Quentin Tarantino Explains ‘Lone Ranger’ in Top 10 List; Indifferent About Batman Casting

The controversial Quentin Tarantino will always have an interesting opinion. His personal Top 10 movie list for 2013 made the rounds of the internet. And of course, it will be dissected and debated no end by all movie critics and enthusiasts.

The most interesting choice, for the most part, was "The Lone Ranger." The movie stars Johnny Depp and was mostly panned by critics.

He airs his own opinion of the movie. From an interview by The Playlist: "The first forty-five minutes are excellent...the next forty-five minutes are a little soporific. It was a bad idea to split the bad guys in two groups; it takes hours to explain and nobody cares. Then comes the train scene-incredible! When I saw it, I kept thinking, 'What, that's the film that everybody says is crap? Seriously?'"

Tarantino has a complaint on a particular scene, specifically the Indian massacre: "That being said, I still have a little problem with the film. I like Tonto's backstory-the idea that his tribe got slaughtered because of him; that's a real comic-book thing. But the slaughter of the tribe, by gunfire, from the cavalry, it left a bitter taste in my mouth. The Indians have really been victims of a genocide. So slaughtering them again in an entertaining movie, Buster Keaton style... That ruined the fun a bit for me. I simply found it...ugly. Making fun of this, when America really did it, it bothered me...That doesn't stop it from being a good film but they could have done without that."

On Ben Affleck being cast as Batman:  "I have to admit that I don't really have an opinion. Why? Because Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s."