These are some new photos of Armie Hammer from his new Men’s Health pictorial. Isn’t this gross? Why did he agree to this? Why did he want to be made up to look like he just lost a major fistfight? Granted, Armie is a giant man-puppy so this could have been his editorial idea, to make himself look “hardcore” and “tough” and “not pretty”. But it’s gross. Imagine if a female model or actress had agreed to this editorial concept. We would all be screaming, for good reason – because if this was a woman, we would say it was glamorizing violence against women. So can we yell and scream about this glamorizing violence against men?

Anyway, Men’s Health hasn’t released any quotes from the interview, which is a shame because Armie Hammer doesn’t really know how to be withholding in interviews yet, which means his interviews are usually pretty interesting. I’m assuming he’s on the cover because of some late promotion for The Lone Ranger, which already bombed at the box office. I did want to mention this interesting interview from Jerry Bruckheimer (producer of The Lone Ranger), given to Vulture a few days ago:

Critics weren’t kind to the underperforming The Lone Ranger, but producer Jerry Bruckheimer believes the final verdict on the Johnny Depp movie (which cost roughly $250 million) has yet to be written.

“It reminds me of a critic who called Flashdance a ‘toxic dump,'” the legendary movie man told Vulture this morning, referencing the 1983 hit he produced with late partner Don Simpson. “Ten years later [the critic] said, ‘This is really a good movie. I missed it.’ I think [Lone Ranger] is going to be looked back on as a brave, wonderful film.”

At the TV Critics Association press tour to tout his new CBS action thriller Hostages, Bruckheimer brushed off the notion that poor reviews kept audiences from fully embracing Lone Ranger: “You always want to get good reviews, but you know, it’s reversed in Europe,” Bruckheimer said. “It’s 70 percent good reviews and 30 percent mixed there. So, that happens.”

[From Vulture]

Is The Lone Ranger getting good reviews in Europe? Because it got really bad reviews here. The American critics are really “over” Johnny Depp in general, I think. Which isn’t really Armie Hammer’s problem, except that he might have costarred with an actor who everyone thinks is annoying these days.

Photos courtesy of Men’s Health.