We were treated to a fantastic Storm Shadow featurette yesterday, and today we are getting some Bruce Willis action! Although there isn’t as much new footage in this one as there was yesterday, I am absolutely loving these behind-the-scenes features, and hope they’re planning on doing them for every character. This could be great.
Check it out on YouTube, and see it embedded below.
This was first revealed on Paramount International, but it was not viewable in the United States. Thanks to MegaTrailer for getting it uploaded, and for Comic Book Movie for mentioning that it was up for American audiences.
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As we near the halfway mark for the “40 Reasons” event Twitziller continues to bring up some fantastic points and great reasons to look forward to the G.I. Joe: Retaliation film. The latest one goes beyond simply G.I. Joe and could certainly be applied to many Hollywood features today.
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Twitziller did bring up the topic of Practical Effects with Reason #30, but I think it’s important to note that there is certainly a place for visual effects and CGI in the film as well, as long as there is balance. As I discussed in that post, there seemed to be some issues with balance during the Paris Pursuit scene in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra where the fully CGI characters looked a little artificial and overdone. However, there was a sequence in that same film where Storm Shadow jumped from a window and grabbed onto the Cobra Gunship that looked extremely cool because there was the right balance of visual effects and practical effects.
There are obviously elements of strong CGI throughout G.I. Joe: Retaliation, specifically in the Ninja Mountain Battle scene, but the trick is to layer it and balance it with realism, and Twitziller is right on the money. From what we’ve seen so far in footage, that’s being done quite well.
A big thanks to Twitziller keeping this going on Twitter, and hit GeneralsJoes to keep up to date as well. Previous entries are below.
Some of you folks might have heard of Operation: Paperback which is a great non-profit organization that promises to provide gently used books to our troops overseas as a way to thank them for their service and help occupy some of their down time with entertaining distractions.
Well, the Cobra 1st Legion, a G.I. Joe-themed cosplay/charity group is supporting this great organization with their own “Operation Scales to Tales 2”! They’ve got a post up on Facebook with all of the information, I strongly recommend you guys check it out and do what you can do to help them out. They do some excellent G.I. Joe cosplaying, and kudos to them for this endeavor.
Evidently Palicki is making the rounds. Shortly after appearing on The Couch this week, she was also interviewed by EW.com and much of the conversation (as you might expect) was focused around G.I. Joe: Retaliation. She spoke of training with real Navy SEALs, of Lady Jaye’s “chip on her shoulder” and also revealed a little bit about the reshoots:
“A lot of that was false: We did like two days of reshoots. They added one scene. It wasn’t really a big deal — it was like the normal reshooting situation. Actually we lucked out because it was only two days. But I think it adds to the film completely.”
It’s a short interview, but worth a read. Check it out at EW.com.
I remember like it was yesterday… the frantic post-G.I. Joe: Retaliation meltdown where everyone was convinced G.I. Joe was dead, the Dollar General exclusives were getting recalled, truly Deth of teh line!11! Here we are a little less than a year later with a good chunk of pretty cool product to look forward to. Included in that product is the “running change” versions of the aforementioned Dollar General figures. So far being spotted in places like Marshall’s and TJ Maxx, these figures promise to be a bit more available than the previous ones.
I was able to get my hands on Snake Eyes, and you can either check out the review on my 30th Anniversary Review Page or the direct link below.
We’ve seen characters, troopers, technology, and film production methodology discussed throughout this process so far…what could Twitziller possibly talk about next?
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How’s that cholesterol? With a property so thickly dripping from 80’s nostalgia, it seems only appropriate to include a vehicle that does the same. All you need is a flatbed and Bruce Willis, and you can do anything! Keep following Twitziller on Twitter for the latest on this, or keep hitting up GeneralsJoes. Previous entries are below.
Paramount International’s YouTube page has just posted an official featurette from the G.I. Joe: Retaliation film. It focuses on Storm Shadow and showcases a wealth of new scenes, new footage, and some incredible behind the scenes interviews with Lee Byung-Hun, Ray Park, Jon Chu, and Lorenzo DiBonaventura. For folks who are all wound up about G.I. Joe: Retaliation like I am, this was two minutes and fourteen seconds of bliss. So cool.
Check out the video embedded below. I’m gonna go back and watch it again!
Perhaps I’m a late adopter, because I only really started getting sucked into the G.I. Joe Kre-O offerings over the past few days. It took a bit for me to order the sets on ToysRUs.com and they just showed up this past week. After spending a few multi-hour marathons with my 7-year old building these sets, I am officially a fan!
Granted, this is coming from a Lego n00b who really doesn’t have a lot of backstory with building sets. All I know is the mini figures are a lot of fun, and watching these build sets come together has been a real blast. But what I’ve done is nothing compared to what some other folks are already doing. On Twitter Troy McKie Art has already spun up a bunch of very cool customs using G.I. Joe, Battleship, and even some Transformers Kre-O parts. He jumps headlong into 1987 and really does some awesome stuff with some pretty straight forward part swaps.
Check out the gallery below:
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He even let us know some of the recipe’s:
Outback is Joe Colton Head, Storm Shadow torso backwards, TF hands, and BattleShip Legs.
Tunnel Rat is TF helmet and legs, the rest is BattleShip
Falcon is Stalker with clutch arms and BattleShip head with Joe gear
Fast Draw is all BattleShip and TransFormers with a bad ass rocket launcher backpack.
Again, huge props to Troy McKie Art for posting those great Kre-O customs, and make sure you check out his website as well at TroyMcKie.com.
“JOE”rassic Park… ya like that? Yeah, I gotta give Chuck from What’s on Joe Mind credit for that one. He claims that was his invention. If someone saw it somewhere else, it’s not my fault!
According to gijoefrank from the Terror Drome forums, he found these at retail in a Southern California Toys “R” Us and supplied a nice assortment of images as proof as well. It’s amazing to me that we just heard confirmation of these two days ago and already retail sightings have begun. Pretty cool.
