Transformers Movie Gives Hope For He-Man and ThunderCats

If you've seen stills from the upcoming Transformers movie, you'll notice these aren't your friendly, childhood Transformers...

They're SPOOKY lookin'!



Seems as if Hollywood is treating the 80s better than the 70s and making the characters tougher. Wish we could say the same about what they did to 70s characters played by macho icons like Burt Reynolds From The Longest Yard...


Instead of comedic genius Adam Sandler from the remake...

Even Darth Vader went from looking like a possessed granddaddy from hell...

To a lost member of N*SYNC...


With the meaner, nastier Transformers looking tougher than the cartoon, there is hope that they'll do He-Man and ThunderCats better than these guys:

ThunderCats? NOOO!!!!

Before Transformers comes out and flops, Warner Bros is making a live-action ThunderCats Movie.

Is nothing sacred?

This kind of thing has been tried before, and I don't mean the Super Mario Bros Movie. It was something even more horrid: Masters of the Universe.

Masters of the Universe was based on the cartoon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. As if it wasn't bad enough I had already wasted my allowance on the He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, theatrical release which was later shown on tv for free. Allowance that could've been spent on comic books. Comic books that appreciate in value and could have paid for my law school tuition! They had to rub salt in the wound and waste even more of my money with Masters of the Universe.

For those who didn't see any of the movies, I can sum the bastardization up with a brief comparison. The He-Man cartoon had a funny imp called Orko:

The Masters of the Universe movie had Gwildor: who looks like he contracted some intergalactic venereal disease:


I shudder to think about what they're going to do with Cheetara.