Should I even bother cooking up a PAL version?  I think I'll abstain out of shame.

if it's not too hard then this English viewer would appreciate one

[edit] eeek, am I at risk of being banned for saying I liked the movie ??

[edit] scratch that, don't need the PAL version, the NTSC sysning perfectly. Turns out that after listening to most of your PALs and having to pause them every 10mins or so to resync to the movie, well I've just found out that my dvd player is playing things NTSC speed.

Last edited by Fido (2011-07-25 12:18:52)

I appreciate the PAL version, I stole the dvd off my sister to synch the comm up with. I like doing that sometimes. The synching of comms, not the stealing of dvds.....

I fell asleep halfway through the live show of this one.

Last edited by Jimmy B (2011-07-25 13:44:20)

I'm deeply sorry to admit that sometimes I just want to see things explode, sword fights and two leather clad ladies (one preferably a redhead)  having a punch up, cohesive(?) storyline be damned !! ..... I feel so darn ashamed.

This must have been recorded during my period of hibernation, so I missed the live show.

This is available on netflix right over here.

You know they're making a sequel to this, right? It's being directed by Jon Chu, who has directed exclusively music and dance films and TV shows. I hope this means the sequel will break into musical dance routines at random moments. That would absolutely get my ass in a theater on opening day.

GI Joe by the numbers: http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2009/GIJOE.php

The most fucked up part about the numbers page for this movie is the fact that it's got about a 7.5/10 rating according to it's users, with the majority of the votes being 10/10. This tells me that, for some reason, the sort of people who love movies like G.I. Joe are really interested in film production costs and DVD sales statistics.

Last edited by Squiggly_P (2011-07-25 21:14:51)

Haven't seen the movie, but I love it simply because the trailer synced up perfectly for the trailer for Team America. They knew exactly what film they were making

I'm listening now, I'm actually synced to the movie which I don't usually do. First time I'm seeing this movie and the best part was the fact that you guys just said my last name about 20 times while making fun of Channing Tatum.

I know you may want to raise an eyebrow about Dennis Quaid doing this movie because his kids wanted him to do it, however, that same thing happened for Viggo Mortensen in that movie about rings.  And I think that worked out pretty good.

^^^

Oh my god, you guys have to do Street Fighter at some point, it is hilariously terrible, in a very entertaining way. I have to admit to having a guilty pleasure soft spot for it having seen it a lot as a kid, though it is pretty bad. Would make for a hilarious commentary I have a feeling

They re-introduced the 12 inch Joe's in the 90's, and when my parents died I consoled myself a bit by buying up a bunch. The Patton and General Bradley are great, and it was interesting to watch The Pacific with the GI Joe of one of the characters. They stopped production again a few years ago for the same reason they did the first time- they were just too expensive for a kids toy. I think they re-introduced the 3 inch version about that time.

There was a great Eddie Murphy bit on his return to SNL as a guest where he talked about the new smaller GI Joes, and Barbies preferred the real ones.

I'm a huge Asylum fan and I find many of their films to be highly watchable and entertaining. The Asylum's flicks can't hide their cheap badness behind a layer of slick editing, elaborate camera moves and special effects. Movies like GI Joe can and do. They have the same sort of cheesy-stupid dialogue, the same sort of padding, the same sort of plot issues. The big budget flicks can razzle-dazzle their way out of it by throwing a series of action sequences on screen and adding a bunch of pointless 3D holographic projected images into the cliche padding scenes, but because the Asylum can't do that, you end up noticing how stupid the plot is.

I kinda felt like I was watching an Asylum movie earlier today when I want to see Captain America. The movie overall is pretty good and fun, but there's one scene where [SPOILER] they're storming Red Skull's base and the romantic interest and Tommy Lee Jones' character show up out of nowhere to kick some ass. Then the Captain goes into the hangar just in time to see Skull's plane start taking off. Those two show up out of nowhere in this tank-car and help the Cap chase the plane down, getting him onto the plane just before their car was to fly off a cliff. Add to that the couple of montages of CA doing hero poses while shit explodes behind him... It's fun but it was really fake and over-the-top in a way that clashed with the previous hour or so of the movie. The plane scene SCREAMED Asylum to me, the way it was written. These characters come out of nowhere twice to save his ass, and bad guys will come out of nowhere to attack him because some guy on the script team thought it was be awesome or something.[/spoiler]

My litmus test for any action movie is that if you could replace the action sequences with a simple sentence, then your action scene fails. If you tried that with GI Joe, you could cut the movie down to about 15 minutes. "The Joes chase the bad guys through Paris, but the bad guys get away." I just cut about 20 minutes or so out of the movie and you didn't lose a single bit of character development or plot. You don't even need to be informed about the Eiffel Tower collapsing because it has no further bearing on the story.

You could look at the Asylums films as a perfect argument for how bad big-budget movies have gotten. They are like a mirror that removes the budget so you can see what they look like deep down inside.

Last edited by Squiggly_P (2011-07-27 03:12:49)