Masters of the Universe - Caravan of Garbage

you know what news I loved recently what's that Mattel becoming so confident with their Barbie movie oh yes and I guess just properties in general that they are raiding the toy box and by that I mean they're working on 45 different Mattel Properties for the big screen oh my God James when all of those are a success they can combine them into a metallic verse ha just kidding they're all gonna fail no wait we've got Hot Wheels we've got Matchbox oh my God yeah and kids play with these matches we got the magical they can burn down anything absolutely they got human we've got Polly Pocket they've got rock them sock them robots they got magic eight ball American Girl Uno view Master you know view Master you look through a thing and you go oh yeah that's a picture it's a boat or something that's great all the boats of the world what if it was magic though no oh anyways I'm gonna care about a garbage where this week we're talking one of the biggest swings I guess at bringing a toy to Cinemas a Mattel product also as well as Barbie Heman we were gonna watch a Barbie computer animated uh movie I started it the first one and then you were like but wait where men were couple of bloody men I mean we're too much can't watch a move of a girl we're gonna watch a movie for a minute I started it and I'm like I [ __ ] hate this okay but also it was made in an ERA with technology for a completely different demographic that's not me direct to video yeah like what am I doing right and plus if the video did really well we'd have to do all of them and there's like 50. so we're not gonna do that instead we're like oh my god let's let's let's let's watch 1987's Masters of the Universe now what's interesting about Masters of the Universe is that it asks the question what if Star Wars until the budget ran out oh my God you're absolutely right we've got a sand Planet we've got Storm Troopers we've got a Darth Vader we've got a Yoda we've got assorted freaks we've got New Jersey that's the point where the budget is exactly right we'll see I saw this as a kid I don't know I saw this woman yeah well I saw this I saw this in the 80s when it came out at Cinemas and prior to that I had been I'll say a fan yeah of the cartoon series but what I really mean is it was on yeah and I was it was shot into my eyeballs as a child and the thing about that cartoon is it's the never-ending battle between you know the the good guys you know he-man's forces and skeletors forces to control the the great magic of Castle gray skull Nike what do you want one in an investment property get out of here but as is as was the tradition of cartoons at the time the status quo never changed obviously right it never you know the the the storyline from episode to episode never really evolved in any way so in watching this one I'm like as a kid I'm like oh my God skeletal he's got Castle Grace go like I'm sure I didn't have the words for it at the time but I'm like this plot like this is this has gotten like it's bigger and it's epic yeah it's incredible like he's a big hologram and this is real and it's in the real world now and that that's that's amazing to me but like as an adult re-watching this I'm like this is such a small movie like it's such a like they've clearly gone okay we need to build for purpose like two sets we've got to build one room in Castle Grayskull and like gildor's apartment and the rest we can just we can just borrow some sets from like the the small town dramedy that's recording next door absolutely just uh just a or a real music shop that's exactly a music shop and a main road in a small town and a kid's bedroom and a way house whatever I appreciate they built they built a couple of big weird Vehicles oh absolutely I love a big weird vehicle actually speaking of Star Wars Ralph Macquarie actually worked on this a few years prior and there's a bunch of early Concepts which you can see here they are and he put a bunch of big weird vehicles in it because that's all He-Man was just looking at a vehicle and go that's not right How's that gonna move I like a crab but it's a bird it's a big bird though why is it I don't know for people I can't stress how big this property was yeah if you look at the numbers this this franchise was doing yeah it's astounding this failed so hard perhaps it's because this is the work of course of the Canon group yeah uh famously uh uh low budget movie maestros and sometimes softcore porno but uh pick your poison that's right that's right the scripping and saving or you know to look at it another way they they made any of this yeah you know like they they cheated some money out of some people and they made this movie you know I think it's pretty impressive that it mostly looks good like there's not a lot of special effects or moments in this where you're like Ah that's bad that looks bad or whatever you know that that castle gray skull set that's actually two separate sound stages and they knocked the wall out of the middle so that was apparently the largest the landlord's permission yeah yeah it's fine yeah that was apparently like the largest set Hollywood had seen in like 40 years huh and you get the sense of scale yeah right but like beyond that yeah it's like a music shop and a straight it's exactly right in a chicken place yeah yeah uh they even got and this fascinates me they've got bill Auntie to do the music yeah and Bill Connie of course for people who don't know among other things wrote Gonna Fly now the uh the Rocky theme but in this he's produced a real Bargain Basement Superman theme for the opening justice title sequence yeah well this movie and Superman 4 is the reason why Cannon yes like shut down that's right so I guess that's what though that's the aesthetic they were going for yeah yeah yeah yeah just his leftover stuff yes just some just some tapes he left behind as it was running from the tax man so he man in this yes played by Dolph Lundgren the wonderful Dolph Lundgren who I love but I think he's out of his depth here I think though there's a reason for that is because he's