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On Stranger Tides

POSTED BY: WISHIMAY
UPDATED: Friday, June 10, 2011 13:31
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Sunday, May 22, 2011 4:57 AM

WISHIMAY


I liked it.
They didn't bother explain some things...
It was loud!!!!!!!!!
It'sa "to be continued" for those who don't know...
Wait 'till the very end of the credits.
We went in garb and scared the mundanes.
Hubby said he'd sail with Ms. Cruz

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Sunday, May 22, 2011 5:20 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


It had it's moments. Mostly between Depp and Rush and at times had some genuine moments of swashbuckling. But it's still dreadfully dense with subplot upon subplot that simply rests heavy on the main narrative.
I do wish they would just ease up on all the deception and duplicity between the characters. It's just so unncecessary.

Better than the previous two sequels but no where near as strong as the first one.






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Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:19 AM

WHOZIT


I'm going to wait a couple of weeks, I hate crowded theaters

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Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:22 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


I've had no interest in this franchise since about twenty minutes into the second movie.



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Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:37 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


I really liked it, it was wayyyyy better than Dead Man's Chest and At the Edge, Black Pearl was by far the best but this is second, Pirates 2 and 3 made so little sense, the worst one being 3, that movie was really quite rediculous with few redeeming scenes, but this was entertaining and enjoyable to watch. We went to the little theater where the local Pirate group was hangin out.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:31 PM

DREAMTROVE




I liked it. First, it's not "to be continued..." the story is complete, after the credits scene and all, they certainly leave opening for continuance here, but i think of "to be continued" as meaning that this is an incomplete story that *has* to have a sequel. Not to nitpick, i just think that story style pushes away viewers, so if people were given pause by that comment.

The weak points: though thankfully not as much as 2&3 it was a little heavy on the farce, esp. The opening. If it were me, i would have clipped the opening and filmed a different one that was very dark. You're entering a very dark world, even if it is basically for kids, kids like dark. Ultimate fantasy is, basically, dark. Just from a construction point of view, if you're going to try to scare people later, you should open with a creeping dread. Otherwise are in danger of having a farce with moments of fantasy.

Fortunately, the film works anyway.i liked the darkness, doublecrosses, which imho, are expected, in fact, i thought *more* layering, *more* duplicity and double cross would have been nice. I also was fond of the relationships in the subplots. It's hard to detail the strong points without spoilers. Jack is back, need I say more?

As for its place in the series, its an almost entire cast replacement, so not a lot of familiar faces, and strangely almost nothing in the film is denoting this has happening after the other films, and probably nothing too tied to the magical realm. The new characters are not given really enough interplay to know if they will be back. The fantasy elements were really well done, and the movie was thoroughly enjoyable.

It was also good to see Tim Powers, from whom the first film's concept was mostly taken, finally getting credit. This was reallye result of an out of court settlement htat followed the whole monkey island suit, largely stemming from the monkey island script being used as source material for the first film, when disney hired the scriptwriter away from that project; a suit which ended in lucasfilm saying that they had basically ripped off a lot of the ideas for the game from Powers' book.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Friday, May 27, 2011 10:49 AM

WISHIMAY


Yeah, I agree...It doesn't "have" to have a sequel...But I definitely got the feeling they're gonna, especially with how much they raked in opening weekend. Prolly take a few years, though...

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Friday, May 27, 2011 11:41 AM

DREAMTROVE


Yes, sorry didnt mean to correct, just clarify, some folk are scared off by the term.

So, yes, I suspect so too. Johnny Depp said he was up for 27 of them. I also noticed

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that the pearl will return not time, and i'm guessing that someone else might be at the helm.


gives them a chance to woo back miss swann.


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Sunday, May 29, 2011 1:21 AM

LWAVES


I too liked it and agree that it isn't as good as Black Pearl but is better than Dead Man's Chest and way back then World's End.
Johnny Depp is the real attraction to the series now and his verbal sparring with Rush and Cruz was great. It was also nice to see Gibbs return and see Jack's only true love, the Black Pearl, even if he didn't actually get to see her. I also agree that there could have been less subplot. They should just set out a relatively straightforward story and get on with it.



