G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
 

So, it's upon us. August 7. One more franchise from our childhood turns movie turns game turns toy turns movie sequel.

For those of you who didn't saw the trailer yet, here it is:

Superbowl Spot

The first official trailer

The Second Trailer

The Eifel tower scene

The silly chase

If you watch all these videos, here is my question: Can you spot the hand of the Mummy and Val Helsing director on this? The corny dialog and "LOL WUT" jokes are all over this. What started as a possible really great movie, now, for me, is closer and closer to Numb-Minded Popcorn flick.

So, Iroman look-alike acrobatics, and unnecessary jokes aside (seriously. "Nice shoes" ?) i still look forward to be entertained this week.

They are completely channeling the spirit of the 1980's cartoon on this one, I'm half expecting a PSA after this cause knowing is half the battle!

I was expecting this is to suck balls. Even though I love the Mummy. But then the initial reviews were pretty good. Now I don't know what to think.

I expect to enjoy this. While Van Helsing & those Mummy movies weren't great pieces of work, they were enjoyable in a campy way. They also had a plot that I could somewhat follow.

Not a good plot, but overall a plot.

So just going on those two facts alone, I've got higher hopes for the movie than the Transformers flicks.

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Of course, I still don't understand why Snake-Eyes has a mouth. Considering he doesn't talk & it doesn't look like it can move (I've seen it up close at Comic-Con). Yeah, Hasbro did give some bulljive about it being based on an early figure/an older comic (I'm not sure which... I can't remember the specifics), but I still think its a stupid choice.

While I did hear that the accelerator suits are a big part of the trailer, apparently they won't get nearly as much usage in the film. Which is fine by me.

SWB

I'm going in with very low expectations, so I should be pleasantly surprised no matter how good or bad it is.

As stupid as this sounds, I detest the idea that the Joes have these super suits.

I'm kinda okay with the suits but I really would have preferred if it was the most absurd, DMC3 cutscenes-ish 'they do it cause they're badasses' doesn't-take-itself-seriously movie of all time.

Joe soldiers want to run at 40 miles an hour and jump around rockets and exploding cars? Bam, done. No explanation, no breakdown, no reasoning, just do it. It would be campy as shit but to hell with it, you never explained it when you were in your room holding action figures, why start now?

I know why they won't do this but I can't help but reminisce on what might have been.

Why not? Snake eyes does it. Check trailer 2. The guy is like a friggin cyborg!

I really hope the super suits don't get that much room. They seem like silly comic fodder. I Also hope the Baroness is more of an badass than these trailers lead on...

Although, nothing will save me from the stupid mask they gave cobra Commander... but oh well.

I really hope they respect G I Joe honor and history and end the movie with both sides showing 0 deaths.

It's an explanation.

No, Snake-Eyes is a ninja man, didn't you know all ninjas can do that? Hell my snake eyes toy when I was a kid could practically fly as well,