Saturday, October 29, 2016

"Power Rangers Dino Super Charge" Worgworld review

You've ruined zombies Saban. You've ruined it.

They film in an actual New Zealand alley.
Zombie costumes.
Headsets as if in a zombie shooting video game.
Dark Energem fight, although really out of place.

CON WORG
He's your friend. He's a dummy.
Does he look animate to you?
Awful non-academic use of slapstick.
Why would a caveman be able to use technology?
Also, the fight costumes in the US footage look very worn.
This was VR Troopers Season 2 bad of production quality. It really looks like they're out of budget despite spending money on a hundred of extras and their makeup.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Power Rangers Dino Super Charge, "Freaky Frightday" review

So the beginning has Snide captured by King Emperor Argamon, Argamenon or whatever his name is with Heckyl trying to fight his way out with his tentacle big penis.
But forget all that, because Davi Santos is playing his own cousin/great grandson, etc.. after Tyler Navarro has a very mature fart joke while hiding from the graffiti artist.
NAWT!

Are they cutting episodes on their unnecessary guests of the week that they have the Rangers play their own cousins?

For whatever reason, Riley decides to intervene, when the Zandarian Knight Ivan complains about the graffiti artist.
Apparently, graffiti being art is a meme now.
HAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAH!
HJAHAHAHAHA!

At this moment, I'm wondering if they're going to go the lame hair pulling moment of Jack and Jill, where Adam Sandler dresses up as his own female twin cousin. But they don't even do that right.

So Riley intervenes and gives Ivan's "cousin" a smoothie.
Why? Does that have anything to do with his character? Is Riley the heart of the team now? Human resources? Da fuq does dis have to do with ANYTHING?! He just met the cousin too.

Oh, Riley, empathizes with him cuz of his graffiti.
Cuz of cleaning it up?!

Art's ok if it's done on other people's people propety.
Throwing paint on yourself makes you an artist.
HAHAHAHAHA!
HJAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHA!

No throwing paint on yourself makes yourself a Power Ranger if you want to count facts.

Why'd they put a T-Rex in the graffiti if the episode was about Riley?

When you finally get to the Japanese footage you realize it's an adaptation thing. That's all this episode was an adaption. Very little storytelling involved. Just adapting. This was pretty much equally as bad as Samurai and especially Megaforce, except that they did worse by writing their own story.

So Ivan atttempt to teach his cousin about art.
His cousin draws a pose of his cousin after seeing Renaissance-ish art, cuz y'know that was like thousands of years right Ivan? I mean it's fantasy, but I have no idea where this goes within Power Rangers canonicity.
Oh wait. Ivan's disgusted.
Why?
Cuz he replaced the horse in the previous photo with that of a motorcycle.
Ivan's appalled.
Cuz he's a knight. And motorcycles hunt knights?
Cuz his parents were murdered by a motorcycle?

Why would a chivalrous knight throw his cousin, his family's art out, if he's supposed to be a gentleman?

What is amazing though is that Davi Santos plays two different characters and reacts accordingly although the script is shit.

So later, it's revealed in the episode that Sweet Tooth, and two other dudes' plan from Agamemnon is that they want to switch the Rangers' bodies.
Why?!
What kind of logic does that follow?
Ok, so they're not used to the weapons, but then they even fix that later.

Riley has problems dubbing himself in ADR.

Then when everyone gets back to the base, they complain about the painting and the random dumpster it's in.

Ivan why do you give a shit? It's the exact same photo as the last one except it has a motorcycle in it, you motorcyclist!

And then they for whatever reason in addition to paying Riley and Ivan to dub themselves and other people, pay the suit actors and voice actors of Xenowing and Keeper to show up for like one sentence.

Also, I'm not sure of the depth of Keeper's powers, but you figure he would be like a pagan Space God or something and just like turn the Rangers back into their own bodies.

So then Ivan in Riley's body goes over to his cousin to the obvious in any kids show that, he just wanted to be like his friend/cousin/Uncle Grandpa or whatever.

Why didn't they just have Riley and Ivan switch bodies earlier to save on the budget?

And then the Rangers fight the monsters again. I don't recall why or how that got triggered, since my brain is fried like an egg at this point at how poorly presented this episode was.

The Rangers pose with different suit and explosion flames, which is pretty cool, although mainly Japanese footage.
The Rangers switch weapons, which is sorta obvious to do in the first place, against a bunch of monsters that aren't that powerful to begin with.
And then the monsters switch the Ranger bodies again to throw the Rangers off.
Ok cool.
Xenowing shows up in an attempt to defeat the monsters.
And then they switch his body with one of the monsters in an attempt to defeat the monsters. To give them a really big upper hand.
Ok cool.
That was clever.
Although, I even had problems with that. I may be nitpicking, but like it's like they tried hard this episode anyway, so why not?

