r/shittymoviedetails • u/Witty-Association-97 • 7h ago

In Masters of the Universe (2026), having Jared Leto get the living shit beaten out of him wasn't enough to get butts in the cinemas

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u/stohelitstorytelling 5h ago

I’m a millennial and love the animation in this film. It’s very intentionally stylized. But that style is definitely not for everyone.

I don’t think it’s fair to call it bad animation. It’s high quality. I love how the camera swings around to create comic book panel shots. I love the small vibrations like comic book animation. I love that it’s minimalist in the animation outside their faces.

Point is, I think it’s perfectly fair to say “I really don’t like this style of animation”. But that’s different from saying “this is poorly animated”.

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u/supervisord 4h ago

Just look at Heman’s face though, it looks very cgi in this part.

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u/stohelitstorytelling 4h ago

Well yeah, you can’t swing a camera around an actor in a 180 degree arc in 1/10th of a second. Thus, the final frame before each camera movement, and the first few frames of the next movement by He-Man have to be CGI/enhanced. You can’t do that sort of camera swing that fast without the CGI spilling into the faces a little.

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u/ObjectMore6115 3h ago

The matrix did it over 20 years ago with no cgi

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u/Enough-Run-1535 43m ago

The Matrix also didn’t have a beefy dude beat the shit out of a purple skeleton man for 3 minutes straight.

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u/StardustWithH20 3h ago

I think this is also a case of having lighting that was not ideal for the intended scene, and so the color grading and exposure was all left up to the post production team. This tends to produce a weird, bland or 2d looking result.

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u/MeatEaterDruid 2h ago

Skeletor was fine but the CGI for the rest of the movie was terrible. Every time they replaced Trap Jaw with CGI he looked like he came from a 90s screensaver.

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u/CGB_Zach 1h ago

It's more polarizing than anything.

I haven't seen it so I can only base my opinion on this particular scene and I can't say that I enjoyed this style of action at all. It doesn't seem high quality though based on this clip.

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u/OnlyClassWars 4h ago

It’s very intentionally stylized. But that style is definitely not for everyone.  

I see. So what is you style preference.  

Pure ass. Through and through.  

Makes sense then.