Fight To The Death Power Rangers Vs Cookie Monster!

Power/Rangers

POWER/RANGERS from Joseph Kahn on Vimeo.

Deboot of the Power Rangers. My take on the FAN FILM. Not a pilot, not a series, not for profit, strictly for exhibition. This is a bootleg experiment not affiliated or endorsed by Saban Entertainment or Lionsgate nor is it selling any product. I claim no rights to any of the characters (don't send me any money, not kickstarted, this film is free). This is the NSFW version. An alternate safe version is on youtube.

Interview by Drew McWeeny at Hitfix: http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/world-exclusive-what-are-katee-sackhoff-and-james-van-der-beek-doing-in-joseph-kahns-powerrangers

Making Of: (to be posted soon)

CAST:

Katee Sackhoff - Kimberly/Pink
James Van Der Beek - Rocky
Russ Bain - Tommy/Green
Will Yun Lee - General Klank
Gichi Gamba - Zack/Black

CREW

Director: Joseph Kahn
Writers: Joseph Kahn, James Van Der Beek, Dutch Southern
Producers: Adi Shankar, Jil Hardin
Executive Producers: Justin Smith, David Kang, Raymond Watt, Michael S. Kim
Co-producers: Renn Brown, Kathy Palmer
Cinematographer: Christopher Probst
Production Designer: Brett Hess
Costume Designer: Edda Gudmunsdottir
Stunt/Fight Coordinator: Don Theerathada/87 Eleven
Sound Designer: Fletcher Alliston
Music by: Brain and Melissa
Visual Effects: Ingenuity Engine
Visual Effects Supervisors: David Lebensfeld, Grant Miller, Chris Watts


Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PowerRangersBootleg

Australian Tokusatsu

"Danger 5 Trailer"

The Only Reason to get the iPhone 5C

GOKAI CHANGE!!!

Morphinomenal!

Hoodies I would (almost) wear in Singapore

Too bad the guy got sued

Apparently whether you can copyright costumes is a legally open question.

Also fun:


"Angel Grove H.S."


"Angel Grove Youth Center - Gym & Juice Bar"

An awesome image

Observations - 14th March 2012

"So little time and so little to do." - Oscar Levant

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[On it taking 2 hands to clap] "Geylang is just a part in Singapore which is who of nice food and lust. Being a lady myself. If I ever caught my bf there being with a fling or pros, I will blame tat I didn't take care of my own relationship well." (the comment comparing "SG WIFE" and "PRC GAL" is hilarious)

I finally found out the answer to a question that'd been bugging me for 17 years: Angel Grove High = the Ulysses S. Grant High School in Los Angeles.

For cities that have more than one Hard Rock Cafe (e.g. Singapore with Changi and the City) do the T-shirts read differently?

夫妻相 may be sweet, but it could mean you're related

I realise the French Fuck is very misnamed.

Any "temporary" ban on shark finning would become permanent. Just look at whales.

Why is dodgy health advice so popular? I'm tempted to tell people to eat 3kg of raw bitter almonds to maintain their health.

WOO HOO! Under the Road Traffic Act you can run down cats (but not horses, cattle, asses, mules, sheep, pigs, goats or dogs). Where is the Cat Welfare Society?


For all the Argentines talk about the Falklands, they keep quiet on Patagonia and the Misiones.

Suspecting some who condemned Iraq 2003 as illegal also condemn the UN for being useless for Syria 2012.


Amused that Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School - a SAP school - got Gold for Indian Dance (with Chinese students dancing). Even more amused that someone making this observation was told that he sounded racist.

If bourgeois pigs will always be bourgeois pigs, pig farmers will always be pig farmers.

People only say "correlation is not causation" when they don't like the result.

"Liberals believe in evolution in a classroom setting. Conservatives deny evolution in the classroom, but are more willing to believe in it in the real world... they act like humans have a genetic legacy that includes a sexual division of labor, group differences, hereditary traits, etc"


I got a phishing email - sent to someone else's address and CCed to more than 90 other addresses. Well done.

