After seeing the Super Bowl ad a few weeks ago, I thought it’d be fun to post some clips of…

GI Joe -- Then and Now

A teaser/trailer for the upcoming live-action film GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra was premiered during the recent Super Bowl. I was never a HUGE GI Joe fan, but I definitely grew up watching it here and there and owned a few of the coolest action figures. Cobra Commander and Destro were always my favorite.

So, I was excited to see what the new GI Joe would look like:

Hm. Not quite what I had in mind. Other than the new Snake Eyes’ costume, is there anything in that entire trailer that even resembles GI Joe? The Baroness vaguely looks like her former self, but the rest seem to bear no resemblence. Moreover, I saw no shiny silver masks.

Now let’s take a trip back to the ’80s and enjoy the original animated GI Joe film’s amazing intro:

Unfortunately, Chris Latta passed away in 1994, so we won’t hear his amazing Cobra Commander voice in the new film. But how can it truly be GI Joe without that wonderfully awful shrieking voice?

While we’re at it, let’s enjoy the old GI Joe television series intro too:

And wouldn’t it make a great series of promos for the new film if they got the cast to record some live-action PSAs like this:

I don’t have any hope for the new GI Joe film to even remotely resemble the GI Joe of the past, but at least we can still enjoy these clips today.