![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pirates_of_the_caribbean_at_worlds_end-201x300.jpg\" "\\"Pirates")
<\/a>I should’ve expected it to be bad. I suppose that liking Pirates of the Caribbean 2<\/a><\/em> more than most critics gave me a false sense of security going into it. It’s not like I expected it to be good<\/em>, but it’s actually worse than I ever dreamed. Only the fact that it’s the third of a wildly successful trilogy (and, now, apparently quadrilogy – I die a little inside every time I remember they’re planning a fourth one<\/a>) explains how this mess made it through production without someone at every stage of development stopping and saying, “wait – this makes zero sense on any level – cognitive, emotional, thematic – and it’s not even exciting!” There’s far too much going on, it all takes far too long, and somehow it manages to both go too fast to be comprehensible and too slow to be interesting (or perhaps it’s uninteresting because, contrary to current studio thinking, loads of action set pieces do not automatically yield interest without a compelling and comprehensible plot – and having loads of profoundly stupid and long exposition in between the set pieces doesn’t help either).<\/p>\nThere are two good scenes. The haunting opening depicts several pirates, including a young boy, singing as they’re awaiting execution by hanging. That sinister mood is quickly dispelled by the utter idiocy that takes over the screen soon after. The other good scene is set in Jack Sparrow’s hell, surreally blank and peopled with duplicates of himself (splinters, really, each taking a part of his personality to an extreme). But that surreal quality completely fails to mesh with the rest of the film, either, which makes it ultimately stand out in a less positive way. Literally everything else in the movie should’ve been scrapped. In the script drafting stage.<\/p>\n
Well Below Average<\/strong> I’ve had this written forever, and would’ve sworn I had posted it, but a quick search showed I hadn’t. Huh. Well, I’m sure that knowing PotC3 sucked is not earth-shattering information to anyone, but I might as well post it anyway. I should’ve expected it to be bad. I suppose that liking Pirates of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1016],"tags":[972],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":266,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/trailer-watch-highly-anticipated-by-me-as-of-32307\/","url_meta":{"origin":1483,"position":0},"title":"Trailer Watch – Highly Anticipated by Me (as of 3\/20\/07)","author":"Jandy","date":"March 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some of the films I'm looking forward to in the next...year. I haven't kept up on trailer watching, so these are mostly big releases and many of them are duhs. Oh well. Embedded trailers and my reactions after the jump. Warning: VERY LONG. Meet the Robinsons Yeah, this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Film"","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34658,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-night-circus-on-stories-pt-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1483,"position":1},"title":"The Night Circus on Stories, Pt 2","author":"Jandy","date":"October 4, 2014","format":"quote","excerpt":"\"It is important,\" the man in the grey suit interrupts. \"Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Commonplace"","block_context":{"text":"Commonplace","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/commonplace\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/trailer-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1483,"position":2},"title":"Trailer Roundup","author":"Jandy","date":"March 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I try to keep up with watching movie trailers over at apple.com, partly because I enjoy seeing movie trailers (seriously, I cry if I get to the theatre too late to see the trailers), and partly because I like to make my movie-going decisions based on actual footage as well\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Film"","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":73,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/july-readingwatching-recap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1483,"position":3},"title":"July Reading\/Watching Recap","author":"Jandy","date":"August 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Click through for reactions for Pirates of the Caribbean 2, The Gold Rush, Night of the Hunter, Shopgirl, A Scanner Darkly, Transamerica, and Hitchcock's Films, among others. click for more Movies Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest I quite enjoyed it. It's always interesting to me to compare\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books and Reading"","block_context":{"text":"Books and Reading","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24846,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/best-films-of-2011-so-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":1483,"position":4},"title":"Best Films of 2011: So Far","author":"Jandy","date":"July 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The first half of 2011 is now behind us, and you know what that means...half-year lists! So here are my picks for the best films of the first half of 2011. 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\nUSA 2007<\/a>; dir: Gore Verbinski<\/a>; starring: Johnny Depp<\/a>, Orlando Bloom<\/a>, Keira Knightley<\/a><\/em>
\nScreened 13 July 2008 on DVD<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"