I know, my point was that both it and the Marvel movie it was clearly trying to model itself after were unknowns and at least one of them succeeded even if most people didn't know who the fuck the raccoon and tree guy were before.

Oooooh. My bad, though everyone knows Harley, so the example still kinda fails a bit

From what I saw, they know Of Harley, though the whole 'being infatuated with Joker' bit seems to be lost on a lot of her current fans. Guess they only read the recent parts, and even those show her getting over him. How much public fans know gets weird when you read their responses.

Well that's because Marvel has built itself up as a brand with all of these characters. It doesn't matter as long as it's a Marvel movie, it'll be good. The Marvel branding has gotten so prominent that non Marvel studios movies that have marvel characters (IE X-men and Deadpool) are now being labeled as such by the mainstream media despite being made by FOX.

We all know that Power Rangers is just a branding for different groups of heroes that conforms to specific tropes, but the general audience doesn't know that. Power Rangers ended after season 1 or possibly up to Zeo for most people. And besides, I don't think mainstream audiences could take PR seriously enough in order for that slow growth of mindshare to happen given what from they remember of MMPR.

Dude, people's minds can be changed. No one outside of fans like me cared about Captain America at first, then along came Winter Soldier and everybody's a Cap fan. Most people I've talked to or read the reviews they posted weren't that into "The First Avenger", but they changed their minds when the second movie came out.

Sure, they went to go see the 1st movie because they all like Iron man, but the way most people will tell you, the only movies of Phase 1 non-fans seem to like are Iron man, Thor if you really like Loki, and Avengers. That's 3 out of 6, only half of Marvel's initial shared universe movies were liked universally. Like you said, Marvel built itself up, but that means they didn't start with everyone trusting them, same as anything else.

Let's not forget the fact that originally Marvel films, before the studio was made, were seen as inferior by a lot of people to DC's, besides Spider-man and X-men (though that mostly because all DC had were the Reeve's Superman, old Batman films and were in the middle of the Nolan series). Daredevil, the Fantastic Four movies, Elektra, no one talks fondly of those movies today (or feels okay doing so in public). If people's attitude towards Marvel can shift from :( to :) , then something as old as Power Rangers can do just fine, especially since people have been bitching for ages that they should do their own thing unrestricted from the Sentai footage (like it's only the Sentai's fault for some of the shows goofier moments).

Has anybody else noticed the big metal thing in the cave with all the green energy around it? Are we looking at a possible Dragon Zord (since we've already seen Rita with the green power coin), or is this her prison she was trapped in?

Too early to tell. Maybe the dumpster-equivalent?

The power coins reminds me the infinity gems.

I had a thought that the movie is basically the Power Rangers version of Kamen Rider Amazons, (obviously less violent though) and.....I'm okay with that

Then again I guess you could also consider it the PR version of the First and the Next which is uh....

I would say this movie could be the Power Rangers version of Kamen Rider: The First too. Both are a more darker and serious re-telling of the original TV series. Hopefully this movie will have way better action scenes than The First and The Next.