Bchez

I watched the directors cut. After seeing The Odyssey, I knew I needed to watch this. I have never read the Iliad, but I knew the basic idea. This was a weird adaptation because I know the Gods play a bigger part in the source material, and this was a much more grounded historical war movie. It works very well as a historical war film. The sets look great. Everything feels grand and epic. Every single battlefield is sprawling, and is filled with soldiers.  One complaint I have with the battles, whether it be the large scale fights or the one on one fight, the editing feels a bit odd. Like it’s not bad editing the entire time, but some cuts just feel weird and jumpy. The editing is chaotic, which makes sense for a war movie, but sometimes the angles that it cuts too feel jarring. The performances are good, but nothing crazy. I don’t know if that sounds picky, but I feel the character’s looks are more memorable. Whether it’s a very blonde Brad Pitt, or Orlando Bloom constantly showing his sad puppy dog face. It’s a well done historical war film, but I would need to read The Iliad to properly rate it as an adaptation.

I grew up on those shitty SyFy movies, and this wasn’t as horrible as I expected, but it wasn’t good either. First off, how did they get Tom Hardy and Tony Todd in this low budget TV movie? I am kinda on a Greek myth rush after seeing The Odyssey, and this seemed like a fun enough 90-minute monster movie based off a Greek Myth I like. Somehow, they made a really cool idea pretty damn boring. I didn’t care about anyone really and I just kinda wanted it to end. The effects aren’t horrible. I can say they surprised me. Knowing this was a SyFy original movie, I wasn’t expecting much, so seeing something halfway decent was nice. Performances were pretty flat too. Not that great overall.

I took off the nostalgia glasses, and despite my Pop Pop showing me this when I was really young and me liking it then, I can’t really fully like this film. Since I started this Kaiju marathon in December, I knew I was gonna have to break little me’s heart and watch this one again. And man does it hurt. The fun factor is there. Lots of fun setpieces, great destruction, the human characters are pretty fun, and it’s reason for “Godzilla” coming to New York is somewhat interesting. It’s not incredible, but it has the ingredients for a fun time. It’s got one big problem though. The Godzilla design. This is not Godzilla. This is a dinosaur design in a movie called Godzilla. It brings the whole movie down.  It just sucks how much the design of Godzilla sinks this movie. It could’ve been a good time.

I have no nostalgia for Masters of the Universe at all, as I’ve never really watched it. I did want to check this out though. I meant to see this in theaters, but I never got to it. I am almost never “I’ll wait till streaming” guy, but I did not mind with this one. Don’t get me wrong, this film is fun. The characters are fun to watch, the fights are fun, and it captures the feeling of the cartoon(I never really watched the cartoon but I’ve seen snippets) Skeletor is great. Fuck Jared Leto, but Skeletor is done so well, I can’t even tell that fucker voices him. He-Man is fun. He’s goofy, sincere, and just likeable all around. Same thing with Teela and Duncan. Some of the CGI is a bit weak. Some is great, and this film has nice colors and effects throughout, but there are some parts where the CGI isn’t as strong. It’s fine though. The runtime is a tiny bit long. I can enjoy a movie that is a bit long, but this didn’t need to be as long as it was. Overall, my review is probably not something to go off of if you actually watched the cartoon growing up(wtf do I know about OG cartoon, I’m 21) or at least know something about the show, but it’s still a pretty decent film.