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[@craighofmann638]

Agreed. The best part of 'G.I. Joe: The Movie" was the opening sequence...unfortunately it gets progressively worse from there...

[@altarush]

I agree with you.

[@xdshepard37]

Now as an adult when I look back on the film I seriously wonder what types of drugs these folks where taking. Firstly I too would like to partake and secondly they turned a Cold War analog into a HP Lovecraft novella (which of course makes it that much more awesome). They just should have called it At The Mountains of Cobra-la. Shep

[@altarush]

Hee so true.

[@acusticsunri4255]

Sci-fi meets high fantasy

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

This movie really pissed me off about Falcon. My dad was a Green Beret, he was highly disciplined and wouldn't shurk duty. He instilled that in us. The B.E.T. would have been a great toy. The snake spear was taken from a Conan movie. A snake was used as an arrow to kill someone. With it's weirdness, I still like it.

[@user-si9fx4xb6v]

I agree this movie is pretty trippy. Thankfully, I can still enjoy it as a guilty pleasure. I am glad that in the G.I. Joe comic books Falcon is a much stronger character and is more line with how a person would expect a Green Beret to behave. In fact, I would say that Falcon's action figure is one of the better figures to come out of the late 1980's and his accessories rock. I find it really funny that even with the reputation this movie has, Hasbro eventually made action figures based on Big Lob and Pythona( even thought her figure was released under a different name and thankfully a convention exclusive like Big Lob was). Nemesis Enforcer even got an updated action figure in 2008(under the name Nemesis Immortal in a comic book two pack with Falcon). Personally, I would have not bothered with any of the Cobra La characters getting newer style action figures.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

@@user-si9fx4xb6v Falcon definitely stands out from the rest!

[@GUILDAMESH]

Yeah man James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom !!!

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

@Albert Menendez Thank you, I am very proud of him. You make a good point about imperfection, I never really looked at them from that point of view.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

@Albert Menendez Thank you sir, thank you father for me. I live near an Army National Guard base. I watch the Blackhawks fly over when they train.

[@bhills1987]

Another thing that pissed me off about Falcon is that he has no reason to be arrogant. Almost every character in this film has a bad ass moment where they defeat their nemesis on their own. Falcon constantly gets his ass handed to him, never does well in his training montage, and just got tossed around by Serpentor and Golobulus.

[@johncaulfield8935]

You mean Falcon?

[@bhills1987]

@@johncaulfield8935 Yeah, good call. I fixed it. Thanks

[@Metlhd313]

Buzz Dixon's original idea was to reveal that the true leader of Cobra Commander was some Nietzche-type college professor, and Cobra Commander usurped his command, but Hasbro didnt understand it. He later wrote the script as an e-book called The Most Dangerous Man in the World.

[@tonyjackson1636]

In my Head Canon Cobra La is Cobra L.A., a costume based death metal group who were inspired by Cold Slither and Gwar.

[@russellharrell2747]

Tony Jackson COLD SLITHER YOU’LL BE JOINING US SOON

[@chadkimmel8957]

By far one of my favorite episodes! You had me laughing, “What the F*** is Cobra-La?!”

[@Scorpion6174]

In all honesty, I love the movie and have since I saw it on TV at 13 in 1987. But, your review was outstanding! I loved it! Hafta give this video a thumbs up.

[@beach7694]

I love the fact that this is literally a fire side chat. All your missing is the fire and you should be holding a book while in a bath robe smoking a pipe. I enjoyed the review commander! Keep up the good work.

[@HCC788]

I thought about starting a fire, but in the time it took to record this review I would have roasted to death.

[@JMitsuruDavis]

Loved the movie as a kid. Every time I see it as an adult I'm always amazed at how bonkers it was.

[@sprngfldpop1]

Missed opportunity of having a voiceover say "He's gone into a coma!" during your "death scene".

[@white-dragon4424]

Gary Kurtz wanted to do a similar thing in the Star Wars films, freeze Han Solo in ESB, then kill him heroically in ROTJ in order to give the films more weight, but Lucas wanted a fairytale ending in order to protect toy sales. I guess the Ewoks were the Star Wars equivalent of Cobra-La as well, jumping the shark with absurdities in order to sell more toys.

[@altarush]

I felt sorry for Cobra Commander. It was his fault he was a loser. He was even qualifying to be a military leader(Noble man with no training). He wasn’t even given any of the Cobra La technology, but had to make up his own . He was a completely out of his element since he had no understanding of humans or their cultures.

