Power Rangers fan short produced by Adi Shankar: A darker version of the colorful heroes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKR_2HqymU

So, the director of this crappy grimdark Power Rangers fanfic is some manchild in goth make-up and black clothing. Why am I not surprised about this ?

I used to laugh at that shit in the NA version until I saw Dairanger where the White Ranger (our Tommy) was literally a 9 year old kid who also grew when he morphed.

nah you can def get more serious but not like rated r serious and still be good. more realistic action and choreo, better cgi theres a bunch of ways to improve. Now i am not saying i didnt like this…loved it. just dont agree this is the required route to be better than whats on tv. but its really who do you wanna cater to in the end, adults,kids, 16+?

The reason why Vimeo took down the POWER/RANGERS video: https://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:130072

The YouTube version of the short has over 10 million views in two days lol.

Oh and…

Not a big stretch to consider they are using assault weapons, considering the war went poorly, humanity is losing, most of them are dead or dysfunctional, or have gone evil.

You saw one Zord, probably because any MMPR’s who could pilot them are dead or missing.

R-rated Power Rangers shouldn’t look like Gears of War.

R-rated Power Rangers should look like Bunraku (read: “on that trip” or “off your meds”)

The whole thing was generic hollywood SNORE.

It was pretty good. This was just a non budget thing anyway so going a bit deviant with the product isn’t wrong. Most of the people who are complaining “this isn’t power rangers” need to stop being nerds.

Everyone claiming they know what the right thing to do with PR is. Fuck off, let people experiment.

It was alright, but maybe a tad bit edgy for me as far as Zak snorting coke, and the use of real guns instead of the laser blasters. They should have just make the usual laser effect punch holes through the enemy instead. I’m all for pushing the envelope with Power Rangers though in terms of realism. A PG-13 rated Rangers movie with some real drama and not the usual campiness of the series would be dope if done right.

Blasters would have done away with all that shitty cgi gore too. The cgi blood in this looks awful.

I know its low budget so its not that big a deal but there was a LOT of bad blood in this short.

very good for a short film, they handled references well

the fight scenes especially zacks was fucking horrible though

These dat just as shitty as that fan made dbz short and th official movies. Who the fucj watched power rangers, shit was gay as hell.

It was good. Things could have been better. Violence is a non issue and a R rated theme was welcome, as this non gore non violence thing that seems to be the norm is whack.

He should expand on this

The Rita reveal was good, didn’t see that coming at all.
The Zack fighting scene was hilarious. Seemed intentionally over-the-top and ridiculous (lol helmet throw)

JDF (original Green Ranger) view on the short:

Guys, it’s a parody of reboots. Michael Bay robots battling? Dubstep laced remix? Edgy as fuck?

What is this tomfoolery?

Interesting clip. Saved.

Alternate links?

The original one had nudity in btw. The two chicks who were in bed with Zack were topless now they all have bras on. :frowning: