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good thinking savy

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Good idea. Maybe the admins can figure out how to set up a "link package", lol. Then you could spoil yourself with a marathon with one click. These movies are great, and as swashbuclers go, well overdue.

ok im going to watch them all

The fact that this movie became the pop culture phenomenon that it did was a real shock to me. From what I remember, I attended a midnight screening of this, and just before that midnight screening, I went to see Terminator 3. Terminator 3 was the better movie, IMHO, but Pirates of the Caribbean had the larger audience and they absolutely loved it.

Absolutely great movie !! Pirates,action,girls,ghosts, what more could a guy want. Have not watched this in a while Thanks for having it for me to enjoy again... deadface rating 8.9/10 great watch. I see some comments say movie is slow, I did not feel that way, I thought the story line was engrossing and the acting was superior. Once again those that know me know that I love Vampires, Zombies, and any kind of gore but this movie kept me entertained and was good viewing for all...Thanks Solar and all others involved,from the uploader to the linker to the site keepers...etc...

not my cup of tea bit boring but cant really moan when its free

Johnney Depp has shown his versatility in this movie, like all his other movies. I pray to god that he is living as happy and content a life as portrayed by most of his characters in their happiest times.

yeahhh

boring.

There's a lot going on...too much going on. That said, here's the long and the short of it:

The movie begins with a flashback of sorts. A young girl on her father's navy ship finds a broken-up boat in the middle of the ocean along with a boy, floating on top of a piece of the boat's hull. The boy is wearing a medallion and the girl takes it from him after his rescue. The girl's father suspects pirates...not just any pirates...the ones who make their home aboard the Black Pearl.

Cut to about ten years or so later.

Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is a pirate who has come into port of a Caribbean-shore town in search of a ship that will take him back to his old ship, the Black Pearl. In this town, the girl (played by the beautiful Keira Knightly) wears the medallion around her neck after dreaming of the day she found the boy, (now played by Orlando Bloom). He's the town's expert blacksmith now and he dreams of one day marrying Elizabeth.

Sparrow attempts to make off with a navy-ship to find his old one and Elizabeth ends up fainting and falling into the ocean after attempting to wear a bodice given to her by her father as a gift. This is one of the biggest pushes in the entire film. While in the drink, the medallion around her neck sends a shockwave throughout the sea, "calling" to the crew aboard the Black Pearl. Sparrow is identified as a pirate and is arrested, even after rescuing Elizabeth from drowning.

His first escape-attempt leads him to William, the blacksmith boy, who engages in sword-to-sword combat in attempt to keep Sparrow in one place until the troops arrive. Sparrow ends up in jail...of course, it isn't long before the Black Pearl ends up attacking the town, rapin', pillagin', and plunderin'. They grab Elizabeth because they need the medallion...and that's where I stop.

Everyone in this film is fun to watch, has their own personality (including the pirates) and you'll have jolly good fun taking in the atmosphere, the mood, and the piratin'...the only problem with it is most of it seems to be padded out. Scenes that should climax with a battle or a fight end up in long-winded discussions on pirate-policies and rules and regs. This is what brings on the doldrums and unneccessary scenes of conversation. It goes on too long. You have a dinner-scene with the captain, a fight with a dismembered forearm, Sparrow and Elizabeth stranded, Sparrow facing death at the end, and his subsequent rescue, all which could have been tightened up or otherwise forgotten. We STILL have no idea HOW Sparrow got off the island to find his old ship in the first place! The story also forks off a little more than it needs to and you can't really root for Sparrow because him and William don't get along and Sparrow constantly turns his back on William and his friends. And so the movie sails on and on much longer than it needs to sail. Not that it's no fun to watch. It most certainly is that, but it's just not solid. Director Gore Verbinski (THE RING, THE MEXICAN) MUST have received final cut in his contract from Jerry "I-can-do-whatever-I-want-now-kiss-my-ass" Bruckheimer when he signed on because there is NO cutting at all. I must have counted at least six to eight scenes that should have hit the cutting room floor. But they're all here. Verbinski just doesn't seem to grasp the concept of the DVD.

As for the acting, Depp looks and acts great as a pirate who has gone a little nutty but still knows how to wheel and deal to get his way. Think of him as Han Solo's great-great-grand-ancestor and you've got the idea. Geoffrey Rush is wonderful as the Captain of the Black Pearl and really makes a great villian. Orlando Bloom, the invincible elf in the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy plays a handsome hero/sometimes-sidekick to Jack Sparrow and he's fine.

The best part of this film is the atmosphere and the visuals. You feel like you're with the pirates, you can feel the sea, smell it, you can inhale the mustiness of the jail cells...and if you keep a sharp eye, catch some of the nods to original ride at Disneyland and Disney World.

All-in-all, it's a trip worth taking...but a long one.

--Matt

*** out of ****