Last year, Butt-Numb-a-Thon, the Austin, TX based movie marathon kick-started by Aint It Cool News debuted the G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer and it got stellar reviews by those in attendance.  This year, while we’ve all seen various trailers countless times, BNAT was still able to debut something new for the G.I. Joe: Retaliation film.  According to Devin Faraci on Twitter, it was the mountain battle sequence, and it was “incredible”:

In spite of the whirlwind of rumors that have surrounded the G.I. Joe: Retaliation film since it’s delay announcement, it seems like most folks who have actually seen footage are fairly excited about it.  Granted, these are all small snapshots in the overall film experience, but I think a reaction like the one above is a very good thing.

Meredith from Bad Ass Digest (the same place that Devin works for) also gave a BNAT 14 review and mentioned the sequence:

“Next we saw the theatrical trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which was more of the awesome same, and then a sequence of ninjas fighting on a mountainside that was honestly breathtaking. It’s so foolhardy of me to be excited about a movie this long in the making, but dammit if that footage didn’t make me excited.”

The folks hosting BNAT, Aint it Cool News also posted their own reactions to the sequence:

“We saw a new 3D trailer for RETALIATION, and it looked about as good as it expected to, with all sorts of metal stars and pieces of swords flying at the screen.  But the best thing about it was the scene where Snake Eyes makes his was into the enemy compund to capture Storm Shadow.  We get ninjas flying from mountainsides on cables, shurikens flying at the camera to be dispatched with automatic gunfire, a duel between Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes, all in 3D, and it looked amazing.  I don’t know how good GIJOE RETALIATION will be, but it sure looked fun.”

As I said, yes, these are just snippets of the overall film, and considering what the mountain sequence represents, it’s probably not surprising that folks found it to be so exciting.  Still, though, I think this is  good news for G.I. Joe fans and as we careen closer to March 29th, 2013 I’ll take whatever good news we can get.  We’ve had a pretty slow news year since the Retaliation push back…I’m ready for things to kick back into gear again.

Related posts:

1. Some great perspective and insight on G.I. Joe: Retaliation from AICN
2. Great video interview of G.I. Joe: Retaliation director Jon Chu
3. Screen Grabs from G.I. Joe: Retaliation International trailers
4. Photos continue to come out for G.I. Joe: Retaliation
5. Scene details revealed for G.I. Joe: Retaliation via Casting Resource