The Lone Ranger release (After the 2014 Razzies)

My local paper gave the movie no stars While People Magazine only gave it one.  I'll wait for the DVD.

  So did I... A+  The guy in the white hat always win.

  It was nice to see something that was not all computer generated.

  The audience even applauded after the show....

Matt, that would be the Scale Rail theater. Yes, your right we do serve wine not popcorn. We are running the first year of the Sapranos now. Don

Don, we'll visit the Scale Rail Theater in the near future.  Make sure you have some good Cabernet.  None of that white wine....that's like drinking perfume.  What's up after the Sopranos?  

 

My wife and I saw Lone Ranger.  Again...it was a fun movie.  It's good for us to get out of our Lazyboy chairs, stop waiting for Netflix or when it comes out on DVD, and go the the theater to see it!  It has nothing to do with the TV series.  It's a different approach.  Go and watch it for what it is.  Buy a hot dog or some buttered popcorn while you're there.  You'll really have a great time and enjoy it!  Matt  

I am genuinely curious: why is a non-train thread (no, the fact that the film has some train scenes in it doesn't make it a railroad movie) been going on for soooooooooooo long?  Especially when discussion of this movie was already the subject of at least one other longish thread, months before it was even released.

 

Why?  I've seen other threads yanked after a couple of postings, for being insufficiently railroad-related.  Why is this one of such enduring importance to so many folks?

 

I'm not interested in debating the topic one way or another. I'd just like for someone to please explain -- in non-partisan form, please -- what the perceived overwhelming significance is?

Reporting from Houston, TX:

 

Just saw the film this afternoon. Fun and very entertaining. The train sequences were creative but entertaining. Quite a bit of humor in the movie. I would rate it worth seeing.

Well....it starts on a train.....has a great number of train scenes on a few different types of railroads, Of the 2.5 hour film over an hour is train related.  There is brief model railroad scene in the film (the first ever layout??) And there is track that looks just like O scale 3 rail......so enough train to make it talk worthy??? Just my guess....

 

It's summer and nothing else is going on. No shows, announcements ect.

This year the wife is busting my hump on the yard. Train time is down,

about all I'm doing is getting ready for the up coming Christmas season.

 

 Oh, by the by, did anyone mention the HO train the kid was playing with that

 had the O gauge air whistle ? FRAUD I TELL YOU

 

The two Matts and Dave have my ear on this one. I think we'll wait for apple TV though. There's a total lack of really nice theaters in this neck of the woods. Sometimes the screen falls off the coconut trees. Don

And I thought that it was because you had to sit on pineapples that stopped you from attending? 

'm going to a showing after Houston Tinplate layour closes!

No NQDY, they actually have bamboo logs to sit on.  Drinks are served in coconuts and pineapples.  The screen is made from banana leaves...that's why it falls down sometimes.  Matt

Why?  Because it's fun!  Looks like it caught your eye.

Have not seen the movie yet, but there is a train related to this movie already available!

 

 

 

 

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Con...on-Train-Chase-79111

 

Have fun everybody!

 

 

I suppose it's because we're in the lazy, hazy days of summer and folks have little else to talk about because they're taking a hiatus from working on their layouts and are short on money for buying (and/or complaining about) more trains.  

Went to see LR lst evening. Tonto stole the show though. Funny in parts. No Oscars here but worth seeing on the IMAX screen for the train wreck action. Fun movie.

Well, it beats someone posting about their new loco being DOA, lash-ups, Scrapple, or crop dusting at York.

Did see it lat night.  Not epic, but fun.  Did not have to worry about life for a while.  (Real purpose of a flick?) Bad guys get caught, or removed,  damsel saved.  

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I'm not interested in debating the topic one way or another. I'd just like for someone to please explain -- in non-partisan form, please -- what the perceived overwhelming significance is?

 

Simple: Lionel is making a train that ties in with the movie.

I have not seen the movie, nor am I likely to go.

It has been reported that the movie is not doing well at the box office. It is being trounced by Despicable Me 2.  Being that I don't have small children, I am not likely to see that one either.

 

Maybe attendance will rebound.

Will the Lone Ranger set sell? Or will it be heading for blow out land?

The box office take so far:

DM2 $142 million

LR $48.9 million

 

Maybe the boys at the Ol' Circle L Ranch backed the wrong hombre.

 

Rusty

My wife and I saw it last night. based on what I saw, Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels have nothing to worry about. There were several "hanging threads" that I did not understand...like the rabbits, etc.

AFAIAK, they could have made a "buddies" movie without using the Lone Ranger's or Tonto's names and the result would have been the same. The film's Directors evidently had a tough time deciding whether this should be a pure western or a comedy, so they decided it should be in both categories.

Finally, I found the portrayal of the Long Ranger, one of this country's absolutely mythical figures as incompetent/a buffoon as offensive to the story and the legend. They didn't have to "tear down" the Lone Ranger in order to build up the Tonto Indian image.

