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Cyd Zeigler at Outsports:
The Tampa Bay Rays held the team’s annual LGBTQ Pride Night on Saturday, with many of the players wearing a rainbow on their uniform to signify that LGBTQ people are welcome at the ballpark.
Yet a number of players on the team refused to wear the rainbow or demonstrate support for the community, with a spokesperson saying they did so based on religious objections to homosexuality.
The Tampa Bay Times has identified at least five players on the Rays team — pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs and Ryan Thompson — who rejected the rainbow, and in doing so rejected the LGBTQ community. Raley and Beeks both played in the 3-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
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For starters, no one expects an MLB team to wear rainbows on their jersey during a Pride Night. It’s great if it happens, and it is certainly a powerful statement about the inclusive values of the club; There’s a lot of positive about doing so. Yet it’s not as though the Rays had to attempt to do this. If they weren’t all going to do it, they should have punted. This was, it can be said, an unforced error.
And if the club does decide to wear a rainbow, they need to effectively communicate with player leadership and various levels of management to build a consensus of support and make it clear that everyone’s got to do it.
At least 5 Rays players-- pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson-- refused to wear an LGBTQ+ Pride patch on their jerseys. These 5 brought shame to the organization for refusing to wear an LGBTQ+ Pride patch by cloaking their opposition to it as a “faith-based decision” and dismissing LGBTQ+ identity as a “lifestyle.”
#MLB#LGBTQ+#LGBTQ+ Pride Month#Tampa Bay Rays#Ryan Thompson#Brooks Raley#Jeffrey Springs#Jalen Beeks#Jason Adam#LGBT Sports
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the “phenomenal tv show that changed the landscape of teenage television” turns 25
#dawson’s creek#michelle williams#katie holmes#joshua jackson#james van der beek#kerr smith#busy philipps#jason behr#the wb#scott foley#meredith monroe
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197 - Downsizing
And we’re back to your regularly scheduled episodes! This week, we return to our non-EW episodes with one of the more divisive high-profile bombs in recent years, 2017′s Downsizing. A globalization satire from Alexander Payne and his Sideways co-writer Jim Taylor, the film follows an everyman played by Matt Damon who decides to join the masses deciding to shrink themselves for the sake of green initiatives and a little outsized wealth. The film ran the 2017 fall festival gamut, opening the Venice Film Festival to raves only to see increasingly negative receptions at Telluride and Toronto. In the long wait to its eventual Christmastime release, the negative perceptions settled in and the film became a box office bomb.
By Oscar time, its biggest chances lied in the supporting turn from SAG, Globe, and Critics’ Choice nominee Hong Chau as a political activist forced into downsized life as punishment. This episode, we’ll be talking about the 2017 Supporting Actress race and how she was shut out at the last minute. We’ll also discuss Damon’s constant foot-in-mouth syndrome, 8 Kinds of F*cks, and the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Films of 2017.
Topics also include our thoughts on this year’s Cannes, talking head documentaries, and Paramount’s big year of bombs.
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#Downsizing#Alexander Payne#Jim Taylor#Matt Damon#Hong Chau#christoph waltz#Kristen Wiig#Udo Kier#Jason Sudeikis#Niece Nash#Laura Dern#Neil Patrick Harris#Donna Lynn Champlin#James Van Der Beek#Rolf Lassgard#Ingjerd Egeberg#best supporting actress#supporting actress#Laurie Metcalf#Allison Janney#Mary J. Blige#Margo Martindale
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Hii! I first want to congratulate you on 200 followers! That's amazing! Secondly, I have a question, it's for your party. What are your top 5 "favorite" unsubs from Criminal Minds?
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Awww, thank you so much!!!
