darthzilla99 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 5:21 pm
GodzillaFan1990's wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 4:19 pm
miguelnuva wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 12:23 pmThen why did power rangers do so bad when he was all over the marketing and the film.
How much more do you think G14 would have taken in?
Because at the time of G14. Bryan Cranston's popularity was at the height of its peak. Show ended around eight months before the film came out.
By the time Power Rangers came out it had been a few years so it probably settled down.
Power rangers had way more potential and publicity going on for it than Godzilla 2014.
1. Bryan Cranston.
2. Longer span of time since a Power Rangers movie was in theaters vs a Godzilla movie (17 years between the turbo pr movie and the 2017 movie vs. 15 years between Sony Godzilla 98 and Legendary Godzilla 2014. Even longer if you want to say the last MMPR movie vs. Power Rangers 2017.)
3. Elizabeth Banks star power as well.
4. Cameos by the original Green Ranger and Pink Ranger.
5. Popularity of super hero films.
6. First super hero film to have an lbgt super hero and an autistic super hero.
7. Bigger fanbase than Godzilla.
Everyone on Toho Kingdom was worried it was going to blow Kong Skull island out of the water. By every metric, Power Rangers 2017 should have at least had a bigger opening weakened than Godzilla 2014, yet KOTM made more money in a single weekend than Power Rangers total box office.
AFAIK the 2017 Power Rangers movie was under frequent ridicule by the general online populace well before it came out, due to it's attempt at more 'realistic' (the GA trend has been away from realism since mid-2010s) and ultimately uglier designs. That being said, going through your list:
1. Bryan Cranston is a disembodied, discoloured, and distorted head in the Power Rangers movie, and isn't focused on significantly in the marketing. In 2014, he's recognizably Bryan Cranston, plays a human character, and his dramatic monologues are the focus of much of the marketing. Also, like others have said, Bryan Cranston in 2014 is hot off the heels of Breaking Bad, which was still largely in public discussion. Breaking Bad fervor had died down significantly by 2017, and while still beloved, Bryan wasn't quite in the limelight like before.
2. I think that principle only applies to mega-cultural franchises, like Jurassic Park and Star Wars. If anything, those extra years are probably worse for Power Rangers.
3. No argument, but I did have to google to figure out who Elizabeth banks was.
4. I don't think that mattered all to much to the GA, nor was it particularly promoted.
5. While the movie definitely borrows a lot of superhero movie tropes, I think there's a decent level of separation by the general public of Power Rangers from superheroes.
6. Sure, in the same way that LeFou in Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast is the first openly gay Disney character.
7. I have no way to prove or deny that, but I'm fairly certain that, within certain limits, fandom size really has no impact over GA viewership. Also, in the hypothetical scenario that the Power Rangers fandom was big enough to have influence, it would be negative influence, due to distaste for the movie's rejection of the power rangers aesthetic that the fandom loves.
He would've survived the tsunami in Honolulu.
