I haven't been around the site much in the last year or so. I've been too busy with family, work, school, etc. to get my Joes out much, but I've been following the news and rumors about the upcoming movie for the past few months. I haven't had time to read all the forums and get a fan concensus at this point, but I'm really curious to see what all the fans are thinking at this point.

I read the rumors last week that the director got sacked, and Parmount brought in a new guy to try and save the movie during editing. From what I've seen the movie looks to be heavy with gimmicky special effects, without much in the way of coherent plot lines. The director and producer seems to have made little effort to educate themselves regarding the GI Joe mythos, and fans' tastes.

With the exception of Snake Eyes, Baroness, and Storm Shadow the the characters I've seen in both posters and previews are completely unrecognizable. The costumes look cartoonisly absurd, and don't get me started on the stupidity of accelerator suits.

There doesn't appear to be much in the way of character develpoment, but its tough to get a handle of that from a trailer. Still, many of the casting and character choices seem odd.

All the rumors I've read, and film I've seen lead me to believe that this movie will flop badly, and disappoint fans completely. Considering what a great job Michael Bay did with Transformers, its even more painful to see our beloved Joes treated in such a shabby fashion. This movie really has the potential to poison the franchise.

Have any of you seen any early showings? Does anybody have any news that I haven't heard? What's the general concensus of the fans right now?

It'll be a nice (NOT G.I.JOE) action movie.

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It's certainly not GI Joe. The casting is horrendous and the costuming is out the window. Snake Eyes is the only recogniable character, imo, and the rubber Shumacher Batman suit kills it.

I've heard the test screenings didn't go well at all and the rumor about Sommer's getting canned has circulated so much that I would find it hard to believe there isn't some truth to it.

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I have yet to see anything that makes me feel optimistic about this movie. It looks like its trying to cash in on the popularity of transformers and that is it. I could be wrong but it has that feel (Rushed to open, Shots seemed recycled, movie posters are weak at best, previews showing nothing spectacular, accelerator suits as an excuse to use bullet time).

I could be way off base too, and am waiting to see if I am, but the writing on the wall is definatly not good if you were hoping for a good joe movie.

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All the entertainment magazines and whatnot are dissing it already. They figure it'll be a good popcorn movie but not have the coolness that that OTHER hasbro property pulled off (Transformers). The redux Batman and Star Trek, this is not. But as we all suspect, it'll be a fun action movie. Probably will end up with a cult following like Doom.

I think the movie looks like it will be alright. Given there have been several incarnations of Joe already (Marvel and IDW comics, Sunbow cartoon, Resolute cartoon, Sigma Six, numerous dio stories) I don't mind seeing things being done a little differently. The latest trailer looks pretty good. I think the preview comics by Chuck Dixon have all been pretty good as well. If it's good, that's great, and if it's bad, I'll just go back to reading IDW comics and dio stories.

I went to see TF2 last night and the showed the newest GI Joe trailer, and it made me like it even more. Ripcord is the comic-relief, but from the trailer they seem to have kept the comedy "in-line". The part with the "bus/train" where the two of them crash through it had a longer scene and it was kinda funny, the whole theater laughed and at the end of the preview the theater stood and applauded, which was weird.