IMO, they should have gone dark with it, instead of making it some family-oriented slapstick silly-assed action farce. But I guess Disney doesn't do that.

Although I doubt we'll be seeing Lone Ranger II anytime soon.

This movie looks hideous.


It just looks horrible. I'd probably watch 15 min of it at home if it were on.


I would rather watch reruns of The Lone Ranger than this movie.

Everyone signed a three picture deal, save Johnny, who signed a one-picture deal. If this is successful and he likes the script, he'll likely be in for a second.

But as of now, he's not contractually obligated.

the budget was cut also

It was cut at one point.

They cut out the VFX (which would have been very expensive) because originally, the story involved the Lone Ranger & Tonto versus Aliens. But with the box office failure of Cowboys and Aliens, the story was re-written. But, the budget went back up to $250 but by filming the overwhelming majority in New Mexico (which gives a 40% rebate for filming there), the producers pocketed the extra money.

I actually enjoyed Cowboys and Aliens. A bit goofy, but fun.

Was it Aliens? I read it was versus werewolves (not that this would have been any better).

I tried to watch it on HBO but couldn't get through it (probably in the wrong mood). I'll definitely give it a go in the future because it's a novel concept with great actors.

I was told aliens but maybe they had a bunch of different alternatives/ideas floating around.

I'll probably check it out with my son this weekend. I'm a sucker for most of Bruckheimers slick action flicks. It's pretty obvious they are trying to recreate the PoTC magic.

If it had at any point looked like it was any good, I'd have actually been all over it. I used to watch all kinds of Lone Ranger back in the day (read: the 80s) on Disney channel. Zorro, too. Used to love Zorro. And the Swamp Fox.

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I thought the Zorro reboot with Banderas was excellent. Probably a prime example of how to update an old property right. The sequel wasn't that good though.

The first Zorro movie with Hopkins and Banderas was entertaining - never saw the second one because it got such shitty reviews and I figured it was just a cash grab.

Yeah, I absolutely agree. The first movie was very well done, Banderas was note-perfect in that role in that he could play it tongue-in-cheek but pull of the leading man thing, and Catherine Zeta Jones was smoking hot.

Has anyone seen Jonah Hex? I've wanted to attempt, but heard it was bad. ,