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I can see a significant lag Between what I'm saying and what I'm seeing on the screen. So I'm sorry about that I don't think I can do anything about that right now But at least it is working. I think hello Scott. Hello, Greg Um Hello, Chris Hello, no name You are on Thank you. MCD. Do you do a AC DC guy Okay, so I'll start this a little after At seven I want to give everybody a chance to To get in get comfortable If you have your own copy, you know, you can get that queued up I am on the uh menu screen right now for the blu-ray. So here let me just show you this real quickly menu screen I'm on the menu screen for the blu-ray and uh, if you have your own copy just, um Get it all set up. You'll have time. You'll have time. Hello Raul And hello Isaac. Uh, thank you. Welcome back to you as well All right. Hello Glenn Uh mega tech body Is stopping by uh, don't have any way to watch the film. Okay. Well, that's all right. No problem Uh, thanks for stopping by that was nice um Put hot sauce on that popcorn. You know what I do like with popcorn is pickles Pickles and popcorn is it's very nice. Um But for now we're gonna Uh give everybody some time to uh To check in to get comfortable um It's gonna I've got a different setup obviously than I usually do So it's gonna be a little harder to read the uh live chat I've got it up here and I've got it as expanded as I can get it But the screen is much farther away from me than it usually is Um, and it's over here and the screen I'm watching is over here. So Uh, that's it's just gonna be a little bit more difficult But I will try to check in with the live chat periodically so I can See you guys and see what's going on. Hello small town machine shop. Nice to see you Um, so yeah, uh, thank you lj. I'm glad to be back um Yeah kosher garlic dills with popcorn. Actually, that would be great. I don't have any pickles That's what I need pickles. That would be really good with this. Anyway, um We're here I guess I can catch everybody up in the meantime um No problem. Exploriso Uh and Josiah, uh, hey yo So, um Um So I'm back and I'm making videos Uh I will be getting back to vintage gi jo reviews full reviews soon um All right. See you later. Peter. Um Um, yeah, good to see you too is uh, raul. Thank you Uh, so, um, I'll I'll be getting back to full, uh, vintage gi jo toy reviews soon Um, I'm working on that. I do have a few things that I'm gonna Be uh getting up in the interim so that I can have something going um the Movies storm shadow snake eyes Figures that I opened last week. I've got a review for them but um I don't want this. Oh, uh, thank you ryan for the super chat says glad to see you back again Glad to see you as well. Thank you Um, oh and scott harris. I didn't say hello to you. Hello scott um and uh Josiah um Doing a Cuban pizza with pickles. All right, very good. Um, so Yeah, so I've got So I've got some snake eyes stuff coming, you know in the near future But I don't want this to become the all snake eyes channel. So After this live stream watching the movie and after, um Um After the review of the movie figures, I'm going to be moving on from snake eyes for a while Uh, so no ninjas for For a while Uh, I there's there's a lot more to gi joe than ninjas. And so I'd like to explore some other areas of gi jo Um, but um since we're on the topic of the movie I wanted to you know get that all out of my system Before I move on so just fyi if there's a lot of snake eyes for you right now We will be moving beyond snake eyes in the very near future Hello, uh rebel dad. How do you how do you do? um Well, thanks for stopping by really nice to see you. Um Um Editing down or removing older. I don't know what you mean. Uh Eridio, I'm not sure And Isaac, um, yeah the defiant. Yeah, um The the defiant the incomplete defiant. I've been pondering What to do with this because um I've put a lot of work into it and people have donated parts To help complete it and I am gonna complete it Uh, but I'm just concerned that you know the parts that were donated were great, but like the The base vehicle that I'm starting with I I'm not sure is in good enough condition I think I need a better base vehicle for starters And then I can put those parts together and make a a nice complete one that would be Uh ready to review this, um This is not ready to review and And I'm just not sure about it. There there's some Breaks and some issues with it that will be very difficult to repair And there's no real way to repair it so that it would look good in hd on your screen So I'm just pondering what to do with this thing. So for right now It is very large and just very right there Uh, who's that? Uh Stale mate steel brigade. Hello, how do you do? Uh, so, yeah, thanks everyone for showing up. We still got a little bit of time Uh, it's not seven o'clock yet And I'm not going to start right at seven o'clock because uh, if uh, anyone was planning on showing up at seven I want me to give everybody some time to get comfortable, you know get situated Ah No one says my favorite gi joe is beach head. Am I a weirdo? No way. You're not a weirdo Um, my gear is airy from what's on Joe mine Likes beach head. That's his favorite joe. So, uh, that's not weird at all. In fact, beach head is pretty cool um Yeah, so yeah, we're for the next, um Week or so. Yeah, we're we're doing ninjas, but But it's we're moving past that I promise So if ninjas are not your thing, I swear. I promise we are we're moving out of the ninja field Very soon It's 755 there. Yes. You you're a one hour ahead of me You are time traveled You have somehow time traveled To one hour in the future Beach party 86 So yeah, my camera is here My microphone is here And my movie screen is there so, um To watch the movie I've got to look this way to read the live chat. I've got to look this way and to To speak so you can hear me. I've got to face this way. So I just need three heads to make this work Um Jeff says hello from edmund. Hello edmund from the united states um Jump in general. Hey, yeah. Uh, thank you. Um, all is doing pretty well Uh, and thank you. Josiah I really appreciate it and you guys I mean you guys helped make it a great show. I mean I couldn't do it without you. I mean, I literally couldn't do it without you So, uh, so thank you. Thank you for for enabling me to do it Uh, let's see Mr x past the popcorn. Here's the popcorn So, I hope everybody uh can settle in we've done this a few times with Other gi joe movies. Oh, uh, sign painter chris sends a super chat. Uh, looking forward to 2022 htc content me too me too uh, okay, so 2021 was just uh It was a dud, right? It's just we just have to consider that a wash let it go and uh regroup regroup and make 2022 A year to remember um Watching the movie with you in my pulp fiction snake eyes suit. Cool Um, yeah, so I've got I've got my snake eyes hoodie. I've got my arashikage tattoo we're We cannot you cannot get any more snake eyes Then we are right now. This is like a vortex of snake eyes in this general area right here and This is what i'm watching This is the um The blu-ray i'll put this three one there might be show up on camera better. There we go It's the blu-ray. Um, I got a digital copy as well, but uh, I I hadn't actually watched the the blu-ray. So I decided to go ahead and pop it in Hey, michael, uh pytel nice to see you. Hello. Hello matt edwards um and uh And no name says don't mind ninjas last joes i bought were dice and storm shadow version three not not bad ones For your last selections. That's cool. Anyway, so that's what we're watching Sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse. How do you do? Yes, we're we're not drinking alcohol this time. We are drinking water um and jeff uh says Um, have you been to the gi joe museum and workshop in lone wolf, oklahoma? I have it But now that you mentioned that Now that you mentioned that I probably should hold on a second um Let's see. Yeah. Um Hold on one second See i i'm looking for road trips, right? And now that you mentioned it I Yeah, gi joe repair shop and museum in lone wolf, oklahoma. Um, this is something I need to uh check out so I'm just uh seeing it is three hours and 45 minutes from me. Okay, so it is past oklahoma city oklahoma city is about halfway And it is In the uh southwest corner of the state. Okay, so as long as I know where it is Hey, that would be a good road trip. Thanks for bringing that up because I probably would have forgotten about it if you hadn't so Um, next time I want to make a road trip. You know, I might go check out that place I just got to make sure that it's open. So that would be cool. Um Hodgepodge action says great. See you great. See you as well um And uh, let's see who else we got Uh, white vegeida. Hello all. Uh, hello matt rubin um Uh, if you want, yeah, I'll I will let you know. Um, I'll try to post When I decide to go I just need to find the time to do it I have more time now. So that shouldn't be too much of an issue But uh, yeah, I think that would be cool Um, that's uh, yeah, that's something I should check out. Thank you for pointing that out. Thank you. Um, so, uh, yeah Let's see Yeah, I I have seen the movie more than once mr. X and I you know, I Although I didn't think it was a great movie. I kind of have to take issue with like some of the the, uh Hyperbole about the movie If you think this is a bad movie you should probably watch more movies because I have seen like Real trash movies. It