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Post Posted: March 18th 2007 9:58 pm
 

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Russian-dubbed trailer: http://www.ghost-shop.ru/pirates3/potc3_trailer_640.mov

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Post Posted: March 18th 2007 11:10 pm
 
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I wonder why they haven't released an English trailer yet... and I'm surprised they're releasing one this late with the film coming out this upcoming weekend.

Edit: According to this site here the offical trailer will be online tomorrow night at 10pm PST.


Post Posted: March 20th 2007 12:57 am
 
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The offical english version of the preview!

http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=8627

Edit: I'm such a dork, the film is coming out in May not this weekend.... geez.


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The trailer in HD and a clip from the movie (for both, right-click to download):

yahoo.com: HD Trailer
yahoo.com: Movie Clip

Personaly I'm not impressed. The trailer suggest there's hardly anything going in the movie besides a lot of fighting. Even bringing Jack Sparrow back to life has lost the element of fun, when it's shown here like almost nothing happened and the whole episode could be easily skipped.


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In your opinion which I disagree with..


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Yes, the fact that I was not impressed is nothing more than my opinion. Thank you for pointing that out.


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...cue the bashing...

They were never going to 'hype up' sparrows 'death' because every-man-and-his-dogs-sister saw the film and considering Depp is like, THE Franchise they were never going to play the "will he come back" card because that would be a marketing disaster. Also, I would assume most people knew both films were shot back-to-back with Depp so yeah, the whole death thing marketing-wise is redundant, but story-wise is very crucial...

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Oh and, since when did trailers feature Story and Plot points and completely no action scenes?! I mean seriously, your arguments on the films "quality" in your "opinion" based solely on the first trailer are totally irrelevant. They're hardly going to slam you with character elements and story bites!!

Please.

Trailer looked great, for a great summer film...roll on the movie.


Post Posted: March 20th 2007 4:34 pm
 
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^ I have to agree. The film, even if it has no plot, should be visually stunning based on what was shown in the trailer. But you can also get a lot of the plot from the trailer. The four best pirates from the four corners of the earth taking on Davey Jones and company? Should be great!

Can't wait for May :heavymetal:


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You misunderstood me. I knew of course, that there's no doubt about Sparrow coming back. I'm just disappointed, that in the trailer it seems like the act of bringing him back from the dead has no consequences, no zombieness, no price to pay, nothing like that. It looks like it leaves no mark on the story and was written in just as a diversion from the main plot to avoid boredom.

In previous movies some of the stuff I enjoyed the most were: the curses, the mysteries, the betrayals, the Black Pearl & Davy Jones myths, the cliched son/damned father relationship. Not even a hint of anything of that sort in the trailer, just bigger battles. If the next trailer will be similiar, I'll be starting to worry about the movie.


Post Posted: March 20th 2007 9:07 pm
 
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How the fuck can you base all that just by a fucking trailer? You really don't know how exactly it'll fully play out in the film.


Post Posted: March 20th 2007 9:40 pm
 
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This trailer didn't get me nearly as excited as the one for Dead Man's Chest did. But the huge fucking whirlpool battle, swordfighting Jones, and Jack getting turned into Barnacle Man look promising.

:schoolyou: And May 25 will be the 30th Anniversary for Star Wars... I almost expect a Yoda/Spiderman type trailer from Lucasfilm.


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The little girl singing in the beginning is a cool effect, I'm glad they kept it even though she (Miss Swan) is all grown up now.

I kind of get what Ascovel is saying about the trailer making it look like all action and no substance, but really it's a bit early to tell. I'm okay with it even if it is, though. I don't expect much from films based on theme park rides, as long as it's fun and doesn't bore the crap out of me in between thrills.

Personally, I liked the zombie pirates in the first one better than Davy Jones' sea creature mutants. I hope they bring back zombie pirates as a surprise during the battle. And Chow Yun Phat standing on his ships bow with two pistols and a 360 slow-mo pan-shot for old times sake. That would effing rip.

