Power Rangers

Good:
>characters were nicely fleshed out to the point where everyone had a clear personality, even if I personally didn't like all of them
>action scenes were well choreographed and well-lit which is an increasing rarity in today's Hollywood
>a few lines like "make my monster grow!" were nice winks to the original audience
>the fight scenes that existed were well done, feeling fast and fluent as the rangers, and slower but heavier as the Megazord
>a lot more individual zord-combat than I'd expected, which was really fun
>Rita was a lot cooler than I thought she'd be and I really liked her
>the last scene where they re-enacted an iconic end-of-episode-classroom-scene was a nice touch

Bad:
>soundtrack was abysmal, with mostly gangsta-rap and a little dubstep (of all things) and only a very VERY brief "Go Go Power Rangers" nod which was easily one of the most iconic things about the original series
>for fucks sake when you have stuff like youtube.com/watch?v=M3NKIWgaTLQ in your arsenal, you don't not use it
>Billy was KANGZ-bait, to the point where he got way more attention and screen-time than the other non-red rangers
>there were ample action scenes, but very few FIGHT scenes, and though I didn't like it I can kinda' see how it had to be that way with how the movie was paced
>suits still don't look amazingly good, too much black and gray with too little focus on the color in their armor (this is true for the zords too)
>Megazord looked retarded as all hell, though I didn't mind the look of the individual zords
>"Come at me bro!"

Verdict:
>pretty solid movie, and now that they have a good chunk of the establishing teen-drama out of the way a sequel could focus more on cool fights
7/10

Opinions?

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Ehr thought it was alright. Above the usual capeshit IMO but that might be more nostalgia for the show than tallent from the director.

I felt it was above too, but like you said that could just be a nostalgic bias.

I think the biggest problem it had though was that it felt very much like it pandered to the millennial audience.

>"muh dad doesn't understand me!"-protagonist
>it's okay to leak nudes, ruining someone's life doesn't make you a bad person
>"I identify as a nuclear launch facility and my parents want me to be conservative like them!"
>autism is an entertaining and lovable character trait that will surely be embraced by all the jocks in your local high school
>"it's okay if I ruin my chance at a pro football career because I'm a misunderstood teen, and my parents should only slightly scorn me for throwing away everything I had going for me"

It all has this really clear degeneracy vibe, which is strange because the original Power Rangers were all ultra-normies.

You forgot the awful run-of-the-mill-enemies. Putties looked stolen from Suicide Squad and Goldar was simply a giant chunky golden golem with zero personality.

Half the appeal of the original rangers were the monsters, be it the turtle with traffic lights or the giant guns monster or pig in a centurion helmet. Rita alone would have to be atleast twice or thrice as hammy to carry that movie. But I guess they were going for the Marvel vibe.

I enjoyed it. Wasn't amazing, but far above shit like Transformers and the recent Star Wars/Marvel movies. A real shame that's all that makes money anymore, I would've liked a sequel

>power rangers movie
>only rangers for like 15minutes
The spent too much time on the teen drama degrassi stuff. It did develop the characters but at what costs?

>Putties
Can't argue this. They looked awful. And that's not really me beating the movie for using CGI. I don't mind that as much. I just wish they'd have more humanoid shape so I could actually tell what was going on, who was throwing and dodging what punch and when in combat. When the Putties look like small avalanches I can't tell what's an arm and what's not while the punches fly.

>Goldar
I didn't really mind this. Goldar seemed way more threatening in the movie than he did in the show, and though his personality was completely washed away, I didn't really LOVE Goldar to begin with so for me it was not loss.

all i want is a bay tier power rangers
thats it
not this

>It all has this really clear degeneracy vibe
You sound like a Nazi propaganda pamphlet.

I don't think they could have laid it on any thicker with Rita if they wanted to keep it acceptable with the teen audience they were so clearly going for.

I would have loved at least a "aaah, after ten thousand years I'm free!" when she woke up, but you could kinda' tell that they wanted a somewhat serious movie.

