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To me what you're describing is more about tone than groundedness, but that's probably splitting hairs. I get what you're saying.

I think I’m just going to chalk this movie up to “Not for me”.

I was 6 or 7 when the MotU cartoon originally came out. I watched it, my brother and I had all the toys, etc. but each new trailer that comes out for this just leaves me with the same “meh” feeling. I hope it’s good for y’all’s sake but these trailers just look downright silly to me.

That's four trailers for me that gave me the old school trailer feels: This one, the new spiderman (even though I'm not a spiderman fan at all), project hail mary, and backrooms - I'd say: "We're so back baby", but then we got whatever the hell is going on with the Supergirl trailers.

Not interested in seeing some skinny scrawny kid with a six-pack playing He-Man. Sorry. It just looks ridiculous to me.

I don't have any nostalgia for this as I was already a teenager when the cartoon and toys originally came out, so I'm not really interested. The trailer played when we saw Project Hail Mary, and my 16 year old daughter thought it looked really dumb.

Buddy, if that's scrawny to you, then I don't even know what to say. He's probably on quite a bit of gear, honestly. Now some kid you've never heard of? A goofy-ass cartoon that was primarily a toy commercial? An evil sex pest/cult leader who somehow keeps getting cast in stuff? Yeah, I get that.

He's certainly not scrawny, but folk (I am guilty of this too) tend to expect an extreme standard for actors portraying larger than life heroes. It's just the nature of the business.

But he's bigger than Lundgren! Maybe not height-wise, but certainly in proportions. The only humans who look like He-Man blast $10k of gear a month, revolve their entire lives around it, and can only maintain it for a few weeks. They're also short. At a certain point, it's unreasonable to expect certain physiques in film. Like He-Man in the cartoons is more jacked AND more shredded than Lou Ferrigno as Hulk.

I don't think the kid is bigger at all.





Although it is funny that you bring up Lundgren's size, because as a kid I found him too small to be He-Man. Some 10 years later, I was revisiting the movie on TV and was wondering what the heck 6-year-old me was on about.

I mean the He man toy designs were impossibly stocky and top heavy so I can understand a kid thinking a real life person looked scrawny in comparison, I guess. This was prior to the redesign in "The New Adventures of He-man" where he was still built but not he-man proportions.

And by that logic every male character would need to be just as big because it was all the same sculpt. The actor's size is a weird, weird objection that some people have to the upcoming movie.

I'm ready for the film! It'll be like Christmas Day 1983 all over again!

I'm not even sure what else you could do unless you want the main character to be fully CGI all the time or a guy in a rubber suit.

Hire Ronnie Coleman.

In all fairness, his proportions, though still large, were not freakish in the cartoon.




Lundgren was actually spot on.

Was he? His shoulder's aren't as broad as the cartoon series Adam/He-man.

The only person to ever look like his comic/cartoon counterpart was Schwarzenegger for Conan. Momoa definitely was too lean.




It's why Bautista now isn't really built to be Marcus Fenix as he's slimmed down a lot.

Doesn't the story go that the He-Man toy was based on a Conan prototype toy Mattel made based on Conan the Barbarian but they created MOTU instead once they saw how violent the Conan movie was?

I mean, there's no way in hell you're going to get the true look without CGI - the amount of gear they would need to take to accomplish "the look" would be extremely unhealthy.

I couldn't possibly be more disinterested in how 'big' the actor looks, he did his job. The best He-Man comp is probably Hemsworth, but he's a bit old and out of their price range. If anything it's more of a failing on the costuming dept and director for not better designing the costumes for live action.

Gonna second this. Ive watched two trailers and like you, the last time I was involved with MotU I was quite young. The trailer looks rather generic, same old-same old. Ill wait for reviews and if somehow they pull this off then Ill maybe try to watch it. But it looks a tad chintzy.

Alan Ritchson would be the perfect He-Man. And I'm not knocking on the kid they got. I'm looking forward to the film.

I’m interested in seeing the movie and overall think it looks like a fun time, but I can agree that the actor playing Adam/He-Man is a bit small looking for the character. Not saying he’s not in good shape but I could have seen someone with a bit more mass.

Well the other consideration is that he's also playing a "normal guy on Earth" Adam, not the "oh he happens to be as muscular as He-man but so is everyone else in Eternia" Adam. I would think Rickson or anyone else that towers over normal people might have trouble being a convincing "normal human" but I guess we'll see.

Fair - sort of how Superman had to be played by as normal of a looking guy as possible. Something like that. However, I remember my He-Man action figures being hyper-jacked. Like 10-pack abs, veins popping out, etc.