G.I. Joe: Retaliation - Project Zeus's Demonstration

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[Drcomet]

The missile is pointy, General Aladeen will be proud.

[mattf]

The most unrealistic part of this scene is that it's the French leader who is the most angry over London getting obliterated lol.

[FullPlaythroughs]

The fact that this movie ends on a happy ending is hilarious, considering how an entire city was just destroyed, millions of people potentially dead, the entire financial market would crash since London is the second largest global financial centre in the world, global chaos and recession/depression, etc. I know it's just a movie but it wouldn't hurt for some throwaway line somewhere to explain it or SOME acknowledgment at the end of all the dead, but no apparently it's a happy ending

[andrewchapman]

I'm always so impressed with how they destroy all these locations in movies and are able to build them back so quickly

[quintesbarrera]

Anyone else just love how the beat drops when cobra commander says “we drop it”? Such a great moment in this movie.

[SauceFring]

Imagine if they didn't think the entire plan through and dropped the warhead from space and it just orbited the Earth with all the world leaders watching.

[DChuck]

Remember that scene at the end where the Rock goes home to his daughters and they're all smiling and all is well? Yeah, your movie isn't allowed to have a scene like that after a scene like this.

[danjjnr]

How the fuck do you get all that hardware into space without a single nation on the planet noticing? 

[tacticalpossum]

Props to these actors for being able to keep straight faces

[nobody-wkej]

CIA - "We had no idea."
MI6 - "We had no idea."
Mossad - "We had no idea."
BND - "We had no idea."
DGSE - "We had no idea."
PSIA - "We had no idea."

[GHHHHJKKKKK]

So basically all of Southern England gets destroyed and they don't mention the UK for the rest of the movie. Not even the British ambassadors in the room give two shits (only the French guy and the Indian guy apparently did). Really?

[thejeran]

A bullet travels @ 343.2m/s. The guy says it travels at 8x the speed of a bullet which is 2745.6m/s. He said its made out of Platinum w/ a bit of tungsten. Lets assume its the size of an SA-2 missile (its probably smaller) which has rough volume of 4, 079, 358ml with Tungsten density 19.3g/ml that gives us a mass of 78731609g or  78, 731.609kg which is fucking ridiculous. Thats just slightly more than an empty space shuttle. Tungsten is a little less dense than platinum so I'll add some points for the shell it's supposedly in and call it an even 80kKg. So the kinetic energy of this rod with 80kKg travelling at 2745.6m/s would be 301.5billion joules or 0.07kt. 7x stronger than the weakest nuclear warhead we can make, and about 215x weaker than the bomb dropped on hiroshima

[Caldoric]

As Tony Stark once said, "the best weapon is one you only have to fire _once."_

[panithichangkiaw]

"8 times faster than a bullet, 14 times more nuclear destructive, and free of any chemicals or radioactivity."
This is awesome!

[ProjecttEarth]

Gentlemen welcome to a nuclear-free world.
*Blows up London*

[chickendrawsdogs]

That reaction shot of everybody after London got hit was like "Ok, everybody look shocked. ACTION!"
Everybody: 😐

[DCMarvel]

Ambassador: "What is it that you want?" 
Cobra Commander: "...I want it

Okay, Cobra Commander, you can't go ripping off Sharpay's dream.

[robr]

I like how in the end of the movie the good guys look victorious, even though a major nation and several million people, and a significant part of the world economy were decimated, and then never mentioned again. That missile looked like it pieced the earths damn crust. Aside from France being hit probably by a crazy tidal wave, the entire planets ecosystem would have been majorly affected by that attack. But yeah, the good guys win...

[Xhadp]

The expulsion of the rod is something that I just love from the graphic showing how it works to the perfect cut of product combined with the sound cues. Man it is just amazing.

[CyberSlayer]

"We don't turn up the bass"
"WE DROP IT!"