“Man-At-Arms, would like to borrow my shie…oh, never mind.”
I don’t know when or if Midnight’s Edge is going to continue their He-Man retrospective into the New Adventures through the current Netflix nonsense but I needed a haircut today and I’m up on the deadline…again. So it’s time for the longest part of their look into the fall of the original series with the infamous movie.
I don’t hate the movie for what it is, but frankly Masters Of The Universe is further proof that some things just don’t work in live-action. None of the vehicles were in it, the costumes bore little resemblance to the toys or the show (they couldn’t even get the Power Sword right) and the same is true for the castle (which looked like they merged Castle Grayskull and the show version of the Crystal Castle), and moving the thing to Earth just took some of the interest out of seeing these heroes of another world. It’s kind of like Beastmaster 2 without the good humorous parts.
So what happened to this movie? Hollywood egos, the usual snobbery, and a film company who doesn’t have a history of decent budgets. Let Andre Einherjar do the research and go over in forty minutes everything that went wrong in the desperate hope that the people working on the supposed current live-action He-Man movie will learn from their failings.
I mean, they clearly won’t but…yeah, I don’t even have hope when I hear they’re using Thor: Ragnarok as their guide. Not the same kind of franchise, folks!
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