^ Yup, it's a passing comment made by Beckett to Davy Jones on Becketts ship.
Beckett I thought worked quite well as a bad guy, not quite the gravitas but in similar vain of a "Grand Moff Tarkin" type villian. I liked him.
But Davenport should've really featured alot more, and been a bigger influlence given the first two films. It's like the writers forgot about him...or forgot what they WERE going to do with him.
ETAndElliot4Ever wrote:
The scenes with all the Jack clones (little, big and fishy) were truly bizarre and unnecessary. I'm certain we would have been able to make that connection to his escape from Port Royal in the first film when he frees himself from the cell, for instance, without having three Jacks remind him how to escape...? What were they thinking.
The gigantic Calypso woman was retarded.
The way they go to rescue Jack by falling off the edge of the world and then flipping the Pearl was just awful. I let it slide because it was stupid to kill Jack in the last one and we needed him, but I still think it surpassed Squid Head and his fish crew in terms of pure retardation and ridiculousness.
I think all those things would've hit the cutting room floor had there been a better editor at the helm, and little less of that "power" in Gore's hands. He's a solid director and a good FX guy, but he's not a film editor whatsoever. As evident by the last two films, I think for both (especially with the first) less is always more, all those things you mentioned would've been great little extras on the DVD but should not have really been in the film. Especially the Giant Calypso.
I didn't mind the multiple jacks, because they were obviously halucinations and was quite Terry Gilliam/Monty Python funny.
But both movies were bloated, and needed a blunter scapal taken to them.