Andrew Gray from Megaforce was at the premiere
Who are the others in the photo?
Power Rangers
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Who are the others in the photo?
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JDF's wife and daughter. Andrew Gray. I'm not sure who the other lady is
JDF vlogged his red carpet entrance
JDF and Cerina Vincent. That other guy looks familiar. I don't know from what though
Hail Hydra. Brett Dalton and JDF
JDF's wife and daughter. Andrew Gray. I'm not sure who the other lady is
JDF vlogged his red carpet entrance
JDF and Cerina Vincent. That other guy looks familiar. I don't know from what though
Hail Hydra. Brett Dalton and JDF
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Just got back from seeing it at the theater. Packed house. Half of them kids, but oddly enough it was a pretty fun experience--and that goes for the movie itself too. It's way more edgier than any of the TV shows as far as language and some innuendo goes, but it still manages to keep a sense of fun throughout. It's not perfect, but I liked it. It's got a sense of humor to it, and I really found myself liking this Ranger team towards the end. Definitely going to get it when it comes out on home video.
Dacre and Naomi with their Japanese counterparts. Ryo and Alice are voicing Jason and Kimberly in the dub.
Haim copying Billy's pose from the posters
Ah yes, Krispy Kreme played a big part in the movie.
Rita even stopped to try a doughnut.
"From the Lion Galaxy....."
Foreshadowing the Kyuranger adaptation?
Also watching Kyuranger episode 3
http://asiadrama.net/watch/?id=5692&ser=1&ep=3
I guess Kyuranger's have never seen "Blade Runner". Nice nod though
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Just saw the movie. I liked it. Not perfect by any means but entertaining. Only about a dozen people in the theater so not sure how to take that on opening night. There didn't seem to be a whole heck of a lot of promotion up until the last week or so.
I thought it was kind of boring. So did the little kids sitting (and crying) in front of me. I never watched the Power Ranger shows so there was no nostalgia for me. My son talked me into going with him by saying there were big monsters fighting. I am as fond of BEMs as the next person and was disappointed.
Grade: B-
(Reduced by 6 grade points due to absurd product placement.)
The Power Rangers were a bit after my time, the original TV series came out right around that time in childhood and adolescence when your "accepted" pieces of childhood nostalgia start curing and anything new starts becoming "new" and "for kids." Some people my age may have had their curing occur after me and thus consider Power Rangers "part of their childhood" but, by and large, from my experience Power Rangers was out of the bounds of people my same age. I was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan and the (Mighty Morphin') Power Rangers just struck me as very childish and goofy. (Yet four humanoid turtles who speak in cliched dialog and lingo did not.)
The live action show just looked silly, the "character" moments were okay but the acting, set design, and look of it all just seemed very, very cheap and slapped together and about the only thing I got out of it was, "The Pink Ranger is hot!" Then the action "set-pieces" would happen and the show took on a whole new realm of ridiculous stupidity.
Again, it wasn't my thing. I was by no means a Power Rangers fan or watcher. The show was dumb, the movie(s) were dumb, the whole thing for me was dumb. But, again, perfectly okay with four turtles hanging out with a busty news reporter in a yellow jumpsuit. Childhood is weird.
That all said, when I started seeing trailers for this movie I have to admit my interest was tipped a bit. The movie looked to be taking on a "serious" tone and look for the material but part of me thought it looked too "dark" and removed from my understanding of the source material and it looked angsty and moody, akin to the Fantastic Four movie from a couple years ago, and removed from what little I knew of the source material.
I came out of this movie really liking it. Which I'm shocked to hear myself say.
The movie takes places in present-day "Angel Grove" (the scenery and such makes it look like the Pacific Northwest, like they're in a neighboring school district to Bella from Twilight's hometown of Forks, Washington, but we're shown the town is in California, and focuses on five teenagers of diverse personalities and races and, to an extent, the usual tropes and archetypes of any team movie where people who're polar opposites of one another somehow manage to become friends.
There Jason who becomes the Red Ranger and defacto leader of the team who is our trope of the "rebel teen with a heart of gold" who was an aspiring football star but a night of criminal antics where multiple cars are wrecked, including police vehicles, he flees from police and all for trespassing on school property for some-kind-of-prank of putting a bull in a locker room at school gets him, seemingly, a stern talking to, loss of his chance at a football scholarship and some detention time after a few days. I'm guessing the police and DA of Angel Grove are pretty damn forgiving considering his working-class father unlikely has the means to secure a good enough attorney to keep his son out of Juvie or being charged with serious crimes as an adult.
