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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus2" data-source="post: 2939704" data-attributes="member: 11586">I wasn't too pleased with PotC2.  The first one was a lot better IMHO.I don't like the way it started off.  Unless I missed it, they never explained what that place was that Jack escaped from in the very beginning (a prison of some sort)?  Or why he was there.  Obviously to get a drawing of a key, but why did he go there to get it?I also don't like how Will and Elizabeth got arrested.  Seemed like they put that in there just for conflict purposes.  They were charged with helping Jack escape in the 1st movie.  Now obviously if that was such a crime, they would have known about it and not hung around.  Did anyone else think that Will (and maybe Elizabeth) would become pirates along with Jack at the end of the 1st movie?  Sorta like Will embracing his heritage.  I thought for sure it would start out with Will and Jack pirating together...Other complaints...  Jack was basically evil.  At the end of Pirates1, he seemed to have redeemed himself.  Now, since it is a new movie, they have to make him bad again, so he can once again redeem himself.  Seemed sort of contrived.I kept thinking of the animated Sinbad movie (the one with Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta Jones).  It reminded me a lot like that.  Sinbad was a scroundrel, Jack was a scroundrel.  Sinbad redeemed himself, Jack would eventually redeem himself.I thought the mosters looked really fake.  The undead pirates in the first movie looked a lot cooler.  The close up shots of Davey Jones and his crew were actually pretty good, but it was the shots where there were a lot of CGI characters on the screen at once, or the shots from farther away which looked fake to me.I also thought the action sequences weren't as abundant.  The mill wheel scene, them fighting off the kraken, and the fight on the beech were all good, but not really spectacular.  But most of all, I wanted more.  They were probably saving it for Pirates3.I did like how they brought back most of the characters from the first one.  Even the minor characters you didn't think you'd ever see again.  The two comic relief pirates were great, and I almost forgot about Norrington until they reintroduced him.Ever since the Matrix sequels, I haven't been a fan of unresolved plots.  I agree with the previous poster who said they didn't want to see Pirates 2a and Pirates 2b.  They should have made 2 and 3 their own seperate movies with their own seperate plots and resolutions.  Oh well...  Blame that one on Matrix  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> That was pretty much it.  All in all I thought it was okay.  Not as good as the first.  I will probably see it again when my friend goes, just incase there were things I missed.</blockquote>

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