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

[SecondTime]

I hated it. The pacing was off and most of the characters were reduced to silly exposition punctuated by samey action sequences and predictable one liners which relied on the audience knowing stuff from the first movie to find it in anyway funny. And it was like this throughout the movie. No sense of a buildup and no sense of a climax having taken place. I was quite frankly bored.

It was basically a world building nerdfest with a convoluted, but dumb and souless plot slapped on.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I liked parts and hated parts.

Tia Dalma was dead sexy. The great battle was wonderful. Jack and Hector together was fun, as was Siao Fang.

I loathed the Will and Beth ending. We are supposed to care about them and they are horribly punished while the pirates get everything they want. Nuts to that. Who ever thought up that ending needs to be kicked in the balls.

I was confused by the villians, the song, killing the kraken, the cutting out of the heart, the murder of Governor Swann and the Land of the Dead.

Edit: In 20+ years Gore will make a prequil trilogy that will piss off most of the original fans.

 

[Arnwyn]

Huh. Just saw it last night and thought it was... mediocre. I suppose it was okay, but it was certainly the worst of the three (by a long shot), and had an even more convoluted and disjointed plot than DMC, with even worse pacing problems, if you can imagine. A tight story this was not. It was a better than average movie for me, though, so a 6/10 for the movie +1 for having pirates, so a weak 7/10 for me. In any case, I am very glad I watched both previous movies the night before, otherwise I'd have been exceptionally disappointed with the third.

The whole Davey Jones Locker/Land of the Dead sequence was so boring it stunk to high heaven, and I didn't get much out of the whole 'multiple Jacks' sequences. And while it was neat to see references to the previous movies, they sometimes didn't make a lot of sense (e.g. whats-his-face's eye turns out to actually be important, though in the previous movies he and his buddy allude to replacing it... why? Because the writers were just making up as they went along [evidence? Listen to their commentary on the DMC DVD!]). And the dead Kraken (just for the sake of removing it from the third movie) was a complete cop-out (though at least they made the effort to tell us what happened to it, so I give them an "E" for effort...). The Keith Richards cameo just plain sucked for me personally, as I hate those kinds of stupid Hollywood in-jokes (though the guy isn't a half-bad actor!).

Great, however, were the recurring characters (even the 2 goof soldiers from the first movie) and the action sequences. I loved seeing Norrington again (he was my favorite from DMC) and I suspected he would 'redeem' himself - glad to see I was right.

But overall, though, I found myself bored throughout a significant portion of the movie.

 

[satori01]

The only person to make that claim was Tia Dalma. So it's really a question of whether or not one chooses to believe that she was telling the truth.

Me, I'd rather that she had been, and that the heart bit was unrelated to captaining the Flying Dutchman. But that certainly doesn't appear to be the interpretation the movie offered.

In any case it does seem that the Captain of the Dutchman has to have something valuable left in the real world. Davey originally had Calypso, and then he had his heart. Wil has his heart both literally and figuratively on earth.

Now the question becomes did Davey cut out his heart to become Captain of the Dutchman. I do not think so. The Captain of the Dutchman is a mantle one takes one, similar in effect to say the role of Death in Piers Anthony's Personification series, but however I do not think that was what was intended by Calypso. Davey was immortal, and made himself vulnerable by cutting out his heart.

That also set up the mechanism by which the next Captain would be chosen. That is how I am choosing to interpret it. Overall does it really make that much of a difference? One of the other characters even asked Calypso did Davey cut out his heart before or after securing her in Human Form....the movie implies but does not directly say.

 

[Merkuri]

Davey was immortal, and made himself vulnerable by cutting out his heart. That also set up the mechanism by which the next Captain would be chosen.

Hmm, that's an interesting way to look at it. Before Davey cut out his heart he was truly immortal, and thus needed no method of replacement. When the heart was put in the chest he created a method by which he could die, and also created the method of his replacement.

Though if they explained this in the movie it would make more sense.

 

[WayneLigon]

Went to see it last night. Loved it; best of the three in most ways.
I hope people stayed for the little snippet at the end of the credits.

 

[Quasqueton]

I loved the first two PotC movies. I fully expected to love this one.

But after sitting through the complete boredom of the first hour, I was completely turned off. I was so turned off by that hour that I was finding a bunch of things to dislike. Not willing to waste the next two hours, I left the theater and got my money back.

I'm not only disappointed in the movie, but I'm disappointed at my disappointment (if that makes sense).

Quasqueton

 

[Someone]

Tia Dalma was dead sexy.

Do you think? IMO the rotten mouth prop was way overdone - it's the first time I can't get my eyes off a woman's face to stare at her rack, instead of the other way around.

 

[WayneLigon]

But after sitting through the complete boredom of the first hour, I was completely turned off.

You must have gone to see a totally different movie than I did.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Do you think? IMO the rotten mouth prop was way overdone - it's the first time I can't get my eyes off a woman's face to stare at her rack, instead of the other way around.

Yeah, she looked good. I mean, they kind uglified her for the movie, but I kept imagining what she looked like in Miami Vice.