In a good pirate movie, you need flamboyant excess, so I guess it’s not surprising that the final installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is going to have every pirate in the world in a final climactic battle.
It’s going to give every pirate fan an arrrrgasm, I think.
Run out the topsail an’ spank ‘er!
Unfortunately, the trailer (which I caught at midnight when it came out) does away with the plotline I was envisioning POTC3 to take– a time-travel/pirates extravaganza!
Look at my evidence:
1) When we cut back to the two guards and Captain Jack in POTC1, he is saying “…and then they made me their chief.”
2) Shortly after saving Elizabeth, he cuts off her corset– and references being in Singapore, which POTC fans knew was going to happen in POTC3.
3) Upon meeting Will, he asks if they have met before.
4) In POTC1, Jack calls Commander Norrington by name before hearing it spoken.
5) Jack dies at the end of POTC2, and you know full well that he HAS to be back for part 3. One of the two guards in POTC1 says that the Black Pearl had a captain so foul that “hell itself spat him back out,” which would make sense.
6) The same thing happened to Gandalf (more or less) in LOTR.
Now it just looks like swirling vortexes of death, giant waterfalls, sailing seas of sand, and an undead monkey. That’s all cool, but I’m missing my time-travel scenario already.
“It’s going to give every pirate fan an arrrrgasm, I think.”
Only if it be not such a lubberly disaster as the last one. I loved the first one but Davy Jones’good looks could not save the jury-rigged plot of the sequel.
I failed to be impressed by either of the previous films, but find myself interested in this one… but that was heavily influenced by seeing the Black Pearl moored across the channel from the Cabrillo Aquarium in San Pedro, CA while they were filming.
Of course all my kids love the movies. Thankfully my girls aren’t Johnny Depp crazy yet…
I never saw the second movie, but I was underwhelmed by the first one. It suffered from the same disease that too many movies these days tend to suffer from: Bloat. It was too long by about a half hour. The judicious and–dare I say?–surgical application of some editing would have made for a leaner, tighter movie. As it was, I frequently found my mind wandering and my attention drifting off during large swaths of the movie–even some of the action sequences, which dragged on for too long.
I never understood what the fuss was about either movie, frankly, and in particular never understood the point of the pitched sword battles in the first movie with people who can’t be killed!
There was a plot? Far as I could tell, the plot consisted of a couple lines to get you from one cute visual to the next. It’s pirate porn!
As for the trailer… Okay, I gotta say, in a pirate movie I wants me some swordfighting. And apparently we’ve gone from the blacksmith-shop fight in the first episode, which rivals the clifftop fight in Princess Bride for title of best movie swordfight ever, to that pathetic thing on the bowsprit? High-Flynn, Low-Flynn, High-Flynn, Low-Flynn, whee. Friggin’ I could do that.
I’m afraid this may go in my box of movies I wished I would want to see, but wasn’t worth the time, right along with Revenge of the Sith. As for Mr. Depp, what I’m waiting for now is Sweeney Todd!
Couple of comments on Johnny Depp. Dorid’s daughters might not be crazy about him yet, but I am. I am straight, but I am gay for him.
His turn in The Libertine was one of the better things I have seen him do so far. Imagine the reaction in Modern America to a stage musical whose opening is a tribute to “Signor Dildo.”
POTC doesn’t have to be perfect to be enjoyable. It is a hell of a franchise. I’ll see this one a couple of times, you betcha.
Well, POTC is sadly historically inaccurate.
Just a little ribbing from a guy who liked “300.” Thanks for the trailer.
Seems like they more or less spoiled all the intrigue they built up in the second one. I can more or less surmise the entirely of #3 just from two minutes of trailer.
That’s enough blasphemy out of all of you. Pirates rocks, ’nuff said. ;)
So, who will be playing the Estonian selling dodgy copies of Windows Vista?
Bob
ARRRG! These lubbers thin kie o’ themselves as crrritics. They’d watch Golden Girrrls reruns rather than a beauty o’ a pirate yarn.
Avast Me Hartys!!… A booty of High def trailers be here…
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=piratesofthecaribbean3
Yeargh! Yer all buckets of bilge grease cut with rancid rum! ‘Tis a PIRATE film, aye? There’s nah purpose t’ it! Nah reason fer it’s bein’ anything beyond pure aaaaargery!
So yer didn’t liek the fust one, eh? Well tie me t’ the capstan an’ flog me ’round twice! An’ then yer went an’ put yer oar in an’ set yerselves a cutting out lark t’ see the second!? Jus’ WUT were ye expectin, then?
More cutlasses, I say! More bodice! More rippin’! Bring on the Chinese (they’re alas gud fer booty! An’ they make the best explozi..expolis…expo…. Things That Go BANG!). Bring back the squid man! He’s Davey Jones’ boy, an’ I’d sail right into Tortuga w’ ‘im any day he needed a for’mast hand with a steady eye an’ a liver for the harsh stuff!
Arrrrr!
*plonk* thump ….. *plonk* thump ….. *plonk* thump …..
So, who will be playing the Estonian selling dodgy copies of Windows Vista?
The choices are limited at this point to Stellan Skarsgård or Mads Mikkelsen.
Aye!
An’ if they don’t cough up th’ booty, give ’em a gunpowder suppository an’ wave a lit match in their faces! Aaaar!
Johnny Vector: No, this is pirate porn.
“The choices are limited at this point to Stellan Skarsgård or Mads Mikkelsen.”
Ah, Peter Stormare could play anybody east of the Iron Curtain.
I thought Keith Richards was supposed to appear in the 3rd movie as Jack’s father????
Pirates from the South China Sea, explosions, shiny cinematography, crazy choral score, aquatic mindflayers, Johnny Depp, Chow Yun-Fat, and that awesome vodou lady.
The hell with subtlety. Can I get a HELL YEAH?
Only thing it’s missing is Ching Shih.
WOOOOT! PIRATES!
Yay! I was waiting to find another Davy Jones reference here!
Incidentally, whoever can’t find the plot in Dead Man’s Chest: get stuffed. There WAS a plot, twas awesome, and Diego, Davy Jones’ good looks could save anything and everything (movie included) from the Titanic to the spotted owl. Everything, in fact, except Dubya’s brains and Pat Robertson’s sanity, which do not count because one cannot save what never existed.