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New Poster for "Masters of the Universe" (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by [M] to c/movies@piefed.social
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[–] 40 points 4 months ago (25 children)

I feel like this movie is coming like a decade or 2 too late to hit the right audience. Like, those people who would get nostalgia baited for watching this cartoon as kids are nearing 50. Their own kids are already grown up, so they're not catching a new generation either.

The first transformers came out 19 years ago and did not have as long a gap in franchise presence, as we had beast wars in the 90s, and a continuous comics run.

This just seems to be a weird choice...

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It’s also one of the weirder/dumber cartoons from any era.

    Sword-wielding barbarian hero, spaceships, scary skeleton villain, green tiger. It feels like a toy company took a bunch unused action figure ideas and said “make a cartoon out this so we can sell them.”

    Why not Space Ghost? That would cooler.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It feels like a toy company took a bunch unused action figure ideas and said “make a cartoon out this so we can sell them.”

    Literally what they did.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    There was an animated series in the early 2000s (it was excellent), Netflix did Kevin Smith's version (also excellent), there was a 3D animated show aimed explicitly at kids (not for me), AND She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (*chef's kiss*).

    continuous comics run

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_(comics)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The Kevin Smith obe was excellent? I don't remember much of it, but i found it really bad and somehow the guy who's name is in the title was hardly in it. I thought it was generally nit well received

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    It's called Masters of the Universe, there's no guy's name in it. It had the same problem as any show/movie that puts a woman at the centre.

    Edit: sorry, this might not have been clear enough. I'm not suggesting you didn't like it because there's a woman at the centre but I was referring to how the "public" (aka a loud part of the internet) received it.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    There was technically the fairly successful She-Ra show on Netflix, but I think that had a very different target audience than this movie.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    More recently there was a Masters of the Universe cartoon that started 2021. I heard it was meh but it was apparently successful enough to run for 3 seasons and wrap up the story. I think this thread underestimates how big of a franchise it still is.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It was completely detached from He-man and stood alone on it's own merit.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, that's why I said "technically". Also while reading up on this, I learned that the film/TV rights to he-man and She-Ra are owned by two separate companies. They couldn't appear together unless Mattel and DreamWorks decided to work together - Source

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I'm not 50, but I have a lot of love for He-Man.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    But are you nearing 50?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I'm less than 40 and love He-Man. And She-Ra.

    I can hear the gif. Loudly.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I’m one of the old bastards who was there for the cartoon and I’d rather watch the “What’s Up?” video than a live-action movie nowadays.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    There have been Transformers shows and toys almost continuously since the 80s. There us maybe a vague gap between G1 and Beast Wars aside from the nebulous G2.

    But one following right after we had

    Beast Wars, Beast Machines, RID2000(Car Robots), Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Animated, Movie1, Prime, More Movies, Robots in Disguise, Earthspark, etc etc

    Plus several toddler tier shows like Rescue Bots. And several Youtube web mini shows.

    Thats not even getting to the toy lines. For at least a decade Transformers has had like 5 lines going on shelves. The toddler line, the simple kiddie line, a more complex "Classics" line for older collectors, some sort of movie themed line, some sort of specialty line like Masterpiece.

    Sorry for the long rant, and its nothing personal, it just seems funny anytime Transformers comes up and people act like it was G1 then the movies. Transformers has never gone away ever since it started.

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