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MotU 2026 film
And you thought I was angry about PDMT.
I've been told (from a very reliable source) they're hiring the GD team from TMNT to design the characters. The folks behind such classics as I, Frankenstein, Pixels, Gods of Egypt, and Jupiter Ascending. Hell hath no fury kids... |
Fu*king sh*t.
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Sorry, He-Man fans. :(
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Yeah, I heard earlier today. Pretty much the worst news I've gotten in years. :(
I blame PD's TMNT movie entirely for this, you understand. Take a property people passionately love, hand it off to people who don't care about it, let them do "their version" of it, subtract plot and backstory, add explosions, and watch the rubes eat it up with a shovel. "It worked for those guys," was definitely the thinking here. F*cking DAMN IT. He-Man's like one of my three favorite things of all time. Frankly, I don't give a tiny sh*t about TMNT, if compared to how much I love He-Man. And a ton of stuff I've been hearing over the last few years has been spotty, but promising. I actually had hope for this. That'll teach me. That's what we get, when a piece of sh*t like PD TMNT makes $600 million; "It's just a stupid 80s toy, the movie's just a stupid commercial, who gives a sh*t?" Thanks, guys. Thanks a f*cking LOT. Now MY thing gets to be sh*tty and awful. You can all burn for it. Yeah I'm not happy. You can say I'm not happy. |
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I've never been exposed to He-Man, but I feel really bad for anyone who enjoys the show. |
This movie has been in development hell forever. I'd be shocked if it ever gets made.
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Annnnnd this would be the bad points to of today.... The original movie will suddenly be heralded as an epic film... lol
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Jupiter Ascending was amazing, but it was ridiculous. It was just my kind of ridiculous. Those other movies were not made with someone like me in mind, so I think you guys might be on your own.
But let's be honest, he-man really was about a leather daddy fighting a skeleton so maybe it'll be okay? |
Oh noooo!
This is just going to crash and burn like a poorly manned firework. Kind of have to laugh at how pitiful this is going to turn out. |
He-Man just doesn't work as live action, it would need a very wild re-imagining for it to work which fans would never accept.
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That's true...we know how well the last live-action attempt went.
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Bullsh*t, conceptually it's just Conan plus Star Wars. Don't be stupid. "Can't work in live action." Please. You take two types of movies that make tons of money, and you marry them, you should have a concept worth ALL the money. Math, f*ckers.
It can work a million different ways, it just has to be made by someone who wants to take it seriously and not make fun of it. Which is asking too much of Hollywood right now insofar as anything based on anything from the 1980s. Lots of things that could be really good are being done terribly because Hollywood learns the exact wrong lesson from every single "success". Half-assed sh*t like Transformers and TMNT make money, so they figure, "This sh*t's easy, all we have to do is hit the catchphrases, and occasionally stop to point out how silly and insipid this whole thing we're doing is. People will forgive stupidity and lack of effort if we convince them it's entirely on purpose." And people pay to see those movies knowing they'll be terrible, and then you get a movie like f*cking JEM, because that's about as hard as the people making these movies now think they need to try. Conan plus Star Wars. It should be the easiest and most goddamn epic thing ever made. I'd write and direct the goddamn thing for free. It should be impossible to f*ck up, not impossible to get right. |
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There were some big ideas, stuff that could have been great to explore - but so much talkie talkie to get to the good stuff. T'was a movie in need of an editor. Quote:
http://tosh.cc.com/blog/files/2015/0..._Coustumes.jpg With an ex Menudo as the titular character, bears playing Man-at-arms and other Eternians, and Tosh as Skeletor... McG can't possibly do better. I mean, which A-lister is willing to be Fist-O? WARNING: Contains hilarity. http://tosh.cc.com/video-clips/743wy...eo%2BBreakdown |
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But now I wanna see Jupiter Ascending. |
Well, now I know exactly which godless heathens are getting a f*cking voodoo doll made in their likeness. Good thing I'm snowed in all weekend with lots of bitter hatred and free time.
But seriously, if you feel any sudden stabbing pains, F*CKING GOOD FOR YOU. :flaming::flaming::flaming: |
@Shuriken
He-Man is, actually, the best thing ever. It has everything you could possibly want in fantasy. It's equal parts LOTR, Franzetta, Flash Gordon, King Arthur, Conan, Dune, The Seven Seals and Star Wars. Done right...and I mean George Miller/JJ. Abrams/Luc Besson on their best days, it would make ALL the money; not a lot or a bunch, but actually all of it. A Brittish billion. #fact |
Can I hug you? Because nobody's ever really gotten it so hard before. I want to cry. Seriously.
