G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

*** He's also clearly more than a little nuts at this point, and just might have done it, and then take advantage of Duke freaking out over his brainwashed fiancee ''melting before his eyes'' to make good his escape.

** Look at it from the villain's perspective and it makes sense. I have the hostage. The hero might let me go if I threaten [[Always Female|her]] life. If he does, I win. If he doesn't, I can kill the hostage and hurt him. I've lost nothing. If he doesn't let me go, I'm captured whether I kill her or not. The hostage taking is a effort taken in a situation where escape is not otherwise possible. It's not "she loses her value if I kill her" but, "I will kill her if YOU demonstrate she has no value to me alive."

** Washington, Paris, Moscow, wasn't there a fourth one that Snake Eyes shot down? These centers of the world would be destroyed then MARS can take advantage of the panic to take power, why would they want to destroy any more then they need to to get their goal accomplished? They're not [[Terrorists Without a Cause]].

*** The other city being targeted was Beijing.

*** I thought it was because he was a Dadft Punk fan, seeing as his helmet kinda resembles one of the duos.

** It's a stylistic choice for that continuity. Roll with it.

* The holograms. Always with the holograms. It wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't completely indistinguishable from everyone else in the scene until a very brief effects flash to let you know. I swear, when the Pit was under attack and Scarlett went back for her jacket and it flashed, I seriously thought (before realizing that it was the invisibility jacket) that it was a holographic jacket. Sure, it was just the invisibility suit, but the fact that I actually seriously entertained the thought that it was a holographic jacket should say something about the overuse of holograms in the movie.

** Or their [[Misapplied Phlebotinum|underuse.]] Think how much easier a time the Baroness and Storm Shadow would have had attacking Joe HQ and Paris if they'd had a few decoy holograms on mobile emitters to distract the Joes.

**** Untrue. The very first use of a hologram in the movie comes after the first big fight scene with Scarlett and Snake-Eyes stopping the Baroness from stealing the weapons from the army. The Joe's use a very small, extremely portable hologram device to project their leader so he can talk to the soon-to-be-recruits.

*** And the camera panning sideways even a few degrees shows that the hologram is a flat projection that won't fool anyone looking at it for more than an instant. If its not looking at someone dead-on, that hologram will be obviously fake.

** They're ''COBRA'' or rather are ''going'' to be, [[It's What I Do|they don't use nukes they use weird weather machine type stuff]], the only wrong part about using the super nanomachines is that they didn't turn into giant nanite snakes and start smashing buildings.

** I admit I'mm not sure what the details would be, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was easier for McCullen to rig the theft of his own weapons than to steal someone else's nukes.

* During the cobra-venom demonstration of the nanomites' capabilities, why did the 'mites bother expelling all the venom out through the bite wound? If they're capable of healing wounds or altering Zartan's eye color, they ought to be able to denature the venom into harmless compounds right there inside the bloodstream.

 

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