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Pirates Close to Crossing the $1B Mark

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Well i doubt that since they both open in May within weeks of each other.

Spiderman 3 ( may 4th)
Shrek 3 ( May 18th )
POTC 3 ( May 25th).


Given the fact that Spiderman opens the summer season and has 2 weeks before shrek arrives , it'll be a good money maker , easily grossing the 300 million mark.
IMO Shrek is going to have the hardest time competing with POTC 3 given the fantastic response it got . Shrek 2 is something 2004 and POTC 2 is still fresh in people's mind when POTC 3 is going to be released.
And because the next big movie that opens post POTC 3 is oceans 13 on JUne 8th , i think POTC 3 has also got a big chance of hitting the 300 million mark.

Shrek will really have to struggle given the amazing trailer of Spidey 3 and the positive response it has gotten so far ( comic con trailer , visuals of Sandman , black spidey and VEnom) and of course POTC 3
 
POTC3 is going to own this. BECAUSE everyone is going to want to see it.

BTW, POTC2 sucked. It really did. It was all choreographed action, bad jokes and characters being forcibly funny and with a VERY unlikeable Jack Sparrow (He wasn't even funny.) There was so much wrong with that movie. But any dumbass will buy into crap like this.
 
I have to disagree. Being a fan of the first movie i was looking forward to POTC 2.
When i first saw it , i only laughed during the first introduction of Jack Sparrow and the cannibal scene. I found it all big and bombastic but didn't have the charm of the first one. In fact i thought it paled in comparison with the first movie

But since the i've seen it 4 times now and each time it got better and better IMO. What POTC 2 had was that people enjoyed it when they saw it more then one time , something that can't be said about SR.
My rating for POTc 2 grew from a 5/10 to a solid 8/10

And i do see POTC 3 performing just as good as POTC 3.
 
PotC2 made so much money because it took it's own share, plus half of Superman's as well.
 
PowersOfMind said:
If it had been shorter then I think I would not have made sense. What would they have cut out? I mean I thought it was fine the way it was. They used the first 45 minutes to set stuff up but once the action started it never really did stop and things were explained as they went along.
Actually, the scene on the cannibal island was a little too long for me (they spent almost a half hour there! why?), and second, the final battle with the Wheel was a little drawn out. First off, it started poorly, and was just too long. You knew that none of the characters were in danger, so what was the point of a 10 minute fight? There were a few other scenes here and there that could have been trimmed a bit as well (can't really remember all of them, only saw it once), but if it had been a 2 hour movie, it would have flowed better, and would have felt more satisfying, at least for me.
 
Can anyone tell me anything that was good about Pirates 2. This movie was terrible. Total borefest.
 
Really? The story was offbeat and completely uninteresting and the action scenes weren't impressive in the least. Even Johnny Depp couldn't save this movie like he did in the original. I don't understand it's success or appeal at all.
 
different strokes for different blokes. the beginning sucked but it picked up a bit at the end. The surprize ending and the cliff hanger is the appeal i guess
 
Yo HO! What's not to love? The powerful visuals, comedy, and swashbuckling spectacle's what's so great, matey. It's a fun entertaining special effects movie not pretending to be anything else. That's my view of it. It took me back to when I watched old disney toons and movies as a child.

Oh and Bill Nighly's Davy Jones was WOW, he played him brilliantly.

' DO YOU NOT FEAR DEATH?'

Answer the question.
 
Poetic Chaos said:
I like the Jack/Elizabeth angle.

Yeah I didn't expect that to happen in the end. It's tragic. I wonder what jack'll do when they meet again.
 
POTC2 was a real success just like rots, because it was a great movie that actually shows what Walt disney wanted in the movies.

It's homage to movies about pirates and his ride..and also 20,000 leagues under the sea..the kraken monster has been a real mythological creature since the old days of the sea..POTC@ grabs elements from the submarine voyage, the jungle boat ride and other fun disney attractions...of course the POTC ride..The ocean pirates are a real original concept and the effects are very well done.

This is what Walt would have liked to see...
 
Thus solidifying Depp as the most overrated actor to date.
 
I still cant believe so many people went to see this film. The best review I saw for it was 2/5 stars :confused:
 
Screw reviews, it was a fun movie. Johnny as Jack Sparrow is unbeatable.
 
It's really no surprise that Pirates scores that high. After all iit's a flick for all ages.
I definately don't see Spiderman 3 hitting that mark any time soon.
 
Wesyeed said:
Don't let go, Jack.

Maybe the name Jack = biLLIONS.
Pirates of the Carribean is set to make 1 billion, because people saw the catch phrase "Jack is Back"...assumed this meant Jack Bauer had been freed from Chinese custody and feared for their lives if they didn't see it :o
 

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