Masters of the Universe - Caravan of Garbage

[@mrsundaymovies]

I just want to quickly issue a retraction for something I said that’s pretty inflammatory in this video. I apologize for saying Laird Hamilton is Australian, he’s actually an all American man

[@matthewdecamp2737]

You're the greatest duo I thought you were talking about the guy comment Got em!

[@jenw980]

And here I thought the inflammatory statement was that you and Mason wouldn’t be watching Barbie.

[@NinjaPeko22]

I would like to say I am not a Son of a Gun. I am a Son of my parents. No more spoilers James! You just ruined this movie for me.

[@Elkott]

Same thing

[@grahamjhallaudio8198]

0:30 it’s MATCH’ical …how did you miss this?! Lol

[@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038]

“Men who crave power look back over the mistakes of their lives, pile them all together and call it destiny.” Is a quote from this movie that altered the brain chemistry of 10 year old me. It comes out of nowhere but it's so true! WTF He-man?

[@mttylerdurden9]

Kinda like the God quote from spy kids 2

[@multi-florum]

Something that consistently blows my mind is that the people who write the worst movies are universally better writers than I'll ever be.

[@jonbaxter2254]

That is oddly deep for a He-Man film.

[@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038]

​@@mttylerdurden9 Oh yeah. The "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?" They picked Steve Buchemi for it too and 10 year old me is sitting going "excuse me? what? Movie wtf?!"

[@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038]

@@jonbaxter2254 THere are really random great lines. The detective says something like the mountain comes to Mohammad. Some kid has an existential crisis and the discount Yoda says something great. And there was line by Man at arms about every destination is just a doorway to the next one. (im only now realising how much I remember this movie I saw a kid)

[@madibrennan1865]

We could have had James and Maso watching barbie movies 😭🙏

[@BrotherMag]

Alex Myers is already doing it. He even got hit by copyright once

[@chiara9775]

we were robbed 😤

[@bacsilva]

For the next 5 years

[@saintniccage2818]

​@BrotherMag barbie is the muscle to a very large "cartel" of a business

[@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038]

They watched it! They just don't want to admit how much they loved it!

[@Jayk129]

This really was the perfect pick for Caravan of Garbage this week. Not only is He-Man a Mattel property like Barbie, but the voice of Skeletor in the original cartoon was famously done by Alan OPPENHEIMER (3rd cousin of the Nuclear Bomb guy.)

[@Samwyze]

"NYAH! Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds, He-Man!" *laser beams burst from his staff*

[@TheBlunk86]

Now that's some Unitrivia!

[@Jack-sy8mr]

Barbenheimer was destined

[@ScoutSilico]

I come back to Caravan of Garbage all the time when I'm feeling down or overwhelmed. You two tossing bits back and forth always brings so much joy to me

[@choronos]

They have uniquely good chemistry. Many channels that feature a duo or a group don't really have that "these people are actually friends" feeling. Like with the Mythbusters, you could tell that they had fun working together in a professional capacity, but you could also tell that Jamie thought Adam was irritating as hell, and Adam thought Jamie had a stick up his ass, so they could never be friends off camera. Mason and James by contrast come across like old friends.

[@ValueNetwork]

I’m gonna be honest when you mentioned “the Rodney beating” I assumed you was going to bring back the Rodney supercut. It took me a few seconds to realise you was actually talking about police brutality

[@TheJesselopez1981]

Oof! Imagine a wet, crunchy hit sound between each Rodney. Nah, better not to.

[@DisposableSupervillainHenchman]

Turns out that the biggest threat to Rodney King was a swimming pool. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jonbaxter2254]

Hell, I miss rodney man.

[@PapaFozzy]

Rodney!

[@IamBrixTM]

Holy shit the potential for an awful joke. Glad they didn’t

[@glowstoneunknown]

James' matter-of-fact "He-Man is... gay!" Gave me a nice giggle lmao. Never change Planet Broadcasting boys.

