Masters of the Universe (2026)

jayrebb

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Who the fuck is Jared Leto? I didn’t want to see this, but it was cause the trailer looked gay and retarded.

Some guy who chronically over-acts and adds nothing of value to a box office ticket. Every movie he's in bombs and audiences don't want to see him.

20 year history of general audiences just hoping he fucks off.
 

Bald Brah

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I want to see a movie with Leto, Jai Courtney, and Famke Jansen.

Famke aged out a while ago, but what's wrong with Jai Courtney? I know he's been in a lot of crap but he's usually a bit part. I thought he was good in spartacus. He's certainly not toxic like Leto.
 

TBT-TheBigToe

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Famke aged out a while ago, but what's wrong with Jai Courtney? I know he's been in a lot of crap but he's usually a bit part. I thought he was good in spartacus. He's certainly not toxic like Leto.
Some actors are a kiss of death, they were in a at least one good thing but, and really through no fault of their own, they end up being in a lot of fucking garbage. Famke Jensen and Jai Courtney are two of those actors, Edgar Ramirez is another one. There are a couple more but I can't remember their names right now.
Basically when you see one of these actors in something it's either going to be shit and bomb or it's going to be at-best-'okay' and still bomb.

I, personally, don't think Jared Leto being attached to He-Man is what hurt the box office (not significantly but he sure as hell didn't help), the fact that it was He-Man did. He-Man was a joke you watched between Transformers and GI Joe. You watched it with blocks of other cartoons like Inspector Gadget, Gem and The Holograms, Gummi Bears, and other shows like that. Everyone I knew that had He-Man toys got them because a relative saw them in the budget bin and thought it would make a nice and inexpensive gift.

They should have remembered who their audience is, not who they want them to be, and went hard fucking R with it and had blood and destruction, a lot of near but no actual nudity, and then ended it was a totally out of place morality lesson. End credit scene is Skeletor laughing and saying he'll be back. Or, instead of a movie, 10 30minute episodes that totally ape, in hard R, the original cartoons and include the morality lesson.

I dunno, I just never thought the movie was going to succeed because no one really gives a shit about He-Man.
 

Rabbit_Games

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I was giving this some thought. Maybe too much.

Anyhow, try this take. Run with my Origin idea. Earth spaceship crashs down, King welcomes the Earthlings. Teaches them, including Adam's mom, their culture, etc. Marries the Earthling woman and during their Vows praises their peaceful assimilation.

Counter story with the terrorist group led be Skeletor, who society should absolutely not accept in their peaceful, high-trust civilization. Show what happens when you allow Evil, low IQ, freaky-looking people to run amuck unchallenged. After He-Man shows up and puts down the threat, make that the moral lesson at the end.
 

spronk

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boys today have zero connection to He Man and hollywood has groomed boys to think only of girls as heroes and boys as (?? emotional support dogs ??) so not shocking the movie bombed. i don't think gen z or millenials have any connection to the show either, it was an extremely short lived series.

the whole history of the IP is stupid as hell, it was I think the first show created specifically to market toys (toys came first then show) as Reagan deregulated TV, before He Man it was basifally illegal for shows to heavily promote toys. He Man was also created because Mattel didn't pay the asking $750k to George Lucas back in 1976 for Star Wars action figures, and they were chasing that market ever since. Its fun to read about all the crazy 80s shenanigans, I guess not as bad as the 50s (studio system), 60s (smoking ads)