very early to acting he'd been Ivan Drago Ivan Drago not a big speaking part yes that's true and he was still learning English by the way this guy real life genius yeah is he an astrophysicist or something like chemical engineer or something yeah he keeps his knowledge in his big muscles exactly he's what he's a note I have um cartoon hey man generally speaking doesn't have a cape no this guy has a cape most of the time and I think it's because Dolph Lundgren didn't want people to see his bottom well I saw his bottom did you sometimes wow even the scene where the at the end where the cape has stripped off him and they're whipping him with a laser yeah yeah you never see below his waist like just imagine seeing I think maybe just imagine seeing his bottom but I think I'm the you know the lesson here I think is you know give us a look at your body the lesson here is you know even if you're just a an absolute you know chiseled Adonis of a man you can have you know the world chips away at you and gives you little insecurities and also work harder dummy get those glutes working absolutely no so what's interesting about that is he wanted to wear like a longer pants because he's in like little leather under underwear which is that's He Man especially but I mean you know chafing issues especially totally and and they wanted to put him in like little Underpants and like big boots and so the way they convinced him no the big boots and the leather Underpants that's much cooler and much and much more masculine so that's why he's he's in it he was like I don't want to wear this smell like that's cool Justice it's cool and normal so apparently some stipulations for the character of He-Man and this is no love interests can't kill anyone so that's why all the Stormtroopers are robots right also they went to him and said listen you're big we love how big you are but we've got a problem you're too big you're gonna have to do all your stunt work yourself because we can't get a stunt man who's as big as you also we don't want to pay for one it was a lie yeah it's that big yeah you're absolutely right I've encountered the Canon group before so Dolph Lundgren art said in a French magazine just after this was released that working on this film was a nightmare the shooting schedule was five months and included two months of night shooting and imagine just being this big all of the time right that's hard work I know people like air roids and Etc and whatever but it's still very difficult to to look and maintain this because he's not doing it for like a 30 second shirtless scene he's shirtless the entire movie yeah and they're no you would think that at a certain point you'd go oh they're on earth now he'd better he'd better disguise himself and he put maybe puts on a pink shirt and they call him Adam or whatever that'll be a bit of fun right yeah nope he's got to be shirtless and oiled absolutely you know and speaking of shirtless and oil so Frank langella plays Skeletor and he wanted initially for him to look more like the cartoon as in like less covered up the opposite of a Dolph you know sure but Gary God so Gary Goddard objected to Frank langella showing off his body in the movie because he didn't want Skeletor to be sexy oh so this was dropped well I mean you know the internet has proven him otherwise it's too late yeah very sexy good makeup on him I reckon as well I think so too this Skeletor as a kid terrified me absolutely [ __ ] my pants saying this and even now coming back to this like 30 years later yeah Bowser rumbling yeah because I see it at first I'm like huh it's like the guy I was afraid of uh so Frank Langell actually went on record an interview stating that playing Skeletor was one of his favorite roles I think his kids want him to do it yeah he's young someone's a huge fan and loved running around the house shouting by the power of gray skull so he took on the role he even wrote some of his own lines like tell me about the loneliness of good He-Man is it equal to the loneliness of evil when I heard that I went [ __ ] that's like a real line in a real movie This Is Shakespeare this is oily Shakespeare with laser guns well evil lens like that's there's something Shakespearean about you know her and her relationship with Skeletor and he's like I just quest for power and whatever by the way [ __ ] six second outfit skeletal right I love what you're going for man really good you look [ __ ] [ __ ] amazing disagree no I'm firmly agree isn't it interesting though that he-man's magic sword is only magic for like the last five minutes of that movie what do you want Mason I'm magic the whole time yeah I don't really love the design of it either they could have used the classic design but there's a reason why they didn't come back to it is it money probably but another thing I also love some of the designs in this there's four freaks yeah just some good scary creature designs there's four freaks who have an awful lot of trouble tracking down one teenage girl from Earth yeah man just just just they're running a merry Chase buddy well she was in she was in um she was in that Bruce Springsteen film of course that's right just dancing on out of there okay cardio is good is what you said yeah do you see the lizard guy's got like an inflatable Mech apparently had a straw in his mouth so he would like inflate It On The Go those four yes and I know some of them aren't classic He-Man characters like Beast man's from whatever but I think that's very Castle Grayskull Snake Mountain He-Man I think if they'd give a little bit more color yeah they'd be more authentic to the cartoon but yes you know I guess you bring into the real world they're all going to wear black you know I feel like though this movie I haven't mentioned this it's not that bad it's not that scary good either I know but I feel like in the earth's stuff in the middle yeah I mean there's a battle in the streets in there yeah they're bringing their some of their weird ships to Earth I think all of that looks pretty good and there's some compositing of things flying around which is pretty