used to be a hobby. I guess Uh, you could call it but, um, there are movies out there that make, um Make your more famous bad movies look like, uh, masterpieces like the room Bert Demick troll too those are Uh Hitchcock compared to some of the shit that's out there. So, I mean, this is like a mainstream, you know, big budget movie. It's uh There there's much worse out there. Uh, so, um, I uh, it's it's not that bad Uh, but um, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna look at it I'm there are some things that I quite liked about it and I want to point those things out but I also want to I want to make sure that I'm clear about some of the things that I think were mistakes in the movie some things that I really think were poor decisions that I think kind of dragged the movie down. Um So, yeah, we'll uh The good and the bad we're gonna see it all Compdog is me. Um, I'll tell you what what gets my vote for the worst movie ever um It's on youtube. You can search for it. Don't search for it right now search for it later We're we're we're we're we're doing a live stream right now, but after the live stream You can search for it. You can find it. Um, hold on. Oh, I just remember it. I need to post that I am live On the various social medias Uh, hold on a second And there we go done done and done Um, okay All right, my vote for the worst movie ever Goes to after last season After last season you can Uh, look it up on youtube. The whole movie is on youtube. Um It is is not fun It barely qualifies as a movie, but it does qualify as a movie. It it got, um, a theatrical release Okay, so like it meets the minimum qualifications For a movie but just barely um, but uh Compared to after last season Something like the room or berdemic are Genius You know that that's citizen kane compared to After last season. Hello, Eric. Nice to see you and dave. Uh, how do you do? Uh, let's um, some folks have come in that I wasn't able to say hello to hello ronald and robert and matt Who else we got we got, uh Hans chow And uh, yeah, uh, thank you and welcome back to you as well um Danny, uh, and I think I said eric already. Uh, so hello everyone. Thanks for joining Uh, if you would like to watch along There's gonna be commentary. So if you if you can't or or don't want to watch along, you know You know, there there will be plenty of commentary and I will try to interact as much as I can Um, but if you want to watch along, um, I am Uh, I have the dvd Um in and I am at the menu screen now So when it's time to start which you know, I'll start I'll start at about five minutes When it's time to start I will say Start and that is your signal to push play on your Uh dvd or blu ray player and you can watch along unfortunately because of copyright reasons I cannot show you the movie at the same time. We are watching it. Now hasbro and paramount would not like that uh, but um But there's nothing that says that you can't watch your own copy And share the experience. So um, but you like I said, even if you don't have your own copy There's gonna be, uh, hopefully plenty of interaction for you. So Um, so it'll be kind of like an extended live stream because this will go a little bit longer than our usual hour Our robot wars is the worst I wrote but I remember robot jocks um Yeah, wow robot jocks that that brings back some memories. I have to tell you about robot my experience with robot jocks that's uh That's a story for a different time. Um Yeah, um Yeah, we've um, um Yeah, cool. So w w jd 85. Hello. How do you do? And I hope I say hello everybody. Hello, Andrew Yeah, at least somebody's watching that that is true um, but um I don't want to get caught up in their um content id business Uh, yeah mega force If you haven't seen mega force, you should watch it. It's um It's pretty special. I wouldn't call it a good movie But it is a very entertaining movie. It is absolutely an entertaining movie Um, so yeah, that's really cool. Um before we get started I will say that once again, we're back doing videos. I will be putting up vintage joe reviews very soon I've got some modern and other stuff That i'm working on in the interim just so that I can get something out there But the vintage stuff is coming very soon. Um, uh, if uh, my my patreon is back up I had taken it down for a while because I wasn't making content, but I am now so Uh, if you'd like to support the channel on patreon links will be in the description of this live stream. Um, and you know, basically I'm I'm gonna do Uh, gi joe videos for as long as as you let me do gi joe videos So thank you for everyone that's supportive. Um, super chats, uh, which we've already got a couple are also very helpful So thank you for that as well. Uh, so, uh, yeah, it is about time to get started So if you have Uh, the Uh, if you have the movie Um, go ahead and put it in Get to the menu in an in about, uh one minute We're gonna start and I will say again I apologize that I won't be able to follow the The chat as closely as I usually do Uh, because like I said, I have to look over there To watch the movie and the screen is farther away from me than it usually is so So sorry about that and And my screen is over there. My microphone is over here. So hopefully the audio comes through pretty well Uh, let's see Brian blessed, um Thank you. Uh, I really appreciate it. Thank you. I'm glad you like the content And greg, hey, um Yes, and thank you greg. I actually I just got the notice, uh, greg. So, uh, so thank you very much That's very much appreciated. I'll try to send you a message later Uh, a personal message. So thank you very much Um, yeah, so, uh, it is it is about time It is about time ready Um If you're gonna follow along Um, you should be off the menu screen now And we are going to hit play in five four three two one Go Here we go Um, and we are now at the fbi warning page. Yay. That's a great way to start I have seen this several times and This will probably be The last time I watch it for a while I need a break um Yes, um Your imagination may be better Chad, uh, the the imagination using your imagination might be more enjoyable So, yes, the uh the paramount intro So I want the volume to be loud enough that I can hear But not so loud that is going to drown me out Yeah, the the mass device that's um That's it's more fun Uh, I have said before that I liked, uh Some things about this movie very much and I will point those things out But one thing that I didn't like um Is that the movie is kind of um humorless It it takes itself very seriously, maybe too seriously um, there's not a lot of a A break from the The seriousness of the movie is kind of dour I guess is how I might put it and Uh, we are in Washington state 20 years ago one thing I have to commend Marvel movies for doing well is you know balancing, you know serious subject matter and You know heavy emotional stakes with some humor Uh and some lighter moments Uh to make it all a little bit more palatable Um and a bit more pleasant to watch because You know when it's relentlessly bleak it can be very tough to watch now There are some good movies though that are relentlessly bleak um Logan in fact I I would say is pretty relentlessly bleak um But it was a damn good movie You're not on that level. You're not making Logan here and really even most um Comic book movies are not making something uh like Logan Logan is kind of a a genre movie it um It it really knew what it was and knew how to do what it was wanting to do You're not doing that with snake eyes So for something like this, it's really you need to lighten it up a little bit Um, what am I missing? Uh, would you rather watch snake eyes g.i.j. origin against or or jake snake or sorry or g.i.j. Oh the animated movie that's a good question They're really close to me, but probably snake eyes. I think I would watch this again um I Probably because I just haven't seen this as many many times I've now seen it quite a few times Uh, but I've seen the animated movie a lot like dozens of times so Uh, for that reason Uh, this one is at least a little more fresh Um, it's not quite as run into the ground So snake dad or dad eyes is um Got the laser pointers And look it's not zartan This guy I think that they should have just credited this guy as not zartan. That should be his name Um, resolute. Yeah, resolute is fairly bleak as well. Yeah um And it's pretty good So I So yeah, I want to be clear you can make a movie that is Very serious and even quite bleak but Um You really have to know what you're doing and how to do it Otherwise it can be a real drag to watch and Yeah That that is not this type of movie. There are things in this this movie that would work against that style Like Like you can't be bleak and also, you know colorful And this movie has some color in it and I like the color um But um Yeah, it's it's just needed Needed to be at some parts it needed to be a little lighter Yeah, um so I mean this movie really wanted to Have some kind of origin to the name snake eyes Which I get it I get it but He'll be a little bit overdone also just because He has the word snake in his name does not mean that everything needs to be snake themed More on that later. The sparkster says how I've been I've been pretty well. Thanks for asking So now we are in the uh underground fight arena The present day fight arena um And I mean we We have to infer a lot from this um We haven't seen snake eyes get any kind of training. So we have to assume that He gained his fighting skill just