Back when they announced Kevin Smith was going to be doing a He-Man reboot for Netflix, I was mildly interested. The original show was a huge part of my childhood, and I felt that Smith might be able to do it justice. He even noted that the characters wouldn't be changed, it would just be updated.
I should have realized long before we saw the first trailers that he was full of shit. Dude bent the show and made it all about a butch Teela, with He-Man and the rest of the male cast taking a backseat to everything. Even the most recent trailer is garbage, because it makes it look like there's going to be some epic battles between the forces of good and evil.
As a forty-something dude, I am part of the target audience for this show. It's nostalgia bait, and it's the kind of thing I should be watching with kids/grandkids. Instead, this is exactly the kind of fucking with the past by rewriting it in the present that will keep me from going anywhere near it. There's times I wonder why I keep paying for a monthly Netflix subscription, when they keep churning out woke trash.
Back when they announced Kevin Smith was going to be doing a He-Man reboot for Netflix, I was mildly interested
I get he has geek cred, but I'm not really sure why he's held in the esteem that he is. I enjoyed his early stuff, but I think everything after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has been varying degrees of boring and/or insufferable.
I get he has geek cred, but I'm not really sure why he's held in the esteem that he is. I enjoyed his early stuff, but I think everything after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has been varying degrees of boring and/or insufferable.
There's a reason why I said "mildly interested", because there was an outside chance he might do it right based on what he initially said. Obviously he was lying through his teeth.
Back in the day, he was "one of us". Dude had geek cred in spades, on top of being an indie movie darling. He was a comic book fanboy extraordinaire. J&SBSB was the zenith of his career, and he was still riding high on that into the 2000s.
That's when he started sniffing his own farts and got all pretentious with his vanity projects. He bought into his own fame and started hobnobbing with Hollywood elites. He still paid lip service to his fandoms, but the exterior was cracking. When he had his heart attack, he went full-vegan, full-woke, and fully annoying.
Much like you, I can't see why people still watch his movies. Everything he has done since 2001 has gone down in quality - I mostly wrote him off after Clerks II was a hot mess. When I heard they'd tapped him to do the He-Man revival I had a "maybe this won't be so bad" moment, but I guess I got my hopes up. What bugs me even more about it is the "bullshot"-tier promos they're releasing. We already know that it's going to be woke trash. High-quality trash (It looks a hell of a lot better than the She-Ra revamp), but woke garbage nonetheless.
Back when they announced Kevin Smith was going to be doing a He-Man reboot for Netflix, I was mildly interested. The original show was a huge part of my childhood, and I felt that Smith might be able to do it justice. He even noted that the characters wouldn't be changed, it would just be updated.
I should have realized long before we saw the first trailers that he was full of shit. Dude bent the show and made it all about a butch Teela, with He-Man and the rest of the male cast taking a backseat to everything. Even the most recent trailer is garbage, because it makes it look like there's going to be some epic battles between the forces of good and evil.
As a forty-something dude, I am part of the target audience for this show. It's nostalgia bait, and it's the kind of thing I should be watching with kids/grandkids. Instead, this is exactly the kind of fucking with the past by rewriting it in the present that will keep me from going anywhere near it. There's times I wonder why I keep paying for a monthly Netflix subscription, when they keep churning out woke trash.
I get he has geek cred, but I'm not really sure why he's held in the esteem that he is. I enjoyed his early stuff, but I think everything after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has been varying degrees of boring and/or insufferable.
There's a reason why I said "mildly interested", because there was an outside chance he might do it right based on what he initially said. Obviously he was lying through his teeth.
Back in the day, he was "one of us". Dude had geek cred in spades, on top of being an indie movie darling. He was a comic book fanboy extraordinaire. J&SBSB was the zenith of his career, and he was still riding high on that into the 2000s.
That's when he started sniffing his own farts and got all pretentious with his vanity projects. He bought into his own fame and started hobnobbing with Hollywood elites. He still paid lip service to his fandoms, but the exterior was cracking. When he had his heart attack, he went full-vegan, full-woke, and fully annoying.
Much like you, I can't see why people still watch his movies. Everything he has done since 2001 has gone down in quality - I mostly wrote him off after Clerks II was a hot mess. When I heard they'd tapped him to do the He-Man revival I had a "maybe this won't be so bad" moment, but I guess I got my hopes up. What bugs me even more about it is the "bullshot"-tier promos they're releasing. We already know that it's going to be woke trash. High-quality trash (It looks a hell of a lot better than the She-Ra revamp), but woke garbage nonetheless.
Fair enough. When I heard Kevin Smith and Netflix, I figured Adam would be a peter puffer. Sad what both have become.