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Saturday, June 4, 2011 3:25 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


I don't intend to see it until it comes to DVD. I was not happy with the second one, and only saw a few minutes of the 3rd (that was long, tedious and loud). So I don't want to subject myself to anymore mindnumbing "Caribbean Pirates" although I love the character created by Johnny Depp (Captain Sparrow is a hoot, love Rush's pirate as well) but I could do without the bombardment to the senses. Sometimes it's fun just to watch pirates do what they do best and that is............swashbuckle. The other stuff I could do without.


SGG

"Either do or do not, there is no try."

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 4:46 AM

BYTEMITE


It almost felt to me like something of the charm was gone this time around, and I'm trying to determine what it is.

Yeah, things weren't explained, though maybe that's intended as a sequel hook. For example, not knowing the origins of Blackbeard's sword will probably come to bite Barbossa. Also the ability to capture ships in a bottle, and how to release them.

The duplicity has always been there, it happens as a matter of fact whenever Cap'n Jack's around. Even the first one had Jack constantly unpredictable and switching sides at least three times. The third movie took it up to eleven.

This one wasn't a bad movie, none of the series have been bad movies so far, but I almost feel like there wasn't as big an emotional hit at the end as there has been. And the plot was predictable.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 4:54 AM

BYTEMITE


DT, I'd agree with that assessment. Though I think that it's not so much that a movie like this shouldn't bring the funny AND the scary, that and the action is what makes it a popcorn cruncher.

When I was trying to figure out what was missing, I thought at first maybe there was less funny dialogue than in the past, but then I realized it's not so much that there was less funny dialogue, but rather the funny dialogue was weak and delivered by characters I'm not familiar with.

The beginning of the movie was pretty bad. It got better about right after Captain Teague. I would have skipped the trial sequence and the getaway from the manor, and started with Captain Jack in the pub and we learn an imposter is recruiting a crew. Keep the part about the fisherman finding the shipwrecked sailor that knows about Ponce de Leon, that sets up the rest of the movie.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 1:04 PM

DREAMTROVE


Unfortunately, I might be to blame for the weak opening of the film. Disney ordered a book from me on Blackbeard, and I found the mock trial sequence in it hysterical, and this was as being transcribed by someone present at the actual mock trial given by Blackbeard, which is actually quite funny, at any rate, I bookmarked the passage and put a note in it saying "I think this is what you're looking for." I can see why they didn't give the scene to Blackbeard because it makes him a little bit less of a dark character, though the book itself was not fiction, neither was the scene, being a first hand account of around the year 1716 and having taken place on one of the southern isles of the Bahamas. The book also contained the bits of him braiding his beard and lighting the braids on fire to spook his enemies, but that information was probably more readily available elsewhere, and I suspect they picked up a fair number of works on the subject (I would hope) before making a film about the man, but part of me knows that Hollywood is not known for the care it takes with subjects. (As withness PotC taking the bislama of Vanuatu and transporting it to Dominica, a detail about which the film makers commented "at the time we thought: Who's going to notice that? The answer was apparently Absolutely Everyone.")

As for the bit about King George, also a bit too farcical. The opening of PotC 1 is only mildly farcical, but it's also rather dark. There's actually scarcely a farcical moment that isn't also actually scary, even Elizabeth falling so very nearly to her death.

There are in this one some out and out writing flaws. I think I spotted two points where characters actually come out with expository monologues. So, yes, I basically agree, clip the trial and king from the beginning of the movie, open with a dark scene on the level of jurassic park or something, where our characters, most of them at least, are not present, and use that dark scene to give us the background that seemed so essential that we resorted to exposition and instead weave it into a sequence involving probably the hunt for the FoY (without actually exposing any later secrets of the film) and then have whatever ill fate befits our misfortunate misadventurers of the opening.