I think I should divide the answer to this question into three different groups:
Top 5 performances
1. James Van Der Beek as Tobias Hankel/Charles Hankel/Raphael
2. Brianna Brown as Megan Kane (Pleasure Is My Business)
3. Luke Perry as Benjamin Cyrus (Minimal Loss)
4. C. Thomas Howell as George Foyet
5. Jason Alexander as Henry Grace (Masterpiece)
Top 5 creepy unsubs
1. Floyd Feylinn Ferell (Lucky)
2. Jeffrey Charles (The Boogeyman)
3. The Romani family (Bloodline)
4. Sera Morrison (All That Remains)
5. Marcus Younger (North Mammon)
Top 5 unsubs I deeply feel for
1. Samantha Malcolm (The Uncanny Valley)
2. Owen Savage (Elephant's Memory)
3. Paul Westin (Broken)
4. Luke Dolan (Dorado Falls)
5. Nathan Harris (Sex, Birth, Death) … but I'm cheating, here, he wasn't really an unsub
#asks#answered asks#criminalminds#cm#top 5 unsubs#top 5 guest stars performances as unsubs#top 5 creepy unsubs#top 5 unsubs i feel for#millasafternoontea
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Birthdays 3.8
Beer Birthdays
Sofie Vanrafelghem (1982)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Kenneth Grahame; Scottish writer (1859)
Alan Hale Jr.; actor (1918)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.; supreme court justice (1841)
Mississippi John Hurt; blues singer (1892)
Neil Postman; writer, social critic (1931)
Famous Birthdays
Howard Aiken; mathematician (1900)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; composer (1714)
Ralph Baer; video game inventor (1922)
Louise Beavers; actor (1902)
Anne Bonny; pirate (1702)
Jim Bouton; New York Yankees P, writer (1939)
Cyd Charrise; actor, dancer (1921)
Stuart Chase; writer (1888)
Micky Dolenz; pop singer, actor (1945)
Jason Elam; Denver Broncos K (1970)
Ralph Ellis; banjo player (1942)
Otto Hahn; chemist, physicist (1879)
Dick Hyman; pianist (1927)
Cheryl "Salt" James; pop singer (1964)
Keith Jarrett; jazz pianist, composer (1945)
Sue Ann Langdon; actor (1936)
Sean McClory; actor (1924)
Gary Numan; rock musician (1958)
Freddie Prinze Jr.; actor (1976)
Aidan Quinn; actor (1959)
Lynn Redgrave; actor (1943)
Carole Bayer Sager; pop singer, songwriter (1947)
John W. Seybold; inventor of computer typesetting (1916)
Gabor Szabo; jazz pianist (1936)
Claire Trevor; actor (1909)
James Van Der Beek; actor (1977)
Milana Vayntrub; actor (1987)
Hines Ward; Pittsburgh Steelers WR (1976)
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Thoughts on Power Rangers Once & Always
I didn't know this was going to be a thing until the Youtube algorithm showed me a few weeks ago. It looked good from the reaction videos. I liked the reboot from a few years ago with Dacre Montgomery and the dark gritty short film with Katee Sackoff and James Van Der Beek. It feels like they took elements from both, but with no blatant product placement. Watching this my inter 8 year old self was losing it.
I'm trying to keep this mostly spoiler free. The trailer shows that Trini has a daughter. They never say who the father is. Whoever he is he out of the picture. Zack becomes a father figure and he's a senator. Trini's actress Thuy Trang died in a car accident and they address the character's death. The original red and pink rangers aren't in this. Austin St. John has some legal issues going on and apparently Amy Jo Johnson supposedly couldn't settle contact negotiations. Jason David Frank, the original green ranger doesn't appear. This was filmed before his death so the character is still alive. Billy is the Tony Stark of this universe. Also, he is straight. Someone mentions Billy's ex-girlfriend. Billy's actor, David Yost, is gay and was harassed behind the scenes because of it. There is a gay couple, they are being attacked by puddies. Sure, I'm here for it. They even have Alpha's original voice actor.
I liked it, but I like most Power Ranger things. It's short at 55 minutes. I expect a sequel. If you're nostalgic for the first gen Power Rangers it's worth a watch.
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Jason Beek spinning some 45’s between sets at The Radioland Stage. Wind and some snow made things very challenging to keep the needle on the grooves. Day 5. SS
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Eilen Jewell at Natalie’s Grandview, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 10, 2023
“I’ve been missing you all,” Eilen Jewell said upon taking the stage before a full house at Natalie’s Grandview. She then spent the next 100 minutes proving it.
Playing acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica and maracas and backed by matching, black-clad Johnny Sciascia on double bass, ex-husband Jason Beek on drums and harmony vocals and Jerry Miller’s electric guitar, Jewell played a cross-section of songs from her discography, covers of Loretta Lynn, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Bessie Smith numbers and made the case she should be filling spaces much bigger than the Columbus, Ohio, restaurant she visited Sept. 10.
Jewell was the star, but Miller was the brightest co-star, tossing off licks inspired those who came before; conjuring a train whistle and the Allman Brothers’ “Revival” during “Rich Man’s World” and weaving snippets of “Third Stone from the Sun,” “Paint it Black,” “Rebel, Rebel” and “Day Tripper” into Smith’s “If You Catch Me Stealing.”
