Pirates 3: What did you think? (SPOILER ALERT)

[peyjenk]

My bro, my cousin, and I went to see Pirates 3 this morning, and it was quite awesome. I thought it tied the first too films together very nicely (more serious than the first, more fun than the second).

I'll type more later, but I don't have much time now. I can't wait to hear what everyone else thought, though.

Be sure to mark any spoilers as such!

 

[Ilikemuppets]

As of yesterday, it already has made 58 million world wide.

 

[rexcrk]

I thought it was really really great!

The only thing that I was disappointed about was the lack of "The Kracken" music (track 2 on the Dead Man's Chest soundtrack) which I think is a FANTASTIC piece of music!

 

[peyjenk]

My thoughts

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What I liked.

---Everything with the monkey.
---Rush as Barbossa again (I think his absence is part of what made Dean Man's Chest so lacking).
---Elizabeth and Will's impromptu wedding.
---The pirate captains.
---Meeting Jack's parents.
---Norrington as a good guy again.
---Beckett's final stand as his ship is blowing to pieces. He's a very unlikeable character, but that is a really touching scene. He seems proud to the last... and I realized, as much as I didn't like him, he was only ever doing his job. And doing it very well, too.
---When Jack, Will, Elizabeth, Barbossa, and Gibbs are all pointing their guns at each other and the monkey points a gun at the parrot.
---Tia Dalma's bigger role (for the first half of the movie... I'll talk about the last half in the next section).
---Tipping the Pearl.
---Falling over the edge of the Earth.
---The dog with the keys making a final appearance!
---The scene after the credits that gives us some closure.

There's lots, lots more. I really liked most of the movie. It was so much better than Dead Man's Chest, and really completes the trilogy on a high note. I can't wait to see it a second time!

But, anyway...

What I did not like.

---Tia Dalma as Calypso. This just seemed to come out of nowhere and went nowhere. It's like, for the first two movies and half of this one, we don't hear anything about Calypso. And then, all of a sudden, it's like, "Oh, yeah, by the way, Tia Dalma happens to be a pagan sea god trapped in human form. Don't let her out!" I could live with that, if anything came of it. But when she's released, she doesn't do anything but turn into crabs and cause a big storm. Without much of a stretch, she could have created a storm without being a goddes... it's already been established that the girl has some kind of power. And also, with the last half of the movie, I couldn't tell which side she was on... is she a goody or a baddy? I liked her character, and just wish they could have made more of it that actually made sense.

---I would have liked a little more clarity on the pirate brethren, and what the song is all about (the ones the doomed people sing at the beginning).

---I also thought that the endless bargaining and bantering made the plot a little convoluted, and there were times I had no idea what was going on.

---I loved the nine pirate captains, but just wish we could have seen them all in battle. I wouldn't be surprised if there are deleted scenes of them on the DVD, though.

Well, those are my thoughts boiled down. What do you agree or disagree on?

 

[Ilikemuppets]

141 million at the box office so far!

 

[Super Scooter]

It wasn't quite as much fun as the others, I don't think. And Captain Jack didn't seem to be in it as much. Johnny Depp's performance of him cracks me up. I could watch 2 hours of just that.

 

[MrsPepper]

(more serious than the first, more fun than the second).

I agree. It was a good balance, it made alot of sense. The first movie was all about Jack. Jack is fun! The second was all about Will. Will is serious. This time around, it was Elizabeth's turn. She is such a balance of the two, being more whimsical than Will by nature but even more so since influenced by Jack, yet she is serious because she has to deal with her love for her father, her love for Will and her frustration and anger with Jack.

I'm going to go on record and say that I cried like a baby near the end. I loved it, the action was amazing, really cool stuff. But there were alot of things in the storyline that confused me (I thought Elizabeth liked Jack? But apparently she hated him [isn't that what she told Will?] and that's why she wanted to find him in the first place [at the end of the second movie]? Did I get that right, because I think I missed the boat [pun intended] somewhere.).

 

[peyjenk]

(I thought Elizabeth liked Jack? But apparently she hated him [isn't that what she told Will?] and that's why she wanted to find him in the first place [at the end of the second movie]? Did I get that right, because I think I missed the boat [pun intended] somewhere.).

I think Elizabeth has a love-hate relationship with Jack. He annoys her, drives her crazy, but she can't help but like him. I don't think that she has any romantic ideas about him, but he's a very good friend despite being a constant annoyance.

 

[crazed gonzo fa]

When I went to see it, I was afraid it would dissapointing (movie number three doesn't seem to work out well usually). Fortunetly I was wrong.

 

[Winslow Leach]

I'm anxious to see this for Keith Richards.