This also might free up some time for more investigation into character relation subplots, which, IMHO, was the stronger part of the film. I saw that the reviews were fairly harsh on the subplots, but I suspect that this was in part because they were only half done, the filmmakers couldn't decide whether they wanted the showstealing subplots to upstage our main characters, and almost seemed afraid of the idea.

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Even past the obvious two subplots, I would have liked things like getting to know the singing saliors a little more.

A couple of other minor issues:

The balanced ship scene is as bad as that wheel scene from PotC2. If a ship were really balanced, it would not be on a pinhead, and as a vessel that size weighs at least 30 tons, it's going to take a little more than that to shift its center of gravity due to friction, etc. It also would have made for a better scene, even if you kept the absurdity, to have it shift position unexpectedly some time after people and items had relocated. That would have been less predictable and more realistic, and would have given the audience a jolt when it happened, esp. if well done. Just at the moment you don't expect it at all, have it shift with a loud ominous sound, etc.

The other one that comes immediately to mind is the cartoon stereotyping of the Spanish, which is almost as bad as the Asians in PotC3, which is probably the single thing about third movie that earned it the razz that it got.

It seems like a strange thing to do when a fairly heavy portion of the cast is Spanish anyway (even the mermaid is Spanish) that the Spaniards when they show up don't just behave like ordinary people. Also, just out of curiosity, here we are in the 1720s or so (despite Jack carrying a pistol from the 1760s) and the Spanish are still sailing the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria?

It just now that it was probably NiƱa. I see wikipedia agrees. Anyway, aside from the British fleet, anyone notice a propensity for entirely square rigged ships for the time? It seems a little like retrotech. Enough that the Pearl, with its max speed of around 3 knots, I had to crack up when Miss Swann is at the helm of the Interceptor which can pull around 12 knots, turns and sees the Black Pearl gaining on her and says "How is that even possible?" or words to that effect, and a bemused crew member says "Magic."




That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 3:39 PM

BYTEMITE


The opening dark scene you suggest probably could've been the fisherman scene, which is why I thought keep it, but aside from the "dead guy wakes up" moment that I was surprised anyone gasped at, there wasn't enough menace. Maybe open with the wreck of Ponce de Lion, suggest hidden threats in the waters, THEN the guy being found.

The mock trail itself was actually okay as well, because it was mostly Jack and Gibbs. But it just makes more sense to open with Jack at the pub. Then you could have Barbossa in the next scene show up unexpectedly as a privateer threatening Gibbs, and all you'd need there is a one liner from Barbossa saying that he knows Jack left the map with Gibbs for safe keeping (if it's not already present in the scene).

The King George part wasn't good at all... Though I did like the whimsical touch of the danish on the chandelier. But the chandelier swinging and the rest of the escape had problems, and the reactions to the escape were badly acted. Then a soldier drops Jacks affects for Jack to pick up? Come on, that's just lazy.

Maybe if they wanted to use the mock trial scene, they could've combined it with Blackbeard punishing the guy who was supposed to be on watch during the mutiny. It's not a bad idea, they just needed to fit it in better.

I liked the character subplots as well... Kinda on the fence about Jack Sparrow having heart to hearts with Gibbs about women though.

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Jack ditching the girl on the island at the end and his quick "I've got to go" is hysterical though, and almost worth the OOCness



As for stereotyping, I guess you have a point, though I never thought about it like that because I figured in the 1700s that ethnic cultures WOULD be stereotypes, simply because voyage distance prevents a whole lot of mixing of ideas.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 6:30 PM

DREAMTROVE


I don't remember Jack and Gibbs on women, though he does this sort of thing a lot, remember the whole bit with Jack and Will in the first movie (which is a decent portion of the movie maybe)

The mock trial could have worked better, it suffered for me from having read the original, and yes, it would have been much funnier in its place, somewhere in the middle of the movie. I think also, it adds depth to blackbeard (he had a sense of humor) And wasn't really old enough to have Penelope Cruz as a daughter, but nevermind.

