G.I. Joe: Another Trailer Emerges, Refuses to Fail

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 20, 2009

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Another new trailer for the Paramount Pictures release G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has hit the ole interwebs today, courtesy of someone who wanted us to see it before it is available in HD from one of the usual sources. Either way, the trailer is here and ready to be seen, should you decide to click below and activate our video player.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra follows a team of elite soldiers under the command of General Hawk (Dennis Quaid) who face off against a new, mysterious enemy in the MARS corporation, led by a mysterious arms dealer. The movie has gotten a mixed reaction from around the web — with a lot of folks landing on the the side of negative — but I am still holding out a bit of hope. Because here’s the way I look at it: this is a 12-year old boy’s dream movie. And it appears as if director Stephen Sommers and team have decided to acknowledge that fact and make it a potentially kid-friendly property. I see no reason to make this The Dark Knight of toy franchise movies. It’s almost as if they’ve realized the limits of the material and they’re playing right to the kids who should be the target audience. And you can’t blame them for that, can you? Ok, maybe you can try… But the quality of this movie remains to be seen.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra hits theaters on August 7, 2009. It also stars Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Marlon Wayans, Ray Park, Christopher Eccleston and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.



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  • chicoo
    i am not feeling the wayans presence in this...
  • Colin
    Yeesh, that video player is terrible! The audio's fine, but the video is playing a frame every few seconds. Good thing it's just a trailer for G.I. Joe....
  • Really? We haven't heard of such problems yet. In fact, I just ran the trailer again and it was perfectly smooth...

    Interesting.
  • It sounds like a computer or connection problem because it played through for me dandily. Well the picture was good the stuff on the screen looked like shit but you can't blame the player for that lol
  • nicky_cavella
    does snake eyes use an accelrater suit as well? cause why can he jump over the car?
  • insane12
    when hes a ninja in a movie like this there is no needs for logic. Maybe he is maybe hes not. If he is then he is the only person who should have one due to the fact its not ugly. Infact his out fit he wears is vary sexy.
  • bengibbard
    the video player is fine, however that piece of shit movie is not
  • Meli_V
    The way I look at these old cartoons, we 30somethings grew up watching and loved, is they can be updated. Yes, the source material is limited, but why does it have to stay completely kid friendly? The core audience are not kids anymore. I'm not saying to make it TDK gritty, in fact, it bothers me when so many cry for darker - heck, I like dark movies as much as the next person, but not everything needs to be dismal.
    With the GI Joe movie I was hoping to see something that looked a little like the cartoon (i.e. uniforms) and story/action that would please the adults and keep the kids entertained. Stephen Sommers doesn't know that balance he likes to shoot movies with too much CGI and somehow littered with one-liners. This is his idea of a family friendly movie, but really it's crap.
    A couple of months ago I watched GI Joe: Resolution on Cartoon Network and that was a nicely updated GI Joe, sure there was still a little bit of cheese, but on a whole I thought it was good.
  • JayJayCAW
    ok am I the only one who thinks this movie is going to be awesome :D
  • I envy your positive attitude.
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