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There was always a level of campy over-the-top insanity to G.I. Joe–the Transformers was just so damned SINCERE. Thus, the success of the live-action Joe will depend on one thing, and one thing only:<\/p>\n
WHO WILL PLAY COBRA COMMANDER?<\/p>\n
I don’t even know who to suggest, honestly. It’s like asking who could play Jesus–there’s lots of dudes who look like Christ with long hair and a beard, but none of them can turn water into wine, y’know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To me, the G.I. Joe vs. Transformers thing is sorta like Beatles vs. Stones, or Star Wars vs. Star Trek–you either swing one way, or the other. I was always a Transformers kid, but that doesn’t mean I can’t anticipate the sublime glory of a scenery-chomping Sienna Miller as the Baroness in Stephen Sommers’ upcoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}