I saw one of the newer Power Rangers episodes recently, and damn, it just boggled my mind with their 50/50 use of good and bad special effects and martial arts.
I don't understand why if they have the money, they don't make it all good special effects and maybe, possibly, make it make a little more sense >_>
I mean, they're friggen fighting while standing on walls but they can't even make the bad guy's mouths move when they talk.
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 May 23 2006, 12:05 am
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Haha you're not supposed to understand Power Rangers when your older...your just supposed to watch it at like 3 in the morning while doing homework, really helps you concentrate.
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Yeah, it really passes the time to watch the old episodes they show at like 7:00am while I'm starting to get in the mood to work...at work.
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I remember watching the very first season when I was young. I thought it was the greatest, however I personally think they killed it. They now do their grunts and "Saya!"'s, more than ever. They can't move an inch without making a sound.
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I don't like hearing the "It used to be good, but now it is bad" argument because it was always bad. I watched it as a kid, and it was horrible then and it is horrible now. Back then the monster fights where men in foam costumes, and it stood out. The people fighting was bad, really fake looking.
Speach, even outside of the suits, was bad, normally not timed with the lips. The story was never good. Always something like this: Power rangers are training a karate class or something, there is a bang, they run outside, some evil person shows up, fights them at human size, then grows really big. The monster battle starts. They distroy the city they where trying to save while bouncing around in it, but nobody ever realized that. Then they go back to training karate. I think that is how most episodes went. | |
I like the way they run towards the badguy then spontaenously yell "Uuuuurhhh!" as they trip up and sparks fly out of their body.
*edit* In fact that'd be pretty awesome. Going to class one day or just walking down the street, then shouting "UURRHHH!", spinning through the air as sparks fly out of your body. =D | |
Power Rangers. Selling crap the Japanese wouldn't pee on if it was on fire to stupid Americans.
Not that the original sentai stuff is exactly earth shattering, mind you..... | |
You're asking an awful lot from a franchise that's basically the worst possible derivation of Godzilla movies. I mean I've seen the Gamera films on MST3K. And then there's Godzilla Vs. Megalon, which featured one of the silliest monster fights ever filmed. Power Rangers inherits from the worst castoffs of that genre. Is there any surprise it sucks?
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S.P.D Emergency!
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I don't they've made a decent continuation of the series after the first group with that Jennifer Love Hewitt lookalike Kimberly.
I think the scripts and concepts from the newer version are fucking stupid.A talking dog? A blue McGruff the crime dog.
The lame martial arts and non-lip-moving-doll monsters and the "all the bad guys grow to 20 feet tall and get their asses kicked by our megazoid" only worked in the 90s.
They should give up on power rangers.