In detention Jason shows his "heart of gold" by defending Billy, who becomes the Blue Ranger, an "on the spectrum" (mildly Autistic) kid being picked on by a school bully, Billy and Jason quickly become something of friends when Billy offers to disable/trick Jason's ankle monitor so they can go on some scouting mission or other in a nearby quarry, with the promise Jason can use his mother's "borrowed" van for his own use in the meantime.
Also in detention is Kimberly. who becomes the Pink Ranger, who's there because of some "Mean Girls"-esque nonsense fight with former friends in the antics and way teenage girls are always "friends" and then "enemies," she's in the quarry as well when Billy detonates a bomb and exposes a rock face with a large geode in it, they're also joined by Zack (Black Ranger) and Trini (Yellow Ranger) who were also around angsting around this quarry. Zack notices a handful of gems in the wall wall and he chips them out, as he collects them, handing some to his companions, the group flees as mine security swarms in, during their flee they (somehow) manage to evade security but soon after roll Billy's mom's mini-van in seemingly death-causing accident only to find themselves awaking just fine the next morning with no memories of what happened after the crash.
Strangely more, they find themselves to now have powers like heightened strength and resistance to assault as well Billy's bum leg no-longer needs the knee-brace, also the crystals seemed "tied" to them, vibrating whenever they get too far away or teleporting to them, after some incidents at school they decide to return to the quarry to find more answers.
After some squabbling and testing of their powers, like heightened speed, jumping and climbing ability, the dive into a lake, swim under, and find a "water wall" on the otherside of which is a dry cavern with a spaceship parked in it. (Have crashed there millions of years ago in a pre-title sequence.) They meet a sentient android inside the ship who introduces them to Zordon the leader of the "rangers" in the opening sequence whose physical essence died but has had his mind loaded into the craft's computer. He explains to the five teens that the crystals seem to have deemed them "worthy" of being the "Power Rangers," a group of people on planets with life tasked with defending a crystal that exists on the planet allowing for that life to be maintained. Zordon is dubious given that these are "children" and seem to not get along very well, but nevertheless the must learn to work together as a team in order to get the full use of their powers and to operate the "Zords" (robotic vehicles) to fully defend the planet from the villainous Rita intent to obtain the Geocrystals from various planets to gain universal power.
Look, the movie uses the usual tropes, rebellious teen, nerdy teem, angsty loner teen, pretty-girl teen who's not liked very well, rebellious and teen who has deeper reasons for his behavior. But the movie does a pretty good job of showing their characters and showing these five teenagers from learning to work together and be friends, necessary for them to fully be able to use their powers to defend the planet.
The movie spends a great deal of time with them as characters which really helps to establish them and want to see them work and fight together even if the big battle at the end is pretty pedestrian for this genre of movie. (Fight the villain and nameless/faceless minions to save the McGuffin.)
The visuals of the movie during the final, but brief for this type of movie these days, are pretty good Elizabeth banks and Rita looks and acts gloriously good as the villainous Rita managing to find the line between this modern update and the hamminess from the TV series. Brian Cranston is also good as Zordon seen as a face embedded in of those "pin mold" things you used to play with at Spencer Gifts.
I can shrug and say I liked this movie. I actually look forward to seeing future ones if it can keep this relative level of quality and expand on it.
Tropes and cliches, sure, but the characters work and you want to see them succeed and not just because the fate of the planet is at stake, but because you want these kids to find the meaning and purpose they seem to be missing in their lives.
Oh, and about those reduced grade points:
Product placement is common and even necessary in movies. It's always been there, there's no denying that but it's in how it's presented that can make all of the difference in the world. Go back and watch 1984's Ghostbusters and notice how many Sunshine Biscuit Company's products you see placed on shelves in the background, or the characters eating. It's subtle, but product placement. The movie gets broad later on with Egon using a Twinkee to describe the threat level the city is at, but it's done somewhat naturally without him stopping to wink at the audience as he takes a bite, smacks his lips and says "Mmmm! That's good!"
