Posted by Jack Spencer Jr at ua12-p5.dreamscape.com on July 19, 2003 at 12:09:54:
In Reply to: Re: Has any one seen 28 days or the new Johnny dep posted by shitty speller...DEAL WITH IT! on July 19, 2003 at 11:19:50:
:.. Pirates bored me. its long and very hollywoodish. If you see a lot of movies, it will feel like deja vu to you. But depp was really good in it. Everyone else seemed to love Pirates of the Carribean though, so it looks like im the odd man.
I found Pirates disappointing as well. I posted my opinion like two boards back. Basically the action is some of the most frantic, yet boring I have ever seen. The big climantic battle was bad for many reasons. We know the pirates cannot be killed, so the action is pretty much like the action is Starshiptroopers. They are all going to die until deus ex machina saves the survivors. Worse, so that could have the really really cool CGI gross-looking dead pirates, it had to happen in the moonlight. Movie moonlight is pale blue light with deep shadows. I had trouble distinguishing skeletal pirate ghosts from living British soldiers. Partially because of the lighting, partially because that stuff was happening so fast...in the bad lighting. So I couldn't see what was going on and I didn't care anyway since nothing of import was going to happen.
I also didn't like Depp's portrayal. I was expecting a swashbuckler, not the foppish town drunk. Sorry.