I havent even watched the commentary,but I can already hear everyone moan at the mysterious 'sinking ice'.

Whats the fucking point anymore?

...
But I...
You...
How?
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* decides to lay down for a bit.

It's been so long since this was recorded, I think I'll have to listen to it again. I can't remember anything that was said other than JGL seemed to be enjoying himself.

Thank you for releasing this! Really looking forward to the listen.

I remain a firm defender of this movie.

Yes, its stupid and completely unnecessary and solely made to sell toys/make money.
However, it embraces its stupidity and unabashadly goes for the gold medal, with tons of crazy gadgets, thousands of civilians casually murdered by the heroes, and lots of pretty damn entertaining action set-pieces.

This is especially confirmed for me having seen the utterly mediocre and boring Captain America movie, which is somewhat similar to Gi-Joe (Hydra is a lot like Cobra, energy weapons and gadgets) except it takes itself too seriously and isn't nearly as crazy/fun in the action department, playing it much more safe.

I say, if the premise is ridiculous, embrace it and give me a fun over-the-top movie, which I think this delivers (I will admit the flashbacks still suck though)

I'd rather watch this than any of the Transformers movies that's for sure. They're actually bad movies, this is just big, dumb and stupid. Flawed because of the acting and story turns, but fun.

The irony to these toy movies is that they seem needlessly convoluted. In an attempt to avoid being seen as 'simple', they resort to all this plot which makes the film inevitably trip over itself.

Finished listening to this. I completely and utterly disagree with you guys that this is anything remotely similar to an Asylum movie. It may be so that this film happened to share that same improvisational streak that Asylum films have (but what film doesn't have a scene constructed on set?) but that's as far as it goes because GI Joe is at least watchable. It might be convoluted as hell and some things may not make sense, but to compare it to the utter drivel that comes out of Asylum? Films that are with little to no quality in any aspect (acting, directing, lighting, framing, editing, visual effects, story etc.)?

You can buy technical quality, true, skilled people and slick equipment, but that's not going to make Aslyum's films any better. It won't produce an entertaining action romp like GI Joe or any other typical summer blockbuster. Give them $100 million and they'll just make 1000 rubbish films and pocket the rest. Because that's their approach to film-making, produce a semblance of a movie and make a quick buck from people too stupid to realise they've bought the wrong DVD. Hell, even the porn industry make better films...

Say what you want about GI Joe's story flaws, but you cannot say they didn't try to produce a quality product. It looks great and sounds great because somebody cared enough to make it that way. It has some coherence despite the writers' strike because people cared enough. That's a far cry from Asylum, and that's why the comparison is so wildly inappropriate.
 
I also disagree with the argument that this nothing more than a toy commercial, no, it's a just commercial movie like any other.

Side fun fact, GI Joe has the same cinematographer as Wanted (and Transformers too).

And Raul Julia and that video-game movie he did.

And then he died.

What I think we can conclude from this is that doing a movie for your kids will kill you.