fun I think it's good for the the budget they had which I presume was very low but it's higher than you think yeah recently on our podcast the weekly Planet we've been sort of bemoaning this idea of like all big blockbuster movies have to cost like two three hundred million dollars well I love that yeah that's right and if they don't make a billion dollars they're considered a failure and we've been like well maybe you know the the the presence of the low to mid budget movie will re-emerge in Hollywood and I'm like what an incredible idea and then I rewatch this and I'm like oh maybe I spoke too soon maybe there's a there's a there's a flaw to that okay sure don't go too I appreciate that but I feel like when they come back to Castle gray skull at the end and there's a final battle and they bring over Mighty McFly's principle and it's like I'm [ __ ] oh shoot I've shotgun some robots or whatever yeah just some freaks yeah I love all of that here come with me Tom Paris from Star Trek Voyager we're gonna team up I feel like there's like a little bit of effort going on there okay that was the Canon groups uh motto a little bit of it a little bit of effort if you don't mind a little bit of effort and a lot of tax evasion but no stunt man no stunt man we can't afford it yeah but I love that character also at the end he's like well I don't go back to Earth I can shoot anybody here and I got a beautiful woman that's right I live in this Castle on and bring me another one so here's the thing the reason it is the way it is is because this is based on the toys and not that's the name of the making of this is the way it is whether you like it or not yeah this is it's based on the toys not the Animated Series okay sure and if you did the Animated Series straight up you'd have to put in like the tiger there's things in there then was never a tiger never a tiger yeah also this is the first time I'd experienced a post-credits saying oh yeah skeletal is coming up and he's like hello I'll see you again it's lounging in this pool I'm having a lovely time absolutely there was going to be a sequel and which we'll get to but before we do that let's talk trivia Mason all right let's do as I like to call it masters of the Union trivia yeah so Mattel the toy company that produced the original He-Man toys ran a contest where the winner would get a role in this new He-Man movie oh yeah so the production was under a great deal of pressure to finish on time and under budget so director Gary Goddard had to squeeze the contest winner into the shoot the winner to squeeze him into a into a costume yep the winner Richard saponda okay is pig boy who hand Skeletor his stuff when he returns from Earth and he's even listed in the end credits but at a 2012 powercon panel on the film Richard sponder stated that the night after he filmed his cameo in the film his face was burning and he was in agony for the from the removal of the Mask which was glued to his face and was ripped off oh no well they ought to go they ought to run yeah from the from the IRS problem exactly you work in a pet shop the skeletal mask actually found new life speaking of Star Trek it's pronounced scaling tour the scaling tour mask for our new life in Star Trek the Next Generation and start Trek Deep Space Nine as the face of a skull-faced alien that Wharf often fights in the hollow deck oh there's a lot of Little Star Trek references in this not deliberately lasers blasters Tom Paris um guy falls down a pit uh uh a Chelsea Field who plays Tila married to Scott Bakula Enterprise yeah and Scott Bakula rhymes with Dracula that's right Frank langella play Dracula whoa probably God everything in Hollywood links together doesn't it nepotism it's nepotism isn't it probably yeah probably uh Christina Pickles who plays with sorceress okay and Courtney Cox who plays Julie Winston apparently went on to play mother and daughter in friends friends you didn't recognize her from friends but I did I didn't recognize it from friends because I just knew her as in this movie as a woman who's wearing a jean jacket made of jeans oh yeah see that yeah incredible that's the 80s baby that's a real Sarah Connor situation at the start which is like I'm working in a restaurant I hope nothing [ __ ] weird happens yeah it was also a fun they they were like let's give this character an arc you don't have to don't worry about it but she's like oh I always feel sad because my parents said let's go up in a plane and I said oh I won't I won't go up on a plane into the plane crash sir I think it's my fault how is it your fault that's a very specific thing that your parents are doing and at the end your problems aren't like my problems is what I'm saying Courtney that's right but then at the end uh she gets sent back in time she's like you you can't go on the plane I'm stealing the keys and then her boyfriend shows up and she's like I've solved the problem you sure you sure about that you're sure about that he doesn't have a spare set of keys maybe just get the keys back from you because you're a child maybe this is what caused it in the first place right this is the time Loop oh my God the loop is closed yeah now in the official Masters of the Universe comic book adaptation an alternate ending is used that was written for the movie but never filmed in the comic after the final battle between He-Man and Skellington man at Arms man and arms is in this it sure is he comes from the depths of Castle Grayskull carrying a NASA and a United States flag the NASA flag has starfinder 5 July 10th 2221 written on it revealing that the first humans on Eternia were actually from a future American space mission huh yeah do you ever think about that I've never thought about that and I will never think about it again after this production designer William Stout took an existing stat by name Step By Nature I don't know about that is a picture took an existing fast food stand in Lakeview Terrace and transformed it into Robbie's ribs and chicken where Julie Winston Works according to Stout the same fast food I forgot to put this in the same fast