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Hopefully this one is free of all the irrelevant and separate side plots that plagued last one.


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How the fuck can you base all that just by a fucking trailer? You really don't know how exactly it'll fully play out in the film.


What the hell is your problem? In his post, he says things like "it seems" and "it looks like" which tells you he is only going by what he is seeing in the trailer. The guy is just letting his opinion be known, just like you, just like anybody here. Damn, no reason to rip him a new one for saying what he thinks after seeing the exact same trailer that you are currently dry humping.

With that said, I have never liked these movies. Haven't seen the second one, won't see the third.


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I called it! He TOTALLY becomes a pirate in this one! It's the only logical conlusion to his story arc.


Post Posted: April 17th 2007 12:07 pm
 
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BTS Featurette that shows some interesting new scenes.

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Thanks for the link. This featurette made a much better impression on me than the teaser. There's even a quote from Highlander IV at the very end.


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Thanks for the link.

You know, I haven't been one of those people who have absolutely loved the first two. Yea I thought they were good, summer blockbuster hits. Do I own one? No. With that said, I am looking forward to the third movie. With what I have seen from the promos and such, I am really hoping that this will be better than both movies. I guess I'll find out in May.


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The first was fun, the second sucked.

I think this series is trying too hard to be Lord of the Rings.


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The films are just getting more and more over the top, and I don't think that's good.


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For me the first one was uneven. The neverending swordfights were often quite boring. Every good joke had some truly lame one in the vicinity. And most of the locations were visualy unimpressive.

The second one had much better production values, more twisted characters and injected some true spirit of adventure into the rather simplistic story of the first one.


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From Dark Horizons:

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" is officially confirmed to have a 170 minute runtime - 30 mins longer than 'Black Pearl', 20 mins longer than 'Dead Man's Chest

Why can't they do 2-hour-long movies anymore?


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CoGro wrote:

I think this series and or director is trying too hard to be like The Lord of the Rings.


Fixed. ;)


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'Nother BTS Featurette, about the Jack: totaleclips.com


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AICN has some new spoiler artwork from POTC3 including some of Jack such as this one:
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You can actually see this image in the new trailer around the 2:16 mark if you look closely. The artwork looks fantastic!


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Those character designs are amazing. I hope they get some decent screen time.


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AICN has some new spoiler artwork from POTC3 including some of Jack such as this one:
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You can actually see this image in the new trailer around the 2:16 mark if you look closely. The artwork looks fantastic!


I'm slightly confused and wondering if we have an answer for this. I was under the impression that the gang needs to travel to World's End to save Jack, and they do this somewhere near the beginning of the film. This picture of "Wyvern Jack", is this how they find him at World's End at the beginning of the movie, or is this how he ends up at the end of the movie? Curious...


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featurette titled 'Characters'


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SoundtrackNet first listen for the Hans Zimmer soundtrack: http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=231


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The "World's End" toys are out now. Saw one today of Jack with some black rock crabs that transforms. So I guess they are in the movie afterall... :meatwad:
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SoundtrackNet first listen for the Hans Zimmer soundtrack: http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=231


....and it sounds AWESOME!!


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Those preview tracks sound wonderful. Even just reading their descriptions, it sounds like Zimmer has outdone himself on this one.


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AICN has a editing room report that matches the spoiler on the 1st page I posted.


And so I saw the first shots of Singapore. Kiera Knightley as Elizabeth, heading into the city in a small boat by herself. Singing. It’s a pirate song, but it’s not one we’ve heard before. Some of the people she paddles past know the song, though. It draws attention. And when she finally pulls up to dock and she gets out, she’s immediately approached by some rough-looking Chinese pirates who warn her about singing that song, especially when traveling alone.

She’s not alone, though. In fact, Singapore is positively crawling with other characters from the films.