Agreed. They handled the robots a lot better than Michael Bay ever did. Hell you could actually tell what was going on, who was fighting who and where most of the time. Which is much more than you can say for anything Bay has ever done.

I agree, but the director was really REALLY convinced he was going to get a sequel out of this. And that's what the movie felt like. Sequel-bait.

The director clearly thought he could get away with taking his sweet-ass time building the characters and the relationships and then do all the cool stuff in later movies.

>at what cost?
Clearly a deeper cost than he foresaw. There won't be a sequel now unless the toys sell out the ass, which they probably won't considering how little actual cool shit we got to see the rangers do in the movie.

Of course I'm not, but are my points not somewhat correct though?

movie sold a fuck ton of toys so we may still see another. will likely have pretty good dvd sales too

It did sell a good chunk of toys, but based on how little it made at the box, and how dead the DVD format is I don't think I'd hold my breath.

>suplex
>slapping

Was this a very prominent thing in the original Power Rangers? It felt like a wink to the audience, but I for one certainly didn't get it.

>Goldar seemed way more threatening in the movie

Show Goldar wasn't threatening but was entertaining. If they didn't skimp out on him, Rita could've had someone to play off with.

>thicker with Rita

Her screentime was incredibly low, they could've cut some of the relationship drama and had her actually do something

yeah i could really see it going either way. i guess it'll depend if someone wants to gamble. one big issue it has(at least here) was basically zero marketing and really the trailer didn't impress me enough to get off my fat ass and leave the basement to go see it

>bombed at box office

You people misunderstand. The majority of the cashflow from Power Rangers NEVER came from the shows or the movies.

It came from the fucking toys. Power Rangers is and always will be one long glorified advertisement for your little snots to buy all 5 of them, AND their zords, AND the monsters and villains to play with.

I don't know how big the traditional plastic-men-toys really are among kids anymore, but if there IS a market for that kinda' crap you can bet that's the one the 2017 movie is hoping to nail.

>that's the one the 2017 movie is hoping to nail

How? Rangers don't have screentime, Zords don't have screentime.

>had her actually do something

I don't get this.

We got a little bit of her backstory. Watched her beat the shit out of Zordon. Hunt for gold to produce her pretty staff + Goldar. Tried to manipulate the rangers and wonk morally-gray yellow off her razor. And she actually succeeded in killing blue until Zordon deus-exed him back to life.

The movie had many flaws but I don't agree that was one of them.

It's not difficult. Young kids think teens/pre-teens are cool.

If teens/pre-teens think Power Rangers are cool, so will kids.

Teens/pre-teens like drama that they can project upon.

Power Rangers now has said drama, with the added quality of making them think that "we can all be special" or some shit.

It's actually not a stupid strategy.

they don't need it. they just need to look cool for a few seconds so kids will go beg for the toys. hell they really don't even need a movie, a fucking trailer would get kids going nuts

>characters were nicely fleshed out
>Zack and Trini show up out of nowhere after the writers realized they were 30 minutes into the movie without them

She only appears in flashes though and for a good half of the movie, she doesn't even know the Rangers are there. For a Power Rangers movie, it was very low on conflict.

>young kids think teens and pre-teens are cool

I need a source on this one. When I was a kid, I thought transforming robots fighting giant monsters was cool, not some fags talking about leaked nudes.

>a fucking trailer would get kids going nuts

That trailer would have to outshine Marvel. As shitty as Marvel is, they do let the hero exercise his powers.

It's explained that Zack likes to fuck off from people and his mother because he can't stand to see people with normal parents and he can't stand to be around his mom because it's a constant reminder she's dying.

Trini is portrayed as kid that moves around a lot, and she even says that she doesn't want any friends so she heads out into the middle of nowhere to be alone. She hates her parents because muh sexuality and thus doesn't want to hang around with them either.

