Pirates of the Carribean 2

[ylekot43]

Oh -- my -- god. After seeing this film I have lost all faith in hollywood. Actually, Pirates is an accurate name for the movie because it stole my eight dollars and three-hours from my life.

Can anyone find me the original script for this? -- I refuse to believe it could be anywhere near what I saw on the big screen last night.

[nerium]

There's a large thread just a few pages back that discusses PotC 2 and the various reactions. I don't think another one is all the necessary in the movies forum. Plus, given the Box Office, you're somewhat in the minority...

As far as the script goes, this is the only one I've found.

[Adam Isaac]

Yep, you're in the minority, dude.

[Joe Unidos]

Oh, they made a sequel? I hadn't heard about it.




Rossio and Elliot like to go big, big, big. I don't always agree with their choices but (of late) America does. Good for them. I've heard grumbling that a lot of the bloat was due to insufficient editing time --despite huge location set-backs, they were locked-in to the release date.

An aside --I spent a week once arguing on a message board about POTC before realizing the joker I was debating was talking about Passion of the Christ, not Pirates of the Caribbean.

[prescribe22]

Originally Posted by Joe Unidos

An aside --I spent a week once arguing on a message board about POTC before realizing the joker I was debating was talking about Passion of the Christ, not Pirates of the Caribbean.

[vmf]

Originally Posted by nerium

Plus, given the Box Office, you're somewhat in the minority...

Whoa, what a bizarre statement. I enjoyed parts of Pirates 2, but found it a pretty average time-waster that was definitely written down for the kiddies, and certainly inferior to the original.

But how does box office enter into this? I don't remember getting offered a refund for the movie if I didn't like it.

[Joe Unidos]

Originally Posted by prescribe22

I guess I know why he got so mad when I wrote that "I thought the supernatural concept was childish and made it hard for a rational adult to take the story seriously."

[Joe Unidos]

Originally Posted by vmf

Whoa, what a bizarre statement. I enjoyed parts of Pirates 2, but found it a pretty average time-waster that was definitely written down for the kiddies, and certainly inferior to the original.

But how does box office enter into this? I don't remember getting offered a refund for the movie if I didn't like it.

Without triggering a soon-to-be-locked argument, I would volunteer that the record opening and, as importantly, the continued huge box office since make it hard to say seriously that America hasn't responded favorably to the film.

[vmf]

Hey, we can disagree. I went to see it because I highly enjoyed the original, but I guess there are those with precognitive abilities that would realize they'd enjoy POTC2 long before ever entering the theatre.

Other than those lucky mediums and fortune tellers, I put it down to Summer Sequelitis and an almost total lack of any real competition.

[nerium]

No need to lock the thread- It was just a throwaway comment in the vein of $$$=bottom line; as a general consensus, but I would echo Joe Unidos' comment.

The thread seemed to start on a 'Let's bash...' note - and being seperate from the original thread I didn't think it was necessary, so I wasn't going to start arguing the merit here. There was plenty of difference of opinion in the original thread without bloodshed. Why clutter things up with another thread?