There’s the crew of the Black Pearl, for example. They’re making their way through the underbelly of the city, almost at a parallel to Elizabeth. When she’s dragged into the presence of Sao Feng, played with remarkable charisma by Chow Yun-Fat, she’s not alone. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) is there, a prisoner. Barbossa is there. This is basically the Jabba’s Palace/Barge scene from JEDI, but without any shitty musical numbers or Muppets. It’s a nice build-up, a cool way of dropping us back into the world of the films.

We can tell that things are changing. The net is closing. It’s the end of an era. And the only way our characters can see to fix things is to get hold of the charts to the end of the world. That’s what Sao Feng has that they want.

Deals are made. Double-crosses are set into motion.

The actual trip into the afterlife is surreal. I’ve only seen a bit of this, but what I saw is wild, and I’m dying to see the rest of it. Here’s where we get a whole lot of Johnny Depp. I have a feeling this is the closest we’re ever going to get to the heart of what makes Jack Sparrow tick. His rescue is suitably absurd, and the return to the land of the living is positively Gilliam-esque.

Yeah. That’s right. I said it.

After the return to the world of the living, the crew of the Black Pearl has to get to a meeting that’s been called of all the Pirate Lords. Each of them carries an item with them that is the symbol of their membership in the Pirate Brethren. This is one of the most outrageous sets in the film, at least based on what I saw.

This is also where the movie’s primary mystery is laid out: the nature of Calypso. It turns out that there was a time when pirates were afraid to sail the open ocean because they were afraid of Calypso’s fury. Then they found a way to bind her, to make her take on human form, and in doing so, they were able to tame the oceans. Now, with the East Indian Trading Company using the heart of Davy Jones to tighten the net around every single pirate still working, it’s time to consider radical solutions to the problem at hand. Like releasing Calypso and surrendering the oceans without surrendering to the East Indian Trading Company.

Which raises the question... who (or what) is Calypso?


Of course, that’s not the only thing the film has to accomplish. There’s a reason this one is skirting the three hour mark... they’re going to resolve everything they’ve put into motion, and just like with DEAD MAN’S CHEST and the first film, there’s even a little bit of extra movie at the very, very end after all the credits. Among the many storylines to be resolved, we see Elizabeth deal with both her betrayal of Jack and her relationship with Will. We see Will resolve his attempts to rescue his father Bootstrap Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) from the service of Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who is now under the thrall of Lord Beckett (Tom Hollander) and Admiral Norrington (Jack Davenport), who are commanding a tremendous naval force that is imposing a new order on the entire world. Even supporting characters like Ragetti (Mackenzie Crook) and Pintel (Lee Arenberg) and Gibbs (Kevin McNally) and Marty (Martin Klebba) get some degree of resolution.

Double crosses are revealed. New deals are made.

I was amazed by the scale of this final film in the series. In the hour or so that I was shown from the film, the most amazing stuff by far was from the end of the film. You’ve seen a hint of it in the trailers, with the ships fighting back and forth across a giant whirlpool. That scene starts outrageous and then just keeps getting bigger and bigger and wilder and more insane. There are things going on all over the place, different planes of action and comedy and drama playing out.

After watching the footage, I walked with Bruckheimer back to the mixing stage where Gore Verbinski was working. When I saw him last year, he looked exhausted. This year, he had that stare like Private Pyle in FULL METAL JACKET. The screen in the stage played a scene involving Calypso, and I got a pretty long look at who that is and how they finally appear. Verrrrrrry interesting. The volume on that mixing stage was painful, and they just kept playing the same few sound effects over and over. Verbinski made a reference to the Chinese Water Torture, and then we were on the move again, leaving him to it.

I asked Bruckheimer if he misses being able to test-screen these movies. He told me that he showed it to a group of friends and family, and that they made some adjustments based on that screening. He says it’s just not possible to finish one of these movies early enough or well enough to show to a test audience. And indeed, when I was there, they were still basically waiting on a set number of shots to be delivered from ILM each and every day. Amazing how close these giant movies come in terms of delivery dates.

