Jack's Back
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I know I'm gonna see it. They're making a part three too.
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Hello Pirate Boy .
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Meh, I hope they include more "ride shots" like the first; it would suck if this movie were just a crack sequel and not a successor to the first.
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It's cool that they've included sea monsters and all, but Davy Jones' anemone pirates look kinda goofy to me. And I wonder why George Lucas haven't sued them for using the squidface alien design on Jones…
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Is Orlando Bloom talking to Wooden Eye's buddy there?
Hmm… I wonder how he winds up with Jack and company.
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And I wonder why George Lucas haven't sued them for using the squidface alien design on Jones…
I imagine because the tentacles are supposed to look like a scruffy pirates beard, not something alien.
That and because of the generosity RPG makers (as in ones written in books) don't sue Lucas for taking their creation ^o^
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Doesn't the new bad guy have a Cthulu head? Am I wrong?
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@omae:
That and because of the generosity RPG makers (as in ones written in books) don't sue Lucas for taking their creation ^o^
Of course, they all stole such things from H. P. Lovecraft, so they have no room to talk. What they didn't steal from Lovecraft, they stole from Tolkien.
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@omae:
I imagine because the tentacles are supposed to look like a scruffy pirates beard, not something alien.
That and because of the generosity RPG makers (as in ones written in books) don't sue Lucas for taking their creation ^o^
He might have meant the relation to another ghostly pirate, LeChuck, from the Monkey Island series, who had a beard that wriggled as if it were alive. Monkey Island was published by LucasArts, which, I think, was Lucas' gaming devision of his properties.
Meh, Monkey Island borrowed a bit from Disney, and now that I look at POTC, it looks as if much of MI was borrowed back. Jeez, is any pirate work, aside from OP, original anymore?
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Does it matter? Pirates of the Carribean was one of the most enjoyable action/adventure films to come out in the past years. And it's purposely using all that piratey mythology that most people are familiar with, there wasn't any need to try anything new. And I'm glad they didn't try to be more realistic. Look at how they applied that to Troy and King Arthur, they sucked the fun out of those mythologies!
If I had two critiques about this film, they would be Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightley. :glare:
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Does it matter? Pirates of the Carribean was one of the most enjoyable action/adventure films to come out in the past years. And it's purposely using all that piratey mythology that most people are familiar with, there wasn't any need to try anything new. And I'm glad they didn't try to be more realistic. Look at how they applied that to Troy and King Arthur, they sucked the fun out of those mythologies!
Not in the slightest for the film! It's just the pooling of references shows how far Disney has fallen, such that they can no longer rely on sole self innovation anymore. At the very least, though, the company has not fallen on the same branches as Dreamworks, which uses pop culture to drive its movies (how many people will be entertained by Shrek 2 in thirty years).
…that is, until Chicken Little featured a Numa Numa spoof trailer! :argh:
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Hey,I liked that trailer!
XD
Davey Jones looks like a pirate Cthulthu.
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Not in the slightest for the film! It's just the pooling of references shows how far Disney has fallen, such that they can no longer rely on sole self innovation anymore. At the very least, though, the company has not fallen on the same branches as Dreamworks, which uses pop culture to drive its movies (how many people will be entertained by Shrek 2 in thirty years).
…that is, until Chicken Little featured a Numa Numa spoof trailer! :argh:
I agree with you there. What saddens me is that these new 3d films are just crap told in pretty pictures and famous voices, and people are still going to see these films in droves. The Pixar films are great though.
But back to Disney in general, I don't understand how hard it is to come up with new material for kids to enjoy. I think they should take a risk and make a new animated-musical-based-on-classic-fable-or-book and put some EFFORT into it. And they should stop shamelessly milking their old franchises for all their worth. :glare: -
Why do you think Roy Disney has a Save Disney website?
I remember once hearing that they were toying with the idea of a Rapunzel movie (one of the few princess fairy tales they haven't done yet) but I wasn't sure if it was going to be animated or CGI. It BETTER be animated, CGI is too stark.
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They should do something dark along the lines of their Snow White, or Brothers Grimm tales in general.
