It’s probably a wrap, theaters are most likely going to stop showing the Masters of the Universe film. At this point, a lot of criticism has been out there from people land-basing the box office showing but, fans responded in kind by attending the film repeatedly over the span of the few weeks has been out.
It didn’t break records as a matter of fact it’s probably lost money but Amazon is playing the long game, and there are still rumors persistent that a sequel involving additional Mattel characters will be coming in the future. Perhaps direct to streaming but fans won’t care.
The challenging thing and sort of unfortunate thing is that this newest incarnation did not reach a new cross-section of fans despite an advertising campaign all over social media. We just never meant to be and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe appears to be a relic stuck in time that only people of a certain generation are responding to..
The vast cloud consists of extremely dry, dust-filled air that forms over the Sahara Desert before being carried thousands of miles westward by strong winds.
Light to moderate Saharan dust has already begun drifting into South Florida, including the Miami area, creating hazy skies, suppressing thunderstorm activity and contributing to hotter, drier conditions.
Forecasters said a drier air mass, fueled by an approaching plume of Saharan dust, will move into the region beginning Tuesday.
The dust is expected to continue filtering across the state through the week, with its effects becoming increasingly noticeable by midweek.
This news being exclusively reported by Deadline tonight is a bit surprising, reviews for the duffer Brothers produced Netflix show the Boroughs was pretty strong but the rating for pretty tepid..
We offered our own review of season 1 and we liked it. But now Netflix is ensuring that it will not come back for season 2..
The news comes as somewhat of a surprise. Deadline hears there had been talk about renewing the series starring Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters and Bill Pullman, and a Season 2 writers room had been opened, a standard practice for many high-profile series. According to sources, one of the ideas floated was to film Seasons 2 and 3 back-to-back.
Former child actress Daveigh Chase, known for her roles in “The Ring” and “Lilo & Stitch,” has died. She was 35 years old.
LChase died on Tuesday following a case of meningitis and an infection in her blood, which caused her to suffer septic issues and lead to her body shutting down, according to her boyfriend Roy Hernandez.
This review is going to contain spoilers for the movie Disclosure Day. Read at your own peril. If there was ever a film you should see with your most intelligent friends, the ones who can debate whether disclosure of alien life would help or hurt the planet, this is the film.
Some of the ads give away a few notable scenes that appear in the movie, and they make Disclosure Day look a little more frightening than it actually is. But those scenes are still effectively used in the film itself. But if you’re going to this movie thinking you’re seeing some sort of a horror you’re not, you’re more seeing a thriller chase movie with deep questions..
Steven Spielberg is back, giving us the famous camera angles, wide shots, close-ups, and dramatic moments he’s known for. Emily Blunt gives the kind of strong performance we’ve come to expect from her. Couple that with the rest of the cast, a strange and somewhat bizarre CGI alien at the end, and we have Disclosure Day.
And it’s arriving at a weird time.
Disclosure seems to be slowly happening in the real world, as UFO files continue to be released by the government. At the same time, people are actively debating whether the whole thing is just a big fake distraction from “the real agenda” .. and you can choose whichever real agenda you think it’s distracting us from.
But in this movie, the world is not distracted by something insignificant. World War III has begun, and the mass media in Disclosure Day is covering it 24/7.
That is, until a rogue group of contracted government workers decides to sneak evidence from the UFO files and reveal it to the entire planet.
The race is on between the good guys and the bad guys.. and you can take your pick as to which is which .. until the climactic ending, when we as a civilization are forced to pause our wars and confront something much deeper and more profound.
The positives here are the acting, the score, the writing, and the film itself.
The negatives could also be the acting, the score, the writing, and the film itself.
This movie is surprisingly divisive. In fact, the audience I saw it with seemed split right down the middle. A few people clapped. Others sighed. It perfectly fits the divided Rotten Tomatoes score currently online. Even the critics seem divided. It’s not getting the roaring praise that other Spielberg films have received, and it’s not dominating the box office the way it probably would have 25 years ago with Spielberg’s name attached.
That alone shows how much things have changed. Generationally speaking, this year’s horror movies — Obsession and Backrooms — have shown younger directors becoming more popular with younger audiences than Spielberg himself. But the truth is, Disclosure Day is good. Maybe not great, but good. And more than that, it feels significant. It feels important.
