Random Thoughts While Watching "G.I.Joe: Retaliation"

Random thoughts while watching "G.I.Joe: Retaliation" (this is not a review, just random notes):

(1) I am cheating on my first point, since I posted this before on Facebook. Can you call yourself a sequel if most of your original cast do not return, or if they return they die early in the film? To me, this is more like a brand new film starring Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis.

(2) The first G.I. Joe movie was released less than 4 years ago, but I've completely erased that movie from my memory. Try and try I did, but I can't recall the plot line of the film. Unfortunately you have to at least remember a bit of that film to get into this sequel faster. This movie experience is bound to be a disaster for me right from the start.

(3) They postponed the release of this film from the summer of last year, to convert the film into a 3D movie. News flash, there's not much in this film worthy of 3D experience. My suggestion is to spend that extra few bucks on another 3D film, like The Croods.

(4) Two consecutive weeks, two films with Channing Tatum dies early in the film (last week it was Side Effects). He must have been getting tired after highlighting so many hits last year, so he requested for minimal screen time?

(5) Let me get off topic a bit: Why do I always thought Channing Tatum, Chris Evans and Chris Pine are the same person? It doesn't make any sense. My only excuse might be they are about the same age, and their choice of films are quite similar as well. They have big budget franchises (G.I. Joe, Captain America, Star Trek), and they also do rom-com (The Vow, What's Your Number, This Means War).

(6) Another super productive actor - Bruce Willis. But apart from that Die Hard movie, he's been a supporting cast more frequently in recently 2 years. In this film, he has approximately 15 minutes of screen time. Damn movie trailer, they are so good at misleading us into thinking Bruce Willis is as "main" as Dwayne Johnson.

(7) Dwayne Johnson, you are better in The Snitch, though that movie itself is just a so-so film. One more thing: I like you better when you were called The Rock.

(8) The ninja at the mountain fight scene is one of the best action sequence in the movie. This is how you do action. Bravo!

(9) In one scene, the President of United States is playing Angry Birds on his cellphone. See, this is why postponing the movie is such a bad idea. Angry Birds is so last year. People were like: What? Still playing Angry Birds? He should be playing Candy Crush now!

(10) Final verdict: 1 star out of 5. Typical action movie, lame joke (okay, the Brenda joke got me, haha), typical cliché (that Point#9 from my last week's note on Olympus Has Fallen, about how our hero always shuts down the bombs or nuclear weapons last 3 seconds before it goes off, it happened here too. And they bring it up one notch, he stopped it at the very last second). Not a very good movie.