I feel like this movie is coming like a decade or 2 too late to hit the right audience. Like, those people who would get nostalgia baited for watching this cartoon as kids are nearing 50. Their own kids are already grown up, so they’re not catching a new generation either.
The first transformers came out 19 years ago and did not have as long a gap in franchise presence, as we had beast wars in the 90s, and a continuous comics run.
This just seems to be a weird choice…
It’s also one of the weirder/dumber cartoons from any era.
Sword-wielding barbarian hero, spaceships, scary skeleton villain, green tiger. It feels like a toy company took a bunch unused action figure ideas and said “make a cartoon out this so we can sell them.”
Why not Space Ghost? That would cooler.
It feels like a toy company took a bunch unused action figure ideas and said “make a cartoon out this so we can sell them.”
Literally what they did.
Omg that makes so much sense! I was always like “wtf is this place even meant to be?” - though it does kind of have the vibe of 80s Flash Gordon.
Yeah I had no idea there were spaceships in this until I saw the trailer. I assumed it was basically a kid friendly Conan
There was an animated series in the early 2000s (it was excellent), Netflix did Kevin Smith’s version (also excellent), there was a 3D animated show aimed explicitly at kids (not for me), AND She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (*chef’s kiss*).
continuous comics run
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_(comics)
The Kevin Smith obe was excellent? I don’t remember much of it, but i found it really bad and somehow the guy who’s name is in the title was hardly in it. I thought it was generally nit well received
It’s called Masters of the Universe, there’s no guy’s name in it. It had the same problem as any show/movie that puts a woman at the centre.
Edit: sorry, this might not have been clear enough. I’m not suggesting you didn’t like it because there’s a woman at the centre but I was referring to how the “public” (aka a loud part of the internet) received it.
I’m one of the old bastards who was there for the cartoon and I’d rather watch the “What’s Up?” video than a live-action movie nowadays.
Yeah I to was around when this show aired in the 80s and even as a kid I realized how shit this show was.
Still, the kid at the house my mum dropped me at before school had Castle Greyskull and that was pretty boss.
There have been Transformers shows and toys almost continuously since the 80s. There us maybe a vague gap between G1 and Beast Wars aside from the nebulous G2.
But one following right after we had
Beast Wars, Beast Machines, RID2000(Car Robots), Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Animated, Movie1, Prime, More Movies, Robots in Disguise, Earthspark, etc etc
Plus several toddler tier shows like Rescue Bots. And several Youtube web mini shows.
Thats not even getting to the toy lines. For at least a decade Transformers has had like 5 lines going on shelves. The toddler line, the simple kiddie line, a more complex “Classics” line for older collectors, some sort of movie themed line, some sort of specialty line like Masterpiece.
Sorry for the long rant, and its nothing personal, it just seems funny anytime Transformers comes up and people act like it was G1 then the movies. Transformers has never gone away ever since it started.
Uh… That was literally the opposite of the point I made.
Transformers was the benchmark I was comparing He-man to.
Legends aren’t born, they’re regurgitated forever.
I saw the trailer in theatres and I was so so so soooo unimpressed with the lead role. Prince Adam being a thin pretty boy is fine, but post transformation I think actually looks even thinner, somehow.
Also, TF is this Avenger’s style poster?
its the avengers style that put me off in the trailer. not just the poster style but the pushed off humor. why is adam making fun of his subjects racial aspects? he pretended to be incompetent in the cartoon sure, but in a self depreciating way. even he would not make fun of thing related to responsibilities like that.
Holy shit this looks so bad lol
That why my partner and I are seeing this opening night.
Other than casting Jared Leto and ruining Skeletor’s voice, the film-makers understood their assignment.
The trailer immediately put me off this movie.
Even the non-AI stuff looks AI now.
