Tag: G.I. Joe

The ballad of G.I. Joe

Apparently, they left out the 2nd best part of the movie. (The best parts are clearly the ones where Channing Tatum takes his shirt off. Hey, if you wanted a blogger with depth, go read the CNN blogs or something.)

The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde

Yes, I remember the names of the cute ones

Overheard, while in line to buy tickets to “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra”…

A lady: “Why is every screening ‘G.I. Joe’? Is that what you want to see?”
Her kid:”I thought you said earlier it looked baduy?”
L: (Watching the trailer playing on a loop above the ticketing booth. The Eiffel Tower gets hit by green goop and starts to collapse.) “It looks good! Maybe we should see it. Hey, isn’t that .. that guy?”
Kid:”Yeah, yeah, Channing something. The guy from ‘Step Up’.”
L:”No! It’s the guy from ‘Prison Break’!”

(At this point this movie geek is mentally facepalming herself, and biting her lip, trying not to correct the lady.)
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I’m just watching this for Chris E., really

OK, not really. I’m a G.I. Joe junkie, and have been since I was a kid. I even “signed up” to join, after which they gave me an official “profile” and an action figure. I lost the action figure, something for which I still kick myself to this day.

This will probably be awful, but I’ll still be there on opening day. With bells on.

My, Scarlett looks purty.