Power Rangers Movie

[party_animal]

Took my girls to see it, they loved it. Not an outstanding piece of cinema but you can't exist that from the Power Rangers. Fun movie. Many of the dad's in attendance had nostalgia boners.

[pstall]

I was just at the age when this was big or Voltron so my teen girls don't have this in their wheelhouse unfortunately.  They sorta liked Transformers. Looks cool otherwise.

[frash.exe]

not impressed

for one there's no fuging green ranger and it looks to me like the whole thing turned out to be a vehicle for becky g to launch an acting career

[CarolinaNCSU]

23 minutes ago, frash.exe said:

not impressed

for one there's no fuging green ranger and it looks to me like the whole thing turned out to be a vehicle for becky g to launch an acting career

Supposedly they have five (FIVE) more movies planned...and the Green Ranger was given a nod in the end/post-credits scene? 

 

Tommy forever 

[davos]

Born 87, was a huge fan of the first season and then 1st movie as a kid.  Stopped watching right around 96/97.  But...being long ago and 90s campy, I want to see how they do this.  Sounds like a mixed-bag but watchable.  Not seeing it in a theater though.  

[R0CKnR0LLA]

lol

[RealBitsOfPanther]

It looks fun. Might go see it on a stimulus Tuesday deal.

[shreddingdefense]

23 hours ago, frash.exe said:

not impressed

for one there's no fuging green ranger and it looks to me like the whole thing turned out to be a vehicle for becky g to launch an acting career

Green ranger didn't appear till the 30th or so episode of the first season. Died in the japanesse version so that is why he became the white later. Plus it makes sense to save the evil ranger plot for a sequel.  Hell you could use the 3 part "green with evil" episodes for two movies if you wanted.. Get us used to the main cast first. He kinda is overrated.. Sure he gets the cool armor and zord, but beyond that once he becomes good he takes out all monsters by himself. That takes out the team aspect. Plus Tommny outside of suit is bland, no character development all that much. Billy had that just lacked the cool suit / zord.  How can others be just as good as him when they have a frog for a zord lol.

 

*Insert snide nerd remark here*

[frash.exe]

6 minutes ago, shreddingdefense said:

Green ranger didn't appear till the 30th or so episode of the first season. Died in the japanesse version so that is why he became the white later. Plus it makes sense to save the evil ranger plot for a sequel.  Hell you could use the 3 part "green with evil" episodes for two movies if you wanted.. Get us used to the main cast first. He kinda is overrated.. Sure he gets the cool armor and zord, but beyond that once he becomes good he takes out all monsters by himself. That takes out the team aspect. Plus Tommny outside of suit is bland, no character development all that much. Billy had that just lacked the cool suit / zord.  How can others be just as good as him when they have a frog for a zord lol.

 

*Insert snide nerd remark here*

who gives a poo about character development? i was 3-5 years old. i only care for the nostalgia. it's going to be hard to inject that into a show that was so obviously geared towards children. it would be like sesame street spending a whole season having elmo ponder his existence in the universe and his own sexuality. 

 

plus most of the main cast got replaced by the third season. i should know. i have a green ranger and white ranger beeper. i was not watching it by the time they switched him to the red ranger. but i was such a big fuging fan of the green ranger. i wanted long hair like he had at that time.

yeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

[shreddingdefense]

22 minutes ago, frash.exe said:

who gives a poo about character development? i was 3-5 years old. i only care for the nostalgia. it's going to be hard to inject that into a show that was so obviously geared towards children. it would be like sesame street spending a whole season having elmo ponder his existence in the universe and his own sexuality. 

 

plus most of the main cast got replaced by the third season. i should know. i have a green ranger and white ranger beeper. i was not watching it by the time they switched him to the red ranger. but i was such a big fuging fan of the green ranger. i wanted long hair like he had at that time.

yeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

You wouldn't be missing much after he got the red suit. That season was awful and proved that they needed to change the show annually like the japan show. That seasons suits were awful. No way to make up for shapes for visors. But of course going from cool dino helmets to that would look like poo in comparison.

"I don't care in character development" Sounds like something michael bay would say about transformers hence why they suck.  But that is apples to oranges in comparison as one is for children (power ranger show) and one claims its for diehard fans/everyone (transformers movie).

I love the green/white ranger but after rewatching and having different tastes as a adult, i need something more than fighting and explosions. Hero has to be more than kicking ass. *shrugs* i dunno.

Speaking of which the new seasons go overboard to a point that a enemy will shoot a lazer at a ranger, it misses them all together and a big explostion happens knocking them to the ground....lame...hit them in the chest and have sparks shoot out of their uniform like the original.

[frash.exe]

before transformers was a movie franchise the people who watched the original animated series thought of it like i think of mmpr today. they got assimilated as a movie franchise to cash in on the whole 80s revival trend when it was at its peak. there's a gap of a decade between when a decade ends that it has to wait until the next one elapses before it can reclaim a position in the forefront of pop culture again. otherwise it's too soon, man. and what we think of as decades like the 80s really didn't line up with the years if you ask me.

 

80s culture as we think of it really didn't seem to kick in until 81-82, because it took 70s culture that time to slough off completely. and then it really didn't seem to be supplanted by what we think of as 90s culture until 92-93. as for the 90s, i feel like it abruptly ended on 9/11, but it could've gone a little bit longer if it wasn't for that. maybe that's why the 00s felt empty of culture. maybe it enhanced 80s revival that much more because people were despondent after what happened. i know this has really become a tangent but stay with me. 

there was a bit of a 70s revival in the 90s. i don't know too much of the decades preceding these besides there seemed to be a cult following of 50s greaser-style movies in the 70s. maybe it has something to do with the advent of postmodernism. as regular car guy says, "everything old becomes new again".

 

right now we're in the midst of 90s revival. it's not as permeating as 80s revival was but you can see its influence in so many different forms of media (source: fugjerry's avatar). idk what they're going to do in the next decade because it felt like we spent the entire '00s reminiscing about the 80s rather than creating enough new media to give it its own kind of identity.

i mean i get what they're trying to do with the yellow ranger being bisexual. they're trying to normalize different sexual orientations from an early age (and honestly maybe that's the only way to eliminate systemic prejudice in society) but idk if the power rangers franchise can be sustained for five fuging movies lol. they're going to have to add a ton of new poo that wasn't in the "original" series, because it had a very basic format.

[OneBadCat]

Saw it the other night and found it surprisingly decent. The acting was pretty damn good for a power rangers movie. Obvious plot holes are obvious and the plot advances before it's ready at times but it's not a bad movie. I thought the suits were cool but the zords looked terrible and the megazord was hideous. Would have been better off copying the original one tit for tat.