I’ve tried to like The Jacket, but, despite the film starring one of my favorite actresses, I’ve never been been sold on its unusual premise which I’m not sure even screenwriter Massy Tadjedin complete understands.
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He-Man & She-Ra: The Ultimate Collection collects all 130 episodes of both series, the 1985 film He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword which introduced He-Man’s twin sister, and He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special. The multi-disc set also includes features on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Filmation animation.
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Released in 2002, Steven Spielberg‘s Minority Report offered a slick sci-fi thriller set in the not-too-distant future resulting in huge financial and critical acclaim. However, before it was a feature film adapted by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (who admitted in an interview with Script Magazine that he didn’t understand the original story) The Minority Report was a short novella by Peter K. Dick. And for those who read the story before seeing the movie it’s almost impossible to reconcile the fundamental changes to not only the narrative but also the core ideas Dick was exploring to such an extent that the film’s title no longer makes sense. It would be another decade before a writer and director would so fundamentally misunderstand their source material resulting in Man of Steel.
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Radha Mitchell stars as a retired Special Forces sniper living in the remote Australian countryside with her rebellious teenage daughter (Annabel Wolfe). The serenity of their isolated life is interrupted when an agent of an old enemy locates the former sniper and alerts his boss, a mad warlord (Tim Roth), to their location. The result is a solid, although not overly ambitious, thriller.
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A disaster so complete it would torpedo the franchise which would wait nearly 40 years for another live-action adaptation, 1987’s Masters of the Universe is a mess of a film that does provide some guilty pleasure vibes in how nearly everyone involved in the enterprise completely misunderstood the assignment. Based on the 80s toy line, and largely ignoring the popular animated series, the film takes He-Man (Dolph Lundgren), Man-At-Arms (Jon Cypher), Teela (Chelsea Field), and Gwildor (Billy Barty) as the first of many substitute characters never seen before, to small town America.
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