I think I must’ve seen the movie on Netflix streaming, because I know I didn’t pay money directly to watch it, but I have faint memories of watching it last year (yeah, it’s that unmemorable). I’m almost positive we MST3K’d it. I can’t imagine any other way of making it bearable.

Julie

The sequel has a new director, new writers and they brought in Bruce Willis and the Rock, so maybe it will improve (Bruce has his own writers,) but that doesn’t require much. While the Baronness was nanobotted, she also sincerely wanted revenge and her brother, the Doctor, was similarly twisted and did more twisting to others, male and female. But the females in the movie were never going to get a fair shake. A lot of things have changed in three years, though, and while the women will always be really secondary in G.I. Joe, they’re likely to be more independent in the sequel.

You’re not wrong in pointing out that stuff like this is sort of par for the course in certain forms of entertainment… However, shallow entertainments are such because they parrot back the unconscious mores of a culture without attempting to make anyone think about them. That this is used with such casual sincerity in a big-budget film (I mean come on, whoever wrote this had to have gotten a fat check for it) goes to show how far we have yet to go as a society.