[@TheJesselopez1981]

Those clips that accompany that quote are great. I thought He-Man was going to land in that boat full of men. I hope you've heard the rant from the podcast where he tells all the bitchy He-Man fans to just marry their He-Man and Skeletor toys together, and do it in front of their friends and family. It was great.

[@nick_j3831]

@@TheJesselopez1981 is there a clip of that? or the episode

[@TheJesselopez1981]

@@nick_j3831 if you listen to the podcast regularly and haven't heard it, then it might be on big sandwich. I'm looking for it because I want to hear it again.

[@TheJesselopez1981]

@@nick_j3831 found it. Episode 395, history of GI Joe, coincidentally. Starts at 53 minutes. Listen the whole way through its great. Not so much of a rant but hes making fun of incel He-Man fans. My words not his.

[@nick_j3831]

@@TheJesselopez1981 thanks man

[@Jamesotronart]

Langella didn't have to go that hard and yet he did, fantastic performance.

[@nicolesanto3213]

Homie went the extra mile and I’ll always appreciate that about this flick.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Raul Julia energy... Of course!

[@solvemproblerstudios5889]

@@jonbaxter2254Totally- was gonna say it’s like Raul Julia in Street fighter, or Ewan McGregor and Christopher Lee in Attack of the Clones. Not a phenomenal movie- but they’re IN that shit giving it their all and making it work.

[@captainunderpants200]

There seems to be a certain type of actor that relishes not just chewing up the scenery, but eviscerating it, playing the villain in some terrible movie. Tim Curry and Jeremy Irons spring to mind.

[@gregorywilkinson8509]

@captainunderpants200 Ian McShane, Peter O’Toole

[@CassidyListon]

I thought Skeletor's performance, particularly towards the end when he monologues at He-man before his apotheosis, was absolutely brilliant. Way better than it had a right to be for a He Man movie.

[@felipealemany2361]

1:17 I know Mason wasn't specifically trying to do a Broden Kelly impression, but that edit was brilliant

[@sabrina63]

I was listening to this video without watching it until that moment, and had to rewind to see if it had been linked up with some Man Beast/"I'm Broden Kelly" goodness: top work, Ben/Lawrence/whomever edited this one!

[@insolentmedia]

Lmao they addressed this specific compulsion on the podcast recently

[@ryanhurley8170]

I went to see this in the theater as a 5-yr old, and we entered as the credits for the previous showing were still playing. When the post-credit scene appeared w/ skeletor, it was TERRIFYING

[@eddybaro7170]

These men are legendary but could be greater if they watched some Barbie movies for their fans

[@pablocasas5906]

Something pretty cool about the Masters of the Universe movie is that in the Neutral Spanish dub all of the actors from the He-Man cartoon reprised their roles. Sadly, He-Man's original Mexican dub actor, Rubén Moya, passed away just a month ago, he actually was in his early sixties so his passing was very sudden as he was stile very active. His voice was so iconic that he even appeard as himself in some commercials for the Masters of the Universe collector's line. He will always be remembered

[@nuclearblues52]

That’s really interesting! Thanks for sharing that!

[@chadjones1266]

"Barbie life in the dream house" was a show, but it was surprisingly funny. They couldn't say "frisbee" for copyright reasons, so she says: "who wants to pay with a generic flying disc?"

[@Max_The_Flower]

confession: i have never created an association between James and Maso's voices, I can tell them apart but the moment you ask me who's talking I don't have anything to tell you.

[@bigguy906]

Lol I just imagine hearing one of them saying one of their names and then I can tell lol

[@ScreamingScallop]

David Odell wrote a number of screenplays in the '80s; his other sci-fi/fantasy entries were _The Dark Crystal_ and _Supergirl._ These full-length movies have one thing in common: thirty minutes' worth of plot.

[@KungFuWombat]

14:50 One of the running jokes we had at my last job was "Scott Bakula in a black Acura hunting Dracula" for no other reason than it rhymed and made us giggle.

