Author Topic: Pirates of the Caribbean (Read 14356 times)

Shift Key · « **Reply #25 on:** September 23, 2006, 03:39:19 AM »

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aye!!! horizontal action be the way with me with the knightliest women and the girl who hangs at the ports!!!

Hahaha way to enter a timewarp and find this thread Perm.

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While I'm griping on Movies I don't like the direction the New Transformers movie is going.

Two words - Michael Bay.

More words - "Pearl Harbour sucked just a little bit more than I miss you"

ITS TEAM AMERICA, BABY

wandering · « **Reply #26 on:** May 24, 2007, 07:29:40 PM »

So.....Pirates 3. My thoughts:

The ending is perfect, and touching. (Be sure and stay through the credits.)

As for the rest of the film....well, there are some good moments. And casting Keith Richard's as Sparrow's father was a stroke of genius. But, overall, it's a convoluted mess, like Pirates 2 (my opinion of Pirates 2 has lessoned, since I saw it in the theater.)

King of Twitch · « **Reply #27 on:** May 24, 2007, 09:07:40 PM »

Not one moment of this movie made sense. executing an unknown child in the first 5 minutes is always a good way to start off a movie

Requiem · « **Reply #28 on:** May 25, 2007, 04:07:17 AM »

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Pirates 2 sucked ass. Completely worthless. Who the F*CK liked the first one because of the story? I liked it because it made me laugh, usually at something different with every viewing. It was also very fun. Now, let's name the two things Pirates 2 failed horribly at. That's right, it was neither fun or funny! All of the good, clever dialogue was replaced with Johnny Depp falling down a lot and recycling jokes from the first movie which is the opposite of funny and every other random scene dragged on and on. That would be the opposite of fun.

This would have been okay if the story was at least somewhat interesting. It wasn't. The "cliffhanger ending" is not suspenseful at all. You KNOW Johnny Depp will be in the third one, and therefore don't care that an octopus ate him. Han Solo being frozen in carbonite, this is not. The love triangle was the worst of the suicide inducing ideas this film introduced. Thanks, I've watched Friends before. And WHY OH WHY was this movie two and a half hours long? Motherf*cking Goodfellas is two and a half hours long. I hope that editor dies, right along with this series. Pirates 2 was nothing but a cash-in. And it worked, unfortunately. Too bad Spider-Man's opening weekend record had to fall to a movie that manages to fail on almost every level. I would say it is the worst movie of the year so far, but ya know, Ultraviolet.

I want to say I won't ever see the third one, but I'm sure when it comes out that friends of mine will want to and I'll go along with it. But I won't be pleased.

This is one of the greatest rants I have ever witnessed!

The Good Fellas comment is PRICELESS!

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #29 on:** May 25, 2007, 04:43:13 AM »

I'm going to see it today..... at least I'm pretty sure it's going to be crappy and way too overhyped, so I won't be disappointed XD

Ceric · « **Reply #30 on:** May 25, 2007, 05:19:46 AM »

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Originally posted by: TrueNerd
Pirates 2 sucked ass. Completely worthless. Who the F*CK liked the first one because of the story? I liked it because it made me laugh, usually at something different with every viewing. It was also very fun. Now, let's name the two things Pirates 2 failed horribly at. That's right, it was neither fun or funny! All of the good, clever dialogue was replaced with Johnny Depp falling down a lot and recycling jokes from the first movie which is the opposite of funny and every other random scene dragged on and on. That would be the opposite of fun.

This would have been okay if the story was at least somewhat interesting. It wasn't. The "cliffhanger ending" is not suspenseful at all. You KNOW Johnny Depp will be in the third one, and therefore don't care that an octopus ate him. Han Solo being frozen in carbonite, this is not. The love triangle was the worst of the suicide inducing ideas this film introduced. Thanks, I've watched Friends before. And WHY OH WHY was this movie two and a half hours long? Motherf*cking Goodfellas is two and a half hours long. I hope that editor dies, right along with this series. Pirates 2 was nothing but a cash-in. And it worked, unfortunately. Too bad Spider-Man's opening weekend record had to fall to a movie that manages to fail on almost every level. I would say it is the worst movie of the year so far, but ya know, Ultraviolet.

I want to say I won't ever see the third one, but I'm sure when it comes out that friends of mine will want to and I'll go along with it. But I won't be pleased.

This is one of the greatest rants I have ever witnessed!

The Good Fellas comment is PRICELESS!

100% Agree.

TrueNerd · « **Reply #31 on:** May 25, 2007, 11:59:51 AM »

It's about time I started getting some damn credit around here.

