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The movie starts on a promising note. But then it quickly goes downhill, and becomes outright boring and tedious in its second half.Seeing all those period swords and uniforms was a welcome delight, and Jonny Depp, whom I dislike on many levels, is quite convincing and even fun to watch. Good performance by Geoffrey Rush as well.
Keira Knightley, who doesn't know much about acting, gives us wonderful demonstration of what Natalie Portman would look like if grown six inches taller and with bigger cans. The facial similarity is amazing, especially in the upper part of the face. She was quite pleasant to watch, and was largely responsible for my not turning it all off.
But the film simply ran out of steam too fast. There is absolutely no reason it should have dragged - DRAGGEDDD!!!! - for all those torturous endless 143 minutes. If cut to perhaps the standard 90, it would make immesurably more sense.
The fighting scenes are mostly done for the pre-adolescent crowd, and the living corpses would make great show if only for a minute or so... time after time it was simply boring... so boring in fact that I started to take numerous breaks without apparently losing anything - let the dog out, hit the bathroom, checked the ebay sales... all the while the silly corpses kept their lame swordplay going... like the nagging November rain.
Overal a big waste of effort and money. If you haven't seen it - watch the first hour, then go and do something productive, then catch the last 30 minutes and you will have a fun movie. Otherwise a huge snoozer.
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Topic - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Boring Filmmaking - Victor Khomenko 06:05:12 03/04/05 (17)
- Keira Knightley,- Natalie Portman with bigger cans. - EdM 13:06:14 03/05/05 (1)
- But KN is flat as a board and NP isn't. - sjb 23:02:39 03/05/05 (0)
- Have you seen "The Last Samuri"? I thought Cruise was fabulous with the sword. Excellent speed and strength. (nt - dennzio 09:44:01 03/05/05 (0)
- Reading books about pirates..... - RC 11:12:37 03/04/05 (8)
- "A High Wind in Jamaica" (1965) was pretty good, and more than enjoyable... (nt) - orejones 05:00:26 03/05/05 (1)
- And "The Crimson Pirate" (1952) is a very good one, too... (nt) - orejones 05:03:32 03/05/05 (0)
- Re: Reading books about pirates..... - rico 13:59:54 03/04/05 (0)
- Maybe age related? - Victor Khomenko 12:10:09 03/04/05 (0)
- Re: Reading books about pirates..... - jamesgarvin 11:32:55 03/04/05 (3)
- The Crimson Pirate, Errol Flynn - grinagog 16:05:19 03/04/05 (2)
- Also the remake, with Burt Lancaster... - cjfrbw 23:14:23 03/04/05 (1)
- OOPS! the Flynn film is "The Sea Hawk"(my bad) - grinagog 00:41:42 03/05/05 (0)
- Re: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Boring Filmmaking - jamesgarvin 08:14:23 03/04/05 (0)
- Re: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Boring Filmmaking - PdL 07:31:38 03/04/05 (1)
- Keith Richards: a "plug-and-play" Pirate ( ! ) - grinagog 16:02:53 03/04/05 (0)
- Re: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Boring Filmmaking - patrickU 07:08:21 03/04/05 (0)
- A perfect review. nt - tinear 06:42:44 03/04/05 (0)
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