Merged: The Movies Thread

Please read my first post about GI Joe before you go there. It is a fantasy and you know that. It is not even trying to pretend that it is real.

Here is an example. In the movie Basic, the actors were supposed to be portraying U.S. Army Rangers. They put a Female in a all Male unit. It is impossible for a woman to be a Ranger... can not happen. In the commentary on the DVD the director admitted that he was advised against it. He argued that it was possible so he added it into the film anyway.

Those are the type of innacuracies that I am talking about. No one is going to mistake GI Joe for an actual military group, they do not exist. The Rangers on the other hand do.

I think your taking GI Joe a little to serious today. You could not tell I was joking.

I think your taking GI Joe a little to serious today. You could not tell I was joking.


I think that you are right. Is it time to go home yet?

What kind of bugged me about the whole G.I. Joe marketing was the fact they refused to let mainstream critics even see the film before it opened (only a few fringe writers got to see it). I don't see what the problem was- even when critics blasted Transformers 2, it still made ridiculous amounts of money.

Something sounded off when the distributors were saying (paraphrasing), "We are staying away from the coastal urban areas with this film. Our market is the midwest and southern areas." This is kind of a backhanded comment, imo- basically saying they believe people living in their target demographic have bad taste in film.

Caught an afternoon screening of GI Joe with the wife. It was pretty damn bad, and to be honest, the effects weren't even close to amazing enough to make up for it. There were about 75 roll your eyes moments during the movie. The best thing I can say about it is that it played almost exactly like one of the old cartoon episodes. That's great for a 30 minute saturday morning show aimed at kids, not so much for a movie with a 9 digit budget...

How can you not be excited about Thundercats!

And I'm just going to assume you weren't including The Smurfs in your little rant

I nominate Scarlett Johansson to play Smurfette.

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I've got 0.0 interest in seeing GI Joe. I mean really, what lame cartoon are they going to turn into a lame movie next?

I'm with you. I also dislike typical summer action flicks. GI Joe has looked dumb from the start. A guy I work with saw the late night show last night, and he said he almost left the theater in the middle of the movie it was so bad. He said basically the same thing as mredskins. Good CGI in parts, and basically nothing else. I mean, are we really supposed to take Marlon Wayans seriously? Come on.

On a side note, I really enjoyed the Transformers movies, but I was HUGE into them as a kid. Next to Legos, they were far and away my favorite toy. I had all of them, watched all the cartoon episodes on TV, etc etc. And the CGI was absolutely amazing in the films. I was big into GI Joe, too, but this movie has screamed "dud" from day 1 IMO.

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Funny as hell, but it only makes sense if you have seen the movie.

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I haven't laughed that much in a while. holy crap that was friggin hilarious. I gotta email that to a friend.

Just caught "A Perfect Getaway." Intentionally B-movie material, I had a great time with it (even though I figured it out within the first two minutes).