Paramount recently held a test screening for “GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra” and the fanboys were not impressed. So they did what any obsessive 80s cartoon fan would, they posted a scathing review of the one minute trailer on nukethefridge.com:
“I just came from a ‘test screening’ of the first teaser trailer for “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.” What can I say about it? Well, it was horrible. No, actually it was worse than horrible.”
[Ed. wait, they do test screenings of trailers???] But the fun doesn’t stop there. Soon after the review was published Paramount issued a cease and desist letter. However the review remains online because Paramount didn’t have the audience sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Is it safe to certify ‘GI Joe’ as the first flop of the summer in December? Maybe we’re jumping the gun it’s only a trailer after all, but considering the terrible cast, the horrible look of some of the leaked shots and if Paramount is shutting down Pro-Joe websites for reviews of a one minute trailer then perhaps they’re demonstrating just how worried they are. – Pearce Dietrich
I just can’t get that worked up over something based on a toy.
Why to people have to give such negative buzz to a movie that isn’t even out yet, just from watching the trailer. It’s a G.I. Joe movie, why should their be any complaints about anything, i’ll take the movie anyway I can, would you rather their not be a movie at all. I was a huge G.I. Joe fan when was a kid just like the rest of you, and I still am. You must have figured out by now that they don’t make the movies exactly the same as they were in the cartoons. So you can either spend your nights on the computer complaining, or take it from what it is , and just enjoy it. Personally, I think the trailer looks pretty damn cool. Come on, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, and I guess you Bloggers didn’t see Sienna Miller as the Baroness. How could anybody not like the trailer.