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| Hoardax is such an egomaniac, he second-screens his own site when watching ANYTHING. |
In 1987, one of Cannon Film's finest filmic moments was
Masters Of The Universe starring Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella. I saw it at the cinema as a child-like Hoardax. It blew my eight year old mind right in half. Cleaved in two like the power swords of the original MOTU storyline.
However, I realised pretty early into the flick that it was different from the
Filmation cartoon and I was
fine with that. I remember realising years earlier that the Filmation cartoon was also very different from the mini-comics and toyline I had already grown used to.
It was all a great lesson while I was young and impressionable that if you're a big enough fan of something you will adapt to various interpretations and find something to like in all of them. Sure, you don't have to, but it's entirely possible.
The original Masters Of The Universe motion picture is not why we're here today.
We're here to talk about the inevitable new film.
The highly anticipated and possibly-never-actually-happening modern interpretation of the 30ish year old Mattel kids toy line. Hasbro have had massive amounts of success with their licenses regardless of quality. Sci-fi / Fantasy / Superhero movies are the toast of the town right now. 80s nostalgia is peaking. Verily, we are living in a golden age that can only truly peak with a Masters Of The Universe live action film.
Personally, I think it could work better as an ongoing, dark, tongue-in-cheek Fantasy/Sci-Fi show with a macabre sense of humour that doesn't shy away from the existence of characters like
SNOUT SPOUT. Maybe even on a US cable network. But that'll probably never happen.
So instead, let's CAST the future blockbuster attempt to create a new film franchise based on literally one of the weirdest and oft-maligned concepts in toy (and probably sci-fi/fantasy history).
This is my casting for the Masters Of The Universe film. The first film. If the powers that be ever read this and heed my words, there
will be sequels. Verily.
