GI Joe: Resolute
Apr. 26th, 2009 07:55 pmI assume the MythBox saw that this was written by Warren Ellis and decided to record it on that basis.
[Adult Swim] paid for a series of 10-minute GI Joe cartoons that united into a gigantic robot. Erm, a hundred-minute movie, I mean. And it is a Buddhist GI Joe film.
(The Buddhist goes up to the hot dog vendor and says, make me one with everything. So he does. But lots of Buddhists are vegetarians, so that doesn't work so well. Never mind.)
We have:
- a ninja duel
- a ridiculously undermanned assault squad (twice)
- Cobra soldiers who were apparently bought by the case at CostCo and shoot less well than Imperial Stormtroopers.
- An insanely expensive plan to take over the world that surely any half-decent intelligence department would have infiltrated in the course of the twenty years and two hundred thousand employees it must have taken to assemble
- an origin story
- a ticking timebomb
- unresolved unromantic tension between one of two female speaking roles and a male lead
- disobedience of orders due to (see above)
- flashbacks
- an unescorted aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean
- a secret base
- an incredibly large and well-equipped Cobra army... where does the money come from again? How is it all kept secret?
- as a conversation winds up with "I still don't know how (they did X or we will do X or how we can disable X)", a person walks in and says "I have it!".
- Doing that again.
- And again.
- And possibly a fourth time -- I lost track.
[Adult Swim] paid for a series of 10-minute GI Joe cartoons that united into a gigantic robot. Erm, a hundred-minute movie, I mean. And it is a Buddhist GI Joe film.
(The Buddhist goes up to the hot dog vendor and says, make me one with everything. So he does. But lots of Buddhists are vegetarians, so that doesn't work so well. Never mind.)
We have:
- a ninja duel
- a ridiculously undermanned assault squad (twice)
- Cobra soldiers who were apparently bought by the case at CostCo and shoot less well than Imperial Stormtroopers.
- An insanely expensive plan to take over the world that surely any half-decent intelligence department would have infiltrated in the course of the twenty years and two hundred thousand employees it must have taken to assemble
- an origin story
- a ticking timebomb
- unresolved unromantic tension between one of two female speaking roles and a male lead
- disobedience of orders due to (see above)
- flashbacks
- an unescorted aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean
- a secret base
- an incredibly large and well-equipped Cobra army... where does the money come from again? How is it all kept secret?
- as a conversation winds up with "I still don't know how (they did X or we will do X or how we can disable X)", a person walks in and says "I have it!".
- Doing that again.
- And again.
- And possibly a fourth time -- I lost track.