by doing this a lot So, you know completely self-taught Uh practical experience. All right. This is the shaky cam that I was talking about. This is the shaky cam it I first saw this in um i max And the shaky cam was so bad in i max that in this scene. I absolutely Lost what was happening with the action at some parts Uh, it was not as bad in uh on a standard screen, but in i max it was just a blur Yes, huns. Cheers A drunk cameraman. Yeah And I like I know that And it's possible for handheld cam to work But it's just so all over the place It's just everywhere Cool Thank you ryan Sorry, i'm Trying to like watch the movie and look at the live Truthfully the re the main reason I um Like to do the live streams is to communicate with you guys I like talking with everyone um But it's hard because your way over there the screen's way over here and I have to watch this in order to Um Anyway, honestly, I I think the acting in this scene is not bad 10 top new character for the Movie Well, it was fine. Oh, hey greg says it reminds me of the intro to the new mortal combat as well Um, I didn't see the new mortal combat until I was it was on tv Uh when I was on my road trip Um And there was nothing else to watch so I decided to watch it it was Not good and like I really liked the uh The original mortal combat movie when it came out But despite the fact that I liked that movie a lot at the time Looking back on it. I don't think it aged very well like It I don't think it stands up very well um The first mortal combat movie But despite that I think it's better than the new one the the new one was rough man Oh, well, mr. X I will continue eating popcorn Thanks for joining us So this is tommy, um storm shadow and He's got a beard Because he's undercover He's in disguise Inside an organization run by somebody who is former arashikage And absolutely would recognize Storm shadow even with a beard this kind of You know this scans I kind of get this. All right. We are smuggling firearms inside fish. Okay. All right I'm on board with that Some redeeming qualities. He said yeah, um At least snake eyes did not execute order 66 I'll give him that He didn't he didn't uh, you know murder younglings. So there's something This guy's speech is very moving. That's that's from the heart right there You know, I it should have occurred to me that um That they would not emphasize the arashikage tattoos in the movie um from my understanding culturally in Uh, japan tattoos are frowned upon Uh tattoos are more often associated with organized crime So it wouldn't necessarily make sense that your ninja clan that fights against organized crime would have tattoos That actually makes sense to me. That's probably more realistic than than the way the comic book did it Yeah, I'm really sorry. I'm trying to keep up, but you guys are are fast and you're far away um So this is yeah, this is A trope here. This is a cliche Like he has to kill the guy, but he just can't do it That's um That's kind of on the weak side. I like you know, he's not gonna shoot him He there's no surprise here And by the way, obviously there will be spoilers here, right? So if you haven't seen it, this is sorry Victor hello, how do you do? We are watching snake eyes gi joe origins We're at the scene uh where Our snake eyes is gonna bust out with storm shadow from this gang and there's a super lot of shaky cam Yeah, I agree with that mr. X. Um, I I I liked storm shadow But snake eyes not so much and like I get that he's supposed to have a redemption arc, right? But There's just not enough of an arc and Here's the thing about redemption arcs. Okay, um, they're good You know, you can do them really well in movies, but it's redemption. It's not absolution Uh the redemption doesn't absolve you of all any of the crimes or the damage that you've done in the past An example of this example Um Darth Vader you know that uh original trilogy was kind of like a long redemption arc for Darth Vader and in the end, you know, he Turned away from the dark side returned to the light Um, and that was great. That was a redemption and it was one of the more famous ones and it worked really well, but Darth Vader still had to die, right? He can't he can't be redeemed and you know be forgiven He was directly responsible for heinous war crimes. He murdered like millions possibly billions With planets destroyed um, and you can't Yeah, you can be You can have your redemption art. You can Turn back to the good side from the bad side But that doesn't wipe away everything so the The writers, you know, well, you know, George Lucas knew and understood that There was still a price to pay So yeah having Darth Vader You know turned back to the good and Continue on as if none of that the other things happened would not have worked Darth Vader had to die So that's so that's kind of the problem with storm shadow is that like Yeah, I'm glad that he turned back to the good side. I'm glad he you know, uh Had a change of heart But the things that he's done his betrayals and deceptions Already caused a lot of damage and you know, you can't you have to You can either atone for it. You can pay for it, but He shouldn't be rewarded. You can't reward him for it and by Letting him into the clan. You're now a full member. We trust you now um, that's That's kind of that's letting him off the hook I do have a question about this So this is all to um To gain storm shadows trust So that snake eyes can infiltrate the clan Right So they are supposed to escape here But do the rest of kenta's Men know that Because it looks like they're really trying to kill them Hello cobra island. Nice to see you Did I miss anybody else? Hello, christopher There's another way to do a redemption arc and that is um An example of that is with nebula from guardians of the galaxy That was kind of a redemption arc, but What made that work is that um We Changed our perspective of nebula from A victimizer to a victim So um over time it changed It changed our perspective on the character so that you know the redemption actually worked without the character having to you know like Do some extra penance or something like that So you can do it that way that doesn't happen with with snake eyes. That doesn't happen at all here So that's not applicable to this movie This is what i'm talking about like At the beginning of this scene There is like handheld camera as snake eyes is standing and there's handheld camera there but In like the one shots the or the medium shots of snake eyes and storm shadow It's uh, it's uh on a tripod and That does not make sense to me That is it's mixing techniques for No reason that I can discern As for the content of this scene, I think it's fine. I mean It gets us where we need to go right? We got to go from point a to point b We've got to have to have tommy starting to trust snake eyes Um, and we're getting that This scene is at least doing its job. That's there's nothing wrong with that Yeah, that's uh, that's an interesting point because Our perspective on gamora changed as well um We had to change our perspective once we changed our perspective we saw um What gamora did to nebula? Uh, and how that essentially created that Character and made her the way she was so um Yeah, see that but that is like much more complex and Sophisticated than what's happening here so we've got some um some colorful, um Japanese choreography Nice uh shot of tokyo And this is this is kind of fine. I actually don't mind this You know it kind of establishes the setting and the mood and the tone By taking us through tokyo Snake eyes has never been there. So he's he's kind of impressed So, yeah, this is fun And they they literally could have filmed this from a car window and they they probably did they look in yeah, I can um Obviously they try to go in a different direction with the movie and like You know in a different direction sure, but But it's got to be at least as interesting and compelling as As the source material And in this I just don't think it is Also, you've got Tommy in black and and snake eyes in black I find that an unusual choice a lot of times um The choice of colors for um wardrobe And be symbolic of something but here we have multiple characters dressed in black Where there could have been some kind of contrast there something that foreshadowed um The the uh the the characters motivation I did like sen. Um, I I think I would have preferred a hard master More like the comic book, but I think sen is fine um Yeah, I tell you what would have made more sense to me is if you had the hard master You know as an older uh person And as Tommy's uncle and kind of having having the role that sen had here But then have sen as the soft master um Because you know, you know the hard master eventually dies But the soft master then becomes I'd argue the soft master is the more important character. The soft master continues forward the soft master interacts with um with uh Other characters in the universe Uh, the soft master's story is just more uh Expansive than the hard masters the hard master's story kind of ends So you could have had sen as the soft master and um, she could have Made that bridge to g. I joe I think that might have worked more or better for me than the way they did it here, but You know, they made this choice. So let's let's see it through and see where it goes That mr. X is correct. See the um Um Luke's outfit in return of the jedi I thought Would that just made sense like that's what jedi looked like