{"id":27104,"date":"2019-02-21T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=27104"},"modified":"2019-01-27T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:54:39","slug":"masters-of-the-universe-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=27104","title":{"rendered":"Masters of the Universe (1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"738\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><br \/>\nA corpulent hero named He-man , a veteran warrior (John Cypher), his daughter (Chelsea Field), a likable midget (Billy Barty) fight in Eternia against a vile villain named Skeletor (Frank Langella as a Darth Vader clone) in a fantasy\/Sci-Fi about rebel forces battling for the sake of freedom and engaged in a life or death war with the tyrant leader of a far planet . They transport themselves by means of a mechanism that creates a time hole to earth in which nothing less the future of the universe is at stake . There they meet an intimate and youthful couple ((Courney Cox , Richard Duncan). Meanwhile , Skeletor wants to get a chance by destiny to receive the powers of Grayskull.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big-budgeted live-action rendition of the cartoon roles&#8217; feats in the \u00a8Star Wars\u00a8 mold and characterized by He-man , Skeletor and many others . All of them blend together with wonderful and terrific special effects courtesy of Richard Edlund and special designs by Moebius .\u00a8Masters of the Universe\u00a8 is basically numerous spectacular fight-scenes with a tiny bit of plot movement, full of sympathetic dialog and flashy blasts of light and energy . It features stunted and disjointed action, as well as the hilarious but quite conventional characters fitting partially to animated series . The abundant breathtaking images , which labor mightily to reproduce the source materials in some impressive scenes and eye-popping look .<\/p>\n<p>After his nasty roles in in \u00a8Rocky 4 (85)\u00a8 and \u00a8A view to kill(85)\u00a8 , the Swedish muscle mountain Dolph Lundgren starred this film and followed by \u00a8Red Scorpion(90)\u00a8 and \u00a8Universal soldier(92)\u00a8 in his successful period during the 80s and early 90s . Lundgren has enough acting ability and charisma to play this kind of heroes . Based on cartoon and famous toys by \u00a8Mattei Inc\u00a8 that proved to be one of the biggest of all time . The characters and story may aim a little more at kids than teenagers and adults. For comic relief is in charge of Billy Barty with his antics and jokes . Other support actors making brief appearance are James Tolkan and Christina Pickles as the imprisoned sorceress . The special effects are all they&#8217;re cracked up to be and set a new cinematic standard for realistic realization . Action scenes have the zip and excitement you&#8217;d expect . The motion picture is well directed by Gary Goddard in his only realization , subsequently he dedicated to production and 3D . This would-be epic about \u00a8 Sword and witchery\u00a8 is an entertaining romp through space and time .<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A corpulent hero named He-man , a veteran warrior (John Cypher), his daughter (Chelsea Field), a likable midget (Billy Barty) fight in Eternia against a vile villain named Skeletor (Frank Langella as a Darth Vader clone) in a fantasy\/Sci-Fi about rebel forces battling for the sake of freedom and engaged in a life or death&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg",520,738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16-145x145.jpg",145,145,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16-211x300.jpg",211,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg",520,738,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg",520,738,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg",520,738,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg",520,738,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg",520,738,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg",520,738,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/f912621e1f5b61c051fe752102557e16.jpg",211,300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A corpulent hero named He-man , a veteran warrior (John Cypher), his daughter (Chelsea Field), a likable midget (Billy Barty) fight in Eternia against a vile villain named Skeletor (Frank Langella as a Darth Vader clone) in a fantasy\/Sci-Fi about rebel forces battling for the sake of freedom and engaged in a life or death...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}