G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (August 2009)

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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra       ( August 2009)
      
      Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph       Gordon-Levitt, Byung Hun Lee, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park,       Said Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid
      Directed by: Stephen Sommers
      U.S.      Opening Date: August 7th, 2009

If you remember G.I. Joe as General Infantryman Joe,       then the chances are that you probably weren’t a kid back in the early       1980s. Today GI Joe stands for “Government Issue” Joe and isn’t the name       of an individual, but in fact the name of an entire elite antiterrorist       team.
      GI Joe began life as a foot-long plastic soldier       action figure brought out by Hasbro as long ago as 1963 in response to the       huge success of Mattel’s Barbie doll. The toy sold well, but bad pacifist       vibes towards the U.S. military during the Vietnam War in the 1960s made       Joe quit the military and become an “adventurer” and “explorer” instead.

      In the early 1980s GI Joe was reinvented yet again,       this time via a series of comics and TV cartoon shows as a secret       governmental force by a group of writers who usually wrote for Marvel       comics. The writers came up with a host of colorful characters that       included amongst others a villain who wore a mask to hide his disfigured       face, a sexy crossbow expert and even a duo of ninjas. Known as Action Man       outside the States, this new G.I. Joe was a huge hit for the toy company       that also brought out the Transformers       series.
      
Now the producer of the Transformers movie and Stephen Sommers, the director of the first two      Mummy movies and Van Helsing,       are teaming up to bring us a live action movie version based on the 1980s       incarnation of G.I. Joe. It won’t be a war movie as you older folks out       there may believe, but more a science fiction blend of James Bond and the      X-Men. (Which explains why you are reading       this article on the Sci-Fi Movie Page instead of The War Movie Page.
      
As the official movie plot synopsis goes: “From       the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE       team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to       fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the       mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into       chaos.”

      Expect an overload of CGI. Industrial Light and       Magic, the famous visual effects studio created by George Lucas, created       what they called “The Stephen Sommers scale of effects.” The scale has       four levels: “What the shot needs,” “What the computers can handle,” “My       God, the computers are about to crash!” and finally, “What Stephen wants.”


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