My oldest, Luke, has been nagging me to see the G.I. Joe movie since it came out. I’ve said no because I didn’t think he was old enough for such an action flick on the big screen. He pacified himself by buying, with his own money, the G.I. Joe DS game and then when he’d completed it he bought the Wii version.
On the day he turned twelve he asked if he was NOW old enough to see the movie. I thought about it a minute, then agreed. If going to see a movie works for a birthday present, fine with me.
Of course, I was the one who took him because the movie looked right up my alley. Maybe its just me, but action movies are chick flicks for forty-year olds. ALL the men are built and most are fine and half the time they have their shirts off. There’s lots of action and testosterone, so much so I just want to roll around in them it like a puppy. And I was NOT disappointed.
The action in G.I. Joe was just a little bit chaotic but the effects are wonderful. I can’t wait to own it on DVD just to see it on an easier to watch screen. Maybe it was the fact we were in the second row in a dinky theatre but it was a little hard on the eyes and ears. There were several guffaw moments and many, many… oh so many… moments I really wanted to pause or rewind just to see that body again.
And the girls were kick ass too without losing a stitch of their own sexuality. If there were plot problems I barely noticed which tells you a lot about what I was noticing! The fun part was realizing that the actor playing that bit character was, could it be… Brendan Frazier? Oooo, I’m hoping for a sequel where he’s in it more! Yummy. And I really wanted to rip the mask off of Snake Eyes (the masked good guy) because the scenes where he’s a kid tells you there’s a hunk underneath. And they ended the whole movie with the song Boom, Boom, Boom by the Black Eyed Peas.
It was perfect. I found myself looking forward to bonding with my boys in this new age they and I are in. Luke and I loved the film. We did take Evan who found it boring… what can I say, he likes the comedies better. But Evan and I bond over building and sorting his Legos so I don’t mind making the action flick a Luke and Mommy thing. And for the first time in a long time I felt rediscovering this part of me, this woman who loves living life to its fullest, was right. More than that… it would be alright.