FilmBuffRich

Writer. Film historian. Movie maker. won a couple of awards. Member Philadelphia Film Critics Circle.

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

With it readily available for streaming and with the new movie coming out, a lot of people are re-discovering (or discovering for the first time) the 1987 Cannon Films version of Masters of the Universe. Except, the movie is really an adaptation of the cartoon and toys in name only. It's an adaptation of something very different.

Masters of the Universe (1987) is a New Gods movie.

John Byrne explained that Gary Goddard admitted to him that he tried to get the rights to New Gods, couldn't, and when he made Masters of the Universe he decided to adapt Jack Kirby's concepts to it (he also dedicated the comic adaptation to Kirby).

Skeletor isn't a cartoon character, he's Darkseid. He's not trying to conquer the castle, he's trying to become a god. His gold armor is completely Kirby inspired. His troops are Parademons, and Evil-Lynn is very much more like Granny Goodness or Desaad.

The Cosmic Key is a Mother Box. In He-Man lore, dimensional travel is handled by sorcery and magic portals. The Cosmic Key is a technological device that opens a Kirby Boom Tube.

He-Man is actually Orion. Everyone knows the movie is set in Whittier, CA because Cannon had zero money, but that again makes it a New Gods movie with the Fourth World dynamic where Orion is fighting a guerrilla war on Earth. Them hiding out in the small town while cosmic hunters track them is classic Kirby storytelling.

So while it said "Masters of the Universe" on the poster to sell toys and get that audience into theaters, Goddard stealthily made a New Gods movie because he couldn't get the rights to adapt the comics.

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@JesseBWatters “Betrayed the party”

Lick all the boots you toadying lickspittle.

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@superkillr0073 @WildSentences Can’t imagine why someone would want you out of the house as soon as possible… 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@ScottMendelson @JillianChili This is the franchise crossover we deserve

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@EricW25506754 @BrandiKruse @CBSNews He was right though.

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AudioGalaxy - p2p sharing but you could access your control panel anywhere so add things to your queue while at work and they would be d/l’ed by the time you got home.

Great for orphaned media like Old Time Radio.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.

What’s the one website/app you still think about?

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

This week in the O.J. Simpson trial, after grisly photos of the murdered Nicole Brown Simpson were shown in court, O.J. turned his head away and wept.

It was at that moment that he realized... he would never be able to kill her again.

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@dmagillwrite Star Wars is space fantasy, not hard science-fiction.

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@alfredjviii @ManaByte - disservice to film history and the people who made it happen.

It’s a strange attitude to for Lucas to have in this instance given that he normally comes across as pro-history education.

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@alfredjviii @ManaByte To be clear, I think it was wrong for Kubrick and it was equally wrong when they destroyed the 20 minutes cut from SUPERMAN III.

But given that the OT is responsible for technological changes in filmmaking, keeping that work out of the public eye is a -

1/2

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@dreamcode_films But I do make movies. I’ve written/directed/produced a handful of short films. Our most recent one just won an award (its fourth) last week. I’ve done, and will continue to do, the real work.

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I spent 24 years wearing this nations uniform.

Do you know what nobody ever told me?

That if I worked hard enough and sacrificed enough, someday my military career could be decided by the political opinion of a Fox News pundit playing Defense Secretary.

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If true, this is idiotic.

If Oz is lying - a very distinct probability - then he just thinks we’re idiots. And I know I’m not.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: If the president is in such perfect health, why does he keep going back in for checkups?

DR OZ: I think he likes the results. He does really well. He aces the test every single day.

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@TheRochaSays Republicans love to not understand song lyrics.

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

Finally, the Rolling Stones are back on tour again. And Keith Richards says that he is thrilled to still be doing what he's been doing for twenty-five years:

Cheating death.

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@debbiefeland @RepOgles @libsoftiktok Yeah, don’t let them near Trump

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Donald Trump cheated on his first wife, who said he raped her, with his second wife, who he cheated on with his third wife, who he cheated on with a playmate and a porn star.

So MAGA can take their performative pearl clutching act about fidelity and fuck all the way off.

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For anyone in a coma since 1980 and are just waking up now -

[Entertainment Weekly @EW]

Steven Spielberg has revealed that he initially wanted Tom Selleck to play Indiana Jones before choosing Harrison Ford: 'We gave Tom the part,' but an unforeseen obstacle got in the way. https://t.co/BGcC8IqUep

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@RatSagitarius @sw_holocron Hope you like waiting…

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@jisanfloewin Women aren’t here to be your brood mare.