With GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra quickly approaching, I wanted to take a moment to weigh in on the “power suits” that we get to see in the trailer(s).  You know what I’m talking about….the Starship Trooper-style suit that you see many of the characters crashing through buses & flipping past missiles in.  

The word on the ‘web’ is that the GI Joe power suits are actually called “Accelerator Suits.”  Aptly named, since they supposedly help the person who is wearing it run up to 80 miles per hour…

It is funny that they didn’t push any of this out in the original concept art that was release last year.  I wonder if the producers were waiting to “surprise” everybody with the next revelation…..or did they know that they really screwed up and tried to hide it as long as possible?  

Channing Tatum, playing Duke in the movie, was quoted as saying:

“It was a lot of CGI – the whole car chase is on foot. It’s in these big suits that run 80 miles per hour, so a lot of it is CGI. They look like the Iron Man suit, but different. They are a little more realistic, not so comic booky”

Not so Comic booky?  Why did the producers decide to introduce the Accelerator Suit to the world of GI Joe?  If you look back to the comic, TV show and even movies, you never see anything like this introduced.  I guess there were some specific characters who had some “out-there” type of uniforms.  There was even the underwater guy (I forget his name right now) who wore a suit that helped him….well swim underwater.  No Accelerator Suit though. 

I ask the question again….WHY?   Could this be designed based on the success of Iron Man?  Could this be because the producers and writers have NO CLUE what the world of GI Joe is all about?  Who knows.  

In the end, I’ll have to see the movie to decide how stupid (or maybe even cool – I’ll keep and open mind) these suits are.  Until then, the trailer makes them look pretty ridiculous.

I am hoping…I mean really hoping that the rest of the movie makes up for anything stupid like this.  If they can get the Storm Shadow / Snakes Eyes relationship right…. The accelerator suit may just get a pass.

For those of you who have not see the latest GI Joe: Rise of Cobra trailer – here it is:

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