But a little bit back OT, I hope to god there won't be a Pirates of the Carribean cartoon on the Disney Channel soon, if there isn't one already =(
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It's in Kingdom Hearts, does that count?
Yah know, even Snow White was cleaned up for kids. In the original the Prince never kissed her. He found her lying there and thought she was dead so they carried her back for burial and a royal attendant was pissed off at carrying around the body so he decked her in the back of the head out of spite and it woke her up.
The things you learn from Japanese television.
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If its as witty and clever as well as adventurous as the first one. Then am definently going to go see it.
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I remember once hearing that they were toying with the idea of a Rapunzel movie (one of the few princess fairy tales they haven't done yet) but I wasn't sure if it was going to be animated or CGI. It BETTER be animated, CGI is too stark.
It's Rapunzel: Unbraided and yep, it's CGI, as are all of it's upcoming movies. Disney quit the whole 2d thing outside of sequels.
Damn, I want to see PotC right now after that trailer. Hope it's as good as the first.
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It's Rapunzel: Unbraided and yep, it's CGI, as are all of it's upcoming movies. Disney quit the whole 2d thing outside of sequels.
Damn, I want to see PotC right now after that trailer. Hope it's as good as the first.
Uh-oh, sounds like a Shrek rip-off.
PotC 2 is going to have stereotypical cannibals in it, and will therefore be cool. I'm glad the film-makers chose to ignore those complaining about it, I'd like a bit on un-PCness back in my movies.
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@omae:
Yah know, even Snow White was cleaned up for kids. In the original the Prince never kissed her. He found her lying there and thought she was dead so they carried her back for burial and a royal attendant was pissed off at carrying around the body so he decked her in the back of the head out of spite and it woke her up.
Hey, that's nothing.
Originally, Cinderella's husband made her step-sisters dance to their deaths in red-hot shoes. Of course, in that version, their mother sliced off various portions of their feet so they'd fit into the slipper. The blood was what gave them away.
Of course, that's still better than the original version of Sleeping Beauty, who woke up pregnant after the Prince more or less date-raped her.
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Out of curiosity, I looked up the original tales, and while looking on Wikipedia, I read that the earliest tale of Cinderella came from China. I find that quite interesting, since I heard that traditionally a woman with small shoes was considered attractive by men, and women were forced to cramp their feet in really tiny shoes.
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Hey, that's nothing.
Originally, Cinderella's husband made her step-sisters dance to their deaths in red-hot shoes. Of course, in that version, their mother sliced off various portions of their feet so they'd fit into the slipper. The blood was what gave them away.
Of course, that's still better than the original version of Sleeping Beauty, who woke up pregnant after the Prince more or less date-raped her.
As bad as those are, the original version of The Little Mermaid makes Cinderella seem like…well, a Disney movie.
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Hmm, they're running out of Grimm's Fairy Tales that they could successfully make into a movie (some are too dark no matter how you edit it) but there are a few stories they could do. I forget the name but there's a really good tale about a Princess who runs away from her kingdom because her father wants to marry her (because she looks like her deceased mother) so she crams three dresses (one made of sunlight, another of moonlight, another of stars) and some trinkets into a walnut shell, dons a coat made of 100 furs and musses herself up to look like a servant. She goes to another kingdom and ends up falling in love with the King there, and goes to the ball each night dressed in one of the different dresses, and then slips away back into the fur coat. But she drops one of her trinkets into the King's soup every day as a hint/gift/whatever. At the third ball she stays too long and thus doesn't have time to get out of her dress, she just throws the coat over it. I forget how exactly it goes, but the King finds her and they marry. kicking herself trying to remember the name
Then again I think Disney could make a decent movie out of the Japanese folk tale Momotaro (Peach Boy). I think in general they're going to have to start using foreign folk tales if they want to keep the fantasy thing up.
It's Rapunzel: Unbraided and yep, it's CGI, as are all of it's upcoming movies. Disney quit the whole 2d thing outside of sequels.
Damn, I want to see PotC right now after that trailer. Hope it's as good as the first.
bangs head on desk repeatedly WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!?