Even so, as I left the studio, I called my writing partner to talk to him about how anything is possible in movies now. You can pretty much do anything. The old crticism "That's too big, and it's impossible to film" no longer applies. This ending is so bizarre, so bold and audacious that it seems like almost a dare from the writers to Verbinski: "Let's see what you can really do." This certainly isn't a case of a sequel just doing what's been done before in the series.

I’m seeing this movie soon. Right now, I’m confident that what we’re getting is a fitting end to this trilogy. I think you have to think of this and DEAD MAN’S CHEST as two parts of a film, then the first part was all set-up and this one is all pay off. At least, that’s what I hope it is. For now, I think this looks like a really satisfying third entry in a series, and about as much bang for the buck as anything any studio’s releasing this year.


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Sounds fascinating....another mystery to be resolved...

I'm liking this, hopefully they don't over-cgi the pudding so to speak, but all in all I'm a lover of these movies, so I'm looking foward to it.

I so need to get my hands on that soundtrack, Mr Zimmer has no doubt outdone himself...


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Yeah, sounds good and all, but 3 hours? I hope they can shave that down a bit. Unless they make such a great film that I don't notice. Then I'll really be impressed.


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First reviews up at AICN:


" Memflix here once again with a look at “Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End.” One of my goals in reviewing is to avoid spoilers. I don’t like reading them and feel that disclosing plot points would be hypocritical. For those of you who enjoy spoilers, I apologize.

Everyone should get ready for the barrage of comparisons to May’s earlier release, “Spider-Man 3.” Like S3, “Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End” definitely packs a lot of story and contrivances into its overlong running time of 3 hours (with trailers). Going in to ‘World’s End,” my expectations were low. I forced myself to get ready for an assault on the very nature of plausibility, due to its predecessor “Dead Man’s Chest.” I loved the 1st movie, “Curse of the Black Pearl.” It was light, engaging, and fun. However, instead of just making a sequel, the filmmakers made the ill-conceived choice of turning it into a trilogy of sorts. The "X-Men" and "Matrix" movies made the same mistake.

All 3 franchises were built on the somewhat unexpected popularity of the original films. Neither constructed a viable “trilogy” story line to propel the end result. With “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the studio felt the need to put a period at the end of the sentence for whatever reason. This decision crippled the entire X-Men legacy. In the second and third Matrix films, the Wachowski brothers showed a disdain for its fans and did their very best in trying to show everyone how much smarter they were than everyone else. That arrogance destroyed a franchise that had the potential of rivaling even the first 3 Star War films (thank the gods for LOTR).

Because “Spider-Man 3” is so recent, that’s where the comparisons will be drawn, but the ridiculous plotline of the last two Matrix films is damn near parallel to the problems in “Pirates.” Instead of sticking to the man vs. machine angle in Matrix, it opted for existential meaning of life nonsense and broke the hearts of “The Matrix’ fans everywhere. However, because ‘Pirates” was never taken as seriously as that, they ran a lesser risk of angering the fans. In addition, introducing a mythological landscape in “Dead Man’s Chest,” didn’t alienate viewers, it just merely confused them. It should come as a relief to fans, that any questions posed in the 2nd, are answered here. (I say 2nd instead of 1st, because I don’t recall any questions that demanded answers.)

In “Dead Man’s Chest,” they introduced a new villain (Davy Jones) with such a far-reaching history that not even mentioning him in the first clearly showed that he wasn’t conceived until “Chest.” In order to enjoy the film, I decided to think of “At World’s End” as a sequel to “Dead Man’s,” rather than the final film of a trilogy. The approach worked.

Other than the name and the characters, “Dead Man” and “World’s End” have nothing in common with “The Curse of the Black Pearl.”

