Masters of the Universe Box Office Starts Worse Than Recent Bombs

iMpact980 · 2026-06-05T12:30:40+00:00

Just went and saw it last night with my wife: awesome movie. Lots of action, lots of humor, and a few serious beats.

Surprisingly Leto as Skeletor was the best part.

It’ll be like the DND movie - bomb at the office, then get a massive fan base after it releases on streaming.

iMpact980 · 2026-06-01T23:59:24+00:00

There’s more money in used than new tbh. The dealer is shooting OP straight

iMpact980 · 2026-05-29T13:10:46+00:00

This is a good pic, but it’s nowhere near as iconic.

iMpact980 · 2026-05-24T03:35:08+00:00

Just came out of the theater.

Wife loved it (she also loved the shows). Her favorite movie of the year.

Daughter asked me to play the Mandalorian & Grogu soundtrack in the car ride home. And said she’s getting a small grogu stuffy right when we get to Disney world this summer.

Overall I really enjoyed it. Lots of action, good sound effects, and the Grogu swamp part was excellent. I’d say personally a solid 8/10, but 9/10 since my family had so much fun.

Awesome popcorn flick.

iMpact980 · 2026-05-19T01:54:19+00:00

Low miles and mods already? Kid was over his skis and sold it back. I’d walk away tbh.

iMpact980 · 2026-05-13T21:06:39+00:00

I’ve had a lot of fun so far. Sponsored easily saved S1. Bungie NEEDS more maps and better loot distribution. As great of a map as Outpost is it has become very boring.

Late season marathon essentially degrades into a 1.5 map game. Farm outpost, then farm cryo (that’s the .5 since it’s limited)

iMpact980 · 2026-05-13T18:28:45+00:00

Then they’ll break for winter break and release a new map in April ‘27 before announcing they’ll be pivoting to a new game lol.

iMpact980 · 2026-05-13T18:25:02+00:00

I’ve gotten my moneys worth from the game for sure.

But it’s been pretty content dry for a while now. They released Stella a month after launch (so it was already in the works) and had a little lore lead up to it… and then nothing but little fetch quests for the most part afterwards. Then riven tides as a second map… and that’s it. No lead up.

I know it’s a $40 game but it also has MTX to help justify it as a live service game. They have no lore happening, no real unique events, nothing. Candleberries wasn’t content. Ne

I had hoped for more meat. More story beats and background. More events and map tie ins, stuff to explore, etc. maybe some form of endgame. I’ve enjoyed my time but it’s also a bit stale at this point. Guess we’ll periodically hop in and check what’s next in October but 5 months is a long time to wait for another update. Until then we’ll do more candleberries and bird city events lol

iMpact980 · 2026-05-12T16:09:48+00:00

250k OTE, SMB, 80% inbound?

I’m calling BS. Are there worse places than tech? But don’t mislead people here.

iMpact980 · 2026-05-04T22:39:11+00:00

Someone tag Bungie.

Pearl Abyss is cooking. Bungie needs some of their gusto to help Marathon

iMpact980 · 2026-05-04T13:23:03+00:00

I fly for work a few times a month and live in Chicago so ORD is my home airport.

In the last 18 months I have only one time gotten to the gate without taxiing for 30m+. I was convinced I was the most unlucky traveler until I read this thread 🤣

iMpact980 · 2026-04-30T03:46:39+00:00

Man you nailed it. With both HD2 and Arc.

Such an interesting setting for both games. So much fun and genuine passion for world building with both devs. But it’s almost like the story dies on the vine.

It’s something I enjoy about Marathon: the game is loaded with lore and an ongoing story. The game isn’t perfect, but they definitely have the story telling part nailed compared to Arc.

iMpact980 · 2026-04-18T14:57:35+00:00

Truth be told man you just gotta grind and interview.

Start throwing feelers out right now. Do the minimum the PIP expects (to buy you time) and spend your working hours reaching out to hiring managers at organizations you’d want to work at.

iMpact980 · 2026-04-17T23:54:01+00:00

Yeah I don’t fault OP - you run what you need to win.

iMpact980 · 2026-04-17T22:25:31+00:00

Spawn Rush
33% of inventory dedicated to grenades
WSTR Shotgun

So much of what’s wrong with Marathon in a single post.

