A Real American? Hero.

[fifthdream]

"G.I. Joe" is another case of Hollywood's unquenchable thirst for Changing Things For No Reason At All. I don't know wy they do it. I assume it's to make things they think "regular people" (i.e. people who don't know the source material) will think are hokey not so hokey. G.I. Joe was like, the ONE thing that didn't need changed. Pretty much every character in G.I. Joe is wearing plain old military gear, or even street clothes. If Star Wars and Star Trek are well-loved, and not hokey, then G.I. Joe most certainly wouldn't be hokey. BUT i *expected* this movie to be full of visual changes. The commercials make it obvious. I accept that nothing can be left alone in Hollywood, and all heroes must wear black plastic clothing.

But why the hell did they

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put that weird thing on Cobra Commander's face?! It... What *was* that? If they changed him for the norms, are you telling me that thing on his head in this movie isn't hokey? Or at least way more hokey than a plain silver mask? They can have Destro look like he did, and then just make Cobra Commander Almost-Destro? Aren't they too similar? Ugh. I was enjoying the emergence of Cobra Commander and Destro right up until the "wtf is that on his face?" moment.

Not even gonna get into Duke's hair or Baroness's non-accent. Or the whistling.


Funny how G.I. Joe was more international than Cobra, it seems. Pretty much the opposite of the original, where 90% of Cobra had European or Australian accents. I guess it's not PC to paint foreign citizens as villains. ::shrug::

But whatever, it wasn't actually as bad as i thought it was going to be, and the Wayans brother was actually not annoying. THAT was a giant surprise.