Oh yeah, that one where Frank Langella forgets he's playing fucking Skeletor and gives a legitimately great performance. Which one is the better movie in retrospect though, Masters of the Universe or TMNT: The Movie?
That's not true. Langella never once forgot that he was playing Skeletor. He took the role specifically because his kid liked He Man, and Skeletor remains Langella's favorite role. The thing is, Langella was the only person on that set who had serious talent and also thought that the movie deserved anyone's best efforts.
An attitude I've seen a lot, even RLM chimed in with it in their commentary, is that the He Man movie (or the Michael Bay Transformers movies, or Jem and the Holograms, or whatever) had no artistic integrity to lose, because the cartoon existed to sell toys. That's a terrible attitude, IMO. Everyone in Hollywood has a master. Selling toys to pay the bills is no different from say... someone who's hoping to do well enough to get a sequel, or someone who wants to get good numbers from China.
Some people were bitching about the new direction taken with the Powerpuff Girls reboot in another thread, and the new creators were apparently quoted as saying "It's for children, it's
not supposed to be good." That's bullshit.
Masters of the Universe was a shit movie because it was mostly made by bad artists. That should never be excused by shitting on people who actually
were trying (many of the people who worked on the cartoons). The world needs fewer hack frauds (the real kind, not the RLM kind) and more Frank Langella.
