Oh, you are still there? Then let's say something about movies nowadays:
"There is only one thing worse than going to the cinema with low expectations, and that is see those expectations defrauded". The quote is not mine, but I would add an even worse case: go with low expectation, see how the movie works fine and is even fun, and near the end of the film, see how everything (script, realism, characters..) goes directly to hell itself.
I am not the greatest gi joe fan, but even I knew something about them, I saw the tv series and they were the coolest guys in tv along with Saint Seiya. In retrospect, GI Joe would be quite lame: militarist and children's, but then it had planes, tanks and explosions, so we didn't need any more excuses to see it.
When I heard a Gi Joe movie was in the making, and having seen Transformers the year before, I knew it was going to be bad somehow. Now I know it is bad, and I now also why.
1-Characters: I knew the producers wouldn't loyal to the comics characters, but I had some hope in the comics GI Joe: Reloaded. They were a more realistic portrait of that world, and it had the conections between characters well designed. More important, all of them had a reason to do their job.
In the film, there is almost one thing that hasn't been afected: characters and brand NAMES, because everything else is quite different. The movie introduces some flashbacks to provide references, but they are unsufficient to create at least an illusion of logic inside the plot beneath the current action.
2-The villains: (HUGE SPOILERS) If someone wants a good movie, it has to be a good villain in it. And if you don't explain his origin, at least do it so people see him as absolute evil. But no here, of course. We don't see Destro fighting to regain his family honour, but for greed, and that's not a villain to be remembered. The baroness and cobra commander start being the tipical good american brothers, both happy with their lives and four years later they have become evil terrorists. Fine, everyone can have a bad day, be fined and the next day you want to take over the world to forbid fines; it's acceptable (by movie standards). But we want to know WHY, for God's sake. Moreover, the baroness was the coolest of Cobra because she looked only for her own benefit, she gave more treacherous stabs than anyone and I liked it, and now she's evil because of nanorobots?
3-Story development: Until the Paris scene, I was thinking the movie was going to be all right, even with the acclerator suits (damned sigma 6) but since there, every single aspect of the movie was bad and even worse: it's when we know the load of rubbish of the villains background and that was a huge hit for me. But when we saw that the self-destruct device consists in sinking the ice above the base... ICE FLOATS ALWAYS, AND EVEN MORE IN SALT WATER. Well, there you have all my rage unleashed. If I had written this article the day after I saw the movie, it would be all like that.
And that's all, I hope that if there is a second part, they won't sink any more ice.
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