DJariya

Big budget theatrical movies need stars to make money. Unfortunately, this and "Old" don't have any major or known stars to sell to the public.

and like a few have said, it's probably didn't help that the GI Joe IP hasn't been relevant in years.

Draven

Again, let’s not discount how people really don’t seem to be champing at the bit to get back to the theater.

Why So Blu?

I have not seen Old, but read that M. Knight self-financed it for 18 million. No studio loss there and it will make money on top of that.

dex14

Next step is to start putting the Joes into the Transformers movies.

stingermck

That actually should have happened years ago. Duhamel could have been Duke and kicked off Joe.

dex14

This was making news over the weekend. According to Di Bonventura: “You know, the truth of matter is, the studio has always been against that. Every regime that’s been at Paramount is against it because it’s taking two franchises and making them one, but I think it’s inevitable.”

fujishig

I never really liked a cohesive universe, because it becomes really hard to separate. Say they started with Duke in a Transformers movie then tried to do a GI Joe movie, everyone would be wondering what happened to the Transformers and their technology? It's a cool elseworlds concept but not much else.

Now Joe and M.A.S.K., now you're talking.

Obi-Wanma

And knowing is half the battle!

JoeyOhhhh

I am a GI Joe fan, and I am glad Hasbro is finally trying to do things with the IP (new toy lines, allegedly new cartoon next year) but I had no desire to see this (at least in theaters).

I am probably in the minority that dislikes all the ninja stuff in GI Joe so it was an easy pass for me. I do think all the lack of house hold names is fair criticism for the movie I wish another studio had the rights to this as all the movies have been lackluster

GuessWho

The connection is already canon, so why not?

fujishig

I have no idea why they never really went beyond that one Matt Trakker figure.

stingermck

And here comes the write ups:

Why ‘Snake Eyes’ Missed Its Mark at the Box Office — and What It Means for the ‘G.I. Joe’ Franchise

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/s...es-1235026986/

story

Yes, exactly! What's that from?

stingermck

Home Release of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is expected to on September 6th, 2021

Mike86

I kind of hoped this would be a surprise and be good. The trailers looked solid. I’ll either wait for it to hit streaming or maybe blind buy it. I sort of like the other two G.I. Joe movies too even though I know they’re not that great so maybe I would still enjoy this too.

Draven

It’s better than the first movie and just a step below Retaliation in my book.

L Everett Scott

I'm kind of surprised at how forgiving you guys are with shaky cam fights. I guess I've been spoiled by the Steadicam action in the John Wick movies and Nobody...as well as all those kung fu flicks from the '70s.

I went to go see this because I'm just enough of a G.I. Joe fan to be interested. I knew going in we weren't going to get the cartoon version of Snake Eyes, so his being maskless and speaking for the entire film didn't bother me. What I did take issue with is that he gains access to the Arashikage clan but spends all his time learning philosophy and discipline. When it comes time to show off some ninja skills, he simply does it. In fact, he does it so well he's able to outfox the Arashikage guards who are presumably actual trained ninjas.

So basically, Snake Eyes is already a ninjitsu expert before he sets foot on Arashikage grounds, and the film just plays that close to its chest, so we don't get any indication of his skills until he dons the ninja outfit. If I want to be generous, I would guess that the filmmakers wanted to leave his training in ninjitsu for a sequel. However, my gut tells me either those scenes were left on the cutting room floor or worse yet it's simply an oversight on the part of the writers who were focused on other things they wanted to cover.

I also thought there was some rather poor storytelling in the final half hour.


This movie was two hours long, which means the filmmakers had plenty of time to set up the character turns and their split. Instead, it feels like it was something that the writers had forgotten about and realized at the last minute they needed to move the pieces to the right squares before the credits rolled and seriously rushed to do so.

This film wasn't terrible, but it was definitely disappointing. At least the screening I attended only had three people (myself included) so there were no issues with noise, people stepping over me, or my seeing some jackass's phone light up. Of course, theatrical exhibition would be in deep trouble if every show had an audience of three.

dex14

I thought they looked bad.

stingermck

Yeah the shaky came was horrible and unexpected after they bragged so much about how great the fight scenes were.

asianxcore

I had $8 in Fandango Credit from buying one of the 4K BDs of the previous G.I. Joe films, so I went and saw this earlier today.

The film looks good but Henry Golding's performance as Snake Eyes was surprisingly flat & uncharismatic.

Also for a film about the origins of Snake Eyes, I found myself more interested in every scene that Andrew Koji (Tommy/Storm Shadow) was in, rather than the main character himself.

I appreciated the inclusion of Samara Weaving as Scarlett & Ursula Corbero as Baroness but there's not enough of either of them in the film to care much.

Iko Uwais was wasted in this film but I'm always happy to see him getting work outside Indonesia.

All the fight choreography is also wasted here because the shaky cam cinematography is absolutely obnoxious in this.

If it was done in anyway like the Image/Devil's Due Comics, I would be definitely be up for that, mainly for how nutty it is.

Give me Serpentor Prime!

dex14

This will be up on PVOD starting tomorrow.

DJariya

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/...ref_=bo_se_r_1

$35M worldwide. This was a massive bomb.

Goldberg74

I didn't spend a dime on my ticket... my son paid for it.

It's not a bad film... just not inline with the actual story from the comic.

... now if it would have had a Brendan Fraser cameo... well, that would be a different story.

Troy Stiffler

Paid $20 VOD.

Very well done. A movie that’s very competent but didn’t really grab my emotions. It’s pretty easy for a movie to make me well up a little. This one got nothing.

Koby

Enjoyed this one too... Shame the G.I. Joe franchise never seems to really do well or at least don't really get talked about much.