Such displays caused Jewell and her bandmates to look at one another with incredulous delight as Miller consistency elicited audience approval to rival that of Jewell’s across the set, heavy on tracks from 2023’s Get Behind the Wheel, and such cuts as “Crooked River,” “Winnemucca,” “Breakaway,” “Lethal Love” and “Alive.”
When she wasn’t tapping the Wheel, Jewell was taking requests - “You’re writing the setlist, so I trust you,” she said. This led to “our most ill-received song,” a political ditty known as “79 Cents (The Meow Song),” which addresses women’s unequal pay and a certain politician who wants to grab women by the kitty, and her version of “Green River,” which goes nicely with Jewell’s other CCR homage, the soundalike “Crawl.”
Jewell mixes up a batch of “Mystic”-era Van Morrison, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Lynn and others to come out sounding and singing exactly like herself. To that end, Jewell performed the latter’s “Whispering Sea” and wished she’d followed more closely in her footsteps.
“She started her career with a hit, which is genius,” Jewell said of Lynn. “I wish I’d thought of that.”
But here’s the thing. While Jewell makes good records, the self-described Queen of the Minor Key is at her best on stage.
Grade card: Eilen Jewell at Natalie’s Grandview - 9/10/23 - A
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#eilen jewell#2023 concerts#loretta lynn#creedence clearwater revival#bessie smith#van morrison#neil young#the allman brothers band#the rolling stones#jimi hendrix#the beatles#david bowie#johnny cash#jerry miller#get behind the wheel
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Logan Van Beek: Set a target of 31 runs, the West Indies team scored 8 runs in 5 balls and lost 2 wickets. What is special is that this over was bowled by Van Beek.
ICC World Cup Qualifiers 2023: Netherlands created a new history by registering a super win against West Indies in Harare.
Batting first in this match, the West Indies team scored 374 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the allotted 50 overs. Chasing this huge target, the Netherlands team tied the match by scoring 374 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.
The match went to super over as both the teams tied. West Indies captain Shai Hope took the ball to Jason Holder. Holder hit Logan van Beek for a four in the first ball and a six in the second ball. He hit another four in the 3rd ball.
Also Read - IND vs PAK, CWC23: After seven years, Pakistan steps on Indian soil: Babar's army will come to Bengaluru
He hit back to back sixes in the 4th and 5th balls. Van Beek scored 30 runs in a single over by hitting a four in the last ball. The West Indies team, who got a target of 31 runs, scored 8 runs in 5 balls and lost 2 wickets. What is special is that this over was bowled by Van Beek.
That is, Van Beek scored 30 runs in the super over batting, took 2 wickets in bowling and brought an exciting victory to the Netherlands team. Also, Logan van Beek also created a world record as the batsman who scored the most runs in a Super Over in the history of cricket.
Also Read ODI World Cup 2023 schedule: Here is the complete schedule of Team India
Earlier this record was in the name of Chris Gayle of West Indies. Gayle's 25 in a super over bowled by Daniel Vettori in 2008 was the previous record.
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West Indies Cricket Team: ICC World Cup qualifiers: Meet the basketball playing Kiwi who helped Netherlands beat the West Indies | Cricket News
4, 6, 4, 6, 6, 4 – Logan van Beek, the Dutch all-rounder, etched his name in the history books of ODI cricket on Monday when he smoked the most runs in a Super Over. The 32-year-old smashed 30 runs off Jason Holder of West Indies in Harare. The record-breaking knock helped Netherlands register a thrilling victory over West Indies, pushing the two-time World champions onto the brink of elimination…
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30 Runs In Super Over: Logan van Beek Heroics Help Netherlands Stun West Indies In ICC World Cup Qualifier
Two-time champions West Indies face an almighty task to qualify for the Cricket World Cup after losing to the Netherlands in a thrilling final group game decided by a super over Monday. Nicholas Pooran‘s second hundred of the qualifiers propelled West Indies to a commanding 374-6, but Teja Nidamanuru hit 111 in reply and the Dutch needed one from the final ball for victory. Jason Holder took a…
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Tỷ lệ bóng đá hôm nay Brighton vs Manchester United, 2h ngày 5/5/2023
Tỷ lệ bóng đá hôm nay Brighton vs Manchester United, 2h ngày 5/5/2023 tại nhà cái da ga truc tiep. Dự đoán tỷ số bóng đá giữa Brighton vs Manchester United, 2h ngày 5/5/2023.
