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You have got to be kidding me!!!

posted 21 years ago by alapon77
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NO! No way! What is going on with America today? What's happened to all the MEN? You know, them "manly men"? Why is it that every time I turn around, we're idolizing another Backstreet Boy? You mean to tell me that this bare-chested, pouty-lipped, skinny frat-daddy who looks like any other Backstreet yahoo on the WB network is now playing the heroically mysterious, timelessly celebrated, masculinely-idolized Lone Ranger? Somebody hit me (baby, one more time!).

Ok, so I'm knocking it even though I haven't seen it. Do I really have to see it, though? Sure, the story could be good and all, but just look at the promo-cover (if you've seen it on your newspaper TV guide). He's wearing a navy blue velvet disco shirt and leather pants! Is this sex-appeal? Is this sex-appeal for 1866? Is this what you want, ladies? Pretty boys? Pretty boys who look like they still have to abide by their curfew? Do you like effeminate-looking men? Who casts these people? Where do they get their information?

Some people could say the same thing about Smallville. But keep in mind that that is supposed to be Superman as a teenager. If THIS is supposed to be the adventures of the Lone Ranger in the teen years, then the title should indicate this.

Any objections?

[–] gcarmenc 21 years ago

Well here I am 20 more min. to go till it ends. I got to say I was hoping for more. I went to see if this is a pilot or just a one time movie. Well bad news and good news. Good news it is a pilot. Bad news the show will go back in time to there tean years. Ok I could over look all this fam boy look. But for a new show about kids? Man come on WB. Some people was real shows. This could be a good one and they are killing it.

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[–] 12Charlie 21 years ago

Well, Klinton Spillsbury can now relax and consider himself lucky that since this piece of crap film came out, he is no longer registered in film history as stariing in the worse Lone Ranger film ever made.
This PC T.V. garbage is the worse, poorly written, acted, directed, produced, piece of garbage ever made.
Typical of the WB network
Nobody did a better job than Clayton Moore.

[–] david_boring 20 years ago

But isn't this trash the exact type of garbage the WB seem to love churning out so much? Just basically brainless vehicles for bland male leads to take off their shirts a lot and land lots of Abercrombie and Fitch catalogues by Bruce Webber? The only reason abominations like these even get made is because some undersexed executives want to put more pouting pretty boys in those slow mo promo spots the WB seem to love so much, rotating slowly to the latest Smash Mouth/ Vitamin C/ Dido monstrosity. The actual plot/ content is not so important to them. See also: Young McGyver with Jared Padalecki, that Gilmore Girls spinoff with Milo Ventimiglia, One Tree Hill...the list goes on, really

[–] Steve-177 20 years ago

You used the right amount of words and the correct words to judge this so-called movie. After viewing the first 10 minutes of the movie recorded on my vcr, the machine had actually stopped recording on it's own. I guess even my vcr had better tastes than WB and it couldn't take anymore. After watching the 10 minutes, I had watched far more than I needed for a review score.... Stinks!

[–] elli410 19 years ago

hey guys,
first of all- i am from germany so there might be some grammar or word mistakes in the following text!
Just read your reviews of the lone ranger. I havent seen the movie yet, but i am going to watch it tonight,even if most of you guys would not recommend it.
You know what, it appears to me that -at least the men, who have stated their opinion on this site,are probably just terribly jealous. Maybe even hurt that most of modern women consider boys like the leading character murray as handsome. I think you just didn`t get that this version of the lone ranger is supposed to be a movie for another target- teenanger!I guess most of you are bearded men with a permanent smell of sweat- and of course rather lonesome--and you are simply afraid of staying alone all your life-- life has been very depressing for you..right?
so far,

have an nice less depressing life--- just accept that women¬s demandings have been changed- you are not required anymore

[–] cksblackbelt 19 years ago

As a warm-blooded female, I actually agree with them. The original Lone Ranger (and the best), Clayton Moore, had sex appeal that is classic and never ending. I found him comparable to Cary Grant - graceful and steady. Chad Michael Murray, though much closer than my age, may be quite handsome, but he is made up to like a little boy, complete with doe eyes. The pouty I'm-sensitive-but-with-rock-hard-abs looks is incredibly popular, a la *NSync, but it's not quality, and I don't blame any guys who are disgusted with it.

I was the target audience for this flick, and I found it offensive and an affront the message of the Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger don't get no WOMEN! And he certainly doesn't have those kinds of dreams about them, on camera at any rate. It was all about honesty, decency, and the American Way. It's a shame that this try couldn't have shot for a noble message, too. Sex sex sex sex sex - is anyone else bored with the modern depiction of it?

[–] DeerKillerBeemer 18 years ago

If you knew anything about the Lone Ranger, you would know that Clayton Moore was NOT the ORIGINAL Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger was not originally developed for television, but for radio. Clayton Moore was one of the first men to portray the legendary hero on TELEVISION and in MOVIES--but he was not the original. And I would know.

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[–] vpilutis 17 years ago

What a small world my VCR also had problems taping this junk

[–] jonesian1 20 years ago

this piece of garbage just made it to HBO in China and with not much to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon we watched it. you are so right alapon77!!! this guy will have sand kicked in his face for the rest of his life! WB didnt even have the sense to dub in a bass voiced "Hi Ho Silver away" or maybe they were waiting for the guy's voice to break??

[–] norbi_u 19 years ago

I hate these cheap-ass movies.. modern cowboy crap
this has got to be the worst movie since titanic

[–] cowboytex90 17 years ago

i watchit online and nearly puked from disgust of what they have done to my childhood hero its disgusting and makes me wanna go and burn the WB studios down

[–] vpilutis 17 years ago

No one saying the errors that were made on this film.
1, The Ranger's real name is John Reid why did they feel they had to give him a different name?

2, Tonto and John were boy hood friends.

This was just as bad as calling Superman Bruce Wayne and Batman Clark Kent.

BTW when I worked at Paramount Pictures. there were two gents named Wayne (First name) and Bruce (Last name) and yes Bruce was gay.

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[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 16 years ago

This abomination was so bad it left skid marks in the toilet bowl when I flushed. Klinton Spilsbury just lost his spot in "Trivial Pursuit" as the worst Lone Ranger.

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