Well, they certainly communicated everything I need to know about that movie. The designs, the lighting... Especially the lighting. They're okay at best, but... yeah, no, I can't dig it. Maybe they'll look better in motion and proper, you know, daylight, but right now I think this sums up everything we've seen so far fairly adequately:

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/...20160416215447

ALSO -- looks like there won't be any cool martial arts action in this movie because there's no way an actor can move gracefully in those suits.

You're implying any of the stunts will be done in physical suits. This picture is all CG from the looks of it, so I wouldn't doubt that physical suits might not even exist if they couldn't even get some for the promotional money shot.

Not too surprising.
I just went they went with a suit closer to, say, Ant-Man, which allowed for a lot of fast and flowing movements.

I was behind Rita's new look, but this just makes them all too similar (I don't give a crap if their suits may come from the same alien compound or what have you, I still think they're ill fitting). What I think works aesthetically in Super Sentai, as well as Kamen Rider, Ultraman, and other tokusatsu series which are the real inspiration behind all of this, is the contrast of designs between heroes and villains. The suits of heroes are typically more refined, easier on the eyes. The villains (kaijin) by contrast are akin to traditional kaiju–rugged, cornucopias of texture. If they want to create tokusatsu for a more mature audience, something Americans can appreciate, why not revisit a tokustatsu that was made for a more mature audience to begin with? These Power Rangers sport "an alien costume that grows on them, that’s not man-made." That sounds awfully familiar...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ver_poster.jpg

Why did they CGI them onto shitty wooden apple boxes covered in reflective tape, then?

Someone watched too much Guyver.

When will anyone in Hollyweird learn that when you make superheroes, less is more?

They could have easily gone with a mesh or carbon styled suit without the Green Lantern, Iron Man, CGIed vibe these are going with. I just don't like them. Becky G you had one job. These just look like Project Runway Superhero rejects. It doesn't matter if the belt is spraying itself all over them (which sounds as bad as I just typed), it still means the only thing they homaged was the helmets. Everything else about the suits is not.

Whatever. As long as the actors can act, EB doesnt act like Effie Trinket, and the script doesn't completely blow, I can put up with Trons Kids.

Yep, that's just what I was thinking as well, beat me to it.

Y'know what? I didn't even notice those. Seeing them standing on actual objects is helping take away from the CGI look I was talking about, but they still look so fake. It's jarring. I still doubt any action is going to be done in suit.

There's no doubt the images are CG-assisted, but those are real-ass suits.

But the larger question is: why would they design suits in which martial arts are impossible to perform when martial arts is a fundamental part of Power Rangers' identity?

There is literally zero joy in watching CGI figures use martial arts. The whole beauty of martial arts is that real people are performing seemingly impossible physical movements. That is all stripped away when the figures are made out of liquid pixels.

I was really hoping this movie would make me like Power Rangers for the first time since I was in elementary school, but it's looking increasingly like that won't happen.