"...I thought *I* was the only one...!" It's like that, that's what I'm feeling right now. |
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And it's amazing and saddening to me that people don't Get It. It's like anyone who didn't grow up watching it dismisses it as "What's to like" And I'm like, "What's NOT to like?" It's got literally everything that's awesome in it. Warriors and wizards and dragons and monsters and magic swords and buff protagonists and scantily-clad heroines AND spaceships and robots and... why isn't this stuff mandatory viewing for all kids, again? I don't get it.
But I guess it's worthless because it happened to be made by an animation company that operated on a shoestring budget, while nonetheless mastering the art of Rotoscoping. :roll: People nowadays look at Filmation and they're like, "What a bunch of dollar store horse sh*t," but y'know what I see? A company that made the absolute most out of every single thing they could. They brought an entire universe to life - several, really, lots of their shows were successful and popular - with piles of stock footage and a total of about three voice actors for every show. People now go, "Man, people must have been stupid to sit through that," as if we didn't notice. WE DIDN'T CARE! The characters and the stories were enthralling and exciting in SPITE of the shoestring production values; kids just considered it part of the package, and most really loved it. They loved that it was the same shot of He-Man punching someone every time, and they especially loved the transformation sequence. It never changed once in 130 episodes, but it was every single kid's favorite part. Didn't matter that we'd seen it (and acted it out, don't lie) a thousand times; we weren't all spoiled brats yet. And even beyond that, you had those amaaaaaazing mini-comics that came with the first batch of figures... the ones produced by DC before the storyline had been completed, where the whole thing was much more "Conan" and taken a lot more seriously. Those things were just tops. And I mean, not for nothing, but the whole thing is a LOT deeper than people give it credit for. Even when it was "just" the mini-comics and the cartoon, you had a ton of mythology there, even going back thousands of years to "Preternia" and He-Ro and "Powers of Grayskull" and all that stuff near the end of the toyline's popularity. But now there's not only the 2003 update, but with the Matty Collector figures they've gone and merged the originals, New Adventures, the film universe, and 2003 into one cohesive mythology, plus added a ton of stuff to give the saga a proper "ending" of sorts with The Ultimate Battleground. It's really all quite epic. People who are so readily dismissive of it really have no idea what they're talking about. "Ohhh, cheaply-made kiddie cartoon! Stock animation! Homo-erotic subtext!" Yeah, whatever, blow it out your ass, you myopic swine. It absolutely rivals anything else in the fantasy/sci-fi genres, 100%. If anything, it's like Lord of the Rings for people who aren't COMPLETELY insufferable nerds. |
I, Frankenstein got some okay creature design, I mean it's nothing that stands out as amazing or downright awful, it's just there being kinda boring. the Basic face design for the gargoyles is kinda reminiscent of a generic feline Thunderian face.
Gods of Egypt, looks so ridiculous with mostly white actors playing African gods that transforms into huge armored guys fighting. It's great in that "so bad it's good". The Creature Designs aren't bad per se. But, we already had had great Creature Designs in MOTU. Just have the freaking FourHorsemen do a realistic design, they've done this for years now, and basically have He-Man in their veins designing both the relaunch cartoon from 2002 and the Classics Toyline. Quote:
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42: Siiiiiigh. It's amazing what people can accomplish with actual loving care.
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I'm not good with words, so I'll just go ahead and agree with everything Commenter and Leo said. It might be good if the designers didn't care and "just" made the characters like they were in Filmation and 200X cartoons. If they have brilliant ideas how to make them look modern like the Turtles, keep that sh*t to themselves. Eternia isn't Earth and they don't need to make pop culture references.
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I get it and respect your opinion I just disagree. With that said caught a good chunk of the 2003 series and from what I saw it was pretty good. Those classic MOTU figures were boss as well. Honestly McG is ok, gets more hate than he deserves IMO. :tcouch: |
Oh man! What?! Your going to let a guy with a hamburger for a name direct Masters of the Universe? Well this is certainly a punch in the crotch. Maybe it will be fine, but if Dr Phil is right, and past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, then all signs point to no.
They just have to get a few tonal elements right; even if they change details, and redesign everything for no reason, they can still make a good movie if they don't miss the point completely. Terminator Salvation missed the point completely. He-Man was my first obsession, and as dumb as this sounds, that show was a corner stone of my early life. |
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First thought when I read the news: "McG? Why, was Brett Ratner unavailable?"
