Power Rangers

Here I stand. Indeed. I was here in this living room watching power rangers all day on vhs when that mother hit and no kid will ever understand how mind blowing that film was to us back in the old days. But it was pure bliss in a vhs cassette. Not so much Turbo...

Interesting that they've brought it back and based the new one on the OG mighty morphin rangers vs the current majestic ninja magic whatever one.

This is a tough film to make, amazingly they succeeded despite the film wanting to implode on its own insanity.

Power Rangers has NEVER been about making sense. It's an excuse to do badass martial arts stuff. Kinda missing from this film is power ranger's serious focus on martial arts. The corner stone of the show is that it stars gymnasts and martial artists who often times did their own stunts on camera. So you as a kid would legitimately be seeing your heros doing martial arts and it was like nothing else at the time which always used stunt doubles.

These new guys are ok. I'm fine with them. The best of course as reviewers have noted is the black guy, he steals the movie completely. But I was more about the red ranger's story and found him most interesting of the lot. The Black Ranger who's riffing Johnny Yong Bosche trigun character Vash the Stampede the whole film is interesting if way over the top even for power rangers. He's ok, but you have no reason given for his wild attitude. It's like he just came in from another film. It fits because at some point there's giant robots and shit, but yeah, the actor didn't get the memo to tone it down.

I hope it does well. This could be a career explosion of new acting talent similar to what X-men 1 gave us with Jackman, Lotr, even star wars etc. It often starts with movies like this, then these guys get better stuff. The actors are obviously very gifted, which is what makes them seem stifled by the actual power rangers elements. The reverse is true of the actual show. They weren't great actors, but they excelled when it was Morphin time. We'll see how they strike a better balance in the sequel.

I've been around the block on this one. The first film is always a gamble. Do you make it silly and soul less and just a circus or do you infuse the film with emotion, heart, drama all that ish.

I have to say they went a little too damn far with the serious chronicle style shit. I just got to the point where I wanted mindless cotton candy from the original film. No bulk and Skull, not that I liked those characters but would have been hilarious if they showed up and did something. Hell, the black ranger might as well be bulk and skull fused together, he's the same shit.

Oh well, will be seeing it again, definitely take the kids, it's good shit.

Captain Planet, Voltron, thundercats, sailor moon, and we're good..