"10千万女人寻求一个男人为了今晚做爱" - Even if you want to BS you shouldn't be so outrageous


"How can you not have watched Citizen Kane? I thought you're a Europhile"

"Spiritual but not religious on dating sites means the person is a cuckoo, mystical, new age kind of person" (this is from Rationally Speaking)

"why does the HPB website tell me to go for pap smear when i click on screening info for Men? arghhh"

"I wanna write 'I miss you' on a rock and throw it at your face so you know how much it hurts to miss you."

RT: @FlareonRRRAGE: From now on, whenever a girl asks me "do guys really think about sex every 7 seconds?", I will look them in the eye and lick my lips.

RT @skinnylatte: I marvel at how Malaysians are celebrating a play about racism by one of Singapore's very own racists.

RT @querulus The name "Natasha" is "Ah Satan" backwards, but nobody freaks out about that.

RT: @sickipediabot: Give a man a fish, and he'll feed himself for a day. Beat him to death with his own shoe, and he won't be hungry anymore.

What One Does to Eat

"Will fight giant monsters for food"

He said only he got it because it was cute

"C'est un plaisir de vous rencontrer"

Links - 21st May 2010

"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it." - Pierre Gallois

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Ezra Klein - Why do Harvard kids head to Wall Street? An interview with an ex-Wall Street recruit. - "The impression of the Ivy-to-Wall Street pipeline is that it's all about the money. You're saying that it's actually more that Wall Street has constructed a very intelligent recruiting program that speaks to the anxieties of the students and makes them an offer that there's almost no reason to refuse... A lot of people decide to sacrifice much more time than they normally would because the money is so good, and then they believe they deserve extremely high pay because they're giving up so much time. It's not malicious. But there are a lot of unhappy people who end up in that situation... just like it's wrong for the banker to say they work harder than everyone else and deserve more, it's also dangerous to paint bankers as evil. Lloyd Blankfein isn't out to screw the world. Wall Street's problems are more systemic"

Bruni 'kept Queen waiting while she had sex with Sarkozy' - "Bruni, whose past lovers include Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, shared her sexlife secrets with the US President Barack Obama's wife at a meeting in America, the book says."

How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR

Keeping up is getting us down - "THE MOST astonishing revelations in Michael Moore's "Sicko" have nothing to do with healthcare. They're about vacation time. French vacation time, to be precise... "The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation... out of 10 full-time American employees, and more than six out of 10 part-time employees, get no vacation. And even among workers with paid vacation benefits, the average number of days enjoyed is a mere 12... The average American man today works 100 more hours a year than he did in the 1970s... This would all be fine if it were what we wanted. But that doesn't seem to be the case... the U.S. economy has set its incentives up so as to systematically underemphasize leisure and overemphasize consumption. Much of what we purchase are called "positional goods"... it's really just a classic failure of collective action"
The most insightful part of this for me was how individual freedom can lead to a worse average outcome. Thus, restricting people's choices can make most (even all?) people better off.

What It's Like To Stand Inside an Imploding Stadium

YouTube - Cat gives a cardiac massage to his injured girlfriend

'Leaving Malaysia a necessity' - "When I fist arrived in Australia in 2007, the job recruitment agent told me that I am are highly skilled and a lot of people will be lining up to hire me. This was just the opposite of what I was told in Malaysia, where people only looked at my weakness and looked for ways to put me down and exploit me the maximum that they could... unless Malaysia is hit by a real tsunami which in turn makes Malaysians think that God created all human equal, then I don't want to be part of a racist country called Malaysia"

How to Make a Girl Show Her Tits on Chatroulette.com

Why Moms Cheat on Their Man the Day After Mother's Day - "Their biggest day of the year for female signups is the day after Valentine's Day, and their third-biggest day is the day after New Year's. Why are holidays like these such turning points for women? Noel Biderman, president and founder of AshleyMadison.com, says, "Because they have expectations -- expectations that their partnership will be celebrated and even romanticized -- but that is often not what transpires ....""

