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!".)

JZ, I'll happily go with you to see it. I mean.... a hypothetical person would go with another hypothetical person. Hypothetically.

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.

Oh, I totally want to see PotC3. PotC remains a favorite movie.

I liked the second one, but didn't quite lose myself in the story as much...there were many minutes of "Dag, this has been on for quite some time."

JZ, you wanna go see POTC3 with me? We can squee in the losers corner together.

It's a date!

Jess, it's okay. I remember that ages ago you said you'd desperately loved some movie almost everyone else hated (my brain wants to say Death To Smoochy, but it's been too long to remember for certain), and that you said that in the end all you could say was that if you like this sort of thing, this is just the sort of thing you will like, and that the movie in question was just the sort of thing you liked. PotC:DMC was a total that kind of movie for me, and if the third one is anything like it, I will be a very (irrationally) happy camper.

POTC 2 had some set pieces that went on too long and a complete time-waster of a "crazy natives" subplot, but I liked the meat of the movie.

POTC 2 had some set pieces that went on too long and a complete time-waster of a "crazy natives" subplot, but I liked the meat of the movie.

This and the hamster ball of death just left me tepid.

I'm really only interested in seeing how the dog!king has been getting on since we last saw him.

And Chow Yun Fat, of course.

This and the hamster ball of death just left me tepid.

I thought it was amusing, but then they just began defying physics and falling thousand of feet without being harmed, and it became annoying. There's only so much suspension of disbelief one can offer to a movie about pirates and ghosts and sea monsters, after all.

Amen!

And the gravity immune water wheel of death scene seriously made my backside sore. ForEVer and EVer and EVer oy vey.