Oberon Storm
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Post by Oberon Storm on Oct 8, 2016 19:21:41 GMT
Am I the only one excited about this?
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Post by DarkJuno on Oct 10, 2016 3:37:02 GMT
I'll watch it, as of now I'm not anticipating it, but I'm definitely going to see it. Two minor things:
I never liked civilian powers in the later seasons of the show, and I'm still not sold, but whatever.
And I hope we get at least a nod to a proper Henshin scene, and not just a now typical superhero transformation/armor on scene. I'm willing to believe the one shown here is just the first one, and we get a full on glorious morph sequence for the climax.
Just nit picks, whether the movie is something I'll like or hate will have nothing to do with either of those unless they overdo the first one. At the very least, the little bits of dialogue are totally Power Rangers lines.
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JRPomazon
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Post by JRPomazon on Oct 10, 2016 7:23:40 GMT
I'm not sure how to feel about it. I think it'll be too modern American in it's delivery to give a more Power Rangers feel that lots of people are hoping for but maybe it can be good in it's own way. I'll see it eventually, though not with much hype.
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Masamune
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Post by Masamune on Oct 10, 2016 13:05:46 GMT
I think it looks fun and I'll be watching its buildup with interest, but I won't see it unless it's getting decent reviews. It looks promising, though. I consider Power Rangers to be such an awful canon, that any kind of remake can't actually be worse. It can only go up.
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Selena
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Post by Selena on Oct 10, 2016 15:37:20 GMT
I'm in the same boat as Masa. I am very intrigued by what we've seen so far, and it looks very promising, but it's really hard to tell with trailers. I'll wait for reviews before I get too excited.
The fact that Angel Grove is now a reform school for terrible teens was worthy of a few eye-rolls. So edgy. The rest looked pretty neato.
Also, that scene with Rita and the Yellow Ranger? .....gaaaaaaaay~
I watched episode 1 of Power Rangers on Netflix the other night... after having not seen it since it was on TV. It was ridiculously terrible to the point where it was charming. So great. Maybe we should add that to our potential list of things LA can watch and shittalk.
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Post by DarkJuno on Oct 12, 2016 4:09:01 GMT
I'm totally down to make fun of the original series, though you will inevitably get some compliments out of me because, as dumb as the show actually is, I do have massive nostalgia for it and I'm not going to lie, I still like it for what it is.
I do find the trailer interesting on second watch since it basically does exactly what the original show did - standard time period teens in standard popular setting thrust into Westernized but still undeniably Japanese superhero story. I mean, the old show came out when things like Saved By the Bell was popular and Southern California and being in the bright sun and doing things in said sun and the beach and the act of being popular were...popular, and as a result, they were High Schoolers in Southern California and Angel Grove is basically that universe's stand-in for Los Angeles, and everyone either loved the team or were obsessed with them. Nowadays, stuff like -shudder- Twilight and other (better) YA novels are popular and they involve protagonists that are more loners not in the popular crowds, and tend to take place is less idealized locales, some might say swinging a little too hard in the direction. Here, they're all loner students in a school and Angel Grove looks more like a small town in the mountains of Northern California or even the Northwest, and none of them are popular, at best being formerly popular. It's a sensible take, and I can't fault them for it.
Though, in the original Tommy was the loner who joined in, so to keep that status quo, the guy'll have to be an outright anti-social guy in the woods to keep the relationship in tact. Also, Jason and Kim kiss in the trailer, so extra angst, I guess.
I just really want a good, awesome transformation sequence. I don't expect the henshin one I mentioned earlier since that's hoping for too much, but even something like an Iron Man armor-on sequence would be worthwhile, not just this kinda lame nanomachine goo thing they ahve in the trailer. Or at least, good action, even as I got older, the thing that kept me watching the show in the background as I did other things were the stunt crew switch to a team with experience from the original sentai shows and the advent of some really surprisingly good wirework and fights for a kids' tv show. Surely a movie should have better fight scenes then those shows, right?
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Post by SteveT on Oct 12, 2016 16:25:05 GMT
Power Rangers hit when I was in fourth grade, so it was in that perfect window where everyone watched it and loved it, but were damn well aware that it was a baby show for babies and would never admit they loved and watched it. I put that here as a curiosity. A few thoughts: 1. What happened to the racism? A black Blue ranger? An Asian black ranger? How am I going to keep these rangers straight if I can't rely on racism to do it for me. I bet Jason doesn't even self-identify as 1/32 Cherokee based on made-up family rumors. Casting: SJW/10. EDIT: Maybe they learned from this sketch. Power Falcons2. They made a whole trailer and there were only two scenes that were distinctly Power Rangers. That means we're dealing solidly with origin story structure. We have to go through teen angst, a mysterious call to adventure, geeking out of their new powers, and a run-in with a villain before any action starts. which means we probably won't get to the good part until 30 minutes in, minimum. It makes me want to take some stats on how deep into movies the first superhero costume appears. Regardless, origin stories need to pick up the pace. Ugh/10.
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Post by SteveT on Oct 13, 2016 21:32:25 GMT
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