[@AmigaCammy]

Coincidentally, I just watched this movie for the first time a few days ago. While I still enjoyed it enough, I agree with all of your criticisms. Transformers the Movie is one of my favourite movies ever, and now the intro to G. I. Joe the Movie is one of my favourite sequences of animation ever. I might watch that intro quite a few more times but I doubt I'll watch the rest of the movie very often.

[@helrod]

You know who else didn't like the GiJoe movie. ? The company that made it It premiered in syndication with no warning or fanfare .

[@Jtr_ceral_killer]

In one of the early episodes we see the back of CCs head and it was blue. In another early episode destro was sickened by CCs face while CC ate. So it seems like the cobra-la idea was already in the works back in 84- 85.

[@altarush]

I am surprised Destro doesn’t think Flint or Duke are ugly.

[@LilAliceehia]

the only reason i kind of like it is i was born in 91 and i am a daughter of a joe fan and watched this movie a shit ton and the transformers movie same amount of time and i agree with every single point you have said. i have a respect for it only for a get away from parents divorce other than that it was dog shit and that's taking it mildly. pythona and the guards where my fav they just where cool looking to me and i was sad when one got a figure but the other didn't. till $50 figure came out that is way to over priced for a kids toy. i've been a fan of joe for 27 year. grew up fucking up my dads collection so much hes really good at repainting them. to this day he knows the type of paint to what medals and insignias are on a lot of characters and he was a fan of comics not the cartoon. he's so much of a fan he is the one who oks the cosplays in one of the gi joe cosplay groups and makes the "life size" play sets for conventions yojoe and big lob out lol jk fyi i did think he was annoying to. best character in that scene has to be i can't remember if it's based on hama or one of his friends from vietnam like i know snake eyes is aka tunnel rat

[@AyeYoYoYooo]

Born in ‘90 and loved my VHS of this sooooo much. As I revisited it as a teen, I watched it thru the “they live” lenses, as well as the ideology of “arrested development” of Tesla technology, and other societal advancements.

[@bryedtan]

I Loved the 1980s Transformers Movie too for the G.I. Joe which I also watched it was not too good but a few things were ok the rest probably kind of like a guilty pleasure

[@Drawkcabi]

"I'm sssaying... I'm sssaying I - I'm a sssnake who dreamt he was once a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the sssnake is awake."

[@cronocomics]

Not trying to change somebody's mind but it is not funny to have dead action figures. Real warfare is not desirable and never something to get amusement from, however military toys are in some way of escapism for children and perhaps even adults to live a fantasy that otherwise would not be able to live. That is why Batman never kills Joker, Optimus Prime never kills Megatron and G.I. Joe never kills Cobra Commander. The everlasting conflict between good and evil is what all these toys and comics is about and saying that a boy who enjoys a cartoon where flying red and blue lasers never kill anyone does not understand the consequences of warfare is underestimating his metal capacities. Toys are toys and real life is real life, it is not funny just killing your action figures (unless they are replaceable such as troops), making them getting hurt and even fall into coma but just killing them is not funny. When I was a kid I had Bib Fortuna and although it is dead in the Star Wars universe I just could never kill a figure I really enjoyed.

[@cowpuddles4851]

Man that intro is still incredible! Gives me chills even in my forties. And the Joe movie intro is good too.

[@kaladad75]

The marvel comics for Gi Joe was superior. That move killed the tv show for me.

[@mokin-rui717]

I share your opinion of Transformers. I also agree with much of your assessment of the G.I.Joe film.

[@khylerbane4523]

actually, duke wasn't the only one set to die. the captured group of joes with Roadblock Jaye, the guy with the parrot, and snake eyes...amongst others, were all set to die. the scene where they escape but are caught by the vine things, you'll notice they wrap around d their necks. they were suppose to be strangled to death and left on display for the joes in the climax. and why roadblock says "that kills GI Joes" in one of his ryhms when waring Hawk about Cobra La, it killed them.

[@johncaulfield8935]

Are you sure? Because near the end of the movie we see all those characters break free from their vine cocoons and join the final battle. Could you provide a source for where you found this information from?

[@rtd1409]

I appreciate the well rounded review and for me I will always remember the day in 1987 well as me my Mom and Grandfather went out to a swapmeet where I found some Star Wars figures and when I got home the freshly taped VHS casette was waiting that my stepdad taped off of bootleg WGN Chicago cable we got here in LA. What I lived was the then current wave of 1987 figures was already on the shelves and most were in my collection by the time it came out. The story has its funkiness but I really loved the introduction of the new characters and the stage they set for a new era of animated cartoons that didnt happen.

[@TroySmith25]

I really liked the action figure of Falcon and he was one of my favorites. But because of this movie, I’m afraid to say he’s my favorite. They really did a horrible job with his character.

[@lonesquiff6551]

I hated this movie too and thought wtf about Cobra La. It did give us Jinx though so I'm grateful for that. I was always bothered by the fact she fought better blindfolded. Undergoing training without the use of her eyes is one thing. Insisting on wearing blindfolds in battle is another matter. I suppose those Cobra La and Lunartix figures would work well together.

[@Grayskull77]

I have only one thing to say.... Cobra Lalalalalala!

[@trtledave3079]

5:23 and the oscar goes to...Mrs HCC788 for crying scene of the GI Joe movie review [applause]

[@lazarus30001]

I'd rather have Cobra Commander be a used car salesman who came to power than the mutant throw away. Much more character development I agree.

[@sgtdh6892]

What if Golobulus was lying? In my version of the movie, Golobulus is Dr Venom who was sent away by Cobra Commander to do Bioterror research. He invented the Cobra La (short for Cobra Laboratories) story to gain Serpentor and everyone else’s blind obedience. Cobra Commander was “once a man;” he didn’t get mutated until AFTER being hit by the spore. Everyone in Cobra La was experimented on and that is why they don’t look human. Story follows as normal, except Duke dies giving Falcon the motivation to get squared away. I honestly love the movie, but I definitely see everyone’s dislike and they do have good points.

[@Ship-security]

I agree with you on the movie, I do think that the intro theme song to the movie was the best that was ever done.

[@jamespero6803]

Gi joe has always had sci fi in it to some degree. This movie is basiclly gi joe crossed with hp lovecrafts At the Mountains of Madness. Two great tastes that taste great together as far as im concerned. I loved this move from when i 1st saw it in 87 till now

[@WWJD85]

the movie overall was crap but it had its moments that I liked. the intro being one especially that theme song. Sergeant Slaughter was pretty awesome especially his line itty bitty ditty bag. I hate to see more Duke gets hurt since Duke is my second favorite GI Joe

[@josephnicolino8529]

My favorite line was: Falcon: You expect me to walk. Sarge: No, you can run.

[@travismiller4320]

What do you mean you hate this movie? It’s great. Look, I know it’s a musical and only 3 minutes and 16 seconds long, but it’s awesome! What do you mean there’s more? Well, what happens after Cobra Commander retreats on the Trouble Bubble and Duke plants the flag on the Statue of Liberty with the rest of the Joes? Wow, she forgot about it. I do believe I once told you yo call her bluff.

[@johncaulfield8935]

We wish, Travis. We wish...

[@FitnFire]

While this movie was not the greatest and while I laugh at it now, I still like it. The biggest reason why is that it connects me to my 9 year old self in a simpler time. Great memories and while I do not disagree with anything you’ve said...I’m still a fan. Great review...thanks!

[@MrKersey]

Great review, I really liked it. Cobra La was ridiculous and the whole plot line had more holes than a Swiss watch. Or was it a cheese? Never mind! I have the same feeling about it, it could have been a great movie, if it wasn't for those meddling Hasbro executives!

[@slavinben4484]

The ending of the movie was originally going to set up season 3 of the Sunbow era and cobra commander was going to lead the Coil and start the Cobra Civil War. I remember reading this info once on the net.

[@lazarus30001]

Falcon should have ended up serving a lengthy prison term. That's what I was hoping for when I first saw the movie.

[@johncaulfield8935]

Yeah, don’t know why Duke would still want to defend his half-brother at all, especially when Falcon has a long record of being insubordinate and ignoring duty. In fact, how the hell did Falcon become a Green Beret?

[@GhostGL]

Yep I loved Transformers movie, it was cool finally seeing em die. Their fighting all this time and nobody had died? One of my biggest issues with Gi Joe movie is WTF was Cobra Commander blue!? Clearly in the cartoon he was white, all the other Cobra La had the same skin tone. But for some reason Cobra Commander was blue?

[@supersho93]

I am surprised you did not bring up showing all the higher leadership, including Major Bludd, Storm Shadow, Baroness, Scrap-Iron, and how great it was for CC to scream "HOGWASH!" and stand up to Serpentor. Also that they showed the high level of security on Cobra island including CG's, Troopers and Officers (which haven't been out for years) scrambling to the alert and the scene where CC thinks it would be "Tragic" if anything happened to Serpentor and leads everyone the wrong way so Pythona can enter the inner chambers. After that it went down hill fast and lost focus. I think if they went the Ninja route, it would have been better.