True the Box office totals are not what they'd like maybe (a small part of the profit todays world) But the dollar amount has increased everyday since the film came out WED.  No film this week has had any increase any day. Tells me word of mouth is  more positive than negative with the guy on the street. 

My personal prediction:  It will bomb (actually, already has bombed), and by the end of the month will be available on DVD.  

In todays world when the DVD becomes available has nothing to do with the success of a film. The film industry is, like many things, changing drastically. And often DVD and On Demand are available at the same time the film is in theaters. It's catering to the customer and going after every dime available. 

 

But to each his own. Just as I will not allow DCS or TMCC (whatever Lionel is) in my house because it does nothing positive FOR ME. Others love it....I don't. Works the same in all aspects of life.

Wall Street seems to have written it off: under "Breaking News" at http://wallstcheatsheet.com/st...e-films.html/?ref=YF

 

FWIW, it says the LR cost $225 million and brought in only $45 million during the 4th of July holiday period while DM2 cost only $76 million and brought in $142 million during the same time frame. 

Now I don't know if I want to see this movie or not!  The first movie with a train I ever saw was Back to the Future: Part III on TV, and it has been my favorite Western ever since.  I also liked the train scenes in the pilot episode of The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr. Speaking of which, does anyone know when Sierra #3 will star in another movie?

 

Movies that interest me are few and far between nowadays, and it's exceptionally hard to find clean movies.  I don't care what others say about it, but my top favorite movie series is Jurassic Park, and I am looking forward to the fourth installment next year!

 

Aaron

Will wait for it to come out on bluray....reviews aren't kind...

Thanks for posting that.  Kind of justifies what I have been predicting and saying.  Given the cost of going to a theater to view a movie these days--especially if you, like me, must have some popcorn and a soda to accompany the viewing--this is one that most (but not all) might want to wait for it to appear on a $3.99 DVD.  Takes far more than train scenes to make a good movie! 

After reading the first several pages of this thread I wasn't planning to go see this one although my curiosity was naturally piqued due to the nature of the subject - the Lone Ranger himself. Add trains and it seemed attractive.  From many of your comments I was prepared to be disappointed but asked the CFO to go this evening anyway.

 

Since our move to smaller quarters, the trains have become a sore subject from time to time due to the many stacks of boxes in the single garage that makes laundry and other mundane chores 'less than simple'.

 

Surprise. She loved it - especially the scenes with the trains. I too was pleasantly surprised. Silly? Preposterous? Entertaining? - you bet.  Like Bill O'Reiley, I'm a simple man and it was a fun evening....

A sign of a good movie.

 

and it was a fun evening

Funny how the haters have not seen it.....those that did see it like it for the most part. Same thing online on the movie sites....haters ain't seen it....those that see it like it for the majority.

Saw lt, loved it !

I am not a "hater" (I really don't care one way or the other), I just passed along that Wall Street considers the LR a financial fiasco.  Cost three times as much to make as DM2 and brought in less than a third of what DM2 did over the holiday.

 

It has nothing to do with my personal likes or dislikes.  Without having seen either movie, I feel I personally would be much more likely to enjoy the LR than DM2.   

I saw the movie also and I think it was lousy. I love the Lone Ranger but the movie did not live up to the Lone Ranger legacy IMO. Wasted my money and time. 

By happenstance I caught a show this morning over coffee, "Backlot Buzz: The Lone Ranger".  It was only about a 30 minute program, but went into some nice detail on the sets, stunts, and especially the trains.  I searched the web and cannot find the program online, but this has some additional info about the trains (can also see why the budget ballooned out of control)...

 

I actually plan on seeing it again, may have to be at the $1 theater at the rate it's being run out of town on a rail(s) by the critics

 

One good thing about this being a "box office flop", they wont' franchise it and make multiple sequels of diminishing quality...the modern Hollywood formula.  The original Pirates of the Caribbean is one of my favorite movies, but don't care for any of the sequels.  Plus I'll be able to pick up a copy on disc for a song

Robert

Well, I saw the movie and I DID NOT LIKE IT!  True, it had entertaining moments and Depp played his roll to the hilt and there were some neat train scenes but it really made the Lone Ranger himself out to be be a real Duffus.  According this movie the LR ways drug kicking and screaming like a little kid into doing the right thing.  He was portrayed as a bumbling fool up to the last section of the movie.  And of coarse. the railroad businesses and the US Calvary were portrayed as down right evil. (nothing new hear in Hollywood).

 

The best three scenes of the movie were when they were playing the WTO and all those containing the horse.

 

I am glad that I went to see it so that I can now truly judge it for it's merits (or lack there of).

 

Happy railroading,

Don

Now that I've seen the video that Robert (MakingTheGrade) posted, I think it is a real shame that the rest of the movie seems not to have lived up to the quality of work apparent in the building and recreating of the railroad scenes.  You really want that kind of authenticity to be rewarded with great box office numbers.

Look at it this way.....Disney made $220M on Monster U.....so they needed and equal offset to write off......sounds like a business making best use of US tax code. I will not loose any sleep about Disney NOT making enough money!!!

That is a definite plus!