Rate GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra

[frankthedm]

Plenty of fun and quite entertaining. Marlon Wayans was far more tolerable than I feared he would be.

Biggest groaner IMHO was the superfluous love story involving [sblock]duke and the baroness[/sblock]. Also the Baroness [sblock]not being evil really[/sblock] takes away from the character.

Herr doctor is very creepy.

Tthe masks the villians don at the end are a little lacking [sblock] Destro's CG'ed lipwork looked awful & the writers should have let him keep the old mask. IMHO CC would have been better served with the featureless chrome mask since the skull motif [/sblock] looked too 'busy'.

 

[Desdichado]

I liked it. It was a pretty typical Sommers film. Better than Van Helsing, not as good as The Mummy. I liked all the homages to Star Wars in the submarine battle. Some of them weren't subtle. At all.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Gave it a 6 - CGI was hit or miss, some looked good but at other times looking bad.

Other issues with the movie:

Love stories! Why? They just are not needed in an action movie...not even as backstory! You want me to be more interested, more naked women!

Star Wars thieves - okay, you can label it as a "homage" or a "nod" but what it is, is lazy film making! You don't have the imagination to come up with something new and you know it worked in Star Wars, so you say hey, make it look like Star Wars, Mikey will eat it!​

Rather disappointed.

 

[Azgulor]

I liked it. Fun, good characters. Unlike Sommers' Mummy movies though, the characters didn't get enough time to interact in in amusing ways.

The end of the film went a little umm, weird on me.
[sblock]O.k. First, what's up with the blowing-up the ice cap? Ice floats, so nothing should have sank. In fact, it would make getting back up to the surface easier if something went wrong. Second, if the ice cap is blown up what were the elevator cables attached to?[/sblock]

Character recognition was strange. Cobra Commander's character was changed enough in the movie, I actually mistook him for someone else until. That said, it was kind of cool going through the movie going "hey, its _______!"

All in all, average. Though, and I never in my life thought I would say this (let alone twice in one summer) it wasn't as good as the first live action Transformers movie.

Actually, while it was what I expected it to be - an over-the-top-light-on-characterization-and-plot CGI fest, my Suspension of Disbelief gene kept trying to revert to the OFF position. And I love a good popcorn action movie.

Seriously, instead of The Rise of Cobra, it should have been GI JOE: The Removal of Physics

 

[Kaodi]

Love stories! Why? They just are not needed in an action movie...not even as backstory! You want me to be more interested, more naked women!

I would contend that while this may be true of a single movie, I think it would be patently false to suggest that action movies, collectively, never need love stories. After all, what, if not love, often motivates people to do extraordinary (action packed) things, for good or ill?

Now, certainly you should try to be economical with the amount of time you spend of such scenes, though relevant dialog can be placed in almost any kind of scene, but to leave it out entirely can make limit immersion. Without story, it is not an action movie, it is just action.

 

[Thanee]

Absurd, over-the-top, but entertaining. Let's call it a 6.

Who in his right mind would install a voice-weapon-control in a plane? Guess they don't need any more precision than that.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Eosin the Red]

Amazingly better than I thought it would be... 6 maybe a 7. It made the wise choice to avoid the pretense of being something that it was not.

 

[Vigilance]

7.

It was entertaining, and better than I expected.

Duke was pretty terrible though, which was probably the single biggest problem I had with the movie.

 

[fanboy2000]

Seriously, instead of The Rise of Cobra, it should have been GI JOE: The Removal of Physics

During the polar icecap end battle, my girlfriend turned to me and said, "global warming doesn't kill polar bears, Cobra Commander does!"

 

[Phaezen]

The end of the film went a little umm, weird on me.
[sblock]O.k. First, what's up with the blowing-up the ice cap? Ice floats, so nothing should have sank. In fact, it would make getting back up to the surface easier if something went wrong. Second, if the ice cap is blown up what were the elevator cables attached to?[/sblock]

[sblock]
See, I that didn't even register with me as odd, but by that time my sense of disbelief was sobbinging in a corner attacking its wrists with a blade, the whole car chase through Paris scene with its wierd lack of physics and crowd reactions got to me[/sblock]