If Power Rangers gets a new feature movie...

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Well my issue with CGI is that fights end up looking off to me. No matter what being able replicate the varied and complex movements of two or more bodies engaged in close combat will be difficult. Plus most CGI still looks like CGI, which really stands out in live action.

Recent CG looks great evenf ights are able to be replicated and done great. Yeah even the most realistic CG looks like CG though it keeps getting better (look at Avatar). However guys in suits keep looking like guys in suits, no matter how good a Megazord would not work with a guy in a suit it'd be way too silly, we as fans can use suspension of disbelief when watching the show but it wouldn't work on a big budget movie.

 

[Kivat]

Just think of how cool the suits could look if they had the "big budget" effects of like Iron Man or Batman. Hell imagine what someone like Goldar could look like if they actually tried and put money toward it.

Yea man, that would definitely be amazing. And Goldar would look incredibly scarier then before.

 

[SamuraiEchidna]

Have you seen PR and hate it, or do you just hate it because it is an adaption?

I hate it because it is an adaption. I want the uncut source material.

But yes, I have seen Power Rangers. I watched it as a kid from original MMPR all the way to the end of In Space. And I have given a lot of other more recent Power Rangers a chance, but only the point where I get a feel how different it's going to be.

I liked them too.
Thats what the "Metallic" Armor should have been....

Maybe I am getting my Power Rangers history wrong, so correct me if I am, however...

I think everyone noticed that the toys for the first Power Rangers movie were just reissues of previous figures only reflective and metallic looking instead of matching the suits in the movie. So later, after the movie, they introduced the armor upgrade in the TV show in an attempt to make the costumes match the figures. A very poor attempt, but an attempt none the less.

Also, I think McDonalds use to sell some MMPR The Movie toys. Those figures were movie-accurate.

Can't say I liked their Ninja Megazord though, damn that thing was FUGlY! If their goal was to make it look more realisic, they REALLY missed the mark.

Actually, I kind of thought that was the point. I thought Power Rangers was suppose to be different from, though based off of, it's Sentai counterparts. So anything they can do to make things unique and their own thing, as in changing the look of the Megazord, then they would want to do it.



Lastly, when it comes to the argument about CGI, I will say that CGI has been getting better and better. And it seems to blend in better when you are watching the movie in theaters. I saw a movie that was probably very heavy CGI once, but because it was an old school drive-in theater, I honestly hard the hardest time telling what was real and what was CGI. Personally, I think it's all about the balance. Once we can use giant model, suit actors, shooting on location, and top of the line CGI where necessary, we'll be on our way to making a movie with THE greatest effects ever.

 

[KingRanger]

I hate it because it is an adaption. I want the uncut source material.

And there are lots of ways to get it.

 

[SamuraiEchidna]

And there are lots of ways to get it.

Yes, but I want an official release in the states. I prefer to avoid fansubs whenever I can.

 

[KingRanger]

Yes, but I want an official release in the states. I prefer to avoid fansubs whenever I can.

Why avoid fansubs? And are you limiting yourself to only shows that are subbed?

 

[MetalSymphony]

Yes, but I want an official release in the states. I prefer to avoid fansubs whenever I can.

So, you want Sentai to be Dubbed?

 

[kibapower]

Yes, but I want an official release in the states. I prefer to avoid fansubs whenever I can.

Good luck with that, with such high demand for Super Sentai in the States. There's been raws of the majority of SS already available.

That and that's an skewed assumption, probably being that the adaptation is not treated as an separate entity, rather as a cancer connected to the supposedly better uncut material which can vary from show to show. Guess that's preference for you.

 

[SamuraiEchidna]

Why avoid fansubs? And are you limiting yourself to only shows that are subbed?

So, you want Sentai to be Dubbed?

Any GOOD fansubbing team will always urge the fans to support the official release. I only watch fansubs of my favorite tokusatsu because they are not available in an uncut format in the US. I watch fansubs of the Sonic X anime because there is no uncut release in US, just the 4Kids version, but Sonic X is the only anime exception I've ever made and hopefully will ever make. Most honest fansubbers will take down their work and make it unavailable if it gets an uncut, official release, just like I have seen TV-Nihon do. I would never carry around their fansubbed version of Kamen Rider THE FIRST when I can buy the MediaBlasters release, which I have done.

And yes, I would like it if Sentai was dubbed, but that would be more of a bonus for me. Not everything from Japan that was released in the US uncut is dubbed. Some things are subtitled only, and I'm willing to accept that.

Good luck with that, with such high demand for Super Sentai in the States. There's been raws of the majority of SS already available.

That and that's an skewed assumption, probably being that the adaptation is not treated as an separate entity, rather as a cancer connected to the supposedly better uncut material which can vary from show to show. Guess that's preference for you.

That's kind of taking it a little far, don't you think? I don't mind adaptions, as long we get the luxury of an official release of both versions. In Japan, they have Super Sentai and a Japanese dub of Power Rangers. I might learn to like Power Rangers too if we could get an uncut, official Super Sentai release in the states.

 

[kibapower]

That's kind of taking it a little far, don't you think? I don't mind adaptions, as long we get the luxury of an official release of both versions. In Japan, they have Super Sentai and a Japanese dub of Power Rangers. I might learn to like Power Rangers too if we could get an uncut, official Super Sentai release in the states.

It's also slightly far to have both of them to enjoy either one. That works better if wanting to understand both but it's possible to enjoy one show without seeing the other. How you're going to like PR more if seeing Super Sentai? Don't need Megaranger to enjoy Space.

I do sort of get what you mean but the U.S is not Japan, we barely have legit PR DVD releases available so that dream isn't happening anytime soon, even with Saban back.