Hot Trailer: ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’

COMMENTS (12)

• I was all set to see this movie in June, but now that the date has been pushed back, the movie has been altered and Channing Tatum is going to be in it more, I’m going to skip it. Given that this is a guy movie, I don’t think I’ll be alone.

  Comment by Roger C. — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 1:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • No you are by yourself

    Comment by matthew — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 3:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • my interest has certainly waned, yes.

    Comment by Jeff — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 5:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Yes, because why would guys want to see Duke in a G.I. Joe movie?

    Comment by thephantomcat — Friday November 2, 2012 @ 4:43am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m confused… looks like he’s still killed off in the first act. Unless he comes back a surprise at the end. I can just hear the O.S. — “Someone call for backup?” turn around and surprise!

  Comment by Ada Huxtable — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 1:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Looks like The Rock’s character from “The Fast and the Furious” franchise hooked up with Bruce Willis’s from “Red” to cameo their way through a straight-to-video “Tekken” sequel.

  Comment by bounder — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 1:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• How exactly does this new trailer make it clear that they expanded Tatum’s role? It’s the same scene that was in the earlier trailer from last year. The trailer in its entirety is almost exactly the same as well. If there have been new scenes added, they are certainly not obvious. My guess is that Tatum filmed one extra scene where his character awakens out of a coma instead having him die. Keeping his character alive is more about the possible box office success of a third film where he will presumably retake a starring role.

  Comment by FilmGo — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 1:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• [blockquote]Now he’s most definitely back, as the new trailer makes clear:[/blockquote]
  Are you being sarcastic or don’t you know who Tatum is? This trailer is almost identical to the earlier trailers. The biggest change is the music, but Tatum isn’t in any more scenes than he was before.

  Comment by Rocco — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 2:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If he wasn’t killed off, thn where is he

  Comment by Douglas Grover — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 4:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Maybe he’ll be said to be in a coma and be revealed to be okay at the end of the movie–his screen time will still be limited, but it at least leaves the door open to a return in another sequel.

  If this is the case, it would be a neat coincidence, as this also happened to his character in the original cartoon: in the feature-length animated G.I. Joe movie from 1987, Duke was also killed off, but because of negative reactions from parents when Optimus Prime was killed off in the Transformers animated movie, they redubbed the dialogue so that Duke was only “in a coma” and recovered offscreen at the end of the film.

  Comment by mikejonas — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 7:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The more I see of this (expanded) trailer, the less I’m interested. Could the reshoots have made it worse? I think it was a colossal mistake to not release this film on the original date when people were jazzed to see it. It’s now lost all momentum and the trailer is almost the same, making the film feel like leftovers.

  And who wants to pay full price for leftovers?

  This has all the depth of a top 40 song, only I feel like I heard the song a year ago and I’m kind of sick of it now. They will use this as an example of what NOT to do with a tentpole for years to come.

  Comment by Destro — Friday November 2, 2012 @ 6:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I still can’t believe they went to all this trouble just to expand the role of a popular actor. I *like* Tatum, but this is ridiculous.

  Comment by evennow — Sunday December 9, 2012 @ 8:53pm PST  Reply to this post