Uh, but for some reason in the prequels They had jedi in robes like what obi-wan wore in the desert But I always thought that what obi-wan wore in the desert was because he was in the desert Not that it was like some kind of traditional jedi garb But again Those choices were made. So That's what we roll with Um, yeah, denny, uh, larry did give his blessing to this movie. They he read the script. He went to the Set he saw the production. He understood the reason for the changes and you know Most of the time I'm like in larry, we trust larry knows what he's doing Uh larry has a lot more experience than any of us in writing for every medium but I I just i'm not sure I don't think he was necessarily I don't think he was right in this this time all respect to larry But in on this occasion I don't think uh, I don't think he was right I I disagree With with some of the choices Again fully understanding that they have to make changes, right? They they it's a different medium. They can't do a one-to-one um translation from a comic book to a movie but um The question is not, you know, whether or not they need to do changes. The question is what changes Do they make and do they work? Some of the changes I would say yes, but some of the changes definitely not Um, so here we have again both characters in are in black We are building trust we are snake eyes has storm shadows room Uh storm shadows room is adorned with birds For some reason which again, this is an opportunity like for a filmmaker To say something about the characters by their surroundings and their positions, right? But the birds although they look very nice They don't say anything. They don't say anything about what's happening or about the characters So snake eyes here gets a little bit of ninja training How's everybody doing? Sorry guys. That's a lot of text um Yeah, baren is being duke's ex-girlfriend and yeah so at At least I think rise of cobra has the excuse of the fact that there was a writer's strike on at the time And I think it shows Uh, some of the choices in that movie were I'll say this I like this movie More than rise of cobra and that's not even close I'll take this movie over rise of cobra any day of the week This movie, you know had a style to it, you know, it was something um rise of cobra was Just all over the map I think akiko worked Fine, I think that she should have just been called jinx. Just call her jinx Right because this is this character could easily have just been jinx Um, and nothing you don't wouldn't have to change anything else. Just call her jinx, right? Brandon frazier was supposed to be sergeant slaughter in rise of cobra. Yeah, Brandon frazier What character did he play? Hold on This is and this is nice right here right here. We have a combination of you know traditional uh architecture and artwork Alongside, you know, super high tech computers. I think that Um does set a tone for the movie and I think that's good But This is also like although I don't necessarily Like their choice of make making the hard master younger Uh, this scene is not terrible The blind man I like the blind master too. I I don't really have a problem with the blind master Uh, hold on What I think is Interesting about this is that snake eyes has Rather than make this like a pass fail He gets like what four tries And I think this this I think this is a choice, right? I think what this is supposed to do is it's supposed to symbolize uh snake eyes's failures Through the movie until the very end Where he finally makes the correct choice And you know turns it around I think this is supposed to maybe symbolize that or foreshadow that So I think I I get it in that respect But in just in this moment The the idea that he has multiple tries to pass this test just seems a little bit arbitrary Hello mal nice to see you. Hello axel Dude, who else did I miss hello to every any one I happened to miss um, who came in It also makes sense to me That this is not a combat test. This is not This is not a fighting test And this is why I think snake eyes Okay, this is why I think the clan should expect someone to pass this test on the first try Because it is absurd for someone to think that You know, this is like your first day or your first week or whatever and The your first test is to try to beat a master You're not going to nobody's going to so logically This is not a test of combat and yeah, uh snake eyes um Takes a while to get it here, but Uh, but I think the the purpose of the test here is it makes sense to me. No Yeah Terry cruise has roadblock. I'd I'd buy that Hello, yo, joe. Nice to see you. Hey photo viper. How you doing? Yes, uh The defiant is sitting there defiantly There see But why do you get three tries to figure that out this this clan these ninjas are very lenient All right, who we got on in here um drew. How do you do? I'd buy that for a dollar How's the defiant it's um It's big All right, hang on a second. All right, see now Now storm shadow is wearing gray Okay, so he went from black to gray so That would be a great way to symbolize a character's shift From, you know darkness toward light um In this case, it's kind of the reverse It the storm shadow. Well, the thing is he doesn't do he doesn't Gradually shift away from the noble ideas of the ira shakage. He changes suddenly There was there was a trigger uh this um Dinner scene I think would have been a good opportunity to Uh be a little bit lighter Um it is more relaxed That's good. That gives you time to catch your breath from You know the uh The previous action scene so that's good But yeah, it could be a little lighter. We got in here. Uh, yeah. Oh, hello with cyclonus. I don't think I saw you come in Cyclonus is in the office And this I mean this seems accurate as well because you've got the uh The yakuza With all of the tattoos that that kind of makes sense. I do need a little bit more volume on this There's the guy and this is where it's revealed that Snake eyes is still working for kenta Hello, uh, clonus cyclonus, uh still at work Hello at work from the united states. Hello custom comic shop A hello washington state from the united states. Hey this will be started in washington state opening scene How's everybody doing in there? I'm sorry. I'm not uh closely watching the uh live chat I would like to I it's just harder for me to see because it's much farther away Okay, so snake eyes is trying to back out right now Here he could have done the noble thing. He could have made the right choice But he's sucked back in because His revenge motive is stronger Okay, and so we we've learned for the first time about the priceless artifact The magical jewel Um Cobra island just got home from work. Good. Take a load off relax Let's kick back have a movie Chewing bubblegum Gerard butler would be a good destra. That's an interesting choice if if this had continued if if this movie had done well And you know, we eventually got our g i joe movie We would have seen a destra or maybe you would have got a good Screen destra that would have made me happy This set is nice. This is nice and again, we've got A mix of traditional Uh structures with super high tech security and we've got okay Now we've got storm shadow in black and white So we've gone from black to gray to like stark black and white And usually when you see something like that, um It is the filmmaker is trying to tell you something Um, hello happy accident There we go. Okay, let's see Dave patista for chuckles. Now that actually also would be an interesting choice The chuckles as described on the file card was a big guy And he was drawn that way in his first appearance of the comic book series And he was kind of that way in the animated appearance as well. So A big guy for chuckles Would fit the description of the character. I think So we have the sword the morning light I think it was called except I wasn't listening Supplies classified into a kenta or uh hard slash blind master Yeah, uh the There there was a limited run of movie figures, but not a lot not a lot in the classified series there were uh more figures in the uh The smaller scale line But those figures I think were mostly just storm shadow and snake eyes. So they didn't expand The roster they they expanded the number of figures Uh are the number of storm shadow and snake eyes figures at least not that I've seen Maybe there are more that I haven't seen um One way to look at movies based on uh, I'm sorry Toys based on movies is the uh, the toys are kind of like advertisements for the movies Right. Um, so the toys on the toy aisle are almost like a billboard space for the movie Um Because you know really even if a movie gets a lot of attention and a lot of buzz look he's acting super sketchy there That was super suspicious Yes, I know he walks away, but like Somebody there ought to keep an eye on that guy Yeah, anyway, so even uh movies that are very successful, uh the attention that a toy line gets Uh from that publicity from that popularity is is very short lived There's a small window to sell toys for that movie so like You almost have to look at the toys in the opposite direction the toys are advertised the the movie rather than the other way around He's snooping around And I have to give credit to the akiko character. She is Totally right by the way. She is absolutely right about snake eyes Yeah, uh, yo, joe. I do like the classified figures. I I do think they're getting better Uh, they're giving us a greater variety of characters and and I just like