The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Some of the concepts in PoTC 3 is just confusing to me: What is the whole point with having multiple Jacks? Why can't Governor Swann grab the rope and go on the Black Pearl? I mean, why introduce that concept that way at all? Why not introduce an element that made them unable to touch each other? The bit with Calypso freed and... that's all? Dude, it was a big thing, freeing Calypso, almost a third of the movie is about freeing Calypso and whaa...?
The movie has a whole of hotchpotch of materials that can be used, but even at three hours running time, they didn't manage to use them all. I heard that they did the third movie without a finished script, I'm thinking that's probably why.
Other than that, it's a good one. Except for what happened to Norrington. Gaaah! There goes my Sparrington fantasies! Geoffrey Rush plays Barbossa beautifully. I love how he deliver the lines, they all sounded so dramatic. You'd think Captain Sao Feng, as one of the captains depicted in the posters, would be more significant in the story line. I wanted that woman, one of the two who were serving Sao Feng in the beginning of the movie, to kill Mercer or wounded him. That'll just be cool, because if you see the look on her face, you know he's gonna get it. I'm also glad that after not appearing in the second movie, they brought Lieutenant Groves and his quiet admiration of Jack Sparrow back.
The scene near the end where Cutler Beckett met his end is just really dramatic and beautiful. All those sequential explosions, the shower of wood splinters as he walks down onto the deck. I feel sorry for ships in the old times, all those wood, sanded, painted and built to beauty only to be filled full of holes with cannonballs. The same feeling I'll get seeing a sterling silver Wedgewood bottle opener used to open a bottle of Coke.
I like the ending, it's a bittersweet ending that fits with the whole second and third movie storyline. Really don't want to think about what happened when Elizabeth grows old and Will... well, doesn't.
Again, not excellent, could be done better, but a good one nonetheless. I can totally agree with firelle about not enough Jack Sparrow, which I think is mainly due to the amount of material they're trying to stuff into the movie.
Previews seen:
- Transformers-Looks... really cool...
- Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix-I'm just wondering what'll be like for him (the guy who play Harry Potter) in five, ten years from now being recognised as 'the face of Harry Potter', kinda like Christopher Reeve and Superman. But... never mind that, where's Snape?
- Die Hard 4.0: Live Free or Die Hard-Wow, um... looks good?
There's a list of 100 Most Memorable Film Moments in the Guardian which brought back memories, and underlined the fact that I needed to watch some more classics.
And Oh God! Depp is going to be playing Sweeney Todd with Alan Rickman!
The movie has a whole of hotchpotch of materials that can be used, but even at three hours running time, they didn't manage to use them all. I heard that they did the third movie without a finished script, I'm thinking that's probably why.
Other than that, it's a good one. Except for what happened to Norrington. Gaaah! There goes my Sparrington fantasies! Geoffrey Rush plays Barbossa beautifully. I love how he deliver the lines, they all sounded so dramatic. You'd think Captain Sao Feng, as one of the captains depicted in the posters, would be more significant in the story line. I wanted that woman, one of the two who were serving Sao Feng in the beginning of the movie, to kill Mercer or wounded him. That'll just be cool, because if you see the look on her face, you know he's gonna get it. I'm also glad that after not appearing in the second movie, they brought Lieutenant Groves and his quiet admiration of Jack Sparrow back.
The scene near the end where Cutler Beckett met his end is just really dramatic and beautiful. All those sequential explosions, the shower of wood splinters as he walks down onto the deck. I feel sorry for ships in the old times, all those wood, sanded, painted and built to beauty only to be filled full of holes with cannonballs. The same feeling I'll get seeing a sterling silver Wedgewood bottle opener used to open a bottle of Coke.
I like the ending, it's a bittersweet ending that fits with the whole second and third movie storyline. Really don't want to think about what happened when Elizabeth grows old and Will... well, doesn't.
Again, not excellent, could be done better, but a good one nonetheless. I can totally agree with firelle about not enough Jack Sparrow, which I think is mainly due to the amount of material they're trying to stuff into the movie.
Previews seen:
- Transformers-Looks... really cool...
- Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix-I'm just wondering what'll be like for him (the guy who play Harry Potter) in five, ten years from now being recognised as 'the face of Harry Potter', kinda like Christopher Reeve and Superman. But... never mind that, where's Snape?
- Die Hard 4.0: Live Free or Die Hard-Wow, um... looks good?
There's a list of 100 Most Memorable Film Moments in the Guardian which brought back memories, and underlined the fact that I needed to watch some more classics.
And Oh God! Depp is going to be playing Sweeney Todd with Alan Rickman!