Thursday, January 7, 2010

G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra (2009)

It's the new G.I. Joe movie, where the bad guys drive a Hummer and the good guys drive a VW van!  Dennis Quaid tries to channel his inner John Wayne!  Training sequences will be set to a low-intensity cover of Bang A Gong (Get It On)! Eccleston talks with a bad Scottish accent!  The U.S. President is played by a Welshman, and then a South African impersonating a Welshman!  Woo...hoo.


Changes, lots of "interesting" changes to the G.I. Joe mythology.  The Baroness is Duke's ex-fiance and Cobra Commander's sister, in addition to Destro's girlfriend, making her the central character in the film.  This goes beyond coinkydink into the realm of the absurd, and yet Sienna Miller, playing the Baroness, is *almost* really good in an otherwise uninspired cast.

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