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Legends aren’t born, they’re regurgitated forever.
I feel like this movie is coming like a decade or 2 too late to hit the right audience. Like, those people who would get nostalgia baited for watching this cartoon as kids are nearing 50. Their own kids are already grown up, so they’re not catching a new generation either.
The first transformers came out 19 years ago and did not have as long a gap in franchise presence, as we had beast wars in the 90s, and a continuous comics run.
This just seems to be a weird choice…
I’m one of the old bastards who was there for the cartoon and I’d rather watch the “What’s Up?” video than a live-action movie nowadays.
There was an animated series in the early 2000s (it was excellent), Netflix did Kevin Smith’s version (also excellent), there was a 3D animated show aimed explicitly at kids (not for me), AND She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (*chef’s kiss*).
continuous comics run
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_(comics)
It’s also one of the weirder/dumber cartoons from any era.
Sword-wielding barbarian hero, spaceships, scary skeleton villain, green tiger. It feels like a toy company took a bunch unused action figure ideas and said “make a cartoon out this so we can sell them.”
Why not Space Ghost? That would cooler.
Yeah I had no idea there were spaceships in this until I saw the trailer. I assumed it was basically a kid friendly Conan
It feels like a toy company took a bunch unused action figure ideas and said “make a cartoon out this so we can sell them.”
Literally what they did.
That is literally what it was. It was commisioned by Mattel to sell the toy line after the FCC relaxed regulations on marketing to kids.
There was technically the fairly successful She-Ra show on Netflix, but I think that had a very different target audience than this movie.
More recently there was a Masters of the Universe cartoon that started 2021. I heard it was meh but it was apparently successful enough to run for 3 seasons and wrap up the story. I think this thread underestimates how big of a franchise it still is.
Yeah I highly doubt anyone not already in the know is going to make that connection.
It was completely detached from He-man and stood alone on it’s own merit.
Yeah, that’s why I said “technically”. Also while reading up on this, I learned that the film/TV rights to he-man and She-Ra are owned by two separate companies. They couldn’t appear together unless Mattel and DreamWorks decided to work together - Source
I’m not 50, but I have a lot of love for He-Man.
But are you nearing 50?
I’m less than 40 and love He-Man. And She-Ra.
I can hear the gif. Loudly.
Cool. I don’t think I used any superlative adjectives like “only/every”. You’re definitely not among the majority of those who watched this as kids.
Idk man, it was pretty popular over here. We got it years late due to being a small European country probably.
Me too and I grew up on this cartoon. But these movie is garbage and will not waste my time or money on it.
Looks terrible. How does Jared Leto continue to get roles like this?
I’m going to pirate this film and still not watch it.
I wish I had not known it was Leto ruining my beloved Skeletor character
Could have been worse, it could have been Chris Pratt
Notice, how his name is not on the poster.
It’s there below the ‘I’ in Universe.
Mom, can we have:
Masters of the universe at home:
Is that Byron from Mars Attacks?
I saw the trailer in theatres and I was so so so soooo unimpressed with the lead role. Prince Adam being a thin pretty boy is fine, but post transformation I think actually looks even thinner, somehow.
Also, TF is this Avenger’s style poster?
its the avengers style that put me off in the trailer. not just the poster style but the pushed off humor. why is adam making fun of his subjects racial aspects? he pretended to be incompetent in the cartoon sure, but in a self depreciating way. even he would not make fun of thing related to responsibilities like that.
If you told me this was the reference mock-up that the ghost of Drew Struzan was going to use to create the real poster, I’d be thrilled.
Even the non-AI stuff looks AI now.
Holy shit this looks so bad lol
That why my partner and I are seeing this opening night.
Other than casting Jared Leto and ruining Skeletor’s voice, the film-makers understood their assignment.
The trailer immediately put me off this movie.