Sure it's a huge coincidence that she just happens to be there while Jock Red, Jailbait Pink and Autism Blue are, but they don't show up out of nowhere.

+ Less Red Ranger wank than I was expecting
+ Actors aren't bad
+ Elizabeth Banks is fun to watch
+ Fight scenes were all right
+ Like how Zordon is slowly growing accustomed to becoming a mentor than being one right off the bat

- Krispy Kreme product placement was obnoxious
- Weird binaural beats soundtrack
- Trini had no character
- Too little action
- Definitely made with the idea that more movies would be produced, leading to it feeling like the prologue of something than a movie in its own right
- Weird moments like Jason jacking off a bull, Kimberly posting revenge porn. Seemed odd that a movie meant to sell kids' toys had that stuff

>She hates her parents because muh sexuality

From what I've seen she hates her parents because they are turbonormies.

Have you seen the source material? I swear they interact with Rita a grand total of 3 times in the entire first season.

Rita has always been a back-man (woman) who prefers to shower the rangers with pests and then "make them grow" when they're getting their ass beaten and it's time to advertise the Megazord again.

And how the hell would she know they were there? The last Power Rangers team had her on it (for an interesting twist) and she killed all of those guys. Why would she assume there was more of them?

>Akiba Red.jpg

>- Trini had no character

She's a lesbian that listens to death metal and hates her parents for reasons stated . That's all the characterization she needs in 2017.

>Have you seen the source material? I swear they interact with Rita a grand total of 3 times in the entire first season.

She knows the Rangers are there from episode 1 and tries to destroy them. unlike the movie where she kills a hobo for his golden teeth (how does a hobo get golden teeth anyway) and loots a jewellery store, all without any Ranger interaction.

>And how the hell would she know they were there?

Any barely competent writer can get around that one.

>well-lit
I saw the trailer and I couldn't see shit.

>+ Less Red Ranger wank than I was expecting
Agreed. They could have gone full retard with this and made the entire movie feel like it was Red and his sidekicks. The fact that they didn't was a nice surprise.

>+ Fight scenes were all right
Too few of them, but I agree, and they did try for a few action scenes pre-morphin'. Which I thought was a noble attempt.

>Zordon
Me too. Zordon actually felt like a character in the movie and not just a glorified "summon the Rangers"-face.

>- Krispy Kreme product placement was obnoxious
I couldn't tell if this was irony or if Krispy Kreme actually paid big money for this.

>- Weird binaural beats soundtrack
Not Brian's best work, no. He's a good composer, but he likes the techno/experimental-dubstep shit a little too much to let the orchestra do it's job.

>- Weird moments
This just felt like pandering to the teen crowd. My greatest shock was that Jason wasn't interested in the revenge porn and acted like some modest gentleman and looked away from the phone. Which raises the interesting question of why Kim even kept the picture, on her phone, ready to be displayed with a few touches. It was a weird scene.

Let's all fight Rita but first let's go eat some delicious donuts at the Krispy Kreme™.

>She knows the Rangers are there from episode 1 and tries to destroy them
True, but in the original source material they go from normies to Rangers in like, 3 minutes. In this movie it's a lot more drawn-out of a process. I'm not saying that it's better this way, but I'm saying that it's understandable.

>(how does a hobo get golden teeth anyway)
That is a surprisingly good question. Killer dental plan?

>all without any Ranger interaction.
Like I mentioned they spend 90% of the movie NOT being Rangers. They make a fucking HUGE deal over them failing at this to the point where it's almost laughable, but of course she doesn't know they're Rangers: they literally aren't.

They're just fags with magic stones.

Can anyone explain to me how they couldn't secure the rights for this song to play in the movie?

youtube.com/watch?v=a883itqqcd4

I mean, who the fuck else are they going to market to?

I was five when the original show aired, and *I'M* a millenial.

As for your other points, you're trying way too fucking hard to be RED-PILLED. Go outside once in a while.

