tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post1683880692751297272..comments2024-03-05T21:05:36.848-05:00Comments on CommentaramaFilms: Film Friday: The Lone Ranger (2013)AndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-83834397212664948602014-05-25T05:49:49.824-04:002014-05-25T05:49:49.824-04:00Amusingly, the failure of the character was foresh...Amusingly, the failure of the character was foreshadowed decades ago by Rustler's Rhapsody:<br /><br />Rex O'Herlihan: You're not a good guy at all! <br />Bob Barber: I'm a lawyer, you idiot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-42529437771576534272014-04-28T12:58:28.155-04:002014-04-28T12:58:28.155-04:00You know how sometimes you get a premonition, a gu...You know how sometimes you get a premonition, a gut feeling, that a movie is going to suck from the word "go"? Well, this was such a movie. You have merely confirmed my biases with your excellent takedown. <br /><br />I believe that it is safe to say that any modern Hollywood movie that in any way, shape, or form involves American Indians will be used as an excuse to bash the evil pale-face. Which is a shame, because there are great stories that could be told, and legitimate grievances that American Indians are more than justified in having against the government of the United States.<br /><br />This looked like a stupid, awful, dumb, and stupid movie. Did I mention stupid?Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16946742995687817751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-40344932272822551932014-04-28T11:38:07.788-04:002014-04-28T11:38:07.788-04:00Koshcat, You're welcome!
Thanks Pike, I'l...Koshcat, You're welcome!<br /><br />Thanks Pike, I'll fix that.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-4939614133951566732014-04-28T08:56:23.045-04:002014-04-28T08:56:23.045-04:00Just a related note off topic: Andrew: the summati...Just a related note off topic: Andrew: the summation of the "Best of Bond" does not have link on the Bondarama home page, unless I missed it. PikeBishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761380937971970762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-57152950082556361662014-04-27T17:50:02.697-04:002014-04-27T17:50:02.697-04:00I want to thank you again for saving me from wasti...I want to thank you again for saving me from wasting 2 hours of my life.Koshcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552108950848576633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-74804324099330152872014-04-26T12:58:03.047-04:002014-04-26T12:58:03.047-04:00PikeBishop, The trailer was the ending... only wit...PikeBishop, The trailer was the ending... only with a voice over.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-45214861994948109242014-04-26T11:14:20.368-04:002014-04-26T11:14:20.368-04:00Andrew: What ending? As I said the trailer convin...Andrew: What ending? As I said the trailer convinced me not waste a minute of my life or a precious brain cell or two watching this turkey.PikeBishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761380937971970762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-4565090385846827092014-04-25T21:02:05.509-04:002014-04-25T21:02:05.509-04:00Mycroft, They actually made a point in interviews ...Mycroft, They actually made a point in interviews of saying how they waited until near the end to play that so that audiences would be thrilled when it finally happened. First of all, that's a lie. They play it early on. Secondly, I wasn't thrilled. It felt like the final slap from the film.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-71636730235360968962014-04-25T21:00:56.752-04:002014-04-25T21:00:56.752-04:00PikeBishop, I hear yeah! And what you are pointin...PikeBishop, I hear yeah! And what you are pointing out was the ending that was supposed to save this turkey -- it felt less real than all rest.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-69709682566126205352014-04-25T20:59:15.528-04:002014-04-25T20:59:15.528-04:00Jason, That's exactly the kind of moment in th...Jason, That's exactly the kind of moment in this film that annoyed me. They actually point the camera at the horse to let you watch it crap and then drag the hero through it. That's not even childish, it's just pathetic.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-66425397644283543942014-04-25T20:03:37.091-04:002014-04-25T20:03:37.091-04:00I did see the movie in the theater. Shortly afterw...I did see the movie in the theater. Shortly afterward, I thought of another, much better movie I saw years ago, The Mask of Zorro. Another flick that brought back a popular, old-school pulp hero, only that one was a lot more fun. This movie was ugly, overlong, and just plain weird. I paraphrase from this movie’s Tonto: “There is something wrong with this movie.”<br /><br />And oh yeah, how about that scene where the horse took a crap on the ground and then our unconscious “hero” gets dragged across it? Oh har har. <br />Jasonhttp://www.rigelchase.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-102326484298235762014-04-25T19:15:31.956-04:002014-04-25T19:15:31.956-04:00This post needs the William Tell Overture
http://w...This post needs the William Tell Overture<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSE1GrQVzCQ<br />by Glen Campbell on guitar!Mycrofthttp://www.mycrofth4.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-66498520148220893352014-04-25T18:23:44.242-04:002014-04-25T18:23:44.242-04:00I scratched this one off my list with the trailer....I scratched this one off my list with the trailer. Does everything have to be this over the top, insanely unrealistic action BS? Guys riding horses on top of train cars....guys riding horses in train cars.....guys jumping off of 90 foot railroad trestles on to the coal bed of the tender of the train passing on the perpendicular tracks at the bottom of the valley...................what???????????????? This and I am sick of this hyper-kinetic Hong Kong-chop suey fight scenes where you can't make out what's going on.PikeBishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761380937971970762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-54519490511085104502014-04-25T17:27:35.287-04:002014-04-25T17:27:35.287-04:00Ty, You know what? When I watched the film, somet...Ty, You know what? When I watched the film, something about that struck me as "off," but I didn't go look it up and I didn't remember that issue after the next 20 minutes of annoyance blew away my patience. Thanks for pointing that out!AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-15035019136146589882014-04-25T17:26:29.835-04:002014-04-25T17:26:29.835-04:00shawn, I had the same reaction. I was very much p...shawn, I had the same reaction. I was very much prepared to like this film and to dismiss the critics as just whiners... but they weren't just whiners. This film just stunk. And at its core is the problem that I really disliked the hero and I found Tonto to be an annoying distraction. That makes it really hard to care about anything in the film.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-74268442380307394202014-04-25T17:24:44.148-04:002014-04-25T17:24:44.148-04:00djskit, LOL! Right on!