IceCold · « **Reply #32 on:** May 26, 2007, 10:25:41 AM »

At Wit's End har har har..

Requiem · « **Reply #33 on:** May 27, 2007, 09:12:08 PM »

Wow....

That was a long ass movie! It started picking up when other movies climax!

The plot was nothing short of extremely confusing, the "funny" parts were uncreative and borrowed from the previous movies, and their were times during the movie where I didn't know what to look forward to. Wait...that's partly a lie. I looked forward to seeing Jack Sparrow on screen (his performance was marvelous); however, anything story related just blew over my head. I couldn't figure out who to hate. Well, no.....I guess I knew, but I didn't know why.

Anyway, I could have done with a movie entirely fixed on Captain Jack Sparrow (and there are scenes where it is comprised entirely of Johnny Depp). Every other character seemed extremely sub par in comparison (except for Barbossa and Davy Jones), ESPECIALLY Elizabeth Swan. Every time she popped her head into a scene I kept thinking "what a whore?!" or "throw that bitch overboard!"

Whatever though....hopefully Rush Hour 3 doesn't dissapoint me like every other trilogy this summer (i.e. SpiderMan, Shrek).

Anyway...I'm glad I bittorrent-ed it rather than going to the theater and handing them my cash, then I really would have been pissed.

Final Score: 5/10.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #34 on:** May 27, 2007, 09:30:08 PM »

I seen Pirates of the Carribean 3 tonight, and LOVED it, definately my favorite of the triliogy. It was action packed with a pretty good story (I had little trouble following it besides a couple of things, but I've had that in every other POTC movie). The comedy was great, the fight scenes were excellent, and the movie felt fresh, in fact I only looked at my watch twice and that was to see how much longer I had to enjoy the film. Personally I think this film will be fondly remembered, already there is a huge divide between the viewers of the film and the professional reviewers, just look at the posts in IMDB (Not to mention the score).

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #35 on:** May 27, 2007, 10:12:27 PM »

I found out one of my friends has some screen time in it so I'm gonna go see it

Kairon · « **Reply #36 on:** May 27, 2007, 10:18:14 PM »

You LIKED Pirates of the Caribbean? Hmm... I have yet to see it, but I have received every indication that I shall HATE IT WITH A BURNING PASSION UNKNOWN TO SQUIRREL AND CHIPMUNK ALIKE.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #37 on:** May 27, 2007, 10:35:31 PM »

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You LIKED Pirates of the Caribbean? Hmm... I have yet to see it, but I have received every indication that I shall HATE IT WITH A BURNING PASSION UNKNOWN TO SQUIRREL AND CHIPMUNK ALIKE.

I am not the only one that liked it, IMDB is quite positive towards it and reviewers are split (just like 2).

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #38 on:** May 27, 2007, 11:50:56 PM »

I still think the 1st one was the best, but I think as a trilogy it was very entertaining.
There were I few issues I had with the movie, but nothing that you can't write off due to it being a complete fantasy.

PoTC3 7/10
PoTC as a trilogy 8.2/10

I am also willing to bet that there will be atleast one more PoTC movie before 2010 is over.

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #39 on:** May 28, 2007, 05:21:03 AM »

well, it was way better than I thought it would be... and I had no problem following the plot it's an effing pirate movie! it's obvious they would be double and triple crossing each other!
What I didn't like was that Sao Feng died so early, and that the Calypso/Davy Jones storyline was not exactly completed

overall good movie, awesome soundtrack...

PotC1 - 8/10
PotC2 - 6/10
PotC3 - 8.5/10 (because of better pacing and the maelstrom sequence)

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #40 on:** May 28, 2007, 06:14:58 AM »

I couldn't rate PoTC3 so high mostly because of the total non involvement of all the other pirate ships during the ship battle, but then everyone was celebrating as if they all had some part in it. The massive Armada fled because of 9 ships, but mostly because of the 2 that were advancing? They had about 20 ships per one Pirate ship and they couldn't even attempt a quick attack before a full fledged retreat? Not even a small time attack to involve all the other pirate ships that were sitting back watching the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman swirl around in circles for 10 minutes?

Its just a small gripe, but was just something that I think would have made that scene even more intense and enjoyable.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #41 on:** May 28, 2007, 09:00:45 AM »

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well, it was way better than I thought it would be... and I had no problem following the plot it's an effing pirate movie! it's obvious they would be double and triple crossing each other!
What I didn't like was that Sao Feng died so early, and that the Calypso/Davy Jones storyline was not exactly completed

overall good movie, awesome soundtrack...