[@johncaulfield8935]

Just change Pythona to a ninja of the Arishikage Clan and everything else will fall into place

[@jesusojeda3386]

Teach Kids Right. So, kids are not affected by comic books, but, they were affected by a television (Myghty Morphin Power Rangers) show?

[@Bud-gk8bw]

I love the fact that Li'l Hood is reading Douglas Adams!

[@Drawkcabi]

I loved Transformers: The Movie and still do! Saw it in the theater when I was a kid and was blown away, next weekend I was back to see it again. I think most of us who loved this movie as kids have grown to be Game of Thrones fans :P

[@jakeproven5931]

I’m actually glad Duke didn’t die cause I do like duke so much but that’s my humble opinion

[@ilkkakoski7008]

Here in Finland I really had no opportunity to watch the G.I.Joe series nor the animated movie as a kid but Im very familiar with the comics instead. By now Im not sorry at all to have missed this movie :) Great job and the review as usual!

[@fischgeist9664]

I haven't collated all my research yet, but my preliminary figures are showing ~80% of all deals with Beelzebub somehow involve GI Joe: The Movie.

[@TheTrueWildOne]

I never considered G.I. Joe realistic. From its first airing, we knew G.I. Joe was sci-fi based. They were using weapons that shot rounds, that fired lasers instead of bullets. Even the comic series had some unrealistic moments that involved sci-fi. Serpentor. Now i do agree there are some less than stellar parts to the movie. I still loved it. I understand where Hoody Coco is coming from though. i never had access to the comics till a later age, so my G.I. Joe has always been to goofy sci-fi stuff. I actually loved seeing Cobra-La as the one time villain of this movie. I do think Hoody Coco has it wrong about the creation of Cobra. Cobra was created by Cobra Commander. Cobra Commander was just sent out in the world to take it over. It wasn't established as to how he should do it. I liked how this also ended up being a redemption arc for Cobra Commander. He was a bumbling idiot that managed to form a terrorist organization, only to never be able to fully realize the vision of world domination. In the end his one act was not to take over the world, but save it from Cobra La.

[@TroySmith25]

Excellent artwork. Im looking forward to this review.

[@Grim2]

28:00 - BUT we've also seen that Cobra Commander has a normal human skin whenever he wore a hood and one time we saw that he had normal human hands as well. That just doesn't mix well with the Cobra-La origin where we're supposed to believe that all this time he had a blue skin. Even his eye colour is different! IMO, only way to make sense of this is that Cobra-La mind controlled* Cobra higher ups and that whole origin was a lie to easily take over Cobra's forces. Also, notice that when we see CC in present day having a blue skin that he's in the process of mutating into a reptilian creature. And then you have the whole "I was once a man" thing, perhaps indicating the mind control was fading away as there was no longer any need for it. [[*If they planted the idea of Serpentor then surely that means they're capable of messing with peoples minds?]]

[@altarush]

So true. I wish Cobra Commander would have gotten so sick of being scapegoat, he would start another terrorist group.

[@MCDJACDC]

I appercaite your review, I enjoyed both as a child but Transformers was better in my opinion. The only thing I didn't like about GI Joe was the whole Cobra LA aspect because there was no build up to it and nothing about it afterwards in the series from what I can remember.

[@grios5530]

Your honesty and frankness with respect,has made you my fav youtuber. Thanks.

[@ganimed1976]

In my opinion G.I.Joe the Movie was simply to sci-fiish. G.I. Joe always took place in a sci-fi universe but it fited mostly into the real world in terms of the characters, vehicles and logic. All this comes to an end with the Movie. Mutants from a hidden parallel world, with living vehicles and all that silly crap... this was all a bit too much for my liking. Transformers The Movie was much better. I was sad as Optimus Prime and plenty of other older characters died in the movie. But hey.... that's what results from war. Heroes die and it leaves scars in our souls. BTW: I cried more when Old B.O.B in the movie "The black Hole" died. That really got me traumatised at the age of 8 :(

[@biokido575]

Cobra-la seems to undermine all of Cobra. Why wouldn't Cobra commander use superior Cobra-la technology to outfit his army?

[@WWJD85]

the movie had its good and bad points. The good points being the intro and Sergeant Slaughter. the itty Bitty diddy bag line always cracks me up. the bad points being Cobra la and the scene where Duke gets hurt. I despise that scene since Duke is my second favorite GI Joe next to snake eyes.

