We went tos yesterday morning for the $5 Matinee.. theater was PACKED, sooo many kids. My 8-year-old son *loved* it. I thought it was a fun romp, come on people, not everything has to be Schindler's List. Spoiler Although, I did turn to my wife and ask 'Um, why is the ice.. sinking?' LOL However, to be fair, I do think that they made it clear that the surface ice was filled with tunnels and steel, the guy even says 'You have tons of steel and ice about to come down on you, get out of there!' No, it was nowhere near as bad as everyone assumed it would be when the first trailers started coming out. In fact, I would have to say, if someone were suddenly asked to make a movie about a bunch of Hasbro toys from the mid-80's, you really couldn't make it any better than this. Save the hate-sauce for the real turds like Shorts, G-Force, and Aliens in the Attic.
Spoiler I never did figure out what happened in the whole White House fiasco where the president goes into the bunker then somebody starts shooting guards then comes in the room with the president and the president looks all worried. Then at the end the president is happy and kicks up his feet on the desk and all is well. What happened there that I just missed?
Spoiler The master of disguise guy got his face changed to look like the president. So now he's acting as the president.
This movie looks like a disaster. Worst Idea for a movie since Garfield 2. I hope the exec. who pitched this movie dies in a iceberg accident.
Spoiler it was this guy he was whistling that song (i forgot what it was) while they invaded that base...remember how he had his face altered?
i agree. the acting sucked. the story was okay, but i didnt expect much. it still had that cartoony feel to it. they didnt make it too serious.
No, that's like saying the same thing after watching Batman and Robin. It is definitely possible to make a better movie. It's not a bad idea to make a GI Joe movie, the problem is the people involved. The producer who has the film rights to this and Transformers is named Lorenzo di Bonaventura and at first he was going to make it a movie called Action Man (i think that's what GI Joe was in England) and it would be about one GI Joe kind of like xXx meets James Bond. There was a backlash, but when your that far off the mark to begin with, no backlash is going to course correct you into doing something right and doing it well. A recent funny story about Lorenzo and the guy he cast as Duke, Channing Tatum:
Duke was AWFUL. I thought Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow were cool though. Scarlett was way hot. So was Baroness. But I'm weak for redheads...
I wanted to go, I loved G.I. Joe as a child growning up. But I had to settle with Perfect Getaway, what a jip! Nothing can beat that this weekend, as far as crap goes.
Doubtful, she only thinks funny Jews are attractive. So yeah in her mind Bill Maher > Channing Tatum. Don't ask me to explain it.
