The Lone Ranger

So. My family and I watched the new Lone Ranger movie yesterday. Before I share with you my opinion of the movie, I'd like to add in a sort of disclaimer. Action movies aren't really my thing; I mostly watch them just because it's something I get to do with my family. But before you think my opinion is completely worthless, I do like the movies I've seen that come before and after The Avengers, and also the movie The Avengers itself.

Oh, and another quick disclaimer. I'll try to keep spoilers out of this, but this post might contain a couple anyways.

Now on to The Lone Ranger.

It was an entertaining movie, I guess. Or at least it had a lot of entertaining parts. But it also had a lot of really gross and/or irreverent parts. I probably wouldn't have used the word irreverent if my dad hadn't used it before, because I don't know anything about the original Lone Ranger. Was it a movie, a TV show, a comic strip? I don't know, but Daddy does, and says this movie wasn't very respectful towards the original.

I also felt like the main character changed with his clothes. One moment he was an incompetent city boy, the next he seemed completely at home in the saddle as his horse walked on a cliff. I don't remember him having a Texan accent when he was in city clothes, but I definitely noticed it in a couple of other scenes.

The captain from the US government also confused me. I thought he was a good guy acting on misguided principles or something like that, but he turned his back on the truth pretty quickly just because he didn't want to believe that he had slaughtered the innocent. Understandable that he didn't want to be responsible for such a cruel act, but unforgiveable that he blinded himself to that fact and thereby started working with the villains.

I do like the horse. Silver. The spirit horse. But how did he and the Indian manage to drag an unconscious John to the top of what looked like a column of dirt and a very unstable-looking man-made tiny platform???

All in all, I really wouldn't have minded if I never saw the movie. But this post is biased, so you may feel much differently about the movie. I respect that. And I will see you tomorrow. =)