Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Possible Spoilers

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
By Silent Bob - Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:11:48 GMT
Originally Posted at: Nephrites Citadel

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Who saw it?

How many times?

What'd ya think?


and....


Why is the Rum Gone?


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Still waiting to see it! It's been one thing or another keeping us from it, but we're all anxious to go.
 

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Spoiler:

The Rum is gone.

It's always gone.

Jack doesn't know why.


I blame the monkey. :D
 

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The rum's always gone ...

There were things I liked, things I didn't like ... but hey, I was entertained for a few hours. ;)
 

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Fun, but they went way too complex with the story. 3hrs is a long time too. Especially with those huge $5 movie sodas. :(
 

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Fun, but they went way too complex with the story. 3hrs is a long time too. Especially with those huge $5 movie sodas. :(
Yeah, I had to pee the whole time. :lol2:

Actually, I think we might find the rum in Lisa's Lounge ... that or the staff area. :rolleyes:
 

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Fun, but they went way too complex with the story. 3hrs is a long time too. Especially with those huge $5 movie sodas. :(

I agree with Blotan's complaint about the complexity: the problem is, much depends on your having retained every last little tricky move and detail from the previous movies, and the plot convolution in this one got to the point where I felt like I was going down a maelstrom, not just the The Flying Dutchman and The Black Pearl. There's so much double- and triple-dealing that you start to glaze over. It was just... all over the place!

Still, as Shesulsa says, it was definitely entertaining for a few hours! But if you haven't seen it, be ready to have to pay very close attention to everything at once. So yes, a genuinely mixed review...

One other point: the sound quality, at least at our theatre, was terrible—and they have very big, state of the art sound system, so I think the trouble was on the production end. It was loud enough, but oddly muffled and indistinct—which is the kiss of death, since a number of important plot elements are presented, very quickly, in conversations between the characters. Close captioning would definitely have helped!
 

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I agree with Blotan's complaint about the complexity: the problem is, much depends on your having retained every last little tricky move and detail from the previous movies, and the plot convolution in this one got to the point where I felt like I was going down a maelstrom, not just the The Flying Dutchman and The Black Pearl. There's so much double- and triple-dealing that you start to glaze over. It was just... all over the place!

Still, as Shesulsa says, it was definitely entertaining for a few hours! But if you haven't seen it, be ready to have to pay very close attention to everything at once. So yes, a genuinely mixed review...

One other point: the sound quality, at least at our theatre, was terrible—and they have very big, state of the art sound system, so I think the trouble was on the production end. It was loud enough, but oddly muffled and indistinct—which is the kiss of death, since a number of important plot elements are presented, very quickly, in conversations between the characters. Close captioning would definitely have helped!

Saw it yesterday. I agree it is entertaining, but a bit long, though I didn't notice it as I was trying to keep pace with who was betraying, or not betraying whom.

Some nice visuals. Kiera Knightly looked good in Chinese garb and Singapore was positively disgusting.

Have to agree a bout the sound too. It seemed to drop in and out from time to time.
 

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It was good but not great!

... whereas the first one, `The Curse of the Black Pearl', probably was great, as an instance of that kind of movie. It's extremely hard, when you have something outstanding and try to follow it up because you've got a guaranteed audience now, to come up to the level of the original.

I thought the Back to the Future series managed to do that. But there are a lot more failures than successes along those lines....
 

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I think there were "groaners" in all of the movies, but I have to say I was shocked at the fate of Will Turner.
 

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I think there were "groaners" in all of the movies, but I have to say I was shocked at the fate of Will Turner.

I guess they were trying to avoid a conventional happy ending... and figured that something like what they came up with would be a (very) unconventional happy ending. But is he saddled with that gig forever? That gives him about five or six days with Elizabeth, realistically... I mean, she's not staying the same age...
 

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I guess they were trying to avoid a conventional happy ending... and figured that something like what they came up with would be a (very) unconventional happy ending. But is he saddled with that gig forever? That gives him about five or six days with Elizabeth, realistically... I mean, she's not staying the same age...
Yup - until someone stabs *his* heart.
 

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My question is... I heard Keith Richards the real-life inspiration for Depp's Jack Sparrow makes an appearance as Sparrow's dad... did he? Was it just a short cameo or ???
 

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My question is... I heard Keith Richards the real-life inspiration for Depp's Jack Sparrow makes an appearance as Sparrow's dad... did he? Was it just a short cameo or ???
Richards does have a cameo role and the implication that Cap'n Tieg is Sparrow's father is subtle but there.
 

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You have to sit through the credits for one answer.

The gist is, if Elizabeth stays faithful for 10 years, he's free of the Dutchman.
 

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I guess they were trying to avoid a conventional happy ending... and figured that something like what they came up with would be a (very) unconventional happy ending. But is he saddled with that gig forever? That gives him about five or six days with Elizabeth, realistically... I mean, she's not staying the same age...

Yup - until someone stabs *his* heart.

You have to sit through the credits for one answer.

The gist is, if Elizabeth stays faithful for 10 years, he's free of the Dutchman.

I did see that final bit at the very end... but was the bit about her being faithful revealed there? Or was that earlier? (as I say, the sound was terrible)Obviously, my hope would be that the fact that they're there, waiting eagerly for him, indicates that she had been, and that his long stint is over...
 

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Arrgh matey! Saw it last night but I didn't wait around to see the bit at the end.

That being said I really enjoyed the movie a lot. :)
 

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Arrgh matey! Saw it last night but I didn't wait around to see the bit at the end.

That being said I really enjoyed the movie a lot.

We stuck around for the bit at the end, through the looooooooong credits.

The movie certainly was done well with regard to special effects, action, and such, but it was a disappointment to me. The second half especially was too slapstick.
 

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