Masters of the Universe (2026)

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This was a 10/10... at things looking like the toys.

Otherwise it wasn't bad, but needed some editing - the length was entirely unnecessary.

It's a weird mix of parody and serious, but I kinda liked it.

Teela was appropriately hot.

I am not sure if Idris Elba got absolutely shitfaced and accidentally walked into the wrong set and then just rolled with it, or whether someone is holding his family hostage.
 
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Born in 72. I watched He-Man but was never my favorite of the animated shows. I favored GI Joe, Transformers, and Thunder Cats.

Now, Thunder Cats I would *love* to see a version reimagined for now adult viewers of that 80s cartoon. Just stop trying to make this stuff appeal to newer audiences. Make it entirely for that generation who watched this stuff. I mean, why wouldn't it do well? Seems like it only fails when it isn't faithful to the original.
 
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ShakyJake said:
Born in 72. I watched He-Man but was never my favorite of the animated shows. I favored GI Joe, Transformers, and Thunder Cats.

Now, Thunder Cats I would *love* to see a version reimagined for now adult viewers of that 80s cartoon. Just stop trying to make this stuff appeal to newer audiences. Make it entirely for that generation who watched this stuff. I mean, why wouldn't it do well? Seems like it only fails when it isn't faithful to the original.
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I loved all of those. 80s cartoons were fucking awesome. He-Man was the first one I got into. Born in 76. Cartoon ran in 83 and 84, when I was 7-8. Cable TV had just been rolled out in the lazy rural tourist trap I grew up in.
 
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Kaines

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I'm watching the RLM review of it now, and it kind of hit me that really He-Man is a property for people 50+ at this point. I vaguely remember He-Man, but I don't know that I was ever really into it. I'm just not quite old enough. If you were the target demographic for this in 1983-84, you were probably born around 1973-76. Yeah, maybe re-runs would hook people a little younger, but it seems like even 45 year olds is pushing it.

He-Man is firmly in the middle of Gen X. Even the younger Gen X'ers are probably too young for He-Man to really have been a major thing.
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Born 77. Had the action figures. Had Castle Greyskull. BEGGED my parents for Snake Moutain to no avail.

Was an absolute die-hard fan as a late Gen-Xer. Will look forward to seeing this later this week.
 
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I'll get around to watching this at some point - I did like the cartoon and toys as a kid. Trying to remember what figures I had - I had He-man and some dude where you could spin his head and he had different faces. I had a couple more but I forget. Only set I remember owning was the slime pit one, where you put the figure in and then could dump some slime on them. If I recall, the slime dried out pretty fast after a few uses and if you dropped it on the floor, it basically got perma dirty because hair and dirt and crap would instantly stick to it. I think I only used it a couple times until the slime was wrecked and my parents never bought me refills, so the set didn't really get played with for very long lol
 
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Watched a good 720p rip from the open seas.

I was bored when I watched it, and if this had been the version we had in 1987 it would have crushed at the box office. Granted CGI was non-existent back then, but the movie itself was very good for being a He-Man origin movie.

8/10 for me.

Will being going to see it on my day off for the full theater experience.

The gym scene throwback with Dolph Lundgren was awesome. The /chef's kiss of him saying "Good Journey" as he left had me laughing way too much.
 
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Just watched this - I agree it was awesome fun in most ways except could have been a little shorter. I was too old by a couple of years to have the toys or watch the cartoon but I was certainly familiar with it, but that didn’t take anything away. The campy style reminded me a bit of the old Flash Gordon movie, Queen-eque music included. Highly recommend - hope it does well enough to fund more passion projects.
 
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I had the Skunk man, Stinkor. Fucking thing actually smelled like hippiechick taint. Mattel wild for that one.

The 80s ruled.
 
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Cybsled

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lol I had the skunk one too now that I think about it. I think he had an orange outfit and a tiny gasmask?
 
Xarpolis

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I liked He-Man when I was a kid, but I used to plop my ass down in front of the TV for many hours every day. I had some He-Man toys, countless G.I. Joe toys, and I loved watching Thundercats. Maybe they could do an updated version of that, too.
I'd love to see a realistic ThunderTank. That was such a badass toy of my youth. It didn't even do much, but I still loved it. I also remember using cereal box tops to get a still mummified version of Mumm-Ra, as opposed to the powerful villain.

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I may have told this before on here, but:

My favorite Marvel movie is Thor because he had the "Power Up" moment at the end. I used to love that shit as a kid, whether it was Shazam, Voltron, Star Blazers with the Wave Motion Gun, He-Man, G-Force (Battle of the Planets) doing their tornado formation, etc. I had the toys, but most of them lost to fighting the train that used to run through my neighborhood. My buddy, on the other hand, used to keep all his shit in the box. Today, he's got a fortune in pristine, first-edition shit while I've just got memories. lol
 
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Xarpolis said:
I liked He-Man when I was a kid, but I used to plop my ass down in front of the TV for many hours every day. I had some He-Man toys, countless G.I. Joe toys, and I loved watching Thundercats. Maybe they could do an updated version of that, too.
I'd love to see a realistic ThunderTank. That was such a badass toy of my youth. It didn't even do much, but I still loved it. I also remember using cereal box tops to get a still mummified version of Mumm-Ra, as opposed to the powerful villain.

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They did a Thundercats reboot in 2010 on CN that only got one season. Was pretty good, too. Didn't sell enough toys so they killed it.
 
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moonarchia said:
They did a Thundercats reboot in 2010 on CN that only got one season. Was pretty good, too. Didn't sell enough toys so they killed it.
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I was thinking about the cartoons, too.
It was cheesy as fuck looking back as a grown ass man, but remember when shows like G.I. Joe would end with a moral lesson? Maybe there really was something to those days.
 
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moonarchia

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I was thinking about the cartoons, too.
It was cheesy as fuck looking back as a grown ass man, but remember when shows like G.I. Joe would end with a moral lesson? Maybe there really was something to those days.
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The entirety of society was hammering us with moral lessons in the 80s. Repetition and memorization are powerful education tools.
 
Xarpolis

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Yeah, that's why liberals do it for everything they're against. Who's a nazi? If you ask, people won't even think of Hitler. They'll default to Trump, even if it means just telling someone not to be a liberal douche.
 
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