Wait, how did they find out they had to restore all the coins and pay the blood sacrifice to break the curse? I can see that returning the coins is a logical step, but I wouldn’t have thought of giving blood as well. I can’t remember if this was explained (unless it was part of the warnings they had failed to heed).
Barbarossa said the curse didn’t take full effect until they were spending the loot. Which was clever of the cursers, as it made it harder to recover the treasure. So for the first few weeks, the pirates probably only felt a bit hungry and looked a little pale ion teh moonlight. It was only later taht tehy were full on insatiable skeletons.
But, once in full effect, the curse stays at full strength, even for the newly tormented. Thus Jack got the whole deal while only breifly undead.
As for how did they know, I assumed they paid more attention to the legends surrounding teh gold once they realized they had been cursed. Did Bootstrap get tossed before or after they realized their doom? Or just before they realized how to break it?
They found out afterwards, remember the scene down in the hold, where the two comic relief pirates tell the story? One of em says something like “Course, it was only afterwards we realized we needed ol’ Bootstrap’s blood to lift the curse. It’s what you might call irony.”
AntaresJB, Johnny Depp is always somehow, strangely, incredibly sexy. That’s really my only complaint with the movie: not enough nudity. But really, aside from nekkid Johnny and Orlando, this movie had everything a girl could ask for–swashbuckling, pirates, zombies, a scary monkey, a little romance–what more could you want?
Mmmm… scary romantic zombie monkey swashbuckling! [drool]
The bit from your spoiler bothered me a touch because with that much air they’d have floated to the top
I thought it was great to see Gareth from The Office! He was great 
I took Dominic (age almost-8) to see it last week while we were in Colorado and we just loved it. I’d say as far as taking kids goes… it just depends on how your kids handle things. I know Dominic’s tolerance levels for scary stuff and the sorts of things that he is afraid of, and this wasn’t the kind of thing that would scare him (and it didn’t)… but I can imagine other kids being freaked out. We mostly laughed our heads off. Dominic’s favorite part, which he is still talking about, is when the two pirates dress up in women’s clothing at the end
I really want to eat Depp for breakfast, now, after seeing that. YUM!!
Every time somebody says Jack and Will I get an image in my head of the Will and Grace characters as bloodthirsty pirates. It’s an odd picture.
There were a number of scenes straight out of the ride. Some of these have already been mentioned, but I noticed: the prisoners with the dog, the guy sleeping with the pigs, the pirates chasing the women round and round, one of the women pouring a drink into a drunk guy’s mouth, and several others. They were even acted in a sort of animatronic/stilted way.
My favorite bit of the movie was when Captain Jack Sparrow is standing on the gallows, about to dance the hemp fandango, and listening to his crimes being read aloud. He just seems so proud of himself and all that he’s done, especially impersonating a member of the English clergy.
But that’s just one bit in a movie full of great stuff, mostly coming from Sparrow. Will and Elizabeth were both good as straight men to Sparrow’s antics, but they got in some good shots, too, most of which have already been mentioned.
I really, really, like that the widely-accepted reason that Jack acts as he does (I also like Orlando Bloom’s impersonation of Johnny Depp playing Sparrow… Hee hee…) turns out to be a load of hogwash. It makes me more content to just think of the good Captain as just completely bug-shagging (though, as pointed out above, not without lucidity) than for him to have a reason to his rhyme.
The curse was interesting in that it wasn’t exactly straightforward. It took me until I was driving home, working it out with my roommate, to completely understand it. I don’t think they made it clear that everyone who stole gold from the chest needed to bleed into it. I know they didn’t make clear the timeline involved in the curse (when did they realize that they were cursed? Why did Bootstrap send a piece of gold away? How/when did they figure out how to lift the curse? Why did Captain Jack become a zombie immediately?). However, I like that they left it vague. We don’t really need to know the answers to these questions.
Geoffery Rush was very good, and his performance would be the one everyone is talking about if he hadn’t been, unfortunately for him, in the same movie as Johnny Depp.
