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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1583421/

An elite enemy group infiltrates the presidency of the United States, and initiates a plan to force the world into disarmament and submission.

A standard American action movie™ of no note.

• Properly titled G.I. Joe: Retaliation
• Based on the G.I. Joe toy / cartoon franchise.
• In association with Hasbro.

• Continues from G.I. Joe - The Rise of Cobra - (2009 movie)

• 1:45 -- That's an incredibly obvious way to break into a fence.
• 4:30 -- From the looks of it, he could have tipped the barrel over.
• 6:00 -- There are way too many effects in this movie. Will the ending suck because they blew their budget?
• 6:45 -- Wow, that butterfly-blow was an absolutely awful effect.
• 9:30 -- Snake Eyes got cut through.

• 13:15 --

  • Kalashnikov rifle (likely AK-47s)
  • SVU Dragunov
  • Type 50
  • Cold War
• 14:00 -- Jay-Z
• 18:15 -- Montclair, Virginia - United States
• 20:15 -- Karaoke
• 21:00 -- Lee Harvey
• 22:45 -- Bono

• 23:00 -- Internship.

  • That's a reference to Monica Lewinsky in the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.^[ 1 ] I find it curious that she isn't immediately linked-to in the first sentence of the article.
• 34:00 -- Snuggie
• 40:45 -- How did he get weapons in there?
• 43:00 -- It takes some time for that stuff to wear off..
• 48:00 -- Waterboarding
• 52:45 -- Where did they get all those armaments from?
• 57:00 -- Uh, maybe actually say more about your good friend?
• 59:00 -- zemaboble(?) .. emaborgirl(?)
• 1:03:45 -- Phew, almost hurt a woman.
• 1:08:15 -- God thing he saved the woman.

• 1:10:00 --

  • Fox News
  • "Fair and Balanced" was their first slogan.
  • Also, the "president" would recognize her.
• 1:10:45 -- Would he have strands of hair, given the nature of his transformation?
• 1:12:30 -- So.. so they were having a dance right next to a bad neighborhood?
• 1:20:00 -- Yeah yeah, women being women because wahmen.
• 1:22:45 -- Did they suddenly turn off the lights?
• 1:25:00 -- The rest of the buttons jiggled.
• 1:27:30 -- Fort Sumter - South Carolina - United States

• 1:31:00 -- So the thing about nukes and the whole armament thing is the idea of mutually-assured destruction. All those other countries would retaliate without pause. Or at least one would.

  • 1:31:45 -- .. like that. Though without them all needing briefcases are their own.
• 1:33:00 -- Phew, a woman almost got hurt.
• 1:34:30 -- Not all nukes would have been launched.
• 1:38:00 -- They're already being dropped in sequence, all they would have to do is destroy the case.
• 1:50:00 -- The case is locked. Roll credits.
• 1:51:00 -- All he needed to do is squish the bug, but it wasn't established that they were tough or anything.