PIrates of the Caribbean 3

[Big Blonde]

Which raises the question. If the Dutchman needs a captain, who gets to ferry the dead now?

Will gets to ferry the dead now, I suppose. Which leads to the other question, was Davy Johns not ferrying the dead all this time, and if not, then who was?

[J-Proof]

Which raises the question. If the Dutchman needs a captain, who gets to ferry the dead now?

Will gets to ferry the dead now, I suppose. Which leads to the other question, was Davy Johns not ferrying the dead all this time, and if not, then who was?

Will does not need to ferry the dead any longer. It was his sentence to serve ten years, and the duty would only be relieved of him if he came back and found love. Davy came back and his love was not waiting for him, which is why he was cursed to the Dutchman his entire life.

The duty is now up to whomever Callypso chooses, I suppose. It's no matter to us anyhow =) When we saw Will come back at the tail end of the credits, that was our resolution that Will was restored to his love, and that the deadman's chest is now empty!

[Douglin]

I would presume Will's dad would step up, take over and let his son go have some sex.

Davy Jones wasn't ferrying the dead...I think...that's why they were all ending up in little boats in Davy Jones' locker...that's how I interpreted it...not sure who the ghostly people under the water were supposed to be though.

[J-Proof]

I REALLY wanted to see what would happene if they dropped a cannonball on one of em =)

[MarkAndrew]

Well, I saw it Saturday and it was silly.  Not a bad twist ending, but the screenwriter should be arrested.  Isn't being a lazy hack a crime?

[Bob]

Well, I saw it Saturday and it was silly.  Not a bad twist ending, but the screenwriter should be arrested.  Isn't being a lazy hack a crime?

Hmmmm, much like Pumaman, I sense danger here......

[Draygonia]

That movie has to be the worst production movie I have ever seen... I definitely want to riff that movie for sure!

I hope mike does one, you can riff movies that mike and his crew have riffed, correct?

[Nunyerbiz]

Well... the screenwriter may or may not be a hack... but you can't call him lazy. That damn thing had more characters and subplots and well... just lots of everything. I didn't think it was a bad movie... but summer blockbusters are supposed to be like roller coasters. They should be a hell of a fun ride, yet pull back into the station and let you off before you start getting whoozy. The last two "Pirates" movies felt like the carney working the controls passed out in a Popov stupor before he hit the "halt ride" button.

[J-Proof]

That movie has to be the worst production movie I have ever seen... I definitely want to riff that movie for sure!

I hope mike does one, you can riff movies that mike and his crew have riffed, correct?

as in fan riffs? Yeah - we encourage everyone to try their hand at those =) - even if Mike already did it.

[MarkAndrew]

Well... the screenwriter may or may not be a hack... but you can't call him lazy.

Well, here's why I call him lazy:

He sets up this big armada of EIC ships to fight against, what maybe 10 pirate ships.  Then he has the huge, 3 gun deck-ed flagship sail forward for single combat, apparently. 

No other ship of the armada engages.  No other pirates are shown fighting.

Then the Black Pearl and The Flying Dutchman sail on either side of the flagship apparently swapping their muzzle-loading cannons for belt-fed semi-automatic Bofors 40mm cannons.  Just blazing away while the flagship...which outguns them on EACH broadside, just stands there.  Why bother having the bad guys fight back?  The writer just has them 'lose' by not fighting.

Then, having lost all of 1 ship, the entire Armada sails away.



Lazy, setting up a senario and then not bothering to carry it through.

I could go on, the movie is very silly (not a compliment BTW), but Meh.

[J-Proof]

Well, here's why I call him lazy:

He sets up this big armada of EIC ships to fight against, what maybe 10 pirate ships.  Then he has the huge, 3 gun deck-ed flagship sail forward for single combat, apparently. 

No other ship of the armada engages.  No other pirates are shown fighting.

Then the Black Pearl and The Flying Dutchman sail on either side of the flagship apparently swapping their muzzle-loading cannons for belt-fed semi-automatic Bofors 40mm cannons.  Just blazing away while the flagship...which outguns them on EACH broadside, just stands there.  Why bother having the bad guys fight back?  The writer just has them 'lose' by not fighting.

Then, having lost all of 1 ship, the entire Armada sails away.

I actually liked how Cutler Beckett didn't even have the huevos to order any sort of military response to his aggressors. All he knew was business and scheming behind closed doors. Perhaps that's all the rest of his fleet knew as well - politics. When they saw their leader defeated, the rest of the fleet tucked tail! I felt that the least-lacking part of the movie was that final battle sequence =)


Also - there ar etwo writers, Terry and Ted.

[Douglin]

In many historical battles, an army would disband/retreat if you killed the leader.  I think the fact that there was a 90 foot tall woman, crazy whirl-pool thing and a squid-faced guy walking about would be enough to get most people to abandon the fight.

How is it lazy setting up a scenario and then not bothering to carry it through? That's like saying someone who set-up 5000 dominoes then didn't bother to knock them over is lazy...they did a lot of work..

Was it the most satisfying ending ever?  nope...is that the screenwriters fault...you don't know..for all you know some producer could have said

Mr. Moneybags - "at the end have them blow up one ship and everyone run away"
Screenwriters - "But that doesn't make any sense, why wou-"
Mr. Moneybags - "Do IT!"

[J-Proof]

haha - funny example, Douglin

I maintain, however, that the ending was pretty flippin' awesome!

[Douglin]

I liked it too, although I thought it could have been a bit better, a simple thing/fx to add would have been Calypso helping the pirates a bit, they could have pledged to defend her seas or something, and it might have been nice if the Pearl and Dutchman as they were coming towards the bad guy's boat, were picked up on the top of some giant 100ft wave that broke over Beckett's boat sweeping half the people overboard, and when the water cleared just as he stood up the two ships were suddenly on either side of the boat and blasted it to hell.

[J-Proof]

I thought she did sorta add her two cents to the fight with the maelstrom....but your idea was pretty badass as well =)

I, for one, woulda liked the Kraken to have shown up at the very end =(
Poor beastie! Laid to rest in a sandy grave =(