richsqueakychair
Listen - up. Some of us have waited for the Western Genre to have a comeback ~ and hopefully more historically correct for Natives and Blacks. This was far from even a hint of come-back but it was SOMETHING WESTERN at least! Let's face it. The original was hoaky too. And corny and all of that. It had all the earmarks of Hollywood of the time ~ as in hoof beats on a hollow sound-stage floor, phoney back-drops, the same local scene re-used ad nausium. Jay Silverheels and CLayton Moore were as stiff and wooden and un-western as Luke and Nathaniel in this 'younger years' version. LOL Don't take it seriously, i mean it has a modern rock soundtrack and machine sewn pin-strip shirts for gawds sake ha ha ha ... just sit back and enjoy the tale and the nostalgic trip to your childhood if you're old enough. It's a fun made-for-TV-movie that is surely DVD worthy perhaps with a few of the half hour originals as as Special Features And Interviews with both cast of old and new.
Bcaldc10
Wow. There is nothing wrong with updating a classic and making it appeal to a younger, new audience but this was way too much. Too much talk, not nearly enough action, and the script! Those native-Americans had the best diction and vocabularies of any Indians I've ever seen on screen. The wardrobe was absurd also. The Lone Ranger looked more like a last-minute inviteeto a bad costume party. It was fine to change the clothes to darker colors than seen before but they didn't look very Western at all. Chad Murray was O.K. and could have really made a mark if this film had been more of a Western and a lot less of a grating, ill-conceived teens only show with a ridiculous sound- track. Ivy League native-Americans, 21st Century soundtrack, bad wardrobe, and way too much talk. No wonder this wasn't picked-up as a regular series by The WB. For that we can all be grateful.
RavenMaiden
I recently watched The Lone Ranger (2003), the T.V. movie and i have got to say that i really liked it. I don't think i've ever really watched a western movie before and i never thought i would, but i'm hooked now, i only hope that they decide to make it a series for this fall. The acting was fabulous, i love Tonto, he was great. And Luke is a deffinate hottie. I loved seeing Wes Studi, he's as amazing as ever. All round its a great show, very entertaining. I'll make a prediction, if this show premiers this fall as a series, its gonna be a hit. Its the best show i've seen on T.V. in ages.
WhiteCoyote
I loved it. It was one of the few 'Western' orientated movies that didn't show Native Americans as savages walking around and saying "how, white-man." And The Ranger himself was all "Hi-ho, Silver, Away!" They eliminated a lot of what made 'The Lone Ranger' seem extremely corny to me. As for the soundtrack, I loved it. Especially the ending with The Lone Ranger theme blaring on electric guitar. If I can find the tabs for it, I'm playing it at my next party. I hope they make into a series, I'll add it to my list of things that I watch during the week. Smallville, Buffy, Angel, CSI...The Lone Ranger. Sounds like a pretty good fit to me, y'all. Sure, I'm 18, and an angsty 18 year old male, at that. But this movie sparked my interest. Sure, it didn't hold true to what the old Lone Ranger acted like, and the wardrobes weren't exactly accurate, (being native myself, I do understand that.) but it's defiantly going down as one of my favorite T.V. Movies.
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