Yes, but with the rubber suits and the monsters fighting over large city sets, it didn't look like they were just tacked on. They looked like they actually tried. Which is the big difference with the Zords in this film. It was mostly just like they said "Iron-Man meets the Transformers movies" and called it a day. Sure, it was all done with stock footage taken from a different show, but at least those people tried to make it look good.

Can the same be said for this movie?

 

Nah, I know what you're saying. Just that from a storyline standpoint, they're pretty equally frivolous. But yeah, with as much work that went into building up the Rangers' relationships, and having their big Morph moment be meaningful, the fact that the Zords weren't given similar treatment is pretty jarring.

 

Yea, and with the original, there wasn't a whole lot of time devoted to building up the rangers either. So, it was fairly even. In this, yea, it was like they just didn't care. So, like you said, it's very jarring in this film. The original was entertaining, but not very well written. This movie, was fairly well written, (at least from the standpoint of the rangers themselves.) But, no thought was given towards the Zords. Had the original been that way, sure. But, this is a fairly well written story... until the Zords happen. Almost as if they ran out of screen time.

 

I was rewatching a few old series episodes for the monsters (from various series) and I remembered why I stopped watching the show early on as a kid - it is so annoyingly formulaic and dumb how monster shows up, they fight putties for a bit, then the monster, then they remember they have some mega combined power up attack, then the monster grows big, then they summon the zords, then they remember the zord has a sword/upgrade and win. Every Damn Time. Including the monster falling over (clearly an empty suit now) in a bad model city and exploding into fireworks.
And this show was on the same era when Gargoyles, Batman TAS, Parker Lewis was. Hell Knight Rider had more varied plots than this show. To this day, I always wonder why Linkara and others are such huge fans of Power Rangers.

 

I think the difference is that the Power Rangers creators were literally filming gap filler for something that already existed whereas Gargoyles, BTAS and whatever the fuck Parker Lewis is were built from the ground up wth I presume very clear story and character goals.

And for what its worth, I remember more kids on my playgrounds playing as Power Rangers than anything else. Maybe its because the martial arts were easily (if poorly) copied for play where its harder to do the same with Batman or Goliath.

 

Power Rangers was also real people (in costumes) fighting, rather than cartoons. To us, that was fucking cool to see on TV.

 

I still find it dumb, weird, regarding the movie toyline, was that they made movie morphers as part of the 2017 Power Rangers movie toyline, but yet they didn't use the morphers at all during the movie.

I read this quote, statement from someone discussing it, and this is probably why: "Because Lionsgate didn't really give 2 shits that this was also a toy making venture. And Saban surely wasn't going to around demanding shit to the company who paid for all of it. And Bandai literally just bought into be the Toy Licensee so they probably weren't actually consulted and just made due."

 

This is a Transformers forum, so Zords matter more than normal.

But that said, the Zords should have been better in design and execution. Maybe do something with a totem animal for each Ranger.

 

That's the risk with movie tie-in merchandise in general. Production lead-time necessitates that the toy manufacturers work from whatever material they have to work with, up to a year in advance. Meanwhile, the special effects are updated and movie is edited right up until the release date.

 

I had some things that I liked about the movie and that I disliked.

On two occasions, I was nodding off sleep.
Rita trying a Krispy Kreme donut.
The joke where the rangers were in a pool of water and all had a glowing aura and Zack said "I'm Black!" With Billy responding "No, you're not."
Only hearing a short part of the Power Rangers theme (1995 movie version)
Goldar being a monster made out of gold thus named Goldar.
The design of the Megazord was lame. Looked like something I drew in high school.
Rita being defeated by being b!tch slapped into space by the Megazord.
Ranger suits were passable.

 

Yes, and so were the monsters and robots in rubber costumes. Most of that is what kept me watching for the first few seasons. Kind of dropped out of Power Rangers after they went into space. But, yea, it was totally the rubber costumes, and real people fighting that kept me watching. Which is something this movie is lacking.

Really though, all one has to do is see the differences between the entrances of the movie Zords, and the pilot episode of the series. And, that tells you all you need to know about the differences between the two. One, in my opinion, is just a lot more epic than the other. The Zords in the original enter with explosions out of volcanoes and stuff. You see them come out one at a time.

While this movie they just all come out at the same time, and are seen all running (with one going backwards because comedies.) so they can stop gigantic made made out of gold from trashing Krispy Kreams. It's just not nearly as epic. Especially without the over dramatic moves and lines. Power Rangers embraced it's cheese, and rolled with it. While the 2017 movie, tired to make us ignore it. This is why the original is more fun. Because it's just all out fun, to be fun.

Plus, the Zords actually look cool. Combine into something cool. And then they produced toys that actually looked like they do in the show. Which you then see them beating up a rubber costume monster. That alone, made Power Rangers cool.

Transformers forum, or not, I would still like the original few series of Power Rangers, regardless. Because of the Zords and action scenes with the Rangers.

 

That's not the inherent problem, and in fact made perfect sense within the context of the movie. Rita's specialty was to create golem-like entities. Her Putty foot-soldiers were made of rock and clay, and her elite "general" was a being composed of gold.

The problem was that Goldar was just another mindless thrashing monster, and his design utterly lacked charisma.

 

Yea, as seen in the clip I linked above, Goldar is just a man covered in CG gold, with wings. Nothing really inspiring there. Not exactly wanting to go out to buy that toy. Which, is the point of Power Rangers. To inspire people to buy the toys. It's an ad for the toys.

Goldar in the series though, especially the pilot, was quite awesome. Now, that made one want to buy the toy.

 

Goldar deserved to be a character, definitely.

I hope Lord Zedd appears in the planned reboot, and gets a great portrayal.

 

Well, at very least, he deserved to be used better than that.

 

the Rangers using their Morphers was not even part of the deleted scenes in the first place.

 

Not sure why you quoted that particular post, since it has nothing to do with the Morphers.

The Morphers were probably something designed at the concept art/planning stage, but just never got filmed. Alternately, they were filmed, but with no notable scenes worth putting on the deleted scenes reel.

 

ya, overall, that was a major flaw, along with the design of Goldar, that they made movie morpher toys but didn't use the morphers at all during the movie, that was a major flaw, complaint from the PR fandom.

 

He could be a Thanos-like villain.

 

Trying to make Power Rangers like *insert popular thing* is what Power Rangers 2017 is the result of. While the Rangers themselves are still great, the Zords and Goldar are not.

Let's not have a Thanos-like villain here, please. Pass on that idea. Just make Power Rangers like Power Rangers, done.