Paramount has released a series of teaser posters for the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie:
(left to right: Storm Shadow; Snake-Eyes; Duke)
You can also see posters for Scarlett, Ripcord and Baroness on MySpace. Personally, I’m not impressed. The whole “let’s do a bunch of posters with each one spotlighting a different character” shtick has been done to death since Batman Forever. It’s the sort of thing that can be done very well, like the teaser posters for Watchmen, which used the posters to capture elements of the plot through creative imagery. But more often than not you see posters like these, which simply feature boring, unimaginative character poses. There’s no style or creativity inherent in them, and I can almost guarantee you it didn’t take more than an hour worth of effort for the art designer to lay them out on their Mac.
Plus, the costumes mostly suck. Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow look great, and the Baroness at least looks like the iconic version of the character, but the Joe uniforms look terrible. Black leather armor? Really, Paramount? One of the coolest things about the Joes has always been their individual looks. These look like something the producers picked up at Christian Bale’s yard sale. I fear for what Cobra Commander is going to look like.
On the other hand, the pre-release art for the Transformers movie didn’t look very impressive either, and that turned out to be a really fun movie.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:39 am
I just looked at the rest of them
boring, unimaginative… probably like the movie. this is so gonna suck on the level of van helsing and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen… maybe even ghost rider
January 28th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Looks good to me, build a bridge and get over it.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:24 am
The black leather armor is there so that no one confuses them for the “evil” United States Special Forces Unit that they are in the comics and toys. Don’t want an American flag to turn off the rest of the world. I’m still gonna see it though as long as they aren’t doing cartwheels and flips over red lasers.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:02 am
A Bridge Too Far and Saving Private Ryan were great war movies. All I expect of this one is massive explosions, martial arts, and a few in-jokes for the old fans. If I get even two out of three, I’ll be a happy fanboy.
This ain’t rocket science- yo joe.
January 28th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
“Looks good to me, build a bridge and get over it.”
you must have also liked GI Joe Extreme
January 30th, 2009 at 10:19 am
They look so… Hollywood. Not that that’s a bad thing in and of itself but if you were to ask someone what they think a Hollywood version of GI JOE would look like, well, that’s probably what they’d come up with. Just not very imaginative.
“On the other hand, the pre-release art for the Transformers movie didn’t look very impressive either, and that turned out to be a really fun movie.”
I respectfully disagree.
August 8th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
They got 13 leather clad babes to promote GI Joe in Japan
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/onedari-muscat-idols-promote-gi-joe-movie-in-japan/
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