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Pirates of the Carribean 4?

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Storm Rider:

--- Quote from: Alex C on 27 Mar 2010, 18:55 ---The first one wasn't so bad. It dragged a bit at parts but for the most part it was a decent li'l adventure flick. Besides, it has nothing on Transformers in the needlessly bloated department, so even that wasn't such a big sin.

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It was decent, sure, but it had no business to be the gigantic commercial behemoth that it ended up being. Watching Johnny Depp chew scenery was mildly entertaining for a while, and it had some decent action setpieces, but really it was a stupendously overrated film even by the relatively low standards of summer popcorn flicks. I never saw the sequels because I was so apathetic after the first one, but I heard they were absolutely dire.

I do like Ian McShane a lot, though. He's good enough to elevate mediocre material into being enjoyable. Losing Orlando Bloom is always a plus, and I didn't mind Knightly in the first film but I can't say I'm particularly bothered to see her go.

laizeohbeets:
I have an unhealthy love of the first POTC, don't mind the 2nd or 3rd (I have to stop the 3rd one in the middle when I'm watching it.) Of course, I'm going to see the 4th. Even though they're giving Jack a love interest. I have all kinds of Issues with that. Add in that the love interest is played by Penelope Cruz, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I think not even Disney realized what a success the first POTC was going to be. In my tiny little college town, two months after the release of the movie, the movie was STILL in theaters in one of the largest auditoriums. This is a 9-screen theater and Big Fish didn't even come to that theater. And they had to do two showings when the university union showed it a month later. The DVD sold out the first day in our Walmart. To call it a success was an understatement.

The 2nd and 3rd suffer from "too many cooks in the kitchen" syndrome. I know Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio had to complete re-writes on the set, which ruined the cohesiveness of the film. I mostly watch the 2nd for the gorgeous scenery. I don't watch it for the plot. The third is just... a mess. I still enjoy it, but it's a mess.

est:
I hope that in a family-friendly wink to his Deadwood character Blackbeard likes to call his crew a bunch of deck-scrubbing hoopleheads.

Dazed:
More like.... CAULK-SUCKERS!!!!!

Inlander:
Oh man can you imagine a Pirates of the Caribbean film written by David Milch?

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