UN Spacy Posted December 1, 2016 Posted December 1, 2016 I'm sorry but that Megazord is crap. You can't even tell which of the animals that is when combined. It doesn't even look like a mecha...looks like a superhero. Quote
areaseven Posted December 1, 2016 Posted December 1, 2016 Normally, I'd say, "R.I.P. Power Rangers," but the franchise has died so many times that it's almost as dead as Robotech. Quote
mikeszekely Posted December 1, 2016 Posted December 1, 2016 I was in high school when Power Rangers started, so I watched it but I was never super into it. After suffering through what Bay did to my beloved Transformers, is kind of weird to see Hollywood raping someone else's childhood. Quote
areaseven Posted December 1, 2016 Posted December 1, 2016 I was in high school when Power Rangers started, so I watched it but I was never super into it. After suffering through what Bay did to my beloved Transformers, is kind of weird to see Hollywood raping someone else's childhood. Tell that to the Jem fans. Quote
JB0 Posted December 2, 2016 Posted December 2, 2016 Tell that to the Jem fans. You'd have to find a Jem fan first. Quote
Hikuro Posted December 2, 2016 Posted December 2, 2016 You'd have to find a Jem fan first. yo, I'd raise my hand if I could. Quote
JB0 Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 yo, I'd raise my hand if I could.They DO exist!Naw, I'm just bein' a smartbutt. Quote
CoryHolmes Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 Are you sure? Maybe it's just a figment of your imagination. Quote
JB0 Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 I can't poke too much fun. I'm a Captain Power fan, after all. Quote
Tking22 Posted December 8, 2016 Posted December 8, 2016 Can't even make out the Mastodon or Triceratops, oh well. Quote
Tking22 Posted January 19, 2017 Posted January 19, 2017 I'm a die-hard MMPR fan, so I was seeing this either way, but this trailer was MUCH better then the last, far more fun. I hate the Kanye music, Goldar looks dumb, as does the Megazord, but overall this looks much better then before, much more colorful and less emo seriousness. Also, Heisenberg as Zordon works for me. Quote
electric indigo Posted January 19, 2017 Posted January 19, 2017 ^ completely the other way around for me for the stated reasons. Except I hate the Kanye music, too. Quote
CoryHolmes Posted January 20, 2017 Posted January 20, 2017 The first trailer intrigued me. This one remains intriguing. I have no doubts there will be camp and cheese in the film, I just hope not enough to overshadow the other bits.  Also, Goldar? Now I have to rewatch that trailer again. And again. And again... Quote
JB0 Posted January 20, 2017 Posted January 20, 2017 2 hours ago, CoryHolmes said: The first trailer intrigued me. This one remains intriguing. I have no doubts there will be camp and cheese in the film, I just hope not enough to overshadow the other bits.  My thoughts too. I really like that these kids aren't perfect goody-two-shoes heroes right from the start. They have the heart, but circumstance has tempered it, kept it from showing. They are diamonds in the rough, as it were. I did like seeing the individual robots fighting. Nice to see they are useful for something other than forming feet and legs, arms and body this time out.  Quote
JB0 Posted February 3, 2017 Posted February 3, 2017 Ugh. That is a terrible poster. So darn cluttered. Quote
anime52k8 Posted February 3, 2017 Posted February 3, 2017 STUFF AND THINGS AND DUTCH ANGLES ERMAHGERD!!!! Quote
CoryHolmes Posted February 4, 2017 Posted February 4, 2017 18 hours ago, JB0 said: Ugh. That is a terrible poster. So darn cluttered. What choice do they have, though? There are 5 main characters, plus 5 main robots to advertise. There's only so much poster space to be had, and I'd hate for them to focus on just one ranger as the hero and the rest as sidekicks...  ...    ... ... And roundhouse kicks. And snap kicks. And ax kicks... (I tried to stop myself, I really did). Quote
JB0 Posted February 4, 2017 Posted February 4, 2017 9 hours ago, CoryHolmes said: What choice do they have, though? There are 5 main characters, plus 5 main robots to advertise. There's only so much poster space to be had, and I'd hate for them to focus on just one ranger as the hero and the rest as sidekicks... And roundhouse kicks. And snap kicks. And ax kicks... (I tried to stop myself, I really did). No apologies necessary. I laughed.   I'm just sure that featuring all the rangers could be done less... chaotically. The Avengers posters weren't the most exciting things in the world, but they did manage to fit everyone in without looking like an explosion in a Skittles factory.   While I'm thinking about it... I PROBABLY would've gone for an homage to the original Power Rangers movie poster, with the side-view of all the ranger heads. It is simple, but it worked. And they are banking heavily on name recognition and nostalgia here. They can afford to do a simple poster, especially one that is such a strong callback to "the good old days". Alternatively, I'd follow up on the teaser posters the new movie had out earlier. Instead of a bunch of posters each featuring one ranger on a portion of their respective zord, put all five rangers on top of a portion of the megazord(much like the teaser posters, JUST ENOUGH robot that you can tell what they're standing on). And because I am an old fart, throw in that rainbow effect from the Star Trek Beyond: The Motion Picture poster, which actually makes SENSE for a Power Ranger poster.   