Why Travis Knight’s Masters of the Universe Rejects Modern Cynicism for 80s Sincerity
The modern blockbuster landscape has spent the last decade trapped in a predictable, almost exhausting cycle of self-aware irony. Heroes wink at the camera, villains make quips about the absurdity of their own apocalyptic plans, and films constantly apologize for their comic-book origins through layers of cynical detachment. It is a cinematic safety net—if a…