[*Whatever By The Books*]

Not much has been going on recently. Mainly busy with job, and the grind of the large mortar and pestle that is life.

I did watch G.I. Joe recently (okay, almost a month ago now. -wry-), though, courtesy of some sweet in-season passes from Contagious. Watched it on the day it opened, too. :)

(Picture courtesy of someone at somethingawful.com….) If I could compare it to one thing, that’d be…one of those simulator rides. You know, if you’ve been to a theme park with those. Dreamworld has a Batman one — Islands of Adventure had an awesome Spiderman one. Sadly-enough, G.I. Joe is more Batman than Spiderman.

That doesn’t mean it’s all bad. Far from it. I went into it without much expectations — the trailer looked shiny and woohoo special effects, and that was what I expected, and also what I got. All I could remember from G.I. Joe was vague memories of some ugly manly action figures, so the story was pretty new to me.

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra features Channing Tatum being all awesome beefcake. (Which was a bit ironic since just before the movie started, there was an ad where he was a boxer and…you guessed it. Being all awesome beefcake TOO!) He beats up bad guys (sometimes in his awesome suit), has a good friend who doubles up as comic relief, and has a mysterious relationship with a hot villainess. Said villainess works for a weirdo who wants to use nanobot missiles to basically eat the whole world. What they -did- end up doing was demolish something rather…big. Let’s just say, like they did in the movie, that the French won’t be happy.

The characters do have backstories too. Unfortunately, said backstories were just whacked at the viewer without much subtlety. Ah well. I thought the backstories themselves weren’t bad, though. =) Someone also mentioned “each side has its own ninja” — I was amused to find that this was, indeed, accurate. And made for a rather interesting battle scene.

In the end, the movie was just..rather predictable. Some bits were interesting, but sadly not expanded upon. The super soldiers, for example. All they were were cannon fodder! You’d have thought more of them. Sigh. And the parts with the mask..groan-worthy.

All in all, I came out of it rather bemused because I felt like I’d been through (like I said at the start) one of the theme park simulator rides. Niisama agreed. (Kinda.) Nonetheless, if you’re looking for an action movie, this one is solid. =) And hey, I’m a sucker for special effects and hot babes (she looks better as a brunette!) anyway. ^^

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