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Masters of The Universe | Official Teaser Trailer

Physique is something you can change, at least to the point where you won't feel embarrassed when Arnie takes his short off because you will understand what he did to get there versus what you are doing. Dick size you can't really change (allegedly) and it's not usually men shaming men about it (so I hear) but WOMEN doing it (the cunts) with the "little dick energy" comments. Same thing they do with height. But you say ONE THING about how they tip the scales and oooooohhhhhh hell here comes the pain :P


There is a tiny subset of guys going hardcore with PEDs and exercise, compared to the MASSIVE number of women getting boob jobs, facial surgery, implants, injections, etc. There is really no comparison to how much effort women put into to fucking with their bodies for purely cosmetic reasons versus men. It is sad for those guys though, heart issues and sudden death in their 40's.
I don't think it's a '' massive '' amount of women who get cosmetic surgery, the vast majority of it is probably very minor stuff too like some botox injection.
Remember too that we're including things like breast cancer patients and other medical reasons for it too, botox injections can have medical reasons too.
Keep in mind that there's also an over-representation of it on social media too.
I wouldn't call that much effort either, I think putting on makeup everyday is probably the best argument for that which yeah it does suck women feel the need to do that and spend so much time on it.

Physique is also largely down to genetics, I had a very easy time with it because I got lucky none of my friends did even tho they were just as or in one case in particular more dedicated than me.
Was always way stronger than others in my age too before I even started which meant I had a big head start, most men can't really get that big even tho they workout A LOT.
There's a lot of cosmetic surgery and injections people get too to '' correct '' things almost no one has a perfect symmetrical 6-pack and if you want to actually look ripped you have to walk around dehydrated and starved.
In movies they're on the verge of collapsing and sometimes do on set for a 10 second shirtless scene and then on top of that they CGI it too to make the physique even more ridiculous.
A lot of this is also illegal stuff that people do behind closed doors that aren't part of any statistics.

In the end of the day tho I don't really care who has it '' worst '' considering that this is all personal experiences, if you're a man with horrible body dysmorphia and are truly suffering it's not really going to make you feel better just because someone tells you that '' women as a group have it worse ''.
People don't really experience things as a group they experience things as individuals.
I think we have a tendency to infantilize women too, being exposed to things that might upset you or cause you some distress is ultimately part of life.
We can't erase or hide away women who fit the conventional beauty standard just to protect a certain subset of women which is often what it feels like the goal is.
 
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I dunno. But I DO know that an ad like this:

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will work for males. The challenge, the desire to be better, the WORK to get there. It's primal in a male.

But I don't think you can do this for women, rather it's "put this shit on your face, get this injection, get this surgery, take this pill". It's not the WORK they buy, but the shortcut to jump to a hoped for outcome. Women get stuff pushed to them at a very superficial level compared to men, I think.

He-man as a toy operates on the "I can get BETTER" principle of male psychology.
 
"Skeletor was a really interesting villain," Knight tells Empire of the original cartoon incarnation. "He looked cool. He was scary. He was funny. He was insecure. And then of course he had this distinctive voice." All of which offered plenty for Jared Leto to work from, as the performer anchoring the role in Knight's Masters Of The Universe. "I wanted someone to craft their own version of that," the director explains. "Jared approached us, because he loves Skeletor and has his own history with the character. He wanted to swing for the fences. And ultimately we landed on something that I'm really happy with. Skeletor's kind of the embodiment of toxic masculinity."

It's all so tiresome
 
Target Audience: "Welp, thanks. We won't see it now."

The 'Modern' Audience: "We weren't going to see it anyway."

I'll wait for the Dolph Lundgren version on disc.
 
Target Audience: "Welp, thanks. We won't see it now."

The 'Modern' Audience: "We weren't going to see it anyway."

I'll wait for the Dolph Lundgren version on disc.
Pretty much.

This film just needs to appeal to two demographics. 40-50yo dads with kids who go for the nostalgia drip and a fun PG/pg-13 action romp. And to guys to bring their girlfriends with a nice little He-man/Teela romance plus some toned male chest to get her a little hot and bothered for a make-out session afterwards.

Marketing terms like "toxic masculinity" IMMEDIATELY excludes the first group and any guy who wears the pants in their relationship. But there are no women who are gonna drag their men to see this nor moms taking daughters, so why poke that hornets nest? Just a bizarre tactic to take when promoting the film and completely unnecessary. James Cameron can get away with saying something similar because he is JAMES F'N CAMERON and its after he's made 6+ all time classic films. This Knight guy....he ain't Cameron.
 
Pretty much.

