GI Joe: Rise of Cobra = PREDICTIONS! Smash hit or awful failure?

Discussion in 'Movies and Television' started by Kickback, Feb 17, 2009.

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GI Joe: Rise of Cobra - Box Office Hit or Box Office Flop?

  1. Successful! Box office hit!

    36.3%
  2. Failure! Box office flop!

    63.7%
  1. Kranix2k

    Kranix2k Spare me this mockery!! TFW2005 Supporter

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    Damn you people, why all the "flop" votes? :Gouki: 

    This'll be a blockbuster just like TFTM '07, I'm sure. I think just because this is a fanboard that we're getting a skewed number of negative votes. As a whole, I think the movie will be big.

    As far as the accents, I dunno if our current Hollywood has anyone that can pull off accents, other than their own region, without sounding hokey. Being from the South, I cant count the times I've heard actors/actresses forcing their "southern drawls" and coming off sounding like Rogue from the old Xmen cartoon... *shudders*. Same with non-euros sounding euro.

    Now if they could've found a real southern redheaded actress to play Scarlett, that woulda been money (and probably been yummy too). Getting an Eastern European girl to play Baroness would've been awesome. Unfortunately, they didnt.

    What I'm saying in a round-a-bout way is that the nationalities of the characters shouldn't cause the movie to be fail. Yeh, it was a shame that Welker couldn't do Megatron 2 years ago either, but TFTM '07 did pretty well, dontcha think? :lolol 

    No offense to Joe fans, but I don't anyone should think the movie to be a flop just because Scarlett doesn't sound like Dolly Parton. Ok, bad example, but you know what I mean.
     
  2. Ziero

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    I'm not "flopping" on how well I think the movie will do, nor was I saying it'll fail because of the character changes. I still think it will do well and be an entertaining movie to watch. And it will more then merit having at least one, if not two, sequels. But as a long time fan, there's a few things that bug the snot out of me, and the changes to Baroness and Scarlette are some of those things. Just like I loved the TF movie despite not liking every part of it, I'll probably like the GI Joe movie despite not liking all it's aspects.
     
  3. Mr.Roboto

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    I'd say the movie is going to do well. :lol 
     
  4. Seth Buzzard

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  5. Mister D

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    Well, Australia IS in the south...
     
  6. Spoon

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    Did you just compare Australia with the Southern states of the USA?

    *shakes fist*

    ;) 
     
  7. Belgrath

    Belgrath Boom! Nutshot!

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    You made my night :lolol 
     
  8. dorfsquest

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    :lolol 

    Honestly though, I don't think it will do poorly. The franchise is too widely popular for that to happen, and I at least see it being a decent popcorn flick.
     
  9. Mister D

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    Here's a report from Dark Horizons on new footage. Pretty much sounds like what I expected, and that's not encouraging.

    Yesterday evening a five-minute 'sizzle reel' of footage from "G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra" was screened in Sydney by Paramount Pictures to a crowd of journos, exhibitors and execs.

    Until now the only footage screened from the film has been the thirty-second Superbowl spot. While repeating some scenes from that, this expanded on what was shown and combined finished effects with animatics and live-action footage.

    The footage established the premise that an international military task force has been setup to combat global threats. The base of operations seems to be a sandy desert somewhere with one of the early effects shots showing a secret circular hangar bay door opening for an advanced Harrier-like jet to land. Later on we see two lumps racing under the sand and disturbing a caravan of camels.

    The main thrust of the story in the film is that the COBRA organization have taken microscopic robot nanites, originally developed as a way to cure cancer, and have been able to reprogram them to do almost anything.

    A demonstration involves the launch of a missile containing some nanites that have been programmed to eat metal. The missile is fired from some sort of underwater vehicle in The Seine, it streaks across Paris and hits the Eiffel tower. The tower is eaten away, bits of the lower arches start falling off as people scatter, and the tower itself collapses.

    Destro (Christopher Eccleston) talks about the plan and is seen operating from COBRA's own secret base which is a huge underwater facility under the Arctic ice. Much of the visual effects footage, albeit mostly incomplete, showed what looked like a climactic attack by GIJOE's forces against this base - think "Thunderball" meets "Seaquest" with lots of sleek looking CG submersibles attacking similar vehicles and/or the giant metal spires that make up the various wings of the facility.

