In the office where I work at, where most are action movie junkies, I asked around ‘who's going to go see Lone Ranger?’ Not one said they were.
Even Will Smith got more respect from this crew.
But hey! Wait a minute! There's a demographic which could save this movie! Parents bringing kids! Just in case that might have saved the movie, Bruckheimer pulled all the stops to ensuring it was so utterly violent and fast paced that few parents would consider bringing kids.
The paltry $45 million dollar opening weekend doesn't even cover the media buy for advertising of this bomb. And the reason was: No one thought to think of who would want to see this movie.
Last year Disney made “John Cater”, who is he? A big budget flop.
Yes. Grandparents who remember the radio and TV series think maybe they can take their grandchildren. Then they watch the trailer full of explosions, see a weird Tonto with a dead bird on his head, and look at the PG-13 rating. Game over.
Disney is being run by idiots. If Walt were alive, he would clean house.
One of the few movies I’ve seen at the theater. Great effects, but they butcher the Lone Ranger and Tonto as heroic, virtuous figures.
Lone Ranger is portrayed as an out-of-place milk-toast, academic lawyer, who won’t fire a gun because he’s scared of bullets.
Tonto is portrayed as a stupid spiritualist who lacks fear,...typical Johnnie Depp persona, take the Pirates of the Caribbean and recast him as a lonesome Indian.
Movie had lots of opportunity to make American heros, but instead turns them into comedic wimps.
” . . .. a badly done remake of a classic television show . . ..”
Badly done, fer shur, but not a “remake” of anything, imo.