Dog-owners 'lead healthier lives' - "Dog owners tended to have lower blood pressure and cholesterol... an important reason for the improved health of dog-owners was not just the exercise received while taking it for walks, but the opportunity for social contact with other dog-owners"

Videos Posted by MediaCorp Channel 5: THE NOOSE Season 3 Taxi Drivers Learn French EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW - "Taxi Drivers Learn French: With so many condominiums and housing projects adopting French/European sounding names, taxi companies are sending their drivers to learn French to better serve customers."

What it feels like to marry a money addict - "What distinguishes rich bankers or lawyers from you and me is not that they have more money, but that they have less love. What the vastly successful give up for the sake of their bonuses is a basic quality of life and the warmth of authentic relationships... Imagine choosing, year after year, to go to networking drinks, rather than going home to see your child or for supper with friends; to remain chronically sleep-deprived so you’re always the first person at your desk; to choose every single friend you see on the grounds that he or she is a “contact” who can be cultivated for use in future transactions... The vocabulary of friendship and even of love is at last eroded by the subtext, which is always money"
Marry a man poorer than you

Who is Responsible? An Interview With Fred Halliday - "The key issue is not: Is the U.S. intervening? Nor: What are the U.S.’s motives? The key issue is will that intervention plausibly help those people or not?... What Bill [Warren] argued, against dependency theory, and against facile nativism and facile anti-imperialism, was that... historically, capitalism and imperialism had played a progressive role in transforming the world, in creating new classes, in spreading new ideas, in colonizing the Americas. And that imperialism has played a contradictory role, that not everything it did has been bad. It fought fascism in the Second World War, for example. So the mere fact that imperialism was involved in the Kosovo intervention is not a reason to condemn the intervention—you have to have other criteria. It’s not that one is in favor of imperialism, but we have to problematize the issue of imperialism... I feel much happier with a copy of the U.N.D.P. Human Development Report than with the New Left Review... Solidarity should not be taken at face value... In so much “solidarity” work these days, people don't want to know what's actually going on in Third World countries"

Naturopathy and Organic Foods - "The fact is that no matter where you go, or what you decide to eat, your food will contain chemicals, additives, preservatives, and colors. There is no reason to believe that the chemicals that we add to our food are any more harmful or beneficial than those that are naturally occurring. Nature was not designed for human consumption, and there are some nasty things out there that, despite being all-natural, you would not want to eat."

Why are British women's breasts getting bigger? - "The average British bra size has jumped from 34B to 36D... obesity alone doesn't explain the jump in cup size, nor the biggest growth area in bra sales: smaller back size and bigger cup size... there are more slimmer women with larger boobs than ever before. Women are happy about this. Men are happy about this. But no one seems happy to explain why this is happening... As an article entitled "Brassieres: an engineering miracle" from the February 1964 issue of Science and Mechanics journal states: "The challenge of enclosing and supporting a semi-solid mass of variable volume and shape, plus its adjacent mirror image, involves a design effort comparable to that of building a bridge or a cantilevered skyscraper"... there are 31 components in a bra with a DD+ cup, 10 more than are required for smaller sizes"

Rethinking Your (disposable) Coffee Cup - "The scorned Styrofoam cup is in fact the most environmentally friendly choice of disposable cup!"

Why I deleted my facebook account - "Once upon a time I was a happy facebook user. But that was before the dark times, before the Empire... No-one really understands facebook's privacy policy anymore. It has grown in size by nearly 600% since 2005 and now contains more words than the US constitution. That factoid is part of an excellent New York Times article which also points out that there are now 170 different options within the privacy settings"

10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account - "10. Facebook's Terms Of Service are completely one-sided.
9. Facebook's CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior.
8. Facebook has flat out declared war on privacy.
7. Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch.
6. Facebook is a bully.
5. Even your private data is shared with applications.
4. Facebook is not technically competent enough to be trusted.
3. Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to truly delete your account.
2. Facebook doesn't (really) support the Open Web.
1. The Facebook application itself sucks."

