[TokuChris]

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Originally Posted by Powerman293

Kickback, I love you and I love the show but at the beginning of the episode, I wanted to slap the shit out of you.

You guys were being such negative nellies about the Mighty Morphin' movie reboot. "Its either going to be super kiddy or grim dark." What? Just because Saban has SMF being super kiddy? Saban's involvement is going to be signing off papers for the project and nothing else. Lionsgate is going to do what the want, allowing for more of a free range.

I understand you guys have concerns for the movie, but you're just hating because Super Megaforce is bad.

Well, Super Megaforce is bad. Megaforce was bad. Super Samurai was bad. Samurai was really bad.

I didn't get a chance to talk about it during the podcast but one of the things that plagued the first Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie was the back and forth with the producers, directors, and Fox. The movie went WELL over budget because they kept changing things - first they were supposed to fight giant rants, they were going to have no visors (just helmets with their faces visible), and they ended up having to reshoot nearly most the movie towards the end of the production schedule.

That is what truly killed the first movie - horrible planning and production that caused it to go over-budget.

The second movie could never get anyone to truly sign off on it because of the failure of the first one.

While there is a ton of optimism surrounding the new movie and I personally am optimistic (I even say so in the podcast), as Jordan says you can't forget or forgive the failures of the past.

Comparing it to Transformers (because they are so similar it's scary) - the first movie (1986) was seen as a critical disaster and failure - but yet it is still a cult classic and cult favorite among all Transformers fans. If you're a fan of Transformers, you most likely LOVE the animated movie from 1986.

While I see Power Rangers fans who really do enjoy and like the original movie, I don't see it being as unifying as the same situation is/was with the animated Transformers movie. Because I thought the first Power Rangers movie was pretty bad to be honest...