How did the mutineers on the Black Pearl find the island? Sparrow had the compass that pointed to it, right? Did he tell them where it was before they abandoned him?
I have a couple of lingering quesitons about Bootstrap, too. Well, for one thing, it would suck to be him. I mean, really, you’re drawn into a mutiny, then you’re cursed to undeath, then the crew turns against you, then you’re thrown overboard strapped to a cannon to while away your unlife as the newest reef in the Carribean, and then, after ten years at the bottom of the ocean, just when you’re getting used to the fish ticklin’ your privies, you’re alive again! At the bottom of the sea! Whoops.
Anyway, so, why, upon learning that Will was Bootstrap’s boy, didn’t Captain Jack Sparrow just dump him into the ocean with his papa? I know he needed the leverage for getting the Black Pearl back, but he evidently had a plan for getting the Black Pearl back anyway (remember, he told Goofus and Gallant of the Royal Marines that he was going to take the Interceptor after the Black Pearl), so he evidently had a plan that didn’t involve just blowing holes in “his” ship. Bootstrap was one of the mutineers, right? So why did Sparrow speak of him in an approving manner, not to mention save his child’s life more than once? Was his beef just with Barbossa? 'Cause, I gotta tell you, if I’m marooned and left for dead, rum notwithstanding, I’m gonna be a mite ticked at the entire crew, not just the leader of the mutiny.
Anyway, it was much cool, and I want to see it again.
Wow, remind me to stay away from you, then. You’d be really, really, really bothered every time I said that my underwire bra was killing me. I think bras hurt. All of them. Even sports bras.
They specifically say that no one knows how he did that.
The thing I don’t understand:
I figure they look like corpses because in the 10 years they’ve all sustained mortal wounds and their bodies have died and begun to rot away. Had they lived nice, safe lives, they may have stayed “live”… or even if the curse did start them decaying ASAP it still takes a while to rot down to a skeleton…
…so why is Jack all rotten and icky in seconds flat?
Come on, people, it’s a curse sent down by heathen gods. Heathen gods don’t have to be logical! That’s why they’re heathen!
Yes. This was explained by the two underling pirates to Gibbs and company in the Pearl’s brig. The story goes: Barbossa went to Jack and said that they were partners, which means an equal share of everything, including the bearings. After Jack agreed and told him where they were headed, Barbossa mutinied.
Jack respected Bill, and apparently vice versa. The reason Bill scattered the treasure was that he said that the pirates deserved to be cursed for what they’d done to Jack.
Right, Bootstrap and Jack were friends, somewhat. And Jack had two objectives: getting his ship back, and killing Barbossa. Will was not only leverage to get back the Black Pearl, but if the curse was lifted, he could finally shoot Barbossa like he’s been wanting to for the past 10 years. Therefore, Jack needed Will to be alive and in one piece.
Were the two arguing guards played by the same men who did the voices for Nick and Fletcher (the rats) in Chicken Run? They sounded familiar.
Good point. It hadn’t even occurred to me that old Bootstrap would die as soon as the curse is broken. Bummer.
Of course, he’s had all those years to take his boots off (freeing himself of the cannon) and then walk to shore, so we may see him yet, in the sequel.
Kn(A wedding! I love weddings!)ckers
Yea, we may see Bootstrap in a sequel, but I still think it was possible some fish ate him.
Ooh, an alternate sig line. I’m pilfering it. 'Cause that’s what pirates do.
Arr.
I finally saw this last night. As much as I hated LXG, I loves me some Pirates.
Made me laugh out loud. I love it when actors comment on one anothers’ performances.
The only glaring linguistic error I heard (aside from obvious and intended anachronisms) was when somebody said “okay.” Other than that, I loved the elaborate dialogue. “I am disinclined,” sneers Geoffrey Rush.
I never in a million years would have predicted the movie based on the modern-classic comic book would be a wretched dog, and the movie based on a clunky old park attraction would be a gem. But there you go.