DNA tests open way to entitlement claims - "Alan Moldawer's adopted twins, Matt and Andrew, had always thought of themselves as white. But when it came time for them to apply to college last year, Moldawer thought it might be worth investigating the origins of their slightly tan-tinted skin, with a new DNA kit that he had heard could determine genetic ancestry. The results, designating the boys 9 percent Native American and 11 percent northern African, arrived too late for the admissions process. But Moldawer, a business executive in Silver Spring, Maryland, says they could be useful in obtaining financial aid... Prospective employees with white skin are using the tests to apply as minority candidates, while some with black skin are citing their European ancestry in claiming inheritance rights. One Christian is using the test to claim Jewish genetic ancestry and to demand Israeli citizenship, and Americans of every shade are staking a DNA claim to Native American scholarships, health services and casino money."
Ahh, Affirmative Action and Race-Based Rights!

Teachers' motivation to teach national education in Singapore: a self-determination theory approach - "15.6% of the teachers belonged to a “high amotivation” cluster, 38.0% formed a “high externally regulated” cluster, 19.9% made up a cluster labelled as “low externally regulated”, and the rest (26.5%) had an “intrinsically regulated” profile"

Pork test to bust cheats - "Scientists in mainly Muslim Kazakhstan have come up with an instant test for the presence of pork in food... "It's no secret that some chefs cheat and add pork to beef to make the dish cheaper""

Mogul Saban buys back Power Rangers from Disney - "Media mogul Haim Saban is buying back the fist-pumping, multicolored superheroes known as the Power Rangers from the Walt Disney Co., hoping to launch the enduring franchise into a higher orbit... he's got a distribution deal to show new and old episodes on Viacom Inc.'s Nickelodeon and Nicktoons cable channels. There are also plans to bring a Power Rangers movie back to theaters for the first time in more than a decade... Disney had been scaling back the presence of the Power Rangers, who tend to get in a lot of fights"
It's Morphin' Time!!! And Jonathan Tzachor's producing Season 18

BARRY NORMAN: Why does Hollywood ALWAYS cast English actors as villains?
Too bad they're white too, or they can complain about racism

MMPR Remastered is weird :/

Scott: "What do you mean what eyes? Right there? The front of our zords"
Dr K: "They are not 'eyes'. They're optical field scanning sensors for your cockpits' ATD display."
Scott: "Well, they look like. Well, they look like-"
Dillon: "They look like eyes"
Ziggy: "Big, googly, anime eyes"
Dr K: "Next."


Ziggy: "Sometimes when I morph, I can't help but notice this gigantic explosion right behind me, for no apparent reason-"
Dr K: "I assume you're referring to the residual energy runoff that is sometimes necessary to clear the suits' biofuel channels during m-"
Ziggy: "I'm referring to the six-storey-high fireballs, like that one. Right there"


Flynn: "When we morph, is it absolutely a 100% necessary that we scream 'RPM, Get in Gear' at the top of our voice?"
Ziggy: "Ah, that's a very good point. Err, some of us out there are trying to impress chicks. This's definitely not helping"
Dr K: "The vocal callout is a voice recognition safety and security measure"
Flynn: "Well, maybe we can have a bit of a change-"
Dr K: "A change?"
Flynn: "Ah, like, erm, 'Rangers to the Rescue' or 'Ranger Justice Unleashed'?"
Dr K: "Justice is an abstract ideological concept. We deal with tangible realities, not Justice. You want Justice, read a comic book."


Tenaya 7: "Red is the perfect one, Black is the brooding one bad boy, Green is the clown and Yellow, well, she's the girl. So what are you supposed to be?"
Flynn: "I'm Scottish!"

