G.I. Joe Retaliation delayed until spring to add 3D.

[frankthedm]

'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' Release Date -- Moving To March 2013 To Add 3D

While I avoid 3D like the plague, what annoys me more is the studio just screwed over plenty of retailers who have stocked up on the toy brand anticipating the movie's release.

 

[Crothian]

I think they are going to redo more of the film. No one cancels a 200 million dollar movie a month before it comes out just to add 3D. I think it was a really bad movie and they are hoping that they can improve so it doesn't bomb. It does disappoint me because I was actually looking forward to this one.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

What did movie goers do to the studio that demanded retaliation in the form of an attack by G.I. Joe?





What? Oooooooh...

 

[frankthedm]

I think they are going to redo more of the film. No one cancels a 200 million dollar movie a month before it comes out just to add 3D. I think it was a really bad movie and they are hoping that they can improve so it doesn't bomb. It does disappoint me because I was actually looking forward to this one.

AICN had some chatter about that possibility.

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[Mercutio01]

Colossal bone-headed move. It's now going to go head-to-head with Stephanie Meyer's "The Host," and that movie is likely to do "Twilight" gangbusters.

And, after the atrocious POS that was the first movie, I had sworn off any sequels, until I read interviews with the new director that trashed the first film and swore his would go in a completely different direction. The comparison was made between the Ang Lee "Hulk" and the Ed Norton version. Then the trailer sold me on it. Now? I'll just wait for Netflix to pick it up. I'm sick of being screwed at the box office to cough up extra cash for crappy after-market 3D garbage that does nothing to enhance the film.

 

[Crothian]

Colossal bone-headed move. It's now going to go head-to-head with Stephanie Meyer's "The Host," and that movie is likely to do "Twilight" gangbusters.
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I think her Host book was even worse then Twilight.

 

[Mercutio01]

I think her Host book was even worse then Twilight.

I only read about 20 pages of either, so they seemed equally bad, from an aesthetic point of view. But the audiences for the Twilight movies have been large and rabid (the line was longer when I took my wife to the latest of those than it was when I went to see "The Dark Knight." Yes, yes, anecdotes. I'm not totally sure, but I think the sales numbers back me up.) and don't really seem to show any signs of slowing.

And, with the last Twilight movie coming this autumn, screaming vampire-porn addicted fangirls the world over will be crying out in lamentations, and thus will latch their lips on the next swill-filled picture from the creator of sparkly undead blood-suckers.

I just think it's a completely bad idea. Push it around a week or two so that you aren't in a direct competition with "The Host."

 

[frankthedm]

Colossal bone-headed move. It's now going to go head-to-head with Stephanie Meyer's "The Host," and that movie is likely to do "Twilight" gangbusters.

They are completely different target markets. The G.I. Joe movie was

...for seven year old kids and guys in their late 20's who remember being seven year old kids.

And, after the atrocious POS that was the first movie, I had sworn off any sequels, until I read interviews with the new director that trashed the first film and swore his would go in a completely different direction.

My friends and I felt the movie was quite enjoyable. Thanks for the warning that the new director! :yuck:

 

[Mercutio01]

They are completely different target markets. The G.I. Joe movie was
My friends and I felt the movie was quite enjoyable. Thanks for the warning that the new director! :yuck:

One could say the same thing about Avengers and everything that's been released since, but it's still beating up sales of those other movies.

I'm not going to argue taste. I don't personally understand your's, but if you liked it, good for you. I felt like it was disrespectful to the source material, badly acted, poorly directed, and amateurish. It was, and I'm not being hyberbolic (okay, maybe a little), the single worst film I have ever watched. I'll sit through Twilight every day for the rest of my life before I watch it again (maybe a little hyperbole, there), but I hated the film. I seriously asked the front desk (half-jokingly) for a refund.

 

[Crothian]

And, with the last Twilight movie coming this autumn, screaming vampire-porn addicted fangirls

You obviously haven't read them if you think they are vampire porn. Laurel K Hamilton has the Vampire Porn and they are better books.