“World’s End” ties up the story started in “Chest.” Instead of long, pointless action pieces like the ‘natives’ in “Chest,” all of the action, all of the subplots are all pieces to the puzzle. It could’ve stood to lose 30 minutes or so, but for the most part, it was enjoyable. It doesn’t stand up to the first but it surpasses the second.

One of the subplots and the driving force of the entire film is a mythical love story between Davy Jones and the woman who made him the ‘thing’ that he is. His life, his very soul, was taken from him only because he loved the wrong woman. The nature and story of the woman is integral to overall plotline, so divulging it would be wrong. However, the scene where Davy Jones confronts the woman who damned him was tense and satisfying. This is all thanks to Bill Nighy’s ability to soak up all of a scene’s kinetic energy and blow it out through the screen.

I was relieved to see that Davy Jones was the center here, instead of the tireless, boring, mundane romance between William Turner and Elizabeth Swann. (For fans of the romance, there is resolution). I didn’t care in the 1st one, I loathed them in the 2nd, and because they were merely in the background, I wasn’t as bothered in the 3rd.

Sparrow is toned down. Depp is allowed to flesh out Jack a lot more than he was in “Chest.” It was refreshing, seeing him used for more than just comic relief or a set piece.

Chow-Yun Fat (Yun-Fat Chow) plays Sao Feng, the pirate lord of Singapore . I’d say he was the most unnecessary of the new characters. The actor was fine in the role, but Feng’s own personal demons clouded the more pertinent story.

Keith Richard’s role as the possible father to Depp’s Jack Sparrow has been buzzed about ever since Depp told reporters that he was channeling the ‘Rolling Stone.’

I am happy to say that Richards is by far the best addition to the franchise since Nighy as Davy Jones. He was funny, but never over the top. I’m not going to spoil whether he is or isn’t Jack’s father. This small mystery shouldn’t be spoiled for fans of Richard’s.

The action sequences and special effects are far superior to those of “Chest’s.” It does seem to retain a little bit of the spirit of “Black Pearl,” which infuses it with more of the excitement, we were robbed of in “Chest.” The final battle scene is splendid. The effects people at Sony need to take a page out of “World’s” playbook and put it to use in the fourth Spider-Man movie.

“Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End” is contrived. It is all over the place, trying to maneuver in a mythological world that was barely set up in the second of this so-called trilogy. In a recent interview with EW, the filmmakers admitted that the last two are far more confusing than the first. They weren’t lying. It is hard to figure out all of it. It seems hardly worth the effort to try to solve the puzzles of a story that never should have had them in the first place. However, what makes the last two “Pirates” stand apart from the last two “Matrix” films, is solution. It isn’t the cop out, “Choose your own Adventure” bullshit, “Reloaded” and “Revolutions” suffered from. The two franchises may have been sewn from the same cloth of conception, but Pirates doesn’t do the audience the disservice that was done in “Matrix 1 &2.”

I suspect that “At World’s End” will have plenty of detractors, a lot of which visit this site. However, if you go in expecting something better than the 2nd, but not superior to the 1st, you should be entertained."



Hey there --

I was in the audience Monday night at the El Captain theater in Hollywood to see the very first screening of Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End -- Jerry Bruckhiemer himself welcomed us and told us we were the first to see it. Here are just a few thoughts ---

Dark..... very very dark.

The opening scene alone had many in the crowd, (granted it was mostly press) in awe --- We didn't just see that did we? -- The film is just as long if not longer than the second one -- The effects are amazing -- the plot --- VERY confusing --- and When we see Capt Jack for the first time,... lets just say he is in Davy Jones locker -- surreal... strange.... doesn't seem like it fits --- So many characters to tidy things up....

I wont give too much away, except to say --- its much darker and really lacks the humor found in the first two -- also.. myself.. and a few others found ourselves, about to get up out of our chairs thinking it was over... when.... ugh... another scene...... it FELT much longer than part two --- I'm kinda sad about it because it really seemed to lack the joy and fun of the first two --- anyway -- just my two cents --- sworn to secrecy about giving any kind of early review - so I thought I would send this to you --- "


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Don't you just hate, when at the beginning of a review the author states (what makes it worse, as it were facts and not just his opinions), what made a dozen of similiar scope movies sucessful or not? I always feel like the review was meant only for members of an exclusive club, where everybody shares the same beliefs about all movies gone by.