"Man of Steel" a few years ago got a lot of, deserved, flack when during a mid-movie action sequence in Smallville had Superman battle Zod and his minions in the main-drag of the won and crashed into obvious product placements for 7-11, Walmart, IHOP and others. It was just a bit too obvious.
This movie goes one step further.
Our McGuffin is apparently buried under a business in the town's main-drag and that business is a Krispee Kreme donuts and as a result our characters say the name of the establishment MANY times. And we even get a scene of Rita exploring the interior of the donut shop, inspecting a donut, (holding it at angle so we get a nice profile of it and the "classic donut" look with pink icing and sprinkles) before eating it.
It's a bit obvious and over-the-head. I get that product placement is a necessary part of funding a movie but when your movie is pretty much stopping to name-drop a sponsor's name several times and actually stops to pretty much have a commercial for that product, you've gone too far.
But, in the end, I liked this movie pretty well.
(Reduced by 6 grade points due to absurd product placement.)
The Power Rangers were a bit after my time, the original TV series came out right around that time in childhood and adolescence when your "accepted" pieces of childhood nostalgia start curing and anything new starts becoming "new" and "for kids." Some people my age may have had their curing occur after me and thus consider Power Rangers "part of their childhood" but, by and large, from my experience Power Rangers was out of the bounds of people my same age. I was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan and the (Mighty Morphin') Power Rangers just struck me as very childish and goofy. (Yet four humanoid turtles who speak in cliched dialog and lingo did not.)
The live action show just looked silly, the "character" moments were okay but the acting, set design, and look of it all just seemed very, very cheap and slapped together and about the only thing I got out of it was, "The Pink Ranger is hot!" Then the action "set-pieces" would happen and the show took on a whole new realm of ridiculous stupidity.
Again, it wasn't my thing. I was by no means a Power Rangers fan or watcher. The show was dumb, the movie(s) were dumb, the whole thing for me was dumb. But, again, perfectly okay with four turtles hanging out with a busty news reporter in a yellow jumpsuit. Childhood is weird.
That all said, when I started seeing trailers for this movie I have to admit my interest was tipped a bit. The movie looked to be taking on a "serious" tone and look for the material but part of me thought it looked too "dark" and removed from my understanding of the source material and it looked angsty and moody, akin to the Fantastic Four movie from a couple years ago, and removed from what little I knew of the source material.
I came out of this movie really liking it. Which I'm shocked to hear myself say.
The movie takes places in present-day "Angel Grove" (the scenery and such makes it look like the Pacific Northwest, like they're in a neighboring school district to Bella from Twilight's hometown of Forks, Washington, but we're shown the town is in California, and focuses on five teenagers of diverse personalities and races and, to an extent, the usual tropes and archetypes of any team movie where people who're polar opposites of one another somehow manage to become friends.
There Jason who becomes the Red Ranger and defacto leader of the team who is our trope of the "rebel teen with a heart of gold" who was an aspiring football star but a night of criminal antics where multiple cars are wrecked, including police vehicles, he flees from police and all for trespassing on school property for some-kind-of-prank of putting a bull in a locker room at school gets him, seemingly, a stern talking to, loss of his chance at a football scholarship and some detention time after a few days. I'm guessing the police and DA of Angel Grove are pretty damn forgiving considering his working-class father unlikely has the means to secure a good enough attorney to keep his son out of Juvie or being charged with serious crimes as an adult.
In detention Jason shows his "heart of gold" by defending Billy, who becomes the Blue Ranger, an "on the spectrum" (mildly Autistic) kid being picked on by a school bully, Billy and Jason quickly become something of friends when Billy offers to disable/trick Jason's ankle monitor so they can go on some scouting mission or other in a nearby quarry, with the promise Jason can use his mother's "borrowed" van for his own use in the meantime.
Also in detention is Kimberly. who becomes the Pink Ranger, who's there because of some "Mean Girls"-esque nonsense fight with former friends in the antics and way teenage girls are always "friends" and then "enemies," she's in the quarry as well when Billy detonates a bomb and exposes a rock face with a large geode in it, they're also joined by Zack (Black Ranger) and Trini (Yellow Ranger) who were also around angsting around this quarry. Zack notices a handful of gems in the wall wall and he chips them out, as he collects them, handing some to his companions, the group flees as mine security swarms in, during their flee they (somehow) manage to evade security but soon after roll Billy's mom's mini-van in seemingly death-causing accident only to find themselves awaking just fine the next morning with no memories of what happened after the crash.
