And it’s probably one of my favorite analyses too, a real eye-opener to myself as I rewatched it a year later.” Basicc. But it’s gotta a lot of explosions happening, like most Hollywood movies, but if that’s not enough to get you going, you get to enjoy my mouth flapping. “GI Joe: Retaliation is a sad story, completely disappointing, predictable, and it’s anti-ethnic, and it promotes violence and war as virtues, and fails to justify itself in any way at all. Cotrona as the new GI Joe archetype, Channing Tatum as the old GI Joe archetype who gets insulted a few times before he dies early on in the movie, Luke Bracey as Cobra Commander, Elodie Yung as Jinx, Ray Park as Snake Eyes, Bruce Willis as John McClane, er, General Joe Colton, who can’t keep the Pentagon off his ass, RZA as the Blind Master, and Basicc as a full-time voiceover. What’s sad is the film has an all star cast, including Dwayne Johnson as The Rock, er, Roadblock, Jonathony Pryce as the President of the United States, Byung-hun Lee as the sexy Storm Shadow, D.J. It’s easy to miss them without the commentary as the music and action tend to just carry you away into hypnosis land. Thankfully, you have Basicc to keep you awake as he shows you the film’s failures over and over again. Basicc doesn’t shut up for a moment as he tears up this thoughtless remake of the original GI Joe: Rise of Cobra which at least had a little bit of charm and plot, at.
Basicc parodies GI Joe Retaliation in this full feature length non-stop unofficial director’s commentary of the film. The only interesting part of the film is seeing Jaye, played by Adrianne Palicki, jogging in a pornographic outfit, other than that it’ll bore you to tears. GI Joe Retaliation (Full Feature Commentary) by Basicc. The film begins with The Rock shooting up North Korea and there’s more attacks on North Korea throughout which seem quite political in nature to Basicc.
The film appears to be an extended Public Relations campaign for joining the US Marine Corp, whether you are a man or woman. In GI Joe: Retaliation, it seems the retaliation is against the audience for daring to come to the theater again. Basicc doesn’t shut up for a moment as he tears up this thoughtless remake of the original GI Joe: Rise of Cobra which at least had a little bit of charm and plot, at least by comparison.