So part 4 is strongly rumored, if not actually announced yet.
Despite going into the first one cautiously, I ended up really liking it. They made a good, fun, somewhat original movie.
The second one got a little weird for me when they switched from skeletons to slimey sea monsters. Really should have kept the skeletons and stayed a little more realistic in my opinion, but all in all not a horrible movie.
The third one was one of the steamiest piles of crap I’ve ever seen. I would have walked out of the theatre had I not been with 2 carloads full of in-laws. And then during the after-movie discussion it turned out we all felt the same way! It was like listening to a drunk homeless guy tell old war stories about a war he never actually fought in. By far the most rambling, incoherent, plotless mess of a big-budget movie I’ve ever seen. And on top of all the storytelling flaws, they just got way too fantastical IMO. It wasn’t even taking place in the real world anymore.
Can they possibly redeem themselves? Could they return to the “real” world (plus skeletons) of the first movie, and tell a linear, progressive story, or will it be part 3 TOTALLY EXTREME AND LEETER, WITH MORE BIGGER ASPLOSIONS!!!
Yeah, Pirates 3 makes little, if any sense at all. I’ve seen it twice now and I still don’t really get it. It’s like a movie made by luxury car advertisers who just want to pay a lot of money for special effects and concepts.
If they choose to do another one I’d love it if it were more of an action movie than a story. I don’t need skeletons or sea monsters or anything like that. They’re fucking pirates, swordfights and sea battles and the like are just enough.
I dunno, my daughter was watching POTC3 downstairs a few weeks ago, and for a solid hour, all I heard was “YAAAARRRR BOOOOOMMM HEEEEYAAAAA BLAM AAAARRRRGHHH BOOOOOOOOOM”. Sounds like they’ve got sword fights & explosions down.
Sure, POTC4 could be worse. It could have Keanu Reeves in it. Or Dudley Moore. Maybe even Woody Allen.
I remember reading a magazine article in the early/mid-'90s (Popular Science, maybe?) called something like, “Meet the Movie Stars of Tomorrow”, and they were:
Marilyn Monroe
Elvis Presley
John Wayne
Humphrey Bogart
Etc.
They were seriously saying that within a few years, they would be CGIing these people into movies and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. I suspect a mixture of young people (meaning: moviegoers) not knowing or caring who these people are, combined with the implausibility of realistically reanimating them, voice and all, nixed the idea.
Of course it’s possible. Holllywood is a land where making the impossible possible is an indutry. So of course they can take the seemingly impossible task of out-crapping PotC 3 and make something far crappier than we can even fathom.
I remember that article. I was just a teenager (I remember it appearing in the late 90s), but it seemed like a pipe dream to my untrained brain. Although I also remember a bunch of actors being absolutely scared shitless that this was going to happen and soon.
I don’t get that video. I guessed right off the bat that Emily was fake, but I expected the “real” Emily to look like a linebacker or something. Instead, she looked . . . exactly like the fake Emily. What’s the big deal?
So we could reanimate Orson Welles . . . as long as we had an actor who looked and sounded exactly like Orson Welles?
Yes, skeletons and cursed Aztec gold is so much more real than sea creatures. :rolleyes:
I enjoyed it plenty as did my friends. It wasn’t a perfect clone of the first movie but so what. I might have preferred it to be more stand alone rather than just part two of the second movie, but even so I enjoyed it.
Oxymoron?
I don’t see much benefit to a fourth movie though. The trilogy was a fairly complete epic story (especially when you factor in what happened after the credits). A spin off with different characters could be interesting. I don’t really need to see “Captain Sparrow’s search for the fountain of youth” or “Will returns from ferry duty and raises a family”.
The world that the first movie took place in - the port town, the British soldiers and ships, the government, the mansions, ~95% of the characters - was much more “real” than the almost complete LotR-style fantasy world of parts 2 and especially 3. It was like part 1 was like “what if skeletons existed in our world” vs. parts 2 and 3 that just took place in totally different worlds. Oh, and the Keith Richards cameo was stupid fanwank.
Well, fooey on you. That was my favorite bit, and I am not (particularly) a fan. I would have liked to have seen more of the movie focused on that guy. Keith Richards made an impressively dissipated Blackbeard. Pirates really should be more oily and skeevy and prone to fatal violence.
Are there really Pirates otC “fans?” In the Star Wars sense of the word? Outside Renaissance festivals, I mean?
Weeeeeeell, I figger that if they do make the movie, they won’t have Keira Knightly or Orlando Bloom in it, which would sort of cut loose all the bad plotlines from the film.
Zac Efron as the son of Elizabeth and Will Turner, combining the worst traits of both characters in one— his whininess plus her screeching and pouting. Sort of like Luke Skywalker, but 10x more annoying.
