The Lone Ranger was....

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Much better than expected! I really enjoyed it. They kept a lot of the elements of the original character. My big worry of the film was with Johnny Depp. It seems that ever since he did Jack Sparrow, he has played every role as a caricature of himself (and that's bad). This movie is no different, but being a slightly odd, off-the-wall Tanto actually works. I really liked it.

If you had told me before the movie started that they were going to break out the old William Tell theme song for the penultimate scene, I would have assumed it would have been really hokey - but that worked too.

 

I haven't seen it (and will probably wait for DVD), but from what I read it got crushed at the box office and by the critics. They are calling it this year's John Carter.

 

I saw it and I thought it was ok.

Then again I also thought John Carter was ok as a movie but suffered from being a forgotten/out of date text and not the best marketing.

The latter, thankfully, suffered from only a little Dixie "Lost Cause" theme towards the beginning.

 

Forgotten? Out of date? John Carter was only so-so because they DIDN'T keep to the "forgotten/out of date" classic novel.

I'll probably see Lone Ranger when it hits DVD or Amazon ... Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University are the highest priority right now....

 

I've seen both, and I highly recommend the former, but not the latter. If you liked DM1, then you'll also like DM2. I liked Monsters Inc, but Monsters University did nothing for me. I thought it was pretty bad actually. DM2 is also cool if you see it in 3D, because the glasses they give you are minion glasses.

I should probably add some clarification on the Lone Ranger as well. It isn't an A movie. My son loves cowboys and masked men of all types, be they superheroes, or just hidden identity types like Zorro (he loves the old Zorro movie with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins). So a masked cowboy was a no-brainer in terms of something we had to see. That said, I had very little hope of seeing something that was even decent. So when you expect bad, and you get something that's at least OK, you feel pretty good walking out. For me, the Lone Ranger benefited from exceedingly low expectations.

 

I saw it, I liked it, but I thought it was too gory and intense for small kids who were in the theatre. I think it deserves better than the reviewers are crucifying it with, but I'm not delusionally thinking it should be a blockbuster.

I hate the frame story. It worked in The Princess Bride, but not so much as done here.

 

I didn't think it was exceptionally gory. It got a PG rating for a reason though. Let's put it this way, my son had no problem with Zorro, and this wasn't any more gory than that, and he didn't have any issue with the Lone Ranger either. Was it awesome? No. Was it better than a lot of the reviews coming in give it credit? Yes. Worth at least your time as a rental.

 

You are officially on notice, sir. That movie is not old. If it were, what would that say about us? To clarify, any movie made before Star Wars is old. Anything after is not. Yes, yes, I just made that rule up, but that isn't going to stop me from holding you to it anyway.

 

but we ARE old. Unless you guys have found the fountain of youth, 15 years was enough for me to end my young adulthood.

 

Mrs Bruno won't watch a B&W movie. That's the definition of "old movie" in our house -- I propose we adopt that same rule here.

 

It's funny how modern tech had affected the concept of 'old' in media, and on kind of an alarming scale. It used to be that kids thought any movie where there were no cell phones was old. Now they think any movie that doesn't have state of the art cell phones is old. In other words, a one year old movie is old.

 

That's pretty much my definition too. Well, B&W and without voices.

 

That reminds me of a scene from the movie "In and Out" with Kevin Kline. The fashion model girlfriend is whining about being in a small town, the Matt Dillion character leaves her in the way-behind-the-times hotel room after telling her to "Eat something! You look like a twizzle stick!"

She's frustrated and tries to call her agent. She picks up the handset to the phone, is horrified by the cord attached to it, and then pushes the numbers in the dial.

 

The Lone Ranger was a murderer

This is an oldie... The Lone Ranger shot Tonto because he found out" kemosabie" meant chicken s..t. ha ha ha.......