Bloody Power Rangers Fan Film Takes a Dig at Gritty Reboots — wired.com

The term “gritty reboot” has been bandied about so many times since Batman Begins that it has become a catchall dig at any attempt to revive a familiar pop-culture property. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reboot currently slated for summer 2016 is no different, but this fan film shows what could happen if the film went full throttle on the Grit Factor. Created by veteran music video director Joseph Kahn (Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name,” Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”), whose feature directing credits include the amazingly terrible Torque and slightly underrated Detention, Power/Rangers is everything the 2016 movie will probably never be. That’s because Kahn thinks the gritty reboot trend is crap, and when he made his entirely unauthorized fan film, he went overboard.

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