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Masters of the Universe (1987) is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 9, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something...

How to watch the movie:

[Masters of the Universe] stars Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Jon Cypher, Chelsea Field, Billy Barty, Courteney Cox, Robert Duncan McNeill, and Meg Foster. The film follows two teenagers who meet He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe, who travels to Earth with his friends to stop their archenemy, the evil Skeletor from obtaining a cosmic key that will enable him to take over their home planet of Eternia and the entire universe. ...At the time of release, it was met with negative reviews from film critics, but is now regarded as a cult film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_(1987_film)

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[–] Odo 5 points 3 days ago

Tom Paris was in this? I had no idea. I need to rewatch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I usually post this announcement on [email protected] but this week's Monsterdon is ~~so clearly a superior A-list movie that...~~ well OK I wouldn't go that far, but it's not as bad as most B-movies.

See what happened is: every week people on mastodon (the fediverse twitter replacement) get together for a B-movie watch party usually focused on monsters. But for the last two weeks, the movies have not just campy but a little more bad than expected. So this week they played it safe and picked a slightly better movie than usual.

Anyway, it's a lot of fun, it's got nostalgia value, it's meme-worthy, it's got Dolph "Rocky IV / Creed II" Lundgren, Courtney "Friends" Cox, and Oscar-nominee Frank Lagella, and here's your chance to watch it along with a bunch of wits and miscreants from across the fediverse. So only one question remains: Do you have the power?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago