Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Originally Posted by russ

It's too bad that Keith Richards could literally keel over and die at any moment. How he is still alive is a mystery to civilized society. Hopefully he'll survive long enough to make a cameo appearance in a potentially entertaining film.

Quite the contrary. Nothing short of a nuclear bomb or Jack Bauer can kill Richards now. He's immune to just about anything.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

Man, I totally need a desktop wallpaper of the scene at the end of the movie where:

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Jack does his little Captain Morgan pose in front of the giant mouth of the Kraken right before jumping in. It's like they slowed down the movie just so you could see how bad-ass that scene looked.

Seconded.

I thouroughly enjoyed it. It was pretty much what I was expecting. That is a pretty mindless summer popcorn movie. Jack was great as expected, and I was quite pleased they didn't do what I was afraid of and make it a Jack-only movie. They allowed the other characters time, and didn't let Jack run wild onscreen for 2 and a half hours. His entrance was great.

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His exit was the fucking coolest thing I've seen in a long time

I really liked the badass Norrington too. And the wheel-swordfight was a great idea. Everything I had heard about Davy Jones was correct, and he was a great villian. The Kraken was great, but I do with we got more (some) shots of the "body" rather than mostly the tentacles.

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I didn't see the ending coming. At all. Seriously, it was one of the best movie surprised I've ever seen. However after the movie my girlfriend pointed out that the first time they visit Tia Dalma's shack, you see Barbossa's boots/feet on the ground.

I simply can't wait for next year to see what happens.

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Obviously Jack is still alive/will come back to life. They wouldn't dare kill of one of the best liked/most profitable characters in recent history. His entrance in #3 is surely going to be something spectactular.

It did run a little long, but overall I did enjoy it. A welcome addition to the series. Not as good as #1, but still great. Hopefully 3 doesn't screw it up.

4/5

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Box Office Mojo is reporting that Dead Man's Chest has claimed the largest single day opening gross ever. Beating out the previous holder Star Wars Episode III:Revenge of the Sith (~$55,000,000) and the largest Friday opening X-Men 3 (~$45,000,000) with a staggering $55,500,000.

To put that into perspective, that is half of Superman's weekly gross.

If this keeps up it will shatter the 3-day weekend record Spider-Man 2 set ($114,844,116). Hell, it has a chance of doing that tonight.

Most amazing jew boots

Originally Posted by CloudNine

Who exactly was the girl in the shack? Was she new or did she have any bearing on the story before hand? I don't remember.

I say this because of this.

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Did anyone else notice the lockets that both she and Davy Jones had? The first time they were in the shack, Jack took a locket off of her table that was the same as the locket that Will accidnetaly opened on the organ when he stole the key off of Jones. Could there possibly a connection between the two?

She was a new character for the movie.

[spoli]Now that you mention it though, there does seem to be a connection. I didn't pick up on the locket thing when I saw it last night. Perhaps this explains the needlessly long shot of the locket when Will was taking the key from Jones.[/spoil]

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by BigHairyFeet

I don't know why box offices get worked up over record setting box offices...the fucking population is growing all the time, of course you're going to get more people in to movies.

Well we all know that the 2/3 year old demographic makes up for a huge percentage of box office sales.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by BucPride

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Shouldn't Jack have died when he fell down between the mountains? I'm pretty sure he shouldn't have survived that. Not to mention to still be in good enough health to get up and run away from a tribe of savages.

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I pretty much just chalked that up to the writers watching a little too much Road Runner. Like he just survived for the purpose of being able to have such a stunt in the movie. But yeah, now that you mention it maybe there is some sort of connection.

Maybe Jack can't be killed.

or maybe he's already dead

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?