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Lol, with this design Jolly Roger can be one great POTC villain:
Lol, with this design Jolly Roger can be one great POTC villain:
im so disappointed with the blu-ray cover...the 5 disc edition (just ridiculous) has the good cover which falls in line with the other films covers...but the regular 2-disc blu-ray has just jack standing by himself....how lame? especially considering they re-released the first 3 in such a nice set and they cant even continue the look so they match...i hate when they dont match...lol
Given the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise so far including the fact that On Stranger Tides just sailed across the $1 billion mark at the global box office it was only a matter of time before Disney started to turn up the heat on another instalment. The script has been underway for a while now, and though Pirates anchor Johnny Depp has said he wants to take a little time in between movies again, hes apparently now in the early stages of a deal to return for the fifth outing.
Yes, it should really surprise no one, but before the fourth film arrived, Depp was talking up how it would depend on the script and how much he wanted to let the series rest in dry dock to let audiences breathe. But despite fairly scathing reviews for Stranger Tides, its become yet another cash cow, so naturally work is really getting started for more Sparrow time.
According to The Wrap, a rough draft of the script is in (from, we assume, franchise veteran Terry Rossio, since he was the one hired in January to start work on it) and producer Jerry Bruckheimer and co are said to have been in fevered meetings getting it to a point where Depp will say yes. From the sounds of this, hes happy enough to at least start figuring out a deal.
As to when the movie itself will actually shoot? Thats anyones guess right now, since Depp will be busy on The Lone Ranger for a while this year and may still stick to the idea that hell wait a couple of years before setting sail again. Bet Disney and Bruckheimer will be trying to convince him to step aboard as soon as possible
wasn't there an actor (one of Depps inspiration for jack sparrow) that was interested in replacing him?
Nice to bring this thread back as we literally just saw this movie over the 4th. Better late than never? I admit after the bad taste of the other two pirate sequels I was not in a hurry to see this, but it's nice to see Disney finally taking the material back in the right direction of the first film. My belated thoughts:
This movie was a huge improvement over the third film. Mind you that is one of the worst sequels of all time, IMO. Overall the pacing of the movie is a huge improvement over the last two. At 2 hours, as opposed to 2.5 to 3 hours, it has a nice snappy pace. It felt like a swashbuckler and not a light entertainment having faulty ambitions like the last two. However, I'm not sure if it's any better than DMC. While I appreciated the tone of adventure and Indiana Jones-styling of this movie (complete with an ending straight out of IJATLC), it didn't have any really jaw dropping set pieces like the first two (even the typhoon fight in the terrible third film, I'll admit was visually dazzling). The second movie had the epic three way sword fight on the giant wheel and sinking beach, it had the amazing Kraken attacks (though after the third go it became redundant, returning to my complaint of the earlier sequels feeling bloated and indulgent), even the Cannibal Island stuff was more fun than any set piece in OST. Also, while I really like Ian McShane and thought he was a fine Blackbeard, he lacked the charisma of Davy Jones (and that was more for Bill Nigh's bombastic performance than ILM's impressive but distracting CGI).
Overall though this particular movie was a fun escape. I enjoyed Depp's innuendos with Cruz, Barbossa as a privateer for His Majesty's Navy, the mermaids/sirens seductive attack. The big finale at the Fountain of Youth was hugely entertaining. I especially loved when the Spainards got there and destroyed the Fountain in the name of Catholicism. It was so unexpected, but so historically believable I LOL'd quite loudly. That may have been my favorite part of the film.
In the end, it was an enjoyable film, but nowhere near as memorable or fun as the first movie. But it's in the right direction. If I had one recommendation is get someone else to write the next one. Jack Sparrow worked so well in the first movie because he was written like a dashing, mischievous pirate that Depp played brilliantly eccentric. By trying to write him as eccentric as the performance he loses his mystique as a pirate and becomes a cartoon.
7/10
P.S. I didn't stay after the credits did they explain what happened to the Chaplain after the Mermaid kissed him? All I saw was that she swam off with him under the pool. How did she save his life? Did she turn him into a mermaid? I feel like I missed something.