[@killergrooves2438]

Here’s some trivia for you: My uncle was an animator on the cartoon and he’s colorblind and had to use a key so that he would color things the right way because sometimes he would color them wrong. So if you’re watching the show and you see some incorrect colors, it might be his fault. I know he colored some things wrong because he told me, but I don’t know if those mistakes made it through production.

[@1977TA]

You guys are spot on, the studio waited too late to make this film. It was in production during the tail end of the success of the toy line and was released when Masters of the Universe was no longer the must have toy. Also, ill fated Cannon was the wrong studio to entrust with making this movie. I think they ran into license issues which would explain why the character designs used in the film are not the same as those featured in the cartoon produced by Filmation. I enjoyed this film when I was a kid however I was also disappointed that nothing looked the way it did in the cartoon. For as bad as this movie is it introduced me to Courtney Cox who I instantly fell in love with. I still have a crush on her but man was she hot in the 1980s and 1990s.

[@drgnvale]

This movie got me in so much trouble as a kid. I told my granny my favorite part was when the bald cop yells "holy shit" during an explosion or something, and my mouth still tastes like soap.

[@The_Cowwwthem]

“As a fan and by that I mean….it was shot into my eyeballs as a child” is a slept on Mason line

[@myohmyDesign]

One of the best 'Let the games begin!' stingers to grace the silver screen!

[@99wmac]

An Adam disguise on Earth!! Why did that never cross my mind? This movie rocked, as a kid and as an adult. Just phenomenal 80’s fare, from the score to the bald guy reprising his Top Gun/ Back to the Future roles. So good.

[@PhoenixGodwin]

Trivia just isn't the same anymore without The Guy Who Shouts Rodney. I miss him.

[@soulxside]

You discussed the sequel to this, but didn’t mention that after this was scrapped, the sets & assets were used to make Cyborg starring JCVD. I was hoping you would use that connection to get an episode of CoG about Cyborg, which is a fantastic & quotable low-budget post apocalyptic sci-fi.

[@TheJesselopez1981]

They're doing a Bad Movie Roast on the channel, Double Toasted, for the movie Ninja 3, which is another Canon film. There are some clips of it in this COG. It's a 2 parter, still waiting for the second part but the movie looks insane.

[@CompactRisk]

Sets which were also built for Canon’s scrapped Spider-Man film! Created at the same cement factory that would later house sets in The Crow, TMNT, and Super Mario Bros.

[@eriviscale2]

As a millennial, I freaking loved this movie as a kid. My He Man collection was the envy of my friends and I watched every episode of the show, multiple times. I didn't care that it wasn't accurate to the show or whatever, I was just happy too see the characters I loved brought to life.

[@Corporal_Tajikistan]

Loved the guest appearance of the Manbeast, the hunter of elk, lover of women, and sovereign of the moon.

[@pious83]

Frank Langella's performance, much like Max Von Sydow in the abysmal Flash Gordon. Really is the shining highlight of the entire film. I do remember my one critique of the film as a kid was why didn't they just _stay_ in Eternia for the entire film?

[@lucasoheyze4597]

Flash Gordon isn't "abysmal" on any level.

[@pious83]

@@lucasoheyze4597 As a fan of the source material. Yes it is.

[@Thetruepianoman]

​@@pious83nerd

[@pious83]

@@Thetruepianoman *slow clap*

[@3dcomrade]

Budget problems Cheaper to use real life locations than making half a dozen backgrounds burning more money

[@GeorgeLivs]

This was the first movie I ever remember disappointing me as a kid. I was a fan of the cartoon and didn’t understand why Orko or Battlecat were left out, and who is Gwildore?! Having said all that, I’ve seen this movie at least 20 times. Good journey. Ya know. That famous He Man catch phrase.

[@PastaSauce.]

Same. I hated it as a kid because it didn’t resemble the cartoon. Now I love it because it’s SO 80’s

[@1977TA]

Same, I've seen it so many times I've lost count. Despite being disappointing it is in my list of all time favorite movies because whenever I watch it, I am instantly transported back to being a 10 year old kid who had a decent collection of Masters of the Universe figures.