This film just needs to appeal to two demographics. 40-50yo dads with kids who go for the nostalgia drip and a fun PG/pg-13 action romp. And to guys to bring their girlfriends with a nice little He-man/Teela romance plus some toned male chest to get her a little hot and bothered for a make-out session afterwards.

Marketing terms like "toxic masculinity" IMMEDIATELY excludes the first group and any guy who wears the pants in their relationship. But there are no women who are gonna drag their men to see this nor moms taking daughters, so why poke that hornets nest? Just a bizarre tactic to take when promoting the film and completely unnecessary. James Cameron can get away with saying something similar because he is JAMES F'N CAMERON and its after he's made 6+ all time classic films. This Knight guy....he ain't Cameron.
Yeah, but even Cameron couldn't save Terminator: Dark Fate after the director mouthed off about "muh mIs0gYnY!!"

That movie died the death it truly deserved.
 
Yeah, but even Cameron couldn't save Terminator: Dark Fate after the director mouthed off about "muh mIs0gYnY!!"

That movie died the death it truly deserved.
Yeah, I just don't get it. Dudes don't show up and picket outside of Hallmark movies or rom-coms or sappy family dramas asking for "more explosions, more action, make me feel seen!!!"

And from what I can tell, the marketing for the new Margot Robbie movie has that dude all shirtless and wet and romancey, TOTALLY playing up that "toxic female gaze".

So why, why, why, do these male oriented franchises feel like they suddenly gotta court women at the expense of the men?

You can have all the bro-mance, action, heroic stuff, a sexy good looking female love interest and whatnot, have a female character with a bit of agency and a little authority, and you get all the male audience and their women at least won't actively push it away. And then, because the male demographic has money, shows loyalty, is predictable in their tastes, and is, surprisingly, pretty damn big to float a large budget with good return.
 

Looks pretty good. He's on board with taking back his planet, seems like he is the center of focus, the other characters are playing support and helping him drive to his goal, all good shit. Hopefully there is not some laborious B-plot about Teela chafing under the patriarchy and why she couldn't have used the sword instead. Tone seems pretty serious as well, nary a marvel quip in sight.

Battle Cat replacing the MGM lion is GENIUS, I would have saved that for the film though!

My main concern is that the film is if it is just a bunch of CG weightless action scenes that are visually boring. Kinda like cape-shit, they need to rethink all these now-tired shots because it's easy to exhaust the audience with this stuff in ways that a real car jumping a ramp or a real building blowing up can resist better, I think. A CG tiger mauling folks is not nearly as thrilling as a real tiger jumping on a trainer.

I do hope that "you don't remember me, but I remember all of you" is a thread of nostalgia for the "good old toy days", and the jokes are primarily higher brow (the he/him nameplate, for example) than just glorified "yo mama" comebacks.

Brie looks amazing as Evil-lyn, can't wait to see Morena as the Sorceress. No bare legs but at least there is some femininity in the outfits. Doesn't seem like there is much of Jared Leto under all the CG and the voice modulation, I wonder if there will be some bits of him as a human. As it stands, unlike Frank Langella who you could kinda see through the prosthetics, here Skeletor may as well be an all CGI character. I'm sure there are plenty of scenes of him cursing his bumbling idiot henchmen.
 
Where is Orko?

Oh and this looks better and it was nearly a decade ago.


Definitely better with a more massive he-man. If this movie is a hit and there are more, I wonder if the actor will go the Alan Ritchson route and become a walking barn door. I think they should have saved the "He-man transformation" for just a brief period and stick him in a muscle suit, which has gotten pretty good, for just a few key scenes of him wrecking shit. That change really should feel like God Mode, not just the regular actor unless he was gonna get more swole, and it's almost impossible for an actor to get that big just for the role now that we are kinda past the (second) era of the massive body builders and wrestlers.
 
New trailer looks pretty solid. Not feeling Skeletor's voice but that could just be clouded by my love of Frank Langella and Alan Oppenheimer performances.

Haven't been to a theater in 2 decades but I'm strongly considering it for this one. Nostalgia is a helluva drug.
 
I'm interested, but I'm waiting for word of mouth.

The didn't show the he/him part of the last trailer so we will see how this turns out.
 
New trailer looks pretty solid. Not feeling Skeletor's voice but that could just be clouded by my love of Frank Langella and Alan Oppenheimer performances.

I actually kinda like this Skeletor's voice here. it's different but similar enough that you still get that feel. but I agree, nobody can replace the OG Skeletor's voice.
 
