Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

[Nacho]

For those who didn' t liked the films...

You should go to the closer police station and denounce the person who, aiming to your head with a gun, obligated to go to the cinema and see a film you didn' t wanted to see!

[evenwolf]

Nacho, I got dragged to LotR without ever showing interest one way or the other.  I can understand if a group of friends or family pushed to go see Pirates together.

[OneDollar]

This movie was muddled & convoluted!    I still enjoyed it but it seems the filmmakers don't care if we follow the plot.  They trust that we'll just latch on to whatever silliness they subscribe us to.

I hear ya. About 2/3rd into it I was thinking "I haven't cared about the plot for a while now" and was just waiting for things to calm down somewhat so I could find someone to latch onto.

The first Pirates movie was (and I expect most people will agree here) the best. Why? Because it was a huge and fantastically over budgeted farce. The vague plot was just an excuse to bring pirates, ghosts and a governor's daughter out onto the high seas and generally have a lot of battles and swordplay. It was essentially something that should have been made in somebody's swimming pool, but with million dollar effects and some great one-liners.

Now Pirates three rolls out, and somebody's decided that they want to go all serious. We get

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a huge complex plot that doesn't exactly sit perfectly with the other films, and what on earth is going on with Jack and his army of Jacks? I signed on for the jokes and action, not Depp being surreal in a big white studio and licking rocks. And I don't see why they had to make him mad; he's the best written character by far. Also a distinct lack of action until the end (which was a great sequence)

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That having been said I did enjoy the film, just don't go expecting something the same as the first two. And all of my complaints are overridden by

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the sight of a monkey in a pirate costume being launched from a cannon

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[Erenan]

The bottom line in my opinion is that these movies are essentially just a way to be entertained for a while. They're not Schindler's List or Casablanca or even intended to be regarded as such. There are things I didn't like, yeah, but on the whole I still enjoyed watching it.

[Blackthorne]

It's like Fat Elvis.

It's fat - it's bloated.... it's epic.

But it's still Elvis in the end.

Though I liked Pirates 1....er... Skinny Elvis better.


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[MillsJROSS]

I enjoy these movies. I'm not looking for anything great, just some action, a few one-liners, and piratey things. All of the movies have provided me that, and I've been content with it.

One complaint I'd have of the last two are the length of the films. They do keep getting longer, and the first one was long too, but since it was in a tight one story arch movie it seemed to flow better. Wheras the new ones story is really kind of sparse and they fill it in with too much action and one-liners.

Another complain is really just the references to their previous movies, which I haven't seen in a while. It's not really their fault that I don't rewatch movies over and over again, but it did take me a while to remember what exactly had happened before the third installment.

It kept me mostly entertained for it's length, and I know I'll see the fourth movie.

-MillsJROSS