Strangely more, they find themselves to now have powers like heightened strength and resistance to assault as well Billy's bum leg no-longer needs the knee-brace, also the crystals seemed "tied" to them, vibrating whenever they get too far away or teleporting to them, after some incidents at school they decide to return to the quarry to find more answers.
After some squabbling and testing of their powers, like heightened speed, jumping and climbing ability, the dive into a lake, swim under, and find a "water wall" on the otherside of which is a dry cavern with a spaceship parked in it. (Have crashed there millions of years ago in a pre-title sequence.) They meet a sentient android inside the ship who introduces them to Zordon the leader of the "rangers" in the opening sequence whose physical essence died but has had his mind loaded into the craft's computer. He explains to the five teens that the crystals seem to have deemed them "worthy" of being the "Power Rangers," a group of people on planets with life tasked with defending a crystal that exists on the planet allowing for that life to be maintained. Zordon is dubious given that these are "children" and seem to not get along very well, but nevertheless the must learn to work together as a team in order to get the full use of their powers and to operate the "Zords" (robotic vehicles) to fully defend the planet from the villainous Rita intent to obtain the Geocrystals from various planets to gain universal power.
Look, the movie uses the usual tropes, rebellious teen, nerdy teem, angsty loner teen, pretty-girl teen who's not liked very well, rebellious and teen who has deeper reasons for his behavior. But the movie does a pretty good job of showing their characters and showing these five teenagers from learning to work together and be friends, necessary for them to fully be able to use their powers to defend the planet.
The movie spends a great deal of time with them as characters which really helps to establish them and want to see them work and fight together even if the big battle at the end is pretty pedestrian for this genre of movie. (Fight the villain and nameless/faceless minions to save the McGuffin.)
The visuals of the movie during the final, but brief for this type of movie these days, are pretty good Elizabeth banks and Rita looks and acts gloriously good as the villainous Rita managing to find the line between this modern update and the hamminess from the TV series. Brian Cranston is also good as Zordon seen as a face embedded in of those "pin mold" things you used to play with at Spencer Gifts.
I can shrug and say I liked this movie. I actually look forward to seeing future ones if it can keep this relative level of quality and expand on it.
Tropes and cliches, sure, but the characters work and you want to see them succeed and not just because the fate of the planet is at stake, but because you want these kids to find the meaning and purpose they seem to be missing in their lives.
Oh, and about those reduced grade points:
Product placement is common and even necessary in movies. It's always been there, there's no denying that but it's in how it's presented that can make all of the difference in the world. Go back and watch 1984's Ghostbusters and notice how many Sunshine Biscuit Company's products you see placed on shelves in the background, or the characters eating. It's subtle, but product placement. The movie gets broad later on with Egon using a Twinkee to describe the threat level the city is at, but it's done somewhat naturally without him stopping to wink at the audience as he takes a bite, smacks his lips and says "Mmmm! That's good!"
"Man of Steel" a few years ago got a lot of, deserved, flack when during a mid-movie action sequence in Smallville had Superman battle Zod and his minions in the main-drag of the won and crashed into obvious product placements for 7-11, Walmart, IHOP and others. It was just a bit too obvious.
This movie goes one step further.
Our McGuffin is apparently buried under a business in the town's main-drag and that business is a Krispee Kreme donuts and as a result our characters say the name of the establishment MANY times. And we even get a scene of Rita exploring the interior of the donut shop, inspecting a donut, (holding it at angle so we get a nice profile of it and the "classic donut" look with pink icing and sprinkles) before eating it.
It's a bit obvious and over-the-head. I get that product placement is a necessary part of funding a movie but when your movie is pretty much stopping to name-drop a sponsor's name several times and actually stops to pretty much have a commercial for that product, you've gone too far.
But, in the end, I liked this movie pretty well.
Is it possible they actually said Zeo Crystals? Those were the source of the Rangers' powers in the first post-MMPR series, Power Rangers Zeo, as well as the quest objects in the Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers arc that concluded MMPR. So maybe this is a sequel hook, or just a way of drawing on the franchise's larger mythology. (I gather there are name-drops of a couple of the cities where later Power Rangers seasons were set, like Mariner Bay and Ocean Bluff.)
