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NEWS: Power Rangers Film Unveils Elizabeth Banks in Costume as Rita Repulsa


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darkchibi07



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:36 am Reply with quote
I....wow! She almost looks like a green Scorpina than Rita Repulsa. It makes me wonder if she's going be more active in the battlefield than just sitting around delivering incantations and making her monsters grow.
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dark13



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:38 am Reply with quote
Wow That is not a very Good costume in my opinion, plus rita repulsa is meant to be an old Hag not some super Model there is so much wrong in that one pic. Also edgy re-imagining in the same sentence Gives me a headache.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:49 am Reply with quote
Wait, she's not Poison Ivy in Batfleck?
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AHHHH! AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I'M GREEN!

I'm not sure if I'm ready for a Rita Repulsa who has no giant hat.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:55 am Reply with quote
Elizabeth Banks can look hot in anything.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:57 am Reply with quote
Looks more like a Spinach Scorpina than Rita. I think they could've done a more faithful redesign of her while staying true to their "gritty" intentions. This is just slapping a recognizable name on an unrelated look.

Is Zedd supposed to be in this movie?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:04 pm Reply with quote
dark13 wrote:
Wow That is not a very Good costume in my opinion, plus rita repulsa is meant to be an old Hag not some super Model there is so much wrong in that one pic. Also edgy re-imagining in the same sentence Gives me a headache.

I think 42-year-old Elizabeth Banks would be thrilled to hear that you consider her super model caliber! That's an incredible compliment. She really does look great in this shot. I would love to see more actresses over 40 cast in genre movies.

Anybody read that description and immediately think of the '90s middle grade book series Animorphs? I wish they were making a movie of that instead. Although the TV show for Animorphs sucked.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:10 pm Reply with quote
darkchibi07 wrote:
I....wow! She almost looks like a green Scorpina than Rita Repulsa.


MORTAL KOM-BAAAAAT! Razz

So, I'm guessing new Rita won't get those two rubber-suit henchmonsters, either, that made the original Rita seem even more like Witchiepoo from the old HR Pufnstuf series?
I liked her with the old giant hat--Seems like the Japanese concept of "Evil demon-witch" always involved big horns, and I kept whether the original was trying to dip in to the same cultural idea that gave us Princess Dragonmum in the Shaw Bros. "Infra-man".
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:10 pm Reply with quote
For a moment I thought they recast the Green Ranger.

...unless I just discovered a surprise twist...
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:23 pm Reply with quote
Wyvern wrote:
AHHHH! AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I'M GREEN!

I'm not sure if I'm ready for a Rita Repulsa who has no giant hat.


AHAHAHAHA LOL!!! I completely just imagined her saying that and cracked up.

I do agree, no hat or extraordinary fashion attempt is a -1 but let's hope her evil is modern and up to date. They could have explored more with the costume and I'm a bit disappointed they didn't. Oh well, let's hope there's enough drama and evil from her to make up for the fact that they're more conservative with her costume this time around.
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dark13



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:34 pm Reply with quote
Agent355 wrote:
dark13 wrote:
Wow That is not a very Good costume in my opinion, plus rita repulsa is meant to be an old Hag not some super Model there is so much wrong in that one pic. Also edgy re-imagining in the same sentence Gives me a headache.

I think 42-year-old Elizabeth Banks would be thrilled to hear that you consider her super model caliber! That's an incredible compliment. She really does look great in this shot. I would love to see more actresses over 40 cast in genre movies.

Anybody read that description and immediately think of the '90s middle grade book series Animorphs? I wish they were making a movie of that instead. Although the TV show for Animorphs sucked.
To bad the Costume she is wearing is Ugly as hell.
( and seeing some of the comments I'm not alone on this )
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Triltaison



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:49 pm Reply with quote
It's a neat looking costume and she looks great in it... But it doesn't look anything remotely like Rita Repulsa's outfit. The only similarity is that it is worn by a woman.



I wouldn't be surprised if they announced that this was the film look for Sigyn (Loki's wife) or a Poison Ivy variant, but Rita is the furthest thing from my mind with this costume.
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encrypted12345



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:06 pm Reply with quote
prime_pm wrote:
For a moment I thought they recast the Green Ranger.

...unless I just discovered a surprise twist...


I was thinking that actually. Would explain why she's so green.

Assuming she becomes good, at least this confirms Lord Zed.
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KefkaesqueXIII



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:36 pm Reply with quote
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Banks added, "We wanted to give her a backstory that connects her to the new Rangers."


Oh boy.

Why do I get the feeling she's going to wind up being something akin to the one friend/teacher/mentor the teens all had in common, somehow either possessed by an ancient alien witch or being mind controlled by the true enemy (possibly Lord Zed)?

Would fit with the "future green ranger" theory too...
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:41 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, she looks a heck of a lot more like Scorpina then she does Rita Confused.

And a "modern and edgy re-imagining" of Power Rangers is what I was most worried about in regards to this adaption Sad.
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