Trận đấu tại Premier League tại Sân vận động AMEX vào thứ Năm chứng kiến đội chủ nh�� Brighton bước vào trận chiến với đối thủ Manchester United.
Bạn có thể xem những dự đoán, thống kê và thăm dò trận đấu giữa Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester United của chúng tôi bên dưới - cùng với tỷ lệ cá cược mới nhất.
Brighton sẽ tìm kiếm một chiến thắng nữa sau chiến thắng 6-0 tại Premier League trước Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Trong trận đấu đó, Brighton & Hove Albion kiểm soát bóng 57% và thực hiện 22 lần ghi bàn với 8 trong số đó đi trúng đích. Đối với Brighton & Hove Albion, những người ghi bàn là Deniz Undav (6', 66'), Pascal Groß (13', 26') và Danny Welbeck (39', 48'). Wolverhampton Wanderers có 10 lần cố gắng ghi bàn với 2 trong số đó đi trúng đích.
Brighton & Hove Albion của Roberto De Zerbi đã ghi tổng cộng 12 bàn trong 6 trận ra quân trước đó. Tổng số bàn thua mà họ đã để thủng lưới trong cùng những trận đấu đó là 6.
Manchester United sẽ bước vào cuộc chạm trán sau chiến thắng 1-0 tại Premier League với việc hạ gục Aston Villa trong trận đấu gần đây nhất của họ.
Trong trận đấu đó, Manchester United có 57% thời gian cầm bóng và 14 lần thực hiện mục tiêu với 6 lần trúng đích. Người ghi bàn cho Manchester United là Bruno Fernandes (39'). Ở chiều ngược lại, Aston Villa tung ra 7 cú sút nhưng 1 trong số đó đi trúng đích.
Trong 6 trận gần nhất, Manchester United của Erik ten Hag đã ghi 7 bàn, đạt hiệu suất ghi bàn trung bình mỗi trận là 1,17.
Nhìn thoáng qua các cuộc đụng độ đối đầu gần đây nhất của họ kể từ ngày 30/09/2020 cho chúng ta thấy rằng Brighton đã thắng 2 trong số này và Manchester United là 3, với số trận hòa là 1.
Tổng cộng có 15 bàn thắng được ghi giữa hai bên trong giai đoạn này, với 7 bàn cho The Seagulls và 8 cho Quỷ đỏ. Đó là giá trị bàn thắng trung bình mỗi trận là 2,5.
Jeremy Sarmiento (Gãy xương bàn chân) và Tariq Lamptey (Chấn thương đầu gối) sẽ không có mặt cho huấn luyện viên Roberto De Zerbi của Brighton.
Có vẻ như lần này The Seagulls sẽ sử dụng hệ thống 4-2-3-1, giao quyền bắt đầu cho Jason Steele, Pascal Groß, Adam Webster, Lewis Dunk, Pervis Estupiñán, Billy Gilmour, Moisés Caicedo, Solly March, Alexis Mac Allister, Kaoru Mitoma và Danny Welbeck.
Huấn luyện viên của Manchester United, Erik ten Hag, có nhiều vấn đề cần giải quyết. Tom Heaton (Chấn thương mắt cá chân), Alejandro Garnacho (Chấn thương mắt cá chân), Scott McTominay (Chấn thương không xác định), Raphaël Varane (Chấn thương bàn chân), Donny van de Beek (Chấn thương đầu gối) và Lisandro Martínez (Gãy xương bàn chân) sẽ không thi đấu tại đây.
Rất có thể Quỷ đỏ sẽ bắt đầu trận đấu với đội hình 4-2-3-1, giải quyết cho David De Gea, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Victor Lindelof, Luke Shaw, Diogo Dalot, Casemiro, Christian Eriksen, A. .Matheus dos, Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford và Anthony Martial.
Trong trận đấu này, Manchester United thực sự khó có thể vượt qua một đội bóng có vẻ như sẽ kiểm soát trận đấu này trên toàn bộ sân của Brighton & Hove Albion.
Onebox63.com cho rằng đó sẽ là một chiến thắng cách biệt 3-0 cho Brighton & Hove Albion khi kết thúc 90 phút.
