I think bringing ALL the characters back from the first one and trying to tell one long story was a mistake -- they'd have been much better off going with an Indiana Jones / James Bond model and made each movie a standalone Jack Sparrow Adventure, with some background continuity and recurring character cameos thrown in for flavor. Because as pretty as Orlando Bloom is, did we really need 6 more hours of Angsty Will Turner And His Enourmous Angsty Angst?
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
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Jessica - May 22, 2007 10:07:11 am PDT #8658 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
flea - May 22, 2007 10:12:23 am PDT #8659 of 10001
information libertarian
Yes! Imagine if #2 had just been The Adventures of Jack Sparrow and Scruffy!Norrington, without all this silly Keira Knightley and Orlando business.
Volans - May 22, 2007 10:43:22 am PDT #8660 of 10001
move out and draw fire
It almost was anyway, and excising Will Turner and Petulant-Little-Girl-Fit Swann would have gotten rid of most of the worst parts.
I still mean to start a piratey tavern called "Swann and Sparrow" though. For the two or three minutes before I'm sued by the Mouse.
JZ - May 22, 2007 11:04:34 am PDT #8661 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
So (shuffling feet, looking about in furtive shame), if one were the kind of tasteless loser person who actually preferred the second PotC movie to the first, who liked the too-many-storylines and the Keira and Orly bits and just generally grooved on all of it -- say that someone here (not that there is any such person) were that kind of person, would it be reasonably safe to assume that such a person, loser though they be, would find this last installment pleasing?
squee?
Tom Scola - May 22, 2007 11:07:57 am PDT #8662 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I saw PoTC: DMC on cable this weekend, and I thought it held up nicely.
juliana - May 22, 2007 11:09:09 am PDT #8663 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
JZ, you wanna go see POTC3 with me? We can squee in the losers corner together.
Also, why is the rum always gone?
Ailleann - May 22, 2007 11:10:46 am PDT #8664 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
goes to sit with JZ and juliana
Atropa - May 22, 2007 11:11:32 am PDT #8665 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
say that someone here (not that there is any such person) were that kind of person, would it be reasonably safe to assume that such a person, loser though they be, would find this last installment pleasing?
What JZ asked.
(Except that I don't think DMC is a better movie that the first one; I think it's just as good. But then, I freely admit that any claims I have to good taste in movies are easily overpowered by my hindbrain going "Yay Pirates! Oooh, supernatural magic-y plot points! Zombies! Pirates!".)
Sean K - May 22, 2007 11:17:58 am PDT #8666 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
JZ, I'll happily go with you to see it. I mean.... a hypothetical person would go with another hypothetical person. Hypothetically.
Jessica - May 22, 2007 11:18:11 am PDT #8667 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
JZ, I honestly have no idea. I really truthfully have no idea what people who liked the second one liked about it. Which isn't meant to sound judgmental, just that when DMC came out and everyone was squeeing over it, the conversation may as well have been in ancient Sumerian. We just didn't see the same movie.