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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
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"Even if you love the original Escape to Witch Mountain, you have to welcome a remake. The 1975 sci-fi Disney film has some very dated special effects — though the visible wires used to “levitate” a handgun and a harmonica give it a campy charm — and it’s not exactly the well-respected classic that The Black Hole or Old Yeller is, anyway. So, better a remake (or “modern re-imagining”) of a slightly beloved movie, which has already been redone once, to give The Rock another fulfillment of his Disney contract and utilize all the “perfect” digital effects now available. While it seems that eventually all Dis "
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"Last Friday, Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Fox will bring the comic strip Marmaduke to the big screen. One the one hand, this is baffling. The comic, a series of crudely rendered half-jokes, makes very little sense, and has no story whatsoever. The fact that Marmaduke is a mischievous great dane barely even qualifies as a premise. On the other hand, studios have sunk massive amounts of money into comic strip movies like Garfield and Dennis the Menace, and money-making dog movies like Marley & Me, which has earned $166 million worldwide since its Christmas ‘08 release. So Marmaduke might make economic sense, but it mak "
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"This is a great shallow movie. No pretensions, great action, great jokes, pretty good actors. Directed by the well-known Gore Verbinski (no? not well-known? C'est la vie) and starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, and some woman I forget. Like Tommy Lee Jones, Johnny Depp has pretty much stopped acting and started playing the same role in all his films. (Tommy Lee Jones is now acting like Richard Crenna in Hot Shots! Part Deux or Wrongfully Accused or maybe Rambo IV, I forget.) But I digress. Depp here plays Jack Sparrow beautifully (and famously as Keith Richards), and the film kept me laughing from the opening scene to somewhere near the end. It's a great buddy film, although lacking the ensemble acting of The Princess Bride. The bad guys are not really bad, the good guys are really, really good, and our hero gets the girl. The special effects are excellent and used to good, uh, effect: creepy when they should be creepy and hilarious when they should be funny. I was ... "
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10 Movies That Overcame Bad Buzz
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"Two big movies arrive in theaters this week, The Incredible Hulk and The Happening, and each has had its share of bad buzz. From what I can tell, though, the former is recuperating quite nicely with mostly favorable early reviews. And it’s sure to gross in the hundreds of millions, just like its big brother, Ang Lee’s Hulk, did a few years back. The latter, however, is still struggling through the muck, with writer-director M. Night Shyamalan doing everything he can to assure us that his film is merely a B-movie and shouldn’t be the victim of high expectations. If The Happening bombs, though, 20th Century Fox won’t be able to blame its bad buzz. Especially if The Incredible Hulk comes out a big winner this weekend. When a movie is good, or at least has some goods that audiences actually crave, it can overcome bad buzz. The list of films after the jump is evidence of this, although it’s possible that some of the older titles might have been less successful in the globally conscious ... "
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Guilty Pleasure
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"They never should have made sequels. Even if Orlando Bloom is annoying in this film...he's WORSE in the sequels. Do youself a favor and ONLY see this one. "
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"I know it's been 4 years since this movie first came out in theaters but I still have to say that this was one movie that I was anticipating for since they first announced it! I knew from the beginning that it was going to be an excellent film! And who knew that the guy who directed The Ring, a hooror movie, could do such a huge change in genre and do this?! And it was pretty interesting how if it wasn't for this movie I would have never known about Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and Geoffrey Rush. And I would still think that Johnny Depp was still some actor that girls that was "hot", hahaha! I stand corrected, Depp really got into his character! This movie never gets old! Lots of action and suspense!! Even my mom liked it and she hardly ever goes to the movies!! "
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"By Tricia Olszewski Johnny Depp makes a dandy of a pirate. In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl—an edgy, action-packed, Jerry Bruckheimer-produced interpretation of, um, a theme-park ride—Depp plays Capt. Jack Sparrow, renowned rapscallion and currently freelancing buccaneer. His look is sufficiently rakish—long hair, thick eyeliner, braided-and-beaded beard. But then he starts tilting his head in a certain saucy way, eyes askance as he gestures dramatically...and is that a lisp I hear? Whatever the inspiration for the affectation, Capt. Jack—introduced statuesquely posturing upon his sinking ship's rapidly disappearing mast—is clearly no average sea dog. Ditto for Pirates, a swashbuckler-ghost story hybrid that is this season's most satisfying crowd-pleaser since X2. Geoffrey Rush, Jonathan Pryce, Orlando Bloom, and Bend It Like Beckham's Keira Knightley join Depp in this good-vs.-evil tale of the legendary pirate ship Black Pear ... "
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"In short, because they have to think about every little thing in a movie. As one said himself, 'Every little thing has symbolism in a movie, so you have to write-in every-little-thing.'And it's interesting to hear about every little thing, just in case (being a dork who hasn't yet 'made it big') you missed the symbolism put in some little-thing, or you forgot how one big symbol (like the entrance of a key character, etc.) ties into a prequel-manifestation of that symbol.In both Dead Man's Chest and Curse of the Black Pearl, the writers' DVD-commentary told you how the movies referenced past pirate-movies and/or -history. I noticed in Chest (and maybe in Pearl a little) the writers also pointed out the OBVIOUS things ... 'Ooooh, this is where Elizabeth betrays Jack.' ... 'Ooooh, Will tried to make a deal with the devil here.' ... ... ... And I'm thinking, 'Did you see "Romeo and Juliet" and kinda suppose that the two kids might ... "
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"I told them. I told them both."We have three free rentals from Blockbuster, " I said. "Yes, it's Tuesday, and that means new releases. But," I concluded, "you do [i]not[/i] want me to get Epic Movie."But I was outnumbered two to one. Overruled. I should have said something. I should have just not wasted a perfectly good free rental. But alas, I care too much about my wife and my brother. So I rented Epic Movie. The "unrated" DVD (more on this subject to come later today) had a 93-minute running time, some six minutes longer than the theatrical release. I hoped it was funny. If not, it was only an hour and a half - a pretty short movie considering some of the epics I've seen.And that was just the first thing wrong with the movie. If you're going to make a spoof (and this one is a spoof, not an homage) about epic movies, you should probably try and mimic the epic movies you're making fun of. The Lord of the Rings trilogy ran about ten hours, and that' ... "
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The fell-asleep tag
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"As I was browsing the site, I came across the "fell-asleep" tag also known as the "fellasleep" tag. I added the tag to a few films. Some movies with this tag are: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pride & Prejudice, The Godfather, The Matrix...what a strange list of movies. Does falling asleep during a movie say something about the movie? The sleeper? Neither? Does the "fell-asleep" tag create a list of movies that you should watch when you're not feeling sleepy? Does it create a list of people who aren't as passionate about films as others? Or does it just mean nothing to anyone except that the person who fell asleep should just be getting more sleep?
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