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re: Masters of the Universe reboot projecting to bomb, on pace for a $27 million opening
Posted on 6/1/26 at 7:38 pm to Proximo
Posted on 6/1/26 at 7:38 pm to Proximo
quote:That's one read, to be sure
the fact that it isn't projecting well tanks excitement for it
I think a more accurate read would be lack of excitement is WHY it is projecting poorly. I could be wrong, though
This post was edited on 6/1/26 at 7:41 pm
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Posted on 6/1/26 at 7:41 pm to The Pirate King
He-Man came from a time that didn't take itself so seriously.
These days, what's considered good cinema is low budget sadist fest horror usually stripped of anything resembling fun or humor. The blockbuster circuit is just throwing poo at the wall and seeing what sticks. He-Man was a bad fling because no one gets that it was intended to just be stupid fun anymore.
These days, what's considered good cinema is low budget sadist fest horror usually stripped of anything resembling fun or humor. The blockbuster circuit is just throwing poo at the wall and seeing what sticks. He-Man was a bad fling because no one gets that it was intended to just be stupid fun anymore.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 7:49 pm to The Pirate King
Saw a preview for this before project hail Mary. It looked just terrible, heard people literally groan sitting the preview.
This will bomb extremely hard, comic book fatigue, and generally not much audience
This will bomb extremely hard, comic book fatigue, and generally not much audience
Posted on 6/1/26 at 7:53 pm to Proximo
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projecting well tanks excitement for it
External vs. internal motivation. Not my problem, although I acknowledge it exists. There's just nothing I can do about ad budgets, dumb UAV stunts, shitty casting, critic reviews (which poor reviews from critics are a pretty good indicator of if I'll like a movie on RT.)
You want to see it, or not. The breaking point of is if most normies that see movies on weekends want to put up with the hassle, or not, for the movie.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 7:56 pm to LemmyLives
quote:Mine were
She-Ra probably set my female type preference
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Posted on 6/1/26 at 8:01 pm to LemmyLives
Kevin Smith's Netflix series had to be a major reason that excitement was extinguished. I'm 45 and He-Man was a staple when I was 4-5. He-Man, GI Joe, Transformers, MASK, and Thundercats were go to's for all of us at that time. Smith killing off He-Man and making his series about Teela/Girl Power killed any excitement about anything He-Man for me. Throw in the first trailer with the He/Him and making him a little bitch...Nah I'll wait to watch it at home for free.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 8:01 pm to LemmyLives
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critic reviews (which poor reviews from critics are a pretty good indicator of if I'll like a movie on RT.)
This one has good early critic reactions at least
Posted on 6/1/26 at 8:06 pm to theunknownknight
T Man episodes are tough to beat (Cajun He Man) - not sure why it doesn’t show via embedding
This post was edited on 6/1/26 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 6/1/26 at 8:13 pm to JJ27
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Kevin Smith's Netflix series had to be a major reason that excitement was extinguished. I'm 45 and He-Man was a staple when I was 4-5. He-Man, GI Joe, Transformers, MASK, and Thundercats were go to's
You kill the enthusiasm of the parents that lived it, they have zero enthusiasm to impart to their kids to want to watch it.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 9:22 pm to The Pirate King
Not surprising. He-Man was popular in the 80s. What year are we in? Their target audience are probably the wrong people - 80s kids will be interested for the nostalgia of it. 2010 kids won't understand the hype about He-Man. A good idea at the wrong time.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 9:31 pm to Translator
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A good idea at the wrong time.
It had a very small sliver of time for a reboot to work. Right after Transformers in '07 but it only had like a year before Iron Man comes out and the moment was over again. Now it'll probably be culturally dead like Dick Tracy.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:49 pm to The Pirate King
I never had any interest in this movie, but every little clip I’ve stumbled upon looks like it was made with AI. The CGI just looks horrible and fake as hell
Posted on 6/2/26 at 1:44 am to Madking
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The people who watched this as kids are around 50 now. The aim should’ve been for these people to take their kids but marketing, casting had to be can’t miss because the two animated series’ that came out recently were so bad nobody trusts this property. Can’t make any mistakes with stuff like this anymore.
Yep. People are at the point that any change to any characters is enough to make them tune out.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 2:22 am to Frac the world
Posted on 6/2/26 at 3:54 am to geauxtigers87
And of course Idris Elba in as race swapped Man at Arms. But tbh, I just think it was a poor IP to try & revive.
Thought it was going to do decent enough though.
Thought it was going to do decent enough though.
This post was edited on 6/2/26 at 3:58 am
Posted on 6/2/26 at 5:39 am to The Pirate King
He-man was a lot more jacked than that in the cartoon.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 5:43 am to The Pirate King
I was born in ‘78 and He-Man was a huge part of my childhood in the ‘80s. Had all the figures, Castle Grayskull, etc. But even nostalgia won’t get me in the theater for this one.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:09 am to Globetrotter747
It's a small fanbase, numbers wise. Those who were born of a certain time, and almost exclusively male. I was too old for the series by the time it came out, and I didn't see any mass appeal other than the cartoon was nothing but a means to push tons of plastic toys and merch.
There's plenty of nostalgia bait out there, and it just seems to me a really tricky thing to thread that needle for He-Man. Sonic, Zelda, and stuff like that, seem to have a better go of it.
We'll see.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:09 am to AUCom96
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He-Man came from a time that didn't take itself so seriously.
As opposed to now where you still have culture warriors crying over some pronoun joke in the initial trailer. Everything is a battleground now.
This movie is in a tough spot, kids today have no connection to the IP and the nostalgic adults like myself are more likely to just catch it on streaming.
Kids today in general don’t seem to be into the action cartoons we grew up with in the 80s and 90s, they prefer the random content creators on YouTube.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:14 am to BilJ
quote:Yeah, people would have been much more accommodating to gender retardation in the 80's
As opposed to now where you still have culture warriors crying over some pronoun joke in the initial trailer
Jesus. . .
This post was edited on 6/2/26 at 6:15 am
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