PotC: At World's End (reactions, spoilers!)

[Steel_Wind]

I'm still undecided about it. I guess I liked it... but I didn't like it as much as DMC and certainly not as much as CoBP.

What attracted me to the original Pirates of the Caribbean was that it was a period piece with fantastical elements.

"Well you'd better start believin' in ghost stories m'dear, because you're in one!"

That's what made it cool for me.

The second one... again...the fantastic took place somewhere "out there on the sea" and it didn't feel very connected to the world. More over the top, but my disbelief was still suspended.

This one? Pure Fantasy. Nine Pirate Lords? The English Marching their own people by the hundreds to the gallows in some mockery of the Holocaust for some imagined wrongs? (and they all stand meekly and take it?) Sailing off the edge of the world? A Disney film that hangs a kid in the opening scene?

It was too much. My disbelief couldn't recover from what I was seeing. Which is okay if it's a pure fantasy film - but this wasn't what this was supposed to be. That's not the idea of the original genre. It was supposed to be taking place on Earth in the first film - and this one - took place somewhere else entirely.

I guess from my point of view, the more over the top the fantastical became, the less I was able to buy into the movie.

If they do make a fourth film focusing on Jack and Barbosa and the search for the Fountain of Youth - as long as its not as far over the top - I think I would prefer that return to the less fantastic.

 

[Steel_Wind]

I have to give this one a 9.5 out of 10, and here's why:

It didn't hit me until

Spoiler

they sailed through the ice on their way to the underworld to retrieve Jack from the Locker

, but the entire series was retelling the "Rhime of the Ancyent Marinere." Once that dawned on me, so much of the CotBP and DMC, coupled with AWE, made perfect sense. I went back and watched the first two to be sure I wasn't imagining it, but it really, really does fit.

With that said, AWE was easily my favorite of the three.

Saba

There are elements of Coleridge in there, sure, sailors in rime, undead sailors, no water to drink, guilt, maelstrom, things in the water...

But it was just a nod here and there to the tale. Somehow, I don't think Coleridge would feel flattered. (though talking to his earings? He might identify with that part

 

[RichGreen]

I enjoyed it.

Does anyone know why there were mushrooms growing out of the heads of the men bathing in Sao Feng's place? Weird.


Richard

 

[Hypersmurf]

I enjoyed it.

Does anyone know why there were mushrooms growing out of the heads of the men bathing in Sao Feng's place? Weird.

In the Making Of documentary, they said they created a unique look for the 'spa', that highlighted a lack of hygiene... and so there were mushrooms growing out of some of the pools, and even mushrooms growing out of some of the bathers!

... still struck me as weird

-Hyp.

 

[Pseudonym]

In the Making Of documentary, they said they created a unique look for the 'spa', that highlighted a lack of hygiene... and so there were mushrooms growing out of some of the pools, and even mushrooms growing out of some of the bathers!

I saw that and thought they were some sort of Asian version of Davy Jones's crew; with the explanation to follow later. The action soon picked up and that brief image was forgotten

 

[Merkuri]

Pintel: Once we're quit of the curse, we'll be rich men. And you can buy an eye what actually fits and is made of glass.

Ragetti: This one does splinter something terrible. [rubs it]

Pintel: Stop rubbing it.

but now Ragetti has been keeping one the Pieces of Eight safe all this time? If that was his duty, he wouldn't have wanted to replace it.

One could argue that Pintel was actually the one who suggested getting a new eye, and Ragetti never actually agreed with him. It's possible he really really wants a new eye, but knows he can't have one.

But yeah, I think they just thought it would be funny if it was the eye. The same way they thought it would be funny if they brought back that frickin' dog with the frickin' keys! What the heck was that!

Oh, did anybody notice the sounds they played in that black part after the Singapore ship fell off the edge of the world? Those were from the Pirates of the Carribbean ride in Orlando that originally "inspired" the movies. I remembered lots of those sounds back from when my family went to Disney World when I was 10-ish. I thought it was a nice touch.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Given it a 9.0 out of 10, for the sheer madness that came, went, and hopped around.

I was not bored at all.

 

[Rackhir]

One question

Spoiler

the son of Jack and Elizabeth, looked like the same kid who got executed at the begining.

Overall, while any individual moment was okay, as a whole there was nothing there.

 

[Hypersmurf]

But yeah, I think they just thought it would be funny if it was the eye. The same way they thought it would be funny if they brought back that frickin' dog with the frickin' keys! What the heck was that!

Sea turtles, mate.

-Hyp.

 

[Hijinks]

My husband and I weren't sure about the end. Did Elizabeth go to the Locker, is that where the beach is where she waits for him? I thought so, it looked like the same beach. But husband doesn't think so. After Will sailed away on the FD, the pirates gave her a dinghy and said "bye" like they knew exactly where she was going. So I assumed she was going back to the Locker, but he doesn't buy it. He thinks she must have set up a rendesvouz on some other beach, but then how would she know where to go when she leaves immediately following the FD?

Thoughts?