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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>The Mask of Zorro (4K disc) 1998 movie starring Antonio Banderas as 
>Zorro, Catherine Zetra-Jones as his love interest and Anthony Hopkins as 
>the first Zorro who trains Banderas to be the new one.  I think I saw 
>this once before and didn't care much for it, but was willing to give it 
>a second chance.  It past the time I guess.

To the extent the movie worked, there was a lot of chemistry between the
two leads. Otherwise I remember nothing about the plot.

>The Legend of Zorro (4K disc) 2005 sequel which has Antonio Banderas and 
>Catherine Zetra-Jones returning to argue while saving the day.  I'm 
>pretty sure I never saw this one before now. It was a blind buy to go 
>with the first one.  Meh.  Mostly background noise.

I'm pretty sure I never bothered to watch this.

>The Lone Ranger (blu-ray) 2013 Western staring Johnny Depp as Tonto and 
>Armie Hammer as his trusty sidekick, the Lone Ranger.  I saw this once 
>before and liked it.  On second viewing, I still liked it.  One of the 
>main things I like about the movie is the framing device.  The movie 
>starts out in 1933 and has Tonto relaying his past adventures to a kid 
>dressed up like The Lone Ranger.  Except there are various plot holes 
>and inconsistencies in his story, which the kid keeps point out as he 
>tells it.  The movie is directed by Gore Verbinski who also directed 
>Depp in several Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and has a similar 
>sensibility.

I had zero interest in Depp hamming it up as Tonto.