The Lone Ranger release (After the 2014 Razzies)

Wow!  I had a totally different take after seeing the promos; "Yeah, finally, tonto is interesting!"  Very cool movie, too.  Dumb in places, but then so was Pirates . . . that's part of its charm.

This movie must be bad if it gets one star out of five. I never thought a movie like this could even get that low of a score!

We'd get along fine....my thoughts exactly! I had fun and so did the wife....topped off with a 5 Guys burger and it was a night!!

They have made good westerns for adults.  I can't recall what the age was that I have

read most TV programs are aimed at (all the adults I know almost break the remote in their frenzy to turn off, so-called "reality shows"...I watch The Great Race because I like to travel and they do get to different places...couldn't care less about the characters..they just get in the way of the scenery) but I don't think that target age qualified you for a driver's license.  The original Lone Ranger TV shows were

obviously low budget back lot filmings that were not staged in Mounument Valley.  They certainly held my interest as a kid.

To see one that was aimed at somebody with an I.Q. in positive numbers and produced by someone of Spielberg's ilk, that actually could be imagined as being history on

film,  I would shell out for.

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They have made good westerns for adults

Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) was quite a movie. Not a movie for kids.

Wow!  Two killers in one!  

Saw it earlier today.  It was Pirates of the Caribbean except set on the old West, which was pretty much what I was expecting, considering who the producers and directors and cast are and their styles of work.

That being said, I enjoyed it, but nowhere near as much as if it had been a more serious treatment of the character.  But in reality, this film was a vehicle for Johnny Depp and not the title character.

Andy

A good burger is my once a month treat!! Not only for health reasons but I'd rather spend that much on trains!!!

My wife and I saw it today.  It was not anywhere near a western version of Pirates.  It was a comedic, satirical, comic book depiction of the Lone Ranger (kinda glad it was not a serious version of him).  Johnny Depp actually did a good job as Tonto.  Just his facial expressions alone were good throughout the movie.  It's no serious drama with intrinsic values, it was just a fun movie.  We had some buttered popcorn for the first time in a long time.  It made the movie even better.  Matt

NDQY, you will enjoy the movie.  Matt

Wow...there are some hard tack movie fans and "critics" here.  Wonder what type of movies they DO like.

I also grew up watching the Lone Ranger runs also and liked it.  But I still liked this movie version also.  Matt

I think I saw this at the McCuaig Theater.  No popcorn, but they served wine!  Matt

Charlie, I think you will enjoy it.  Matt

AMEN TO THAT BROTHER!

Whatever happened to going to the movies just for some good old mindless fun? Does it always have to be an epic?, "true to the legend"?, historically accurate?, make us think? Does everyone think they can do or know better? Just about every movie that gets trashed by the critics usually does well in the box office, very few actually tank. I've already read critics who are trashing Despicable Me 2 because it doesn't carry the same feel or gets away from the original, for cripe sakes it's a cartoon! So don't hold too much stock in critics or others criticisms of a movie. How many of us have a favorite movie or TV show and have at least a half a dozen friends and family who think it's the stupidest thing THEY'VE ever seen? I like The Walking Dead, my wife hates it, I like Star Trek, lots of people hate it, I can't stand that version of A Christmas Carol that is more like a musical than a regular movie but it apparently is very popular. And my all time favorite is the folks who didn't like Polar Express because the characters eyes looked strange, really? That's your big hang up about this movie? My movie plans for the next few days? Superman, Despicable Me 2, The Lone Ranger and Monster University looks like I'll be eating a lot of popcorn!

Jerry

Well, I enjoy films like Lawrence of Arabia, The Sand Pebbles, Quiller Memorandum, Forbidden Planet, the original Day The Earth Stood Still, October Skies, Much Ado About Nothing(Kenneth Branaugh version), various ToHo Japanese monster/SciFi movies and a lot in between.  It all depends on my expectations.

Other films I can do without.  From what I've seen of the LR previews on TV and snipits online, it fails to meet my expectations and I can do without it.

Rusty

Nothing happened to them, Jerry!  There are plenty of "mindless fun" movies out there.  That's what disturbs some of us.  

Saw LR, has a bit of silliness to it that seems to work for the Pirates movies, but not this one. There is however a superb part when the Wilm Tell Overture is played and here comes the LR. My heart just jumped...best part. That's the way the whole movie should have been made, but this newer generation doesn't know about the classics. Make sure you see it in a theater that has a good sound system, you may never be able to replicate that part at home.

The movie is far from perfect.....but the part with WTO does make you sit up....like you did as a kid watching TV!! That was fun.

I've been bummed out on movies that are remakes of old TV shows for a long time. The new actors/producers never seem to get that certain "it" that made the original so good. When the first Batman movie came out with Michael Keaton, I was hoping for some campy fun like the old TV show. I was wrong. Not that it was a bad movie, it was more like the original comics than the TV series I loved as a kid. Not what I was hoping for. The Beverly Hillbillies was another of my favorite TV shows as a kid and the Jim Varney/Cloris Leachman remake was fair, but not near as fun as the original TV series.

I think movie makers have to make a decision between making something the old fogies that watched the original series will like or to produce an updated story to capture an audience that never saw the original. Kinda the way the Will Smith version of Wild, Wild, West changed things up for a new much younger audience. As a fan of the old series I didn't care for that movie, but I know lots of younger guys who did. I haven't seen the A-Team movie and a slu of others based on old TV shows for that reason. I probably won't see this new Lone Ranger either. Not that it is a bad movie, it's just not what I'm looking for. Guess the way I remember my favorite shows is tough to outdo by modern movie makers.  LOL