The G.I. Joe Thread

NON SPOILER NO WORRIES

So,

I broke down and saw G.I. Joe yesterday.

I was surprised, the theater I went to wasn't packed to the gills. So I'm not sure how it is going to do.

But overall, I felt that G.I. Joe was pretty much everything TROTF should have been.

As for story, it was o.k. A few plot holes but at the same time the movie had a fun feel to it allowing for my suspense of disbelief to overlook the plot holes.

The action was decent and they managed to work in all the corny phrases.

My only beef was towards the end when they decided to give the make-up artists the day off and go with a gradeschool craft class doing their make-up / costume design.

Special effects were of course decent.

So, if I were grading this film given that the audience IMHO is the YA market, i'd give G.I. Joe a 'B-'.

Mel...

Yeah,

there are about 40 or so G.I. Joe / Cobra characters if memory serves,

but the movie only features around 10 of them

I keep hearing about this Hurt Locker and I haven't even seen a preview of it. Unfortunately, audio on my computer is broken

I'll check it out after I see District 9

Mel...

Looks like GI Joe is a bust. $175 Million spent on it, only $120 M made so far

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

guess there won't be a sequel


Mel...

childeroland said:

How much did they need to gross domestically for an automatic greenlight? 200 mill?

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Maestrowork would have a better sense of this question.

My guess is that they at least have to break even.

If they can't do that, I can't see greenlighting a sequel anytime soon.

So far, I think they will not do it at the box office. I think with DvD sales, and release to cable, they may make up the difference and break even but just barely.

Mel...