them. They're high quality figures They are Well, that's Hey, that's fair. That's fair Hey, you know, it's it's a fight Um, anyway, yeah, um, what was I saying? Yeah, the classified figures. I just think they're nice high quality figures Not for kids. They are directly for adult collectors Um, which means that you know, the classified series is not bringing in like new fans Um, you're not gonna get a lot of new gi joe fans out of the classified series So you really are selling them more or less exclusively to existing gi joe fans But For what they are they are very nice Um Yeah, definitely. Yeah, greg. Yeah, you see what i'm talking about Just call this character jinx and Go on about your day because the character is fine I like the character. I think the character is well written well acted everything cool There's just no reason to not just call her jinx I think I am done with bob corn because it's It drives me out and I'm running out of water and I don't really want to get up Uh, what we got, um, I am glad you guys are talking amongst yourselves because I can't I can't keep up very well Um Oh barbecue is marked down on target.com today. That's cool. I don't have that one yet. So And there is our larry cameo. I think if if we had gotten future gi joe movies a larry cameo Uh similar to the traditional stan lee cameo I think you you'd have to do it larry cameo in every movie And this is I I think one of the better scenes It's nicely staged It still has too much handheld camera in the fight scenes too many quick cuts, but If I can forgive that this is a pretty nicely staged scene here Uh the mix of colors You know the light and the dark the Uh the way it's lit Is really nicely done The rain just kind of makes it the rain is very stylized, of course Okay, so those are like We learn here at a moment that there are a bunch of guns In those crates But the bad guys choose to use Knives and stuff Swords How are we doing in there? Somebody said classified dread knocks. I would love to see classified dread knocks um Mr. Axe asks about the eagle force figures coming back. Um, I haven't seen them I I'd really need to take a closer look at them. Um, I have heard that they're coming back, but I've been kind of out of the loop for a little while. So I'm a little behind the times But uh, I'd like to take a look at them, uh and see how they do Um, I remember eagle force and I had a couple of them as a kid It was never I mean because of the scale they never, you know, a big focus, but See, this is the only smart guy this bad guy who actually picked up The firearm and you know put the bullets in and was going to use it Um, that's the only smart one So to me this clearly means that The higher up uh people in kenta's organization do know that snake eyes is on their side But the lower level people don't Because if the lower level people did then snake eyes would be able to do the same thing He did with the other guys and just say hey guys, you know, stop attacking me. We're on the same side here That's our first Look at the cobra emblem How we're doing a dreadnought tv series that would be that would be fun. I think I would enjoy that Uh cobra island would snake eyes movie be a must-own dvd for me to purchase. I wouldn't say so I would say rent it if you want to see it rent it online and watch it once And then decide if you want if it's something that should be in your collection Don't don't buy it at first rent it first and then check it out um And uh hans chow asked if i'm going to joe fest next year. Um, I would like to um and as long as I can afford to go I I will go The only thing that will keep me from going is just if I can't afford to do it But if I can afford to go I will be there. I I was really sad to miss the last joe fest um Yeah, so yeah, I'd like to go Uh and if I do I hope you will go too so we can We can say hey, maybe we can uh You know meet at the uh bar like like we always do And uh and hang out that that's the most fun. I think for shows like that is just hanging out with people um Are going to buy the new super seven reaction gi joe figures Um, I would like to but again, I have to be really careful about my spending right now So, um, again if if uh, if the Dollars are there Then then I would like to take a look at them. I'd like Super seven Puts out some pretty good stuff Sometimes um, and I'd like to see how they do She wants to live stream her fight here um So, uh, yeah, um I don't necessarily think this is a bad way to introduce the gi joe team Um because uh, we've got we're we're introducing it on a smaller scale We we're introducing it through one character and I think it's the right character That's a good choice to make it scarlet because we know that scarlet has A connection with snake eyes and we can we can do we can work with that we can build with that um And I don't think this actress is a bad scarlet Now we have some exhibition about who cobra is who gi joe is um Have I seen the figures that look like the cartoon? Um, I'm not sure Do salvo and serpentor have the same head? uh, no, um, if you take the The cowl off of serpentor Like the lower half of his face is like totally unsculpted It doesn't look like anything It's actually like Kind of freaky looking don't And this is a lesson for you. Don't ever take your cowl off of your serpentor head. It's really really freaky and kind of grows And okay, and so now we're focusing on the birds and the artwork If this means something if the birds mean something Then I'm not getting it And it is always possible that I just don't get it right because I'm not the smartest person in the world But I can tell you that I don't get it. I don't understand that symbolism and how it fits into our story And here is akiko following snake eyes being right again Jeremy renner as beach head. I'd buy it yeah, um Or one yo joe one way to look at it is that they did have jinx in the movie They just didn't call the character jinx because honestly, I don't think you need to change the character at all Just change the name and it's it's uh, and we're good um Yeah, uh, low low key fish I am probably experiencing some significant lag at this point. So sorry about that. Hello kujo. Nice to see kujo Uh showing off japanese screen a screen prints. Yeah, uh, that is what it's doing But um, I think as a movie director you You need to uh be conscious of the um Of what your visuals are saying and how it ties into your story um, so You have an opportunity there and you have um Some visuals there that you can use This is what film language is is for is to use visuals to Uh subtly tell parts of your story And now we have snake eyes indignant again. He's ready to quit again And here's the berenice Uh, this is a serviceable berenice. I mean she's fine I don't have any problem with her. Um I could imagine a better berenice but, uh She's okay How are we doing? Um, yeah, uh jinx's name was classified top seeker for a long time. Yeah um And maybe the plan was to make her jinx, right? Maybe the plan was maybe in future movies. She would Uh get the code name jinx And that's what she would be Uh, I don't know but at this point we may never see it. Look, it's uh, it's not zartan And once again Snake eyes has a chance to walk away But his revenge motive is stronger So we're not like there's no arc here. That's the problem Snake eyes is not like bending toward the good side He is passing up multiple opportunities to bend toward the good side um But he's making the deliberate choice To do the bad thing and it's not like he doesn't know it's the bad thing He knows that these are terrorists that he's working for now. These are like really bad guys. He knows this But his revenge motive is so strong That he's gonna go with it anyway um You have to buy a kiko now. Well, you don't have to buy anything. You don't have to You don't have to I don't I don't have a kiko um Figure right now either um Short hair for the baroness was a bit odd. Yeah, I agree with that that was It was odd and like no glasses At least for this part of the movie Um, that would have been a nice visual cue that Would have reminded us that this is in fact the baroness But I mean it's not the worst it could be worse. It could be worse That is faint praise for a movie if the best I can say is it could be worse Uh, so now we have some magical mysticalism uh with these little glowing orbs and um And okay, so like if this if you're going to do a redemption arc And you haven't it snake eyes hasn't bent that direction yet This is when you do it. This is your opportunity to build sympathy for snake eyes and Show that in deep inside he is a good guy This is your chance Narratively in my opinion if it doesn't happen here, then it's It's too late because you're getting into the back half of the movie And the consequences of snake eyes's actions are going to Be more severe Yeah snake eyes hanging with cobra. That's very odd that that that feels very strange The movie is too long. I I don't know. Um, the the thing is If the movie is good Then you don't mind the length but if it's not then If it's not good, then even a short movie feels too long See dad, you know dad eyes here is speaking the truth And snake eyes should be accepting that absorbing that that should be a life changing moment right there See, this is the point where he's he needs to realize that the only thing he can reasonably do is turn away from his revenge motive and turn away from the fucking terrorists that he's working for now And turn to the