The Lone Ranger

[Billy G.]

I can't wait to see it. I thought I'd never say this, but Johnny Depp has become my new favorite actor.

I can't but wonder if this movie had been a Tim Burton production that it would have had a bigger draw.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

I can't but wonder if this movie had been a Tim Burton production that it would have had a bigger draw.

Unfortunately not. The fan base simply wasn't there and it opened against Despicable Me 2.

Burton's take on Lone Ranger would have been a little different, to be certain, and I probably would have enjoyed it better than Mr. Verbinski's vision.

[sgt.null]

IMDB gives Lone Ranger's take as $48.9M over the long weekend. Given its estimated production budget of $250M (really? wow)

it's a bloody western, what could have cost $250m? I prefer my westerns sparse, a morality tale. give me the man with no name anyday...

[Hashi Lebwohl]

I do not know what cost so much. As I noted, I can only guess that Disney figured that their name + a mountain of money + Johnny Depp + Gore Verbinski = huge profits. Django Unchained, although only partially a Western, had a budget of $100M and was a huge success.

[Orlion]

I do not know what cost so much. As I noted, I can only guess that Disney figured that their name + a mountain of money + Johnny Depp + Gore Verbinski = huge profits. Django Unchained, although only partially a Western, had a budget of $100M and was a huge success.

They also got a black man to play a black man

Here are the reasons I won't see The Lone Ranger...some silly, some a matter of taste:

1) It's one member short of the unholy triad. There's Depp and Carter, all it is messing to be a complete mess is Burton. To see this movie would be like staring out your dinner plate, sighing "meat and potatoes AGAIN?"

2) It's a spectacle, not a western. Those scenes in the trailer where the Lone Ranger is riding his horse on and through the train and barely dodging everything is silly. I would expect such over-the-top action for something like Cowboys & Aliens, but the Lone Ranger? Come on!

3) I'm still bitter about John Carter bombing.

4) I would have no one to see it with. To me, watching movies in the theatres should be a social activity, though I do see some movies alone. Obviously, this is not going to be one them.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

They also got a black man to play a black man

*laugh* Yes, there is that..... Disney has an awful record about how it has portrayed Native Americans over the decades.

The Lone Ranger counts as a superhero of the Old West, so we expect such over-the-top stunts. No one in real life *ever* rode a horse on top of a moving train--that would be a quick suicide for both rider and horse.

[Menolly]

The Lone Ranger counts as a superhero of the Old West, so we expect such over-the-top stunts. No one in real life *ever* rode a horse on top of a moving train--that would be a quick suicide for both rider and horse.

Wouldn't the same have been said about these Yakima Canutt stunts? And these have gone on to be considered legends.

[In John Ford's Stagecoach]Doubling for an Indian, he leaped from horseback onto the horses of the stagecoach. Wayne’s character was then scripted to shoot him, whereupon Canutt fell BETWEEN the horses, temporarily grabbed the yoke, and let go, letting himself pass BENEATH the horses and the stagecoach. This stunt was so legendary that even Steven Spielberg paid tribute to it in Raiders of the Lost Arc when Indiana Jones lowered himself under a truck.