13 response about Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Law of Diminishing Returns »

1. 

   the pirates movies are all good.

   Comment by Rusty James — July 24, 2009
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   I like all three movies, although I agree the first is the best. Like you, I hope the fourth does focus more on the characters. I also hope that like a lot of sequels it doesn’t totally suck.

   Comment by Mercurie — July 24, 2009
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   The first one is fun popcorn fare. The other two are complete shite.

   Comment by Andrew James — July 24, 2009
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   The first one is bad, and too long. The second one is horrible and even longer.

   Comment by Henrik — July 24, 2009
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   Like the first. Not keen on the second. Love parts of the third. No doubt, I’ll see #4.

   Comment by Marina Antunes — July 24, 2009
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   Liked the first quite a bit. The law of diminishing returns kicked in quickly with 2 and exponentially with 3.

   The fourth in any franchise seems to be where they can (not always do) make it good again. We’ll see.

   Comment by Michael W. May — July 24, 2009
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   I found the first one to be way too long and overblown, sure I like Depp’s performacne, but nearly every singly supporting character (including Bloom and Knightly) were flat out boring. And they only got longer as they went along

   I mildly enjoyed the second one only because it seemed to be a straight-faced-parody of a megabudgeted blockbuster more than anything else…but it was more exhausting than entertaining.

   Didn’t bother with #3 and am mildly upset if this chews up Verbinski’s time when he could me making more films like THE WEATHERMAN….

   Comment by Kurt Halfyard — July 24, 2009
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   Andrew, did you see the third pirates movie?

   Comment by Rusty James — July 24, 2009
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   @ Didn’t bother with #3 and am mildly upset if this chews up Verbinski’s time when he could me making more films like THE WEATHERMAN….

   I agree, except that prior to Pirates 4 he was in talks to do Bio Shock, a video game movie.

   Comment by Rusty James — July 24, 2009
10. 

    Yeah I saw part three it was terrible terrible lemon terrible.

    Comment by Andrew James — July 24, 2009
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    Excerpt from my original review:

    “Picture your drunk uncle sitting around a campfire trying to tell you and your friends the story of the pirates of the seven seas; complete with character voices. Now imagine he’s completely making it up as he goes along and also drinking more Jack Daniels as the story progresses. What would happen if this were the case? You’d misunderstand a lot of things he is trying to say, the plot would likely be very unnecessarily convoluted and he would just keep rambling for nearly three hours until he finally passes out. Loyal readers, let me introduce you to your drunk uncle: director Gore Verbinski.”

    Comment by Andrew James — July 24, 2009
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    Even more elegant and succinct from the good doctor at BBC:

    “Kubrick (in 2001) went from the beginning of civilization to the dawn of a new breed of human being in just over 2 hours. It’s taken [Verbinski] 8 hours to get from point A to point A.”

    Comment by Andrew James — July 24, 2009
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    @”e it was terrible terrible lemon terrible.e it was terrible terrible lemon terrible.”

    Fuckin’ A, I just watched IN THE LOOP Last night. Maybe talk this on the next cinecast, which I assume you were referencing here. Awesome film!

    Comment by Kurt Halfyard — July 24, 2009

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