Power Rangers (2017)

Originally posted by Slowpoke

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Ok as a big childhood fan of the show, I just came back from it.

The cast was ok, especially Jason and Kimberly. But the characterization felt off compare to the original show. In the original show, they were all good kids and long time friends. In the movie, all of them are characterized as the "weirdo" or troubled kids.

Billy was some autistic nerd.
Zack(he actually resembles Adam a lot) was a half crazy "stalker" in the first half, he lives with his sick mother.
Trini was a lonely lesbian(it didn't show much in the movie, she just told the team about it).
Even Jason and Kimberly are troublemakers, who had made fateful mistakes.

So none of them actually resemble the original characters. None of them were better than the original five. That's my biggest complain. I'm ok if you add some problems to one or two characters to create drama, but a total rewrite on all 5 characters, well, why not rename them as brand new characters? One good thing is that Jason/Kimberly pair was happening.

They've never met each other as well. The 2/3 of this movie was about how they form relationship through setbacks, I'm ok with it but it might be too boring to some people.

Rita was fine, while she was a bit too cruel in the first half. Zordon and Alpha were perfect. I'm ok with setting Rita as the old green ranger and Zordon as the old red leader of the team.

The fights was cool with the dinozords, but it turned a lot worse when they merge, and the merge process wasn't even shown clearly. The fighting between Goldor(it was just a giant burning gold dumbass!) and the Megazord was boring and slow if you compare with other giant robot fighting movies like Pacific Rim and Transformers.

Ok, the best scene is Amy Jo Johnson and JDF making cameos after the fight. I was yelling "Kimberly" in the cinema when I saw her.

The post credit scene showed Tommy had moved here.

Overall if you are a power ranger fan, it was "ok" but could have been much better and close related to the show, I don't regret seeing it.

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I didn't really have a problem with how they changed the characterization of the rangers some. It captures the "teenagers with attitudes" thing more than being a bunch of unrealistic goodie goodies. Regardless, I suppose making them more relatable to appeal to some masses was inevitable.

Not only was Goldar crap, but you'd think its appearance would've at least changed some after Rita absorbed herself into it, and it having her face and some of her characteristics or something.

One thing not mentioned that others seemed to gripes with (some more than others) was the crispy cream donut product placement, but I personally got more of a laugh with how they executed it, even if it was kinda overdone.

Other than that, it kinda had the Godzilla 2014 syndrome, where what you wanted and waited to see was only in the last few minutes of the film, but I can give it a pass with this first film assuming the sequels will be more about the action. Aside from Goldar and the disappointing Bayformers Megazord, I surprisingly grew to like the Alpha 5, Zordon, and pretty much everything else we got, different as they were. Makes me more nervous as to how they'll handle Lord Zedd and Tommy though, and hopefully they may add in Bulk & Skull later as well. Could've had them over the generic placeholder bullies we had... :/

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
After just seeing it a little bit ago, pretty much agree for the most part, though

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I didn't really have a problem with how they changed the characterization of the rangers some. It captures the "teenagers with attitudes" thing more than being a bunch of unrealistic goodie goodies. Regardless, I suppose making them more relatable to appeal to some masses was inevitable.

Not only was Goldar crap, but you'd think its appearance would've at least changed some after Rita absorbed herself into it, and it having her face and some of her characteristics or something.

One thing not mentioned that others seemed to gripes with (some more than others) was the crispy cream donut product placement, but I personally got more of a laugh with how they executed it, even if it was kinda overdone.

Other than that, it kinda had the Godzilla 2014 syndrome, where what you wanted and waited to see was only in the last few minutes of the film, but I can give it a pass with this first film assuming the sequels will be more about the action. Aside from Goldar and the disappointing Bayformers Megazord, I surprisingly grew to like the Alpha 5, Zordon, and pretty much everything else we got, different as they were. Makes me more nervous as to how they'll handle Lord Zedd and Tommy though, and hopefully they may add in Bulk & Skull later as well. Could've had them over the generic placeholder bullies we had... :/

They weren't "unrealistic good" guys in MMPR series, they were good teenagers with flaws and we saw they develop and grow up through the series, especially Kimberly and Billy. If you want to use their names, you should stick to the characters well, otherwise why not use brand new characters?

And the movie seems to

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bring them to a very low level. Even Jason and Kimberly had done ridiculously stupid/mean stuff.

Fair enough. I don't deny that they had development in the original also, though didn't see them as particularly flawed but mostly a natural at whatever it was they did. I didn't really have a problem with how they were handled in this movie, but can see why others might see this different take on them as kinda pushing the envelope.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Fair enough. I don't deny that they had development in the original also, though didn't see them as particularly flawed but mostly a natural at whatever it was they did. I didn't really have a problem with how they were handled in this movie, but can see why others might see this different take on them as kinda pushing the envelope.

They do have flaws throughout the series, just not that big like

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using a cow for prank

I won't complain a bit if the movie characters are brand new characters with new names. Since they do use the original series' names, I wish they could stick to the original a bit more.

Still, the movie was ok and I would love to see this franchise live on, and I hope they could give AJJ some important supporting role.

I suppose I can see that. Yeah, more AJJ would be cool.

