Masters of the Universe

Junkfood Cinema

Brian Salisbury

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure, Arts, Hobbies

4.6 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Brian and Cargill prove they have the powwwwwerrrr to genuinely love even notoriously bad films as their Summer of 1987 series takes them to Eternia to do battle with Masters of the Universe.

One of the trio of films that shuttered Cannon Films, Masters of the Universe is a marvel of schlock, but do we dare say it's the best movie ever adapted from a line of toys? We dare anything! If anything, Masters of the Universe is a must-see for the brilliant, no-prisoners performance of Frank Langella alone.

All this, plus a deep dive into the confounding paradox of a hero living in Castle Grayskull, where Charles Bronson should have been cast, and why we think Blade needs to stay off IMDB.

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0:00.0	This is junk food cinema.
0:14.2	This is junk food cinema. Hi, this is Dick Miller.
0:27.3	You're listening to Junk Food Cinema on Film School Rejects.
0:32.1	Who were these guys?
0:37.1	Music From a distant galaxy, we have come to Earth, mostly to eat tacos, but we will be the masters of those tacos. Make no
0:58.2	mistake about it. We're also junk food cinema. Hi. Hey, everybody. How's it going? And it's still
1:04.5	the summer of 87 and we are chugging along with, oh my gosh, so exciting this movie that we're
1:10.4	talking about because it is, it's this movie that we're talking about because
1:11.3	it is exactly what this show is all about because it's very high affinity and not so high
1:18.2	quality, but it's our preferred quadrant of that graph.
1:22.7	This is the second part of a two-parter for those of you that checked out last week's
1:26.6	Robocop episode,
1:27.7	of course, this is the movie I saw two hours before I saw Robocop. I saw this in the greatest
1:34.9	double feature of my life. As a 12-year-old boy, I went to a Tucson, Arizona drive-in and not
1:42.3	knowing what I was going to see and ended up seeing Robocop
1:47.2	preceded by Masters of the Universe.
1:51.0	Of the universe.
1:51.8	A film I quite enjoyed at the time, but was blown immediately out of my brain by fucking
1:59.8	Robocop.
2:00.8	Sure. Because Robocop. Sure.
2:01.2	Because Robocop, you know, you stack these films together.
2:05.2	There's nothing this film has on Robocop except more fourth wall breaking camera looks.
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