It had limited fight scenes because of the origin story, which isn't an excuse.

the general design was kinda lame. i still dont know what dinossaur black and yellow zords are. the megazord looks like shit.

the pacing was all over the place. too slow in the beggining, too fast in the end

no morphing sequence, no battle poses. and the go go power rangers scene felt weird to me, like they forgot to add the original theme and just threw anywhere

I heard the toys were selling well

>They're just fags with magic stones.

Rita also has a magic stone and she got denied her prize by a fag with a magic stone the last time. If I were Rita, I'd be interested to know what happened to the magic stones. Rita scouting for magic stones with a single putty (which they would encounter early before meeting Zordon) could've been a nice show and would atleast add some tension and necessity towards becoming Rangers.

They shouldn't market it to millennials because, and this is a broad assumption, you don't buy toys anymore.

The audience of what is essentially a glorified commercial should be the people who are going to nag their parents to buy their favorite Power Ranger.

>you can bet that's the one the 2017 movie is hoping to nail.


That's actually a point that bothered the hell out of me, about the new movie.

That's something that everyone forgets about Power Rangers and Super Sentai; It's not a TV show with a toyline, it's a toyline that uses a TV show for advertising. The toyline is the point, it's the TV show that's accessory.

That's why everything in the TV show has bright, bold colors and large shapes, because the characters in the TV show are emulating the toys, not the other way around.

Over the past 20 years or so, the show has brought finding that balance between what's feasible as a toy and what looks good on screen down to a science, and it really shows (most of the time)

If the toyline is the main revinue draw for the movie as well (as well it ought to be), then it's downright BIZZARE they didn't draw from that same design philosophy, and just kinda shows a blatant misunderstanding of what Power Rangers and Super Sentai is/are.

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Those people are millennials too.

I think black was some six-legged beetle thing?

I'm not really sure who the movie was aimed at. While it is basically a two hour toy commercial, there are so many weird sex jokes and "REAL TEENS WITH REAL ISSUES" moments that I don't think little kids would have been interested in it. If I was 8-years-old and watched this, I would have been bored and wondering when the Power Rangers would finally show up.

For me I didn't like the lack of rangers and zoid scenes. The movie should have been 50% normal people and 50% rangers and zoids screentime.

This user knows how it is. The fact that media is reporting Power Rangers as some bombing fiasco just goes to show that they have no idea what they're talking about while sources like:

slashfilm.com/power-rangers-sequel-toys/
denofgeek.com/us/movies/power-rangers/265253/could-toy-sales-help-power-rangers-2-chances
comicbook.com/movies/2017/05/31/power-rangers-2-toy-sales/

...point out that this is where the Power Rangers money comes from.

What I always kinda' liked about the original Megazord is exactly what you point out.

The Megazord in the show didn't move like an acrobat. It moved slow like and stiffly like a river of bricks. But it did so because that's how the toy moved. Like you said, it's a show that pretends to be about toys, NOT the other way around.

>Opinions?
Needs more Kat

>Movie uses the shitty movie version of the power rangers theme instead of the more iconic show version

But why?

Honestly, I felt that they blew their load a little early in this movie. This could have been a Ranger-focused movie, where the action scenes came from the rangers doing cool stuff and beating up Putties (if they weren't designed like monstrosities).

I genuinely think they could have saved, at leas the Megazord, for the second movie.

>>a lot more individual zord-combat than I'd expected

This. In the original series the zords only existed to form the Megazord. Nothing else. They never fought individually as the zords at all. They just summoned their zords and transformed into the Megazord.

It was nice to see them fight in their individual zords a little for once. Even if strapping guns to them was a little overkill.

>>Movie uses the shitty movie version of the power rangers theme
you just answered your own question

>our market research shows kids today like this dubstep music more than power metal

>But it did so because that's how the toy moved.

It did so because the costume was clunky as fuck.