The king George scene I thought was just dumb, and weakened the movie.

The after the credits scene I did not think was bad, except that I thought it was OOC. I was sort of ~ahn~ on it. I was expecting a subplot driven after the credits scene.

On stereotypes, people are never that stereotypical. The asians would have been very asian, but they wouldn't have been quite so cartoonish. They would have talked to each other like normal people, and would have already met the English. As for the Spanish, there's no excuse for that, esp. given that so much of the cast is Spanish anyway. Clearly this flaw is in the screenwriting, not the shooting. People on the set are probably speaking Spanish some of the time. It's just a bothersome disconnect that's common to Hollywood.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 6:43 PM

BYTEMITE


Huh. Well, in my defense, I live in Utah. You could throw anything exotic and historical at me and to me it would seem like a entirely valid representation of a culture at the period and time.

Maybe you're right, though I don't remember it being actual feelings in the previous movies so much as mild jokes about Jack being a womanizer and not entirely trusting women.

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 5:26 AM

DREAMTROVE


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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Huh. Well, in my defense, I live in Utah. You could throw anything exotic and historical at me and to me it would seem like a entirely valid representation of a culture at the period and time.



Yes, this is exactly the problem. When I was in Iowa it was much the same way. It's not a problem with Iowa or Utah, it's a problem with Hollywood. (and Broadway)

Okay. I live in NY, which is like a crossroads of the international community. I live outside the city, but it's still very common here. The restaurant is owned by Iranians, the preacher is from the Phillipines, the one in the next town is from Nigeria, the thrift shop is run by a woman from Montenegro of the former Yugoslavia.

If you live in NY or LA the world is even more like this. There's no excuse for Hollywood to portray misrepresentations.

But this isn't the case if you live in Sioux Falls, or Chongqing, or Quetta. For most of the world, their neighbors are pretty much like them. They come from the same cultural background, speak the same language and belong to the same sect of the same religion.

So, if someone lives in an all muslim country where everyone is a muslim, speaks arabic or pashtun, as do the people of the next country over and someone tells them that americans are evil, who are they to say it isn't true? All they see are predator drones.

Hollywood portrays a reality it knows to be false knowing full well that the audience does not know it and expects you to take it as reality. This isn't just true of cultures and history, it's true of relationships between people. "Oh, men really act that way once you're married?" No, silly, it's a story. They just made it up. And so much more. This is why the conservatives whine about the "liberal agenda" and my only argument with them on this is "stop whining and start filming."

Cultural stereotypes are sometimes malicious, but generally the result of pure laziness. This is especially hard to forgive in the case of the Spanish in Stranger Tides. Both of the films female leads who are playing normal pirate* culture character are actual Spaniards from actual Spain. It's not like the production crew would need to search far and wide for some sort of cultural consultant.

* I suppose you could say "English" or whatever the culture of Jack Sparrow's pirate world is supposed to be, which is about as vague as its time (this part is completely forgivable because it's fantasy)

The simple rule is make sure that your characters are characters first, and cultures second. If your characters are normal people, have actual personal motives, and relate to other characters in a personal manner, have specific relations with other people that are based on their personal likes and dislikes. (Like the actual brits are stereotyped, but not heavily: Norrington has not only a different attitude towards Elizabeth than to Jack, he also has a different attitude toward Will. He's completely dismissive of Jack as some sort of degenerate miscreant, which Jack would undoubtedly take as a complement, and Elizabeth is not just his love interest, but also upper class, and so he defers to her. Will, otoh, is lower class, but he's a hard working member of British Society, and so Norrington treats him with respect. This isn't stereotypical of him, it's derived from Norrington's own character, what he likes and dislikes in people, and, as is often the case, in himself.)

There's not a real excuse for not defining you Spanish characters with the same detail, or your Chinese, or for that matter your Yakuza Ninjas. If they're people first, then they will be more interesting, and the story will be more interesting because of it.

