Forgive me for saying it, but... tl;dr, man. That is one monster of a post, and even though I didn't read the whole thing, I can't imagine the entire rant was necessary.

You clearly didn't read the post, then. It wasn't a rant at all.

Thanks for adding so much to the discussion. *claps*

All the skepticism aside, the movie did renew my interest a bit. In the end, I just hope the movie will do good and made people appreciate Power Rangers more instead of viewing it like a joke.

Fingers crossed though.

I haven't seen any absolute crazy hate. Absolute crazy hate would be making creepy rage meltdown vlogs or sending angry threats to Saban, not just... leaving comments of dislike with varying levels of analysis, interpreted with varying levels of anger by the reader. The most nasty and rude comments here are people telling "haters" to shut up, not people shitting on the movie. Most of the "negative" comments, on this board at least, are just criticism. This board aside, there's always going to be stupid haters as well as stupid fanatics, there's no point in trying to change that.

Maybe because more people see more about it to dislike than like.

Of course you understand that people have the right to criticize it, don't you? Your whole argument seems to be built on the impression that this thread is seething with hatred and calls for the heads of the filmmakers on spikes, but it's not. It's just criticism, and then people getting extremely snarky at "haters" for criticizing it. There was no drama in this thread until somebody decided to get overly offended at an "overly negative" comment.

Well, obviously. But you and a few others are the ones interpreting it as excessive.

A formulaic plot is fine. Formulaic comedy, acting, and designs are not, and when those are formulaic, it comes a cross as a lack of motivation to make a good movie instead of a cash cow. Formulaic means originality, work, and creativity was not put into it.

Then how come you're pushing constant positivity? Yes, that's putting words in your mouth - but you're telling people just posting their opinions normally to shut up because they're "negative".

But the point of a trailer is to give you a taste of the movie so it looks good and convince you to watch it. Just because what we've seen of the movie could misrepresent it doesn't mean we shouldn't criticize what's being presented as what the movie is.

Well, obviously. You can also say Hitler's mustache was cool, but there's not really a point to finding something positive to say about Hitler, is there? Yeah, yeah, Hitler analogy, eyeroll, eyeroll. Point being that negativity doesn't inherently need to be tempered, especially when it's not really "negativity" and it's just criticizing a dumb movie.

I mean, you can just ask people why they don't like it. I'm sure 99% of people would be happy to explain why they don't like it, just like people are happy to explain why they do. If you want me to elaborate, here;

So far, it looks like a cast of Sam Witwickys, Mikaela Baneses, and those frat boys from Transformers 2. And in my opinion, those are not likable characters in the least. The comedy matches this - it reminds me very much of the Transformers films.
"Pee in that cup!" Ha ha ha, it's funny because it's awkward I guess.
"I'm black!" Ha ha ha, it's funny because black is a race, so it's awkward for the black guy.
As a side note, I find awkwardness/humiliation to be the most grating possible form of comedy - although that doesn't really apply to these jokes since they're kind of just nothing. More like, not funny at all, but people laugh because of the comedic timing. That's just me, though.

That's the main thing that bugs me, really. The screenwriting is indicating that it will be flat, boring, obnoxious, and cliche in the exact same way as Transformers or miscellaneous other sci-fi films. I could comment on designs or whatever but I don't really care about those, even if I may dislike some part of them.

Trailer looks good. Kudos for having them show more action than the first, which builds up my hopes. Will probably go see it, will gauge opinion then, because trailers (especially recent ones) have been, in hindsight, often terrible.

I said drop it already. Kindly listen.

People are perfectly entitled to be as positive or negative as they choose to be as long as they aren't attacking people for thinking differently. Which actually wasn't going on in this thread until the people who didn't like the trailer started getting called out. So yeah, I think I'm pretty right in my assessment that BOTH camps are equally ridiculous.

If you don't like someone's opinion, you have the ability to discuss it rationally without telling people you don't want to "be told about it". If it's that much of a problem for you you have a perfectly good ignore function at your disposal.

Now all of you. This line of discussion ends here. Start getting along and having rational discussions or infractions are going to start being handed out.

Would it help if I listed my positives?

-I liked that Jason said "It's Morphin' time" in a non-cheesy way, and not just because reference. It actually felt lke a semi-natural line and with his other brief shots in the trailer he doesn't seem to be as totally stone-faced depressed like I thought he was going to be. Jason was always my favourite so while I doubt he'll be much like the MMPR character, at least he's not what I was afraid he'd be.

-I liked that the Rangers fought in broad daylight without desaturated colours. The suits aren't my thing but at least everyone's colour is vivid. They didn't Zack Snyder it.

-I liked that we see Jason's suit all filthy as he crawls through the mud. I feel like super hero movies don't like to get the costumes messy, whether they're real or not.

-I liked how one of the money shots and big crescendo of the trailer is Jason saving a person. The Rangers are heroes, after all, and I hope they become publically acknowledged as such. The Rangers never worked as Spider-man-style social outcasts. Plus it hopefully means the final battle won't be just fighting and mindless destruction.

-I like how the Zords seemingly fight whilst combining, as you see the Pteradactyl on the T Rex's back while it's shooting.

-I think I like that you see their faces in the helmets. Granted it's odd and kinda stupid to do that in the Zord cockpits during battle, but I always like when we see the actual actors in the suits.

-I like the Command Center. It looks like a command center of some kind, and I like how the Rangers seemignly go on a little journey to find it. Though I guess the rocky part is, like, outside? Weird that the VR game thing used that as a setting.

-Ummm... I like the song they used. Just because I liked Saints Row The Third, not really because it fits the tone at all. In fact, it doesn't, but anything that reminds me of The Third is good.

-I like that they're fighting in a small town without many huge buildings. Feels a bit different than the typical Hollywood battle in a big grey American city with buildings crashing and falling and whatnot.

-Uh... hmmm. I like that... huh. Mmmm. What else? I like that the Zords get to fight before combining, though that is kinda typical of PR to do that at least once.

Now some uber quick, non-dwelling bullet points of what I don't like just in the interest of fairness:

-I don't like the actors playing the Rangers that much.
-I don't like how small the Zords are. They feel a lot like Transformers now.
-I don't like that Bryan Cranston is pretending he's not an actor.
-I don't like Goldar. I think it looks actually worse than what the toy alluded to.
-I don't like the jokes and self-references. This feels like a very altered perception of PR from a fan/Saban's point of view. Power Rangers was never all that quipy and self-referencial. It's camp and cheese came from the senarios being taken seriously, this feels disingenuous.
-I don't like Rita. Should've just been a new character or an underling of Rita.
-The Megazord looks even worse in motion. Despite simplifying itself to a "bodysuit" design, it still looks messy and overdetailed.
-The tone being so different from the last trailer makes me feel like this movie's going to be edging on bipolar.
-How do you glow black?

There, see? Written like that it seems much more even-Stevens, yes?

There a reason you cut off the rest of my post where I give the reason behind my statement, you know, the part that shows that I wasn't making that argument like, at all?

Because it wasn't relevant?

You said it wasn't a negative, but that doesn't change the fact that you still randomly compared this movie to Star Wars in an attempt at deflecting criticism from this movie. And my comment had nothing to do with whether it was formulaic at all, because I don't care, but the simple fact that you used a tired excuse in the first place.

Hey now, everyone.

It's movie adaptation of a series where dudes and ladies wear brightly colored spandex based off of prehistoric dinosaurs under the guidance of a floating head in a tube and his quirky robot companion.


Let's not take this discussion too seriously ;)