good side But he doesn't and we know he doesn't because he does not pass the next test Hello, they gone nice to see you Um No problem. Thanks for stopping by Uh, black master and storm shadow are the best parts but storm shadow was uh, too likable Yeah, that's that's a good point because storm shadow is supposed to be the bad guy in in future stories, right? But like man, they did him dirty. They did him dirty at the end of this movie and I would have been pissed too Are we doing our own uh cast of the gi joe movie? I like it. Let's keep that going. That's cool So he realizes that the dice were loaded So it's impossible to not roll snake eyes Which means that his dad when he rolled the dice never had a chance and here like Snake eyes's betrayal is not passive He was masked, but he took the mask off for the camera Again, Akiko is 100 correct Yes, well the dice are loaded what a twist and I think so the loaded dice reveals to us that um That not zartan always intended to kill um dad eyes And the role of the dice was just um a ruse But this cannot be a revelation to snake eyes Of course he always intended to Kill dad eyes And now snake eyes is wearing gray. See the the gray that snake eyes is wearing here You know for most filmmakers that would be a symbol of some kind of change We have gone from black to gray But there is no change We know that there's no change because of The next test that he has to pass And does not pass so we know that he hasn't changed Yeah, that's a good question mal the dice Will always be snake eyes so um Yeah, it's like cold blooded stuff to do Uh to someone you're about to to kill But like but then what's the point the guy's dead? I guess it's you could look at it as like jewels in pulp fiction Uh quoting the bible verse before he shoots somebody There's you know the person that he's quoting it to will will die so it's not like They uh, you know they take anything from it Um So here he wants to make it right he's mumbling that he wants to make it right And we're rolling in or we're about to roll into the final challenge Yeah, um, if akiko would have stood her ground, uh at the beginning. Tommy would still be around. Yeah And now we have storm shadow wearing mostly white with snake eyes wearing black That works I guess But then again, like we've made a progression right so storm shadow is wearing black Then he was wearing gray then he was wearing black and white and now he's wearing mostly white So, you know from a filmmaking perspective That if you're gonna make that kind of progression it should mean something Let's see Yeah, the next challenge this is Even though even though there are a lot of things I liked about this movie and I hope I've pointed some of them out This is not one of them this Should not have been attempted. This was a bad choice For a couple reasons one of which is you didn't have the budget to Do a great job on the CGI The snakes in this are better than In the movie anaconda. I'll give it that but It's they're really noticeably fake The second reason is um I don't see why it's a snake themed challenge Other than the fact that our main character is snake eyes and you're Just wanting to work snakes into the movie Any which way you can But The clan that he's trying to infiltrate now Is not snakes themed Arashikage storm shadow if anything This should be foreshadowing storm shadow The final challenge I think should have somehow maybe been storm related or something rather than snake related But Yeah, but but they made this choice. Okay, you're gonna make it snake related So you're gonna have giant CGI snakes. They have got to look good and these These don't they don't look good. I'm sorry. They really don't It's not the worst CGI I've ever seen by any stretch, but It's also not great Yeah, this this is this is a little rough Maybe think of cone in the bar barion. That's a good reference. Thank you The challenge should have been against himself that also I think would have been a good choice Are we still doing the the uh, the movie casting our own casting of the gi joe movie? um One option that is continually brought up and I think would work well for gi joe is a live action television series. I think that would work I think that you could tell a more expansive story with more characters In that format See snake eyes is not pure of heart here So there's no this is solidifying for us that he has not Uh changed his point of view. He hasn't changed his perspective. He hasn't He has not started his turn toward the light Yeah How many possible clan members made it to the third test only to be eaten by these snakes without anyone watching? That's a good question. But hey, these snakes are well fed So it had to be quite a few of them Those snakes are not starving She will be punished, but she never is actually is punished Yeah, uh, like I think you can do gi joe as a movie. Um I think it's a challenge But as a tv series, I just think it'd be a lot easier um And like it's more forgiving of lower budgets too. Who would I cast as gallobulus and python? Uh gallobulus, I would uh resurrect bergis meredith and put the snakeskin on him Uh, and he would be gallobulus and um as python I would uh go with carol bernett bergis meredith as gallobulus carol bernett as python No, no other no other possibilities Okay, so snake eyes is walking away He's walking away and he could have come clean there, right? That was he could have come clean He told them a story. He told them about his revenge business But he did not tell them that hey by the way I've been working for Homeboy over here who wants to steal your magic rock That's where he should have come clean again Where's the ark here? There's no ark And right here he play this is a straight up con of storm shadow He cons storm shadow right here Might consider a role for tim curry tim curry as nemesis enforcer Tim curry is getting up there in age. I don't know if you've seen tim curry lately he uh I think he's mostly retired Uh, maybe he does some voice work, but I think he's mostly retired Sad storm shadow meme. Yeah, I like it Keep it keep the sword. You've done absolutely nothing to earn it. Are we talking about bobcat gulf ways? Oh Yeah, as metal as metalhead. Yeah, actually he is still alive Tim curry in a double role as tomax and zamot. He has to have a musical number I don't think he can dance like in his old days So we have snake eyes and full ninja costume with gadgets and stuff In broad daylight by the way in broad daylight, you don't need electronic detection. You can just see him And I'm guessing the only reason they did it this way is because of the timing it had to work this way so that he could meet up with Um kenta and the baronets during the day I had to make it and it would be night time by the time by the time he made his way back to the village I guess But an attack during the day is insane. Why wear black? You stand out more wearing black during you know in broad daylight uh A musical number in gi joe. Well, you know, it could be a cold slither concert That would be a hell of a callback a cold slither slither concert now. I get that They have like this dna lock For the magic thingy, but you know what would have Made it even safer And snake eyes wouldn't even have been able to use the dna uh That he got Is if the damn door had a lock on it Like right here close the door lock the door except. Oh the door doesn't have a lock. Why would we have a lock? We've got the special super secret dna business Let's put it like a bicycle padlock on that thing the combination Now could snake eyes have broken the lock absolutely But it would have taken time and it probably would have made noise which you know would have alerted people to his presence And he's going to take his mask off here because we don't want to cover the actor's face any longer than absolutely necessary Uh cobra island uh cold slither concert with serena as lead vocals um Yeah, it's safe everybody go home Nothing to see here. Hello bubble wrap memories. I don't think I saw you when he came in. Hello Um a co-problem Uh a solution to the cobra problem problem more cowbell. I like it All right, obviously i'm not going to love having like supernatural or science fiction elements in gi joe I have accepted the fact that a lot of gi joe fans do like that very much It is but that's never gonna be my favorite. I do like this room though. That's a really cool Visual aesthetic very cool But here's the thing at kiko call for backup Like the entire gang ought to be there right now Why hesitate? Just run him through Well, you know, you didn't you didn't just you didn't kill him while you had a chance. That's on you Idris alba as stalker stalker. That would be very interesting. I I Yeah See if if they're going to deny storm shadow The uh leadership of the clan. I actually think that's a better reason Uh because he trusted snake eyes and he brought snake eyes into the clan uh, that's You know against everybody's advice by the way he insisted on it That shows at least that he's not ready for leadership So she's looking more like the Baroness now with the glasses. That's that's cool Hey chew and bubblegum. Let's not have the politics in the Live chat pretty please only warning And here he goes. He's had all these chances to Have a change of heart and The way this happens He knows exactly He knows the consequences of his actions He knows what's going to happen to everyone That he had been befriending him over the last however I don't know a few