>at least the Megazord for the second movie

Cue whining from everyone about no Megazord

>Cue whining from everyone about no Megazord

I don't know, I felt they made a pretty dramatic and big deal about the individual zords in the movies to the point where the Megazord just felt like fluff.

Even in the final confrontation they held their own pretty well with just the zords, and if the director had played that hand right it could have ended very dramatically without having to pull out the Megazord at all.

And that could have made for great sequel-bait. You know, if the Megazord didn't look like a pile of shit.

>Power Rangers movie
>with no Megazord
Nigga you just missed the point even more than the makers of this movie, and they missed it pretty impressively

I know the point is to sell toys, but couldn't it have been more lucrative to focus on selling the Ranger, the zords, Goldar, putties and Rita for the first fucking movie?

It already felt spread thin enough with just those.

The reason being they gave too much screentime to drama and rangers in normal people. Could've easily been fixed if they got them in ranger suits fighting earlier in the movie.

Mate, the Megazord is the epitome of Power Rangers. Every episode is basically just fluff until you get to the good part where they morph all the Zords into the Megazord, it takes up that giant sword or saber (depending on the season) and smacks the monster with it until sparks fly out.

If you leave out the Megazord, you are trying to redefine Power Rangers and you go against what they stand for (aside of making mad dosh on the combinable toys).

They could have gone full red wank and have him be the only ranger for a bit, but they pushed the teamwork morph too much.

PacificRimZord fight wasn't even that good, and even the sword hype was a let down.

I'm not disputing that, the execution was bad. But leaving it out was out of the question.

This movie was garbage and if you honestly believe it's any better you should feel bad.

Why though?

Fake news already debunked. That was only for UK toy sales and even if the numbers were consistent worldwide it still wouldn't be enough to garner a sequel.

>that Megazord transformation sequence in the Turbo movie
Someone made a webm the other day, anyone save it?

>Billy was KANGZ-bait, to the point where he got way more attention and screen-time than the other non-red rangers
This is a pretty stupid thing to say.

It was more like a wink to the source material from the source material. Siper sentai and ultra man kind of shiet. Japanese people love to put wrestling moves in their media.

Can we all at least agree Trini was the hot one?

Way too much teen melodrama, unlikable characters, very little Rita and practically no exposition into her backstory or motivations, reducing Goldar to a faceless/voiceless molten gold monster, 2 minues of Rangers fighting in their suits. 10 seconds of the iconic theme song (and not even the good version of it), terrible production design.

>10 seconds

I wish there were 10 whole seconds of the theme song.

We got one "Go go Power Rangers!" as they rode in their zords, and that was essentially it.

This is a fucking 2 hour movie. They should have managed to get the entire 2 minute song in their somehow.

>they didn't have it play the intro as they're getting into their zords
>the tapping lead wasn't playing during the shitty "mother- that's enough" bit
>full blown rock chorus as they're rolling into Angel Grove, not ruined by the backwards Triceratops
It was bad

>that reddit spacing

fuck off

Probably the worst decision of the movie, I agree. People would have nostalgiad so hard if it'd been done right.

I swear I was awaiting them doing some halfway-silly pose as the guitar ripped but it never happened.

>reddit spacing

Holy

Shit

Kys

It was the only part of the movie that I actually got hyped at. Some part of me thought
>shit maybe this is just like the Turbo movie where it was terrible until the Megazord sequence and then got good for the rest of the movie
Fuck was I wrong. It was a sign of things to come. I'll never understand the lack of a transformation sequence. That's the fucking money shot for these types of movies

Like these two said, it wasn't corny enough. I know that might sound like a weird complaint, considering we got no less than 3 "come at me bro!"s, but there were:

>zero team poses
>zero establishing shots of the zords
>zero fucking amazing rock Go Go Power Rangers rockout

They dropped the ball hard on quite a few things but the fact that it was goofy in all the wrong ways was the real killer for me.

It's not possible to make a transformation sequence when the Zords arent actually designed to combine into the Megazord.

post some kimberly. she a cute