I got over this well before the movie was out, but at first I was kinda annoyed at how they changed the race/nationality of some of the rangers for the sake of being more politically correct. I mean I know having a black guy as black ranger and an asian as yellow ranger would fly much less now compared to back then, but never saw it as that big a deal and still really enjoyed the characters for what they were. The Zack we got may as well have been called Adam, as he seemed more like him than Zack. Still liked him though, especially since the actor was someone who grew up with the original like us. But yeah, aside from that kind of nitpick and after seeing the film, think those kind of changes may have been for the better, especially with like Billy. Always liked Billy, but this take made me like him even more.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
I suppose I can see that. Yeah, more AJJ would be cool.

I got over this well before the movie was out, but at first I was kinda annoyed at how they changed the race/nationality of some of the rangers for the sake of being more politically correct. I mean I know having a black guy as black ranger and an asian as yellow ranger would fly much less now compared to back then, but never saw it as that big a deal and still really enjoyed the characters for what they were. The Zack we got may as well have been called Adam, as he seemed more like him than Zack. Still liked him though, especially since the actor was someone who grew up with the original like us. But yeah, aside from that kind of nitpick and after seeing the film, think those kind of changes may have been for the better, especially with like Billy. Always liked Billy, but this take made me like him even more.

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Kimberly had "ruined"

I always think Kat as a ranger was far less impressive than Kimberly in the original show, but as a villain she was fantastic.

Forgot already, but did she look anything like Kat? Agreed regardless; Kat was better when she was something straight out of Animorphs. lol

Just learned or recalled this, but apparently the original yellow ranger in the show was originally going to be cast by a Mexican, but they got fired early over something stupid, so we got the late Thuy Trang for the part instead (her real life death still saddens me), so I guess the yellow ranger we got in this movie actually makes some sense.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Forgot already, but did she look anything like Kat? Agreed regardless; Kat was better when she was something straight out of Animorphs. lol

Just learned or recalled this, but apparently the original yellow ranger in the show was originally going to be cast by a Mexican, but they got fired early over something stupid, so we got the late Thuy Trang for the part instead (her real life death still saddens me), so I guess the yellow ranger we got in this movie actually makes some sense.

Yes, I don't have much problem with her, Trini was probably the most bland one in the original five.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkX1UeXOjk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMmqr3VACrY

Seriously, it's so good to see them all together. Other than Amy, I also like David Yost and Austin a lot.

RIP Trini, we all remember you.

Recently learned the fat guy who played Ernie of the juicebar died IRL as well. Figured he wouldn't live that long because of his health, but a heart attack happened back in 2008, although he had been focusing on losing weight by then which he lost like 40 pounds but it wasn't enough. Poor guy...

Equally unfortunate was that the last thing Thu Trang was in (if I remember right) was the Crow sequel City of Angels, or Shitty of Angels as some call it; she played the villain in it and the way she died ironically foreshadowed how she died IRL because of a car.

Sigh.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Recently learned the fat guy who played Ernie of the juicebar died IRL as well. Figured he wouldn't live that long because of his health, but a heart attack happened back in 2008, although he had been focusing on losing weight by then which he lost like 40 pounds but it wasn't enough. Poor guy...

Equally unfortunate was that the last thing Thu Trang was in (if I remember right) was the Crow sequel City of Angels, or Shitty of Angels as some call it; she played the villain in it and the way she died ironically foreshadowed how she died IRL because of a car.

Sigh.

That's sad.

https://twitter.com/_amyjojohnson/status/849316530479386624

SMH, just how many of your gheybos watched this?

Me

I'd laugh if the new Mummy in the Tom Cruise lead film somehow ended up being less scary than the grittier take on Rita when she was first brought back to life. *consumes gold jewelry*

Anyone know about this upcoming movie? A PR reunion one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31lp7cO1GY

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
I'd laugh if the new Mummy in the Tom Cruise lead film somehow ended up being less scary than the grittier take on Rita when she was first brought back to life. *consumes gold jewelry*

Looks more like they should be afraid of the Brandon Fraser' Mummy Movie Lawyers cause it looks like they could be ripping off a few scenes from those movies.

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I just realized Rita sees good teeth in that homeless guy's mouth, then much later when she produces the staff, there's a lower jaw bone in it towards the top.

Originally posted by Slowpoke
Anyone know about this upcoming movie? A PR reunion one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31lp7cO1GY

They're still somewhat doing fundraising for that but it's taking its time since most, if not all, actors/actresses are busy doing other stuff. Last I check funding for it was done. Like less than a year ago I asked David Fielding about it and he mentioned it's just a fun project that they're doing on most of their free time. For those who don't know, it has nothing to do with power rangers. Just stars a shitload of them.

But it's WAAAY more promising that shit-hole MMPR fan film that was teased and creator legit ran off with the money.

Originally posted by Scythe

But it's WAAAY more promising that shit-hole MMPR fan film that was teased and creator legit ran off with the money.

Are you talking about the one from Adi Shanker?

i never really liked that thing, Power Ranger's isn't suppose to be dark & gritty.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Are you talking about the one from Adi Shanker?

i never really liked that thing, Power Ranger's isn't suppose to be dark & gritty.

No, this piece of shit: https://youtu.be/EOm14z7cOW0

This was much worse. It got really ugly. Director kept dropping off the face of the earth Raz-style, the actors in this shit were constantly joining message boards to bring hype to the project without actually saying anything was going forward. Towards the end no one got paid and all that fundraised money was taken by who the hell cares who and never given back. I never pledged on account that the dude directing this was skeevy as hell. The few times I've started a convo with him about this he legit starts with: "I wanna hear only positive things about the teaser, nothing negative." We didn't talk about a single thing after that.