BW Media Spotlight

I have not seen Masters Of The Universe as my income still remains $0.00. Maybe when it hits free streaming I’ll get the chance. I’ve heard mixed reviews even from people usually on the same side of modern media discussion. Some say it’s good, some say it’s garbage, and some are in the middle. For once it’s not split among the usual lines. Not that it matters since the movie itself failed to make back its budget and marketing on opening weekend, which is usually all the studios care about. Which is why it’s strange when Amazon’s MGM is hoping to make it back in merchandising and streaming over the long term. It might be cope but at least it breaks the “opening night or bust” trend.

There’s another argument out there due to how poorly it did, the idea that nostalgia is dead and nobody wants to see this stuff anymore.

Look, I get it. Studios are too afraid to take a risk on new IP, even though YouTubers are starting to show you can do that with three low-budget horror movies based on YouTube content or made by creators with fresh ideas doing well in the box office without an overblown budget, and the current crop of directors and producers and screenwriters couldn’t care less about old stuff. Studios want the big names rather than take a risk on some new guy who might actually care about the show, comic, game, or whatever to do it properly. Studios don’t pay attention so the directors slap something famous onto the movie they really want to make and the studios aren’t paying attention. THAT is the problem. I can point to plenty of old stuff to prove that. Humans really don’t change THAT much without force.

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