Pirates 3: At World's End

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

Spoiler:

elizabeth and her now 10 year old son waiting at the shore for the 'green flash'. seeing it......Will sailing back home for his '10 year reunion'....fade to black

there ya go.

Thank you!

[€uroMeinke]

I want to see it
On a big screen
With dialogue drowning sound
But I will pee first

[AllyOops!]

The reviews in both Entertainment Weekly & People Magazine were far from kind. However, I tend to enjoy all of the movies that critics don't so a trip to the cinema may be in order tonight!

Do you know the last time I was in a movie theater was last summer, when my boyfriend & I went to see the second Pirates movie? Apparently, we're not big cinema folk.

[blueerica]

I actually feel much the same way Alex did about the 3rd Pirates flick. While there is some unnecessary baggage from the second film (IMO), a good job was done, overall, in that they mostly went back to their roles, it was good storytelling, and while there were many plotlines, they essentially went into the conclusion, which I cannot say for the second film.

As dry as that sounded, I really did like the 3rd. I left satisfied, which I cannot say for the 2nd Pirates. (I left that movie exhausted and irritated)

[mousepod]

Just came back from Pirates 3.
We really, really did not like it.
So much unnecessary dialogue - so much mind-numbing violence.
Zero sense of adventure. I didn't care about any of the characters.
I think I would have preferred it if they finished the story begun in 2 in some other medium - a comic book perhaps - and then carried on with what will probably be the 4th (if the tease near the end of this one is the plan), a quest for the Fountain of Youth.
Two serious thumbs-down from the mousepod family (and we really liked part 2).

[CoasterMatt]

Maybe they'll have Christopher Lloyd show up as Ponce De Leon?

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Just came back from seeing it at El Cap. Really enjoyed it. Way, WAY beter that part 2 - Part 2 doesn't exist! It would have been better as a "Star Wars" screen crawl. 3 is in no way perfect but it is a better written/ crafted script IMHO in the sense you're not forced to believe everything. Unlike #2 which pushed you thru the film, this one brings you along and lets you experiance. I really notice the soundtrack this time and it was really well placed. I think the characters were more equal RE: screen time and it just wasn't all "Jack."

I'd venture to give it 8 bornieo's out of 10. I'd see this again before watching the second anyday, which, BTW, I haven't seen since seeing it at EL Cap last year.

[Chernabog]

Well I just got back and I enjoyed it overall. Yes, it was about an hour too long. Yes, there were plotlines that were set up and ultimately went nowhere.

Spoiler:

Calypso and the Pirate Lords could have been cut out completely. Why set up ALL THAT only so that she could provide a little bad weather at the end? Why was there no resolution between her and Davy Jones, other than him dying?.... I mean, I guess that resolves things, but it was ultimately filler.

Yes, it did not make sense about how old everyone was.

Spoiler:

What was Davy Jones before he was Davy Jones? He fell in love with a sea goddess and so he decided to work for her as a mythological Charon-type character, only to have her betray (or not show up for) him when he came back (to what) 10 years later, so he betrayed HER to the nine pirate lords, so she got bound up into Tia Dalma? How does a sea goddess not show up for someone before she was human, exactly? Did all of the Tia Dalma becoming human mumbo-jumbo only happen 10 years prior? If it had happened before then everyone would be WAY too old to remember her getting bound as a human, but the movie seemed to indicate, via dialogue between Davey Jones and Tia Dalma, that it happened a long long time ago. And how does any old person become a pirate lord anyway? And what the heck was Keith Richards doing there as Jack's father, was he a pirate lord too?

But despite that, I wasn't bored, except at a few chatty moments, and anything having to do with Will Turner and his daddy.

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by mousepod

Just came back from Pirates 3.
We really, really did not like it.
So much unnecessary dialogue - so much mind-numbing violence.
Zero sense of adventure. I didn't care about any of the characters.
I think I would have preferred it if they finished the story begun in 2 in some other medium - a comic book perhaps - and then carried on with what will probably be the 4th (if the tease near the end of this one is the plan), a quest for the Fountain of Youth.
Two serious thumbs-down from the mousepod family (and we really liked part 2).

Hmm, I guess that's where you and I differ... I really wish #2 never existed. If I could only get back the time I waited in line for that hunk of junk and the eternity it felt like I'd sat in the theater... That they didn't carry on from that in the 3rd installment couldn't have made me happier. I do wish there was more adventure, but I'm just thankful for a movie that had almost all its parts pointing toward the same ending.

[AllyOops!]

We saw it last night.

I truly recommend the last hour of the film. If you can force yourself to sit through two hours of excrutiating hell, the last hour will be an enjoyable pay-off for you. In fact, just show up two hours late to the cinema to avoid most of the messy & convoluted storyline that is Pirates 3.

I agree that an hour could have easily been trimmed! How so?

Spoiler:

The whole Calypso storyline needed to go. It added nothing but frustration to the film. I also could have done without Capt. Sparrow's experience in a crab-filled purgatory as well as his dialogue with all of the "other" Capt. Sparrows. When two mini Sparrows were clinging to his beaded dreads offering him advice, I was like "this is just the embarrassing end of this franchise & too bad I've never done a hallucinogen in my life because now is definitely the time to be on one."

I was so disappointed. Mainly because it's way easy to entertain me & this failed in doing so. It was a dark movie, both figuratively & literally. At one point, I completely dozed off, only to have a humiliating muscle sleep spasm occur in my right leg, sending it kicking in the air & startling my boyfriend. At least that got my adrenaline goin' and kept me awake for the remainder of the film. Good golly, though, that film would just NOT END.

My favorite scene in the movie?

Spoiler:

The transition scene that takes us to Captain Jack's netherworld. The screen goes completely black & you are treated to dialogue from the Pirates Of The Caribbean attraction at Disneyland. Also, I totally enjoyed Keith Richards & Geoffrey Rush's characters.

Okay, it's early Sunday morning & I'm not making much sense. I just was so saddened by this film & like mousepod I enjoyed the second Pirates!

Now I have to brace myself for Transformers, which, after seeing the trailer, my boyfriend declared looked like the coolest movie ever & we are so going to see it!

Yay.