This weekend, we enter the Dark Age of Stupidity...

As you all know, G.I. Joe is going to earn a fuckload of money. This movie is so garbage that Paramount hasn't even showed it to critics. To quote the Paramount CEO: 
"After the chasm we experienced with 'Transformers 2' between the response of audiences and critics, we chose to forgo opening-day print and broadcast reviews as a strategy to promote 'G.I. Joe.' We want audiences to define this film." 
  
If this movie does well, we officially enter an era I like to call The Dark Age of Stupidity. As Hollywood is getting better and better at marketing, and turning people's brains in to feces, people are losing their judgement. They can't tell shit from gold, because they are given shit and told that it is gold. And you thought The Big Brother is a joke? Hollywood is the beginning. They are brainwashing children and teens, and a few generations from now, it is going to be everything. Mark my words, fellas. CEOs and executives and marketing people are gonna tell people how to live in about hundered years. This is just the beginning of The Dark Age of Stupidity.

Now, let's all pray that G.I. Joe fails at the box office. Pray... that's all we can do.

knowing is half the battle.  
 
 
 
Knowing that it sucks anyway, so you don't go see it.

The Rotten Tomatoes is at 36%.
 
 My favorite review, "In his dreams, Stephen Sommers is Michael Bay."

Opinions.

" The Rotten Tomatoes is at 36%.
 
 My favorite review, "In his dreams, Stephen Sommers is Michael Bay." "

Dood, the Dark Age of Stupidity is only reserved for the release of a new Soulja Boy album. 

It's probably going to tank.

I am still going to enjoy it. 
 
You know why? 
 
The last movie that critics recommended me blows. 

The Dark Age of Stupidity started off with Soulja Boy. It's already upon us...

i think we are already in stupidity. a lot of people are stupid now in days.

I never read movie reviews anyway. I prefer to watch the movies myself and form my own opinion.

I wouldn't call people stupid for seeing GI Joe. Some people just like action movies. Critics however, do not like action movies. I was shocked at how the Tomatometer dropped over the first few days. It was at around the 90's on wednesday, went to 67% on thursday, and finally plummeted to the 30's today. I think it's mostly attributed to most critic's closemindedness towards other genres. 
 
I could be completely wrong though.

You can't really assume that everybody that see's a shitty movie enjoys it. 90% of the people that saw Transformers 2 hated it.

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I wouldn't call people stupid for seeing GI Joe. Some people just like action movies. Critics however, do not like action movies. I was shocked at how the Tomatometer dropped over the first few days. It was at around the 90's on wednesday, went to 67% on thursday, and finally plummeted to the 30's today. I think it's mostly attributed to most critic's closemindedness towards other genres. 
 
I could be completely wrong though.

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" @buzz_killington:  Movies like this have been around for years so i don't understand why you feel the need to make a big deal about  a movie that you will not see.  Will this movie be as bad as The live-action street fighter movies, I doubt it. Does this movie look any different the any  Jean Claude Van Dam movie, nope.  So get off your high horse and let people enjoy whatever because not every movie needs to be art  or  even have a deep plot some movies just need to be fun.     "

Maybe it's just me, but I love me a mindless, badly made action movie every now and then.

I'm a GI Joe fan, and I quite enjoyed it. It wasn't a great movie and was mostly pretty mindless but that's what I was expecting. There was enough fanservice to look past the flaws, mostly non-existent character development. There were also a lot of kids in the audience where I went and they seemed to enjoy it. 
 
It was miles better than Transformers 2, which has earned nearly $400 million. I don't expect GI Joe to do anywhere near the same, but I'm interested to see what they do with a sequel so I hope it doesn't bomb.

" If you think its shit and it smells like shit, then don't go watch the shit. I'm gonna wait, like I do with most moives before I go see them. When my friends recommend the 9 dallors to see it then I will. "

" @Seedofpower said:

" If you think its shit and it smells like shit, then don't go watch the shit. I'm gonna wait, like I do with most moives before I go see them. When my friends recommend the 9 dallors to see it then I will. "

WUT R DALLORS? "

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Now, let's all pray that G.I. Joe fails at the box office. Pray... that's all we can do.

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" @buzz_killington said:

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Now, let's all pray that G.I. Joe fails at the box office. Pray... that's all we can do.

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as long as were praying why dont we pray that its actually a fantastic movie? "

I don't get this whole thing about G.I. Joe being anything more than mindless fun. If you really break down the show, it was mindless patriotism, built on the back of strong tie-in marketing, with all the toys. The show was designed to sell the action figures and playsets.

" I don't get this whole thing about G.I. Joe being anything more than mindless fun. If you really break down the show, it was mindless patriotism, built on the back of strong tie-in marketing, with all the toys. The show was designed to sell the action figures and playsets. "

The movie was so damn bad...I watched it with a few Japanese friends and we came out of the theater asking what the hell we just watched.  It was soooo bad...but it wasn't a bad movie.  I dunno if that makes any sense.

" The movie was so damn bad...I watched it with a few Japanese friends and we came out of the theater asking what the hell we just watched.  It was soooo bad...but it wasn't a bad movie.  I dunno if that makes any sense. "

I'll tell you what, it can't be as bad as Battlefield Earth... Jesus that shit was terrible

I will say this about the movie being stupid and that's in the scenes with young Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow being trained in a temple IN DOWNTOWN TOKYO that they were speaking some language and it wasn't Japanese.
 
Not to mention that in a country as xenophobic as Japan that if they would have found a white street urchin that they would have given him a plane ticket to wherever he said he was from.

" @KaosAngel said:

" The movie was so damn bad...I watched it with a few Japanese friends and we came out of the theater asking what the hell we just watched.  It was soooo bad...but it wasn't a bad movie.  I dunno if that makes any sense. "

So you just made this post to brag that you have Japanese friends?   I do too, but I just call them my friends. "

" let people enjoy whatever because not every movie needs to be art  or  even have a deep plot some movies just need to be fun.     "

I just saw the movie and i thought it was pretty sweet. I'll probably go see it again.

" The movie was so damn bad...I watched it with a few Japanese friends and we came out of the theater asking what the hell we just watched.  It was soooo bad...but it wasn't a bad movie.  I dunno if that makes any sense. "

Just like Transformers, G. I. Joe wasn't that popular when I was a kid so I have to nostalgia for it. I grew up in the 90's when Power Rangers was popular.