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Despite the trailer for the new movie “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” being an affront to my childhood memories of everything that made the toy line and subsequent cartoon series so special, I was pleased to see that screenwriters Stuart Beattie, David Elliot and Paul Lovett managed to squeeze the line “I gotta get me one of those” into the film’s modest 118 minute screen time.

Hot on the heel’s of the line’s appearance in “Batman Begins,” “I gotta get me one of those” makes it’s most recent appearance thanks to actor Marlon Wayons, who apparently says the line after being shown one of the team’s acceleration suits, which you will of course remember from their prominence in the aforementioned cartoon series and toy line.

Honestly, I think all movies can benefit from the inclusion of the line, “I gotta get me one of those.”

America can relate to “I gotta get me one of those.”

Don’t we all “gotta get me one of those” every now and again?

To back up my claim, I’ve included some examples of mediocre films that could be drastically improved with a little “I gotta get me one of those” added to the mix. Check it out.

“Star Wars”

- As the Millennium Falcon takes off from the Mos Eisley space port, it’s passengers narrowly avoiding capture by the Imperial military, blaster bolts filling the air as the ship slips out of the planet’s atmosphere before blasting into the safety of hyperspace, one stormtropper leans his helmeted head toward another and says through the crackle of his intercom, “I gotta get me one of those.”

“The Wizard of Oz”

- Dorothy, in a misguided attempt to douse the flames engulfing the Wicked Witch of the West, splashes the villain with the contents of a bucket of water, inadvertently destroying the hydrophobic sorceress. After the green meany melts into a steaming pile of goo, one of her guards, amused by his employer’s death since she denied his request for time off a week prior, mumbles of the bucket under his breath, “Man, I gotta get me one of those.”

“Jurassic Park”

- As the T-Rex emerges from outside the visitor’s center during the film’s climax, attacking  a pack of vicious velociraptors and effectively saving the Doctors Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler and those two annoying kids from an unpleasant death, a pair of spectating gallimimus shake their heads in amazement at the large predator’s ability to destroy the smaller carnivores. Both dinos bark simultaneously in their prehistoric language, “We gotta get us one of those.”

See how that works. Movie studios got to get them one of me.

Hint hint.