Could the Power Rangers kick (blockbuster) ass?

[Mercen-X]

Herein is fanart of what a Power Ranger should look like after a battle.

The Red Ranger Never Looked So Badass! - News - GeekTyrant (http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/7/2/the-red-ranger-never-looked-so-badass.html)

The concept expresses an attitude never before seen in the American cheesefactory version of the all-time loved Japanese Super-Sentai series. Every Power Rangers series released in the U.S. has been aimed at 5-year-olds including the couple of films released which (I believed) tried to or wanted to push a little more edge on the audience in order to get more seats filled. Didn't work.

Imagine an American Team-of-Heroes series wherein the main characters didn't revert to teenaged goofballs, didn't make constant wisecracks and puns, didn't constantly talk during every fight scene, and didn't always walk away without a scratch at its conclusion. Imagine a Power Rangers movie where the Zords looked like Michael Bay's Transformers. Imagine that any monster sent to fight the rangers would not only become giants but change drastically like my personal favorite, Scorpina. Imagine a show in which everyone had to actually acknowledge the damage levied on a town by a fight between a giant robot (or two) and the giant monster(s).

If the Power Rangers series ever gets cancelled as a kids series and Michael Bay or his ilk ever get their hands on the rights, this may happen, and it may work. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

What are your thoughts?

[Goldenboko]

It'll probably happen in 20-50 years.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

It'll probably happen in 20-50 years.

I already have a seat in the movie theater reserved for this.

[Jiro]

I would love to see the Power Rangers franchise turned into something less corny. It's possible, but I don't know that there is enough of an actual demand. Would be cool though.

[Mercen-X]

There wasn't much demand for the other stuff they've remade and modernized either. Hollywood is in a raping mood. Why not try something that deserves it?

[Pike]

YES

yes I'm okay with this

Power Rangers is so great. Would love to see a reboot. I don't even care if it's way over the top like Transformers was. I DON'T EVEN CARE.

[Mercen-X]

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Fan-Cast and Some Ideas of Mine (http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fan_fic/news/?a=48950)

[TrollHunter]

Don't let Michael Bay near Power Rangers, he already sexually assaulted my childhood with his transformers movies.

But actually, this could be cool... if done right. It could just as likely be done terribly wrong though, and that's a concern.

[Raistlin]

I have the Power Rangers beeper sound as my text tone.

Also, why would you tease something that sounds interesting, and then mention Michael Bay? Hasn't he done enough damage for one lifetime? Do not let him do anything with Power Rangers... or any other franchise, for that matter.

[Mercen-X]

Don't unfairly diss MicBay. As far as I'm concerned, he only made a few fatal mistakes. Bumblebee "pissing" on the Sector 7 agents, Jazz dying, Mudflap and Skids, Devastator's nuts, Alice, Shockwave's weird giant worm-thing... that's an average of two mistakes per film.

[TrollHunter]

Uhm, even if we only focus on those mistakes, those are fairly unforgivable. Most of it was tasteless low-brow humor that ripped any dignity Transformers had left from it's cold dead hands.
What about the "protagonists" of the movies? How could anyone forget that?
Starring Shia Labeouf in a movie about giantass robots kicking the crap out of everything as a PROTAGONIST? HELL NO

The characters ranged from annoying to completely unlikable and I can't recall a single 3 dimensional character through any of the ones I saw. This wouldn't be an issue if the movies would STOP FOCUSING ON THEM SO MUCH. I swear, the movies focus more on the obnoxious crappy characters and their butt-clenching pop culture references and sex jokes than the GIANT FREAKING ROBOTS FROM SPACE. (I only saw 2 of the movies, I will probably never watch the 3rd)

Also, the action scenes were a complete clustersmurf, it was impossible to follow really any action scene due to it being basically an orgy of metal and explosions, which makes the pretty solid CG and sound effects impossible to appreciate. I liked the designs on a lot of the bots, but again, action starts and good luck appreciating any good design. god so much more I hate... I'm just going to leave this here.
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[Mercen-X]

I created a Transformers/X-Men mesh which stars original characters to become icons of their very own. I did it because I think the only way to balance the focus between the metal and the flesh is to have human beings that are exceptionally powerful. There was once a Transformers/G.I. Joe cross-over, but I didn't think that was good enough so that's when I started writing Metal Rave (title has changed often due to discovery that some of my titles have already been used for other well-known projects).