He-Man gets an origin story in Masters of the Universe trailer
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This trailer looks like one of the videos people upload to Reddit so they can ask people whether it's AI.
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I'm old enough to have memories of being directly in the He-Man target demographic in 1987 and seeing the '87 film in the theater. It was stunningly, crushingly disappointing. This film, whatever faults it has, at least looks determined to not commit the same hilariously stupid set of errors that the '87 one did.
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I'm not going to pretend I won't watch this. The only question is where: theater or home. Probably theater.
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Low effort mindless nostalgia-as-entertainment has its place and this will fill that role just fine. Not everything needs to be a masterpiece.
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I saw the trailer on the big screen Sunday afternoon, and I think you’re exactly right.
I sure wish somebody would come up with something creative to tell a story about. recycling 1980s toy characters just feels like folks have run out of anything interesting to make movies about
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Ugh, the trailer they played before watching PHM the other weekend seemed like it basically gave away the entire plot of this movie
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I'd take "Masters Of The Universe" by way of "Dungeons and Dragons : Honour Among Thieves" in tone. I liked the trailer. Hopefully Skeletor develops more snark though.
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"Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said 'By the power of Greyskull! I have the power!'" is all the origin story we ever needed for He-Man.
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It is egregiously bad, actually worse than Super Mario Brothers which at least had a drunk no fucks left to give Bob Hoskins/Dennis Hopper chewing all the scenery.
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RickRoyLeonPrisZhoraRacha
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"So who plays Snarf?" - Oh. That's Thundercats. Oh. Tells you how old I am.
Alison Brie? Kristen Wiig? Idris Elba? Morena Baccarin? Charlotte Riley? (Tom Hardy's SO)... that is some fine cast... cool!
Alison Brie? Kristen Wiig? Idris Elba? Morena Baccarin? Charlotte Riley? (Tom Hardy's SO)... that is some fine cast... cool!
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....to be fair, it's He-Man. The plot is "Skeletor pulls a caper, He-Man defeats him," regardless of the specific nuances or wrinkles.
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Oh, yeah, the movie may not be my cup of tea, but I don't mind that this particular film exists. What irks me is that nostalgia-as-entertainment has become such a dominant force in mainstream entertainment of all sorts.
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Inexplicably, he is about five years older than Frank Langella was when he played the role in the 1987 movie (and whose mask was reused in Star Trek for the skull-faced holodeck sparring partner in Worf's training program.)
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It just felt like they were giving away the big climactic moments like pulling the sword etc way too much for a trailer. sure the plot of most hero films like that are pretty rote, but they were spoiling the journey/details
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Frank Langella gives such a wild tour de force performance in the '87 and is on the record as it being one of his favorite roles. While everything else may be better than the 87 version, the lack of Frank Langella's over the top performance will be missed.
(Also the CGI looks Will Smith eating spaghetti bad)
(Also the CGI looks Will Smith eating spaghetti bad)
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I'm fairly certain that this trailer was created with Sora 2 before they pulled it. 
Given the right amount of alcohol and GODIVA chocolates I could probably create a better trailer using Deluxe Paint III with my Commodore Amiga 2000 that I stupidly sold decades ago.
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oP2izGLkfgU
Given the right amount of alcohol and GODIVA chocolates I could probably create a better trailer using Deluxe Paint III with my Commodore Amiga 2000 that I stupidly sold decades ago.
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oP2izGLkfgU
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Jared Leto instantly pulls me out of any movie. I am likely to skip this one for that reason, even though I was a huge He-Man fan in the '80s.
It was still fun, and it had a few dialog gems. Frank Langella gave it his all (and reportedly liked the role), Billy Barty seemed to be having fun, and the recently late James Tolkan played his classic bald tough guy determined to not be left out of whatever is going on.
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You take that Back. Hopper and Hoskins have nothing on Frank Langella. Who didn't just scenery chew he absolutely ate that whole damn movie.
"I am a GOD!" still rings in my head to this day. He knew the role was trash and showed up to have as much fun as a future award winning actor could have with that kind of dreck, and he nailed.
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I'm just hoping the role really lets his artistic ability demonstrate its range. /s
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Definitely steeped in 80's comics/cartoons expectations with kids as the primary audience.
Still, there's so much bad in the trailer. You can almost hear a movie producer suggesting that audience members aren't going to be able to see themselves in the story without starting off with Adam on modern day Earth. (strike one)
Then you have the faux edgy 'everything is grim dark and hero needs to save it' change to make Eternia some uninteresting blank sate with its history neatly pre-erased. It clearly is asking too much of them to go the harder route of world building to sell Eternia as a fantastical, magical (almost Pandora-like) place that the audience should care about. (strike two)
And then you have Adam lifting the power sword to turn into He-Man right in front of Trapjaw and others. So they're scratching out or significantly altering the whole Superman-esque dual identity secret keeping thing that features so prominently in various tellings. (strike three)
At least they didn't try to make He-Man into a dark anti-hero.
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Lemme guess. A bad dude who looks like He-Man’s house has nefarious aims?
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Why's it gotta have the origin story? Why does everything have to have an origin story?
And why's it gotta be an isekai? Jelous of Superman much? (cus you know, supes is kinda the OG OP isekai protag
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The cast looks good, but the trailer looks kinda.. bland to me, tbh. I see some people are mocking it as looking AI-gen but I'm not really getting that vibe. It's just not very interesting, very seen-it-before.
I remember that as a kid, I saw the 87 movie. I do not remember much about it, at all, except disappointment. It did not make much of an impression.
And why's it gotta be an isekai? Jelous of Superman much? (cus you know, supes is kinda the OG OP isekai protag
)The cast looks good, but the trailer looks kinda.. bland to me, tbh. I see some people are mocking it as looking AI-gen but I'm not really getting that vibe. It's just not very interesting, very seen-it-before.
I remember that as a kid, I saw the 87 movie. I do not remember much about it, at all, except disappointment. It did not make much of an impression.
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Can't wait to watch this like I couldn't wait to go look at all of the He-Man action figures every time we went to the store when I was a kid!
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I've already requested PTO for opening day so I can go sit in a theater and eat an overpriced hotdog and watch this. I know it's probably going to suck, but I'm looking forward to it anyway. He-Man and MASK were my two favorite cartoons back then.
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It always was an isekai, albeit originally it was Marlena who was isekai'd from Earth to Eternia where she became queen (and then her daughter Adora was isekai'd to Etheria for She-Ra).Why's it gotta have the origin story? Why does everything have to have an origin story?
And why's it gotta be an isekai? Jelous of Superman much? (cus you know, supes is kinda the OG OP isekai protag
The cast looks good, but the trailer looks kinda.. bland to me, tbh. I see some people are mocking it as looking AI-gen but I'm not really getting that vibe. It's just not very interesting, very seen-it-before.
I remember that as a kid, I saw the 87 movie. I do not remember much about it, at all, except disappointment. It did not make much of an impression.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvFVodMkU8M
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmfzKotk2hE
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This guy...
Arcane League of Legends: Hold My Beer
Blue Eyed Samurai: HOLD MY BEER
seriously tho, ion really watch tv, think 1hr every 2 weeks but those 2 I BINGED, and by binge I mean i Finished them each in about a month, and yes, was blown away completely.
Now off to go see Project Hail Mary, 1st movie in.. in a mad minute..
hoping to see this He-Man trailer
PEACE
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