What I see in PotC4, which I quite enjoyed for the popcorn factor, and some of the better points, is that "the Spanish" come into the film and behave like a 2011 textbook behavior of "the Spanish" and not actual characters with actual motivations.

Once you have actually made characters, then go over them and say "what about making this person a member of this culture affects who they are and how they would act?" (Norrington, he's an upper class brit, career military, he's going to be somewhat stiff upper lip. If this is all he is, he's a stereotype, if it's a character accent to an actual personality, then it's a cultural influence on his character)

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Maybe you're right, though I don't remember it being actual feelings in the previous movies so much as mild jokes about Jack being a womanizer and not entirely trusting women.



Not for most of the film which is farcical on the subject, but when he's actually talking to Will in all seriousness, he's sincere. Jack's view of relationships with people is much like his view of relationships with places. He doesn't want to be tied down to one. He would like to visit them occasionally, and then sail off to somewhere else. When he realizes that Will is very serious about Elizabeth he backs off a little. "Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate."

I picture Will would see himself on the same ship as Elizabeth headed towards a mutual destination. Jack would see himself on a rival ship, as they both race towards whatever goal it is that they're after.


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 6:54 AM

BYTEMITE


Ah. Okay, that's fair. I did notice a little bit of poorly substantiated Spanish Inquisition-like motives in the Spaniards. Like when they showed up at the end, we weren't really given background prior to then of why they wanted the fountain of youth, so what happened next was a surprise. Speaking story-wise, you probably don't want to surprise the audience with an unexpected motivation from one of the major factions so late in the game. If only just because their arrival would increase the dramatic tension of the climactic scene.

And think I can see how the Chinese in PotC3 could be taken as stereotypical too. It's kind of strange to see Chow Yun Fat in a strictly villainous role, especially one that goes an "I Have You Now My Pretty" direction.

There is something I can cheer about Jack's completely unattached nature. The movie skirted almost too close to giving Jack that liability. But I suppose it at least skirted, instead of actually going in so OOC a direction.

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Monday, June 6, 2011 2:54 AM

DREAMTROVE


It had been a while for CYF and everyone wants to be a pirate, they don't examine too closely,

As for Jack, the only bothersome thing is that he doesn't act like a man on a desert island with Penelope Cruz, which is somewhat out of character given that he *does* act like a man trapped alone on the same desert island with Keira Knightley.

The inconsistency here is problematic. It first dismisses the idea that Jack is gay, but also does not give us anything in Angelica's character that isn't in Elizabeth's (she's a backstabbing pirate who has a good relationship with her father, what's not to like?) And, okay, Kiera Knightley as ingenue pirate is adorable, but it's not like Jack's "history" with Angelica is a liability. I actually have expected that scene to end in "Oh look, a bottle of run that didn't get burned." followed by end of film.

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Monday, June 6, 2011 7:11 AM

BYTEMITE


I kinda thought the inconsistency was the point, coupled with some Fridge Brilliance.

The last time some chick with ulterior motives faked getting close to Jack, he was fed to the Kraken.

Check list. Chick? Yep. Trying to get close? Despite her previous threats of bodily harm and then desperate groveling, yeah. Ulterior motive? I think that wanting to kill him for killing her father might be a big yes.

So I see it as less so much inconsistency, and more character development. Why put up with a beautiful but selfish harpy woman who has tried to physically damage you in the past, when you can go to Tortuga and pay for it? Jack, I salute you.

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Monday, June 6, 2011 10:34 AM

BYTEMITE


Aw man. When I see this movie again, I'm going to think Monty Python quotes whenever the Spanish show up or a mermaid grows sharp pointy teeth.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 7:19 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


A DT a chara,
So you're telling me that Disney wrote to you and had you send them a book about Blackbeard? Sure its possible, but you and Frem have stories sometimes that really make me wonder if I should question more of what people tell me online. Just sayin. I still like you both though and for all I know all your guys's stories could be completely true.

