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However, the needless complication is what makes it so FUN :D
I really enjoyed it - the fight scenes were very well done and suitable brawl-y (especially that one in the beginning), there was INSANITY by the bucketload (some scenes reminded me to the Beatles' Yellow Submarine movie) and it had its absolutely hilarious moments.
Bits I didn't like so much were
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It kinda sucked that I had to sit waaay up in the front because the theater was packed and I got there late. -____-;
So I had a headache for about half of the film.
Also: About the credit scene! If you haven't seen the moive yet, besure to stay after the credits! ^_^
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This made me lol so much. Please look up the word you're using. xD;
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)! I like how he went out helping Elizabeth and all, but it just seemed kind of anticlimactic to me. With all the betrayal and ships changing hands in the movie, Norrington betraying Jones and getting the crew back to the ship just felt like "more of the same." After movie two, I had him pegged as a textbook tragic hero. He deserved a better death than:
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However, the needless complication is what makes it so FUN :D
I definitely agree there. I like when things are needlessly complicated, even though I know most people don't.
Something that I read about when looking up stuff about the movie that is a bit important to the story...
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In fact, I think if not for Barbossa I wouldn't have enjoyed it at all. Will and Elizabeth spent the whole time being emo and not doing much until the end. Norrington was a wasted cameo. Calypso didn't DO anything (what about the wrath of the sea? Her "maelstrom" didn't do a lick of damage to either ship, let alone the two armadas spread out behind them. They both popped out of it FINE). And Jack...I thought was the weakest point of every scene (except for when he was arguing with Barbossa). It should take more than a "savvy" here and there to count as good writing.
Ugh, and the end.
Didn't like it. The first is still the best of the three.
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His role is good but I think he wasn't in very long
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I'm not sure how you could call the role "good"...
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I'm not sure how you could call the role "good"...
I actually meant Chow Yun Fat's acting was good
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I thought it was very nice, really. I couldn't stop laughing.
Although I agre with the criticism that has come up so far. I just felt that you didn't notice it when you 80% of the time was bent over in pain, laughing.
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I can see why people wouldn't like the movie. If I was taking it seriously I probably would not have liked it. But it was IMPOSSIBLE for me to take it seriously, so I enjoyed the laughs. The part near the end where
basically sums up the movie, IMO. "WAIT. I'M ON THE WRONG SIDE. WHOOPS. BETTER SWITCH." The constant backstabbing was done so CASUALLY that I HAD to love it.
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Why did they have to go and cut the MOST IMPORTANT PARTS?!
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Sparrow was such a train wreck in this film I'm not sure where to begin. Other than the horribly explained plot full of dead ends and an excess of stupidity (Calypso. Pointless), my biggest complaint of all was how absolutely lame Johnny Depp was in this. Oh wow, look, it's Captain Jack Sparrow doing weird and eccentric things. Let's laugh. Aha. Aha. Aha. Oh god, that was lame.
Which is a huge disapointment, because when the film started, I was so excited. Barbossa and Elizabeth had such awesome chemistry together as a team, and the whole beginning, up to the point where Will became "important" and Jack came back, was just simply amazing.
Also, the second film was pretty pointless. I don't remember anything significant that happened (the only development seemed to have been at the exact end). This whole story could've been ultra-shortened and done in a single film. I'd have rather the third film been about the fountain of youth journey they hinted at at the end of this. At least that would've involved adventure.
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In fact, I think if not for Barbossa I wouldn't have enjoyed it at all. Will and Elizabeth spent the whole time being emo and not doing much until the end. Norrington was a wasted cameo. Calypso didn't DO anything (what about the wrath of the sea? Her "maelstrom" didn't do a lick of damage to either ship, let alone the two armadas spread out behind them. They both popped out of it FINE). And Jack...I thought was the weakest point of every scene (except for when he was arguing with Barbossa). It should take more than a "savvy" here and there to count as good writing.
Ugh, and the end.
Didn't like it. The first is still the best of the three.
Actually I'm thinking I can agree with you.
Heck I haven't seen the second or third movie, but after reading the plot off wikipedia on both I can already tell that both movies aren't that good. At least not as great as the first. It just sounds disappointing and depressing for a good trilogy to end so terribly.
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Oh man, I totally agree. Keith Richards was a fantastic 2-second pirate. Certainly more interesting than the stereotype-parade the rest of the so-called "pirate lords" were.
I loved Jack in the first movie, but ever since then he's kind of felt like the same group of jokes over and over.
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Pirates of the Caribbean will be remembered the same as Star Wars, sure, but you have to remember that asking about the second and third Star Wars films, compared to the first, is usually asking for a debate. Just as many enjoyed the first Pirates movie, the first Star Wars tends to be universally accepted as a good film, whereas the second and third films in both trilogies are up to debate.
Also, the battle at the end was awful and nowhere near one of the greatest thirty minutes in film-making history. The only good part about it was Beckett's death sequence, in which he slowly descends into the deck of the ship as it is being blasted apart and set afire. That was really cool, but only visually. His character was deadweight.
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Pirates of the Caribbean will be remembered the same as Star Wars, sure, but you have to remember that asking about the second and third Star Wars films, compared to the first, is usually asking for a debate. Just as many enjoyed the first Pirates movie, the first Star Wars tends to be universally accepted as a good film, whereas the second and third films in both trilogies are up to debate.
Also, the battle at the end was awful and nowhere near one of the greatest thirty minutes in film-making history. The only good part about it was Beckett's death sequence, in which he slowly descends into the deck of the ship as it is being blasted apart and set afire. That was really cool, but only visually. His character was deadweight.
I guess that's is somewhat true.
But, come on. The marriage? That was epic on multiple levels.
I could say WELL DATS UR OPINION but that would be redundant. All I know is that I have a good feeling I will be re-watching all three of the films years from now.
It's pirates. Freaking pirates. I can't see how anyone can hate on that.
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I read it. I'm just thinking in a ways that POTC follows other movies in that... well... you know that saying that the first one is always good and the sequels tend to suck?
Well on that note POTC hit's and misses. Some like the sequels. Some hated them feeling the series went down starting with Dead Man's Chest.
It's not like POTC was the only one though. Heck just look at Spiderman. If anything the Shrek series seems to be the only one that churns out good sequels from what I hear... Though I never really liked Shrek to begin with.
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Ugh, I thought that was awful. The only good part was Barbossa. I couldn't get over how cheesy it was (and how goddamn LONG it took). Not to mention the two of them hadn't even been on speaking terms up until the very moment it happened.
Just because we disagree doesn't mean we didn't read your review, btw. Though admittedly I skipped over most of it because it sounded like a lot of empty praise.
BTW, here's some plot holes I couldn't quite figure out:
And no, "the writers didn't know about the 3rd movie when they made the 1st" doesn't count.
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IMO,the first PotC was defenitly the best.
(The only thing I really liked in the third move was little Jack-the monkey and the music)
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