And then Tyler does what I think was really improperly edited by destroying the body switching device while not confirming if that'd work or if they'd just stay in their new bodies forever.
Like, seriously, he's the main character, the serious dark one and that's the move he does?

So they all kill off the bad guy with stock footage.

And then Ivan has a brain freeze cuz he drank a smoothie. Cuz tough knights do that.
Cuz they're rough.
End of episode.


Like I don't get why they don't just do an episode on Heckyl. There's no reason to adapt this episode. You paid for a set where the villains can show up in US footage. So use it. It'll probably be dismantled and a whole bunch of shit later, so who cares?
I guess it's slightly about him because it's about mistaken, but no- fuck you. You guys don't know what the hell you're doing.
Like I mentioned how they could've spent less time and money on the Riley and Ivan switch, but switching bodies still would've made the episode bad, just cheaper and production a bit more logical.
Xenowing's body switch could've worked like the imposter in Lightspeed Rescue etc..
They could've had a monster switch bodies the whole season and not let the Rangers find out.
And why have Davi Santos play two characters? Did they cheapen out on unnecessary guests of the week budget that they had to do that? Cuz then they still have to pay post to have two Davi Santoses in the episode.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Rose McIver in "Petals of the Wind" (Lifetime Movie)

Her scene is of that of a Black Swan parody nearly half a decade later.
There's a lot of talk of sins. Father abuse.
Ellen Burystn Heather Graham.
There's a lot of soap opera drama.
For whatever reason you have to marry someone instead of just casually dating them in this. according to Jeff Daniels.

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Kamen Rider Ex-Aid trailer review

They mention the 45th Anniversary of Kamen Rider for some odd reason, although I don't really know what exactly the 45th Anniversary has to do with anything.
So for the first minute they really milk the MD/Gamer idea.
It's shot in bright lights too, making it a more casual, kid friendly deal.
It already looks like there's multiple Riders early on.
Kiriko look alike is in this.
It has a Fourze feel with Chibi-fat suit Ex-Aid.
The show should be good for selling toys.

Since I don't know Japanese I can only speculate the second half:
Did the doctor teleport nto a game. Does he have Extra Lives since it's a video game?

Monday, August 22, 2016

Kaizoku Sentai Hurricanger 5 Years Later: Episode 25

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Episodes 25-6

Despite being initially impressed, it's not had a big hold on me.
It has great ninja effects.
It has an excuse.
That end battle was basically a crossover fight.

Who is Satorakura Jr? I get that he's supposed to be a joke of a character, but that joke is rather lazy and one note. Is he out for the death of his father of 10 years or something?

Insarn beats them up.
Gokai Yellow gets her boobs grabbed despite being the better fighter of the two females.


Maybe they could've made them different from their parents.

Doesn't have the Goraigers or Shurikenger, the larger appeals of the series.

I think it would've been cool for the Hurricangers to fight the Gokaigers out of suit for the powers.

Just fighting Satorakura Jr
And then Sandayu Jr

Live and Aba are used vs them by the fighting veterans.

The Pocket Dimension is sorta lame and could've been replaced with anything. There's no reason why anyone would've gotten hit by that.

Kaizoku Sentai Hurricanger: Episode 26 5 Years Later

The Hurricangers stand despite being supposedly captured.
Why use Barizorg when Joe isn't out there? Maybe to be different, but doesn't feel fitting. Him vs Gai could've worked. Gai using Dekabreak to dodge bullets would be cool too.
I sorta don't know about not having the Hurricangers not know what would be in the sack, and get captured trying to save them.
But if you're going to do that, you figure Doc or Gai would save the day solving puzzles.
Having Insarn fight the girls, and Barizorg fight all the non-Red was fitting though, it didn't do much with Joe there.
The Sword Attack by both Red on Satorakura was good.

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger 12 review 5 years later

Joe wants to protect kids.
I regret not seeing a darker Joe as it could've showed him being ruthless before and how that could've been the reason why he was a Zangyack or pulled into it.
However, killing kids is no doubt dark, so why not?
Maybe he's afraid they'll become like him.

Insarn teases Cyborg Barizorg.
Barizorg scoffs at her for being inferior to him.

The former Cid regretably had no facial movements.
Cid is my sempai.

Warz Gill is still injured.

Eating food.

Marvelous tells a story of saving Joe. It's a bit flaky, but looks really cool action wise.