Youch! Lone Ranger review...

[mrsv98]

Needless to say, Michael Phillips did not like the movie:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/site/sc-mov-0701-lone-ranger-20130703,0,850647.column

and it gets even worse on Rotten Tomatoes where it is running at 18%

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lone_ranger/

Think we will skip this one and go see Monsters U this weekend. Ouch!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I saw that review and thought the previews matched the review perfectly.

Monsters U was just so-so IMO

 

[Handbag Lady]

The critics and reviewers must be smoking crack. Or they envy the Gore/Bruckehimer/Depp triangle. Or they're smoking crack.

I saw The Lone Ranger on Sunday and I loved it. It was action-packed, a nice plot-filled movie and the ending sequence was quite the ride. And I'm picky! I wasn't that excited about the end result of Monsters University.

I think you're missing out by not seeing this on the big screen.

Some of the scenes, shot in the Southwest, make you think like maybe you are there in the old west.

 

[minkydog]

Of course, these are the same critics that panned POTC when it came out. POTC was not a critical favorite but popular reaction was so strong that some critics changed their statements.

 

[palmtreegirl]

My first thought when I read bad reviews by critics is-I bet that movie is really good. lol

Twice recently I watched movies that rated high on rotten tomatoes and I thought they were terrible, I just wasted 2 hours of life bad. So I usually go audience meter instead.

Funniest review I ever read was one saying that Independence Day was unrealistic.......ummm..yeh...no kidding....LOL.

 

[powellrj]

Love Michael Phillips so I think I will go with his review since I usually agree with him!

 

[Handbag Lady]

My first thought when I read bad reviews by critics is-I bet that movie is really good. lol

Twice recently I watched movies that rated high on rotten tomatoes and I thought they were terrible, I just wasted 2 hours of life bad. So I usually go audience meter instead.

Funniest review I ever read was one saying that Independence Day was unrealistic.......ummm..yeh...no kidding....LOL.

Hahahahahaha!

The Lone Ranger is really good. I'm going again on Saturday to see it, that should tell you something right there!

 

[DznyCrzy11]

I never pay attention to what the critics say. What one person might not like, another might love. Best advice is to see it for yourself and develop your own conclusion.

Sent from my Galaxy SII

 

[tchrrx]

We're going to go watch it because we were on our Southwest Splendors ABD trip during filming, and I think it will be fun to see the scenery.

 

[tennvalgirl]

Johnny Depp is sans shirt.
The ladies of the DIS are going lol

 

[TLSnell1981]

Johnny Depp is sans shirt.
The ladies of the DIS are going lol

 

[akhenaten]

I mss Siskel and Ebert... I agree many reviewers are terrible.....Especially when it comes to family movies...

 

[bedogged]

We're going to go watch it because we were on our Southwest Splendors ABD trip during filming, and I think it will be fun to see the scenery.

I haven't seen the film, but I saw a preview that was followed by some sort of ad for Utah saying that you could visit and see the settings for the movie. I had to laugh as it was filmed in Santa Fe, NM!

 

[tennvalgirl]

I mss Siskel and Ebert... I agree many reviewers are terrible.....Especially when it comes to family movies...

Miss their show SO much I watched every week

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

It getting bad reviews means I should really like it. It is when a movie gets good reviews that I have to think hard about seeing it; more often than not the critics and I have opposite opinions about movies.

 

[merryweather20]

I mss Siskel and Ebert... I agree many reviewers are terrible.....Especially when it comes to family movies...

I had the misfortune to read a few of Roger's review and he wrote both of the two most poorly written movie reviews I've ever seen.

The first was for Ya-Ya Sisterhood, if he didn't like the movie... fine, but not getting the facts straight? He referred to a young actress as a "moppet whose name I remember not"... because apparently it didn't occur to him to do a yahoo search? Then he droned on endlessly that Vivi killed Sidda's siblings I just skimmed the current on-line version and he pawns the murder theory off on a fellow critic, and mercifully deleted the "moppet" part.

Then there was the review of the Scooby Doo sequel. He didn't actually watch the movie. The entire review was him droning on about how watching the movie would have been beneath him.

It wasn't long after that I stopped wanting to read them, even out of morbid curiosity.

 

[JenM]

The critics and reviewers must be smoking crack. Or they envy the Gore/Bruckehimer/Depp triangle. Or they're smoking crack.

I saw The Lone Ranger on Sunday and I loved it. It was action-packed, a nice plot-filled movie and the ending sequence was quite the ride. And I'm picky! I wasn't that excited about the end result of Monsters University.

I think you're missing out by not seeing this on the big screen.

Some of the scenes, shot in the Southwest, make you think like maybe you are there in the old west.

I know at least two other people who've seen it already as well, and they're saying the same thing. They LOVED it. One said he thought it was the best movie of the summer so far.

 

[JenM]

I had the misfortune to read a few of Roger's review and he wrote both of the two most poorly written movie reviews I've ever seen.

The first was for Ya-Ya Sisterhood, if he didn't like the movie... fine, but not getting the facts straight? He referred to a young actress as a "moppet whose name I remember not"... because apparently it didn't occur to him to do a yahoo search? Then he droned on endlessly that Vivi killed Sidda's siblings I just skimmed the current on-line version and he pawns the murder theory off on a fellow critic, and mercifully deleted the "moppet" part.

Then there was the review of the Scooby Doo sequel. He didn't actually watch the movie. The entire review was him droning on about how watching the movie would have been beneath him.

It wasn't long after that I stopped wanting to read them, even out of morbid curiosity.

In fairness, it was the Scooby Doo sequel. Can anyone blame him?

If you ever want to see Siskel & Ebert at their best, just watch them take down this old grouch on Nightline, after the release of Return of the Jedi in 1983:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB3V3qyZiFM

 

[jdb in AZ]

I haven't seen the film, but I saw a preview that was followed by some sort of ad for Utah saying that you could visit and see the settings for the movie. I had to laugh as it was filmed in Santa Fe, NM!

While the studio for the movie was in Santa Fe, the movie was filmed at a total of 16 different locations in New Mexico.

They also shot scenes in Canyon de Chelley in Arizona, and Monument Valley on the Utah/Arizona border. So technically, part of the movie was filmed in Utah.

 

[turkeymama]

It getting bad reviews means I should really like it. It is when a movie gets good reviews that I have to think hard about seeing it; more often than not the critics and I have opposite opinions about movies.