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I mean, we did so well with Godzilla the first time we took a shot at it, what could go wrong with Power Rangers?

MATTHEW BRODERICK AS ZORDON

A GIANT PILE OF FISH AS ALPHA
 
Personally I find boob armor more acceptable than heels, though both are unnecessary, unless the people in the suits are ridiculously well endowed.
 

GasBandit

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Personally I find boob armor more acceptable than heels, though both are unnecessary, unless the people in the suits are ridiculously well endowed.
Heels are ridiculous, granted, but when it comes to boob armor, every crease is a structural vulnerability given to buckling easier, so really, boob armor should be one large, round, gently curving uniboob. Or, you know, I guess, a standard cuirass that bows out more at the top for the boobs, instead of at the bottom for a beer gut.
 
Heels are ridiculous, granted, but when it comes to boob armor, every crease is a structural vulnerability given to buckling easier, so really, boob armor should be one large, round, gently curving uniboob. Or, you know, I guess, a standard cuirass that bows out more at the top for the boobs, instead of at the bottom for a beer gut.
I mean, that's more or less what I said.
 
If they MUST keep a feminine style boot, why not do them like the Wonder Woman design for the BvS movie and make them more like a raised platform shoe than a high heel?
 
I don't know what Haim Saban is thinking...
"Look at all this money Lionsgate sent me! And I don't have to pay a cut to Toei because it's an entirely american production based on an american property!" -- Haim Saban, probably.

Odds are, like the first MMPR movie, this has been licensed and most the creative say is out of Saban's hands. No major studio is going to want a Dino Charge (or even an original or next team) movie, they want the super-hero summer blockbuster audience which means making the nostalgia play with mmpr, and updating it to make sure it's cool and "not lame and childish."
 
If they MUST keep a feminine style boot, why not do them like the Wonder Woman design for the BvS movie and make them more like a raised platform shoe than a high heel?
Not to pick on you, Ash, but every time I see someone write this, they clearly have never tried it. When the heel is elevated 2 inches or more from the ball of the foot, it effects even basic walking. I want every costume designer who thinks it's a good idea to have to wear them in an active role to have to spend a high school gym class wearing them and then see what a "great idea" it is.
 
Not to pick on you, Ash, but every time I see someone write this, they clearly have never tried it. When the heel is elevated 2 inches or more from the ball of the foot, it effects even basic walking. I want every costume designer who thinks it's a good idea to have to wear them in an active role to have to spend a high school gym class wearing them and then see what a "great idea" it is.
Fair enough. They may only SEEM less ridiculous than heels, while in fact being just as terrible. There's a reason the female rangers in the show all get the same boots as the guys and it's probably to keep from running out of stuntwomen.
 
Fair enough. They may only SEEM less ridiculous than heels, while in fact being just as terrible. There's a reason the female rangers in the show all get the same boots as the guys and it's probably to keep from running out of stuntwomen.
From what I recall (and feel free to doublecheck, call me out on this). The suit actors for the women tend to be men half the time for stunts, I imagine it's one of the reasons they keep the miniskirts.
 
Um... wow. That is way too fucking close a design. Hero and villain designs should be visually distinct unless there is an important plot reason for similarity.
 
By having Rita's outfit so similar to a Power Rangers, it seriously implies a connection. Was Rita a PR who abused her powers? A former disciple of Zordon? Are they both based on the same culture / technology? If so, will the mooks and monsters also have similarities?
 
By having Rita's outfit so similar to a Power Rangers, it seriously implies a connection. Was Rita a PR who abused her powers? A former disciple of Zordon? Are they both based on the same culture / technology? If so, will the mooks and monsters also have similarities?
Strictly speaking, there really isn't any reason why the villians couldn't be using the Morphing Grid for their powers too. There are and have been evil Rangers in the past, though all have eventually been redeemed.

And hey... anything that keeps TOMMY OLIVER out of this series...
 
Tommy was awesome and I will fight anyone who disagrees. It will be an awesome martial arts fight with zords.

Anyway, these new designs seem... well... too extraterrestrial to me. They look like the Rangers got their powers from the ID4 aliens.
 
Tommy was awesome and I will fight anyone who disagrees.
The Tommy Oliver magic died for me around Dino Thunder. When he was just a classic character, it was one thing... then they brought him back as a main character on a sub-par series. He's literally had -5- sets of powers (Green, White Tiger, Red Zeo, Red Turbo, Black Dino) and the writers love to switch him between them for absolutely no reason on reunion/cross over episodes. Even in the Super Mega Force finale he does it... he saves a kid using Saba and the White Ranger helmet appears over him (to signify his status) but he's using the Green Ranger powers (you know, the ones that got DESTROYED?) during the final battle. They couldn't even settle on one set for a SINGLE EPISODE.

That said, I have no problem with Jason David Frank or his desire to revisit the character. I'm just sort of tired of what that character has become under a succession of writers who ether don't know better or don't care.
 
It was already predicted from the first shot of Rita that she will have been a former power ranger, probably the green one, and will use her power to create a new green ranger, since, you know, she made the green ranger in the show.
 
For some reason the trailer for Sadako vs. Kayako reminds me of another recent Japanese film called Terraformars, which is apparently based on a manga. It starts out looking like a fairly grounded-in-reality sci-fi flick, and then it goes off the rails, and then it goes WAY off the rails.

 
For some reason the trailer for Sadako vs. Kayako reminds me of another recent Japanese film called Terraformars, which is apparently based on a manga. It starts out looking like a fairly grounded-in-reality sci-fi flick, and then it goes off the rails, and then it goes WAY off the rails.

I have wanted a cinematic version of Avery/Cooper's "Planet Provers" series for a very long time.
But by all that's box-office gold, this is not it. No! Not it!

--Patrick
 
An article about why Gremlins 2 is so great? SOLD!

(Personally, Even though I'll admit the first Gremlins is the better movie in terms of overall structure, Gremlins 2 is my personal favourite for the unending amount of gags. I watch both of them back-to-back every Christmas with my nieces. Obviously, the sequel isn't a Christmas movie, but you kind of HAVE to watch them back-to-back, right?)
 
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