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Offline rpm

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The Lone Ranger
« on: July 04, 2013, 02:59:50 AM »
Just went to watch The Lone Ranger. Johnny Depp killed as Tonto. That's about all I have to say good about the film other than the homage to The Wild Bunch at the beginning. It went rapidly downhill from there. The only thing they got right were the names. They completely butchered the story. It went from absurd to cartoonish to just plain bad. No spoilers here, but the Transcontinental railway didn't connect in Texas, there are no mountains in Texas and Monument Valley is in Arizona. Too bad because this could have been a really great film with a halfway decent script. Instead, I left wanting my $12.50 and 2 1/2 hours back. :mad:
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« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2013, 04:25:38 AM »
I didn't hear any complaints about the accuracy of U-571 from you?   :devil
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Re: The Lone Ranger
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2013, 05:58:09 AM »
Quote from: Vulcan on July 04, 2013, 04:25:38 AM
I didn't hear any complaints about the accuracy of U-571 from you?   :devil
Rabbit was small enough to reach those aft torpedo air pipes. What's your point? :neener:
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Re: The Lone Ranger
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2013, 06:32:24 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2013, 03:42:49 PM »
You might want to look at the date of that map and/or learn Texas history. That is Texas in 1830. This is Texas in 1869 (timeframe of TLR):
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Re: The Lone Ranger
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2013, 04:34:09 PM »
Quote from: rpm on July 04, 2013, 02:59:50 AM
Just went to watch The Lone Ranger. Johnny Depp killed as Tonto. That's about all I have to say good about the film other than the homage to The Wild Bunch at the beginning. It went rapidly downhill from there. The only thing they got right were the names. They completely butchered the story. It went from absurd to cartoonish to just plain bad. No spoilers here, but the Transcontinental railway didn't connect in Texas, there are no mountains in Texas and Monument Valley is in Arizona. Too bad because this could have been a really great film with a halfway decent script. Instead, I left wanting my $12.50 and 2 1/2 hours back. :mad:

The majority of Monument Valley is in Utah, and Texas has mountains....

https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/mountains.html
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Re: The Lone Ranger
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2013, 04:42:22 PM »
Quote from: rpm on July 04, 2013, 02:59:50 AM
...the Transcontinental railway didn't connect in Texas, there are no mountains in Texas and Monument Valley is in Arizona.

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
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« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2013, 05:43:01 PM »
Ever wonder what Texas would be like if barbecue sauce was illegal?

Or better yet, what if barbecue sauce made in NY was the only legally available source? :rofl

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« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2013, 05:57:54 PM »
I'll pass on it just because Johnny Depp is in it.
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« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2013, 06:06:40 PM »
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"I think we shot in every single state in the American southwest," said Hammer. "I think we shot some of it in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and California."

None of it in Texas. Probably why it looks like the Rocky Mountains and not Texas.

Here's a pretty good review of it:
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"'The Lone Ranger' is a drag as an action movie, it's not funny in its attempts at self-parody, and it feels like a Western made by people working off a checklist of tropes without ever really understanding the genre. Verbinski and his writers have taken a promising idea and put a silver bullet in its head."
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Re: The Lone Ranger
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2013, 07:56:08 PM »
Quote from: rpm on July 04, 2013, 03:42:49 PM
You might want to look at the date of that map and/or learn Texas history. That is Texas in 1830. This is Texas in 1869 (timeframe of TLR):
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how dare they falsify an act of fiction with incorrect sets and stuff,, the nerve!   If I were you I'd demand a refund as soon as possible!
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« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2013, 07:59:09 PM »
Had a feeling it was going to suck. Hollywood remakes of classic stories usually do because everyone wants to  go overboard  with taking creative license with everything anymore.

This is one of the reasons I dont bother to go to the movie theaters anymore. TV stuff is better then the crap Hollywood is coming out with
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« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2013, 09:12:42 PM »
I hear ya Dred. This was a rarity for me to see a movie on opening weekend, but it sounded so promising. There were a few bright spots. The homage to The Wild Bunch at the beginning was subtle and well written. Plus there was much less CGI than most "action" films. Real trains, real stunts, ect. Other than that it was a stinkeroo on a Pearl Harbor scale.
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« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2013, 11:08:46 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2013, 11:12:55 PM »
HAhahahaha none of those Texan mountains have a timberline. My house is actually higher up than 75% of those. Cheyenne mountain is just northwest of me and blocks the sun about an hour before official sunset.

Sorry but I live on the front range of the Rockies. Lived in Texas for a number of years and didn't think of their foothills as mountains.
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