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This show had it all. And to date I think only the Ninja Turtles, and perhaps Batman TAS can stand up to its coolness. This show should of had a movie before He-man. |
It still has a chance to be decent, right? I mean it's He Man, not too hard to f*ck it up.
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Source please. Thank you. |
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Thundarr the barbarian |
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Thundarr isn't worthy of washing He-Mans fur thong. Lol, If McG was directing Thundarr, nary a **** would be given, by anyone.:lol: Quote:
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...76c8a9eb1.jpeg Can we get that fvcking word banned already? |
If anything, Thundarr was the "cheap rip-off". Of Conan. At least He-Man had a better story to it. And more characterization. And.... Y'know what? I'ma agree with Leo and 42 here.
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:lol: I like shuriken. He's a kid, he don't know any better.
But yeah, the word "butt-hurt" should be something you can hit someone in the face for. "Your honor, the defendant admits he did indeed punch the plaintiff square in the face, shattering all but two of his teeth and resigning him to eating the remainder of his life's meals through a straw, BUT, I say this to you, in his defense: The plaintiff accused him of being... (long, dramatic pause) ... 'Butt-Hurt'." "I see your point. Not only is the defendant Not Guilty, but I hereby sentence the plaintiff to death." Thundarr is okay but you can't even compare the cultural impact. I like what I've seen of it but it's not like more than ten people would care if they announced a movie of that. It'd be nice if there was, but eh. It's not the character designs I'm super-worried about. It's that McG is an awful director, who's only "success" is a Terminator movie that apparently only I think isn't worthless, that probably would have been worthless if Bale wasn't carrying it. Frankly, I expect some of the characters will look different, I mean the 80s movie characters looked fine, to me, even then I never expected them to look 1:1 like the cartoons. I just think the guy is a crummy director and that the movie itself is probably gonna suck. :ohwell: |
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Aww, shucks..... :toops: Thanks, man. And Dolph Lundgren was pure beefcake. He BELONGED in that movie!! Also, Skeletor was dead-on, so there's that. Too bad Orko wasn't in it.... |
Once you get past the whole "It was set on Earth and not Eternia for budget reasons" it's not a bad movie at all. It's definitely one of the best action/sci-fi films of the 80s. People always tell me it's awful, but when I challenge them to name 5 movies of the 80s from that genre that are better, they can't. Another movie that "failed" simply by being a few shades off - out of necessity - from its source material. It looks great, it's a lot of fun, it's got heart, and Cox wasn't a coked-up scarecrow yet. What's not to like?
Also, since I forgot to mention it before, nobody had a better ass than Teela, no matter what whatshisname said. :trazz: That's why they used that stock footage shot of Teela squatting down to jump, sticking her ass in the camera, about 2 or 3 times every single episode. They knew what they were doin'. :trazz: |
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What is so difficult to make a good He-Man series? I mean, it had an awesome cartoon in the 2000's (Cam Clarke as He-Man!) and is the pure definition of a franchise with great potential. The over the top action, the fantasy type of adventures to partake in, memorable characters, etc. Now you want to give McG, a guy who has rather average to below average work at best in directing as the man in charge? I would kill for the franchise to go live action on television easily, but give him a good movie but not with a director with that type of work. (the old movie though is a guilty pleasure though. (:P) Maybe one day, He-Man will get a true opportunity to shine in the next generation. :ohwell: |
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Not sure about "better" story? A torn world, with man kind on the verg of slavery, if they are not out right slaves all ready. Wizards are the ruleing class because they have powers and the weapons, and minions. In the troubles of this order, one man, Thundarr stands up for man kind, going from broken down town to broken down town, and fighting for freedom. A former slave, frees himself and wants others free. In its short run, I think the story was amazing. In He-man, he is a prince, a weak one at that lol, Teela can kick his ass lol. He defends Castle Greyskull from well, you get the point. Here, He-man is not beating,living in a waste land, outside of fighting evil, he enjoys life in the castle with family, being attended too, living the royal life, Thundarr lives off the land, and is trying to bring order back to the way it was, it will never be old Earth, but at least Man kind can rebuild once the Wizards are defeated. Other thing, He-man mostly never kills any one. Thundarr?? Most of the villians Thundarr face are killed off, even the only villian that return Gemini got killed off the 2nd time around. |
The same dick cheese that made Mike look like a mangled mess, and gave Donny that ugly proton pack, is doing the designs. NO!!!!!!
NO!!!!! This is not allowed. That muther should be unclogging urinals in Florida. |
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