I didn't like how POTC 3 ended, poor Elizabeth, she and her husband only got to rut once and then, too bad for you, you're SOL. No fair. But yeah, crappy ending, that movie was really all over the place and made very little sense, its my least favorite. This one was much better.

As for the stereotypes, I rarely notice things like that, maybe that means I'm not a very nice person, but whatever. I guess one assumes that such things will happen in Hollywood. I agree with DT that the only reason the time period of the films being fuzzy doesn't bother me is because its fantasy, one can get away with such things in fantasy, just say its an alternate universe and you're in the clear. :)

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 1:55 AM

BYTEMITE


Eh, he owns a book store. I didn't find his claim unreasonable.

I actually thought PotC3 ended about as well as it could considering Bloom and Knightley didn't want to do any more movies. Besides, it could be worse - realistically, they shouldn't have even been able to have a kid. There's a lot of stuff that technically a person can't do if they don't have a heart to pump their blood around, aside just from living and breathing. Of course, there's always the option that Elizabeth married and that's someone else's kid.


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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 8:29 AM

DREAMTROVE


Riona a chara,

What possible motive could I have for making it up?

Yes, I have a bookstore that specializes in rare out of print books. If I have it, chances are that means no one else does. Who else are they going to buy from? So, yes, a number of film production companies and publishers have bought books from me, also sometimes video game companies and govt. offices. I got a lot of business right after the bailouts, so at least some of that money was well spent ;)

Anyway, yes, i bookmarked the trial passage with a little note, but my recollection was that the actual transcript of the trial was a fair deal funnier than the one in the film. It was also filled with dialect too thick for the average viewer, but that didn't seem to give Gore Verbinski pause in Dead Man's Chest. I guess felt they needed to tone it down.

Once or twice a tall tale has been told on this site, but what is said here is more likely to be true than if you read it in the paper or saw it on Tv.

As for Elizabeth, I'm sure Jack Sparrow is up for it if she feels the urge.

Byte

Yes, she didn't have to actually marry someone else, see the above comment.


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:49 AM

BYTEMITE


Heh, yeah. Honestly I wish I hadn't realized that plot hole, now I'm never going to be able to watch the movie without part of me snarking at the end. I end up ruining a lot of good things that way. Such as my realization that the Ewoks are cannibals, and the celebration at the end of Episode 3... Well.

I figure my only recourse now is to share the pain, or entertainment, whichever.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 12:57 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


That's cool that you also sell out of print books at your bookstore. I'm not saying its impossible by any means. But between you and Frem you guys have some stories that would seem outlandish, or at least slightly far fetched, to the average viewer. I'm certainly not saying I don't believe you guys, I'm just saying that sometimes, from one or the other of you, there's a piece of me that wonders. Don't take it personally, I'm not calling you a liar and since you do have a bookstore it does make a lot of sense and I now have no doubts that they did indeed order that book from you.

I just always assumed, my memory of no. 3 is somewhat hazy because ... the whole plot of it was somewhat hazy, that they had sex once before he turned into the new Davy Jones. But I have been fooled before. Points to whoever can name the movie that last sentence of mine comes from.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 2:12 PM

DREAMTROVE



All of which goes to show you how what you see in paper doesn't turn into what you will see on screen.


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what do I win?


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 7:27 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Nicely done a chara, I didn't even write an accent clue at the end to give a hint, TJ the Manpimp does indeed have a strong accent. What would you like to win?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Thursday, June 9, 2011 5:47 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by RionaEire:
Nicely done a chara, I didn't even write an accent clue at the end to give a hint, TJ the Manpimp does indeed have a strong accent. What would you like to win?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya



Let's see....

Seven minutes in a closet?
Evolution?
Or a youtube.


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Thursday, June 9, 2011 12:23 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Well I can't give you the first one what with distance, and I don't exactly know how to give you the other two. So you'll have to settle for virtual points, sorry a chara.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Friday, June 10, 2011 1:31 PM

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Hmm. What can I buy with my virtual points?

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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