Tag: gi joe

I think that I’m going to go watch the GI Joe movie now.

I wasn’t going to spend twenty bucks to see G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – fairly or unfairly, the movie struck me as the director’s desire to make a movie about his three or four favorite action figures as a kid – but a buck rental was doable, and done.

Besides, today’s the aftermath.

New ‘GI JOE’ footage.

Courtesy of Aaron Williams.

And to answer his question… the reason why they bothered getting the licenses to this series and not E-Swat is because the director’s favorite GI JOE action figures as a child were clearly Baroness, Storm Shadow, and Snake Eyes.  That’s why they’re recognizable in the movie, even when nobody else is.

Was that snide?  That may have been snide.

Yo Joe?

OK, here’s the problem. This is what I want:

And this is what they’re going to give me:

…the question is, is this going to be close enough? It looks promising, but that’s no guarantee. There’s also the problem that, between Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and Kung Fu Panda I’m kind of overdrawn at the movie karma bank right now.  So do I really have the right to fanboy, here?