The Lone Ranger

[MR Black]

I'll give the Lone Ranger this much, Hans Zimmer's rendition of "The William Tell Overture" is magnificent.

I read somewhere that Zimmer hates The Tell Overture and that
he thinks the composer Rossini is a hack, and that Verbinski told
Zimmer he had no choice but to use it.

 

[TheVileOne]

LOL, some people could say the same thing about a lot of Zimmer's work.

 

[Lighthouse]

I've listened to "Finale" 4 times now. I think it might be my favorite hero theme of the summer. 10 year old me is actually fantasizing riding a horse to this.

 

[rayc1971]

tracking at 29mill opening weekend yikes!

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I still see 60-70mil tracking for the 5 day Holiday weekend according to THR and Variety. That 29mil is probably for the weekend proper.

 

[Bruce Malone]

If that number is true is this essentially DOA? I mean are industry experts rolling out the b-word yet?

 

[Tony Stark]

2M from Tuesday shows and midnights. Not very encouraging. DM2 looks to be doing terrific though.

Considering what happened in '81 and that was when the character was much more in the minds of people from years of re-runs of the 50's series and numerous cartoon shows, I can't say I'm surprised.

They needed to make a movie that transcended the character, and it looks like the negative reviews are turning off folks to the film.

 

[Mysteryman]

I just read a review that said:

"Hammer’s a good actor, but his Lone Ranger is the wimpiest action hero in recent memory."

Any truth to this?

When considering this statement,
One should always remember The Green Hornet .

 

[Tony Stark]

When considering this statement,
One should always remember The Green Hornet .

How ironic that in comic lore, the Green Hornet is a descendent of the Lone Ranger.

I will admit that's one part of the movie, I didn't really like. At the end they show that the guy can kick some butt, but they go out of their way to make him look like a whimp for the first 2/3'rd of the film.

 

[lespaul59]

I still see 60-70mil tracking for the 5 day Holiday weekend according to THR and Variety. That 29mil is probably for the weekend proper.

BoxOffice.com is predicting $47 million for the five day total in an artical posted this morning.

 

[lime]

The interesting thing is that the general audience seems to like the movie and enjoy it (based on review) but critics universally hate it. Strange.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The interesting thing is that the general audience seems to like the movie and enjoy it (based on review) but critics universally hate it. Strange.

If you like the Pirates/Depp/Disney formula, you are probably going to like this.

 

[TheVileOne]

The movie could've been better. Verbinski and Depp are way too indulgent in this

At a budget of $250 million this is essentially DOA.

 

[Ultimatehero]

The interesting thing is that the general audience seems to like the movie and enjoy it (based on review) but critics universally hate it. Strange.

Not really. Outside of Fast 6, critics seem to be really loopy this summer. They start off agreeing with the audience then somehow quickly became the polar opposite to the audience more times than not.

 

[Spideyfan93]

Going to see this in an hour, thanks to MoviePass I don't need to worry about paying 13 bucks for a movie that is being pummeled right now. Hoping for something...something.

 

[Autonet]

How ironic that in comic lore, the Green Hornet is a descendent of the Lone Ranger.

I will admit that's one part of the movie, I didn't really like. At the end they show that the guy can kick some butt, but they go out of their way to make him look like a whimp for the first 2/3'rd of the film.

Where can I see numbers on DM2? They marketed the hell out of that movie. Before my PacRim screening there must've been 3 DM2 commercials and an AMC tie-in.

 

[Tony Stark]

Where can I see numbers on DM2? They marketed the hell out of that movie. Before my PacRim screening there must've been 3 DM2 commercials and an AMC tie-in.

4.7 M is what I last saw.

 

[terry78]

I noticed a lot of adult themed trailers in front this one, like World's End and Anchorman.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

BoxOffice.com is predicting $47 million for the five day total in an artical posted this morning.

That would be a disastrous result. 2mil from it's Tuesday/Wednesday night opening says that the opening weekend isn't likely to be very big. It's going to have to explode today.

 

[lime]

If you like the Pirates/Depp/Disney formula, you are probably going to like this.

That's good. I love the Pirates of the Caribbean movies!

 

[Tony Stark]

The movie could've been better. Verbinski and Depp are way too indulgent in this

At a budget of $250 million this is essentially DOA.

I agree about Verbinski and Depp. To me the moments when the movie misfires, are some of the moments you're talking about. Like I said in my review, I get what they were going for with the flashback scenes, but it flat out didn't work and felt out of place.

 

[Tony Stark]

BTW, if this film ends up bombing, it still holds nothing on the 1981 film. Budget wise this film may lose more money, but the '81 film was a complete disaster from start to end.

For those that don't know the backstory:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/07/02/lone-ranger-klinton-spilsbury/

 

[TheVileOne]

That movie cost $18 million. I know its 1981, but this movie cost $250 million. Probably even more with P&A.

 

[Tony Stark]

That movie cost $18 million. I know its 1981, but this movie cost $250 million. Probably even more with P&A.

Yes but that movie only made 2m. This movie even if it bombs will easily make around 100m. Plus in 81, that was a massive budget. Plus you didn't have all the off camera issues that film had.

At worst this is, this summer's Green Lantern, and I think this is a much better film than that was, even with its problems.

 

[TheVileOne]

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=legendoftheloneranger.htm

Nope, the movie made $12 million, not $2 million.

I'd say this movie has a greater chance of losing more money unless the international take is like outstanding, but w'ever.

I'd agree this was better than Green Lantern, but even still that's a bigger loss than 1981's Lone Ranger. Both this and Green Lantern.

Also this movie did have off-camera issues. Rich Ross didn't want to greenlight this thing because the budget was astronomical. He was getting dogged in the press for not pushing forward a project with the whole Pirates team reuniting. The crew cut the budget down to a mere $215 million (seriously?). Ross seemed to reluctantly give it the greenlight before he got axed. Then the movie ends up going over budget to about $250 million anyway.

My thought? I think Verbinski if he really wanted to make a western needed to do his own story and not the Lone Ranger. And spend about half the money on it.

I mean Pirates was based on a theme park ride so I get the team had kind of like the magic touch back then, but at the same time that movie cost about half of what Lone Ranger did.