[@tkvids1377]

the best part of the movie(there were some good parts) was the opening credit scene BY FAR

[@jeenkzk5919]

I was just happy to see new footage of the Joes. I knew the comic was better. I didn’t like that no one was shot because I was a blood thirsty little brat like most boys were until toys got sanitized and PC.

[@verndelap]

I been waiting forever for this, thank you

[@dennissologaistoa3376]

Hail Cobra Commander, the Great Snake rules forever

[@gazz_N7]

I've been waiting for this for a long time. 🤣

[@timmydodson1978]

Love what you said about transformers would really like to hear more of your thoughts on it . thanks great video

[@christopherchance4860]

Hail Cobra

[@karagothshlomidabush3727]

I LOVED THIS MOVIE AND I STILL DO !! great job man ...you said it just like it is ... transformers... ! J.I. joe is ok

[@ikeb9367]

I loved LT Falcon in the comics and the figure. However, as an Army Vet I can tell you that the movie Falcon is a POS. First, he is a green beret and he would be a quiet professional. Second, he is an Officer and would be much more professional as well as out ranking Duke and other NCO’s on the Joe Team. I always used him as the mission team leader as a kid. With flint and duke being subordinate. Even Flint out ranks duke lol. So basically, Hawk gives orders to Lt falcon and then Falcon gives orders to duke. Anyway, I agree, I hated the TV and Movie Falcon. Also him trying hooked on drugs? Unlikely, again he is Special Forces and an Officer. Falcon in the movie acts like a shit bag private and would have washed out of Special forces selection with his attitude

[@RansomeStoddard]

Yeah, the ranking system in G.I.Joe was never well thought out. Some other things that have never made sense include Snake-Eyes, who can't speak due to an accident during training, still being on the team rather than being given a medical discharge. Oh, and the idea of Sergeant Slaughter...at all. He just sucks. I can't even put into words how much he and he alone drove me from G.I. Joe. Okay, the changing to bright neon colors for some of the characters didn't help, but mostly is was the wrestler goof.

[@RansomeStoddard]

@ted37846 In the original Marvel comics (I think it was issue s 24 - 27), they had Snake-Eyes get in a helicopter accident as he was trying to save Scarlet. A burst or flame hit him in the face, scarring him and destroying his vocal chords. As for Sergeant Slaughter....uggg. I don't care if he was a marine or not, the dude just flat out sucked. He killed GI Joe for me. I hated wrestling and including it in GI Joe just ruined it.

[@nobdydoh4263]

@@RansomeStoddard GI Joe did not exactly follow SOP, protocol, ranking, or any other real life military culture. Also it is easy to believe special regard was given to Snake-Eyes.

[@tripticon]

Everything Cobra La uses is alive - from their weapons, to their armour to their vehicles etc. So, Cobra La are The Flinstones.

[@MikeJMurdock]

For myself I do like watching this movie as my guilty pleasure movie, BUT... I did agree with you on the problems that this movie has and funny enough when they released this movie in Japan they went ahead and let duke die. I am saddened how they made Falcon in this movie is a giant jerk I rather had Jinx as the main character (luckily newer media did a redo of Falcon's character) I do like Cobra-La, BUT I prefer other comics after the marvel series which made them a separate faction instead of having ties with Cobra (Hell I wouldn't mind if they brought them back they give them a new name and make it a 3rd faction, but I can understand if no one wants them.) I will say if you want a better joe animated experience I wholeheartedly recommend G.I. Joe resolute which had characters die and have the stakes high. Sadly they were going to continue in that fashion until hasbro wanted to do the hub series and went forward with the renegades' cartoon (which I do enjoy). anyway to shorten this. I can understand why you did not like this and your reason of not wanting to see it again, but as for myself it's still a guilty pleasure for me :) thank you for the video HCC

[@wk3820]

I liked that they started Falcon off with some problems and allowed him to grow over the five days this aired as a mini series. It was a nice little character arc, and more than we usually see in cartoons. Don Johnson put a lot of life into his performance, though you could tell he enjoyed playing the jerk version early on better than the reformed Falcon of the final act.

