I'm not sure which I dislike more, the ones who say they respect the original material but do not actually respect the material, or the ones who openly despise and disdain the original material. Neither approach seems to result in stuff that's any good.
It's astounding to think that the cynical, exploitative, cash-grabbing original creators who made a series of 30 minute commercials to sell toys did so with more thought, creativity, skill, and love than every single Hollywood hack who's touched the property since.
How did we get here? How are we this creatively bankrupt? We should be capable of making something epic out of MOTU.
If they'd approached the property earnestly, with an eye to make it look, sound, and feel BADASS, we could have had MOTU not as it was, but as our 8 year old selves always imagined it to be.
But no.
Instead we get "Earf Man is having wacky adventures in silly place" with a condescending heap of millennial "humor" slathered all over it like an excess of runny, room temperature mayonnaise.
How dumb is the m0dErN AuDiEnCe that it needs an explanation for why a character that looks like a cross between man and beast and is a beast master is called beastman? Or that a character that is literally a man-at-arms is called Man-at-Arms. Or a guy with a skull for a head is called Skeletor? Need I go on?
I'm not sure which I dislike more, the ones who say they respect the original material but do not actually respect the material, or the ones who openly despise and disdain the original material. Neither approach seems to result in stuff that's any good.
The ones who lie about respecting the source material are worse. At least the ones who disdain it openly are honest.
It's astounding to think that the cynical, exploitative, cash-grabbing original creators who made a series of 30 minute commercials to sell toys did so with more thought, creativity, skill, and love than every single Hollywood hack who's touched the property since.
How did we get here? How are we this creatively bankrupt? We should be capable of making something epic out of MOTU.
If they'd approached the property earnestly, with an eye to make it look, sound, and feel BADASS, we could have had MOTU not as it was, but as our 8 year old selves always imagined it to be.
But no.
Instead we get "Earf Man is having wacky adventures in silly place" with a condescending heap of millennial "humor" slathered all over it like an excess of runny, room temperature mayonnaise.
Yuck.
How dumb is the m0dErN AuDiEnCe that it needs an explanation for why a character that looks like a cross between man and beast and is a beast master is called beastman? Or that a character that is literally a man-at-arms is called Man-at-Arms. Or a guy with a skull for a head is called Skeletor? Need I go on?
Man-at-Arms was properly renamed Man-With-Warrants
He-Fag and The Masters of the Gayniverse.