[@DNOstalgia]

Congrats to Lundgren who just got married 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Grizwood]

True story. I didn't know there was an end credit scene until a friend of mine told me in 2010.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Well Cannon may have missed an opportunity doing this He-Man back in 1985 but they did give us LIFEFORCE that year (which sadly also failed commercially) and largely thanks to the late, great Tobe Hooper (RIP) when measured against all their schlock stock, THAT film was TOP-TIER!!!

[@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038]

This movie also taught me about post-credit scene too. It made me watch through so many movie credit

[@edinalewis4704]

Thor Ragnarok is probably the best He-Man movie we will ever get.

[@ProfessorHurt]

I love this movie. It is an 80s time capsule of awesomeness. Frank Langella as Skeletor, Barry Barty as Gwildor and Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn go so hard for a movie they should've but man is it the reason I keep going back to it. "Only one of you, Kevin; only one of anybody." Stuck with me.

[@Msquire666]

I unironically loved this movie as a kid. I had never watched or played with a He-man figure in my life, so I had no context to compare it with.

[@caricaturesbydon]

It took a long time for me to stop laughing at "Rock Them Sock Them Robots".

[@jacobsims8307]

Same homie 😂😂

[@tuschman168]

Incidentally, didn't that already get a movie adaptation called "Real Steel"? Maybe it wasn't official but come on! That's clearly what it was!

[@caricaturesbydon]

@@tuschman168 Ha! I've had the same thought.

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

I remember as an 80s kid being so thoroughly confused by this movie. "Why is that space goblin playing a space keytar?"

[@TheJesselopez1981]

We didn't have the hindsight in the 80's to say, "oh yeah, its the 80's."

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

@@TheJesselopez1981 Oh we said "It's the 80s," but it was with a strong "the future is now!" vibe.

[@TheJesselopez1981]

@@TheFiddleFaddle the future WAS now, then.

[@claytonandres1194]

Love that reference to the 20 minute Skeletor video based solely on a off-handed joke these guys made, absolutely incredible

[@squelish]

My favorite part of the vid is when u give some love to Thor The Dark World - I love that flick too. So underappreciated... Caravan of Garbage has been awesome - The Shadow, Dick Tracy, He-Man... some serious nostalgia over here. Thanks for the entertaining walk down memory lane guys! 😋

[@cinnamonbun1379]

Fun fact: Karg (the guy with the lizard face and big hair) never actually got a toy in the vintage line and because of that, he was caught up in a mess of rights (Mattel doesn't own the rights to anything from the Filmation produced cartoons or this movie if it didn't get a toy or appear in some sort of Mattel owned media), preventing him from getting an action figure until Mattel licensed the MOTU brand to Super7 and they found a loophole that allowed them to produce a toy based on his appearance in like one panel of a newspaper strip that was only ever released in France or something like that. They then later struck a deal with William Stout that allowed them to make toys based on his concept art for the film, which resulted in them making a film accurate version of Karg (in addition to He-Man and Skeletor's two costumes). More recently, though, Mattel has just straight up either paid a licensing fee or bought back the rights and have been making toys based on this movie (so far they've done He-Man and Skeletor and they just announced a toy based on Evil-Lyn like yesterday).

[@cinnamonbun1379]

Also, He-Man has one of the most sprawling toylines of all time in the form of Masters of the Universe Classics, a line that produced modern articulated versions of every toy from the vintage toyline, almost every toy from the She-Ra line, most of the cartoon original characters, a whole slew of original characters, unproduced toys from when the vintage line got canceled, characters from like single panels of comics, a guy from a Robot Chicken sketch, a whole bunch of characters from the early 2000s revival of He-Man, two massive playsets, and a blue Stan Lee

[@shawnbell3468]

Maybe just if they at least had a scene of Prince Adam turning into He-Man then maybe it would have done a bit better. The movie should have been Prince Adam losing his sword, fighting to get it back then kicking ass for the rest of the show.