[@MikeJMurdock]

@@wk3820 I haven't thought of that as well. This is why i like discussing stuff like this

[@BlooFoster]

I know I'm super late. But on the topic of cobra commander's origin being a last-minute decision (which it obviously was) in the episode "knotting cobra's coils" during the scene where tomax a xamot are trying to pry him of the ships control panel after being magnetized to it, you can see 1-3 single frames of his neck and chin which are in a Caucasian color. Also, when he's disguised in the subway, he has human hands. This was definitely a last-minute decision for the movie. I would have much rather they had had him be revealed as a human with a tragic backstory. Also, the intro to this film is beautiful!

[@johncaulfield8935]

I have thought of one way to tie Cobra to Cobra-La while having Cobra Commander still remain human. So here’s my idea: CC was once an explorer who went on an expedition in an unexplored region of the Himalayas. During the expedition, he is captured by Cobra-La guards and is tortured for some time, including being disfigured by the spores. He is eventually taken to Golobulus for judgement. Golobulus initially wants the explorer executed, but the explorer begs for his life, stating he would serve Golobulus. Golobulus decides that perhaps having a human on their side could be useful. Golobulus agrees to spare the mans life and sends him back out into the world to raise an army and conquer Earth in the name of Cobra-La. The explorer would become Cobra Commander and lead the terrorist organization of Cobra. Not a perfect concept, and I’m sure there are plenty of holes in it, but this was really the best thing I could come up with

[@stuartvandermerwe8548]

Honestly that sounds way better than what the movie did.

[@johncaulfield8935]

@@stuartvandermerwe8548 Thank you

[@stuartvandermerwe8548]

@@johncaulfield8935 To be honest, I consider Cobra Commander to be a human/Cobra-la hybrid (in my version of course) due to one of the parents being human, he looked more human under certain conditions and more Cobra-Lan when in similar circumstances, still trying to figure how it all works out though.

[@Ynffy]

Haha, Tunnel Rat looks so stoned.

[@RansomeStoddard]

And is it me or does he look 4 feet tall?

[@RansomeStoddard]

This movie was so bad. It is unfortunate because the opening sequence was great. Then the film started and it was okay...until they introduced Cobra La, CC becoming an actual snake, a lack of Snake Eyes, and of course, it was the beginning of Sergeant Slaughter. Ugggg..... I wish the makers of this film started by watching the original GI Joe miniseries, the one with the MASS Device. That was a much better movie/mini series. As for "The Transformers The Movie", I loved the first half of the film. What you said about the realistic depiction of war, I agree. But what about the goofiness of the sharkticons and Wheelie and "Dare to be Stupid" and Wreck-Gar? The entire second half was so painful to watch that it cancelled out the good things from the first half.

[@frankmatthews4967]

I enjoyed your commentary and agree with some of what you've stated.

[@EmpireHockey936]

As a 7 year old, loved it. As an adult, like it a lot and would prefer some changes mainly to cobra la but it’s still one of the best animated action movies ever, in my opinion

[@mrdonigan]

My best friend and I managed to see this before it aired. A friend's dad was a marine stationed in Japan and brought back a VHS tape about a year before it aired. No one believed us that there was a G I Joe movie. The intro was amazing, and the good parts made it worth watching for me. Yeah, I thought Cobra-La was dumb, but LOVED Pythona. As kids we were so mad that Optimus died, but Duke lived. We wanted that switched so badly!

[@investigator76]

Thanks for the review. Just as I described on Facebook in a post about this video...."Top Tier" I will have to admit to liking the this movie a bit. I think because, at the time, GI Joe was more sort of on the back burner for me.... I was able to collect some of the figures, and vehicles, and I watched the show when it was on, but I was more tied to the Transformers....and Robotech (there is a cartoon that put the consequences of war in full view of its audience). I would gain a new appreciation for the joes much later when I got to follow some of Mr. Hamma's work in the comics through reprints in trade paperback form. It would figure I'd dig his work on GIJoe....he is one of my favorite writers on another property he spent some time writing. Once again, thank you HCC. This was a fantastic video, as always.

[@davidponce5699]

I love the movie was dope send me the Transformers movie if you grew up grew up watching these Havanese cartoons every time you wash them not only that having the toys many lot of GI Joe figures I love the way the cartoon was the movie so if anybody says he was totally dumb at my age it really wasn't dumb it was fun I love watching that but now I'm the age I'm at now in my 40s it was kind of weird but I still like

[@TheTrueWildOne]

As as side note, I honestly didn't expect an actual live stream of G.I. Joe: The movie to happen. There are too many copyright issues involve here. I wouldn't expect the stream to last long, before the KZbin overlords shut it down.

[@jackloera4600]

Grab some popcorn, a cold beer and get comfy. This is gonna be good.

