OT: Anyone watch the Masters of the Universe on Prime yet?
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Thought it was silly as hell and couldn't make it through about 15 mins
This is the correct answer.
Yeah they really sillied up the cartoon about a muscle man in a loin cloth on a green tiger that fights a guy with a skeleton face with his friend Fisto and with the help of a magical alien creature with a circle on his frock. Really should have gotten Scorcese to direct it to ramp up the realism.
It was about what you could reasonably ask for from a movie based on an 80s cartoon that was based on a line of toys. Goofy fun.
If you weren’t a child of the 80s it’s going to be silly to you.
That's my concern. I was a little old when it was on TV. I will give it a try at some point.
Just curious, what did you expect? Did you not know it was based on a kid's cartoon?
Admittedly, most of my exposure to the He-Man world comes from Skeletor memes. I was already in my teens when the cartoon came out.
I mean, that's not too bad of a point, but even in fantasy/sci-fi, you can only ask people to suspend their disbelief so much. Like in Harry Potter, I was good with the wizardry and magical creatures and basically parallel world, but when one of the most famous magicians in the world also went for the homely ginger girl that was also poor, it just got too silly for me.
I was a child of the 80s and loved Masters of the Universe growing up.....i have tried to watch it twice and both times had to cut it off....i thought it was terrible....too fast into the plot....horrible acting....
I knew there was no way that juvenile humor would be mature enough to impress Cooterpoot.**
*JK buddy
I thought it was great. Finished it last night. I was a huge fan in the 80s, had all the action figures, the Castle of Grayskull, everything. So it was very nostalgic for me. That was all I wanted it to be. I wasn't expecting Forrest Gump or anything, just a fun trip down memory lane. I liked it. It was cheesy on purpose, because the cartoon was cheesy. People take this stuff way too seriously. I wasn't a fan of all of the sexual jokes, but I get why they are there. It just made it uncomfortable to watch with my kids.
I just picked up watching The Night Manager. Has a James Bond vibe and has Hugh Laurie (Dr House) as the villain. Interesting that it took 10 years to go from season 1 to season 2.
If it doesn't include a certain 4 Non Blondes song can it even be considered canon?
I watched it sunday with my daughter...it wasnt too bad. It probably wasn't good enough to warrant a sequel, however. Shame, cause it was way funnier than i thought it would be
Tell me you didn't read the books without telling me you didn't read the books.**
This was mostly a casting and pacing issue for the movie. They really should have re-cast the part. On top of that, for pacing and time they just had to cut out the backstory of the time period where Harry starts to desire her but wont act on it out of loyalty to Ron. She dates all around, is basically the "it" girl of their class, borderline ho. Also, Harry never considered himself as famous etc. It made perfect sense to fall for her. The movie just had no chemistry between them.
*nerd rant over
I wanted it to be more like a Batman movie I guess.....to me, both times I watched it, it was like a cross between Anchorman and Game of Thrones if that makes sense....
You mean the movie with one of the alltime greatest fight scenes in it?? Count me in**
It a kids cartoon brought back to life from the early 80's. It was my favorite as a 4 year old ( just guessing there) and it's kind of corny as 45 year old man. I don't know what people expected there.
Very true. I would put the one in "They Live" and the church scene in "Kingsman" up there too.
Man, was not expecting a rebuttal to that one. I'm sure @CochiseCowbell appreciates you making his LOTR obsession look that much cooler.
But if I'm going to step up (or down?) to your nerd level, even aside from the fact that (1) they cast her when she was in elementary school (so even if they were having the weird thought of, "we need to cast somebody who is going to be believably attractive when they are 15 or 16" or whatever age she'll be when they get to the part dealing with her and Harry, not sure how accurately you can predict that and you still need the elementary aged girl to be able to act in the meantime), and (2) they are british so you have to judge them on a different scale (the occasional liz hurley not withstanding), I thought it actually worked fine in the movies. They were still young (or at least looked really young) in the movies, so trying to focus on attractiveness would have come off weird I think. And it just further treated Harry Potter as a too good to be true hero. Not only is he heroic and the perfect friend (ignoring that whole hooking up with his friend's sister thing), he's not even a typical hornball teenager chasing after whoever looks good but is instead just focused on personality and character, even if they are unattractive and/or poor.
Hmmm. I’m guessing Orko because if it is as good cheesy as people say they couldn’t resist the Fisto joke.
Speaking of movies that are just fun with no pretentiousness, did anyone see The Wrecking Crew on Amazon? It was great. Just dumb explosions and one liners. It belongs with the Commandos and Tango and Cash’s of the world.
Hell, Toy Story is based on old *** toys and it wasn't as stupid as Masters of The Universe. Although, I do think Forky might be gay
It was the guys version of Barbie
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