This: it's almost tot...djskit, LOL! Right on!<br />This: <i>it's almost totally devoid of fun... it's ridiculously violent and yet inert.</i> is exactly the problem. There isn't a moment in this film that you just enjoy. It just slogs along from annoying scene to annoying scene. And even though there is a lot of action, none of it is the least bit interesting or exciting... it's just violent.<br />AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-50856350930727232562014-04-25T16:20:56.092-04:002014-04-25T16:20:56.092-04:00. . . . . . there was......I should have typed &qu.... . . . . . there was......I should have typed "were," ugh.<br />Ty in TXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-12154583531553411512014-04-25T16:19:14.082-04:002014-04-25T16:19:14.082-04:00Good review, but there was two anachronisms.
The...Good review, but there was two anachronisms. <br /><br />The first was the band playing ''Stars and Stripes Forever'' at the first ceremony<br /><br />Then after all the explosions and hoopla at the second ceremony, the band is playing ''The Star Bangled Banner."<br /><br />Souza hadn't written Stars yet (1890s) and Key's poem hadn't been set to music yet or adopted as the US anthem until the early 1900s.Ty in TXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-68929315348267954512014-04-25T13:21:00.547-04:002014-04-25T13:21:00.547-04:00This was a movie I wanted to like. I enjoy western...This was a movie I wanted to like. I enjoy westerns and I really liked Verbinski's and Depp's earlier collaboration so when the bad reviews started rolling in, I said to myself "Aw, it's just all the babies who said there was only one good "Pirates" movie". But nope, for once the critics were right- this one is a stinker. As you said Andrew- neither the Lone Ranger nor Tonto are likeable and so it makes it very hard to root for them or be interested in the story they have to tell. Scott save your money and your time, pass this one by.shawnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-43851456341035454272014-04-25T13:15:21.859-04:002014-04-25T13:15:21.859-04:00I think I mentioned this before, but I09 had devas...I think I mentioned this before, but I09 had devastating take-down of this movie..The opening line:<br />"People complain that The Lone Ranger is boring, that it's almost totally devoid of fun except for the final 10 minutes, that it's ridiculously violent and yet inert. And all of these things are true — but you have to understand, it's all part of a calculated strategy, to sink far enough to burrow all the way to the infarcted heart of the terrible superhero origin story.<br /><br />The goal is to show you who is to blame for the crappiness of so many superhero origin movies — you — and to punish you for allowing movies like The Lone Ranger to exist."<br /><br />djskithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13497045723185560102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-79182833714961918352014-04-25T11:27:37.843-04:002014-04-25T11:27:37.843-04:00Scott, If you have a different reaction, let us kn...Scott, If you have a different reaction, let us know. I was prepare to like this, but they just made it impossible.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-28407793953471202152014-04-25T11:26:33.148-04:002014-04-25T11:26:33.148-04:00KRS, This is a turd all around. It's a smart ...KRS, This is a turd all around. It's a smart decision to skip this one.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-3437118184638791872014-04-25T11:24:19.977-04:002014-04-25T11:24:19.977-04:00Voz, I'm not a fan of the original, so that wa...Voz, I'm not a fan of the original, so that wasn't a huge deal for me... BUT it was obvious to me the whole time that fans of the original were going to be upset. They really crapped all over the original characters.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-54577533063702850852014-04-25T11:18:20.044-04:002014-04-25T11:18:20.044-04:00tryanmax, That's a point I definitely want to ...tryanmax, That's a point I definitely want to get across. The problem for me wasn't the politics. It wasn't the attack on the Lone Ranger property. It wasn't even that it wasn't a good western. All those things were problems, but THE fundamental problem was that this was just an annoying, unpleasant film. In scene after scene, they seemed to go out of their way to do annoying, stupid things.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-20475689968899193462014-04-25T11:10:14.467-04:002014-04-25T11:10:14.467-04:00Scott, this is one of the few films that I would s...Scott, this is one of the few films that I would say don't even waste your free Redbox rental on it. Wait for it to show up on something you already subscribe to. tryanmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881154741574720094noreply@blogger.com