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Will PR ever be a phenomon again ?
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10-24-2012, 04:23 AM
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wrestlemaniac
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Thanks for the input everyone, great reads and diffrent takes on things, that's exactly what we're here for
The sole fact that PR is going on 20 years is definatly a statement in itself, that it IS still a phenomenon, because indeed, you don't "just" last 20 years.
But i'm also still of the opninion it's nowhere near MM levels,even when i take off my rose tinted nostalgia glasses. But i'm really excited that samurai is doing well and the upcoming megaforce has a lot of promise it seems, i already really dig the costumes and i have watched the epic sentai battle recently so even i am anxious to see how that will be done for american audiences. i'm not really into sentai but i had read so much raving about that special/movie i had to look it up. I don't dislike sentai and i regularly try watching it but i will never be really into it, i'll always be a PR guy i guess, i grew up being a Power ranger fan not a sentai fan,it's hard to shake that out of my mind when watching japanese stuff. Bad as the cheesy american acting can be,it's part of the charm somewhat for me.
But it's not just power rangers that gives me that vibe tho, it's the same for many of the stuff i grew up with that has lasted, like turtles..i LOVE the new show, i even loved the previous show but i don't think anything will knock the 90's cartoon of it's throne anytime soon and there are still loads of people that don't even have clue turtles is still in existence even tho the fanbase can argue till the cows come home how it was never gone. These days it just seems harder for anything to reach "that" status it seem, maybe the world is indeed just too spoiled.
i often wonder what a new movie could do to help that, i personally would LOVE a new big budget movie that is perhaps a little darker. maybe go the other way this time, instead of movie based ona series why not reboot a movie and then follow up with a series of it ( altho the sentai footage issue will prevent that from ever happening i guess)
and i'm not even saying dark knight levels of darkness because i agree with the fans that say that that is just not power rangers and shouldn't be done. BUT, for example, i loved the TMNT movie and thought that was failry gritty at times even tho it still kept its typical humorous charm...you had turtles being apart,not even a team anymore, and having to learn to be one again, which was done brilliantly imo, with them having troubles listening to a leader again,and the face off between leo and raph on the rooftop....that movie was, IMHO,the perfect blueprint of how i would love to see a movie version of power rangers. keep the charm and even the cheese, but add that few layers of grittyness and show that they are not all BFF's all the time and it would be amazing, AND make the moment where they are truly a team again and on the same page, mean that much more in the end. Also, special effects are much better now then ever before, if you see what tey achieved with transformers and iron man, i almost instantly get a wet dream imagining what they could do with zords on the big sceen today.
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