"Lone Ranger" Filmmakers Blame Critics

[AstroManLuca]

"I think they were reviewing the budget, not reviewing the movie. The audience doesn't care what the budget is — they pay the same amount to see the movie if it costs a dollar or $20 million."

Funny, that's the exact opposite of what happens with video game reviews. Spend a lot on a game - ESPECIALLY if it has a huge marketing budget - and watch the 10/10s roll in.

 

[JimKiler]

so everyone in this thread says the movie is awful, but only 1 person in this thread has posted who has seen it, and he said it was bad.

but a couple other people (myself included) have posted that they know people who saw it and said it was fantastic.

i will definitely be seeing it when it comes to redbox. i thought it looked very entertaining, and word of mouth from people i know said it's a fun movie. the past has proven that ATOT is definitely not the place to get movie advice. most people here hate everything, even without even seeing it.

How many times do you have to watch movies like Battleship, Doom, Super Mario Bros, before you get jaded based on the trailers? I will hate on this movie regardless of whether i saw it. Yes i may watch it and like it but until the marketing department dupes me into thinking it looks good, or portrays a good movie as it is i will make fun of this movie.

This. They turn the concept upside down and PC it so anyone familiar with the Lone Ranger would not recognize it and are surprised it flopped? They could have written Tonto without all the Indian stereotypes and not made the Lone Ranger a clueless dumb ass.

You are on to something, dump the lone ranger, and do a movie about tonto and that would have potential and be original.

 

[purbeast0]

How many times do you have to watch movies like Battleship, Doom, Super Mario Bros, before you get jaded based on the trailers? I will hate on this movie regardless of whether i saw it. Yes i may watch it and like it but until the marketing department dupes me into thinking it looks good, or portrays a good movie as it is i will make fun of this movie.

you can hate on it all you want it doesn't bother me at all. it's just that taking someone, like your opinion on a movie, and actually making it matter, would be pretty stupid since you haven't seen it.

random internet forum members who have never seen the movie but claim it is awful

vs.

people i know in real life who have seen the movie and said it is a good fun movie

 

[Tim]

If you haven't seen the movie, you don't have the right to comment on it negatively or positively.

That's right, I'm talking to you.

 

[MotionMan]

i liked johnny depp in:

Agreed!

:thumbsup:

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

I don't think the Wild West is really something that very many people are interested in.

It's not the setting, its the acting and dialogue.

IMO, Unforgiven would make a ton of money and would win Best Picture if it was released this year.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

Even just going back like 15-20 years, and looking at something like Mask of Zorro or Stargate or Terminator 2... these were films which were certainly summer popcorn flicks with big budgets and plenty of silly aspects to them, but I don't think there were nearly as bad in the areas I've listed.

Hell, even Waterworld was not as bad as people say.

Those are all very good movies (Waterworld suffered from bad PR and cost overruns).

Those are movies that I will not turn off if I land on them while flipping channels.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

If you haven't seen the movie, you don't have the right to comment on it negatively or positively.

That's right, I'm talking to you.

In that case I will say this:

If you are going to have a budget that big, the trailer better look a lot better than the ones I have seen.

MotionMan

 

[Adrenaline]

My stepson saw it and enjoyed it. His taste in music is awful. So it's sfe to say that it sucks.

This made me lol.

I will watch the movie when it hits PPV most likely. It does look like it would be entertaining.

 

[Malak]

The only choice will be to raise ticket prices for blockbusters. However, people already complain about current ticket prices. It's already expensive to go see films in the cinema with snacks. Ultimately, Hollywood is going to have to get their budgets under control. Or else the blockbuster system will implode. Though that might not be such a bad thing if it means higher brow, lower budget films get more attention.

There's two problems with what you are saying:

1. Increasing prices at movie theaters is exactly the reason we are in this situation. While revenues went up when they did the big increase a while back, actual ticket sales went down. That means with the increasing number of blockbusters releasing every year, and fewer people going to the theater, the industry will fall apart. Increasing the prices will actually make it die faster.

2. Movie theaters are in charge, not hollywood. And the rest of us suffer because of it.