Masters of the Universe: Masterverse

Hate to be a Debbie Downer here but I think both Cringer and Roboto look terrible. Roboto mostly because of the design and Cringer because of the CGI. Roboto looks a bit bland, but maybe that is just one look and there will be a better look somewhere in the movie. Cringer just looks "fake" (I know CGI). His look isn't very sharp and seems like they didn't spend enough on the CGI in the budget for him.

Of course that could just be the teaser and he'll be better in the final cut.

As for the rest of the cast. Idris Elba as MAA looks good. The outfit definitely gives off MAA vibes while being different enough for a live action movie. Same with Teela. The guy playing Adam looks pretty spot on for my mind's eye of what a cartoon Adam could look like in live action.

The screen grabs I saw of Castle Greyskull look good and is that a Roton flying in the sky? If so I think I really like that design (double hoops spinning). Can't wait for the first trailer tomorrow and my concerns about Roboto and Cringer should hopefully be all for naught.
 
I thought Cringer looked... faint? Like he ain't done yet. I'm hoping the trailer is just not giving him all he's got. I don't love the Roboto redesign either, just doesn't do it for me. (And you know that action figure if they make him will be a Deluxe.) Elba's MAA does look like a true homage, though.
 
docsilence said:
I'm with Damien in that I'd love a He-Man story that pulls right from the mini-comics, but I think we're a very, very tiny minority. Hey @Damien would you hunt me down and end my life if I started a "based on the mini-comics" file card thread for MOTU characters like I've been doing for Classified?
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My wife might. Because I will ABSOLUTELY let her know why I'm suddenly buying MOTU characters that I haven't had any interest in since the MOTUC days of 'just get everything - why not.'

I think a series like that might actually make me more sad than anything, because I know there is no current, modern-style MOTU line that I actually like and think is objectively good.
 
canprime said:
Hate to be a Debbie Downer here but I think both Cringer and Roboto look terrible. Roboto mostly because of the design and Cringer because of the CGI. Roboto looks a bit bland, but maybe that is just one look and there will be a better look somewhere in the movie. Cringer just looks "fake" (I know CGI). His look isn't very sharp and seems like they didn't spend enough on the CGI in the budget for him.

Of course that could just be the teaser and he'll be better in the final cut.

As for the rest of the cast. Idris Elba as MAA looks good. The outfit definitely gives off MAA vibes while being different enough for a live action movie. Same with Teela. The guy playing Adam looks pretty spot on for my mind's eye of what a cartoon Adam could look like in live action.

The screen grabs I saw of Castle Greyskull look good and is that a Roton flying in the sky? If so I think I really like that design (double hoops spinning). Can't wait for the first trailer tomorrow and my concerns about Roboto and Cringer should hopefully be all for naught.
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Roboto especially. Man at Arms makes less sense as Elba when you consider Teela is supposed to be his daughter (maybe they'll claim he found her floating in a basket in a river perhaps?) and Fisto is his brother (cast as a caucasian actor in this film). Not big on the Roton look, looks too Tron-esque. Plus where is Beast Man? They cast "Goat Man" but no Beast Man? The Jared Leto as Skeletor aspect was my red herring that this was dead before it ever got legs. Leto ruins everything he's a main character in. I even include Requiem for a Dream in that, as that whole movie was about how Jared Leto ruined the lives of everyone around him.

Second fiddle or not at all I say!
 
I didn't realize Fisto is in the film and I cannot wait for mainstream, non-collector/cartoon-watching audiences to be introduced to a character named FISTO. I love this so much.
 
docsilence said:
I didn't realize Fisto is in the film and I cannot wait for mainstream, non-collector/cartoon-watching audiences to be introduced to a character named FISTO. I love this so much.
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I feel like his pairing with "ClampChamp" was pretty clearly meant to be just that when Kevin Smith did the animated series a while back. Then they even died together.

As if the names weren't bad enough, you've got a 6 foot tall kleptomaniac who's the MOTU equivalent of Pigpen from the Peanuts, and you know it'll be fart jokes aplenty whenever he shows up.

And then there's the slime pit...a potential scene worthy of a paywall. Whoever said western cartoons have nothing to offer anime audiences?

Fingers crossed that Skeletor's Italian sidepiece gets some cameo money so she can keep up on that plastic surgery.

"It aint cheap to look this good ya know!"

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Teela is Duncan’s adoptive daughter, no?

Not sure how they’ll explain the blood relationship between Duncan and Fisto, but crazier things have happened.
 
NORM said:
Teela is Duncan’s adoptive daughter, no?

Not sure how they’ll explain the blood relationship between Duncan and Fisto, but crazier things have happened.
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As the son, and part of a larger, interracial/mixed race famiy it isn't all that unusual for siblings to present as different ethnicities.

Just in my family alone we run the gamut from "white" (my mom and me) to "black" (my older half brother). My immediate family growing up was my Mom (Irish), my dad (Afro-Puerto Rican), my older half brother who I just called my brother (his dad was Nigerian) who presents as "black" even though he is biracial (think Obama). Then there is me who presents as "white" (Irish skin colouring and blue/grey eyes), my sister was seen as Italian most of her life (long black curly hair and an olive complexion) and then my youngest brother has been mistaken for everything from hispanic to South Asian (Indian) because he has a dark complexion and straight black hair.

That doesn't even take into account my wife and kids (wife is Han Chinese born in Vietnam). So if my boys ever did a genealogy history the results would probably come back with nearly the whole planet as ancestry.

So long winded way of saying that MAA and Fisto being brothers isn't that far fetched depending on their parents, or just being adopted.
 
Visually I love that they didn't feel the need to NOT be ridiculous. This is He-Man, it's a coke-fueled fever dream, don't hold back.

The stuck-in-the-real-world plot device is so so so so tired, but I guess if they need SOME reason to introduce the setting to new audiences it could work. If they move that along quickly and get him out of Toronto or wherever they shot it very quickly it may be okay, but it'll be a matter of pacing.
 
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