    Another big portion of the footage is devoted to the body armor worn by the good guys. The body suit essentially covers everything but their face (which is covered in retractable glass/plastic) and is said to enhance a person's strength, speed and agility. We briefly glimpse the CG heads up display on the inside of each helmet as well.

    Cut to a truly bizarre scene in Paris where two people (Channing Tatum and Marlon Wayans I think) in the suits are running through the streets as European luxury cars with retractable guided missile launchers built into them fire rockets at the duo. The two guys jump, flip, dive through a train, get flung off the back of a truck that gets blown up, etc.

    Later on there's a scene with The Baroness (Sienna Miller) on top of a a building's massive glass ceiling as Tatum's character lands on the far side. As he runs towards her, she sets off some device and the ceiling explodes upwards in a massive shower of glass that sends him tumbling.

    While we glimpse Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow in the footage a few times, there was no sign or even hint of Cobra Commander as far as I can recall.

    The verdict? With much of the FX unfinished it is too early to make any real judgement call. Ultimately it is what it is - a Stephen Sommers film. Like Baz Luhrmann on speed, the man is about as subtle as a sledgehammer and so everything in this is huge and explosive in a visually impressive but utterly over the top and often quite silly way.

    Sadly nothing shown here indicates he has learned any lessons from his last two disappointments, but considering much of it was quick cut shots with only the barest hint of dialogue - I'd love to be proven wrong on that judgement call.
     
  10. Baccala1976

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    I can see this movie being a giant flop going the same way as the Street Fighter movie from 1994. The only thing that looks remotely interesting is Snake-Eyes vs. Storm Shadow.
     
  11. Tenebrouser

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    'The Princess and the Frog' is starting to look more appealing than this movie. Ouch.
     
  12. tylerzero

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    Isn't the budget for this movie $170 million? I predict it will not make this much in domestic box office receipts.
     
  13. Mister D

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    If so, there's no excuse for a Stephen Summers directed GI Joe movie having a bigger budget than a Speilberg-produced, Bay-directed Transformer film.
     
  14. Kickback

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    My opinion has changed from "FLOP!!!" to "Mediocre results".
     
  15. Angelwave

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    Y'know...I took my mom to see Star Trek this past Sunday. And when the trailers began, they showed the latest Transformers one first, then G.I. Joe one right after that. After the movie was finished and we were leaving I asked her what did she think of the movie. She said "It was great, I enjoyed it, but what happened to G.I. Joe? What did they do to it?"

    Word for word.

    It took me by surprised when she asked that, but it obviously means she remembered it.

    Anyways the nostalgia is there, but I personally still don't know what to think at this point. I mean, it still looks silly and overdone to me.
     
  16. Drake

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    I'll go see it but I was hoping for something more along the lines of the comic and not the cartoon. We'll see. I don't think it will do all that well but I don't know what else is coming out in August. I was hoping that with Larry Hama onboard he would help them fix the small stuff but it looks like they only attached him to bring in the fans and didn't allow him any input.

    A cool PSA with Snowjob telling kids to get the fuck off his lawn or Blowtorch yelling "porkchop sandwiches get the fuck out", couldn't hurt at this point.
     
  17. Ra88

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    I thought it would be a box office hit, but the latest trailer is so pathetic that I have to radically change my opinion. This will be the flop of the year. It's not a good thing when there are reports of audiences laughing/groaning at the thing that HAS TO SELL THE MOVIE.
     
  18. tikgnat

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    I want it to be a success, buy fear the worst.

    Hopefully though it will lead to GIJoe toys being sold again in the UK, and 'hopefully' this will give me the opportunity to get hold of a new Rattler.
     
  19. Wing alpha

    Wing alpha <b><font color=blue>I voted for Super_Megatron and

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    Funny thing as people watched the trailer on star trek I heard about half the theather go "NO WAY"-with a positive tone mind thee- so This movie has public. I think
     
  20. IACON

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    I say its gonna bomb.