weeks. I think maybe he has passed Yeah, see and snake eyes witnesses that right so now he is completely aware Of the consequences of his actions Okay, okay All right. Yeah snake eyes. You really fucked up This is a nice little bar here though. That's kind of cool. I'd go there. I'd hang out at this bar Look, it's not Zartan Also, it doesn't look like he's aged in the last like 20 years or so Right, so he's this guy's a cold-blooded killer and I hate to say it here, but Revenge motive or not if snake eyes takes this guy out. He's probably saving lives By letting this guy go He is probably dooming other people to die this guy is uh, he's a hitman Yeah, it's not a setup So like snake eyes gets everything that he wants Yes, he's cobra But what difference does it make with the revelation that he's cobra? Why does that make a difference? That doesn't change anything that happened in the past that doesn't change um Anything that's happened recently And it's not like he's unwilling to work for cobra. He's been working for cobra honestly, I think Actual snake eyes would have taken the guy out Like sure. Okay. And that by the way, that's another cliche the the you know I'm going to kill you but no I can't do it. I'm the better man That's a cliche But again Sparing that guy's life almost certainly will cause more death in the future because he's a murderer He's he's probably a mass murderer. He's probably killed hundreds of people at this point And will continue to do so because you let him go Just because you don't want to be a bad guy anymore doesn't mean that guy's not a bad guy So at this point Snake eyes has had his turn It's a very sudden turn It's a turn that is in my opinion too late We're gonna have another action scene which I don't mind actually this scene is more or less. Okay Okay. Okay. All right. I'll buy that I'll buy that um Gary Oldman is dr. Mindbender. I think he would act very well as dr. Mindbender um But I don't think he has the physique for it. Hey, it's comic tropes. Hello comic tropes. Hey, thank you for joining Thank you very much for joining um Yes, there's always gi jail Um, that's that's that little stockade that was uh in the headquarters command center. You just put them in there um Yes, the define thank you You're not the first to notice the uh The giant defiant uh, so the the fight on the uh The truck here is is fine It's totally fine. Uh, I actually think it's well staged but now those guys are dead. All right. Those guys are dead because of snake eyes This is happening snake eyes Hey, snake eyes may not have shot those guys, but figuratively they handed the murderer of the gun Knowing that the murderer was going to go and do this I'm really glad that uh that uh, uh, chris from comic tropes is here. It's always nice to see chris Now I will say though that that truck driver is apparently so focused on the road that he doesn't notice that his His trailer is being shot at and there are people jumping and climbing all over it But we'll give that a pass Two more ninjas murdered Okay, and now we have a ninja battle. I I can't complain about a ninja battle. I I really can't it's fine totally fine and although I uh I'm not 100 on board with this version of the hard master. He does kick ass I I do like the uh the amount of ass that he kicks And we've got we've got a really pretty good uh Scarlet here with the crossbow and everything Yeah, I didn't yeah, it's time for you don't want to bring a crossbow to a gunfight. So yeah, she picks up the ingram Yes, chris pratt for everyone It's an all chris pratt cast are you, um Bullet rat memories, uh, do I still have patreon? I do still have patreon Uh, there should be a link to it in the description of this video All this traffic in tokyo have got to be they've got to be wondering what the hell is going on here So like this isn't badly staged, but the lighting is a little bit difficult, uh, because you've got um The ninjas in black and you've got um snake eyes also in black and you're they're in a black Or a dark environment. This is cool though storm shadows Squaring up against snake eyes. That's pretty cool. And by the way We have every reason to side with storm shadow in this fight dodge and bullets Okay, so yeah, so this this uh climactic action sequence actually the the two climactic acts action sequences that are Sequences that are blending here. I really don't have too much of a problem with Well too much Right now we're still we're getting more shaky cam and we could do with less of that But it's overall it's staged pretty well Yeah, both her and the baroness have horrible aim. That is true They're carrying around the main character shield. So Uh, yeah, we are I think everybody's on board with larry hama's uh cameo and um If we got a series of gijo movies, I would want a Larry cameo and all of them flames to the left of me fire to the right here I am stuck in the middle with you I'm not really sure what he has to gain From letting her live Okay, so now we've got like a a car chase scene And we've got snake eyes with the uzi I am on board with that For the most part they did give the characters their traditional weapons So, yeah, I I dig it. I'm fine. I'm good They're aim like they're both shooting at each other from I don't know like 25 30 feet away at the most and nobody can hit each other Uzi for the trailer shot. Yeah The wu-tang clan ain't nobody to mess with. Yeah Snake eyes Should annihilate storm shadow in a sword fight in this movie. Well, if you think about it like Snake eyes hasn't had very much training very much ninja training at all Let alone, you know training specifically with the sword And storm shadow has he's been training his whole life Even in the comic book storm shadow was the better swordsman No, I'm sorry snake eyes was a better swordsman storm shadow was the archer. They don't give him a bow in this Just shoot them I yeah, I can't be mad at the at the ninja battle here. I really can't I I'm I'm on team storm shadow is what I'm saying Yeah, I like it. Yes, somebody contact paramount and let me be uh Cobra commanders stunt double I'll do that. I'll break all my bones. Just let me be in the movie uh, yeah, and I know uh, uh comic tropes did like this movie and I'm glad uh and I've tried to point out the things about this movie that I also like and Really we're in a part of the movie that I like Yeah, see sen really knows how to throw down She's not playing and it is just kind of cool to see Uh scarlet and the baroness on the same screen. That's That's not a bad thing. Yeah. Yeah, you you better run You you don't want to know this Now we got snake eyes storm shadow back to back This is cool. I like this. It's just that we should Snake eyes should have led toward this a bit Sooner What's like a guy doing biting his leg A bit of wire work there Hey, we killed all the bad guys cool So this is an interesting solution. What what do you do about a guy with uh with fire powers? How do you counter fire powers? Well, you know you Use something that will make The fire power backfire on him as stunt double you must dawn the hood I I totally will you don't have to show my face in the movie. Just let me in the movie Yeah, you see this what i'm talking about. You brought uh swords to a gun fight and I do like this lineup like everybody is um Everybody's teamed up against the bad guy. That's kind of cool Yeah, and I think that's in character for the baroness as well There's no way she would stick around for this at this point. She has nothing to gain, right? Because even if she even if the bad guy is beaten the Arashikage, they're gonna take back the magic rock, right? They're not gonna turn it over to cobra And she cannot realistically beat all of them. So she has nothing to gain at this point now that she can escape She's got no reason to stick around That is a spider-man leap right there So just okay, but here's what I don't get why not just toast her with the the fire rock Well, there you go Yeah, I know I know he broke the the sacred rule He he broke the 11th commandment or whatever I get it. I know it didn't work It didn't work because you you have you need a A final battle between snake eyes and the big bad And like for the most part, I don't mind the final battle either. I think it's mostly okay The only downside again spoilers is that We get the the the magic snakes again hint at the next episode of the show the next episode of the show is just going to be A review of the classified snake eyes and storm shadow figures that I unboxed Last week, but I am working On like getting back to actual vintage reviews And I don't really I can't really give a hint for that because I I haven't completely decided on exactly what I want to do as far as The next review I think like the subject of the next review like the next vintage review is less important than just getting a review done I really need to get back into the routine of doing reviews on a regular basis And I've gotten out of that routine. So I'm gonna do something that Wouldn't necessarily say is easy But something that will just give me an opportunity to Get back in that rhythm. So I haven't exactly decided what that will be that yet. I'm trying to narrow that down But like I said it If probably not going to be something spectacular, it really is mainly going to be something that Will get me back into the routine and get you know Allow me to get through an entire Video from start to finish and then we're gonna, you know, once we get back into