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Frank Langella is brilliant in that and Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn is also very good. With a larger budget, and had they stayed on Eternia, the movie could have been a lot better. Still fun.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
Frank Langella is brilliant in that and Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn is also very good. With a larger budget, and had they stayed on Eternia, the movie could have been a lot better. Still fun.
This version looks better and better after the news of the new version
This movie was a huge disappointment to me at the time. I had been out of MOTU for about a year, but was hoping this would rekindle my love for the line. Nope. There's quite a bit to like about it (mostly Langella), but the budget-decision to come to Earth and all the changes still make it more of a "meh" than a "yay" to me. I know some folks love it. I can watch it from time to time, but it reminds me of a big screen version of most of Marvel's TV adaptations of the time, close in some respects, but lacking the spark of the source material.
I still remember going to Kaybee looking for MOTU movie figures and being disappointed in no movie Skeletor or He-Man. I have a fondness for the movie but I'm honest enough to admit I was disappointed in it at the time and if you remove Langella's Skeletor from it the movie would become pretty much unwatchable.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
I do have an enduring fondness for the movie... Langella's performance is truly exemplary.
I was disappointed that Goddard decided they should veer so far from the MOTU aesthetic, but there's still a lot to like in there.
When this movie came out I thought it was the greatest thing ever. I had all the posters, the souvenir magazine, the Panini sticker album...Frank Langella and Meg Foster alone make it great. I really liked Beast Man also...my only real disappointment was no Mer-Man.
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