[@chrislangstaff]

My fave movie hot take is that the scene where Skeletor transforms is one of the best sci-fi scenes EVER

[@MacKenzie_Bo_Benzie]

Dolph Lundgren is the most underrated actor of all time. Because of his 1. Spiky hair 2.his ice cold demenor 3. big muscles he needs some kinda muscular scientist role to make his big comeback. 😅

[@itayeldad3317]

He sniffs crime

[@jonbaxter2254]

@@itayeldad3317 Crime. Penetration. Crime. Penetration. Crime? Back to penetration.

[@TheJesselopez1981]

He should have been Mr Freeze in Batman and Robin.

[@saintniccage2818]

Is this a sunny in philadelphia joke? The 7th sense?

[@jeffmoo9235]

A muscular scientist in a mesh tank top

[@shainewhite2781]

Love this movie! Frank Langella did an impressive job as Skeletor, as he said in later interviews that it's his favorite character and that it's also his son's favorite villain.

[@WesleyB-Rook]

“One of”

[@TheJesselopez1981]

I loved this as a kid. Watched it not too long ago and thought it was still pretty good. The visual hold up, especially Skeletor. He is the best part of this by far. Even thought so as a kid.

[@jayjadotte1683]

Same here, I still like it. And this movie is more New Gods than Star Wars

[@jonbaxter2254]

I love when actors have a terrible script, but just act its bollocks off. Like Rickman as the Sheriff of Nott.

[@TheJesselopez1981]

@@jonbaxter2254 or Jeremy Irons in Dungeons & Dragons. Or Raul Julia in Street Fighter.

[@KeithFraser82]

"What if Star Wars until the budget ran out?" should be on the DVD/Blu-Ray/streaming/whatever cover for this movie.

[@Neyebureturns]

When he started talking about the fast food place and stopped I though it was going to be a Blue Harvest joke

[@shamusomalley4263]

Sales for the toys collapsed 2 years before this movie was even released. Striking while the iron is stone cold.

[@PikachaoArt]

I thought that rodney king trivia was going to be a blue harvest joke so i got some serious whiplash

[@MightyMurloc]

I love that you acknowledged how the internet has turned Skeletor into a complete sex icon. The internet will look at HIS bum all day long.

[@Gunbudder]

I love that they pronounce He-Man like a last name (like Goldman) lol. its one of my favorite old yogscast bits

[@kyletrout3828]

It is crazy how gems like this can be hidden from you for so long. These dudes rule

[@sealdoggydog]

I love the single #missionimpossible tag in the video description. Way to work that algorithm boys! 👌

[@dinogoldie9716]

6:15 I've not seen it but, apparently, Mr Lundgren does go full arse-out for the 1989 Punisher movie. So if that's what you're into, that's where to get it.

[@carpeimodiem]

*"Oh absolutely... I LOVE a big, weird vehicle!!"* 😂

[@Rannsack]

You said you were gunna talk about why they couldnt mimic the sword better, but then, you never did. YOU LIED

[@piramaniak]

Please do The Descent, I want to see Mason rip into dumb people dying in a dumb cave, it's a good film but I want to hear both of you comment on it. Love you both!!! Keep doing this forever please 😊

[@clintstewart5545]

well hope there is a new movie coming out related to the descent cause every review it's always or almost always to do with something is coming out on the cinema

[@gunnerbriscoe3315]

Golden idea

[@andrewr880]

For some reason, on my main feed there is an infinite amount of this video when i select your channel. It's quite fun seeing Skeletor take over your channel so i'm not complaining 😊

[@steakcrust558]

Wow mattell has so many properties that no one but children care about. Almost like they should make 45 different movies

[@jonbaxter2254]

Mattel Universe Cinematic Universe? MUCU?

[@TheJesselopez1981]

@@jonbaxter2254 Johnny Depp as Johnny Matchbox car. And Tom Cruise as Haute Wheels, starring in Matchbox V Hot Wheels: Dawn of Die Cast.

