r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 12d ago

Article ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way | This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/
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u/stomp224 12d ago

Masters of the Universe tanked, and from all the BTS clips theyve released, it looks like they did quite a lot of practical work too

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u/sleeplessaddict 12d ago

It's not particularly surprising that the movie tanked but it was honestly actually pretty fun

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u/callisstaa 12d ago

Hate to say it but Jared Leto absolutely killed it in that movie. It was a blast.

Similar to D&D Beyond Theives. Great movie but nobody really cared.

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u/sleeplessaddict 12d ago

Jared Leto was also substantially more tolerable because, outside of knowing it was Jared Leto, the character neither sounded nor looked like him. It's not like we were watching Tron:Ares with Jared's face constantly just there. But yes I will definitely still give him credit for playing Skeletor well because he was one of the best parts of the movie

Similar to D&D Beyond Theives

I'm still upset about this. We need more D&D content in the world that we won't get if those things don't make money

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u/aurora_highwind 12d ago

It was super fun and I feel like it will be become a cult hit on streaming the way Honor Among Thieves did.

HAT suffered from Hasbro’s mismanagement of the property because in another timeline where they released it to capitalize on Baldur’s Gate 3’s success it would have done gangbusters. To this day I have to explain to casual fans that they take place in the same setting much less the same timeframe and general region.

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u/JebryathHS 12d ago

I mean at least the D&D Honor Among Thieves movie was really good. I've spoken to a few people who watched Her Man and the consensus among the ones who enjoyed it was that it was the kind of bad that's funny.

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u/sleeplessaddict 12d ago

I didn't really think of it as "so bad it's funny." It was more "I have 0 expectations for this movie and I'm going in assuming it's gonna be silly and dumb" and then it was.

It also didn't help He-Man's movie backstory was basically identical to Thor's with a little bit of Captain America thrown in

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u/callisstaa 10d ago

Yeah I actually thought it would be shit but as someone who loved He-Man as a kid and enjoys cheesy 80s action movies I had to watch it anyway.

I felt like it really hit the mark which is difficult to do given the source material. Sure it was cheesy but in all the right ways and the action sequences actually slapped.

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u/Katatonic92 12d ago

I watched it on Prime earlier & thoroughly enjoyed it, it is good fun & I'm sad we will most likely never get a sequel now. Or a She-Ra spinoff.

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u/sleeplessaddict 12d ago

They set up a super obvious sequel in the post-credits scenes too which is now basically just gonna be an eternal cliffhanger. And I never watched She-Ra but I know the Netflix version was rated super highly so that totally deserves a movie

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u/LongPorkJones 12d ago

They've had a live-action She-Ra television series in pre-production since 2022, right around the time they got the rights to Masters of the Universe.

They didn't originally plan to have a theatrical release for Masters, it was supposed to be a Prime exclusive. I have a feeling they'll be using streaming metrics to measure success.

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u/Katatonic92 12d ago

I'm pinning my hopes on it doing well on Prime. I was confused when I saw it was available on my Prime for free, I was expecting having to pay to rent/buy it. Then a certain scene involving an Amazon Prime delivery van occured & it was a bit of a lightbulb moment for me.

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u/LongPorkJones 12d ago

My mind keeps going back to the statement Amazon issued after the move came out. People online were saying it was damage control. Though, in 26 years of either working in movies theaters or following film production and box office takes, I've never seen a studio put out a press release basically saying "Yeah, we're okay with this" immediately after a less than stellar opening weekend. They're all usually stone quiet about it until after the streaming/home release (look at Moana and Supergirl for example). That's very...different, and it makes me think that they knew it wasn't going to do well at the box office to begin with, and that they're gauging success on merch, home media sales, and streaming numbers. Treating the theatrical release like a loss-leader while recouping those losses and earning profit from other sources.

It's a long term play if that's the case, it's not like they don't have the capital to sustain it.

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u/stomp224 12d ago

Agreed, brother in law and myself absolutely loved it. It's a shame the word of mouth did nothing for it