Film Studies – G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (corrected audio)

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Welcome to 2021! We start the new year off with a brand new FILM STUDIES with 3 new to the show guest co-hosts and a pretty bad movie.

Relive your childhood (or someone else’s if you’re not of the right age or disposition) and join Michael, Enrique, Tom and Davidie as we discuss the 2009 Action Extravaganza that is G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra which has several writer credits including Screenplay credits to Stuart Beattie, David Elliot & Paul Lovett with Story By credits to Stuart Beattie, Michael B. Gordon and Stephen Sommers. The film was directed by Stephen Sommers

As usual, we review this film and discuss ways it could inspire tabletop RPG adventures, characters or practices.

Our academic team is completed by Enrique aka NewbieDM (@NewbieDM) you can find his blog at NewbieDM.com. Thomas Bagley (@ThomasBagley2) is the host of the Australian based TTRPG podcast Shared Sagas. And David (@Tigrannosaurus1) is producing a top secret TTRPG podcast which he hopes to announce in 2021.

Tabletop RPG settings systems, setting and luminaries mentioned included:

• Cypher System
• Cortex System
• Savage Worlds
• MASKS: The Next Generation
• D20 Modern
• Modern Age
• Dungeon World
• Apocalypse World
• Wushu
• D&D (High level)
• Genesys
• Savage Worlds Freedom Squadron
• FATE
• Trinity RPG

Listen to our 2-part G.I. Joe game using the Wushu gaming system here

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Let us know, ahead of the recording, if this movie inspired you some tabletop RPG adventures.

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