Have you noticed who the latest villains are in the TV dramas lately? Not gangs, certainly not Islamic terrorists, not foreign spies; the evil people are those we work for, buy from and who have enriched our lives and economy. Walk around your home, or drive around your town and see the luxuries and needs that these abhorred bandits provide. They are the soft targets that nobody loves, but we cannot do without.
Now the Lone Ranger - from whom we boys of another generation learned honor, integrity, tolerance and fair play - is the latest with the identical list of enemies; Hollywood's enemies that includes the TEA Party, conservatives, Christians, oil companies, capitalists, and pretty much everything that involves Caucasian non-Muslims.
Why do we have to pay big bucks for a movie or plan on an evening of television to be brow-beaten and indoctrinated by the shows we watch?
By wealthy Hollywood liberals no less?
The Johny Depp Lone Ranger movie, at least based on early box office results, is shaping up to be quite the bomb.
"What makes the Lone Ranger finally embrace the need for his mask, and hence the whole “secret identity” thing? In a nutshell, he realizes his fellow
white men are corrupt, and complicit in the mass murder of Tonto’s fellow Native Americans. If he takes the mask off, then he too will wind up becoming complicit. Yes, that’s right — in this film, the Lone Ranger’s mask is made of White Guilt. "And in fact, the only function the Native Americans in this film have, other than Tonto, is to die horribly so that the Lone Ranger will have a catalyst to make him Man Up."
And is it a spoiler to say that one of the film's heavies is a capitalist?
Tonto calls the Lone Ranger a "weak, pale-faced wet-brain".
Even the LA Times didn't like the show, but the PC didn't seem to register on their radar. "...."The Lone Ranger" exists without a convincing sense of jeopardy or, more critically, any place for audiences to emotionally connect. That TV show may have been modesty itself in terms of production values, but we cared about its heroes in a way we do not here."
Crosswalk calls the movie a Wild, Wild Mess "The final 30 minutes of The Lone Ranger....are nothing short of spectacular. Clever, well-paced and thoroughly exciting (the William Tell Overture provides the perfect musical backdrop, naturally), this last half-hour is exactly what one wants a summer movie to be.
"Trouble is, the audience has to sit through nearly two hours of utter tedium to get there...."
Now the Lone Ranger - from whom we boys of another generation learned honor, integrity, tolerance and fair play - is the latest with the identical list of enemies; Hollywood's enemies that includes the TEA Party, conservatives, Christians, oil companies, capitalists, and pretty much everything that involves Caucasian non-Muslims.
Why do we have to pay big bucks for a movie or plan on an evening of television to be brow-beaten and indoctrinated by the shows we watch?
By wealthy Hollywood liberals no less?
The Johny Depp Lone Ranger movie, at least based on early box office results, is shaping up to be quite the bomb.
"What makes the Lone Ranger finally embrace the need for his mask, and hence the whole “secret identity” thing? In a nutshell, he realizes his fellow
white men are corrupt, and complicit in the mass murder of Tonto’s fellow Native Americans. If he takes the mask off, then he too will wind up becoming complicit. Yes, that’s right — in this film, the Lone Ranger’s mask is made of White Guilt. "And in fact, the only function the Native Americans in this film have, other than Tonto, is to die horribly so that the Lone Ranger will have a catalyst to make him Man Up."
And is it a spoiler to say that one of the film's heavies is a capitalist?
Tonto calls the Lone Ranger a "weak, pale-faced wet-brain".
Even the LA Times didn't like the show, but the PC didn't seem to register on their radar. "...."The Lone Ranger" exists without a convincing sense of jeopardy or, more critically, any place for audiences to emotionally connect. That TV show may have been modesty itself in terms of production values, but we cared about its heroes in a way we do not here."
Crosswalk calls the movie a Wild, Wild Mess "The final 30 minutes of The Lone Ranger....are nothing short of spectacular. Clever, well-paced and thoroughly exciting (the William Tell Overture provides the perfect musical backdrop, naturally), this last half-hour is exactly what one wants a summer movie to be.
"Trouble is, the audience has to sit through nearly two hours of utter tedium to get there...."
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