ZOMBIE FORUMS

.... In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary, come again?

Seriously, they're as large as quarters.

Someone saw Pirates 3. I think everone who saw the movie was cracking that joke not 5 minutes out of the theater.

Well please, for the sake of those of us who haven't seen it, please don't explain.

Don't worry. It isn't even remotely a spoiler... So long as no one explains.

Go see the movie. In my opinion it was the best of the bunch, all things considered. Writing-wise it wasn't as good as the first movie (but was better than the second), but in terms of making the story live and work, it did phenomenally well. It also did a better job with the staging and choreography of the boats and crews than we have previously seen, which made me happy as all of my earliest childhood memories are from on board a boat or at the docks. I look forward to the inevitable fourth movie.

The ride was pretty corny, back when I rode it before the movies came out. Who would have thought that the stupid little ride-through we made the freshmen ride until they knew the song, back on my band trip to Florida my senior year of high school, would spawn such a thoroughly enjoyable set of movies?

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There was absolutely no reason why that movie had to be Two and a Half hours long.

I can think of alot worse things to do with Two and a Half Hours, but I can think of alot better things too.

edit: Also, Jerry Bruckenhiemer is a tool. And I'm not even going to spellcheck his name, cuz he can eat shit and die.

LMAO. Loved today's title, I actually understood it for once!

And personally, I didn't mind the length of the movie. It may have been long, but there wasn't much boringness in any of the scenes, just an urge to go forward and get to the killing (which probably won't be there the second time I see it).

I agree! Although I'm not sure about the fourth... three is usually a good stopping point, before it just becomes a franchise that its owners are trying to squeeze out all the money they can before its crumbling failure and loss of respect from its fans.

Wahhh those poor lovers ;_;

I think they should do a prequel for the next movie. [spoiler] tell about the first brethren council, all the fighting around there, the first Pirate King, and how Jack's dad became keeper of the rules and immortal [/spoiler] I know, Star Wars has killed "prequels" as an idea for a generation, but still...what came before would be interesting.

Meanwhile - anyone else like that opening song? "He-e-e-e-ave...Ho-o-o..." keeps leaking out from between my lips now...

A respectable flick, not great writing, morally dubious and somewhat confused, good for one viewing.

I saw enough rotten teeth in close-up in this movie to last me the rest of my life.

As far as I now, this is the first Disney film ever to feature a man licking his way up a woman's naked thigh. I don't think that happened in any of the shaggy dog or flubber movies.

We will see Shrek next. Hopefully no one will be licking their way up anyone's thigh, as there aren't any characters as good-looking as Keira Knightly.

Saw it this afternoon. Had trouble keeping track exactly of who was betraying whom.

I think that might have been the point.

It's not a good movie, I think, but it is an enjoyable one. Though I did find myself pressed back as far into my seat at the theater as I could get... all the people and the giant screen and the noise levels were all just terribly overwhelming and uncomfortable for me.

I think I just like things being less immersive, and held at a nice safe distance from me on a somewhat smaller screen. My friend (who works for Technicolor and who has been going quietly insane from all the extra work the past few months thanks in part to all the "3s" this summer) has a digital projector, a blank wall, and a couch in his basement, carefully set up to establish a mini home theater for our home brew MST3K nights, with about a 7 by 10 screen at a distance of about 12 feet from the eyes (guesstimating those numbers, btw). That was perfectly fine and comfortable and a nice distance and clarity... but in the theater, it's so big and overwhelming, I can't see the movie the same way. I'm forced to pick just one area of the screen to concentrate on at a time, so it's harder for me to tell what's going on, and I enjoy that much less. It's like having to scroll horizontally to enjoy a webcomic.

This is probably rooted in the same reason I haven't enjoyed my experiences of HD televisions. I just like having things farther away and slightly out of focus so that I can get a more holistic sense of what's happening. I don't feel the need to be able to see the makeup line on the actors.

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Personally, I don't care for the "movie theatre experience" much, if at all. Way way too loud, too many people, and no pause button if I need to get up for whatever reason.

And when someone tells me a movie just isn't the same if you don't see it in a theatre, all they're really telling me is that it's not a good movie; if it needs the giant screen and big sound to impress, then the writing and/or acting must stink.

In contrast, I do prefer the "movie theater experience" and think pretty much any movie could benefit from it-- any movie "just isn't the same" at home, to me.

Of course, when I'm at a theater, I prefer to have friends with me, while at home, I'm perfectly content to watch a movie alone.

<i>The Fountain</i> actually was one that needed the big screen... not because it sucked, but because it had a lot of visual splendor with heavy use of iconography as an intrinsic part of the storytelling. It really worked well with the forced one-point-of-focus thing in the theater, just because of the way it was put together. I don't think I would have enjoyed that particular movie as much without a large screen and that same immersive process that I usually hate, and the last thing I'd accuse that movie of is bad writing or acting.

On the other hand, Poe and I were one of three pairs of people in the entire theater at that showing, and I think we were the only two who walked out of the theater talking about how awesome the movie was. The advertising for that one was distinctly misleading, and I think the result was a lot of disappointed audiences. Personally, I felt it was amazing in just about every direction I could think of.

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My favorite scene was when the dwarf jumped up, fired his gun, and the recoil threw him back down.

Definitely preferred the first, though it was still a hilarious movie. "Nobody move! I lost my brain."

Personally, I had to go back and watch it a second time before everything started to click, though most everyone else I knew who saw it had this weird idea that it was going to be more like Highlander...

It's neat when every little element in a scene comes together like it does in that one, especially so when design elements from each period are subtlety woven into each other (ie, the glass walls of the hospital).

Exactly! It made my little art historian heart go pitterpat, because this movie really USED the iconography, and melded it all together pretty much seamlessly. I kept spotting these little details that just made me go "Holy shit, someone really did research!" The movie was visually loaded, but the truly masterful part of it was how well the sheer variety of details were put together into something cohesive... and then woven into the story, and into every single shot, as well. That's the part which really glowed on the big screen, and it would have suffered had I rented it at home or something.

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They had a neat set of books, pre-teen to teen aimed, which featured a young Jack Sparrow as he set out to... er... um... become the middle-aged Jack Sparrow. I'm not sure if they're canonical, but they are official Disney swag, so who knows...

Also, has anyone else noticed the rise of 'Animated Jack' on the merchandising for this movie? It worries me that a Disney cartoon of the movie is not long in the coming, because unlike with the last two movies there seems to be a single consistant image being portrayed (like here for example). Now, with the unprescidented success they've had with Pirates I'm honestly surprised that there wasn't a badly done animated series after the first movie came out...

The first movie was on TV tonight. Is it just me, or has Jack Sparrow's character design drifted a bit?

Even if the movie got the iconography details right, the naval stuff sucked...