[@tureytaino2785]

I grew up with the G.I. comic books and they were way better than the show.

[@dewaynemorgan4997]

@HCC788 Dude, love your channel and reviews. Can I come over and play Joe's with you?

[@kaylemathewcomendador7614]

Great review. Although are there any other Joe figures/characters that were introduced in this film that you haven't reviewed yet (mainly from the vintage line)? Keep it up.

[@renardbrown6357]

i liked it for the opening song and fight it stuck in my head for decades .....

[@white-dragon4424]

29:28 Saying Cobra Commander was a used car saleman is like saying that Hitler was an Austrian house painter. I mean, how ridiculous can you get!

[@sirkowski]

I agree with everything you said, yet I still love this movie. I can't fault anyone for thinking it's a bad movie, because it is. But it's just ingrained in my childhood.

[@redvitaminblue]

I'll always love this movie - it's narratively and visually bombastic, yet more often than not, it's serious and emotionally intelligent theatre. HCC788's dogma aside, I enjoyed the review too (how could I not, he works his damn ass off with these videos). Though I'm a little perplexed how he's unmoved by an archetypal redemption story; Falcon's transformation was textbook affective storytelling. Let go of your hatred HCC788, it'll make you a bitter old Joe!

[@fatfoxclown]

well I never liked sgt slaughter felt like he was yelling too much and at us as an audience hence I didnt watch the show till cartoon network had it and opted out of a season where the show was hosted him to segment the show before Dic (who I have issues with ) took over. the opening is awesome at least we can agree the rest of the film is a train wreck they should have unmasked snake eyes and storm shadow and unloaded as a sub plot. (maybe destro too) I hear chucles was actually snake eyes in disguise hence no talking. I liked big lob he deserved a figure. ending zartan would have been nice and dukes death should have stayed as such I actually thought he was dead till a toy commercial had him come back. and it sounded like its making was a huge mess to begin with and maybe someone should have been slapped.

[@snesfan8935]

1986 TF The Movie was and be GREAT!

[@roguishpaladin]

*facepalm* I never put the Shangri-La/Cobra-La bits together. Honestly, I'm not sure how they expected young kids to. It wasn't a timely reference anymore. At least now some of the tropes make..."sense".

[@Ynffy]

I enjoyed the Transformers movie for the same harsh reasons like HCC did. Sure, they offed my bot Prowl (to sell toys) but I was old enough to understand violence and conflicts. As a bullied kid you have to learn about these things early on so the animated violence in itself was nothing. Instead it was the little sting that they actually killed the characters to make room for new toys instead of fading them into silent background characters and that I was so invested to actually get a little emotional response for fictional characters. Well played. As for the G.I. Joe movie… I like infiltration part in the beginning, then everyone acts like retarded dicks. Burgess Meredith had a very cool voice though.

[@kratoscraken5614]

It is the perfect movie PERIOD! 💪

[@jordel2010]

Great analysis.

[@lazarus30001]

Unicron is what really sold me on the Transformers movie.

[@julianbryantjb]

Hmm, what alot of things that I think is overlooked is the"inhumanoids"! That fact that a modern society and civilization has to battle something unknown and older predating humanity! Certain episodes of the original series seems to show how modern science has deviated in new directions! The first introduction of cobra commanders face seen for the first time eating in front of destroying in the M.A.S.S. 5 part series, the further adventures of g.i.Joe with the fatal fluffier in the pyramid of darkness, the synthoids in both the attempt of cobra to replace military personnel at the command level with loyal synthetic people, plus the 2 part episode involving shipwreck and his romantic relationship with Mara, who was a experimental cobra project who had gills and could breath underwater! The revelation of lady jaye as a distant cousin of destro and the cthulu creature under the family castle! if you top it off the creation of serpentor and the sequel episode of a post episode of cobra commander using a discharged "dialtone" used to communicate with the same creature under castle destroyed to attack serpentor! There is aspects of cobra having technology that was out of the normal range of conventional weapons with the "red rocket" restaurants chain financed by Extensive Enterprises and the photon warheads mounted to the missiles on the restaurant roof!

