kidmystik101 on 26/5/2007 at 07:58
Quote Posted by Quixada
Especially if there's lots of scantily clad Johnny Depp :cheeky: :ebil:
BrokenArts on 26/5/2007 at 13:09
Quote Posted by kidmystik101
DO NOT WANT.NOT WANT That guy just gets better with age.
Shayde on 26/5/2007 at 18:43
Could not agree more BA.
I loved it. Though really [SPOILER] Elizabeth gets the short end of the stick. Sex for only one day every ten years? That's just cruel, though better than the typical disney happy ending for all. I was a bit dissapointed with Kalypso. All this fuss about releasing her and all she does is create a bit of rain and a maelstom. I know the theory is that she will make life harder for the EITC but I was expecting something a little grander. [/SPOILER]
Plus I really need to learn to stay for the end of the credits instead of hurtling to the loo. Bloody 3 hour long movie.
AxTng1 on 28/5/2007 at 20:52
Quote Posted by Mark Kermode
The idea of anyone 'having' this doe-eyed waif is hilarious
lol gay
Also Shayde, all you missed was [SPOILER]Elizabeth 10 years later looking just as fit, but with a son singing the yoho song.[/SPOILER]
Shadow Creepr on 3/6/2007 at 08:33
I saw this yesterday. I was kept entertained and didn't notice the long running time. The action scenes were good and kept it going and it was humorous though it got a little silly in a couple places the tiny good/bad Jacks for one. I enjoyed it.
Of course, Orlando or Johnny can come over and shiver my timbers anytime!
Enchantermon on 7/6/2007 at 08:46
I loved Pirates 3. Of course, I loved all of the Pirates movies, mostly because of Jack Sparrow's insanity and the wonderful acting (although Knightly had her weak moments)
I agree with TJKeranen, though. That whole part with the freezing temperatures did seem a bit odd.
Oh, did anyone catch the irony near the end? Davy Jones says something to Jack like "What do you know about cruel?" and then turns and stabs Will with the very same sword that Will forged in the first movie. How's that for dramatic irony?
The Alchemist on 7/6/2007 at 13:30
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[SPOILER]the parts with snow and cold made me wonder, if the makers had ever been in an actual winter. Not only having the pirates surviving in freezing temperature with no decent clothing and with only minor humorous discomfort and toes snapping off, but seeing bare-chested Orlando Bloom shrugging the whole weather-thing off like nothing felt very silly, even for a movie like this. Winter did just end here in the north, so I still remember, how bad cold can be. :)[/SPOILER]
This is really where you drew the line of your disbelief? Not the... other things, but
this is where you stepped back and said "WOAH ok COME ON NOW, that's not realistic AT ALL."
TTLG's bandwidth cannot HANDLE the size of the MASSIVE ROLLEYES SMILIE I wish to inflict upon you.
<small>Apparently infected with THEBLACKMAN syndrome.</small>
Uncia on 7/6/2007 at 14:23
PoTC3 did what the third Matrix movie failed to do- it made the second one's "eeenh, undecided" status go to "worth it!". Any movie that doesn't make me notice it's 3 damned hours long is good in my book.
Reaction to 90% of the movie:
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http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/1904/vgcatsjackeq5.jpgScots Taffer on 4/7/2007 at 01:21
I thought the movie was irredeemable shite. In fact, it made DMC seem like a rollercoaster of epic proportions. Everything in this film was flat, even Depp's performance lacked a certain spark, one could argue this was part of the character's arc but give me a fucking break - the story was paper thin and had villains and side-extras added with every rewrite.
I could've stood to see all the sea goddess bullshit jettisoned as it more or less neutralised the mysticism of Davey Jones (one of the few things that really worked in DMC) and ate up valuable screentime with a more or less useless subplot that just served to rob the audience of an epic seabattle between all the fleets (which the first hour of the movie was supposedly generating tension and gathering steam towards a big confrontation with the whole pirate convention etc).
I could've stood to see less utterly boring and useless double-crosses for tiny insignificant things (such as the double or triple reversal of who was getting the Black Pearl, jesus god, who cares?) gone and more of things like Davey Jones killing his Kraken instead of it happening offscreen.
I read somewhere that the scene with the ship disintegrating around the Commander guy was awesome and a triumph of modern CG, when in fact it was hilariously stupid.
Everything about the movie fell flat for me, there was hardly any comedy, the much-touted (even praised as Gilliamesque) sequence in Davey Jones' Locker was pretty terrible and the crew of Jacks failed to be even remotely amusing. I actually laughed once during the entire movie - when Jack asked Keith Richards, in his embarrassing performance as Jack's Dad, "how's Mum" and got shown the shrivelled head. Other than that, I could quite easily forget there was ever a third outing in the Pirates series... a few iconic moments in an otherwise tediously overwritten blockbuster with a distinct lack of bombast and fun.
Oh, and the finale after the credits just about made me vomit.
N'Al on 4/7/2007 at 08:32
The entirety of Keira Knightley's "acting" made me want to vomit. Seriously, can she do anything else beside pout?
I've never quite understood why these movies are held in such high regard by people. I mean sure, they're quite entertaining, but they're just so... silly and braindead. To me all three just seemed like a random collection of ideas, none of them really fleshed out enough, and none of them really gelling (sp?) with each other - and that Dollars Trilogy homage when the fleet commanders meet in the middle of the island is just blasphemy. Blasphemy, I say! The new Indiana Jones, my arse!
Then again, I did plonk down money to see all three at the cinema, so the producer got what they wanted.
Anyway, I guess I'm still just pissed off by Keira Knightley's acting.
Aaaah, I does feel good to randomly rant sometimes...
