Is it really a good idea to make a new Power Rangers movie. For the fans yes, however for the mainstream audience of today to answer is no. Little buzz has been generating about the new Power Rangers reboot by Lions Gate and Saban. While loved by fans the Power Rangers have always been considered a laughing stock. The first film in 1995 blew fans away with its big budget and special effect, but critics hated it. Power Rangers will always belong to its fans but there is a growing problem in Hollywood. I have talked a lot of studios taking control of their comic book-related pictures. Superhero films are still taboo to some big necks Hollywood.
Further to my subject, many liberties have been taken with Saban's Power Rangers 2017. Little was known when the announcement was made, Would this be the Power Rangers we knew and grew up with or will it be a whole new concept. From what we have learned a little bit of both. We got our first glimpse of The Ranger actors who are all unknowns. First, they were said the have different names then later went with the names of the original characters, Zack, Billy Jason Kimberly, and Traini, and I am not sure if this was a change due to fan reaction. If that's so there going to be little archetypes to their original character troupes. Will Billy be the tech nerd, KImberlly the girly girl, and Zack the outgoing dancer I do not know at this point? They are different cultural races than before which I do not understand. There was nothing racist about the original character, they were all likable in their own ways. I saw no reason for there races to changed.
So I saw the Ranger actor out of uniform and I accepted it, what next? Next, we saw Elizebeth Banks the only notable star attached the film in character for Rita. This where thing took their first turn for the worst. They went completely far from her original look and again why. There were so many ways they could improve upon Rita, and this is not an improvement. She looks like an emerald Maleficent or a the villain from Never Ending Story II. I mean look the new comics from IDW and look the makeovers she's had in Nostalgia Critics grill of Turbo, and such. They gave her this design because they wanted her to connect to the rangers origin. Given said this has something to do with the green power coin back story. This look doses not work for any audience and looks even worse than before.
But here where it really took a turn for the worst.
What could go wrong with their suits?
Everything we feared has realized with the new suites and they a far cry to their original spandex or Power Rangers in general. Their metal with glowing disks in their chest. They said the designs for these suits would be like a suit that no one could just get into and would crystallize around the rangers. These suits A look like anyone can get into them and B look like they were designed by Tony Stark. The Power rangers are not in any way related to Iron Man nor should be. They are a martial arts fighting squad, not Iron Men. The suits from the 1995 film were a radical change and still hold to this day. There other option they could go with such as modern superhero spandex, a modified version of the 1995 movie or made from what material the Man of Steel outfit was made from. They look like something from a crappy fan film or even from a crappy piece of fan art. Fan films have done better with designing the Power Rangers suits.
Why must these big budget studios and Hollywood producers constantly take away what we love about certain pieces of our nerd culture?
These changes consist of things like Turtles 2014 I mean Jessie Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and so forth. With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out from The Shadows we get a different Casie Jones then what we have known for the past thirty years. Steven Amel is amazing as Green Arrow but his take on Casey Jones from what I have seen is a huge far cry from what we know and love. Why they still kept Megan Fox I do not know.
Why can't Hollywood just give what we love and cherish in these franchises instead of just giving us what they want? I am hoping the new Turtles will be slightly better than the 2014 reboot then again I could be setting my hopes to high. The only real kicks fan will be able to get for Turtles will be through comics, and the same goes for Power Rangers. There is more we are yet to see from the new Power Ranger so who knows what will piss us off next. The look of Zordon the Megazord etc. Will they listen to the fan reaction like they did with that Shredder being an old guy, and change the rangers suits. Most likely not and fan films will be the only way to Power Rangers justice.
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