“In 2009… you will see Marlon Wayans’ crotch.”

I’m afraid I agree with MGK; when Brendan Fraser is your cameo of note and you’re willingly putting Marlon Wayans on your posters, it’s going to be a rough ride….

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My expectations are pretty low, so I’ll probably end up enjoying it.

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What character is Mr Wayans playing?

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bunnyofdoom: Roadblock I think.

Odd King: I believe so.

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It’d have to be either Roadblock or Stalker, wouldn’t it? They’re the only black guys I remember.

*checks IMDb* Oops, my bad, he’s playing Ripcord. Roadblock and Stalker are apparently not in this movie.

*reads more of the cast list* Okay, Christopher Eccleston as Destro, should be alright…Arnold Vosloo for Zartan, uh, okay…Ray Park for Snake Eyes, that’s cool…wait, seriously, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cobra Commander?!

Oh, man, this movie is going to be…glorious.

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Ah, the daily butthurt cries of an unpleasable fanbase.

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Gordon-Levitt and, yes, Wayans are good actors, so I’ll give them a pass. Eccleston as Destro sounds great, but he’s not wearing the mask, so what the hell, Sommers?

Adewale Adinnouke Agbaje from Lost is playing Heavy Duty. Why not Roadblock? I guess they’d rather use the second-rate knockoff from the series’ end. Meh.

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And would MGK consider doing something to cover all the goofy commercials and trailers that will inevitably air during the Super Bowl?

Canada doesn’t get the American commercials. I’d have to watch them online, and honestly, apart from the occasional movie trailer, I don’t care enough.

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You know, I’ve got to say, I quite often see people grumble about Transformers, and I don’t get it. I mean, some of the military stuff drug on a bit, but overall? That shit was fun. I don’t really know how to define a “great” movie, but I laughed quite often, and it blew a sufficient amount of shit right up, and Shia I-can-never-spell-his-last-name had a rapid-fire but scatter-shot delivery with a good sense of comic timing and a better sense of moving the story forward. And plus: John Turturro! Not to mention: the glory that is Megan Fox!

“Sleep well handsome man.”

“Earthquake! Earthquake!”
“How did you get over there so fast?”

On topic: never got into G.I. Joe when I was a kid, so I’d probably be skipping this either way. But concerning the Wayans in question, wasn’t this the same one who was in Requiem for a Dream? Because he’s the okay one, I think. Or used to be. With the right director and the right material, I guess.

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Wayans is playing Ripcord, I hear.

And I thought Transformers was crap. The robots looked terrible, my favorite back stabber Starscream had no personality at all, and I thought there was way too much Shia, too. I have nothing personally against the man but there was just too much set up.

And the origin of Earth’s technology was a crock.

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Oh, Stephen Sommers…why?

Why?

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The only things I remember about Transformers were a bunch of random metallic shapes that usually were out of focus, a bus exploding, Megan Fox’s tight, moist mid section and John Turturro getting pissed on.

Oh and the climactic battle scene between the main metallic shaped hero and villain that was artistically shot so we didn’t get to see any of it

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I didn’t realize J G-L was going to be in GI Joe. As Cobra Commander no less! I might have to watch this movie.

I don’t want to derail the converstation any more than has already happened, but after I saw him in The Lookout I decided that if Nolan wanted to have the Joker return in a future Batman movie (and I know he’s not) Joseph Gordon-Levitt could pull it off.

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The focus on the costumes instead of faces is a weird choice, given that the costumes all look the same.

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“This movie will be exactly what it should be, a movie based on a 25 year old comic book and cartoon.”

See here’s my problem with the attitude of that statement, and it’s the exact same attitude that people expressed when Transformers came out. It’s dismissive and it’s lowering the standard something just because the fact that a) it’s ‘this seasons blockbuster’ and/or b) it’s based on a comic/toy/TV show

Let me ask this, what is a more ridiculous concept? A tale about a fictional U.S/UN taskforce taking on an terrorist group? Or a story about an alien that lays eggs in your stomach? Or how about a time travelling robot made of liquid metal?

Now the latter two concepts could have easily been made into just as ridiculous movies as Transformers and this GI-Joe movie (it could be good, but just basing on what has been seen). But they weren’t. Alien (and Aliens) and Terminator 2 are considered two of the best sci-fi movies ever, and they weren’t little independent movies, they were expensive summer blockbuster movies.

Let’s not forget that last year that two of the best movies, Dark Knight and Iron Man, were based on 50+ year old comic books! Any concept can be made into something special, it just depends on how it is handled. And we shouldn’t reward dumb movies

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Bender: 40+ year old comic books, not 50, at least where Iron Man is concerned (70+ for Batman).

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Not to mention that when the Title Characters descended from deep space, they weren’t treated as title characters as much as they were punchlines.

and pathetic punchlines at that.

Then there was the re-design of Megatron to the single most generic looking evil robot in all of moviedom, the automatic repair of Bumblebee’s voice box at the end, the unrealistic decision of the military forces to turn on sector 7, the automatic trust the military gave the driving Autobots… etc, etc, etc.

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Cinema isn’t declining. But it sure is fuck isn’t climbing any higher. People please. Do any of you really want to see it? Be honest. No one’s judging here.

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