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FMK the unsub that George costanza from Seinfeld plays, the unsub that killed hotch’s wife and Tobias Hankel
Being that I love all three actors outside of Criminal Minds makes this so much harder but I'm gonna answer this soley based on the unsubs
Kill Henry Grace (Jason Alexander, my beloved) because his narcissism would remind me too much of my mother and the man tried playing with the lives of CHILDREN! I don't take kindly any harm to kids even if it's just psychological trauma.
Fuck George Foyet (C. Thomas Howell, my beloved) because if the man took time out to stab himself several times I imagine the man knows how to fuck (assuming that his use of a knife isn't to make up for erectile dysfunction 🥴)
Marry Tobias Hankel (James Van Der Beek, my beloved) because we both have religious trauma. Also were raised by parents who abused us "in the name of God". We'd bond over that shit. I would try my best to help him get clean. He's such a complex character and it's not black & white to be like he's just as bad as the other unsubs.
Because unlike the other two there is no proof that Tobias killed just to kill. He RIGHTFULLY murdered his father to stop the abuse and that is what pushed him over the edge. The man snapped.
Let's not for get Charles/Raphael killed Spencer but Tobias is the one who saved him 😭
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"Summer Time" - Eilen Jewell - Live From The Fallout Shelter from The Extended Play Sessions on Vimeo.
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(Repost) POWER/RANGERS (2015) fan film shows why grim-dark is grim-dumb
Note: This article was originally posted February 25th, 2015 on the Agony Booth, which I used to write for. Since that site is sadly no longer with us, I’m reposting my old articles here.
If you’ve been following my writing for a while, you’ve probably picked up that I detest hollow, needlessly cynical, faux-mature “gritty” reimaginings of once colorful and optimistic characters and franchises. It’s a juvenile, self-absorbed misunderstanding of the entire concept of maturity to think that simply being darker makes something better or more complex. And seeing grown men constantly demanding a beloved franchise become more “adult” simply to soothe their own insecurities about still liking something intended for children only robs it of everything they enjoyed about it in the first place.
Lately, the studio most guilty of this trend is Warner Brothers, as you can see in basically every DC superhero film made this century. But they’re far from alone. Star Trek and Spider-Man have gotten the same treatment, and Fantastic Four is next in line. It seems just about everyone outside of Marvel Studios have decided that superheroes just aren’t allowed to be fun anymore.
So with the promise of a Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers movie in 2016, I can’t help but become anxious as I wait to see what form the film will take. Will Saban elect to stick to the fun (if campy) tone that’s kept the TV series going for more than two decades now? Or will they bow to blockbuster trends and give us a drab, joyless, self-conscious drag? Only time will tell.
In the meantime, however, we’ve been given an unexpected gift: a glimpse at a possible future, and a worst case scenario for how a “dark and gritty” Power Rangers movie could end up. Joseph Kahn, the offbeat, eccentric genius behind Torque, Detention, and the best music video Taylor Swift ever made, has released a 12-minute fan film entitled POWER/RANGERS, and like everything else Kahn has done, it’s... something else.
It shows a dystopian future in which Earth has been taken over by the Machine Empire (if you don’t know your Power Rangers lore, the Machine Empire is... well, exactly what they sound like). The Rangers are all grown up and their lives have gone horribly wrong. Blue Ranger Billy has become a weapons manufacturer, Yellow Ranger Trini is dead, Red Ranger Jason was murdered after his wedding to Pink Ranger Kimberly by Bulk and Skull (who later OD on meth), Black Ranger Zack is a fitness guru that spends all his time doing hookers and blow, and Green Ranger Tommy is a wanted man living on the streets.
The main focus is on Kimberly (played by eternal fancasting favorite Katee Sackhoff), who’s being interrogated by Rocky (played by unicorn slayer James Van Der Beek), formerly the second Red Ranger and now an agent of the Machine Empire. Rocky wants to capture Tommy, as he’s suspected of murdering the other Rangers. To say any more would be to spoil the film (in as much as you can spoil a 12-minute movie), but suffice to say, it doesn’t end well for anyone.
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I have to admit, the film threw me the first time I watched it. Being already worn out by so many grimdark reboots of things I love, and apprehensive about the possibility of the same happening to my beloved Power Rangers, the whole thing felt almost like a slap in the face.
Watching Bulk and Skull, two of the most enduring, lovable characters in the show’s history, being portrayed as foul-mouthed white trash who sell out the human race to aliens, murder their friends, and then die of drug overdoses was basically the equivalent of watching Winnie the Pooh go postal on the Hundred Acre Wood. But after watching it through a few more times, it became clear that what I was seeing was not meant to be taken remotely seriously. It’s a Joseph Kahn film, after all. In his own words in the video description, this is his “take on the FAN FILM”.
