They don’t call ‘em “teaser trailers” for nothing. The first preview (other than what was shown at Comic-Con) of Disney’s The Lone Ranger premiered on The Tonight Show last night, and it’s already got all sorts of critics debating the movie’s merits and flaws, despite only running for 1:37 minutes. Some are debating whether Johnny Depp’s appropriation of the 1950s TV show’s stereotypical Indian speak is racist. Some seem relieved that despite the fact that the movie is a re-teaming of Depp and his Pirates/Rango director Gore Verbinski, it’s got a serious tone reminiscent of a Christopher Nolan film. Others are calling it “an episode of Hell on Wheels with an unusually large budget.”

But you want to know our chief complaint? There are so many sexy scenes of trains, the Wild West, horses, old-timey prostitutes and rich dudes, but only the briefest of glimpses at Armie Hammer (you know, the guy whose character is the name of the movie) in a mask or grimacing and not uttering a single word. What gives, guys?

Anyway, we still think it looks cool. And we’re holding out hope that we’ll see at least one shirtless Armie pic between now and June 2013.

[Photo: Walt Disney Pictures]

After finding out about Johnny Depp’s pay cut, which the Rum Diary actor took to help reduce Lone Ranger‘s budget, we sort of feel obligated to see it. The man got paid more money than the GDP of Spain for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies; the fact that he took a hit for this one intrigues us. Depp tells MTV News that after production of Lone Ranger was shut down back in August, he, director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer all agreed to take a smaller salary  in order to to drop the movie’s budget down to a slender $215 million. Filmmakers also cut out some CGI sequences for cost. Considering the movie is a Western, that was probably a good call.

However, it wasn’t just the opportunity to ride a horse as the Lone Ranger’s companion Tonto that had Depp invested. As he explained in his interview, “But also I like the idea of having the opportunity to make fun of the idea of the Indian as a sidekick — which has always been [the case] throughout the history of Hollywood, the Native American has always been a second-class, third-class, fourth-class citizen, and I don’t see Tonto that way at all. So it’s an opportunity for me to salute Native Americans.” Well, you definitely do not see a lot of satirical racial commentary in big budget adventure movies either. So consider us in!