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DVD Commentary: Sword Brothers
May. 5th, 2016 10:38 pmNot being American, I never grew up with GI Joe. I knew who they were, pop culture being what it is it's kind of inevitable. There were adds for the toy growing up and I've read one or two of the comics, and with the inter net, I seen clips and gifs & read crossovers and stuff.
When the GI Joe live action movie came out I decided to go see it since I knew it wasn't going to ruin my childhood. For the most part it was fine, just a harmless action spectacular. And Snack Eyes was the best, of course, because ninja. There was only two or three things that really annoyed me, which is silly because the whole movie was stupid, it had a scene where ice started to sink after all, but I think they annoyed me because they would be so easy to fix.
1: I know that the two kids they got for the flash back were great but they could have at least one transition scene to show the passage of time and the connection between Stormshadow & Snake Eyes. that way they could have even shown Ray Parks face even.
2: there is some line in the underwater battle at the climax where a bad guy says something like 'oh yeah, you and what army' or something and the lead says nothing. That was a line that is only ever said so that the hero can spout off the one liner of 'this one' or something to that effect & he says nothing. That just jammed the whole movie to a stop for me. I know it's a stupid thing to get stuck on but there you go.
3: Vow of silence? Really? Why not just say he can't talk, make it's Stormshadow's fault or something to push the connection between them. It's not like you have much time to develop your many characters as it is.
I think I may have written a rant like this here before but whatever. Enough of this. Time for the fic & commentary.
( DVD Commentary )
When the GI Joe live action movie came out I decided to go see it since I knew it wasn't going to ruin my childhood. For the most part it was fine, just a harmless action spectacular. And Snack Eyes was the best, of course, because ninja. There was only two or three things that really annoyed me, which is silly because the whole movie was stupid, it had a scene where ice started to sink after all, but I think they annoyed me because they would be so easy to fix.
1: I know that the two kids they got for the flash back were great but they could have at least one transition scene to show the passage of time and the connection between Stormshadow & Snake Eyes. that way they could have even shown Ray Parks face even.
2: there is some line in the underwater battle at the climax where a bad guy says something like 'oh yeah, you and what army' or something and the lead says nothing. That was a line that is only ever said so that the hero can spout off the one liner of 'this one' or something to that effect & he says nothing. That just jammed the whole movie to a stop for me. I know it's a stupid thing to get stuck on but there you go.
3: Vow of silence? Really? Why not just say he can't talk, make it's Stormshadow's fault or something to push the connection between them. It's not like you have much time to develop your many characters as it is.
I think I may have written a rant like this here before but whatever. Enough of this. Time for the fic & commentary.
( DVD Commentary )
