While
I wasn’t the biggest fan of G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, I am at least willing to
admit that I appreciated it for what it was.
What the diehard fans (myself included) fail to realize when judging it
so harshly was that it was a retelling in many ways and thus the characters
were reborn. I couldn’t imagine seeing
Shipwreck dressed in his cartoon attire and I think a lot of people would’ve
rolled their eyes at that.
I
had somewhat high hopes for G.I. Joe: Retaliation if only because I knew that
The Rock and Bruce Willis are in it. The
movie did not let me down, even if it is just seemingly one big explosion after
another.
The
first thing that I liked about this movie, that I feel set the pace for me, was
when Snake Eyes talked, Okay, so Snake
Eyes didn’t actually talk so much as it was really Storm Shadow in Snake Eyes’
outfit, but still—it made me believe. I
had read online reports that the writers wanted Snake Eyes to talk in the first
one, so my immediate reaction was one of, “Well, they finally went and did it”.
Yeah,
they got me. They probably pulled one
over on a lot of the people who saw the movie and went through the same mindset
as I did. So bravo to them for that.
Speaking
of Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes, this movie also focused on them quite a
bit. I don’t want to sound like a bummer
on this movie, but does anyone else agree that the ninjas could have their own
spinoff at this point? It’d be a side
franchise worth looking into, as Storm Shadow became even more of my hero
during this movie.
Lastly,
I heard this was based around the G.I. Joe: Renegades animated series, which
after watching this movie prompted me to watch that show. Movies really can’t say they do that often
enough, so that’s also a big win right there.
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