[@WalterCherry3000]

ok so bravo brother. excellent review. I really appreciate the disclaimer at the beginning as well. So I found this review very enlightening and professional and surprisingly un biased. I applaud that. I actually agreed with most things that you said here even though i admit that I do like this movie very much. Yes there are aspects that I wish could have been better and you pointed out some very valid points as to why the movie really does not work and is a bit of a mess. I am so happy you had positive things to say about Sgt. Slaughter because to me he made the movie. I guess the only thing I really disagree with you on is the origin of Cobra Commander. It is very rushed and I don't think we get the whole story here, but I never did dig the origin in the comics and the fact that he was JUST a human being. He just had to be more than that somehow. But kudos for pointing out in the end The Commander was the hero. Thank you for that. So in conclusion I have to say you could be the best critic I have ever heard because you didnt actually attack the movie like most critics do and try to bend peoples will to your own. You presented the facts and pointed out the strengths and weaknesses and even though you did in the end say I dont like this movie, you also said draw your own conclusions. Great review!

[@gregsamarael1753]

Honestly dude, you GI Joburg and Strydent can actually make a better GI Joe movie than any other filmmakers out there. Now... I'm gonna be waiting for your review on the GI joe hollywood movies.

[@donaldthompson9938]

Both The Transformers movie and G.I. Joe movie pretty much caused the down fall of both franchises.

[@luciferlovemonkey6750]

Odd since Transformers: the Movie was made to sell more toys. If they only knew...

[@Biosynthnut]

Yet, I would still watch them with my kids. Over the live action ones. Bumblebee might be the one that breaks the curse..might.

[@dvdbytes4348]

This the same movie then whose plot points ( matrix unicron) and characters ( Galavtron Hot Rod Ultra Magnus Springer Arcee the Sweeps) have been folded in to the greater Transformers mythos ? The same franchise that has been chugging on since 1984 ? Odd definition of down fall there.

[@donaldthompson9938]

Movie released summer 1986 which it flopped. Cartoon cancelled fall 1987 due bad ratings. Comic cancelled 1991. No new gen 1 material until like 2001 or 2002 when dreamweave released a new comic series based on gen1. Sounds like a downfall to me.

[@dvdbytes4348]

@@donaldthompson9938 Gen2 comic 1993-94 Beast Wars-machines 1996-2000 direct continuation of G1 IDW G1 series 2005-2018 a complete new G1 based mythos sounds like cherry picking to me cause you are ignoring a wash list of cartoons and comics Edit: i am going to bow out though i dont want things to turn in to an argument

[@Jake_E57]

I loved this movie as a kid and I still do. Not because I ever thought it was good, I recognized straight away this was a really bad movie with a few cool things in it, but it's one of those things that's so bad it's good, or at least you can enjoy it for how cheesey bad it is. It doesn't have any bearing on the rest of my enjoyment of GI Joe, and that allows me to enjoy the movie for how bad it really is.

[@jasonkerest394]

My own take on G.I. Joe: The Movie- I saw this is in episodic increments when it was on TV around 1988. I never saw the movie in theater and didn't see the whole movie start to finish until I rediscovered G.I Joe in my college years. I didn't care for the movie as a whole. In my waning year of G.I. Joe was 1987 when this movie came out, I really fell out with the Sunbow series. The episodic nature of the Sunbow series meant that there were little to no consequences to actions. And what was kind of disappointing was that there were some really good characters in 1986 G.I. Joe line-up. And it's really important to note how HCC788 did some comparisons to Transformers at the time, because I got more into Transformers for a time than G.I. Joe because there were consequences. Transformers were blowing up whole planets like Paradron while Life-Line was jilting the love of Bree Van Mark. One has more urgency than the other. By the time this movie came out I had for the most part moved on from G.I. Joe into Transformers (pre- Headmasters mind you) and X-Men comics. I did get back to collecting G.I. Joes again with Destro and the Iron Grenadiers and Storm Shadow in 1988. I like the 1988 line. 1987, not so much. By the time I had seen this movie I had already seen Zartan kill Serpentor in the comics with a bow and arrow, and so any consequences that Sunbow would have had here were null to none. I like the Rawhides, that's about it.

[@johncaulfield8935]

G.I. Joe: The Movie was never aired in theaters. According to Buzz Dixon, Hasbro had some disagreement with the movie’s original distributor and they couldn’t find another

[@samuelmeasa9283]

Funny thing about all the transformers movies, both the animated and Bayformers. They traumatized someone.

[@troyt6864]

I'll have to watch it again. I loved it as a kid. 42 and military vet. Might agree with you today.

[@raulzavala9061]

The Joe movie killed plans for a 3rd season that would have brought Cobra Commander back but toy sales were down and Hasbro felt they had enough episodes in the can to run daily that later low budget DIC animation did their half ass attempt to produce a new Joe cartoon.