50% less likely to be a member of the Village People
Seeing Shipwreck likes this seems…wrong. He’s not even in the movie!
Posts Tagged ‘GI Joe’
What have you wrought, Rise of Cobra?
Sunday, August 9th, 2009G.I. Joe is a movie now
Sunday, August 9th, 2009Like a live action one with actual actors. And it entertained me. It wasn’t good by any stretch of the imagination, but I did not want my money back.
Really I didn’t mind the cheese or the bad dialog, because it is G.I. Joe after all. What I did mind is how it falls apart at the end with really bad Star Wars idea ripoffs. It’s also made dumber than you would expect by the inclusion of a whole personal relationship subplot that is complex, silly, and doesn’t fit in the G.I. Joe story very well.
Wait for the DVD. And watch G.I. Joe Resolute first.
G.I. Joe: Resolute on tomorrow night
Friday, April 24th, 2009Cartoon Network is reviving G.I. Joe with a show that has the classic crew. I skipped Sigma Six, but I will give this one a go. Not a fan of the art style, though.
You can catch it online already here (Edit: Adult Swim seems to have taken it down, but you can still find it on youtube).
I honestly won’t have anything to say about this until I have time to see it.
I need this!
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Someone get me one. Now!
EDIT: The Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes ones are pretty sweet too, but what did they do to Duke?
“Leather-Wreck?! I’ll wreck you!”
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009Yeah, I know we’ve all seen this, but:
I love it. Of course, I’m “that guy” that loved the Transformers movie, too. It won’t be perfect, but given what Hollywood is willing to pump out, it looks good to me.
Besides, do you really want this on your movie screen? Do you?
Yeah. That COULD be the way they did it, people.
Video game cover on the cheap
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Demon Attack was one of the best games for the Atari 2600 (or VCS for you old folks) but man, I forgot about this cover:
I bet that cost them a whole five bucks.
I had those dinosaur toys and the GI Joe stuff those missiles came from. Someone should have paid me to glue them together and spraypaint them silver. I’m pretty sure I could have done that.
“Snake” is “sneak” spelled sideways.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Hasbro has been pumping out a lot of great boxed sets in the past few years, but the DVD Battle Packs take the cake. Based on the cartoons, these are the first actual toy representations of some of the classic Cobra superweapons.
The M.A.S.S. Device comes with a scuba-suit Baroness all kitted out to fight giant tubeworms at the bottom of the sea (because that’s where “heavy water” comes from in G.I. Joe land, you see). Also present is radiation-poisoning Snake Eyes, but don’t worry, he’ll live. A simple dressing of leaves and herbs will suck that radiation right out!
The Revenge of Cobra set actually comes with a full on weather dominator. None of the characters look really unique, but it does come with some evil vines so that Roadblock can “stick his big green thumb right up Cobra’s nose.” Sadly, this set does not contain a giant Aztec robot. Lame.
Each set comes with a piece to build the M.A.S.S. device and is makred with “Set X of 5,” so we know there will be more to look forward to. The next one is apparently the Pyramid of Darkness, but it looks a bit weak to me. Let’s hope they do better with Arise, Serpentor, Arise. Sadly, I expect the last set to be based on the G.I. Joe Movie, and no good can come of that.
My Top 10 most influental kids movie moments from the 80s and slightly before
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Everyone has moments they remember and treasure from their favorite movies they saw as a kid, and there’s no question in my mind that these things can have an impact on a young mind. I’m talking about the kind of impact that transforms a potentially productive member of society into a lame, lazy “Generation X-er” who has nothing better to do than blog about cereal commercials and collect G.I. Joe toys and comic books. I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite 80s(ish) kid’s film moments: some inspiring, some terrifying. These may not be the most famous or commonly quoted movie scenes out there, but they caused inspiration, terror, and a dangerous obsession with cool special effects in a generation of kids. Or at least me.
Bear with us for our inaugural “real article” that isn’t just some crap I found on YouTube. Hopefully, I will be just barely lazy enough that I can keep a few of these coming, without being so lazy I actually decide to go and do something productive. Enjoy.
Themed cereals, God bless ‘em!
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Oh man. This stuff was awful, but I loved it anyways!
Please note that kid was completely caught by the Cobra guard. If that hadn’t been a training exercise, he never would have made it to that cereal!