Dying is the day worth living for!
Added 11/11/2009
Complex and dark, as an independent film this is an obvious failure on too many levels to enumerate. Yet as the third part of a tryptich, this is a stunning visual and narrative achievement.
The visual effects -- the "visual achievement" part -- have obviously profited from the technological developments of the years following the first film. There is eye candy galore here and for silly folks like me who love watching things blow up in spectacular and impossible ways, there simply is not enough icy coke and popcorn in the world to ever get tired of watching this multi-layered spectacle.
But the story-telling -- the "narrative achievement" -- is the real jaw dropper. Now, granted, this will not qualify as your over the top, academically significant, shrieking franco-european existential angst driven piece of "important" film making. But there is some very real story telling going on here that (a) takes it for granted that the audience is not stupid (which was a real problem for some movie critics when this was first released into theatres) (b) and as a result, unapologetically spins out multiply interlaced lines of story that collide, interfere, reflect and refract with one another. So confident are the story-tellers that they stampede over our expectations at the end, and do so with such meticulous and merciless care that it works in a way that could not have worked otherwise.
Oh, and as with the first movie in particular, do be sure to stick it out until the end of the credits for the "Easter Egg".
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A truly awful film; complete waste of time
Added 11/8/2009
This is a dreadful film, even worse than the second installment, which was a big letdown after the first sparkling version. It is overly long, boring, slow moving despite the action, and a messy plot there is no point in trying to summarize. Given the Disney pedigree I can imagine kids squirming incessantly to this turkey. Here they've taken every sort of sea legend from the Flying Dutchman (without a Dutchman) to Davy Jones in a multicultural stew that doesn't see much of the Caribbean, but from Singapore to the Arctic in a convoluted mess. You have the frequent slaughter of British sailors and soldiers and the girl gets elected "king" of the pirates in a thoroughly ridiculous role. There's too little of Johnny Depp to save this picture. Gone is the wit and humor of the first movie. Worse, the spookiness and magic is totally absent as the Davy Jones crew becomes routinized into surface creatures engaged in ordinary battle. It says something that the best performer in the movie is a monkey. I hope this is mercifully the end to what began with a very charming film.
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Terrible 3rd part to a great story.
Added 11/8/2009
This movie was awful. I loved the first two movies, even though number two had it's faults, it was ultimately enjoyable. This movie, on the other hand was just bad. Stupid plot devices, plot holes galore, bad dialogue, WAYYYY too much cgi, and a sucky ending for all the characters. I saw it once in the theaters and haven't had the stomach to endure it again, even though It's been on cable several times.
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN -AT WORLDS END DVD
Added 11/6/2009
ITEM JUST AS DESCRIBED ! FAST AND FRIENDLY ! A REAL PLEASURE ... THANK YOU !
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It was okay
Added 11/4/2009
This movie was an alright movie. I think it was a little too long, they could have shortened it & it would have been much better.
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Dying is the day worth living for!
Added 11/11/2009
Complex and dark, as an independent film this is an obvious failure on too many levels to enumerate. Yet as the third part of a tryptich, this is a stunning visual and narrative achievement.
The visual effects -- the "visual achievement" part -- have obviously profited from the technological developments of the years following the first film. There is eye candy galore here and for silly folks like me who love watching things blow up in spectacular and impossible ways, there simply is not enough icy coke and popcorn in the world to ever get tired of watching this multi-layered spectacle.
But the story-telling -- the "narrative achievement" -- is the real jaw dropper. Now, granted, this will not qualify as your over the top, academically significant, shrieking franco-european existential angst driven piece of "important" film making. But there is some very real story telling going on here that (a) takes it for granted that the audience is not stupid (which was a real problem for some movie critics when this was first released into theatres) (b) and as a result, unapologetically spins out multiply interlaced lines of story that collide, interfere, reflect and refract with one another. So confident are the story-tellers that they stampede over our expectations at the end, and do so with such meticulous and merciless care that it works in a way that could not have worked otherwise.
Oh, and as with the first movie in particular, do be sure to stick it out until the end of the credits for the "Easter Egg".
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A truly awful film; complete waste of time
Added 11/8/2009
This is a dreadful film, even worse than the second installment, which was a big letdown after the first sparkling version. It is overly long, boring, slow moving despite the action, and a messy plot there is no point in trying to summarize. Given the Disney pedigree I can imagine kids squirming incessantly to this turkey. Here they've taken every sort of sea legend from the Flying Dutchman (without a Dutchman) to Davy Jones in a multicultural stew that doesn't see much of the Caribbean, but from Singapore to the Arctic in a convoluted mess. You have the frequent slaughter of British sailors and soldiers and the girl gets elected "king" of the pirates in a thoroughly ridiculous role. There's too little of Johnny Depp to save this picture. Gone is the wit and humor of the first movie. Worse, the spookiness and magic is totally absent as the Davy Jones crew becomes routinized into surface creatures engaged in ordinary battle. It says something that the best performer in the movie is a monkey. I hope this is mercifully the end to what began with a very charming film.
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Terrible 3rd part to a great story.
Added 11/8/2009
This movie was awful. I loved the first two movies, even though number two had it's faults, it was ultimately enjoyable. This movie, on the other hand was just bad. Stupid plot devices, plot holes galore, bad dialogue, WAYYYY too much cgi, and a sucky ending for all the characters. I saw it once in the theaters and haven't had the stomach to endure it again, even though It's been on cable several times.
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