[Video]: Power Rangers Get a Mighty Gritty Reboot


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This isn't official, it's just fan-made.

 

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Massive intergalactic warfare. Tons of cussin'. Lethal force up the wazoo. Threesomes. Yup, you've probably never seen Power Rangers look like this.

 

<snip> Video removed - No swearing allowed <snip>

 

This short film directed by Joseph Kahn and produced by Adi Shankar (Dredd) re-imagines the Saturday-morning staple as something a lot closer to Mortal Kombat. Casting James Van Der Beek as a traitorous former comrade and Katie Sackhoff as a grown-up version of the Pink Ranger is a nice bit of fan casting, too.

 

This might feel like sacrilege but it turns out that hearing a musical callback to the classic Power Rangers theme music while a guy bleeds out after being stabbed by one of the sentai-derived superheroes is... kinda awesome?

 

 

http://kotaku.com/power-rangers-get-a-mighty-gritty-reboot-1687684752

Hate it. :no: Terrible plot, terrible music, terrible make-up, terrible CGI, etc. It doesn't surprise me to see it was produced by the guy responsible for Dredd, as I hated that film.

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this is awesome. 

 

 

 

and dredd was awesome too.   

proof that the movie can be good without a high list celebrity like stallone

 

(total recall remake was shite without arnold)

Hate it. :no: Terrible plot, terrible music, terrible make-up, terrible CGI, etc. It doesn't surprise me to see it was produced by the guy responsible for Dredd, as I hated that film.

 

Me too, i don't like it at all, it looks quite generic!

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Me too, i don't like it at all, it looks quite generic!

Exactly. Making every dark and gritty and adding a few swear words doesn't make it compelling. I mean, even the suits are terrible - the padding was so distracting. The director should go back to making music videos, as he clearly doesn't have what it takes for action movies.

 

(total recall remake was shite without arnold)

I disagree. While it wasn't an excellent film it was enjoyable and decent in its own right.

I disagree. While it wasn't an excellent film it was enjoyable and decent in its own right.

 

 

it is pretty clear that we have very different tastes and opinions :)  

 

 

total recall was a terrible bore, that was totally not worth a reboot,

while dredd managed perfectly on its own right. better then original movie.

 

 

but, again, it is my opinion,

 

though total recall 30% and dredd 78%  at rotten tomatoes....  

(47% vs 72% public approval)

so my opinion seem to be closer to overall film reception by the critics AND the crowds alike.

but i understand that popular opinion it not "correct" one...

it is pretty clear that we have very different tastes and opinions :)

Yeah, and I appreciate that taste is entirely subjective. I don't take any of this personally and hope you don't either.

 

total recall was a terrible bore, that was totally not worth a reboot

I thought Bryan Cranston was a great villain and it did enough to distinguish itself from the original. The biggest criticism is that it was an unnecessary reboot.

 

while dredd managed perfectly on its own right. maybe better then original movie.

The original was so bad it was good. The recent version was just bad. By the end I was actually laughing out loud at how bad it was, I just couldn't take it seriously. I know it was a low budget film but just look at what Joss Whedon managed with Serenity on a smaller budget.

 

To me there wasn't any redeeming qualities to this take on Power Rangers. Just out of interest, what is it that you think made it compelling? I'm asking that sincerely, not in a condescending way.

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To me there wasn't any redeeming qualities to this take on Power Rangers. Just out of interest, what is it that you think made it compelling? I'm asking that sincerely, not in a condescending way.

 

to be honest, it was just more dramatic and exciting in a way.    something like the cheesy power rangers, suddenly made kinda brutal...  i don't know, it worked for me.   

i guess the same way that the dark knight movie worked better then batmans before that.

 

Yeah, and I appreciate that taste is entirely subjective. I don't take any of this personally and hope you don't either.

 

 

of course not, this is the internet, after all.

to be honest, it was just more dramatic and exciting in a way.    something like the cheesy power rangers, suddenly made kinda brutal...  i don't know, it worked for me.   

i guess the same way that the dark knight movie worked better then batmans before that.

I love the Dark Knight trilogy because they were compelling films - there was tension, there was superb acting, there was great visual effects, there was great cinematography. They created a compelling universe. To me this takes away everything that made the Power Rangers what it was and substitutes it for an utterly generic action flick. Even Katee Sackhoff

One thing already makes this 100000% better than most other mainstream action films out there now, and that's the distinct lack of shakey cam in the fights.

 

It's like a miracle, and I can actually see what the hell is going on.

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