This movie is patently ridiculous.
You are very right that it is beautiful to look at, but there is nothing there. NOTHING. Zip. Zilch.
I have an issue of Vanity Fair from 2011 with Johnny Depp on the cover, and in it he was just "looking at the script", thinking about doing it with Armie Hammer, who for some reason, was cast as The Lone Ranger. Why didn't Johnny Depp play The Lone Ranger?
Him playing Tonto is fucking stupid. It really is. It shows how "quirky" Johnny can be- to the point where it's banal.
I love the guy- he takes risks no one else would take, he is a huge HST student (it was Johnny who found The Rum Diary manuscript buried in Hunter's basement) and he narrated the best film on the Doors ever made.
But it's choices like The Lone Ranger that take his exalted reputation and throw it into the slums of Hollywood schlock.
It's obvious Tonto (and his Big Giant Nuts, LOL) has a little Captain Jack Sparrow in him- which should offend any red man.
My roommate had a point: there are millions of unemployed Native actors who could've NAILED Tonto and given their career a jumpstart. But no, they let Johnny Depp stroke his quirky cock. Did you see that dead bird on his head??? Yeah, Tonto sure looked like that, Kimosabe....WTF is Johnny doing? WTF is Gore Verbinski doing??
The Lone Ranger is a Disney turkey.
Avoid. Because it's Devoid.
Of anything worth seeing.
It's cringe-worthy, actually. A Lavish empty "slapstick western"
Last edited by Johann; 07-10-2013 at 02:11 PM.
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