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Howard_Casto:
If enjoyed it better than the first as in you enjoyed your mild heart attack better than the near fatal one I'll agree with you, but I caught GI Joe 2 on amazon prime last month (for free, again I'm not paying for this crap)... it was terrible. No Destro, no Baroness, 3 minutes of Cobra Commander, all the Joe's looked so generically interchangeable that I was halfway through the film before I figured out which ones died in the beginning... yeah much like transformers they totally missed the point of the franchise.

I want to Joes in football Jerseys and Sailor Uniforms and Lady Jay dressed like a Canadian Forest Worker (yeah that's right... look it up). I want Destro with the goofy voice and the Inexplicably fluid metal mask. I want CC running around like a lunatic and the twins and trouble bubbles and rattlers and B.A.T.S. and all the idiotic, over-the-top stuff we got in the cartoons. That was the fun bit of the show. To be blunt it was stupid and didn't make any sense. Hell the Joe's base has a giant cannon mounted to the top that you can't aim!

When you try to add realism to G.I. Joe... well that's like trying to make a realistic Care Bears movie...even if you succeed you fail.

Also I just don't get the heavy focus on Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow throughout both films. In the cartoon they were my LEAST favorite characters... absolutely no personality.
The casting is bad too. If you look at the original show, the figures and even the old dolls all of that is based on, all the Joes are fairly average in terms of build. Yeah they are fit, but they aren't 300 lb pro-wrestler meat-heads. You'll also be hard pressed to find any joe with a buzz cut, mostly so you can tell them apart. Yet in the film every joe has a buzz cut, so you can't tell them apart.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 18, 2014, 05:00:55 pm ---I want to Joes in football Jerseys and Sailor Uniforms and Lady Jay dressed like a Canadian Forest Worker (yeah that's right... look it up). I want Destro with the goofy voice and the Inexplicably fluid metal mask.

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They named that movie Fantastic Four.

yotsuya:
I've stayed away from all the Transformers/G.I. Joe/TMNT movies, even though 25 years ago I would have been all over those ---maternal-smurfs---. Why? Simple - I'm not their target audience.

dkersten:
They are entertaining movies in general (as far as CGI packed action movies go), just not true to the originals. Just go in with low expectations and you come out having enjoyed the time. MOST movies are, IMHO, just basic entertainment, and although millions of dollars are spent creating them, they are only worth a couple hours for a few dollars to me. If I went to a bar to hang out with friends, I would spend maybe $10-$20 on beer and buck hunter in a couple hours, so even going to the theater is worth being entertained for a couple hours. But it is rare that any movie moves me emotionally, give me the same experience as a good book, or even compel me to see the movie a second time. I was never a big fan of the cartoons as a kid, so the transformers movies weren't a major disappointment to me, and I was entertained enough with the action to not regret spending the money. TMNT was borderline not worth the $10 ticket to me, and only because the CGI art saved it for me.. Again though, I was never really into it as a kid..

In the past year, there is only one movie I have seen that I enjoyed enough to want to see a second time (in the theater), and that is Guardians of the Galaxy. Great flick, WAY better than I expected. The genre isn't even the reason I like it, it was just a great movie in general.

ChadTower:
Guardians of the Galaxy is very pretty but it's the same damn story as every other movie of that type. No deviation at all.

Kid is fish out of water. Kid has some life event that leaves him alone and he finds out he is an alien/mutant. Kid is found by people who are aware of his difference and they attack him or take him. Kid ends up wandering through life in remote places. Kid ends up in the middle of some random sequence of events that makes him an enemy of someone who happens to have the allspark/tesseract/red matter/dark matter/alien stone/magic wand/magic beans. Kid has to decide if he's going to escape and be safe or do the impossible and defeat the alien/mutant/magic army and save the world/universe/middle school. Kid succeeds with lots of help from surprising friends. Enemy manages to survive anyway and comes back for part 2 a couple years later.

I'm getting sort of burned out on this story.

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