Movie spoiler movie premes |
04-21-2008, 10:37 PM
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| | Cobra Viper Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Columbus, Ga Posts: 259 | Movie spoiler movie premes
Ok, this came from another board, have a read and comment
Here's the movie's premise: the G.I. Joe team, led by Duke (Channing Tatum), fights for freedom wherever there is trouble. And their arch nemesis is Cobra Commander and his Cobra Force. The movie is based on a Hasbro line of toys, but also on a comic-book series from the 1980s, which had the Joe squad working out of "The Pit."
CC2K has an early review of the movie's script, and apparently it includes:
* "Accelerator suits," which allow the G.I. Joe squad to run faster, jump super-high, smash through walls, and shrug off bullets.
* A "nano-bomb" that the Cobra Commander wants to launch — which launches a swarm of nanites that eat all of the buildings and machinery, without harming any of the people. (And how do the nanites know when to stop eating all the non-organic matter? Will this be explained at all?)
* The Neo-Vipers, super-soldiers enhanced by nanotech, so they can't feel pain or remorse. (And maybe they can actually regenerate from injuries? It's not clear.) A mad scientist, known only as the Doctor, creates these soldiers for Destro, who's horribly disfigured after a fight with Duke. Destro wears a mask made out of nanotechnology, which allows the Doctor, aka Commander, to control his mind.
* hawt babe Scarlett (Rachel Nichols, see pic above) who is a virgin, despite wearing breast-exaggerating armor (which can turn invisible.) Marlon Wayans' wacky sidekick character Ripcord has the hots for Scarlett, who says she'll date him if he can shoot her on an obstacle course. He fails to hit her, and later realizes he was actually shooting real arrows instead of "training arrows." Also, Dennis Quaid plays "Hawk," their leader, and The Rock is rumored to play Shipwreck, another one of the good guys.
* a weird backstory involving a romance between Channing Tatum's Duke and Sienna Miller's evil Baroness. They almost got married, and now she's a Nazi or something. The Baroness says things like, "Deep down, you're still the man I fell in love with." And "Do it, Duke. You've already killed me once."
* futuristic killer ninjas, as we already mentioned a while back. [CinCity2000]
A Wayans brother... a WAYANS BROTHER
It's the Dungeons and dragons movie all over again. | 
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04-21-2008, 11:31 PM
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| | Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Orange Beach, Alabama Posts: 298 | a lil bit there that i had not heard. nanomites, mind control, and virgins, oh my...
there's something to be said there...with those things i just listed...i just won't say them. : ) | |
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04-21-2008, 11:34 PM
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| | Plastic lover Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Over The Rainbow! Posts: 3,661 | Very interesting info! | 
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04-21-2008, 11:57 PM
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| | Cobra Viper Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Columbus, Ga Posts: 259 | but... but A Wayans? | |
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04-21-2008, 11:59 PM
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| | Plastic lover Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Over The Rainbow! Posts: 3,661 | I know...lets hope he becomes dust if not early at least by the end of the movie! =) | |
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04-22-2008, 12:09 AM
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| | Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Orange Beach, Alabama Posts: 298 | yeah, he's a wayans...but who thought Jamie Foxx could act seriously either?
give him a chance...and hope he isn't there to simply be comedic relief. | |
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04-22-2008, 12:17 AM
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| | Plastic lover Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Over The Rainbow! Posts: 3,661 | You are right Crimson Guard 51. He did a good job on Requiem for a dream. | |
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04-22-2008, 12:42 AM
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| | Cobra Viper Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Columbus, Ga Posts: 259 | granted, but his character, ripcord, is being listed as a "wacky sidekick" So he's likely there as comedic relief. :( | |
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04-22-2008, 01:03 AM
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| | Stamping out Trotskyism Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: New Castle, Delaware Posts: 1,672 | He did a pretty good job of funny in the Coen Brother's remake of The Ladykillers. Sure, he's done lots of bad movies...White Chicks, Dungeons and Dragons, Little Man etc. Consider the material, though; none of those terrible movies could've been salvaged by anyone with any amount of talent. A resurrected Richard Pryor couldn't have been funny in those movies.
What's my point? My point is the two instances I can point to where Marlon Wayans was given excellent material, he responded with excellent performance. Now, that leads to the question, "Will it be excellent material?"
And that, regardless of what anyone is going to tell you, is still a wide open question. Why? Because the movie ain't been freakin' made yet. Right now, there is no basis to say "It'll be great" OR "It'll be awful," despite the fact that there are plenty of people saying the latter.
Even if you've read the script (and you know who you are; there is no need to remind us) movies can and do change drastically from script to screen.
My point? Try not to judge Marlon Wayans' performance until, you know...he's actually performed it. | |
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04-22-2008, 01:23 AM
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| | Cobra Soldier Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CA Posts: 74 | Marlon Wayans is a bad performer, and he's not in this movie to give some great layered performance. | |
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