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This seems like exactly what I expected after the second film, which was disappointing.

Whatever. I hope to be entertained.


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Spoiler clips:

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I have my midnight tickets. I'm really looking forward to the completion of Davy Jones' story arc.


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AICN has the first sneak review up:

First off, let me just say this. At Worlds End is NOT
your fathers Pirates of the Caribbean. In the way that
Episode 3 of Star Wars had that much darker tone, this
3rd film also shared that formula. If the 1st two
reeled you in as being fun and quirky with skeleton
pirates, funny monkeys, waddling Jack, an Octupus man
and sword fights then Disney did its job, this film
throws most of those light and colorful perceptions
out the window. If the earlier films started out like
this, it'd be a totally different trilogy!

(MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD MATEY, ALERT!!!)

The film starts with Lord Becketts army basically
hanging any man, woman AND child who is, was or has
been associated with pirates, it is chilling and
morbid...and then 3 minutes in it suddenly becomes a
musical with all the doomed joining in unison to sing
a pirate anthem...I wasn't sure at this point where the
film was headed.

Singapore got the film on track. Kudos to Rick
Heinnrich the Production Designer on the entire look
of this film, so detailed and gorgeous. His team did
did an amazing job (and he was seated a few rows ahead
of me tonight too). So in Singapore there is a whole
plot to steal Sao Fengs ship and the ancient maps and
it sort of feels like a mission along the lines of THE
ROCK (very Bruckheimerish). We see Elizabeth Swann as
a pirate now, she has shed the princess persona for
this movie. A scene where she basically goes thru a
security checkpoint and turns in her weapons is just
great, we see how rough and tough she's become.

About 20 mins in we finally get the taste of our 1st
big on-screen fight as the East India trading company
crashes the party and goes on a killing spree. They
are ruthless, this set of scenes if very graphic and
disturbing, lots of shooting and death. Will, Barbosa,
Liz and the rest of the gang escape in Sao Fengs ship
and go in search of Wicked Jack at Worlds End. This
Asian ship sails thru some amazing visuals, from an
arctic sea to a ocean full of stars. Watching the
little monkey freezing was almost cute.

Around 30 minutes in Davey Jones shows up and starts
tearing up the place in the Flying Dutchman, its the
1st on screen battle at sea and it doesn't disappoint.
His sea-themed crew never looked cooler and a new EEL
crew member is rad! We also see Jones shed tears of
rage over his lost love Calypso, the sea goddess.
Around this time our cast topples over that waterfall
to their destiation...

It takes a good 45 minutes but FINALLY we see Jack
Sparrow appear and what can only be described as his
"Multiplicity" moment. The time it must have taken to
shoot Depp in sooooo many angles for this scene is
crazy to imagine, but WOW...it is cool! We also learn
that a rock...isn't always a rock.

Jack and the old gang meet up, we learn Barbosa's 1st
name is Hector, soon the Black Pearl is on the water
again (it was in the middle of the desert earlier,
reminded me of that scene from Close Encounters) Now
Jack and Barbosa are fighting over who's the Captain
of the Pearl and it comes down to a pissing contest
that basically equals a "who's telescope is bigger?"

Then the film gets eerie and darker...you've heard of
the DEAD SEA? Well they are certainly in it and it's
nightmarish at points. By the hour 1 mark the crew is
back in the real world of the living, we see the
demise of the Krakken and the return of Sao Feng, we
also learn that Will Turner has plans of his own and
that includes being a bit of a traitor, was a nice
turn...but he still pines for Swann who now is losing
interest in Turner...oh the Drama! But thru all this
the pacing of the film has been non stop.

