One of my seminal childhood movies was Masters of The Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man.  I think I must’ve watched it every weekend when I lived in The Philippines.  I also watched the He-Man cartoon, so I was disappointed when the live-action version didn’t include Battle Cat, who I thought was one of the coolest creatures.  I was also baffled that it took place in “our universe” since that didn’t happen in the cartoon, either; a 22-year-old Courtney Cox played one of the “real world” characters.

Still, getting to see He-Man and Skeletor in the flesh was pretty fucking cool.  In the scene above, Skeletor (played by Frank Langella, who plays Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon) gives a ridiculous speech about becoming god-like, a Master of The Universe.

I ate it up when I was a kid.