In an interview with HitFix, Kahn had this to say.
Kahn:
I’ve seen repurposed stuff on the Internet where they take a property that’s serious and make it even more so, like a Batman fan film or something like that, or a video game or whatever. I’ve actually seen stuff like where they’ve taken ridiculous stuff like Mario Brothers, and then tried to make the dark and gritty version, and they obviously play it for laughs. I think the trick that I really wanted to do with this was to make that dark and gritty version that everybody keeps talking about, but really do it. Really see if I could totally accomplish it with essentially a really incredible, incredibly silly property.
In that context, POWER/RANGERS makes a lot more sense. He’s making fun of the fad of grit-ification but taken it to its furthest extreme by playing it completely straight. It’s a commentary not just on the film industry, but also on fan films themselves. I’ve watched plenty of fan films before, and I know that what Kahn is saying is true: many of them take themselves far, far too seriously. In fact, a grimdark Power Rangers fan film was released not long ago, only without any of the irony of Kahn’s version.*
(*I can no longer find the video I was talking about, use your imagination ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
So the fact that Khan’s film is meant as a joke is clear. How effective a joke is debatable, however, because the reactions to this thing have been all over the place. For fans like myself, either the joke didn’t register, or it did and they just didn’t like it. Many others, who either aren’t fans or only casual fans who haven’t watched the show since they were kids, took the thing 100% seriously and seem to think it’s the greatest idea ever. All over the internet, headlines are calling it “badass”, and commenters are saying this is exactly what they want the actual Power Rangers movie to be.
For me, this raises questions about the very nature of satire. To what extent is a comedian responsible when people don’t get the joke? This isn’t a new issue; Remember last year, when Stephen Colbert got called a racist for a joke on his show that went completely over the heads of certain people? Or how about all those guys who saw Fight Club and then went out and formed actual fight clubs, completely missing that the movie was a condemnation of that sort of empty macho posturing?
It’s hard to find fault with the film in this case, because arguably making the point any more explicit would be to compromise it. Part of the joke is that, for the most part, there’s no winking at the camera or transparent self-awareness. It’s taking the most over-the-top extremes and being completely serious in their presentation, which is, in and of itself, the joke. This isn’t a Robot Chicken sketch. It’s an experiment to show just how far the idea of a dark and gritty reboot can go and why it’s ultimately a dumb and futile enterprise.
So I can’t really fault Kahn for being too subtle. At the same time, much like Fight Club, it’s really hard to enjoy the film as a piece of satire, simply because the reaction to it irks me. All I can think is, “A lot of people out there actually, unironically want this,” and the thought just depresses me. If taking this concept to its worst extreme doesn’t show people what a terrible idea it is, what could? And what if Saban and Lionsgate take the response to Kahn’s fan film as a sign that there’s a market for this vision of Power Rangers, and take the actual film in this direction? It’s not out of the realm of possibility. Remember those awful Mortal Kombat web shorts Kevin Tancharoen made that landed him a job making a real Mortal Kombat feature film? (Sure, it didn’t end up happening, but still.)
Joseph Kahn will not be making a Power Rangers movie. He’s openly said he has no interest in it, and that’s for the best. A feature-length version of POWER/RANGERS would be utterly pointless. The joke works as a simple short film, but dragging it out for two hours would get old fast. Better that he’s free to pursue his own projects and interests, and I’m excited to see what he does next. In the meantime, he’s certainly left us with something to think about, if nothing else.
Final thought: I believe the most telling and interesting thing about POWER/RANGERS is that when you get down to it, it’s not really any more “mature” or “adult” than the actual show, despite its aesthetic shift. It may not be safe for kids anymore, but it’s still (very deliberately) mindless junk food. The characters are just as flat and devoid of personality, the premise is just as silly, and the plot is just as nonsensical and formulaic. It’s still mainly an excuse to watch people fight in rubber suits. The only real upside is that the acting is generally better, and the effects are vastly improved. That’s pretty much the film’s ultimate lesson: simply making something darker and more realistic doesn’t improve shit. If anything, it just makes it dumber.
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curiousityoctaves
Kaleidoscopic hearts.
old-terrace
Benedict Hunt.
azeofspades
Sans titre
xiaomaoaichiyu
无标题
brittneycaron
Model Bee