"Corinth. Cogito ergo sum"

Wth.

"The Ranger Prototype Series Covert Infantry Biosuits"
"Right. Because nothing says covert like bright red, yellow and blue spandex"
"That is NOT SPANDEX!"
"Doc K can get a little defensive about his work"
"The material is a self-assembling nanofiber formed with an intercellular sheet memory alloy


OH: "Wow. We're *not* in Angel Grove anymore"

Gaiarc's secret weapon:

Yay.

Something I've been looking for for a while:

"獣を心に感じ獣の力を手にする拳法・獣拳。
獣拳には相対する二つの流派があった。
一つ、正義の獣拳・激獣拳ビーストアーツ
一つ、邪悪な獣拳・臨獣拳アクガタ。
二つの流派は一つに還り、最後の戦いが今…始まる！"

"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." - George F. Will

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Video on Power Rangers and its alleged effect on violence in children (from 20/20):



"The kids are pounding each other again. But children have always done this sort of thing. But some people say it's worse today...

Why it's so popular isn't clear. From an adult perspective it's an astonishingly stupid show...

Most kids said they liked it *because* of the violence... And there's plenty of that. Roughly a third of each show.

And that's why teachers are upset. 'Kids are harder to control', they say. 'They can't concentrate because they're so obsessed with Power Rangers'. One survey shows classroom violence is up. Teachers complain the show teaches kids to solve problems by fighting...

*Mention of the case in Norway where a 5-year-old Norwegian girl was kicked to death by playmates*...

Most [kids we showed the show to] spent most of the time kicking...

The Canadian government is quicker to intervene... Of course, watching kids in Canadian playgrounds, you don't see all that much difference. Is censorship the solution? Kids are more violent today, but is that because of TV? Or lack of parenting?

No kids have been reported injured. Yes, these kids kicked more after watching Power Rangers but noticed they kicked the air - not each other. Or they kicked the wall. Maybe the kids know the show isn't real.

'No, it's fantasy' - Second grader

'Weren't you guys running around kicking each other at recess?'
'Well, we didn't really kick each other. We just faked it.' - Second grader

Of course, these are seven year olds. Younger kids are more likely to be confused about what's real. So I played a kid for the five-year-olds on my kid's soccer team.

These kids also acted the part. With weapons, yes. But they didn't hurt each other. Isn't this just the kind of playfighting kids have always done? And even five-year-olds could separate the show from reality...

He doesn't really believe his friend can morph. And few of the parents wanted censorship...

And many parents said it isn't the Power Rangers that threatens kids. It's the news.

'Very frightening. That gives them bad dreams' - Parent
'They know it's fake?'
'Yeah. They know it's fake' - Parent

'Are you really fighting?'
'It can't be real' - Kid
'Why not?'
'Cos it's magical' - Kid
'How do you know?'
'Cos then it'll be happening now. Yeah, and it'll be on the news, not on TV' - Kid
A later investigation in Norway showed that the death of the five-year-old was not realted to Power Rangers. The show is back on the air. If TV *is* the problem, why 'Power Rangers' and not, say, 'Ninja Turtles'? I'm not thrilled that my son watches this garbage, but my parents weren't thrilled by what *I* watched. *Road Runner clip* I was watching Road Runner cartoons and Sylvester and Tweety and Sylvester was getting the stuffing beat out of him, just as much as in Power Rangers.

'Children imitate real aggression more than they imitate animated aggression. I remember anvils being dropped on heads. Kids don't have access to anvils.' - Some Professor (?)

I guess we should be grateful for that.

But if it's realistic violence we're supposed to worry about, then what about professional wrestling? What about the even nastier stuff that goes on at video arcades? On TV the Power Rangers never draw blood.

