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Never thought I'd be envious of a clarinet. :lol:

Was that Henry Rollins as Duke?! :blink: Flint's gonna get f*&ked!

Season 1 of the Wonder Years DVD's? Did hell freeze over and someone forgot to tell me?

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I thought

Cobra Commander's introduction was kind of weak. He finally dons his mask and reveals himself only to get incarcerated seconds later by the Joes.

Part of the plan to

have Zartan free him later on i suppose. But yeah the whole "you and what army" bit was kinda lame since Duke could single handedly caught him.

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I love the casting for the video... Olivia Wilde makes a great Baroness.

I think it's safe to say: as bad-guys go, Baroness is pretty much a super-hottie, no matter what she's doing; instigating terror and anarchy, playing the flute, reading the paper, painting her nails...whatever. B))

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The action was good for the most part, but the movie suffered from way too many plot loopholes you can jump your car through:

1.

Why did Destro go through the trouble of giving the Nanomite warheads to NATO when they were going to Cobra, anyway?

2.

Why did Destro need Baroness to have her husband weaponize the warheads when he could do it himself?

3. Why call this film The Rise of Cobra when

Cobra Commander and Destro were immediately captured?

4. WTF is with the Night Raven being a Firefox ripoff?

Overall, I thought Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was a WAY better movie than this train wreck.

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Some of you guys are hilarious.. Saying you are going to pass on this. You KNOW you are gonna see it. Maybe not opening day but you ARE.

No, I'm not.

I never got the toys, I thought the TV show was dumb, and I generally hate Hollywood action flicks. The movie doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

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The action was good for the most part, but the movie suffered from way too many plot loopholes you can jump your car through:

1.

Why did Destro go through the trouble of giving the Nanomite warheads to NATO when they were going to Cobra, anyway?

2.

Why did Destro need Baroness to have her husband weaponize the warheads when he could do it himself?

3. Why call this film The Rise of Cobra when

Cobra Commander and Destro were immediately captured?

4. WTF is with the Night Raven being a Firefox ripoff?

Overall, I thought Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was a WAY better movie than this train wreck.

1. Because Destro is supposed to be a "Good Guy", and amist the chaos the world was going to turn to him for help. If he gave the weapons right away to cobra they would know he was evil.

2. Maybe because they didn't have time to take the weapons back to their underwater base?

3. Did you miss the part with Zartan assuming the role of the President? it seemed really clear that all the pieces were in place and Destro had just been a pawn of Commander all along. Cobra commander will be probably realeased soon, and baroness will still be evil since they can still control her.

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Cobra commander will be probably realeased soon, and baroness will still be evil since they can still control her.

You know I wasn't sure about that, whether Baroness could still be controlled or not. Wow. I can't believe I'm actually "thinking" about this movie...

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  • 2 weeks later...

I definitely captured the Baroness...

...after standing for 3 hours in the Hasbro line at the Comic Con!

I should have waited much after the 2009 SDCC to read reviews online before getting my Baroness figure. $34 at the Hasbro booth. I'd say the only thing worthy is the packaging. I was so disappointed and pissed-off, I decided to make my own.

Let me know what you think, definitely not looking like Sienna Miller, but I think closer to what I think should be the baroness. The figure is with a Triad 12" Otaku 1.2 Brunette. The Hasbro Baroness came with an M4...but I think she used a different weapon during the Hummer chase scene. The leather coat was still a bit too thick. Unfortunately the Triad figure doesn't have poseable torsos...waiting for the EVA version. The photos shows the Hasbro figure on the left, and my own version on the right.

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No, I'm not.

I never got the toys, I thought the TV show was dumb, and I generally hate Hollywood action flicks. The movie doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

Then why would you be reading this thread? :blink:^_^

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Then why would you be reading this thread? :blink:^_^

Curiosity, mostly. I try to make it a point to stay out of threads about things I'm excessively negative about (the Watchmen movie thread taught me that lesson), but after seeing the ads for GI Joe, it looked like it could be a fun little action flick...so I checked the thread here and decided it wasn't up my alley.

But before leaving the thread, I saw Agent ONE's post and just HAD to let him know that he had underestimated the willpower of at least one person here. :)

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Curiosity, mostly. I try to make it a point to stay out of threads about things I'm excessively negative about (the Watchmen movie thread taught me that lesson), but after seeing the ads for GI Joe, it looked like it could be a fun little action flick...so I checked the thread here and decided it wasn't up my alley.

But before leaving the thread, I saw Agent ONE's post and just HAD to let him know that he had underestimated the willpower of at least one person here. :)

Point taken. I thought it was a fun action flick. Some do not agree. Even if they laughed and had fun watching it, they will still say it sucked.

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Point taken. I thought it was a fun action flick. Some do not agree. Even if they laughed and had fun watching it, they will still say it sucked.

Well, yeah. But that's the tightrope everybody walks with stuff like this...if you like it, you're an uncritical fanboy. If you dislike it, you're an elistist snob. If you like it and then later pretend you don't, you're just pathetic.

There's no way to win, is there? :D

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Saw it, was seriously unimpressed. I'm not really a fan, but as far as action movies go, it was lame. It's sad Sly Stallone at 60 can make a better action movie like Rambo than these guys can make. Only redeeming quality I thought it had was Marlon Wayans was hilarious, and the guy who played Cobra Commander was as usual excellent.

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I wonder if was one the movie done the writers strike.

I also think Marlon did a good job but some of his dialog like all the dialog seemed awkward. Like they had a script that need just one more draft. Marlon also did good because he seem to be actually acting. If you paid attention to the press coverage of the movie during filming a lot of the actors almost seemed to be dissing the film. Few seemed to be excited in the interviews about playing Gijoe for real. For most it was just another paycheck and it showed as they all phoned it in. For a few others you could see they gave some effort. No one expect it to be a good film. I expected some cheesy action fun.

Duke was just horrible. Makes sense you look at his former career. The actor was a teenage male stripper that got discovered and became a legitimate "model/actor". If he didn't get discovered his only chance for movie career would be in porn and his acting ability to great for it.

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doodler7----what'd you use to make yours, outfit-wise? Did you use Triad's Baroness outfit?

Hi David,

I used the Triad Toy's Catsuit 1.0 Female outfit. I could not find anymore available Barenless suits; they're sold out everywhere. The Triad Toy's Barenless outfit I do have is on the 1/6 Midori Washio Cy Girl figure (i didn't like the baggy look). I wanted to transfer the outfit to the Baroness, but decided that the Catsuit's laced-up boots gave more of that "baroness" feel. Heh. Here's the Catsuit 1.0 outfit: http://www.triadestore.com/catsuit-female-p-1795.html

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