes a decent unit crest.)
Supposedly those aren't rattlers, those are apparently Joe Vehicles called Ghost Hawks (or at least the toy of them is)
@revsears Yeah, from the context those are the drop ships the Joes are riding in during the "drive it like you stole it" bit from the trailers. They presumably land wherever they're going, then get ambushed by the Cobra helicopters (which I'm hoping look like Mambas or Black Dragons, but given the other footage I seriously doubt that's the case).
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@ILDC I can only say from an acting POV that generally when you do commercials for one company, you sign an agreement not to do anything so similar it could be confused with their product. Clara Peller, the "Where's the Beef" lady, go in major legal trouble for doing a soup commercial where she said she had found the beef, for example.
Cool take! Classy, even. Although totally unnecessary if they'd, oh, I dunno...actually USED Cobra as the enemy in that FIRST godawful movie instead of trying to reinvent everything but the wheel in your overgrown-FOX-pilot to appease some hophead focus group jockey! If the series is ALREADY a toy commercial, you don't benefit from making it a commercial for worse toys. AAAAAIIIIGGHSGHHGH...! [sic]
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Hollywood has to put their own stamp on stuff, by that I mean, ruin it for vanity/marketing/licensing reasons. I mean, I read about the scripts for it there was a character named "Rex". Fandom was like WHO THE HELL IS REX? But the character stayed in every script and made into the film, making me realize that screen writer twits don't give a damn about any source material, and GI JOE had a few to pick and chose from. But no, we got Rex and from a team with a dozen black characters, they randomly picked a Joe's name and assigned it to Marlon Wayans. The age old fasnboy debate, "Is Scarlet in love with Duke or Snake Eyes?" Problem solved! She falls for Ripcord, because lead heroes only have angsty relationships, so Duke and Baroness were an item, because heroes and villains have to be connected personally.
@CopayCommanda Oh, the "best" was when they had a character called "The Doctor" who looked like Dr. Mindbender...but he turned out to have been mentored by Dr. Minbender, who in this telling looked like a regular dude.
Not to mention totally missing the point that the whole "sexy librarian dominatrix" thing just doesn't work when you substitute sunglasses.
I've been hurt in these movie relationships before. Like all bad relationships I will take it slowly. Unless you get me drunk then you probably can get me to third base pretty fast.
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I'm not a huge toy fan and i didn't follow GI Joe as much as others, but i do know what i saw in the last movie (which i loved). I would be a liar if i didn't say the delay is raising an eyebrow but i'm excited to see this when it comes out.
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Exactly! And those ninjas clad in red? Crimson Guard, baby! No generic accelerator suits, no pointless mouth on Snake Eyes' mask. Everything looks like what we all loved about the cartoon and toys. Now someone just needs to do the same thing with a Transformers movie.
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@DeQuosaek Not even the Crimson Guard--those are the Red Ninjas from the comics.
Plus that whole mountainside battle is going to be without dialogue or music as a "Silent Interlude" tribute.
@doug.glassman @DeQuosaek Doug you beat me to it, I had to register to post. Yes the original marvel comic # 21 was the 'silent Interlude" story that the whole scene is said to be a homage too (by Chu)
@revsears @doug.glassman @DeQuosaek Calling out that comic (something so influential that Marvel once made every comic they published for a month ape it) is what really sold me on Chu. The guy *gets* how Joe is a combination of the comic and the cartoon.
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Y'know, the last time I allowed myself to get pumped for this movie, It got a massive-ass delay. And yet, I can't help but start feeling optimistic again. Must be the Hiss Tank.
@DylanRaishe it helps to know that the movie was originally pushed up and 3D tossed a side even though the script was written with it in mind, to cover for Star Trek II being pushed back.
@LYT @ILDC @DylanRaishe I'm convinced they just shot a post-credits scene establishing that Duke isn't dead and left it at that. Makes too much sense to not bring Tatum back for a third one now that he's marketable.
@LYT @ILDC @DylanRaishe or they did add extra footage and he's lying to cover up the conspiracy DUH DUH DUH they secretly replaced ninjas with male strippers. Now I'm off to the store for I need more tinfoil to make a bigger hat.
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