“Pirates 3″ reactions
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End has a 37% positive from the Rotten Tomatoes elite. Even MCN’s David Poland, who wrote last year that the second Pirates film gave him “joy,” says it’s “the least of the three films.”
If you read the reviews by two of the easygoing friendlies — N.Y. Daily News critic Jack Matthews, and Variety‘s Brian Lowry — you’ll realize they’re not that friendly. The Chicago Tribune‘s Michael Wilmington, the Chicago Sun Times‘ Richard Roeper and the notoriously accommodating Michael Rechtshaffen, critic for the Hollywood Reporter, all gave it a pass.
And of course, the domestic and int’l tallies came to $58 million for Thursday alone. As Poland and others have stated, the highest five-day tally is $172.9 million, which P3 seems on track to overtake.
I’m still seeing it. Some of us have girlfriends, Jeff. Let it go.
I saw it. I had more fun at it then I did at the last one (which I liked but didn’t love). And it’s definitely better than Spider-man 3. Either you like the Pirates movies, or you don’t. No use flogging a dead horse.
the AICN geeks really dug it and that’s a big portion of the audience who’s going to see this movie.
I like At World’s End better than the previous two pirate films … graeat action set piece in the last act where the pirates are fighting ship to ship in the maelstrom … I liked Weather Man too, so Verbinski has the chops when he wants to display them … “This shit life, sometimes you just have to chunk something” …
I saw it. I had more fun at it then I did at the last one (which I liked but didn’t love). And it’s definitely better than Spider-man 3. Either you like the Pirates movies, or you don’t. No use flogging a dead horse.
This movie depressed me not just as a filmgoer, but as a human being. A cynical exercise in marketing and manipulation, intended to wrestle hard-earned dollars from the masses who are assaulted with billboards and print ads serving to make them feel like they’re missing out if they don’t see this movie on opening weekend.
IT FUCKING SUCKED.
You cannot tell me that Gore Verbinski and Jerry Bruckheimer watched their final cut of this mess, turned to each other and said, “Goddamnit, we did it. Masterpiece.”
Looking around at the numb and bored faces of the 9-year-olds in my theater just saddened me. When I was 9, I was cheering as R2-D2 shot a green lightsaber at an airborne Luke Skywalker as they initiated their rescue of Han Solo. These poor kids get this? Oh, the horror.
Gore and Jerry probably didn’t watch the movie until the premiere.
spider-man 3′s at 61% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I saw POTC3 in Chatsworth, CA at the Winnetka 21 in one of the smaller houses. A round of applause at the end. And a fair portion of the audience stayed for the happy post-credits tag.
I’ll agree it’s the least of the three, (the Chow Yun-Fat scenes didn’t really work and too much bloated exposition intended as “high drama” also hurt–note to Gore and Jerry: consider recutting it to 125 minutes for at least the ABC airing)but to treat it as a carrier of leprosy is a bit much.
Perhaps the lesson is that shooting two sequels back-to-back–mostly to avoid overpaying the salaries of Talent–is a faulty business practice the studios need to reevaluate.
If you didn’t like POTC:AWE, fine. But don’t invoke one of the most egregious sell-out toy commercials in history, Return of the Jedi, when you do it. When Lucas saw that his saga was developing into a richer, more adult thing, he promptly changed directors and had the savage Empire defeated by teddy bears. Teddy bears who knocked themselves out with their own bolos and then sang the “Jub Jub” song in celebration. And teddy bears he could sell en masse.
The greatest tragedy of Return of the Jedi is that of course it was originally supposed to take place on Kasheek, and co-star dozens of Wookies, not Ewoks. He might as well have called them Youfucks.
Still, as someone was referencing R2 shooting out the lightsaber, I will say the first 30 minutes of that movie are amazing. Hammil did his finest work in Return as well, and more than redeemed himself for his truly awful acting during the Luke I am Your Father scene in ESB.
Speaking of which, anyone who watched 24 this season knows that Lucas needs to get cracking on film adaptations of Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy (HEIR TO THE EMPIRE, DARK FORCE RISING, THE LAST COMMAND) with Ricky Schroeder. He is the the spitting image of Skywalker in ROTJ. With Nathan Fillion as Han Solo, natch.
Thanks for planting the Jub Jub song in my head Rich S!
Thanks for planting the Jub Jub song in my head Rich S!
okay, criticizing “Return of the Jedi” is shooting fish in a barrel… my point is that even “Jedi” — with its fucking Ewoks and it’s Jub Jub and its pale Anakin Skywalker and its non-scene when Luke discovers Leia is his sister — is 1,000 times the movie that “Pirates 3″ is…