Escape to the Movies: G.I. Joe - The Rise of Cobra

[GonzoGamer]

Nice Howard Zinn reference but you should've saved it for the V (not for vendetta; the aliens) remake they're working on now.

 

[Xvito]

Woah... I was expecting him to shit all over it. I guess sometimes silly = good.

 

[GamerLuck]

Nice to see whoever puts the backround for movie bobs show together finally has the timing down... now if only the images didnt blur after five seconds on screen... ah well, work in progress i guess.

All in all, nice review. still probably wont see it seeing as i am broke at the moment, but will definitely be worth streaming over my Live with netflix when it hits that.

 

[Hikikomori Ookami]

I still won't see this movie. I need a substantial plot for me to watch a movie and this just seems like a bucket load of random explosions.

Actually, the plot and story-line isn't bad...

 

[HK_01]

Wow, this REALLY surprised me. I mean, is this really possible? Can this movie be good?!?

 

[HobbesMkii]

I don't know that I got the sense from the review that this was a good movie on its own merits, just that it was good in comparison to the drivel they stuffed down cinema-goers' throats this summer. Something I like about MovieBob (this isn't the only one) is that he generally seems to be able to give us a mindset to go see a movie in. Like this one, we basically have to go and transport ourselves back to action-figure playing age.

I dunno if I'd count Casino Royale in those last 12 James Bond movies though. I know opinion is divided, but that was probably my favorite James Bond. Goldeneye might also escape any trashing too, in my opinion.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

This is exactly what I hoped GI Joe to be. Thank you for reassuring me. You have the best movie reviews on the planet.

 

[captain awesome 12]

I still won't see this movie. I need a substantial plot for me to watch a movie and this just seems like a bucket load of random explosions.

Random explosions combined with a few "Whohooos!!!!!" from the actors and yeah I guess that's it.

 

[Simmo8591]

As someone who saw this last night... I was pleasantly surprised at how much good it was.
I expected it to be dire but it was really good fun and well worth seeing.
note: I'm neither 7 nor old enough to remember the toys

 

[MovieBob]

Only thing that gets me is Movie Bob saying G.I. Joe is better than the last 12 James Bond Movies.

Just to be clear: I didn't say it was better than the last 12 James Bond movies, I said it was a better James Bond movie than the last 12 James Bond movies A bit overly-cute, I realize.

What I'm aiming at is... of course "Casino Royale" is a better movie than this ("Quantum of Solace" isn't, though) but this is a better approximation of what I think of when I think "James Bond movie" - i.e. the otherworldly supervillians looking to conquer the world, hopping all over the globe, the giant city-sized underwater bases bad guys just happen to have, the crazy gadgets, etc. And the "actual" James Bond movies stopped being good at that stuff after "The Spy Who Loved Me."

 

[TheEnglishman]

I'm seeing it tommorow and looking forwad to it.

From the sounds of things this is what Transformers 2 should have been.

 

[Macar]

This is moviebob at his best, if you ask me.

I'm going to be honest, I still have no intention of paying to see this movie. I'll probably rent it someday or something. But the reason I like seeing this kind of thing is that mr. Bob's anylisis is always eye opening and fascinating to me. It's the very same "overthinking" that got me hooked on his youtube show.

Thanks again escapist and moviebob!

 

[Diablini]

I will watch it. And I do agree that the James Bond movies suck a fair amount of ass.

 

[smithy1234]

I expected this review to tear apart this movie as an awful horrible bore-fest. I am very surprised, I may actually go see it now haha.

 

[Dartinin]

well you were right about watchmen so ill give you the benefit of the doubt (i think that's how you put it >.> ) and watch it when netflix get their grubby little hands on it >.> i wonder how district 9 will favor >.> that's one movie im actually thinking of going to the movies for >.>

 

[sirdanrhodes]

I hated this movie. The worst film I had ever seen to this prior was Max Payne. It WAS!

 

[Irridium]

Hell, I still have a large plastic container full of old transformer and GI Joe toys I used to play with with my brother.

I shall go see this movie, the fact that Bob thought it was good is... well its been said before, I won't even bother.

 

[jewstin80]

better than the last 12 Bonds? are you kidding me, i've been a big fan since you first stared overthinker and i usually agree with you but saying this movie is better than die another day and goldeneye and octopussy is just retarded.