However, I definitely agree with the marketing campaign's move to keep the new megazord design a secret. It is, of course, already a failure thanks to the toy line, and was never going to last past the first screening, but... It is almost certainly going to be the climax of the movie and deserves to be seen first IN the movie. It shows a respect for what ought to be an awesome moment. I like that, and appreciate that they didn't decide to just break out the big guns for this poster.  Also appreciated: The new poster isn't pushing "GO GO" as their marketing slogan anymore. That was an awkward choice from day one, and was largely a failed homage.  "It's morphin time" works FAR better, even if it is hard to arrange prettily around a stylized lightning bolt*. I'm glad they laid that down in the one piece of clear space that poster has(and lined the T. Rex and pterodactyl heads up so they effectively underline it!).    *And it doesn't escape my notice that "Power Rangers" feels pretty lopsided around that lightning bolt, especially as the text is styled. While it could be balanced better, that was always going to be a hard sell, aesthetically. Quote
Dio Posted February 4, 2017 Posted February 4, 2017 They forgot the apostrophe on Morphin'. You know, as in "morphing," as in "metamorphosis." Might as well put a # on it while they're at it. And get off my lawn. Quote
JB0 Posted February 5, 2017 Posted February 5, 2017 22 hours ago, Dio said: They forgot the apostrophe on Morphin'. You know, as in "morphing," as in "metamorphosis." Might as well put a # on it while they're at it. And get off my lawn. I noticed the lack of ' as well. I was just too busy worrying about poor art direction to drop the grammar hammer, #go/go Quote
anime52k8 Posted February 7, 2017 Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) I'm actually kind of excited for this. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Edited February 7, 2017 by anime52k8 Quote
JB0 Posted February 7, 2017 Posted February 7, 2017 11 minutes ago, anime52k8 said: I don't know if that's a good thin or a bad thing. Yes, it is. Quote
pengbuzz Posted February 9, 2017 Posted February 9, 2017 (edited) On 2/4/2017 at 2:28 PM, electric indigo said: It's morphine time?... At the rate the movie poster seems to be going... yup. Edited February 9, 2017 by pengbuzz Quote
electric indigo Posted February 10, 2017 Posted February 10, 2017 They're not trying to get people into the cinemas with these posters, right? Quote
TangledThorns Posted February 10, 2017 Posted February 10, 2017 It may be because I was an 80s kid but I never understood the appeal of the Power Rangers. Is it still considered popular with kids or is this film only trying to bank on nostalgia? Quote
kajnrig Posted February 11, 2017 Posted February 11, 2017 I think both are true. The property is still popular with kids, but the movie itself is banking extreeeemely heavily on nostalgia. Angel Grove, original characters/Zords/setting, etc. Quote
mikeszekely Posted February 11, 2017 Posted February 11, 2017 3 hours ago, TangledThorns said: It may be because I was an 80s kid but I never understood the appeal of the Power Rangers. Is it still considered popular with kids or is this film only trying to bank on nostalgia? Well, all the '80s big screen revivals would have to give way eventually to '90s junk. Â I mean, the first Bay Transformers movie was almost 10 years ago, so if it got made on '80s nostalgia then the target audience for '90s nostalgia is the same age as the '80s kids were back then. But hey, I'm an '80s kid and I liked Power Rangers. Â Of course, at the time I had no idea what a sentai show was, but the idea of five people with mecha that combine to make a giant robot that fights giant monsters? Â That description was close enough to Voltron to get me watching (although I was out before Turbo). Quote
JB0 Posted February 11, 2017 Posted February 11, 2017 Well, that new poster is better than the other one. It feels like there's a coherent design in it, though it has an air of contemplation and fantasy questing I don't typically associate with giant robot shows. But given what I've seen in the trailers, the fantasy quest feel is oddly appropriate.  I'm still feeling more and more like a black poster that just says "It's morphin' time" is the direction they should be going for these things. It worked well enough for DC. (Throw a Superman or Batman logo and a movie title on a sheet of paper and you're golden). 3 hours ago, mikeszekely said: But hey, I'm an '80s kid and I liked Power Rangers.  Of course, at the time I had no idea what a sentai show was, but the idea of five people with mecha that combine to make a giant robot that fights giant monsters?  That description was close enough to Voltron to get me watching (although I was out before Turbo). I was the other direction. I thought the Power Rangers were a cheap Voltron knockoff. Quote
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