food place was laid at the site of the infamous Rodney King beating oh boy God we can still take this out it's history Mason I guess that's what we're all about here God um Dolph Lundgren went on record in 1989 with comic Scene Magazine where he said playing He-Man was his lowest point as an actor oh boy he did all right yeah anyway he's been asked since like more recently if they make another He-Man will you be in it he's like oh yeah yeah sure yeah you got money you got money you gotta start man yeah she got money in stunt man do I have to take my shirt off because I'll be the king or whatever be the king of Eternia it's a fun like the ref that's a fun little reference that people like to do these days you get the old guy you make him the king of the father of the new guy or whatever exactly no people love that that's right but he has to show his bottom yeah the King has to show his bottom that's great yeah so the budget of this was 22 million dollars okay more than I thought and it was the most expensive Canon film but the box office was 17.3 million oh that's less I feel like this should have done more like the cartoon and then kids would have turned up oh yeah right you know it's like the Super Mario Brothers movie the first one like kids aren't going to this what have you made what is this you know oh look at it I I don't know this property the toys were like the biggest selling thing for like four years in a row but as I understand make billions of dollars during the filming of this the the sales dropped like they started dropping so I mean maybe this thing was doing from the start what is I think weird about this movie is that despite the fact that it is based on a toy franchise it seems to have been at least in part like some kind of labor of love like you mentioned they got in Ralph macquarius for a bit to do some of the designs I think people involved in this production wanted to get Jack Kirby in to do like art design and stuff like that and like why would you bother with that if you didn't care yeah that's what I'm saying yeah they thought about some of this they were like this is for adults they were ahead of their time they were why but it didn't pay off yeah so too bad you made a big mistake why did you do this yeah why Try there was going to be a sequel though a Masters of the Universe sequel was actually written and cast masters of the two Universe yeah that's right that would make that Sequel and a Spider-Man film back to back and the sets from the two movies were built the costumes were made both movies were fully cast and the budget of Masters of the Universe Part Two was set at 4.5 million so that's low it's way less now you might be like how would you get around that though well I mean it will be set entirely in a closed shopping mall at night oh no the cosmic case trapped Us in here love to do a Chase on one of those little cars you put a coin in and it goes up and down should we go into any of these shops no we're not allowed to so the actor they cast in the sequel was Surfer lead Hamilton led by name led by Nature that's right can I see a picture yeah yeah there's a picture okay great still around Australian oh and the sequel screenplay you're not going to believe this He-Man would have returned to Earth yeah which was the best part of the the first movie and he gets a job in an apartment kind of and he was disguised as a professional quarterback and Skeletor disguised himself as an evil industrialist known as Aaron dark uh this didn't happen because Canon went out of business yeah you know also like I know they talk about making another He-Man and there's that series on Netflix which I think does some really interesting things I know people say look it's working man or whatever but this he-man's from like a vegan planet or whatever what do you think about it that's right man Tila's like oh what's this this is yucky stuff a man at Arms is like um bit of meat also he means gay he's always been gay the the thing about him being Prince Adam and becoming He-Man it's obviously like a coming out MET allegory okay come on Ned what are we doing here that's crazy it's not crazy very racist it's reality it's reality baby it's right but I feel like there was a time to make this and it was in 1985 probably they missed it oh they missed it by two years and so if you're gonna do this now I just don't know whether anybody wants that or cares you have to build a whole franchise from the ground up that's basically Star Wars when you've got Star Wars and you've got Dune and you've got Zack Snyder's Star Wars what are you doing you've got Gareth Edwards Star Wars God Gareth Edward Star Wars yeah there's a lot of Star Wars we've got the Star Wars in people's heads that they imagine when they think of Star Wars and no Star Wars is ever good enough and every subsequent Star Wars is way worse because it's not just Luke Skywalker willing 16 lightsabers but the force just cutting down atats or whatever yeah you can't compare to that you don't like you certainly can't deal with hey man you read my screenplay it did it's bad it's Dreadful come on mate anyways anything can be good I mean I love the world of Eternia yeah it's [ __ ] weird it is weird and I think you know and much more line but I think Thor the Dark World sort of sure took the torch of that and did this kind of combination of Science and Magic that I think looks pretty cool but uh I'm the only one apparently yeah anyways if you like these videos and why wouldn't you and why yeah why wouldn't you what's wrong with you you 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Smith's woke He-Man I want to hear about that every day for the rest of my life yeah just from people being like I'm mad at this I want to hear that have you ever had a weird dude in a skeletal costume do a 20 minute video where he's like you you don't get hey man has that ever happened to you he's gay I get it I [ __ ] get it yeah all right thanks everyone grab that gym you guys we'll see you next week goodbye [Music]

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Published: Thu Jul 20 2023