I'm not even expecting the movie to be good, mind you. But still, Cobra Commander has not one but *two* iconic looks from which one could draw, but this... this ain't it. Calling it "too busy" seems to be the least of what could be said.
Know what's crazy? The GI JOE comics from Marvel are actually awesome, far better than a comic based on a toy line deserves to be. Another reason I'm sad scans_daily is gone, because one guy was doing a marvelous documentation of those comics from a liberal pacifist's POV.
Oh lord, that made me giggle like mad. I don't remember from the toys/cartoon if Cobra Commander was actually supposed to be burned/scarred (or if he just had a thing for snazzy world dominator head gear) but yeeeeesh. Crunchberry head, dildo rocket launcher... I still want to see what Joseph Gordon Levitt does with the character (he's done some amazing weird character performances-I hope for wonderfully over the top 'actorly' psycho Cobra Commander-more ham chompy than Nick Nolte gnawing through the cable maybe?
Wow. Just...wow. I don't believe that all the toy lines and their mythologies bear resurrection (i.e., Hasbro is attempting to integrate M.A.S.K. into the Joe cosmology, which is not a good idea, in my opinion), but that's just mean. I want one. I want to buy Shopaholic Barbie and make them reenact the good parts of THE LOOKOUT...
What have they done to the pretty? I do not understand. :(
Yeah, I guess that Cobra Commander has always had his face covered in some way, but if you are going to cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt in your movie I want to see at least glimpse of his fineness.
(Side note: As a kid I always took the opening credits for Inspector Gadget at face value, in a way. I always thought that there was no Dr. Claw the man; instead he was sort of evil computer or something, and the arm-in-chair was just a mechanism to throw his enemies of the scent and because he really liked cats and wanted a mechanism with which he could pet them. Okay, I may have made that bit up just now)
But I digress! I would personally risk Nerd Wrath if it meant that I could put something like this in the movie:
I may have revealed too much about myself there.Oh, well. There is still those outfits the Joe guys are wearing. And Christopher Eccleston will probably be awesome, 'cause he usually is, even if the rest of the movie turns out to be crap.
Ha! I'll take your theory and raise it with the idea that Dr. Claw was actually the cat! He invented the robot arm to pet himself, and like Garfield, he could communicate telepathically!
No, I'm sorry, that picture... that isn't Cobra Commander. I'm sure it's sexy and all, but it just isn't CC. You know what's Cobra Commander?
What's even better is you just know the puppy's family and friends of dogs are right around the corner, ready to take vengeance, and Cobra Commander will shit his pants like always and go, "COBRA! RETREAT! RETREEEEEEEEAAAAAAT!!!"
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Date: 2009-03-27 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-27 04:28 am (UTC)Know what's crazy? The GI JOE comics from Marvel are actually awesome, far better than a comic based on a toy line deserves to be. Another reason I'm sad
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Date: 2009-03-27 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-27 05:20 am (UTC)*ETA: I can read, no really...
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Date: 2009-03-27 09:28 am (UTC)I don't believe that all the toy lines and their mythologies bear resurrection (i.e., Hasbro is attempting to integrate M.A.S.K. into the Joe cosmology, which is not a good idea, in my opinion), but that's just mean.
I want one. I want to buy Shopaholic Barbie and make them reenact the good parts of THE LOOKOUT...
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Date: 2009-03-27 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-28 03:03 am (UTC)Yeah, I guess that Cobra Commander has always had his face covered in some way, but if you are going to cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt in your movie I want to see at least glimpse of his fineness.
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Date: 2009-03-28 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-28 07:28 am (UTC)(Side note: As a kid I always took the opening credits for Inspector Gadget at face value, in a way. I always thought that there was no Dr. Claw the man; instead he was sort of evil computer or something, and the arm-in-chair was just a mechanism to throw his enemies of the scent and because he really liked cats and wanted a mechanism with which he could pet them. Okay, I may have made that bit up just now)
But I digress! I would personally risk Nerd Wrath if it meant that I could put something like this in the movie:
[linked cause this is kinda big. Also, there is a pretty girl in her underpants]
I may have revealed too much about myself there.Oh, well. There is still those outfits the Joe guys are wearing. And Christopher Eccleston will probably be awesome, 'cause he usually is, even if the rest of the movie turns out to be crap.
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Date: 2009-03-28 03:13 pm (UTC)No, I'm sorry, that picture... that isn't Cobra Commander. I'm sure it's sexy and all, but it just isn't CC. You know what's Cobra Commander?
What's even better is you just know the puppy's family and friends of dogs are right around the corner, ready to take vengeance, and Cobra Commander will shit his pants like always and go, "COBRA! RETREAT! RETREEEEEEEEAAAAAAT!!!"