Question: General Joe says he wants some of his own men in the mission. You see them when they are making the plan and the are other old men. They don't really do much if anything during the actual battle. Who are they?
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11th Sep 2015
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Question: Back in the old show and first movie, the Joes had a catchphrase battle cry where they all simply yelled out "Yo Joe!" But this was not used at all in this movie, and it was used just once in the first one by Heavy Duty. Why was this signature battle cry omitted from the new movies?
Chosen answer: It is just the decision of the writers to not put "Yo Joe!" in the script. They've not explained their reasoning.
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: After Firefly is killed and the Zeus launch is terminated, Storm Shadow hands Jinx the sword that Snake Eyes gave him to kill Zartan with. In the frontal shot, the wind is blowing Storm Shadow's hair out of his face completely, showing he is looking into the wind. But the next shot from a side angle, some of his hair is suddenly down over his forehead. (01:38:40)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Jaye drops some groceries in front of the Chief of Staff to lure him with her curves. As they are talking and she says, "Who says chivalry is dead, right?" she rakes her hair over her ear in one shot, but it doesn't stick and falls back in front of her face. In the next shot, it is suddenly raked over her ear and stuck there, at which point it falls out again when she moves. (00:52:00)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: As Flint and Roadblock are talking about how they have enough for a battle but not a war, Roadblock is inspecting a pistol with a large silencer/suppressor on it. He then sets it down on the table. The shot cuts to an overhead view, and that pistol has disappeared. (00:46:00)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: When walking through Roadblock's "old stomping grounds", Flint takes a plastic sheet off some exercise equipment and tosses it to the ground. The next shot from the front, the sheet is back in the air again and hits the ground a second time. (00:44:40)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: While Roadblock is first talking to his brother on the street, one shot shows a group of people walking up behind Roadblock. A couple of shots later, that group has suddenly vanished. (00:43:40)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Cobra Commander asks, "How's our former president?" Zartan says "Worth his weight in platinum". As he does in the wide shot, he turns away from the Commander and faces the nuke. In the close up following that shot, he turns towards the nuke a second time. (00:40:25)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Warden James is giving "Snake Eyes" a tour of the prison as he is leading him to processing. They enter a room and James talks about the temperature: "kept to a crisp 68. Almost calls for a... a Snuggie". He is pointing to both the yellow tubes at the walls when saying the first sentence. But it cuts to a wide shot for the second sentence and suddenly his arms are at his side. (00:27:30)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: To escape the assault of attack helicopters, Flint, Jaye, and Roadblock jump down a well. it is night time, but the sky is bright orange from fire and explosions all around, even visible as Roadblock is falling down the well last. But when they surface from the water mere seconds later and look up, and there is only a lower blue light in the sky, where it was bright orange from fire moments earlier. (00:20:45)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Duke pushes Flint out of the way as a chopper hits the Hummer he is next to. Duke is engulfed in flames. As Roadblock is seeing this, there is smoke all around him so thick you cannot even see 2 feet past him. Then only a moment later as he begins to run, the smoke/sand is all gone and you can see he is next to a vehicle. (00:20:00)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Duke and Roadblock are having a contest to see who can shoot a cupcake at the end of a shooting range. In the shot from their perspective, there are some orangeish pink cross shaped targets mid range. The one on the far left is crooked and leaning sideways. But in shots from the cupcake's perspective, that same cross is standing straight up. (00:13:30)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: While after the first nuke, Flint pushes an enemy solder over a railing to plummet to his death. He falls face down, but in the next shot, he is falling face up. (00:11:15)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Question: When the revelation is made about how Storm Shadow was framed for the murder of Hard Master, did the leader then already know it was Zartan and made the accusations to coax a statement from Storm, or did they really not know yet? Then entire scene felt rushed, and like they figured out what happened and who did it too quickly.
Chosen answer: The Blind Master says to Storm, "You will tell us Cobra's endgame or die by the same sword you once used to kill our master" near the start of this scene, meaning they really did not know that Zartan killed the Hard Master.
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Question: Zartan asks the real president where the prison is where Cobra Commander and Destro are held. But didn't Zartan take the president's place at the end of the first movie, before those two were captured between films? So if that is something that would be told to the president, wouldn't Zartan already know? Or is this a major plot hole?
Chosen answer: Zartan is assuming the identity of the President. He doesn't have access to every single piece of information that the President knows. That's why the real President is kept alive in the case that Zartan needs information he doesn't know. Zartan can only do so much to look like and act like the President, but he has no idea about top secret information such as that. As for why Zartan would wait so long to free Cobra Commander and Destro, either that was part of Commander's plan, or Zartan has his reasons.
Answer: At the end of the previous movie, they were in custody on the USS Flagg and transferred to the German prison in between films, after the point Zartan had replaced the president. This means when Zartan asks the real president where it is, he must think the president knows about some protocol to send high-value prisoners there. If that prison was a pre-existing facility that the president knew about, and the transfer took place after Zartan took over the president's identity, then yes, he should have been updated about it. And if he, as the president, wasn't informed, then he has no reason to think the real president would know either. The whole issue could have been rendered moot because Storm Shadow presumably assassinated the Pakistani PM and allowed himself to get caught so they'd take him to that prison, revealing its location to Firefly, who is tracking him—but Storm Shadow seems to know its protocols about the REM drug already, implying the real president did reveal the info.
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Jaye says, "We didn't. We did. Distinguished marksmen". As she does, Flint reaches towards her and Mouse is looking up at her. the next shot, Mouse is looking down. (00:08:10)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Duke and Roadblock are playing video games in Roadblock's house, Roadblock's kids come up and start messing with Duke. They knock Duke's headphones off and comment about his big ears. But then Duke stands up with them on his back and his headphones are on his head again. The next shot, they vanish. (00:05:20)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: After Mouse snipes the cup from an enemy solder's hand to cause a diversion, Duke and Roadblock rush off and get into a fight with two other Asian solders. Roadblock pins one against a vehicle and pounds his face with his heat gloved hands. The solder's hat comes off, but in the next shot it is on again. (00:02:35)
Chosen answer: They are probably other retired Joes.
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