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Pennilenko
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Hahaha. You guys are nerd debating about power rangers. Just think about that for a second.
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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Sir T
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IT'S ALL WE HAVE!!!
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Hic sunt dracones.
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K9
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Am I going to be the only one to point out that was really crap?
Aside from nostalgia - and I don't have any great nostalgic feelings for Power Rangers - I couldn't find much in this film to like.
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Ironwood
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Starbuck was tied to a chair, being menaced by Dawson ; I'd pay full price just for that spread over 90 minutes.
Starbuck. Tied to a chair. Being menaced by Dawson Leery.
Bear in mind this is coming from a chap who loves Veronica Mars.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Merusk
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It was as long as it needed to be. I didn't enjoy it beyond, "Hah! Gritty Power Rangers, what a premise!" but wasn't going to ruin the nostalgia trip for those who did.
Hell, I still enjoy the fuck out of Robotech (no, not Macross, the 'butchered' US version; Robotech) and that's pretty much crap.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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HaemishM
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Am I going to be the only one to point out that was really crap?
You can be, but everyone knows you're a dire fucker so no one cares. It's about a billion times more interesting than Power Rangers ever was to me, had good effects and cinematography and the actors did well with it. It's not for you.
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schild
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Friday the 13th was a great movie.
The generation before me made 2 decades of appalling shit with exceptions to the rule much like every generation. They also had more notorious serial killers. The 70s were a grimdark version of the 90s.
Grimdark Scooby Doo would be fucking awesome.
You're all insane. Take some geritol and have a good poop. You'll feel better.
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Kail
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Hell, I still enjoy the fuck out of Robotech (no, not Macross, the 'butchered' US version; Robotech) and that's pretty much crap.
Weird, I went back and rewatched it a while back and was surprised at how well it stood up. Especially compared to the other shit I was watching at the time (He-Man and Transformers and stuff) which today looks... uh, slightly less well done. Voice acting is a bit awkward, but the writing and story was surprisingly solid I thought.
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HaemishM
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The 70s were a grimdark version of the 90s.
I have recently come to the conclusion that the 90's well and truly-sucked monkey ass in entertainment. Music, movies, TV... there was interesting stuff buried in a morass of utter, utter shit.
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Merusk
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Hell, I still enjoy the fuck out of Robotech (no, not Macross, the 'butchered' US version; Robotech) and that's pretty much crap.
Weird, I went back and rewatched it a while back and was surprised at how well it stood up. Especially compared to the other shit I was watching at the time (He-Man and Transformers and stuff) which today looks... uh, slightly less well done. Voice acting is a bit awkward, but the writing and story was surprisingly solid I thought. The arcs held up, sure. However, watching as an adult in my 30s who'd actually been through relationships, all of the Rick-Minmei-Lisa stuff was utter drek. Utter, utter, utter drek. It was believable to pre-teen me but adult me couldn't reconcile this guy in his 20s being so inept at relationships. Rick Hunter was 19 when the series started and he was as savvy as your typical 15 year old from the 'burbs, despite having lived circus life, a life pretty much centered around people and understanding them. Mark me, He-Man, TF, etc were craptacular in their own right. Robotech, however, was worth it only for the 'big story' not 90% of the relationship bits that made up the better part of the series.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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schild
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The 70s were a grimdark version of the 90s.
I have recently come to the conclusion that the 90's well and truly-sucked monkey ass in entertainment. Music, movies, TV... there was interesting stuff buried in a morass of utter, utter shit. You're wrong, but since you're doing the whole cyberpunk warren ellis agenda thing I'm just not gonna argue about it.
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lamaros
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Am I going to be the only one to point out that was really crap?
You can be, but everyone knows you're a dire fucker so no one cares. It's about a billion times more interesting than Power Rangers ever was to me, had good effects and cinematography and the actors did well with it. It's not for you. No I'm not. Also I'm far from alone on this one!
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HaemishM
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The 70s were a grimdark version of the 90s.
I have recently come to the conclusion that the 90's well and truly-sucked monkey ass in entertainment. Music, movies, TV... there was interesting stuff buried in a morass of utter, utter shit. You're wrong, but since you're doing the whole cyberpunk warren ellis agenda thing I'm just not gonna argue about it. I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. The arcs held up, sure. However, watching as an adult in my 30s who'd actually been through relationships, all of the Rick-Minmei-Lisa stuff was utter drek. Utter, utter, utter drek It was utter drek in the '80's when I saw it as a teenager. Anyone with half a brain could tell that Minmei was a fucking cocktease and a space cadet at that, while the actual space cadet was the one worth saluting. Love triangles like that are one of the things that really tweak my tits about anime.
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schild
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The 70s were a grimdark version of the 90s.
I have recently come to the conclusion that the 90's well and truly-sucked monkey ass in entertainment. Music, movies, TV... there was interesting stuff buried in a morass of utter, utter shit. You're wrong, but since you're doing the whole cyberpunk warren ellis agenda thing I'm just not gonna argue about it. I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. :headscratch
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HaemishM
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I had to Google image Ellis. I dig his writing, but I've never actually seen a picture of him. If anything, I was aiming more for this: And ended up with the Alan Moore instead.
