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Thursday, January 23, 2014

What do He-Man, Spiderman, and Van Damme have in common?

Emerich's GODZILLA was certainly a tragedy on how the franchise got held back. I'm almost sensing a similar mistake with the Gareth Edwards upcoming film - where he may focus more on the people and not Godzilla itself. But the story about MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE failing and canceling a SPIDERMAN movie and then spawning Van Damme's CYBORG film (using sets from MASTERS) is all fascinating. CYBORG isn't great but it's the least ridiculous live-action film that's close to what "Fist of the North Star" could've been (THE ROAD WARRIOR is good and similar but there's no martial arts in it). On that side note I highly recommend the 1986 "Fist of the North Star" Japanese original animation as the best motion picture rendition of the comic.