Darn.
I was hoping it wouldn’t be too craptacular.
Sigh.
Maybe I’ll just wait for a pirate version consisting only of scenes of The Baroness walkign around.
Worst movie ever?
No, they have to sit through “Manos, the Hands of Fate” before they can say that.
Obama Joe. I hope it tanks (pun intended) badly.
I see Razzies in this movie’s future.
And just how desperately bored would you have to be to see that?
RE: Your reference to the “preview” of the new Travolta movie. Don’t be so quick to judge. Don’t sell Travolta short. His movie could be WAY worse than this one.
12:20 a.m through 2:08 a.m - from start of movie to finish.
That’s exactly one hour and forty-eight minutes of your life you can never get back!
That was one of the funniest movie reviews I’ve ever read,
I’ve only known two people who liked The Mummy, both of them were mildly retarded. I’m sure they’ll go crazy for this pap too.
Somehow what has happened to ‘GI Joe’ over the years tragically mirrors the slow change in our nation’s character and priorities over the years since WW2. The phrase ‘GI Joe’ became part of the American lexicon as referring to an average soldier, probably the son of a farmer or a shopkeeper or a factory worker. He didn’t have any special title; however, together with a few million others just like him, he went about saving the world through his courage, honor, and self-sacrifice.
Somehow GI Joe’s weapons became high tech and he morphed into a member of an elite top-secret special unit with unlimited resources that answers to no one, and does whatever is necessary to win.
Worst movie ever?
Has this guy never viewed Fireball 500?
11:40p.m.: I arrive to the theater, a little sleepy and slightly giddy that the movie could be so bad that it's good.ONE MINUTE INTO THE MOVIE, he demonstrates that he's not even paying attention to what's happening on-screen, because the introductory scene sets up both the villain's background, modus operandi, and affectation for iron masks....
12:20 a.m.: OK, at last the movie is about to start. Oh. It's presented by Hasbro.
12:21 a.m. France, 1641....I should add this scene has no relevance at all to anything that follows.
Saw it this morning. It was alright. It isn’t the worst movie I ever seen. And as far as raping childhoods go, it is faaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr behind Transformers 2 and Terminator: Salvation just from this summer.
As far as it no longer being an explicitly American team, that is really only brought up twice, when the Joes first meet Duke and Ripcord and then when Gen. Hawk explains who they are. Of the ones we follow for most of the movie, Duke, Ripcord and Scarlett are all American. Heavy Duty is English and Breaker is Morroccan. Snake Eyes, of course, is indeterminate.
The absolute worst movie of all time is “Raymie” released July 5, 1960. It is the standard by which all movies can be rated. It serves the function of absolute zero. Anything above absolute zero demonstrates at least some movement. It was not even “camp!” “Raymie” gave meaning to the term death.
Is it worse than the First Street Fighter Movie?
I knew it was going to be bad in previews I have seen in trailers plus on tv, and the moment I had heard they had deviated from the Real American Hero plot of the Pro-American 80’s tunes.
I hope GI Joe is remade someday (but with a decidedly less cheesy and decidedly more American plot-line-NO I haven’t seen it, but from the reviews I have read).
I wouldn’t mind if GI JOE is even re invented minus the cartoon/sci fi plot and get back to the GI JOE of my father (The Real American Hero) which fought in WW II, Korea, and Vietnam!
Well, that sounds promising...
It was fun to watch with my 11 year old son.
He liked the redhead.
39% Fresh on Rotten Tomatos. Much more mixed reviews than this article implies. The basic rap is that GI Joe is all action and little else. The dialog is an afterthought, or doesn’t add, but as a remaking of a Saturday morning cartoon, they are saying, its ok.