the routine We are going to do some really cool stuff. I want to do some cool stuff before the end of the year and I want to I want to I want to like really make a A new start next year Um, I don't know wait till next year to do anything, but I want to really gear up for some big stuff Next year. Yeah, not a new start. I don't think that's the right way to put it. We're starting now. We're starting now But I want to gear up to doing some some really big stuff next year Um, let's see Uh, we'll be doing the quick looks. I will be doing those. I've got some of those coming very soon Uh, when you do a vintage toy review, let me draw. Oh, you want to draw a card? Hans, uh, just send me an email, uh, so that I know how to contact you Because that's actually one of the challenges of getting back in the routine is doing the, uh The title card Um, I haven't done one in a long time. So yeah um Oh, yeah, it's it's cool. Uh bubble wrap memories. It's totally cool. Um, and you're going to be getting, uh, like, uh Previews and stuff and it's gonna start coming really quickly. I'm not kidding. It's gonna start coming really quickly that first Like vintage review back though is is um The main goal of it is to just help me get back into that routine and um Work out some of the kinks because it's been a while since I've done like a a full review video with all of the editing and you know, all of the Research and all of that. I I really need to get back into that and I'm going to But we're working our way up to that so this scene this scene I think is an excellent Um performance by storm shadow Yeah But here's the thing I think the the right thing to do here is to tell tommy that he is not ready to lead because he was deceived by storm or by snake eyes And bringing the outsider into the clan without you know Any vetting or anything like that That's a problem but to take away all opportunities at leadership to take all of the strip him of I I just think that It's too much and Tommy is unhappy about it here as he should be i'm unhappy about it What it does though is it it really You can very much understand His point of view here Like you you I get it I get it I understand why he's angry here and I like the scene I I do this is this is not bad and now like we've had We've had the progression of tommy wearing black Then gray Then black and white then mostly white now He's wearing all the white at the moment that he is walking away from the clan That's not bad Yeah Yeah screw those guys I mean, what did you think he was gonna do? Hyundai made sure that they got their Their logo in there Obviously jt. He is not that in this movie. He for some reason he gets his costume And uh, yeah, well there we go Uh, this establishes that joe colton is the leader of gi joe at this point That's an interesting choice. So it's not hawk. It's not duke. It is joe colton Okay, okay We know that at one point joe colton was the leader of gi joe And again spoiler we find out that uh dad eyes Was a joe Well, okay, you know I think he kind of had to do something at that point because you've got to bring Snake eyes into the gi joe story and you don't have the vietnam background You don't have stalker as a character that draws him in you do have um scarlet But at this point they don't have any actual connection to each other So this at least gives him some personal connection to gi joe Okay, it's not the best i'll buy it though it i'll take it Probably were better ways to do it, but it'll pass So like I saw this with my daughter um, and She at least has some familiarity with uh the backstory of snake eyes and she was surprised that We got through the entire movie and snake eyes is still unmasked snake eyes is still talking And yeah, we knew this was going to be a younger snake eyes. We knew he was going to be unmasked and talking, but We're not we never progressed to The silent and masked snake eyes that we're familiar with uh, okay, so uh, yeah so we're riding out to Find storm shadow and then uh, I'll I'll keep it going through the mid credit scene here and then we will call it Done and then we'll we'll we'll take a minute to to uh chat about it Um, yeah, here we go. So this is the uh, I think they figured people wouldn't necessarily wait around too long for a post credit scene so they Put it in within the first few seconds You know tsa would never allow him on on that plane with that knife Okay, okay Yeah, i'm digging it. Okay, so this is Tommy to cobra and he wants to be called storm shadow now we we've had one reference to storm shadow in this movie but this would make more sense though if um If it had been revealed at some point during the movie that a rasha kage The name that they've been saying through the whole movie Uh, it translates to storm shadow I think that Would have helped the audience, you know understand But okay, so uh, that's that's it. Okay, we're stopping now All right, we've stopped. Okay, so i'm gonna switch this over here Like so So that we can chat a bit about it um Okay, so Yeah, um So, yeah, obviously, you know, there are some things that I liked, uh, and hopefully I pointed those out and I explained why I like them um But uh, yeah, some of the choices I don't think worked and I don't think they resonated with audiences Um, which is uh, I think why it wasn't very successful um Even so I hope Hasbro will take the risk of moving forward with gi joe and you know, maybe we can, um Get something that we will Be happier with um that will resonate more with general audiences I don't know But yeah, it was an ambitious movie They did try to do a lot in this Um, may it may be too much. I'm not sure uh, but um Yeah, it's um It it it it's it's it's not ideal. It's it's far from perfect uh Did uh, you know, no larry hammet did not uh refer to himself as tunnel rat, but that would have been funny um Amazon series is still a go Uh Had no idea about the magic stone and the snakes um, like I I didn't really dig the magic stone and the snakes, but this is something where I kind of have to put my Biases aside because I know that a lot of gi joe fans really dig the like the supernatural and science fiction elements in uh, gi joe, so Although that's not my preference. I know that's going to be the preference of a lot of people. So I just kind of have to let that go Um, hey, it's Burgess Meredith. Guess what? We're casting you as Galovulus. Uh, just Uh go to makeup for your prosthetics. Uh, how you doing? um Yeah, uh has lab. Yeah That's what i'm concerned about is um, the um Yeah, it's good to see you too is that You know regardless of what you feel about, you know corporations big business, um, the owners of you know, these, uh Popular brands um Ultimately the owners of gi joe Will need to make money with it In order to keep doing it And so that's just a fact at some point hasbro has got to make money with it If they're going to give us more of it And if any particular iteration of gi joe is not your cup of tea Well, there is a possibility that we will get more and different types of gi joe some of which might Be more to your liking, but the only way that's going to happen Is if somebody's making money off of gi joe Hasbro has to be raking in money before they will Invest more, uh, it's just I mean They're not in the business to lose money um so That's what that's what concerns me is that You know What are they gonna do with it? How are they going to Make gi joe Popular with a general audience Uh, how are they gonna bring in new fans how they're gonna turn new people on And I do not have the answer for that Um, I know that lots of people have their opinions on how to do that I don't think most of the popular options would work, uh, but um But something else is gonna have to be tried. Um So anyway, yeah, I I don't want to be down. I don't want to be too Negative again, you know, I really liked storm shadow. I think this is the best version of storm shadow We've gotten hey bubble wrap memories since the super chat says let's push on through 1994. Yes Thanks to me for getting us this far and I hope you have the ability to take us beyond We and others need you my friend. Thank you. I need you too. So thank you very much for that Thank you for all your help But uh, yeah, it's uh, it's getting late. Uh, we have done like a a double length Livestream this time and I'm getting tired and my voice is gonna go out if I keep talking So, uh, thanks for watching this with me. I really appreciate this I kind of wish I could have watched this with you When it first came out, but I kind of wasn't around at the time and I'm sorry about that, but I'm around now And uh, we're gonna push forward. So, uh, we will have another live stream Um, we'll have another live stream next week. Uh, we will have, um, a, um You'll you'll have some smaller videos through the next Week week and a half or so But we're gonna be gearing up to get back on track with vintage reviews They are coming. I'm working on them. So, uh, thank you for your patience. Um, I will say good evening for now And I will see everybody next week And thank you for everything. Thank you for being here. I sincerely thank everyone for being here. It really does mean a lot to me Uh, but for now, I need to rest. So, uh, thanks to everyone and I will say good night. Um, I will Um, oh, thank you Cobra Island. Thank you very much. Um And thank you mad. Thank you everybody. Uh, but I will say good night for now and I will press this button here To turn this off Bye. Bye everybody. Bye