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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

A remake that needs to be made

I've been mostly disgusted with the way Hollyweird can't come up with original material in the last 25 years or so and have to keep doing endless remakes and reboots. Not all of them are bad, but I've lamented the laziness often.
 And yet, the one movie they've never tried to redo is one that I actually wouldn't mind seeing remade: Masters Of The Universe. 


That 1983 movie was not a good representation of the cartoon that I grew up with. Dolph Lundgren was a good He-Man, but the others were "fails" in the make-up and costume departments. Skeletor looked like a bad Halloween mask. 
 The sorceress looked like and old woman. 
 And I'm not saying that Man At Arms had to have a furry loincloth and green tights or that Teela needed to wear the skimpiest thing in the closet, but it's like they weren't even trying to recreate the basic He-Man universe that those who grew up with it are familiar with. 

 The hawks-head cowl that the sorceress wore, for example, should've at least been part of her costume along with the fact that she could transform into a bird of prey.
 That and other details of the show it was based on are all gone. Instead the plot revolves around some regular human teenagers that get stuck in that universe looking for a "key" with a troll-type character that was never part of the show to begin with so the girl could go back in time and change the day when her parents died in a plane crash...?? 
 Eternia was more of a backdrop. There was no Prince Adam, which is kind of the main part of the show. 
 There were none of the other familiar henchmen of Skeletor's or helpers to He-Man. There was no Cringer/ Battle Cat! Or even Panthor, that purple panther that Skeletor rode. 
 It would be unbelievably easy with the cool sfx now to incorporate these things now an make it a movie that's actually based on the show. Am I the only one who remembers that Teela was actually the Sorceress' daughter and that Man At Arms was only her adoptive dad? Why was that movie about Earthling teenagers when the cartoon had it's own story lines?


This is a movie that actually needs to be remade. But, my husband quickly pointed out that He-Man isn't relevant anymore and he's right. The He-Man show was very generation-specific. People my age may show their kids some old He-Man cartoons if they still have any, but it isn't the sort of thing that crosses generations and lasts throughout the years. It's not the sort of thing I think about even until I see it come across a movie channel. Maybe somebody on the internet who can get things done will see this plea for a genuinely good and much needed remake. LOL!

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