Anyone else excited for this one? And will it be better than the last time they tried it?

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LordSintax79@reddit

I mean... it would be hard for it to be worse.

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What's it going to be this time? Skeletor identifies as a female skeleton? Having an affair with Beast Man, the furry? Maybe He-Man will be black this time. How are they going to ruin things THIS time?

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PeteONeillBassPlayer@reddit

Im just not interested. Maybe in 5 years hollywood will have gotten its shit together.

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HappySkullsplitter@reddit

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is_that_optional@reddit

Her and Skeletor were so freaking good and scary in the movie. If you´ve not seen the behind the scenes/making of... videos, go find it. It´s so crazy the movie even exists.

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HappySkullsplitter@reddit

What's even crazier is this same studio tried to make a Spider-Man film in 1986 and they wanted Dolph Lundgren to play the Green Goblin

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is_that_optional@reddit

Oh wow, what a mental image lol. I´ll have to look up that story.

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RJRoyalRules@reddit

The business is going to destroy itself endlessly chasing Gen X/millennial nostalgia with all of this slop. I feel so bad for younger people who don't get any new stories of their own, just more of the same recursive dogshit for grown men who want to be 10 years old forever.

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VaselineHabits@reddit

Studios seem to demand insane profits... so what would help that would be smaller budgets. It's been crazy what they pay to produce and promote a movie and then you see it, and you wonder what the fuck happened?

Everything is tied to an existing IP, even if it just got a slapped on label to try to score nostalgia. Everything just feels so cheap and fake, even when they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sometimes you can tell the actors have even checked out.

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RJRoyalRules@reddit

Yeah it's a confluence of major problems. One is that the corporations that run the major studios are now completely risk-averse so it's hard to get anything made that doesn't have "pre-awareness." They don't want to risk any money on anything mid-budget or higher that's not attached to IP.

The other problem is tech sold them on an unproven business model via subscription services, and they got the flawed idea they could launch tons of content on streaming and that the dollars would flow. This replaced the way they'd made money for decades (theatrical releases and/or home video and rentals) instead of maintaining it and updating it.

They're also fucking themselves by pushing theatrical releases to streaming right away, it's training audiences to skip theaters because they know it will be available at home in just a few weeks. They're giving up potential theatrical income just to save themselves some marketing dollars. It's a mess!

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brodievonorchard@reddit

They dug their own graves with home video/rentals. Digital copies with DRM that can't be transferred or secured. Oh sorry, that service doesn't exist anymore, so all the money you spent was now wasted. Plus the whole HDDVD/Blu-ray battle. Why would I invest in either, what if the next player I want to buy won't play my old discs?

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justforthis2024@reddit

What's sad is that some of this shit could legit be done well if they used the IPs as a simple framework and aside for a fresh story written without trying to appeal to anyone. Just write a fucking good fantasy story and then say "let's make this masters of the universe."

Write an awesome mercenary vs terrorist story and then go "whoops, we meant GI Joe"

But when they - like you say - make it just to... ugh... pander to some aging still-theater-visiting demographic or something I'm just "get off my lawn" at this point.

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bitwarrior80@reddit

True, but there are some things I still crave. I would love to see a proper adult rated Resident Evil series that tries to follow the plot of the original. Not whatever that crap was in the 2000s movies.

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XFrankXGrimesX@reddit

What I don't get about shit like He-Man is why would I be nostalgic for crass, cynical toy commercials?

I'll think fondly of reading Spider-Man and X-Men comics or watching Scooby-Doo but He-Man, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats? The Mattel & Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour shows can get fucked. Talk about a greasy business.

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RJRoyalRules@reddit

It’s deeply cynical but sadly effective for some. I have a friend around my age who just gobbles up whatever nostalgic slop he gets served and desperately tries to get his stepkids into it. Never matters if they like it or not!

He reminds me of my dad, a great guy but a total prisoner of his own pop culture loves who dismissed anything I liked as a kid.

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XFrankXGrimesX@reddit

Sometimes I have a couple beers, listen to pop-punk and realize I'm not any younger, regrets have not been erased and no opportunities have been renewed. Saves a lot of time and money.

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RJRoyalRules@reddit

A much healthier approach!

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TonyNoPants@reddit

Here here. Our culture just seems to recycle itself now. Thundercats the movie, for me, will be the final nail in Hollywood's coffin.

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RJRoyalRules@reddit

I don't even mind recycled stuff when it's a cool and unique take, for instance I loved the Star Wars series Andor (and significantly so did my Star Wars-hating significant other). But most of the time it's just "memberberries" as South Park accurately described.

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ryannvondoom@reddit

She’s better than meg foster, that is for sure.

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yeahyeahiknow2@reddit

Hey as long as they don't shit on the franchise like Kevin Smith did...oh wait, Amazon, ugh

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn and Camilla Mendes as Teela. Huh. I would have seen that completely the other way.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

Who enjoyed the She-Ra animated netfliz series?

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Vehlin@reddit

I hated the animation style. Same with the new Thundercats. I did like Netflix’s He-Man show tho.

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phukerstoned@reddit

Wait your name is Evil-Lyn? I thought it was Evelyn this whole time!

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Vehlin@reddit

Subtle it was not.

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Geekboxing@reddit

Courtney Cox as the Sorceress please and thank you.

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XFrankXGrimesX@reddit

I'm sorry Alison Brie's doing what now?

btw Apparently I'm going to be forever salty about Netflix rescinding GLOW's last season and then blowing nine figures on Jupiter's Legacy.

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its_raining_scotch@reddit

GLOW is an amazing show.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

Yes we need more Glow!

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VaselineHabits@reddit

I'm still alittle pissed they filmed up to 4 episodes before they had to shut down. Was there zero way to just try to tie it up with maybe a few more episodes and end it?

Or even if they switched it to a movie to close everything out. Just frustrating, but I'm equally as upset about Santa Clarita Diet 😅

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XFrankXGrimesX@reddit

Wait. What? Really? From what I remember filming hadn't yet started but the non-star cast was already at work or something like that

At the very least it had to have been plotted and a least some scripts in a final draft. It's a bummer none of that "accidentally" leaked

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

I watched the fuck out of GLOW back in the day and I rather enjoyed the series, which is rare for me to like anything on "TV" anymore. Seemed like it did well enough, but Netflix does love to pull the rug out from under a winner to back a loser.

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eriksrx@reddit

After watching the original MotU movie, child-me was left wondering "WTF did I just see?"

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Fabulous_Engine_7668@reddit

Normally I'd scoff at a He-Man movie, because, I mean, c'mon. Allison Brie is cool though. I think I'm in.

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Professional-Way9343@reddit

Not even a little tbh

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

Not excited, but can they really do worse?

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love_is_an_action@reddit

I’ve never seen her in anything that she wasn’t excellent in, so this is encouraging.

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herseyhawkins33@reddit

Alison brie could get me to watch pretty much anything lol

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aerodeck@reddit

Because she is attractive?

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Aint-no-preacher@reddit

We try to not sexualize her.

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SokkaHaikuBot@reddit

^Sokka-Haiku ^by ^herseyhawkins33:

Alison brie could

Get me to watch pretty much

Anything lol

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the sorceress

Here me out:

Emma Stone

Though I'd love her as Teela too

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Cross_22@reddit

I remember watching the last one in the theater. Can't be worse than that.