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Went and saw GI Joe: Rise of Cobra last night. I hadn't watched the trailers or anything, so when I was bored last night and people were going, my questions really were "Is there mindless violence and explosions?" "...yes." "Okay then."
My inner twelve-year-old was extremely happy.
The movie itself was pretty much 2 hours of toy pr0n, with lots of gadgets and bad science ("uh, I'm pretty sure particle accelerators don't work that way"), questionable design decisions ("your nanobots do what? And there's how many killswitches? Oh this has zero failure modes."), and some general goofy camp. The combination of bad science and gadget envy pretty much culminated in the plane sequence when my brain went: "I want that plane. Science I'm pretty sure doesn't work like that. I WANT THAT PLANE."
It's not the greatest comic book movie ever, and I think I still like Iron Man better, but it wasn't a waste of $11. I'm glad I saw it, because sometimes you just want a action flick with explosions, and at least this one had the bonus of a plot and humor.
My inner twelve-year-old was extremely happy.
The movie itself was pretty much 2 hours of toy pr0n, with lots of gadgets and bad science ("uh, I'm pretty sure particle accelerators don't work that way"), questionable design decisions ("your nanobots do what? And there's how many killswitches? Oh this has zero failure modes."), and some general goofy camp. The combination of bad science and gadget envy pretty much culminated in the plane sequence when my brain went: "I want that plane. Science I'm pretty sure doesn't work like that. I WANT THAT PLANE."
It's not the greatest comic book movie ever, and I think I still like Iron Man better, but it wasn't a waste of $11. I'm glad I saw it, because sometimes you just want a action flick with explosions, and at least this one had the bonus of a plot and humor.
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