FilmJabber Movie Blog » g.i. joe movie http://blog.filmjabber.com Movie news, previews, reviews, photos, trailers and opinions from Erik Samdahl. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:54:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Stephen Sommers Apologies for G.I. Joe http://blog.filmjabber.com/2009/11/18/stephen-sommers-apologies-for-g-i-joe/ http://blog.filmjabber.com/2009/11/18/stephen-sommers-apologies-for-g-i-joe/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:52:43 +0000 Erik Samdahl http://blog.filmjabber.com/?p=1647 Rachel Nichols is one of the few good things about G.I. JoeHi, my name is Stephen Sommers and I’m the director of the drama called G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. I’ve been making movies since 1989, and in that time my goal has been to win an Oscar for Best Director. Or win a Razzie. I have yet to win either because Hollywood just doesn’t understand my sophisticated storytelling techniques or complex, layered characters. They just don’t understand. But audiences love my movies. They told me The Mummy was good, so I made a sequel. That movie made a lot of money, so I learned that people like ridiculous plots with terrible special effects. That’s how I came to make Van Helsing, one of the most celebrated films of this generation.

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In the so-bad-you-almost-have-to-see-it category, G.I. Joe comes to theaters on August 7, and looks absolutely – and I mean absolutely – horrible. I’ve heard a few people say they think this movie looks OK, but if the movie trailer fooled you, how about this video clip that was first shown at the MTV Movie Awards:

This is embarassingly bad, even for Stephen Sommers.

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