I saw it and was NOT very impressed. My experience with Johnny Depp movies is to expect him to be damn-near the best thing in it, and this expectation was met in PoC.
Unfortunately, while there were some excellent parts of the movie, some things did ruin it for me. For fairness, I'll go over the things I liked (w/o spoilers):
1) Great "time-set" language. Hearing pirates say "savvy?" after most everything they say, and most of the other dialogue matching makes it pretty cool to listen to (although see below).
2) Depp rules, as others have said his portrayal of Cpt. Jack Sparrow is awesome, easily my favorite part of the movie.
3) Lots of good ship battles, sword-fights, and zombie fights. Action! Woo.
Now for things that bugged me:
1) Cheezy Hollywood Romance. Even though the romance was the backbone of the story, it felt very very cliche. I found myself muttering the young lovers responses to each other.
2) This is a stupid point, and may not bother anyone else, but its clearly seen from the poster. The main actress's hair is high-lighted. I mean, this film does great justice to setting a movie in a particular time period in almost every respect except this, and this is thrown in your face very often. She has dark hair and light blond highlights, just like any other "cool" teenager in the 90s or 00s.
3) Orlando Bloom's character was arguably the worst. He was a vapid predictable young hero, and he was far too "invincible" in most of the fight scenes.
Of course, I do felt I got my money's worth, and if I had the choice I would rather catch this one on the big screen. However, the only thing I'm going to remember about it in 5 years is that Depp ruled and I hated the actress's hair
Technik
Unfortunately, while there were some excellent parts of the movie, some things did ruin it for me. For fairness, I'll go over the things I liked (w/o spoilers):
1) Great "time-set" language. Hearing pirates say "savvy?" after most everything they say, and most of the other dialogue matching makes it pretty cool to listen to (although see below).
2) Depp rules, as others have said his portrayal of Cpt. Jack Sparrow is awesome, easily my favorite part of the movie.
3) Lots of good ship battles, sword-fights, and zombie fights. Action! Woo.
Now for things that bugged me:
1) Cheezy Hollywood Romance. Even though the romance was the backbone of the story, it felt very very cliche. I found myself muttering the young lovers responses to each other.
2) This is a stupid point, and may not bother anyone else, but its clearly seen from the poster. The main actress's hair is high-lighted. I mean, this film does great justice to setting a movie in a particular time period in almost every respect except this, and this is thrown in your face very often. She has dark hair and light blond highlights, just like any other "cool" teenager in the 90s or 00s.
3) Orlando Bloom's character was arguably the worst. He was a vapid predictable young hero, and he was far too "invincible" in most of the fight scenes.
Of course, I do felt I got my money's worth, and if I had the choice I would rather catch this one on the big screen. However, the only thing I'm going to remember about it in 5 years is that Depp ruled and I hated the actress's hair
Technik
