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| − | G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA. Stephen Sommers, dir. Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, Paul Lovett, script; Michael B. Gordon, Beattie, Sommers, story. Based on Hasbro’s G.I. Joe characters. USA: "A Paramount release presented with Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Hasbro, of a Di Bonaventura Pictures production," 2009 | + | G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA. Stephen Sommers, dir. Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, Paul Lovett, script; Michael B. Gordon, Beattie, Sommers, story. Based on Hasbro’s G.I. Joe characters. USA: "A Paramount release presented with Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Hasbro, of a Di Bonaventura Pictures production," 2009 [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940784.html?categoryid=31&cs=1]. Distributed mostly by Paramount; see IMDb for complexities.[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1046173/companycredits] |
| − | From Richard Kuipers in the Variety review cited: "As helmed by Stephen Sommers […], the pic expectedly packs some eye-popping sights and a nifty collection of gadgets and gizmos. Best of the bunch is the Stan Winston Studio-created 'accelerator suit,' allowing the G.I. Joe squad to sprint around Paris at 40 miles per hour and destroy half the city while attempting to save it from [… the arms-dealer villain's] attack." For the fighting suits, cf. and contrast R. A. Heinlein's ''Starship Troopers'' and J. Haldeman's ''The Forever War'' novels (''Clockworks'', under Fiction) and the works cross-listed there. | + | From Richard Kuipers in the Variety review cited: "As helmed by Stephen Sommers […], the pic expectedly packs some eye-popping sights and a nifty collection of gadgets and gizmos. Best of the bunch is the Stan Winston Studio-created 'accelerator suit,' allowing the G.I. Joe squad to sprint around Paris at 40 miles per hour and destroy half the city while attempting to save it from [… the arms-dealer villain's] attack." For the fighting suits, cf. and contrast R. A. Heinlein's ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' and J. Haldeman's ''[[The Forever War]]'' novels (''Clockworks'', under Fiction) and the works cross-listed there. |
Latest revision as of 23:38, 28 June 2020
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA. Stephen Sommers, dir. Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, Paul Lovett, script; Michael B. Gordon, Beattie, Sommers, story. Based on Hasbro’s G.I. Joe characters. USA: "A Paramount release presented with Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Hasbro, of a Di Bonaventura Pictures production," 2009 [1]. Distributed mostly by Paramount; see IMDb for complexities.[2]
From Richard Kuipers in the Variety review cited: "As helmed by Stephen Sommers […], the pic expectedly packs some eye-popping sights and a nifty collection of gadgets and gizmos. Best of the bunch is the Stan Winston Studio-created 'accelerator suit,' allowing the G.I. Joe squad to sprint around Paris at 40 miles per hour and destroy half the city while attempting to save it from [… the arms-dealer villain's] attack." For the fighting suits, cf. and contrast R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers and J. Haldeman's The Forever War novels (Clockworks, under Fiction) and the works cross-listed there.
5. DRAMA, RDE, 28/VIII/09