[@Psilocybin77]

You obviously have never been online. We have generations of Peter pans that love toys.

[@BaeBunni]

To be fair they could pull a tetris/gran Turismo and do a true story based with the toys.

[@maul42]

@@Psilocybin77 There are, but the number is still much lower than you'd think. It's why GIJoe movies all flop, and he-man and thundercats, etc, cartoon reboots all end prematurely. It's just not the same as it was when it was fresh and new. Transformers has, this far, been the only success, bolstered by a huge FX engine that captivated general audiences for a time. Maybe Barbie will do well. But again, exception, not the rule.

[@groovymovies390]

1:32 I'm actually devastated that we missed out on a Barbie in the Nutcracker Caravan of Garbage episode. That being said, as someone who watched that movie recently, it does not hold up at all. Not just animation wise, just as.a story. It's a very nothing film. That being said, something like Barbie as Rapunzel holds up a lot better (better structure, some semblance of set-up and pay-offs, stronger supporting cast etc). #GiveUsACaravanOfGarbageEpisodeOnBarbieAsRapunzel Also, can we discuss how good the casting was for the villains when these Barbie movies first started out? Tim Curry as the Rat King. Anjelica Houston as Gothel. Kelsey freaking Grammer as the sorcerer in Swan Lake! Absolutely stellar decisions!

[@stuartbagley2586]

“Your bowels are rumblin’” is pure gold!

[@JoJoJoker]

James Tolkan, also of Back to the Future & Top Gun, is still with us at 92 years of age.

[@andrewquick4176]

One of my all time favourite films ADORE (Some of the dialogue is phenomenal)

[@KeithFraser82]

"As an adult watching this, I'm like-" This was the point where the video cut to ads. These cliffhangers are too much for me!

[@f1nger605]

Up until Masters of the Universe and Superman IV, Canon's business model centered around producing dozens of very low budget movies a year in the hopes that one or two of them would be a hit, which would then pay for all the others that weren't. Masters of the Universe represented a deviation from that model and an attempt to transition the studio from one that produced forgettable schlock to a more serious and respected company that produced big blockbusters. Co-owner of Canon, Menagem Golan, described these early movies as "seeds" meant to grow the company to this point. This analogy is why the Masters of the Universe was given the working title, Blue Harvest.

[@BlueLiminality]

Goddamn it.

[@LoPhatKao]

👏

[@gridlo]

Supposedly, Sylvester Stallone visited the set, saw Dolf Lungren and said to the director "You gave that guy lines?"

[@vanessac1721]

This had the best trivia section. So much randomness.

[@TheBigPicture2020]

1:11 Might be my personal favourite CoG moment. "We're a couple of bloody men, we've got to watch a movie for men". Thank you Nick Mason for this absolute gem.

[@jasonstark5575]

You guys should really do some more Star Trek stuff. Start out with The Motion Picture!

[@jacobsims8307]

Or the vhs board game 😂😂

[@gareth7574]

You two are genuinely hilarious - totally bingeing these reviews videos now

[@RabbiJoeInJerusalem]

Skeletor is a landlord!

[@andrewlewis2123]

Slightly disappointed by the lack of James yelling at disgruntled He-Man fans to take their He-Man and Skeletor dolls and have them get married in the Castle Grayskull playset, but I’ll take a matter-of-fact “He-Man is gay”.

[@heltaku9397]

Kevin Smith's Woke He-Man is possibly the best He-Man property I've ever seen. It goes way deeper into the motivations of the characters than it would ever need to, and manages to even make Orko into a badass. The only reason I ever saw this movie was because I had a thing for Frank Langella, and he did not disappoint.

[@TheJesselopez1981]

Yeah, I dont know why everyone was complaining. Well actually I do, but it was good. It did focus on Teela more but there was still plenty of He-Man in it. That part where he hulks out and goes on a rampage. That was crazy good.