Make-up wise, the faces seem dirtier, grittier and
more weathered in this tale and all the villains eyes
seem bloodshot and tired. Another HUGE gory sword fight
erupts about 90 minutes in, Sao Feng bites it and the
crew arrive at Shipwreck Cove. We learn what the 9
pieces of 8 are (junk), Davey and Tia Dalma (aka
Calypso and Jones lost love) reunite and we see Davey
Jones PRE-SQUIDFACE!!! We meet the Pirate Lords which
are ok, and we see some very brief cameo interaction
w/ the Pirate King Capt.Teague who we learn is
actually Daddy Sparrow...and we meet Mummy...I mean
Mommy Sparrow as well!!!

Ever wonder what the keys the dog in the Pirates ride
are holding go to? We always assumed it was to the
jail cell, but now we see it's for something else, the
Pirate Book of Rules! (Looks like a huge scrapbook)
Swann is nominated the Pirate Leader and she takes
full on bad-ass control, the Pirates all band together
to stop Lord Beckett as Elizabeth yells "Hoist the
Colours" and then all hell breaks loose as they get
ready for the epic battle!

A little over 2 hours in Calypso (Tia Dalma) is
transformed into a 50ft woman who then turns into
millions of crabs and causes a Maelstrom/whirlpool
which kicks off a 20 minute non-stop action sequence
which will knock your socks off. This key part of the
movie is the swashbuckling pirates we've all been
waiting to see. Its the Episode 1 Darth Maul fight
sequence from Star Wars but on the open seas.

The Dutchman goes head to head w/ the Black Pearl,
Sparrow and Jones sword fight, there is a Marriage on
the High Seas, an Explosive building climax and a
total rip off of Return of the Jedi's final Emperor's
Throne Room scene (minus the flailing lightning
bolts), but between Will Turner, Davey Jones and
Bootstrap Bill. THEE coolest moment, which is Oscar
worthy is the effect of Lord Beckett's ship the
Endeavor being blown to smithereens around him as he
proudly goes down w/ the vessel. THIS SHIT WAS
AWESOME!!! I'd pay just to see that effect sequence
again.

About 130 minutes in Davey Jones visits his own
locker, Will Turner bites it, the Dutchman goes down
the drain and thank god for Seaweed Parachutes is all
I have to say. All seems rectified, Jack loses his
ship again, the line we've seen in the clips of Swann
saying it'd never work between them and he says "Keep
Telling Yourself That" got HUGE laughs. There is a
super sexy ending between Liz and Will, he gives her
his heart, theres a sunset kiss and then Jack and
Barbosa are seen both separately heading on a mission
for the Aqua de Vida (the Fountain of Youth). Living
Forever seems to be the underlining goal for most of
the characters in this film trilogy.

Overall...a great ride...and I dont mean the theme
park one. I think it closed all the doors and left
ones open for possible sequels. There is a few minute
scene AFTER all the credits roll which was really cool
and gives us a look 10 yrs in the future of some of
our characters, definitely stick around for that!!!

Costumes, Sound, Visuals, Effects, they all went the
gambit in this one. And acting, well it is what it is
for these kind of movies, this isn't the Departed, it's
Pirates, and going into that, you get a really fun
movie, but like I said, much darker in tone than the
others, parents beware!!! You have been warned.
I would say see Dead Mans Chest again before going out
and seeing At Worlds End because in the past year
since I saw pt.2 there were plot points I had
forgotten about that left me trying to catch up w/ the
storyline.

I was disappointed that I didn't see Samurai Jack or
Sao Feng on the beach, I guess all those early leaked
pics were to throw everyone off. Despite all what I've
mentioned, seeing this on the big screen will be a BIG
treat visually, I encourage anyone to invest $10 and
see it in theaters w/ good sound. Thats it...off to
bed. I think the fireworks they had afterwards burnt
holes in my Corneas.


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