this movie will be great and it will make around 300 million stop hating. most of the people on here are probably to young to know what GI Joe really is

being a graphic designer, i can see why they did the whole cut through the eyes thing, only showing a part of the character. They want to elude that there is something more there. That they want to surprise you. Too bad this series comes after already showing all of the cast and full body characters. This project is poorly managed...

Think of "The Dark Knight" the way they managed their design process and marketing strategies. They put out the first poster, which resembled the exploding batman symbol that would be seen in the very first 30 second trailer. Then months later you get a poster of a brick wall with painted black circles and a painted red batman symbol and it looks like the joker.

On top of that you have the more fancy posters that came out, the ones with more full body imagery of our hero and other cast members, including the villain.

Straight up you can see that they are putting bells and whistles on a steamy pile of shit. Their marketing is all up in the air and the movie feels like it will be a... Street Fighter meets Transformers. No offense to Transformers, visually stunning graphics but the acting and story sucked major, best visual representation of a cartoon and comic of that time, but you can tell that Transformers was a hit so the Execs laid the green light on more Hasbro projects.

Now we are blessed with "G.I. Joe" and maybe even a movie about Candy Land, Shoots and Ladders, and possibly Ouiji. Hasn't anyone learned from The Dark Knight. Maybe TDK isn't the best movie of its time but it is ahead of the curve. It has stellar actors in its line-up. Powerhouse directing, script-writing and visual effects.

So G.I. Joe, Street Fighters: Tale of Chung Li, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Dragon Ball: Evolution, Avatar: The Last Airbender... All these movie producers and execs better wake the fuck up and realize that the public doesn't want mediocre. We will push movies all the way past Titantic and TDK if you give us good scripts, good acting, and great visual effects. It can't be all about one and lacking the others.

Stop putting the hottest person of the year who can't act and just give you the same person on screen every time (I.E. Ben Affleck in Dare Devil) don't put washed-up actors in films that have potential or rush films because they have a green light and you want them up and running in a year in case the Comic Book movie fad runs out ( I.E. Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider).

If you are gonna make "Thor", "The Avengers", "Captain America" or any other film based off of something that has been around for years and has a strong base, don't fuck with the DNA of that film. Why do you think "The Watchmen" will be successful? They even have rubber suits that have a little New Age twist but still look exactly like the comics. Why didn't XMen do that. Why did Xmen 1-3 try and cram 20+ years of comic history into 3 films? Those films were terrible, action-wise, visual-wise great, acting okay, but story sucked balls.

Superman: Returns... why do you think they are completely remaking that film like it never happened. Did they not learn from Ang Lee's mistakes with The Hulk? Why would you even try to expand on the story of the first and second original films with Christopher Reeves? Why even go down that route? We can't see Superman versus incredible disasters anymore... or Superman versus Lex Luthor. We know the whole brains versus brawn... give us something different, like Superman versus Braniac or Superman versus another guy who whip his ass and give us fight scenes and action scenes that are well written into a script. And don't throw weird sliders like Superman knocked up Louis Lane, first off if he busted a nut and got her pregnant that little kid would've kicked her stomach out and broke her uterus. Let's be a little more real. Superman will always be alone, he can love but his loyalties, his fatherhood would be something like God and all his children not actually having a son.

I've ranted enough.

Point to be made... G.I. Joe is gonna blow. You can put all the bells and whistles on shit, throw it down a hallway. It will sound pretty and look stunning, but in the end it is gonna smell and look like shit.

I guess someone could argue that they are going at this to hard. Although, we haven't got a trailer yet, so I guess they aren't trying hard enough.

I'll just say what I said on my FB profile and at hisstank. Saves time, and I don't want to devote too much more energy to this damn film:

"I have so many problems with these posters, I don't know where to begin...but the fact that they're all dressed in black is a good place to start...not to mention the fact that unless you are following the entire clusterfuck that is this movie, you won't know who is who (for the most part). Baroness, Snake Eyes and Scarlett are easy...who the heck are the other two (Duke and Ripcord for what it's worth).
Thanks a lot Hasbro and Paramount. I know the cartoon was sorta cheesy and the conceit needed to be modernized, but really, did you have to screw things up this badly? I'll probably still go see your damn film, only cos I'm slightly masochistic when it comes to watching my childhood dreams being ruined over the course of two hours."

o-m-g
Lame...it's lame, lamey lamerrific like..whoa lame... WHOA matrix lame... lame matrix, lame, posters, lame, lame, uncool in it's lamness of matrix reloadedness of ultimate lameness.... so uncool...