A lot of us conspiracy-minded folks have wondered for a long time whether Steven Spielberg knew something. And if he doesn’t, he’s very good at faking it.
But the movie matters not just because of the acting, the filmmaking, or the spectacle. It matters because of the questions it asks and, more importantly, the questions it refuses to answer.
Disclosure Day may not be Spielberg’s greatest film. But it is one of his most interesting in years. And at this moment in history, that might be enough to spawn an important debate at America’s 250th..
One of the more fascinating UFO stories of the past several weeks didn’t involve a whistleblower, a congressional hearing, or a strange object in the sky. It involved a Catholic exorcist.
Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a well-known exorcist in the Catholic Church, was recently removed from his position after publicly discussing UFOs and suggesting that many UFO encounters could be demonic in nature. What’s interesting is that he was not removed because the Church officially declared his theory false. Instead, the controversy appears to stem from the fact that he was presenting a personal theory with the authority of an exorcist, despite the Catholic Church having no official teaching that UFOs are demons.
I really love this story in a way because it showcases the way that a lot of religion will have to grapple with disclosure if disclosure really happens.
And here’s the strange thing. There seems to be a tide that has turned. We’re quietly acknowledging or admitting that UFOs are real. Not necessarily aliens. Not necessarily spaceships. Not necessarily little green men. But there seems to be an increasing acceptance that something is going on, even if we have no idea what it is. We’re not really saying the quiet part out loud, but we’re keeping it quiet while simultaneously believing it loudly.
The truth is we don’t know if there are aliens. We don’t know if there are demons. We don’t really know much of anything. People can have beliefs and spiritual denominations can teach certain things about these subjects, while people on the other side of the coin will argue that it’s all made-up fairy tales anyway.
Listen, disclosure is going to be weird if and when it really occurs.
It will be abrasive to the human psyche in ways most people haven’t considered. I suspect that some people who have believed in aliens their entire lives will suddenly become skeptics once official disclosure arrives. Others who spent decades dismissing the subject may suddenly become believers. Human beings are funny that way.
For religions such as the Catholic Church, this may be one of the first examples of the dominoes and how they might fall. The Rossetti controversy wasn’t really about whether UFOs are demons. It was about who gets to define what UFOs are and how much certainty anyone can claim to have.
After disclosure, if disclosure ever comes, we may not be debating whether aliens are real at all. Instead, we’ll be debating what they are.
Are they extraterrestrials from another world.. time travelersl.. interdimensional beings?
Are they some future version of ourselves?
Or, as some religious thinkers have suggested, are they something spiritual in nature either good or bad?
The removal of one Catholic exorcist over comments about UFOs may someday be remembered as one of the earliest signs that humanity was beginning to wrestle with questions it isn’t remotely prepared to answer.
The latest review score for Masters of the Universe sits at less than 70% from critics but more than 85% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The question is, who exactly is watching it?
It’s pretty clear the audience is made up largely of people over 35, and probably even more so people over 45. Many dads are bringing their kids, and a lot of viewers are showing up with a sense of nostalgia for a time that’s long gone. That nostalgia is mixed with laughs, memories, and a chance to revisit characters they grew up with.
Here’s the thing: the movie is great. It’s perfectly fine entertainment, and in many ways it doesn’t deserve to be judged by the same standards people use for every other blockbuster because it creates its own path. The film is funny. It laughs at itself. It pokes fun at the excesses of the 1980s while simultaneously paying tribute to them. It even laughs at He-Man from time to time, but somehow still turns him into a genuine hero in a very unusual and surprisingly effective way.
The villains are buffoons and boobs, as Skeletor himself might say, but they’re also just scary enough to work. The army of evil feels more brutal than expected, and the movie itself has a surprisingly high body count. There are plenty of jokes for the adults in the audience too, including a few sexual innuendos that land well without becoming the type of over-the-top humor you’ll find in something like Scary Movie 6. The kids won’t catch most of them, and that’s probably for the best.
This is also the type of movie that should be seen in a theater. It made $29 million opening weekend .. probably not too good for a movie that reportedly cost $177 million to make, but honestly that almost feels irrelevant when discussing the experience itself for fans..