PotC1 - 8/10
PotC2 - 6/10
PotC3 - 8.5/10 (because of better pacing and the maelstrom sequence)

I had the same complaint as you in regards to the Davy Jones storyline. It makes me wonder if there is a longer cut of the movie that clears up some of the holes, but was cut due to time constraints. Anyway this movie was easily my favorite of the 3, but I loved them all, the pacing was excellent.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #42 on:** May 28, 2007, 09:01:24 AM »

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I couldn't rate PoTC3 so high mostly because of the total non involvement of all the other pirate ships during the ship battle, but then everyone was celebrating as if they all had some part in it. The massive Armada fled because of 9 ships, but mostly because of the 2 that were advancing? They had about 20 ships per one Pirate ship and they couldn't even attempt a quick attack before a full fledged retreat? Not even a small time attack to involve all the other pirate ships that were sitting back watching the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman swirl around in circles for 10 minutes?

Its just a small gripe, but was just something that I think would have made that scene even more intense and enjoyable.

I agree that was odd, but oh well.

Requiem · « **Reply #43 on:** May 28, 2007, 11:11:17 AM »

I have another complaint:

It seems like dialog is thrown in for the small characters simply because they haven't said anything in a while. It's like when there's a group of them, everyone has to have something to say. It made the movie seem very fake to me.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #44 on:** May 28, 2007, 01:50:04 PM »

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I have another complaint:

It seems like dialog is thrown in for the small characters simply because they haven't said anything in a while. It's like when there's a group of them, everyone has to have something to say. It made the movie seem very fake to me.

Squid faced monsters are not fake though.

Requiem · « **Reply #45 on:** May 28, 2007, 02:28:48 PM »

Oh come now....don't be like that!

What I mean is, it felt scripted. When Simba found Mufassa dead, that was an animation for God's sake, but it still felt sincere. But in POTC3, it felt like the writer just gave this dude a line so he didn't look stupid just standing there; however, he still managed to be stupid!

that Baby guy · « **Reply #46 on:** May 28, 2007, 03:21:34 PM »

Now I don't understand what you're trying to say. Simba and Mufassa don't really parallel the third movie very well, especially considering that characters that didn't need to be in scenes weren't all crammed on a tiny ship.

With PotC3, nearly everything happens on a ship, so main characters only make sense being in several scenes. I also felt that some of the lines that characters seemed to receive at random matched ideas and lines of the pirates on the actual Pirates of the Caribbean ride, at least, they matched the one at Disney World. I can't be sure if they matched the one Disney Land, as I've never been there.

I also can't remember Pirates of the Caribbean at Euro-Disney. I don't think there was one there, though I may be mistaken, and have missed it because of the short time I had there.
Also, what the heck, Euro-Disney? One steak knife total in a steakhouse? Everyone in my group ordered steaks, and we had to pass around the knife to be able to cut them.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #47 on:** May 28, 2007, 05:49:19 PM »

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Oh come now....don't be like that!

What I mean is, it felt scripted. When Simba found Mufassa dead, that was an animation for God's sake, but it still felt sincere. But in POTC3, it felt like the writer just gave this dude a line so he didn't look stupid just standing there; however, he still managed to be stupid!

Well I didn't see what you were talking about, the movie was well paced and I thought it the dialogs was well written for the most part. BTW comparison to Lion King is pretty lame, POTC3 is supposed to be more comedy based than Lion King, so of course some of the stuff won't sound "sincere". The dialog was no different from the previous two movies, if there is any problem it is that I felt it should have been longer to develop the character even more.

Adrock · « **Reply #48 on:** May 28, 2007, 06:17:51 PM »

I liked At World's End. At the very least, it was better than Spiderman 3 because, you know, they didn't kill Davy Jones by tossing a grenade at him. Three major failings:
1. Elizabeth Swan's big speeches.
2. Not enough Sao Feng then... boom, kablamo....
3. Norrington. What the hell happened? He was so cool in Dead Man's Chest.

Tia Dalma gave everyone crabs.

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hopefully Rush Hour 3 doesn't dissapoint me like every other trilogy this summer

Hmm, Chris Tucker is in it and Brett Ratner is directing. He already f-ed up X-Men 3. I'd say the odds are against RH3 not disappointing you.

IceCold · « **Reply #49 on:** May 28, 2007, 06:49:58 PM »

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I had the same complaint as you in regards to the Davy Jones storyline. It makes me wonder if there is a longer cut of the movie that clears up some of the holes, but was cut due to time constraints.

Considering how bloated the film is, I doubt that. Unless they were even stupider and decided to not show those scenes in favour of other useless ones.. Man, I really don't like movies that drone on like this. Reminds me of King Kong.

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