Also I watched GI Joe Rise of Cobra last night and it was all kinds of terrible. I still haven’t decided whether the way they committed larceny against Star Wars was just terrible or worthy of some kind of respect for their brashness. I look forward to the next installation in the series.
I don’t understand what made me want to watch this movie in the first place, it wasn’t any different than I expected. And I can’t understand why I want to watch the sequel. But I do want to watch it, knowing full well that it will probably be terrible. The only thing that makes sense to me is I must have undergone some kind of brain programming as a child by Hasbro that makes me crave the GI Joe brand late into life. It’s seriously the most reasonable explanation I can come up with right now.
When I saw that the Raven was in the movie I literally welled up with pride. Because I had that toy and it was a big one, the kind a kid is likely to brag about. There weren’t a lot of vehicles in that movie that were close to their toy counterparts, but the Raven actually was pretty similar. It still had the same basic SR-71 shape, but it was updated to have stealth technology. Which of course GI Joe has to have if you’re actually putting them into the world as a secret organization. So, yes, it’s cool that my toy showed up in the movie. But is that really something I should be feeling proud about? That pride of ownership of a GI Joe toy has lasted to my mid-30’s. So I guess that means it was a fun toy, or maybe something that is a substitute for fun.
I do still have a bunch of my GI Joe toys. They’re all pretty beat up, but they’re mine and I don’t want to get rid of them. They just sit in boxes in my garage year after year, and nobody wants them but me, but they’re mine and I don’t want to get rid of them.
