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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1311443" data-attributes="member: 812">Thanks, REG. I was starting feel awfully alone.I just thought Pirates stank. I mean, it wasn't Cutthroat Island, to be sure, but I just don't get why people liked it.I mean, did I get this right?The pirates maroon their captain on the smugglers' island. Three days later he escapes. (I'm pretty sure he said he was only on the island for three days) Some time after that he arrives in town, meets Sir Blacksmith and heads out after his once-was crew.Okay. So these guys have been undead monsters for, what -- a week? And they're tired of it? I mean, come on. I'd still be going around saying, "Hey check it out: skin -- now bone! Cool, huh?"And there's all these stories about how he escaped the island -- but didn't it JUST happen?Okay, I could rant about the performances (sure Johnny Depp was, um, wacky, but neither of the leads accomplished much of anything, least of all convincing me they were attracted to each other), the idiot sailing stuff ("Throw out the anchor! They'll never expect that!") and the crappy fight scenes. But I dunno. I feel crazy.Everyone seems to really like this film and I just don't get it. Did they make up a special print for me and my wife? I mean, we thought it was really, really bad. Like one of the worst films of the year. And yet everyone loved it. Even people whose opinions I would normally trust. Weird.</blockquote>