Yeah....

Don't know if someone else noted this already, but these posters all look strikingly similar to the "The Matrix Reloaded" teaser posters from '03, no? The ones where the top halves of the main Matrix characters' faces were snipped.

I'm in the mood for a good laugh so I am desperately looking forward to the trailer for this film. How much COOLER would all of this be if they stuck with some more original things, like the logo, for example.

Don't know if someone else noted this already, but these posters all look strikingly similar to the "The Matrix Reloaded" teaser posters from '03, no? The ones where the top halves of the main Matrix characters' faces were snipped, click the link below to see the posters I'm talking about:

<a href="http://www.allposters.com/-sp/The-Matrix-Reloaded-Poster...target="_blank">http://www.allposters.com/-sp/The-Matrix-Reloaded...

All of the posters look the same, how incredibly lame!

Do any of these posters ever actually hit theaters? Like so many of the kick ass Dark Knight posters none of this stuff ever actually seems to become an in the paper-flesh poster. These do look kind of dumb though. They should have made it more like the toys. How weird that even with all those goofy outfits G.I. Joe would look less gay than it does now.

Im comparing everything to the Dragon Ball film.. Untill i see a trailer, this film is beating it..

yes the posters are "generic" but at the same time who cares?! theyre just posters!! Those tight black outfits on the girls look sooo hot. Sienna miller's poster is the hottest! they have that Kate Beckinsale Underworld look! tight and sexy! Snake eyes looks bad ass! why is everybody being soo hard on a live action adaptation of a children's'cartoon? i just dont understand it, you guys are taking it way to seriously. do you really think theyre going to just make a rated R kickass movie out of a cartoon just cuz you got older and you feel you need to be updated with the latest G.I Joe since G.I. Joe is making a comeback? Get over yourselves you had your time. This movie is for kids of now and for parents who watched it back in the day to take their kids and pass the G.I Joe torch and check out some hot chicks at the same time.

ps: Marlon wayans could single handedly ruin this movie.

The problem is they all look like they are wearing the same thing, or at the very least their character designs were cut from the same cloth. But wasn't the point that these characters had "themed individuality"? Shipwreck looked like a sailor etc.

It doesn't help matters that they are in essentially the same silhouetted pose.

They are just posters, but pretty bland posters. They would do well to market the action in the film over the characters because, besides Joe himself, the other characters aren't very iconic when it comes to marketting.

I have seen about 20-30 minutes of this and it is awful. There is a fight scene between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow as children...and they hit each other with bread. I'm not kidding.

I can't shake off the feeling that this is going to be an epic fail.

anyone check out the new comic from IDW? if not, i highly recomend it, even though only the first issue has come out its very good, and im not a lifelong giant GI jOE fan or anything like that

as for the movie, it looks like it will be alot of fun, im definately gonna check it out. wont we be seeing some footage this sunday? cant wait

It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

these posters are already showing signs of a bland, soulless, nostalgia-rape movie. a live action GI Joe seems so pointless. if there's one thing Jurrasic Park taught us, its that some dinosaurs should be left extinct.

The posters seem fine to me. Nothing too big about it. A lot of people are bashing the movie, but I will judge the movie when it comes out.

looks like a Calvin Klein ad

LOL, I am loving the comments sticking up for the movie and posters. Its cool if you like them, but I think others are allowed to think that they are lame or boring or pieces of shit.
I think they are boring and lame and certainly don't grab my interest. The Snake Eyes poster is the only poster I think is cool, but I think its more because of his character. I have so little hope for this film to be any good, but if it entertains and has some good action, cool. I still want to see it when it comes up unless of course the reviews are absolutely horrible then I might wait for DVD. It might be based an awesome, yet cheesy, 80s cartoon, but it could have translated well into modern times without putting everyone in fucking black armor suits.

I think they are trying to say that you will enjoy this movie more if you lack eyes and ears.

cant be any worse than "Punisher: War Zone"

You're right, it can't.

Damn they've misused that character. I don't think there will ever be a good Punisher film...

So does it look like in the Storm Shadow poster that he's still wearing those white Rockport walkers/sneakers. I mean I guess he must be like Wilford Brimley and have diabetes...

