Comments on: G.I. Joe Mystery Confirmed: Cobra Commander’s New Look

By: GreaterTater

GreaterTater — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:47:05 +0000

I would much rather see him in the outfit at the top of the page. I like that mask better than any.

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:53:57 +0000

i said how take off the new cobras mask

By: phyrhed

phyrhed — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:28:23 +0000

thandrale says:
June 27, 2009 at 4:44 pm

The problem with a character with a blank mask is how does the actor act in it? He can’t show any emotions. So I imagine they have changed it enough that the actor can use his acting ability a bit. Otherwise they could just pull a Darth Vader and just have a voice actor do it.

THAT’S WHY DARTH VADER works!!!! Cmon! Put the blasted MASK BACK ON! Cobra Commander looks ridiculous! …I will not be wasting my money to this LAME movie…This movie has SOOOO MANY things wrong!! Steven Sommers has no idea how to make a great movie…he should take some lessons from Christopher Noland.

I agree with the them when THEY SAY KEEP THE MASK! That’s a lame excuse to say that if you don’t see the actors face they cant act!…look at VADER . if Lucas could make that work, everyone else learn. another example was Gary Oldman in the Silence of the Lambs sequel…A GREAT actor can pull that off, If you cant do it.. your ACTOR is any good!

By: Zach009

Zach009 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:08:28 +0000

From the look of the mask on the packaging for the toy of cobra commander, it is disheartening. Why you gotta mess with Cobra Commanders mask? An actor can still portray real emotion through bodylanguage even if you can’t see his face. From the trailers I have seen, I think this movie will be a real dissapointment. I will wait to see it and keep an open mind, but right now I feel the wrong people got ahold of it to make it.

By: G.I. Joe Japanese Trailer: We See You Cobra Commander! - Screen Rant

G.I. Joe Japanese Trailer: We See You Cobra Commander! - Screen Rant — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:48:38 +0000

[...] until now all we’ve had are toys and word-of-mouth to go on, as far as what Cobra Commander would look like in the film, but now we know for sure – [...]

By: SpaceCowboy1701

SpaceCowboy1701 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:22:41 +0000

@ Soundwave

No problem.

I’m really curious to see how this one is received by the general public since it’s been so long since these characters were out there for the mainstream public.

By: Soundwave

Soundwave — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:02:23 +0000

@space cowboy1701

thanks for the info. It’s been a while and I needed a refresh.

By: SpaceCowboy1701

SpaceCowboy1701 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:55:58 +0000

The animated movie has an awesome introduction sequence … but wasn’t too satisfying to me, then or now. I just couldn’t buy into the whole organic technology-based civilization business. It’s worth watching, but tried to take the series off in a strange direction, even for a cartoon that was pretty science-fiction driven. Note that the new GI Joe: Resolute doesn’t use any of that material. Resolute was fun to watch … again a little strange, since there’s blood and swearing, things that weren’t in the old shows, but weren’t too gratuitous. It was cool to see Snake Eyes do his ninja work with more realistic consequences for the bad guys. I don’t have a link handy for Resolute, but I think you can find it on YouTube or the Adult Swim site. If you like GI Joe or action cartoons, you should check it out.

By: INK

INK — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:37:23 +0000

The Cartoons did address how Cobra Commander got disfigured.
In Gi Joe The Movie it tells Cobra Commanders story. Where he came from, why he started Cobra and more. It is a great animated film. AND, Duke gets critically wounded by a snake from Serpentor actually showing blood squirting from Duke’s chest.

YouTube link for part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZdgIA7E1xU

By: Soundwave

Soundwave — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:49:31 +0000

@Vic

f-bombs? U sure you got the right person?

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:08:07 +0000

@thandrale

But the problem is, if he had the hood like in the cartoons, his face is STILL covered and you’re presented with the same problem…

By: thandrale

thandrale — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:44:30 +0000

By: steven the git

steven the git — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:14:49 +0000

That’s right! He was disfigured saving her – all comes back now.

Makes me wonder why they have changed that. Such a good aspect of the character.

By: jago

jago — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:14:16 +0000

i kinda find it wierd its not coming out in 3d though… ah well. I guess i’m in the minority for wanting to watch it for marlon wayans… i do like quaid though… innerspace till this day is still one of my favorite movies. Hopefully it doesn’t get remade…lol.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:25:38 +0000

I was never a big GI Joe fan (comic book or cartoon), but I thought the trailer showed a fun action movie. Plus I also like Dennis Quaid. The Cobra Commander action figure, though, looks really dumb. As in Deadpool-sewn-shut-mouth dumb.

By: SpaceCowboy1701

SpaceCowboy1701 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:19:50 +0000

@ steven the git

Another change I ran across in the new Joe is that Snake Eyes is no longer mute due to disfigurement, but because of a vow of silence (at least according to one piece I read). Now, I dont’ think his disfigurement was ever specifically addressed in the cartoon, but it was a big deal in the comics, since he got that way rescuing Scarlett.

I guess the unmasked characters here don’t really bother me as much since this an origin story and, over the course of the comic run, they unmasked them all at one point or another — even the mangled Snake Eyes (yuck).

By: Phil G

Phil G — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:08:40 +0000

And before anybody mentions it, yes I know that’s how some people would describe Transformers, but hey, these movies had big transforming robots kicking the crap out of each other.

By: Phil G

Phil G — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:06:00 +0000

ogb, count me in as being one of your minority groupies then, I also happen to like Quaid. If I go see this movie it’ll be because he’s in it, that and Ray Park is playing Snake-Eyes.

At least the movie seems to have done some credit to the Stormshadow character, too, in terms of looks.

I don’t mind that they are changing things around for the G.I.Joe franchise, but some things are already good enough in the first place… why fix what isn’t broken in the first place? Spider-Man succeeded despite being a masked superhero. Yes, Tobey got his share of scenes, unmasked, but I think nobody would have minded if they had made a movie where Spidey was Spidey 90% of the time and Peter Parker the other 10%…

Anyway, that’s not even my biggest problem with the movie thus far from what I’ve glimpsed of the trailers. It just seems like it’s going to be an overdone special effects extravaganza with very little plot and character.

By: steven the git

steven the git — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:35:20 +0000

Yeah Snake-eyes was the cool ninja. He’s one of the main ones I remember. Never spoke either (I think).

High Kalibur – it was the same voice, by Chris Latta. He was great with the high pitched rants.

Masked characters are losing the struggle for sure. You know what will happen next. Someone will make a Judge Dredd movie and decide to remove his….
Oh wait.

By: SpaceCowboy1701

SpaceCowboy1701 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:12:21 +0000

@ Voice of Reason

You’re probably remembering Snake Eyes the ninja / commando who was generally one of the most popular characters … Cobra Commander was always a posturing dweeb in the old cartoons, just smart enough to hatch a plan that his own arrogance would undermine. Not so in the comics. He postured and was psychotic, but definitely not a dweeb.

They got Larry Hama, the original writer of the Marvel comic GI Joe run to consult on this, so hopefully some good will come of it, as he produced a number of surprisingly good characters and storylines. Nevertheless, my expectations are kind of low at this point.

From what I’ve seen / read so far, there will be an element of the movie dealing with Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow and their ongoing feud, but their backstory has changed from the comic continuity, which is kind of a shame.

I’ll reserve judgement on the new look for Cobra Commander until I see how they deal with it on screen, though I’ll admit my gut reaction is to prefer the old “rag face” look and not go with the disfigurement. The comic book character was just a normal-looking guy in either a helmet or mask, but the cartoon character was a crazy mutated guy, so there’s precedent for either one.