30 DoM: Day 16
Dec. 16th, 2010 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenswept16. A movie that you used to love but now hate
Because I used to be a really big fan, Power Rangers: The Movie grinds my gears a bit nowadays.
Back when PR was at full force, somebody in Hollywood said, "Okay they've reached critical mass, time to go for the wallets". I was a huge fan of the series, loved the action, loved the monsters, and in the early years liked the story. Not all of it, there's a lot of "messages" and themes tacked on, but for every episode about the big bad space enemy wreaking your flower float model, there was "Green with Evil" which gave us the most awesome and well remembered character in the show's entire history. And it's been going on for some 17 seasons. The Green Ranger came out in it's first.
When the movie came out, I loved it, as any fan should have. It was the original team (sans three of the original cast who left prior to movie contracts), it gave us new Zords (which would later tie in (sorta) to the tv series), and there was plenty of martial art action, which is what kept my attention in the first place.
Now, though, I just see it as a kick in the balls to the show (and later in the movie, literally illustrates the point). Here's a chance to do something big with this well loved show, and the best you can do is a new season tie in? You have a big budget, one that surpasses the tv series' by a far margin, do something with it. Beside go sky diving (I don't know, I couldn't explain that part to you). The fact that they watered down the villains doesn't help either. Or that effects that might've been at least been cheesy on the show, now just looked cheap. And cheap is never good.
Because I used to be a really big fan, Power Rangers: The Movie grinds my gears a bit nowadays.
Back when PR was at full force, somebody in Hollywood said, "Okay they've reached critical mass, time to go for the wallets". I was a huge fan of the series, loved the action, loved the monsters, and in the early years liked the story. Not all of it, there's a lot of "messages" and themes tacked on, but for every episode about the big bad space enemy wreaking your flower float model, there was "Green with Evil" which gave us the most awesome and well remembered character in the show's entire history. And it's been going on for some 17 seasons. The Green Ranger came out in it's first.
When the movie came out, I loved it, as any fan should have. It was the original team (sans three of the original cast who left prior to movie contracts), it gave us new Zords (which would later tie in (sorta) to the tv series), and there was plenty of martial art action, which is what kept my attention in the first place.
Now, though, I just see it as a kick in the balls to the show (and later in the movie, literally illustrates the point). Here's a chance to do something big with this well loved show, and the best you can do is a new season tie in? You have a big budget, one that surpasses the tv series' by a far margin, do something with it. Beside go sky diving (I don't know, I couldn't explain that part to you). The fact that they watered down the villains doesn't help either. Or that effects that might've been at least been cheesy on the show, now just looked cheap. And cheap is never good.