The way I see it; GI JOE, like Transformers, was a show about toys or inspired people to make toys, whatever the chronology was - If this film is a visual spectacle and has writing as incredulous as Transformers, someone will be happy. Will it fill my desire for heartfelt coming-of-age indie teen dramedies? I think the key is to under-expect. Dennis Quaid. That's the benchmark, I guess.

the grown man obsessed with WALL-E shouldnt be allowed to judge whats "cool"

right, because it's not cool to like "kiddie films" like WALL-E.

[you're an ass-hat]

Whats the rating of this?? Looks like this movie will drag every kid into see the movie!(If their aloud that is) Then again if the producer didnt market the film for the younger generation i have a feeeling their gonna lose a lot of money...

pointless comment, but I've seen loads of the footage. cant talk about any of it tho. Sienna Miller looks great in it, if that counts as a scoop.

Blah! Looks like the posters are the same person doing the same pose in each, Lame!
But I still will go and saee it, because, I liked GI J Oe when Iwas a kid.

Trying too hard to be .......generic?

First: who cares what posters look like? They're posters. They're not the movie.

Second: if you haven't seen the movie *yourself*, it really doesn't matter what other people say. If you have an opinion, it should be based on your own impressions. Films are art and are subjective. So saying "I know a source that says some of it sucks" is doing no one any good.

Why is it people at sites like these are so quick to jump on anything and say it sucks? If it ends up doing so, then it does. But at least wait until it's actually out and all people can judge with the same data at hand.

Also: responding to a previous point, "lame" is just as much a statement of quality as "horrible" is.

Do any of you people even read this website? /Film is not a review site, its a blog. They analyze and dissect the news, buzz and hype. Everytime there is a new trailer, Peter gives his opinion, every new poster. This is nothing new. If you want to wait until you see the whole movie, read ebert.

the posters are LAMe i cant see there eyes grrrrrrrr bad posters bad

but seriously its a poster not very good either i dont like em but then again this movie is just coming off as a joke so then i do like the posters if they are a joke which i think they are

I know this movie is taking a lot of heat, but I don't care. I'm going to go see this. Yes it will be based on nostalgia. I am sincerely looking forward to this.

I don't like that they all mostly look the same, but I get it. I don't care. I love the look of Snake Eyes, and I can't wait to see Destro@

what the hell they screwed up. on all of the posters, half of their heads are missing.

what the hell they screwed up. on all of the posters half of their heads are missing.

Every once in a while I actually read the verbal diarrhea some of you self appointed film gurus spew. I honestly dunno why I bother. How the hell you come up with they are trying too hard to be cool, from posters of some of the characters makes no kinda sense. Did you wave your too cool and trying too hard wand in their direction and the alarms went off? Sure, they aren't the most original but what movie posters nowadays are?
Lets also call it like it is... a crapload of guys are gonna go see it out of nostalgia from there childhood when they read the no words Snake Eyes comic and had their Joes dug in their mom's garden awaiting cobra's assault from across the yard.
Lastly... No trailer... no leaked footage... and the bandwagon on bash it hard has pulled out the station... w00 h00... and the one person we are to trust on how the movie is says his best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who knows a guy who saw footage of it somewhere.... I guess it's pretty serious...

How you guys can say these posters look LAME they better then the Street Fighter poster and the Dragonball movie poster. plus i remember when the first leaked image of Snake Eyes appear on the net everyone loved it now you people saying these poster are LAME sometime you guys need to chill out with your judgment. just wait for the actually trailer to judge the movie at least.

The posters look ok. We will just have to wait for the trailer.

Gotta admit, the chicks look pretty hot. The Snake Eyes poster looks pretty cool, though.

LOL Alex, didn't you say they look bad ass? I wrote an article on these posters, and I think they look like Under Armor ads.

I saw this movie, judging from the posters, it was called "The Matrix Reloaded" at the time.

I can't wait not to see this movie. I remember the Justin Timberlake rumors for Duke and never thought it could get any worse and then they cast the Tiny Dancer, now, all these X-Men and Matrix ripoffs just rip my heart out.

good one.

the posters are hilarious, desperate, and cliched.

They're trying to put emphasize on the crotchies and boobies. Which is what G.I Joe is all about. >.>

i could not agree more.

how much you want to bet that the new toys will be in identical packaging?