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Teleku
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Just watched this and really enjoyed it. I only ever watched the first season of Power Rangers, which this is basically a targeted nostalgia trip for. Schild is right, you're all crazy. It was good fun for what it was. Making an entire movie out of it would probably end up being absolutely terrible, but the grimdark re-imagined short was great.
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Ingmar
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Grimdark reboots of goofy shit for kids are pretty much always stupid. By their very nature they strip out what made the property compelling to the people who found it compelling in the first place.
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MediumHigh
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Grim dark reboots from people who don't like the original source material generally fail. Grim dark reboots happen all the time in comics, the most successful example being Batman. The least successful being the entirety of the 90s dc/marvel era comics and the entirety of the"we hate superheroes/british new wave" inspired dredge that spewed forth in the 2010's and onward.
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K9
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Grimdark Sesame Street
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Johny Cee
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The 70s were a grimdark version of the 90s.
I have recently come to the conclusion that the 90's well and truly-sucked monkey ass in entertainment. Music, movies, TV... there was interesting stuff buried in a morass of utter, utter shit. What? The early '90s were amazing. Alternative, punk, metal, and rap/hip hop all pushed right into the mainstream. The whole Indie cinema movement hit the big time in the early 90s, really shaking up how movies get made while giving us directors and film-makers that are very relevant today. The '90s saw the growth of cable and birth of niche TV programming, and even the networks pushed boundaries with things like the Simpsons and NYPD Blue. HBO formulated the high quality strategy they are known for now, and other cable outlets have adopted. The late '90s did see a big retreat into manufactured mass-market crap, but holy shit did the beginning of the decade shake things up.
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Merusk
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Grimdark Sesame Street
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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schild
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That's just Boondark Sesame Street.
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Surlyboi
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I'm saying that what they did is the equivalent of making a grimdark version of Scooby Doo.
Scooby Cthulhu. I'm down. Also, this: http://youtu.be/2ePpagc6L1Q
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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Mithas
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HaemishM
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Damn, Daphne. Holy shit.
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Fordel
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Hell, I still enjoy the fuck out of Robotech (no, not Macross, the 'butchered' US version; Robotech) and that's pretty much crap.
Weird, I went back and rewatched it a while back and was surprised at how well it stood up. Especially compared to the other shit I was watching at the time (He-Man and Transformers and stuff) which today looks... uh, slightly less well done. Voice acting is a bit awkward, but the writing and story was surprisingly solid I thought. The arcs held up, sure. However, watching as an adult in my 30s who'd actually been through relationships, all of the Rick-Minmei-Lisa stuff was utter drek. Utter, utter, utter drek. It was believable to pre-teen me but adult me couldn't reconcile this guy in his 20s being so inept at relationships. Rick Hunter was 19 when the series started and he was as savvy as your typical 15 year old from the 'burbs, despite having lived circus life, a life pretty much centered around people and understanding them. Mark me, He-Man, TF, etc were craptacular in their own right. Robotech, however, was worth it only for the 'big story' not 90% of the relationship bits that made up the better part of the series. He's actually 16 in Macross and it was a flying circus/air show thing. He wasn't like a carny or anything, he understood how to fly planes pretty good, that's about it. The big thing about Robotech/Macross is it is so very very 80s, like neck deep 80s. The 80's through the lens of the Japanese. If you can get past that, it holds up very well otherwise.
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SurfD
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Is it just me, or does Fred the only guy who just completely screams: one of these things is not like the others. Everybody else looks a decent bit like their cartoon counterpart except fred, who looks more like Michael Cera then anything else.
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Ironwood
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Its like you all forgot the He-man movie.
A horrid kiddies grimdark fusion.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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schild
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Lantyssa
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Grimdark reboots of goofy shit for kids are pretty much always stupid. By their very nature they strip out what made the property compelling to the people who found it compelling in the first place.
That and two decades of aging, which strips out the 'compelling' bits pretty well, too.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Mac
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Its like you all forgot the He-man movie.
A horrid kiddies grimdark fusion.
Masters of the Universe. Warner Brothers is working on a reboot (lol) with the director of Kick-Ass 2 (sucked) and the guy who wrote the script of Lone Ranger (sucked). Seriously, who greenlights this shit?
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HaemishM
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I'm still not sure why anyone involved with the Long Ranger movie gets work again.
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Teleku
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Look for the NSFW version. It used to be up at Vimeo.
I finally tracked down a mirror of the NSFW version, in case anybody wants to see it. http://power-slash-rangers-nsfw.atxmirrors.info/I watched it, and as far as I can tell, the absolute only difference is that the two girls in Zachs bed (who are both porn stars incidentally) are topless instead of wearing bra's. Not that thats a bad thing, but if you were hoping for anything more than a couple seconds of titties, don't bother.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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Strazos
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Grimdark Sesame Street
How about Grimdark "Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird" - parts of it were already a little grim for a kid's movie.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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