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Feast your eyes on these character posters for GI Joe: Retaliation!

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GI Joe is gearing up to release it’s sequel soon, and with the date for the debut drawing closer and closer, the marketing machine is also cranking out more and more promotional material, in what could only be described as Avengers levels of content distribution.

And now, we have several promotional pictures of The Rock smelling something cooking, ninjas being real, and Channing Tatum.

Sorry Kervyn.

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Explosions, disgraced shinobi, Bruce Willis and a newer, more badass design for Cobra Commander. Yep, it certainly is a GI Joe film, all right. For those of you unfamiliar with the plot, the elite team of Joes find themselves betrayed and double-crossed, thanks to Arnold Vosloos’ Zartan character, who has been impersonating the American president.

With Cobra finally winning, it’s up to the Joes to fight back, alongise the original special forces soldier himself, Joe Colton, played by Bruce Willis. GI Joe Retaliation hits our screens in August.

Last Updated: April 20, 2012

7 Comments

  1. not to sound nitpicky , but its Zartan. not zoltar

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    • Darryn_Bonthuys

      April 20, 2012 at 20:57

      No, you have every absolute right to be nitpicky. No idea how I got those two mixed up, but thanks for the reminder.

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  2. Kervyn Cloete

    April 21, 2012 at 07:21

    ….

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  3. Wtf101

    April 23, 2012 at 09:32

    Okay, so I am really looking forward to this one (Big time 80’s Joe fan) the same way I was looking forward to the first one.

    However, a few pet peeves so far:

    The Rock as Roadblock:  Make no mistake, I love the Rock (Sorry, don’t know how to spell Duane, Dwayne whatever) but the original Joe was a black man.  Yes, I am full of shit I know.  So I hope that at least he does the whole speak in rhymes thing the original roadblock was known for.  (“Cobra’s through, what do we do?” or “Play it straight or there’s no doubt, I’ll turn your eyeballs inside out”)

    Snake Eyes.  As much as I love the silent Joe Ninja, why does his mask look more like a bike helmet with a funky visor?  And where the hell is Timber, his pet wolf????

    And where the hell is that gold plated goofball, Lieutenant Falcon?

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    • Kervyn Cloete

      April 23, 2012 at 13:15

      I don’t mean to diss a fan, but I really, really hope that they don’t have Roadblock speak in rhymes. That may have worked in a 80’s cartoon, but if they were to put that in a live action movie? In 2012? The audience would be rolling their eyes so hard that they could see into their own digestive tract.

      It’s the same reason that the X-Men never wore the spandex in the movies. Certain things just do not translate well from a cartoon or comic into real life.

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      • Wtf101

        April 23, 2012 at 14:51

         Nah… not seeing a diss, but… what they essentially did with the first Joe movie is they stripped away what makes GI Joe, GI Joe.

        Joe is all about the characters that live in that universe.  Characters that each had a trait unique to him/her.  Roadblock with the rhymes, Jinx who could not fight to save her life, until you blindfolded her, Tomax and Xamot, the twins that literally completed each other’s sentences…  Just check some of the “File Cards” on the back of the action figures to see what I mean.  Hell, just look at the figures themselves…  A quick Google should give you at least a few…

        Imagine if Mr Nolan made a Batman movie, but decided that the Batsuit was just too ridiculous for people to take it seriously.  Instead he gave Batman a ski-mask for the entire series and instead of a cool Batmobile, gave him a Mazda 323.  Would you still feel you are watching a Batman movie, or rather a movie with the title Batman tacked on?

        You know why Transformers rocked my world when the first movie was released?  Michael Bay (Say what you want about his film making style) took an 80’s cartoon show, updated it for modern audiences, but still managed to stay true to what Transformers was all about.  Hell, the man even went as far as casting Peter Cullen that did the voice for Prime in the 80’s cartoons as the voice of Prime in the movies.  And you know what?  It worked.

        Mainly because when I looked at the screen, I recognized Optimus Prime from my childhood but put in a modern world.

        GI Joe, not so much.

        And from what I have seen so far, this second movie is going to be the same… 

        I do hope I am wrong though

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        • Kervyn Cloete

          April 23, 2012 at 23:30

          I completely agree with you regarding the generic nature of the various Joes in the first movie. With the exception of Snake Eyes, they were all merely cookie-cutter interchangeable parts. But I while I do feel that they should have incorporated some of the character’s individual looks and personality traits, not ALL of it should make that transition.

          You have to make the decision about what works in one medium but doesn’t in another, as each format brings with it it’s own internal logic. Sometimes that means just costume changes, sometimes it means having a character abandon a nonsensical speech pattern. 

          Oh and for the record, as much as I diss Bay, I rather enjoyed Transformers 1. He went completely off the rails with the sequels though, but I walked out of the cinema that first time with a huge grin plastered on my face.

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