I'm not religious, but I definitely hate it when people are blatantly rude like that.
This is kind of petty, but I finally watched G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra yesterday night and... well, that's 117 minutes of my life I'd like back. I actually have a moderate interest in seeing 2012 and/or Transformers 2 now, if only because I also have a hard time believing at least one of those movies could be as dumb as this one. Now, was it a summer flick technically based on a line of action figures? Yes, but nevertheless, plot holes were rampant, Stephen Sommers' (or whoever's) recycling of a considerable number of cast members from The Mummy series (the Brendan Fraser cameo actually bordered on annoying) was distracting at best, and I think more fridges were nuked than if Fat Man had been dropped on a Kenmore production plant (I don't care if it's "the not too distant future", it's gonna be a while before you can literally watch a guy's memories by shanking his brain). The flashbacks and zoom-ins, as well the Storm Shadow/Snake Eyes backstory, were corny and poorly handled and, as usual, the ending doesn't even try to hide the fact that a sequel's on the way. About the only thing that saved this one were the Accelerator suits and Sienna Miller doing a feature-length Bayonetta impersonation (still, I like cleavage as much as the next 18-year-old nerd, but in the Arctic? It's PG-13; as long as Marlon Wayans is onboard, the least we could've got was a stiff nipple joke).
Here's the thing, though: I don't really know anything about the G.I. Joe... canon? Mythos? In any case, I understand the screenplay was obviously based on the comic books/TV show(s?), but the point is: Does anybody here know enough about whatever phase of the G.I. Joe's 45+ years existence the movie captures that they enjoyed it more than I? Personally, like Star Trek, I'm inclined to think this was a modernized interpretation of the source material for "movie fans", not necessarily longstanding devotees.
