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I will probably buy this.

Because nostalgia.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Am I the only one who thinks they should give this franchise a "mature science-fiction treatment" ?

I know it's going to sound insane, but I don't find everything about the power rangers so outlandish that it can't be re-written for a more adult audience, with a creative writer that sees the potential for some good superhero action mixed with effective sci-fi.

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Actually, I've been advocating that for awhile. I think it would be great.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Power Rangers is terrible even for a kids show, there's no way to make it better as a "mature science fiction" movie.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

I don't see why not.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Because it's a campy show. In order to do some serious take on it, you would have to take away its campiness. Which would make it a whole different beast altogether.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

By "mature" do you mean like R rated, or do you mean like Transformers? Because I could see a Transformers style "hard" PG-13 reboot,

We'll see what Pacific Rim is like before we put any hope in mechs vs monsters as a mature sci fi genre

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

So?


I always thought adding deconstructive elements akin to Watchmen or Evangelion would be a good way to go.


...Evangelion.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

So, isn't its campiness part of its appeal?

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

For me, the action is its appeal.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

That is EXACTLY what I'm talking about

I don't think any kid likes the show because of it's campyness, that's something that we see as adults who are not regular viewers.

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Anime does not really translate to live action, see Dragonball evolution, or Casshern, which although a good movie does show that it'd hard to make what seems good in anime seems a bit silly in live action.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

I understand, but I'm just saying that Evangelion's already proven that mechs vs monsters as a mature sci-fi genre is more than possible.

Incidentally, one mature live-action show that's similar to this concept is Ultraman Nexus, although you have to substitute mechs for giant silver superhero, which is actually probably more silly in concept.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

I would tap this.

Give em suits like they had in Tron Legacy.
Lord Zedd just needs to ooze more blood and stuff. He was freaky as is.
Then make goldar a freaky ass werewolf in big battle armor.
Set it slightly in the future.
But a bleak desaturated future.

I had this concept that there was an interstellar war hundreds of years ago, and six of the genetically engineered super soldiers were carrying a dangerous war criminal (Lord Zedd) to his moon based prison (gives a shit about established canon? Reboot motherfuckers.) on the other side of the Galaxy (our moon of course)
and one of them was trapped behind with zedd on the moon as the others barely escaped in their ship.
Which crashed on earth. Lodged in an underground cavern somewhere in a california desert or SOMETHING idk.
Hadn't really thought that out. But, it'd end up being the command center.
And the soldiers who look human ala the kryptonians, would have simply blended into the local populace.
And if Lord Zedd ever escaped... their decendants would be ready to pick up their cause and stop him.
Only all the knowledge of this was completely forgetten by the time we get to modern day.
And their direct decendants who carry their super soldier gene are five teens from Angel Grove.
So when Lord Zedd breaks free after some moon probe interferes with the stasis chamber he sends Goldar to Earth to get something back from the command center. Idk piece of his armor, his heart? something that he cannot reach full power without.
The sixth soldier in his crashed ship on the moon, who's been in a stasis chamber himself is awakened when the alert trips on Zedd's chamber. He then remotely accesses the command center and starts it up. Being able to communicate with the onboard computer (Alpha 5) via holographic projection (see where I'm going with this?)
Then, they activate the dormant gene in the teens, drawing them to the command center, and they end up fending off Goldar's attack.
The rest would play out pretty similar to Day of the Dumpster.
Idk. It'd be darker in tone, a solid PG-13. No kinds of slapstick humor. Bulk and Skull would be an afterthought.
I'd completely skip over Rita Repulsa. (After credit's teaser?)
Get some decent fight coreographer to amp up the fight scenes etc etc.
(Cyril Rafelli?)
Thats how I would do it.

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I'll be right back. I gotta go see a man about a mule.

See, I think you're making it more complicated than it needs to be. I think the costumes and the plot could be essentially the same, but just have the characters deal with things realistically rather than act like children's cartoon characters. It could be a deconstruction of the original series as well in that it could examine the psychological damage having to save the world and murder monsters on a daily basis would cause, especially on a young person.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Or... that. That would work too.
I'd pay to see it. =P

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I'll be right back. I gotta go see a man about a mule.

Yup, pretty much.

The only part that is flimsy about "staying true" to the original story is the premise itself.

Why the hell would an ageless artificial intelligence (Zord) choose five kids from a California High School to battle extraterrestrial-magical-fucked up threats ?

My contribution ?

Make the Power Rangers part of a digital selection program called "Zord", which is maintained by Alpha, "Zord" chooses five candidates to become the Power Rangers from every civilization that is about to be threatened by Rita Repulsa's mad campaign to destroy all sentient life.

What is the criteria ? Completely unknown, even Alpha has no idea what it is, but it's irrelevant, Alpha's duty, what it was programmed for, was to maintain the hardware and software that allows the "Zord" to operate effectively, if "Zord" works, then perhaps Rita Repulsa can be stopped.

Also, Rita Repulsa would be sort of a conqueror, traveling cluster by cluster, system by system, planet by planet, killing all life.

Therefore, the assumption that there have been countless teams of Power Rangers, all major failures, would be ever-present in the minds of the current Power Rangers.

And what a better way to create teenage drama than by putting the characters through impossible amounts of pressure ?

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Not to undercut your idea or anything, it's pretty creative and cool. I just think less could be more in this case and more similarities to the original show would put the differences in sharper contrast, if that makes sense.


Sounds like a good idea.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

I edited my post.........READ MOAR !

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Yeah, the rest of that sounds really great as well.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."