Yeah, it was "Zeo Crystal" I just half-remembered it. They were beyond me, but from what I understand there were name-drops of nearby towns/cities/streets/whatever known to fans of the franchise.
In this movie, however, the "Zeo Crystal" is just a giant crystal (that looks like they got it from The Fortress of Solitude) is a buried McGuffin that's said to be on every planet with life and Rita seeks it out to gain some-kind-of power to rule the universe. The Rangers get their powers from "Power Crystals" buried by Zordon at the beginning of the movie (in the Cenozoic Era) and, sort of similar to the power-ring in The Green Lantern or Thor's Mjolnir, only work for someone deemed worthy of it. The crystals give them their "super powers" and embeds the armor in them.
I must have missed the implication of Kimberly being gay, guess that was in the "back story" of the nude selfie sent to her by a friend which I took as well, just a friend sending her an awkward picture and not as her being gay.
It was really cool how they gave us a character "on the spectrum" and he was treated very well and kindly by the rest of the main characters.
It's Trini, actually. And apparently it's only rather vaguely implied, and ambiguous whether she's gay, bi, or just undecided.
Even so, it makes sense that they'd use an existing concept as the basis.
Yeah, but from my understanding it's very different than what it was in the (various) series.
For Trini being gay, it was even more vague with her if implied. Didn't pick up on it at *all.* There's more "evidence" of it being Kimberly than Trini from what I recall but I really wasn't paying that level of attention to care about the sexuality of these characters. Mostly because I don't care in general, like and fuck who you like. Makes no difference to me.
The Autistic kid though was well done.
For Trini being gay, it was even more vague with her if implied. Didn't pick up on it at *all.* There's more "evidence" of it being Kimberly than Trini from what I recall but I really wasn't paying that level of attention to care about the sexuality of these characters. Mostly because I don't care in general, like and fuck who you like. Makes no difference to me.
The Autistic kid though was well done.
Adaptational Sexuality: It comes off as Ambiguously Gay in the film, where Zack suggests she might be gay* and prompts Trini to make vague comments about her parents believing in labels. Word of God confirms that she is not straight, and still at the stage of questioning her own sexuality.
(From TV Tropes)
* Zack suggested that her issues might have been "boyfriend troubles" which she didn't react to, but followed up his suggestion of "girlfriend troubles" with the comment about her "parents believing in labels".
(From TV Tropes)
* Zack suggested that her issues might have been "boyfriend troubles" which she didn't react to, but followed up his suggestion of "girlfriend troubles" with the comment about her "parents believing in labels".
I didn't know the details, I just read a couple stories online about her being gay and Billy being autistic.
It's frustrating that feature films are still limited to vague, ambiguous hints of gayness (see also Sulu in Star Trek Beyond) instead of being free to just treat it openly like TV can. It seems that part of the problem is that the movies need to be sold overseas in countries that still have institutionalized anti-LGBTQ discrimination and censorship -- particularly China, which is a huge investor in Hollywood movies these days -- so they have to avoid offending those bigoted sensibilities. Even so, I gather that Russia slapped an adults-only rating on Power Rangers based merely on that one ambiguous hint about Trini's sexuality. Even aside from what a ludicrous overreaction that is, why not just change the line in dubbing/subtitles to obscure its meaning?
At first it seems that the pink ranger was the victim of mean girls and then it turns out that SHE is the mean girl. She says she's sorry but then she shows the picture to the red ranger. Why did she keep the picture and keep showing it around? Yeah she's sorry--sorry she got caught.
Finally, a neurodiverse action hero presented in a positive manner.
I've never really been into Power Rangers, but this makes me want to go see the movie asap.
Kor
I've never really been into Power Rangers, but this makes me want to go see the movie asap.
Kor
I saw the film last weekend. I went in with low expectations as I had seen a few bad reviews of it, which had disappointed me as I had watched the show in the 1990s. Was so glad they were wrong as I really enjoyed it. I felt it was really mature film for young people to watch and actually had something to say. I would give it 3.5/5 stars.
My only issue/confusion was with the MegaZords:
My only issue/confusion was with the MegaZords:
Were the Zords designed to combine into the MegaZord as on the tv show or did it happen by accident as they were pushed into the fiery pit?