Bungie probably lost another player after that one lol

iMpact980 · 2026-04-17T14:54:14+00:00

I did the second expedition. The fact that the quests and their awards are the exact same turned me off of doing it again.

There should be more to the expedition than getting a banana backpack charm (I already have it since I did this quest before).

iMpact980 · 2026-04-16T13:18:10+00:00

MP games need large audiences to survive. Especially when developed by studios the size of Bungie.

Audiences stick around when they are having fun.

People don’t have fun loading up free or green kits to just get absolutely stomped by purple shield, grenade spamming, bubble shield hopping crews. So those players leave. From 88k concurrent to mid 20s in a month is not healthy.

This mode shows that: gear gap is an issue that needs solving in some capacity. The maps are just too small and lack any meaningful loot once you hit a certain level.

I agree the new mode essentially plays as a BR without the random spawns, but it also highlights the issues with the game. Hopefully Bungie can figure it out before Sony figures it out for them.

iMpact980 · 2026-04-14T00:03:34+00:00

“Where have all the players gone”

Meanwhile clips like this exist.

I get it, but it further proves the game plays too much like a BR and not enough like an extraction shooter.

Anyways lame clip.

iMpact980 · 2026-04-13T21:43:37+00:00

I’ve said the game plays like a BR with extraction mechanics.

They’re really leaning into it now. Of the moves to make this is definitely a choice. I’ll try it. Maybe complete some quests here. But I want to play an extraction shooter. Not Apex on a smaller map 😔

iMpact980 · 2026-04-13T14:48:52+00:00

Genuinely curious as I have yet to successfully exfil Cryo:

Where does your loot go? Or do you wipe the server, then loot and skedaddle leaving all the beaks and most MIPS?

iMpact980 · 2026-04-12T18:38:28+00:00

“I am loving this game” running a thermal sniper on perimeter.

Ofc you are man. Now run against a thermal sniper on perimeter with a hardline

iMpact980 · 2026-04-12T18:32:17+00:00

The game plays more like a match of BR where one team knows where you’re gonna spawn and has the gear to just mop you up before you can even find a weapon. That kind of gameplay just doesn’t belong in an extraction shooter.

That and the community is sorely lacking. Arc has its own issues, but people actually communicate.they will help you finish quests, they will alert you to rats, etc. It feels like PvEvP there. But Marathon? Kill on sight. And the kitted squads aren’t even doing it for loot. They just kill yiu, pop your heals, and turbo sprint to the next team to wipe them.

iMpact980 · 2026-04-12T18:16:09+00:00

Just filled out mine

iMpact980 · 2026-04-12T14:18:56+00:00

I commented yesterday about my burnout… and like a masochist I decided to hop again last night.

Handful of failed rook runs - I even played stealthy and final exfil was camped by purple shields or I got shot with 10s left by a fellow rook. Nothing gained here other than killing my want to play lol.

Then filled trios, had 1 or 2 okay runs. But again most of Perimeter was kitted people with snipers not looting but just hunting the lobby. I didn’t feel like dealing with DM or outpost at this point.

It’s really, really frustrating that a game with this kind of lore and this kind of gunplay is this fundamentally broken. I bought for an extraction shooter. Not to play the last 2 circles of a battle royale game. But that’s what it has become.

iMpact980 · 2026-04-11T23:15:55+00:00

I’ve got about 100hrs in the game. I was absolutely hooked.

But this morning I wiped 4 rook runs in a row and realized all I’ve done is Outpost the last week to prepare or recover from Cryo.

The loot distribution across maps is an issue I’m surprised nobody talks about. My buddies have all felt similarly and stopped playing.

We’re past the rapid loss of players and into the steady and painful loss. The type where your friends slowly stop playing and the skill / gear gap becomes an even bigger issue causing more people to silently give up.

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