But at the arcade kids mutilate each other. *Mortal Kombat reference*

Of course kids have always had an appetite for violence. Think about fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel cooked the witch. The wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood. Snow White is poisoned. Psychologists say such stories can help kids deal with their anger and feelings of powerlessness. What child doesn't feel better daydreaming about morphing into a superhero?

'I like how they teleport' - Kid
'Do you wish you could be them?'
'Yeah' - Kid
'Would give you more power?'
'Yeah' - Kid
'What would you do if you could do that?'
'I'll just be happy'

'Kids are tiny and this helps them feel powerful, that they can *morph* into something that will master their fear. Isn't some of this good for kids?'
'This doesn't mean that we have to accept a program where the characters morph onto to become excessively violent' - Some Professor (?)

Excessively violent? Maybe that's the point. *Lone Ranger clip* The Lone Ranger shot people in the hand. Now we have the X-Men, the Power Rangers. But does watching this make kids violent?

So much research has been done... kids who watch a lot of violent TV commit more violent acts and are more likely to commit crimes. But what does that prove? It's this sort of social science mush. It may be that kids who are disposed to be violent like watching violent TV. You don't know what came first.

'Do you have suggestions for parents? One of those kids was yours'
... Most psychologists suggest: watch with the kids. And then you can explain what's real, what's not. You can say: you know if you kick someone, it's gonna hurt them?


Funny how 30+ years of Super Sentai, Kamen Rider and Tokusatsu hasn't turned Jap kids into monsters.

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three." - Alice Kahn

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Considering that Wagner's Ring was a critique of misguided power, that Wagner called Bismarck "a brutal barbarian" and that he was appalled at the militarism of post-1871 Germany, the sad irony of Hitler's admiration for him is exceeded only by that of Israelis who denounce Wagner and attack (physically or otherwise) musicians who try to perform his music in Israel.

My friend went into a bag shop and asked how much a Chanel bag was. $3,400. Wah, can go Japan again.

The plastic bag that I got from Vilnius Airport's Duty Free shop was red. On returning, I carried it around and noticed my hands becoming red. And the bag becoming less red. Gah. This is probably alright for their business, since those who leave Vilnius Airport will never visit it again.

I happened to walk into a Chinatown sex shop and discovered that one butt plug ($59) was 6x more expensive than a comparable model in Japan (750Y). If I bought 15 and flew back I'd be able to afford my air ticket. Sex shop owners here must make a killing, unless there's some exorbitant sex good levy (COE revenues are lacking after a while).

Irritatingly, companies like to "regret to inform you that only shortlisted [job] applicants will be notified". Someone should write on his CV that "only shortlisted companies will be notified".

BJ shakes are more expensive and less thick and flavourful than those from Carl's Jr. Too much milk, not enough ice cream.

Why do they like to recruit gravure stars for Sentai?!

In Singapore, "Native English Speaker" just means "Ang Moh".

I'm amused that in Borders, 'Defeating Darwinism' is under the 'Christianity' section, not 'Science'.

I saw a Malay family at Carl's Jr. I didn't see what they were eating, but the women were not wearing headscarves.

I had some Sakura ice cream. I can't really describe the flavour.

Yellafellas looks interesting, but there goes another random idea.

Cafe Cartel may have bad service, but they're the first people to ask me, upon making payment, if I have any credit cards that will give me a discount on my bill.

More ways in which China is a bullying bastard: on the Vietnam border, large monoliths are used as markers. China always send troops to the border to move the monoliths a few km to their advantage. Vietnamese troops sent to move them back are ambushed, so they have to be careful.

HWMNBN says all the women he's worked with and asked would rather work with men than women.

I can't get over how SportsmenAsia, "the definitive sportswear and fashion lifestyle store based in Singapore", sells buttplugs (look under "Lifestyle"). I am told that this is because "SMA's clientele includes "SportsMen" & gay men. :) - comprende? :)". What's even more funny is that they sell Fleshlight Lady-s (albeit censoring the opening), which you don't see Fleshjack doing.