Get It Off Your (Dead Man's) Chest: Pirates Movie Reviews

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Is it just me, or is there WAY too much analysis being made of this movie?

It was (IMO) meant to be a fun Summer movie. It is not meant to be Shindlers List. It is just a light escapist movie fer cryin out loud. Yeah, we can find some reaity flaws (I'm guilty of it), but it just pure silly fun. To have expected anything else is just foolish.

Well, you can have a film of pure silly fun and it can STILL be a great movie. My beef with it was that, while it eas somewhat entertaining for 2 1/2 hours, I really don'e want to see it again.

It's frustrating when you have a vehicle that is proven to work well and you screw it up. There was so much potential for this film and it didn't come close to what it could've been.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

It's frustrating when you have a vehicle that is proven to work well and you screw it up. There was so much potential for this film and it didn't come close to what it could've been.

Maybe that helped me not be disappointed. I did not have high hopes for this movie. In all the history of sequels (to quality movies) there are only a handful that are of approximately the same quality as the first film and only two* that (in my opinion, of course) really surpasses the first - The Empire Strikes Back and Aliens.

So my assumption is that a sequel will be worse than the original. I don't think that Dead Man's Chest is as good as Curse of the Black Pearl but then I wasn't expecting it to be and perhaps as a result this means I am happy with as well as it turned out.


*I also consider Babe: Pig in the City to be vastly superior to the first one but most people look at me like I've a third head when I say that so I keep it my little secret.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

*I also consider Babe: Pig in the City to be vastly superior to the first one but most people look at me like I've a third head when I say that so I keep it my little secret.

I think Roger Ebert had the same assessment of Babe: Pig In The City. He definitely championed it. (Alas, I never saw it. I'l get to it someday.)

I haven't weighed in on POTC - DMC yet, though I have seen it. My reaction was mixed. I had plenty of fun on a scene by scene level, but it hasn't lived on in my imagination the way the first did. I'm highly likely to go see it again, though.

(edit note - I tried to abbreviate the movie as POTC followed by a colon, and then the letters DMC. Look what happened when I posted that construction - POTCMC

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

*I also consider Babe: Pig in the City to be vastly superior to the first one but most people look at me like I've a third head when I say that so I keep it my little secret.

I wouldn't call it vastly superior, but it was certainly brilliant. God, I love that sequel.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Maybe that helped me not be disappointed. I did not have high hopes for this movie. In all the history of sequels (to quality movies) there are only a handful that are of approximately the same quality as the first film and only two* that (in my opinion, of course) really surpasses the first - The Empire Strikes Back and Aliens.

Lethal Weapon 3 ROCKED!

[Alex]

No, Lethal Weapon 4 Rock'd. Lethal Weapon 2, 3 and 4 Pesci'd.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

No, Lethal Weapon 4 Rock'd. Lethal Weapon 2, 3 and 4 Pesci'd.

Screw it. I know you don't give a flip about mojo but I'm giving you same anyways

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

It's frustrating when you have a vehicle that is proven to work well and you screw it up. There was so much potential for this film and it didn't come close to what it could've been.

I didn't see much potential for this film, so it lived up to my expectations.