{"id":20697,"date":"2015-10-13T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=20697"},"modified":"2015-10-13T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:45:07","slug":"watch-the-masters-of-the-universe-movie-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/watch-the-masters-of-the-universe-movie-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Masters of the Universe movie for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Studios is putting some of its movies up for free on YouTube, including 1987's terrible <i>Masters of the Universe<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVisd9ihWv0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you've ever wondered why the movie is so terrible, part of it is because Mattel placed strict restrictions on the script - no killing, etc. - then completely reversed course when the toy sales started to drop off, desperate for a success. Also, while the original plan was for Mattel to fund half the film and Cannon Films to fund the other half, that didn't work out: Mattel paid their half of the money, it got spent, and then Cannon refused to pay the rest, forcing Mattel to pony up or see everything go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Here's a behind-the-scenes video with more:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_u1nlmiGU8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Mattel comes through\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/11\/mattel-comes-through\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mattel comes through<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"About staction figures\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/about-staction-figures\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">About staction figures<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Santa Adam that could have been\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-santa-adam-that-could-have-been\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Santa Adam that could have been<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"MotU: Kobra Khan addendum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/motu-kobra-khan-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MotU: Kobra Khan addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Boromir says...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/boromir-says\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Boromir says...<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Studios is putting some of its movies up for free on YouTube, including 1987's terrible Masters of the Universe: &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;The origin of Trapjaw Vintage '80s MotU Draego-Man Lots of toys make a Super Bowl appearance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/watch-the-masters-of-the-universe-movie-for-free\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42],"tags":[96,15,181],"class_list":["post-20697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattel","category-videos","tag-he-man","tag-motu","tag-skeletor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20699,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions\/20699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}