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What do you do with a film like The Lone Ranger?

There's a scene in The Lone Ranger that encapsulates much of what is wrong with the film. In it, Tonto and the Potential Lone Ranger (he hasn't accepted the job yet) are sitting in front of a campfire at night. A rabbit is roasting on the spit. Quietly, gently, a group of rabbits gently bobs into view. Tonto, making some remark about nature being out of whack, tears off a chunk of rabbit meat and throws it to the curious bunnies...who erupt into a carnivorous, cannibalistic feeding frenzy. ( Tim the Enchanter would cry, "See? See? I warned ya...") That scene is completely insane. It doesn't make a lick of sense, doesn't have a thing to do with the story, and adds nothing to the story. It's only there because someone thought it would look cool. The entire film is like that. It is stuffed full of crap that someone thought would look cool, with no consideration as to whether any of these cool things would contribute to a story. The film made its first c