Current Events > Masters of the Universe 1987: Coming to Earth was a mistake.

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The first 20 minutes of the movie is entertaining. It's stupid, but fun. The same holds true of the later scenes in Castle Grayskull. But nearly everything which happens in Suburbia is agonizingly boring.

Between renting entire streets, blowing up cars, renovating a fast food restaurant, and licensing Jimi Hendrix music, I can't imagine that they saved much money anyway. The fights in the high school and music shop would've been more exciting had they taken place in a forest or a desert. The last thing kids want to think about in a superhero movie is school.

If they needed to be in the movie, Courtney Cox and that blond haired dude could've played villagers. Half the people in Eternia live like it's Star Wars and the other half live like it's Robin Hood. The bad guys burning the village would've made a neat visual too.

Frank Langella kills it in that movie though.

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Lots of Sci Fi and Fantasy movies lose confidence in the audience and set it on Earth.

I still find it hilarious that Mass Effect spends 3 games and 200 hours banging on about the end of the entire galaxy populated by trillions.

Then still makes the plot of Mass Effect 3 "Oh no! they're attacking Earth! The place were you live gamer!"

Star Trek does this as well. You have the power to make a story about literally anything you can imagine literally anywhere you can think of and then like every 4th episode they go to 20th century Earth for no fucking reason.
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You will respect Ivan Drago good sir >:(

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Star Trek does this as well. You have the power to make a story about literally anything you can imagine literally anywhere you can think of and then like every 4th episode they go to 20th century Earth for no fucking reason.

At least going back to 1930s Earth made it seem kinda fantasy-like in its own way. It's funny to think that was only three decades past when the series was first filmed.

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Not if they wanted to visit the royal city, but most of the extras looked like villagers in a Renaissance fair.



The movie could've filled that time by visiting a straw hut village, a forest, and a cave. The real issue is the loss of product placement. And that could've been resolved by having the world-hopping Gwildor show off his treasures from Earth: a Casio keyboard, a pair of Adidas, and some cans of Pepsi.

YugiNoob posted...

You will respect Ivan Drago good sir >:(

Drago himself disrespects this movie. :(

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YugiNoob posted...

You will respect Ivan Drago good sir >:(

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Skye Reynolds posted...

Frank Langella kills it in that movie though.

He was the Dr. Doom we need.

lolife67 posted...

He was the Dr. Doom we need.

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