# Pirates of the Carribean 2- still going strong **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675 "2006-09-06T18:44:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675/21 "2006-09-07T23:16:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Now a matinee is $7.50 and a nighttime movie is $11 ($15 if you want to let them rip you off by selling you an “Imax” ticket - some of the regular screens are bigger.) Another reminder of why I love this place. Movie tickets went up in price some time this summer… They’re now up to $5.50. The second-run theater is a buck. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675/22 "2006-09-07T23:40:47Z")
I finally saw the first one, and Jack Sparrow seemed more interesting, and Keira Knightly was waaaaaaaaay hotter in the first one. But the second one was funnier, and the non-Sparrow characters had more to do. And Sparrow himself seemed to be rather more stupmofied. One can only imagine where the third one will go. The key to viewing a movie that is allegedly based on a Disney Park Ride is to not take the bloody thing seriously. I took the same view when watching _The Island_, and it worked just fine. Certain movies suffer when you think too much. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675/23 "2006-09-07T23:49:06Z")
[QUOTE=cerberus] The key to viewing a movie that is allegedly based on a Disney Park Ride is to not take the bloody thing seriously. I took the same view when watching _The Island_, and it worked just fine. [/QUOTE] Disney has a theme park ride about harvesting organs from unwilling clones?! It must be in Epcot, right? ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675/24 "2006-09-08T05:21:06Z")
The ride bit applied to the pirates … the “not taking the movie seriously” applied to the Island. Although that would be a neat theme park, where all the rides are based on dark themes: a Dawn of the Dead Ride, A Soylent Green Ride, A Fahrenheit 451 Ride, an I am Legend Ride (Same as the Dawn of the Dead Ride, but with Vampires instead of Undead), as well as an Island Ride. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675/25 "2006-09-08T08:43:31Z")
[QUOTE=cerberus] Certain movies suffer when you think too much. [/QUOTE] Yeah - the bad ones. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675/26 "2006-09-08T16:25:10Z")
[QUOTE=NailBunny] Hit 1 Billion dollars today!!! [/QUOTE] Only Titanic and one of the LOTR movies hit that mark, as of a blurb in E! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675/27 "2006-09-08T18:23:14Z")
That’s pretty good for a movie that was rated Arrrrrr! What? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-of-the-carribean-2-still-going-strong/371675.md?page=1)