[@ScooterinAB]

I wouldn't say it goes way deeper into character motivation. What I would say is that it introduces character motivation into a toy commercial where there previously wasn't any. It's kind of the perfect example (both good and bad) of how to take something people loved when they were 6 and then grow it up for them as adults. Everyone says they just wanted the Filmation cartoon, but if that's what it was, everyone would have hated it. It took the characters we knew, aped the camp from the series, and then gave us a story that we can appreciate as adults. As with everything else, once you remove the weird men who complain about girls all the time, the show is pretty decent.

[@1977TA]

@@ScooterinAB Exactly! Kevin Smith over complicated the narrative more than it needed to be. The end result was a show that is Masters of the Universe in name only.

[@lexman7179]

A friend of mine got a signed VHS copy of Master's of the universe. We meet Dolph Lundgren in a cinema in London.

[@anubusx]

This and Avengers Assemble are really alike.

[@mitchmediak]

I love the they cut to Broden lol, that really sounded like a Broden impersonation

[@dragonite77]

Honestly i really enjoyed masters of the universe: revelations. Like it wasn't high art but it looked great, the performances were all solid, and it did some interesting things.

[@HighHeelKnight]

When I started my YT channel, a Barbie home media film review was among my first videos. It was tremendously successful. I wish I had kept reviewing the Barbie films. Maybe I would be a popular "influencer" by now and had been a special guest for the big screen premiere. 🤦😭

[@SaintOfSwords]

The best thing to originate from the whole Masters of the Universe universe (or MotUU for short) is undoubtedly Netflix' She-Ra. I laughed, I cried, I rewatched.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Is that any good? I have so much damn stuff to watch, and I was on an animated binge like ayear ago. Watched The Dragon Prince, but latest series really dropped off.

[@SaintOfSwords]

@@jonbaxter2254 for me personally, it's up there with Avatar The Last Airbender, but that heavily depends on whether or not you like its style and/or wokeness. (I quite like both)

[@jonbaxter2254]

@@SaintOfSwords Bro, that was literally the show that started my binge. Fantastic show that I am certain Netflix will butcher the live-action version of.

[@TheMisleduser]

You joke but a scene where Like showed up and swept aside his cloak and raised his hand to ignite 16 light sabers with the force to take on an at-at would be pretty legit. Even if it was a animated short id want to watch it.

[@edinalewis4704]

Love them talking about Star Trek DS9 while showing footage from TNG :)

[@benrussell5070]

I weirdly love this movie. It was bought for me, I had no idea who he man was, never had the toys, and it hit me at just the right time to resonate. Gwildor saying "I was going to share! I was going to share!" With the bucket of chicken is stuck in my brain.

[@bushybeardedbear]

I actually really liked Woke Herman. That's a typo but I'm keeping it. Knowing it was pissing off children in their forties and fifties made me enjoy it even more. I actually have a huge soft spot for this live action He-Man as well. Langella chewing up the scenery is a joy to behold. He makes a fantastic Skellingtor. Though, interesting tidbit I think you guys missed. I think I heard this mentioned by one of the writers, maybe. But, originally they were going to include an extended opening scene of Skeletors conquest of Eternia, featuring Faker, the Evil He-Man duplicate. In keeping with it being toy line based rather than show based, Faker was going to be a robot. First of the prototypes of Skeletors robotic army that eventually made the seige and seizure of castle greyskull possible in the first place. Faker himself, themself maybe, had done what a lot of 80s robots do and had gone all Johnny five. Self awareness, growing unhappy with serving an evil skull faced dude. So, the opening was going to focus on Faker reflecting on the mistakes he'd made, in serving Skeletor. And how he'd gone into hiding or self imposed exile from Snake Mountain to just working a farm in some back end corner of Eternia. Also tied in nicely to that whole star wars similarity. So, we'd follow Faker, played by Dolph again obviously, just farming. Around him we'd see Eternian life, references to the weirder parts of the Lore in passing as rumours began to spread of Skeletors armies rising up to enslave, destroy and make their final attack on Castle Greyskull. Faker ignores what's going on. I forget why, maybe it wasn't fully fleshed out, I don't know, but basically he ends up staring down the barrel of one of their storm trooper energy guns. Faker gets shot, blown to pieces. And he's smashed all over the floor, shiny blue skin all on display. Apparently it didn't test well with people and the studio didn't like it, it was going to be way too expensive. But the write wanted to have a shot in the trailers of He-Man getting shit an apparently killed. Just to mess with people. Though, that never ended up happening sadly. No blue skinned android He-Man trend farmer. Though, that is probably where the working title of the film came from. Blue Harvest.

