So the new AG Lite is about a purported script for a He-man movie that’s been “Batman-Beginsified” … I winced … I love the nostalgia of old cartoons and I like it when they do remakes of some of this stuff, but He-man was so goddamned corny, there’s some things that should just be allowed to lie. It doesn’t help that I saw most of my He-man dubbed into Hindi back when I visited my cousins in India every other summer, but hell – have you seen He-man?! I can only hope this “re-imagining” involves … you know, clothes. Pants would be a start.
I also winced at the term Batman-Beginsification (or whatever). With Batman, the re-imagining made sense because there was a context for it – historically, the character gets interpreted any number of ways, and that’s why the re-imagining worked. Not so for He-man … Are we going to see a slew of movies like this? Somewhere in Smurf Village, Papa Smurf is callously shot while bringing Brainy Smurf home from the movies. Brainy Smurf travels the world training so that he can come back and defeat the new threat to Smurf Village – Jokey Smurf. It’s just going to be super-buff, super serious dudes running around in diapers, dopey hats, and blue body paint. Good night, everyone.
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Meh. I liked the recent version of He-Man that came out a few years ago. But people should stop comparing everything to batman.
Dream on. People are going to keep comparing mediocre ‘dark’ stuff to Batman as much as many still compare mediocre action animation to Dragon Ball Z.
It’s just going to be super-buff, super serious dudes running around in diapers, dopey hats, and blue body paint.
Have you seen pro-wrestling?
I am with you on the He-Man movie idea. I’m not totally against, but part of the fun would be it being corny and a little campy. Making it brooding and serious would ruin it.
I do feel strongly that the Dolph Lundgren movie fills our live-action He-Man quota for at least a century.
It kind of scares me that the guy who wrote the original article was actually really excited about it. I personally am getting really fed up with hearing about all of these live-action remakes that are popping up. Whether its DBZ, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, or any other cartoon to movie transmogrification BS, I just do not feel that happy about it. Especially Bebop, the anime that got me into loving it…who the HELL can play ANY of the characters, not to mention Spike or Ed…they just dont physically exist really.
Wake me when originality is no longer dead in hollywood…
they do a live action movie of bebop? is this for sure?
ofcourse they will take johnny depp as spike then like they should have taken him as goku and not chatwin.
I hope not. That would mean that there would be lots of Cowboy Bebop reap involved in the movie, just like in the upcoming Dragon Ball movie and the soon to come Tekken film. Somehow, I feel cheated.
Seriously, who’s going to see the DB film? It’s going to be an exact Transformers repeat; it’s going to be about anything BUT the Dragon Balls or Goku himself.
(shudders)I think someone in Hollywood read this post and took it upon himself to green light the Smurfs movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472181/
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!
NOOOOOOO!!! God have mercy on us all…
that’s been in the works for some time. i read about that a few months ago.
Umm so basicly they are going to remake Conan the Barbarian?? Since that is what those toys were originally slated for untill they found out that it was going to have a R rating, then genius hit… we could make a cartoon ans still sell these toys… Wish I could find that old Toy Fair artical… but I digress… We going to get Arnold to play it again?? I’m not 100% against the idea, but i shall remain skeptical.
A good He-Man would be Vin Diesel. Just make Adam naturally bald and Ta-Da! Diesel fits in the role like a glove. Having Vin though would mean that there would be lots of gunfire, just like in the old (and terrible) ’80s movie. How random.
Am I the only one who actually wants to see that Smurf movie made? It would probably be one of the world’s best/worst movies ever made. Even better better/worse than Catwoman…
Or Epic
FailMovie? No Hollywood film is worse than Epic Movie.Perhaps Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the worst. Yes, even more than Epic Movie or *gasp* Batman & Robin.
*The Third TMNT movie
Ananth: I can only hope this “re-imagining” involves … you know, clothes. Pants would be a start.
I wasn’t into He-Man, but I saw him alright. I think it’s because of this campy series that the saying “Real men wear pink” came to exsist.
And hairy speedos, of course. URGH.
Okay, throw tomatoes at me if you want, but I’m at least curious to see if anyone can turn something that often took the offramp into Campyville (and I was a He-Man fan back in the day) into something serious. Or at least semi-serious. Even as a fan, I panned the old live-action movie. Maybe now the technology is good enough to do a better job?
I’d like to see Adam/He-Man made a bit more broody. He was way too accepting for having to keep such a huge secret. Even Sailor Moon had more angst about being an unlikely hero than that.
PS: Hawk’s rendition is pretty sw33t! =D
Agreed. He-Man looks surprisingly cool in Hawk’s vision!
The real question is how would they ‘re-imagine’ Skeletor? I’m a hooded skull for a face just isn’t going to cut it anymore.
The cartoon covered this pretty well which again mirrors what most other people are saying, WHY!!!!
One thing is for sure; if the hood is kept, Skeletor is going to become EEEEEEMO. Why? Because the fashion demands it! *avoids a flung dead cat* Hah! Missed me!
-And because a skeleton constantly wearing a hoody indoors doesn’t exactly invoke a sunny character. Speaking about the sun, be prepared that he’d be wearing sunglasses indoors as well! Why? Because the fashion demands it!
*gets hit by a flung still breathing cat* yeowIwasonlyjokmurfsplurtickaaargh!
Spiderman 3.. urgh, the memories..
i like how hawk took the spider-man 3 “emo” look and used for He-Man.
Don’t forget the Emo-Prime look. That was a Classic.
LOL, Agreed! =D
Somewhere in Smurf Village, Papa Smurf is callously shot while bringing Brainy Smurf home from the movies. Brainy Smurf travels the world training so that he can come back and defeat the new threat to Smurf Village – Jokey Smurf.
I’d actually watch that. It’s like the parody of Smurfs/Se7en they did on Robot Chicken!
Somewhere in Smurf Village, Papa Smurf is callously shot while bringing Brainy Smurf home from the movies. Brainy Smurf travels the world training so that he can come back and defeat the new threat to Smurf Village – Jokey Smurf.
I can actually say i meet the director of the smurfs and hes a pretty cool dude :P.
In other news this makes me leery for next yrs realeses its seems the 80s are cool with dragon ball, transformers 2 and I think wolverine and i belive a cg smurfs. Ugh. watchs as they ruin childhood. blah.
I’m a stark advocate of the belief that with the right concept, any idea can work. A dark He-Man? Yeah, you’d just have to dodge certain issues with the concept itself yet try to retain what made the show what it was. Sounds hard, but not impossible. For one thing, I wouldn’t call it He-Man in the title. Or rather call him that too often in the movie. *shrugs* Very little exposure to He-Man, so I might not really know what I’m talking about.
Oh, and quick QA about the AG Lite, any reason for the use of the “The Batman” animated Batman? Struck me as a bit odd.