OMG it was Ray Park.

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Debbie treated me to GI Joe today (probably the only non-parent adults in the auditorium, or at least the only female ones) - and yeah, it's pretty strictly for the eye candy. The CGI is impressive and nearly seamless; the editing suffers from a touch of closeupitis in action scenes instead of letting us appreciate the choreography before it hurries off to another angle, but on the whole - it's pretty. This includes a very shiny cast - Christopher Eccleston, all Scottishy; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, formerly of Third Rock From the Sun in his callow youth; Jonathan Pryce as the President of the United States (woohoo, the Welsh take over again!) and OMG RAY PARK.

I repeat: OMG RAY PARK, WHO IS PLAYING SNAKE EYES.

Natually, they don't let him talk, because I dunno, two Scots accents in one American movie Not Braveheart or Rob Roy is too many, or his voice will cause glass to shatter like in a Russell Mulcahy movie or something. But OMG IT'S RAY PARK. And I... [hangs head] was not watching with sufficient devotion. (They also have two boys in flashbacks, actual martial artist kids, who are not half awesome with the action.)

Oh, and that WAS Brendan Fraser! My goodness, I thought I was seeing things. (It's nearly a Mummy reunion - Kevin J. O'Connor is in a flashback and Arnold Vosloo is a secondary blackhat.)

Two Scots, a Cymro, Brendan Fraser and a Gaelic codeword - muahahahaha.

(Thank you, Debbie!)

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I suppose it's a peril of him being such a superb wushu/kung fu stylist - they want him to be all combatively/gymnastically awesome, and not really worried about the limited amount of dialogue. Of course, if the Iron Fist movie gets made with him as Danny Rand, I can't imagine they'd dub his voice as they did for Darth Maul (who didn't have that many lines to begin with).

I have a soft spot for Lisa as well. She takes crap from no one. :)