Yes it could have done better.. but it didn’t. Amazon seems okay with that, a new universe has been born..
As a standalone action film, this is one of the better ones I’ve seen in quite a while. It reminds me of the artistic creativity and visual confidence that made the original Guardians of the Galaxy feel special. The movie embraces colorful imagery and larger-than-life fantasy in a way that modern films often seem afraid to do. It’s refreshing.
It also gives of Four Non Blonds.. a young Adam naming heroes and villains (perfect way for characters to get their names) … and Skeletor in an office in a tie. Jared Leto surprised the detractors with his performance..
And yes, I’ll spoil one thing for you. Just like in the cartoons, good wins and evil loses. But the bad guys will be back because evil never truly goes away. Goodness has to remain strong and vigilant because darkness is always waiting for another opportunity. It’s a simple moral lesson, but one that has always been at the heart of He-Man.
What surprised me most was the battle itself. When I was a kid, the battles in the cartoon felt incredible. As I got older, they became a little laughable. This movie somehow managed to recreate that feeling of importance. The stakes actually felt real. You felt like the villains couldn’t win because if they did, the universe itself would somehow be thrown out of balance.
That’s why He-Man’s journey works here. He repeatedly offers Skeletor opportunities to choose a different path, but Skeletor remains what he has always been: evil. Well, mostly evil. We all remember that Christmas special where he briefly discovered a holiday spirit and didn’t quite know what to do with it.
If you’re planning to see the movie, stick around for all three post-credit scenes. They’re worth it and do a solid job setting up what could be a very fun sequel.
The only question is whether the box office will allow that sequel to happen. Is this the beginning of a franchise revival, or will it end up being a one-time celebration for hardcore fans, Generation X, and Xennials who grew up with these characters?
If I were giving it a rating, this would be five Power Swords out of five.
It’s a throwback to childhood, a classic hero’s tale for a modern audience, and somehow manages to be goofy, fun, and heartfelt without ever becoming ridiculous.
There are going to be a couple of things to watch very closely over the next several days, namely how well Obsession and The Backrooms perform during their next weekend at the box office now that some fresh competition is arriving.
Remember, Obsession was originally scheduled to hit streaming this week, but that date was pushed back due to its continued success in theaters. Meanwhile, The Backrooms just keeps plugging away, posting surprisingly strong numbers even on weeknights. Neither film appears ready to disappear just yet.
This week, however, brings us a pair of nostalgia-fueled challengers. One is built on 1980s superheroes and the other on early 2000s comedy. Whether either one connects with modern audiences remains to be seen.
Scary Movie 6 premieres this weekend, as does Masters of the Universe. Both films have generated anticipation and, in theory, should attract decent crowds. Yet early projections suggest that the He-Man adaptation could be surprisingly ill-fated at the box office, while Scary Movie 5 may not be nearly as funny as audiences had hoped.
While regular moviegoers have not yet fully weighed in, paid reviewers certainly have. For the most part, the reviews for Masters of the Universe have been lukewarm, while Scary Movie 6 has been getting hit even harder.
If we were to compare them to beverages, Masters of the Universe would be a flat seltzer water and Scary Movie 6 would be that same seltzer after somebody microwaved it.
As a matter of fact, when comparing the two films, Masters of the Universe should easily dominate the box office. The question is whether Generation X and older Millennials can convince their kids to care about He-Man. The kids may not be all right when it comes to 1980s nostalgia. The decade is long gone, and nostalgia for it may have finally started running out of steam.
Then again, Scary Movie has its own problem. If the jokes don’t make people laugh, nothing else really matters.
There is one important caveat, however. Critics have never been particularly fond of movies like Scary Movie. They didn’t like the earlier Scary Movie films. They didn’t like many of the National Lampoon’s movies. They weren’t exactly champions of The Naked Gun either. Irreverent comedies that exist primarily to make audiences laugh have often received a chilly reception from reviewers.
We’ll see how it all plays out.
Maybe the critics are right.
Maybe audiences will disagree.
And maybe, just maybe, Obsession and The Backrooms will once again dominate the weekend.
