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@JustySilverman My wife was utterly unfamiliar with the franchise...and left the theater raving about how great it was. She is now a fan. So you're wrong.
@BeAfraid_Horror Yes. My wife knew nothing about He-Man and figured she was just going to see it for me.
She loved every freaking second of it. She was raving about it when we left the theater.
In all the articles about the @mastersmovie, I read a lot about how adult critics reacted while watching it alone, so I wrote a reflection on the emotion of seeing "Masters of the Universe" with my 9-year-old son and sharing a fleeting moment of childhood wonder. (Link below.)
I saw Masters of the Universe last night, and was thoroughly entertained in a way I haven’t experienced in a long, long time. It was fun, exciting, and totally in the spirit of the original animated TV show.
No subversion of expectations, no social commentary shoehorned in, no girl-bossing, no sarcasm or irony, no weird, unpleasant color palette. Just an immersive, colorful, fun movie with a wholesome, attractive set of protagonists. All in all, true to the source material.
And the music was phenomenal. Throughout the movie I kept thinking, “This music reminds me of Queen”—no surprise, the theme song featured Queen guitarist (and astrophysicist!) Brian May. The soundtrack was an awesome homage to 80s hard rock and synth—worthy of my gym playlist.
I dunno about y’all, but to me this feels like a mini renaissance of the American movie theater. We’ve had a run of purely entertaining movies lately, and I hope it continues. I hope these movies all make a lot of money and keep coming.
If you like this kind of thing, I definitely recommend seeing Masters of the Universe.
Just saw Masters of the Universe in IMAX Laser for the second time in three days, and I *never* do that anymore.
This movie is GREAT! Flew by even faster the second time. People in the audience on a freaking Monday afternoon were literally applauding at multiple times throughout the film.
When the credits wound down (and I made sure to stay for the final post credits sequence which I missed the first time) one guy in that back loudly said "That was so good!" And it freaking WAS.
Gosh damn, I just felt good walking out of the theater and had the super catchy rock anthem in my head the entire drive home.
So rare to get to see a film in the theater these days and just be grinning almost from beginning to end, constantly thinking "I can't believe I'm watching this, how did this movie come to be and how is it so much better than I ever imagined?"
The nitpicks I had the first time largely fell by the wayside this time around.
No, the auditorium wasn't packed by any means, but that's part of the reason why I wanted to catch it in IMAX again real quick while I still could.
When this movie is gone, the people who saw it on the big screen are going to be really, really happy they did. Don't miss your chance!
@MaraHolmes_ Exactly what I said. It's like the D&D movie and Guardians of the Galaxy. It's self-aware, knows what it is, and leans into it. And that makes it SO much fun. Sick to DEATH of whiny haters celebrating about how it "bombed". It was fantastic. I got the He-Man movie I always wanted
@MarkBrassington A. MotU was freaking awesome. I would see it again.
The Scary Movie franchise stopped being funny after the first one. And the first one wasn't even that good.
@aloyxwrites LOVED. IT. Sick to DEATH of these whiny haters celebrating about how it "bombed" after one weekend. It was fantastic. If I don't get anymore, that sucks. But I'm glad I got the He-Man movie I always wanted.
@TV_Fanatic_Girl LOVED IT. Sick to death of negative Nancies celebrating about how it "bombed" after one weekend. It made its projection. It was fantastic. If I don't get anymore, that sucks. But I'm glad I got the He-Man movie I always wanted.
I don't want to hear about how it "bombed" after one weekend. It made its projection. It was fantastic. If I don't get anymore, that sucks. But I'm glad I got the He-Man movie I always wanted.
@HeManiaOfficial Give me all of that on the blu ray release. I'm already buying it, but if you give me a full cut, or even 3 hours of deleted scenes? Dude, I am THERE.
@GMFWashington Or, you know, they had a great movie and they knew it. Stop talking about movies you haven't seen as if you're preaching gospel truth. It's people who run off about "failures" that only exist because of "desperation" that cause movies like this to bomb when they don't deserve to.