Not bad. Despite race swap, Idris Elba is awesome enough to be Man-At-Arms.
The problem, for me, is that if you got Idris in Eternia all this time, why hasn't HE solved all these problems? Idris has too much baggage as a leading man for me to really see past him to an older, embittered, failed Defender of Eternia. IMHO it would have been better had he been played by a character actor. I'm curious if they run with the Man at Arms/Sorceress romance that seems to pop up from time to time.
 
It looks fun!

One pet peeve, I hate that "epic" soulful rendition of the old theme song you remember. That cliche is so damn played out by now.
 
Doesn't seem like there is much of Jared Leto under all the CG and the voice modulation, I wonder if there will be some bits of him as a human. As it stands, unlike Frank Langella who you could kinda see through the prosthetics, here Skeletor may as well be an all CGI character. I'm sure there are plenty of scenes of him cursing his bumbling idiot henchmen.
Exactly. Skeletor looks & talks horribly in the trailer. What's the point of casting Jared Leto if you're going to slap a WhatsApp filter over his face anyway? I'd much prefer going with makeup and prosthetics... if they could transform Colin Farrell into Penguin, then turning Leto into ske-Leto-r should be child's play!
 
Exactly. Skeletor looks & talks horribly in the trailer. What's the point of casting Jared Leto if you're going to slap a WhatsApp filter over his face anyway? I'd much prefer going with makeup and prosthetics... if they could transform Colin Farrell into Penguin, then turning Leto into ske-Leto-r should be child's play!
Skeletorin Time! Quit casting Jared Leto.
 
never was a Masters of the Universe watcher as a kid, I just remember the live action movie.

my childhood cartoons era was more Thundercats, Pirates of Dark Water, and Conan the Barbarian.



Thundercats would look too much like a resurgence of CATS if they tried to do a live action movie, so I don't want that at all.
 
I really dig the new trailer. This has the He-Man feel to it i remember from my childhood. Thats all i wanted. And i really don't care if Man-at-Arms is now black, because Idris Elba is a fantastic actor.
They already make enough fun of wokeness (He/Him nameplate, 'men, woman...and whatever that is') . So its all good. This is not dumbed down or made for "modern audiences".
It's clearly made with the intend of appealing to people who grew up with Master of the Universe.
 
New trailer looks pretty good.
As long as they don't pull a bait and switch with who the main character is, this could be fun.

Not feeling Skeletor though. No idea why they went with Leto for the role, Hollywood was like "hey remember when he made his own version of the The Joker and everyone hated it? let's let him do it again!!!".
 
Hope the majority of the movie is played earnestly and not as a joke. I'm fine with some brevity and laughs tossed in, but I don't want one of those Millennial quipfests. Trailer seems like it might be ok? Going to wait for impressions before deciding to see it or not.
 


Seriously, I don't know how anyone could like anything shown in that trailer...

It's got everything:
- muh diversity
- blackwashing (Man at arms/Guess what would have happened if it was the other way around)
- Absolutely horrible, cheap looking, already dated CGI

- More horrible, cheap looking, already dated CGI with Skeletor, seriously, wtf is that fight scene at the end ? looks like straight to DVD quality shit

- He-man guy ain't it

Listen, we're not talking about high art here, it's MOTU after all but...this looks like one of those horrible W.Anderson Resident evil movies.
 
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He sounds like a complete pussy when he yells "I have the power!" What a non threatening yelp.
I feel like they are trying to cut around that scene in the trailers a bit, to more imply it rather than show it in all it's glory. That's the most cheesy thing folks might remember about He-man though, so odd that they don't just embrace it.
 
Looks fun enough. Travis Knight has surprised me before - he directed Bumblebee which is the only Transformers movie I've enjoyed.

Not a fan of the abundance of CGI and lens flare. It makes already inauthentic environments look even worse.

I yearn for a high budget modern day sword & sorcery movie that can capture the campy 80s aesthetic: matte paintings, rubber suits etc
I get it though. I'm getting old and out of touch.
 
Looks better than the first teaser shown. If I am not mistaken, the CG effects and environments have improved in many of the shots. People like to shit of Jarred Leto, but I think he will be a good fit for Skelletor. I am surprised that he isn't going with a higher pitched voice. Also, Battlecat in the MGM logo. Also, the plot assumes that Adam knew he came from Eternia from the start and was vanished to Earth?

I was never really a big He-Man fan as a kid. I feel like I kind of skipped it. I never owned any of the toys. I never really liked the cartoon series much. back then, my bag was The Real Ghostbusters. But I had friends who had a lot of the He-Man toys and figures. I kind of did like that 2002 re-imagining.

This does look lie a real attempt at adapting the OG toyline to a movie. I do like that Cannon film for what it is worth. Overall, I will say: good job. The trailer has me at least interested.
 
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