swash, swash, buckle, buckle...playing with the Pirates...Follow

Shame ,maybe the third one will be better

I also thought it was awesome. It was, in my opinion, the best move I'd seen. Davey Jones was probably my favorite character.

Yes, because one word constitutes a review now.

Who was that guy at the end? I have no idea, its been so long since I saw the first movie.

they did what all sequals do, uped the body count.

but the story was good, the acting was great, and the supprises were enough to keep you form knowing what was going to happen next before it happened. i loved it.

jack getting his hat back? how many of you saw that comming? and the supprise at the end, nice touch.

Indeed it was.

Anyways, I went to see it earlier today and I agree that it wasn't as good as the first, however it was still fairly good. Some of the little twists and turns I could see coming (ESPECIALLY the final part at the end with Barbossa showing up) but every movie is like that really. Nothing happened that really made me think "ok, why did they do that" which makes any movie good imo. The ending was kind of lack-luster, but lets not forget that they were filming both 2 and 3 at the same time, and the next (final maybe?) will be coming out about this time next year iirc. So, the ending fits perfectly into that. Just sucks it'll be so long for the next since while the ending was kind of lack-luster, it sure left quite a few things open.

I thought the actions was great, but the story was a bit lacking. I figure they'll make up for the lack of story in the third installment. Kind of like Tarantino did with Kill Bill... most of the action in one movie and the bulk of the story in another.

The kraken rocked and the effects for the Davy 'Cthulu' Jones character and his crew were incredible.

I have to agree with Nizdaar on the wheel sequence, my stomach was churning on that one too.

Has nothing to do with "sequel stigma."

I WANTED to love this movie. I was pumped for it. You could have told me it sucked sweaty donkey dick before I went in and I would have been, "yeah, right, whatever, I don't think so." Especially after I saw Bill Nighy, whom I've loved since I saw "Love Actually" was playing Davy Jones.

Problem was, the movie just didn't deliver whatever it was that made the first one so great for me. I wish I could define what that is, but I can't. This is Not due to any pre-judgement made upon the fact that it's a sequel, but just because it wasn't there, and what WAS there was these tired attempts to rehash everything that made the first one cute and failing. Got a couple laughs from a eunich joke in the first movie? Let's make TEN eunich jokes in this one! Found the rum scene funny in the first movie? Let's hammer rum quips into the script again, and again, and again! Enjoyed an outrageous fencing scene with two people in the first movie? Let's have one with THREE people in this one! And on, and on, and on. It's like they didn't try to come up with anything that was funny and original, they just tried to milk the same old teat until it was sore and bruised by trotting out the same gags again and again.

I wanted to love it. I went in with no pre-judgements whatsoever. It just didn't deliver.



Edited, Jul 10th 2006 at 11:49am EDT by Ambrya

If they had gotten too far away from what made the first one great, you would have a lot of people coming out of the theater disappointed because it wasn't what they were expecting.

I totally understand what you are saying, but a lot of people really do want more of the same.

oh snap!

Time to go see Pirates

I enjoyed it. I didn't think it was anything particularly special, just an entertaining movie. I'd say that the series is a bit overrated in general, but other than the fact that the movie was about a half hour too long, and they tacked on some really lame sexual tension between Keira Knightly and Johnny Depp's characters, there isn't much I can really fault it for. It was worth the money to see it.

I had the relative displeasure of seeing it with a bunch of girls, though. I'm now at the point where if one more person says "Oh my god Johnny Depp looks so good with eyeliner!" I'm going to snap.



It was a pretty brief thing that showed some footage of a Mars lander getting wrecked by a shadowy figure, and then the name "Transformers". I was pretty damned confused by it.

Edited, Jul 10th 2006 at 12:38pm EDT by Eske

Edited, Jul 10th 2006 at 12:40pm EDT by Eske

Ok, it's the same trailer you can get online :)

I thought it was good, I’d recommend it to others who liked the first one.



Who cares? The fucking movie doesn’t come out for almost a year. The previews didn’t show jack anyway. wooooo.. A shadow and robot sounds! Let me squeegee my pants off. At least the web site showed an eye.