[@allensanchez6716]

Well played sir

[@nsmith77ify]

Lol yes on the "woke" He-Man stuff. I'm in the same boat👍

[@ordiscanet1833]

20:38 caught me off guard i'm crying 😭

[@ThePsychoFox]

Did you guys get back to why the sword was different or did I miss it? Incredible episode (as always) ❤❤❤

[@garrylean9493]

Nah they never did! Was waiting the whole time to hear about the sword but...nothing!

[@TheJesselopez1981]

I think they missed it.

[@Paul07791]

There's no way it only made $17,000. Internationally?! ...'Cos you know, we rented it at least twice.

[@circamagic]

ive always mixed up scenes from this with scenes from that hellraiser movie with the CD guy. also Kevin Smith’s He-Man is epic and girls are cool

[@danielbachiu]

I think this is the first time (or at least the first time I've noticed) that James has mentioned he'll talk about something later on and it doesn't come up in the video and thus presumably ends up in the extended audio edition. Tell me about the sword, James!

[@MattMcIrvin]

I assumed it was something to do with the movie being based on the toys and not the TV cartoon.

[@heelmoxley365]

I heard Rodney and thought it was something else 😭

[@bensneb360]

They originally had a MUCH bigger budget, but this was back when everything practical, and Frank Langella ate so much scenery that eventually this was all that was left… and I wouldn’t have it any other way lol

[@sabrina63]

We cannot begrudge him his feast

[@duko3000]

Wow, James put himself in the thumbnail. He truly is the Master of Oldness

[@echidna8159]

Ha ha got 'im

[@Vivat_Veritas]

God bless Ben and Lawrence for putting in as many clips of Fabulous Secret Powers as possible. Godlike.

[@ryujisama]

The fact that I found out that Dolph Lundgren has a master's degree in chemical engineering when they just casually drop that nugget during Expendables 2 is astounding. To be honest about Kevin Smith's He-man, it had some interesting story elements to it, and the show's animation and production felt pretty good. It's just that there were some choices that felt... confusing and as a result of not-so-great writing. For instance, the trope that the side-character finds out the main character is "The Special", and has been all along; and when they find out, they feel betrayed and lied to. At least they didn't pull an Amber from Invincible...

[@IIDynamoDuckII]

I've had a theory ever since I was a kid, that He-Man is the real baddie, castle Greyskull really belongs to Skelator, ffs it portrait of his head, He-Man stole it and poor Skelator is just trying to get his home back

[@owensreviews625]

Say what you will about this film, but at least it actually got made. (Unlike the current reboot that’s been in development hell since 2007)

[@terrakamino]

You havent even seen the video yet!!

[@bgs7529]

Ok but the editing and the amount of references this time.....take the crown

[@iceicebuddy]

Great episode. Does anybody read these comments? Oh well.

[@Meme_Lor]

I do

[@mrsundaymovies]

Sometimes I do

[@sortedevaras]

Not gonna lie, Luke Skywalker using the force to swing around 16 lightsabers and cut up ATATs sounds fucking rad.

[@liampickering1791]

Caravan of Garbage has peaked with the Rodney King beating crossover. I’ve never laughed so hard in my life.

[@jakemccluskey1111]

I always enjoyed that short scene from CHAPPiE where Masters of the Universe is randomly on some TV screen and it ends up inspiring the titular character for the rest of the film.