As someone who once flexed on their elementary school classmates by snagging the Castle Grayskull fortress/carrying case — filled with all my action figures — from the trunk of my grandma’s car when she picked me up, I should be psyched about the upcoming Masters of the Universe movie. Unfortunately, the first live-action adaptation from 1987, by ’80s cheapo factory Cannon Films, is a disaster that made me turn my back on the whole franchise. Released during the same summer when Cannon also ruined childhoods with that shitty Superman sequel, this Masters has Dolph Lundgren as a monosyllabic He-Man, battling archnemesis Skeletor (Frank Langella) on Earth, where our hero gets help from a young Courteney Cox, playing an orphaned teen. Before you catch the $200 million reboot (I guess this makes up for the canceled sequel the original prematurely teased in a post-credits stinger), the Belcourt will have a midnight showing of the $22 million monstrosity — in glorious 35 mm! — complete with an “I HAVE THE POWER” scream-off contest and an intro from filmmaker Wolfe MacReady.
Midnight at the Belcourt
2102 Belcourt Ave.
