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If I ever find it difficult to get to sleep, I'll just put that movie back on.
But I guess I enjoyed the crazy action setpieces they had
Also Johnny Depp and Bil Nighy and Geoffrey Rush
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I'd watch b&w classics (usually book adaptations) with my parents at home, but in my teens I had bad luck at the cinemas. First off, the only real cinema in my town was a 100 year old thing with one tiny screen, and few films were shown to start with. Second, I didn't used to read reviews or talk about movies with other people, so I only tended to go if my parents or friends wanted to go. That turned out really badly. My dad wanted to see the Avengers (loves the old TV show)....ugh. I went with a friend and she chose Godzilla and Batman and Robin. >.< For a while this was the only extent of my cinema experience.
But then I saw Being John Malkovich on DVD, and shit, I realised that films like this could and were being made, and they weren't based off books and were actually good.
John Malkovich was also good in Ripley's Game.
So do you often prefer bloated movies with pointlessly cluttered plots and action sequences that far extend their welcome? Or is this more of a fluke?
Being John Malkovich getting made was a minor miracle in the studio system.
Seriously, the story behind it is crazy. They had started production just before the production company got absolved into a bigger one. Since they had already started filming, they were able to keep the movie going, but thanks to the merger, had nobody from the studio checking in on them. And then the studio just kinda forgot they were there, operating totally under the radar.
I remember seeing it, and going "How the fuck did this get made? This is waaaay too brilliant to have gone through production unmolested." And then I read the story behind it in Rebels on the Backlot (A poorly written book about some various interesting stuff), and just went "Ohhh. That explains it."
You just described all three movies
and yes
Nah, the first one was alright. Breezy plot, action set pieces that did what they needed to and then ended.
I never saw the third one, since the second one let me down so much, but that sword fight in the water wheel? Christ, did that never end.
And while the first movie walked a fine line between fantasy adventure and complete myth the sequels just went nuts with the supernatural bullshit. Like the whole davy jones locker thing.
im not saying pirates as a series was realistic, but it was always a fantasy adventure grounded in reality. at least for me.
when they started flipping ships over and having like 50 jack sparrows on screen it was jumping the shark for me.
it became too unbelievable, while the beauty of the first movie was that these amazing things, like incan gold and undead pirates, were happening in real places in the real world. that was great.
once giant squid and fishmen and ridiculous underwater ends of the earth started turning up it was too surreal for me.
I loved the kraken
Daniel Day Lewis is an amazing actor and I'm so glad he won the Oscar.
His performance was outstanding.
yes the undead are believable but oh man throw a fucking fishman in there and that shit is right out
you're retarded
also it was aztec gold
I spent half the time wondering why the fuck any of the characters were doing anything
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the last two tried to be epic and they really didn't need to
Exactly.
It was really good, but how much of it was made up to make Billy Mitchell into Satan?
I did like Davy Jones and the water wheel fight in the 2nd one, but Im not sure I could tell you what else happens in that movie.
I don't know but, it made that group look like a fucking cult with Billy as their leader. They played up the David vs. Goliath angle a lot.
I am a terribly shallow person.
That's how awesome they are.
I still cannot believe he got an Oscar nomination for the first movie.
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