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Who's seen the new movie? Is it as good or better or worse than the first?

My brother is seeing it right now. I'll get back to you.

I don't know if it can live up to the first... I'm skeptical at any rate. But I have no doubt that it will be well worth seeing.

I haven't seen it (I'm too poor to see movies in theatres more than once in a blue moon), but friends tell me that POTC is to POTC2 much as "The Mummy" was to "The Mummy Returns." In other words, while the original was a wonderful campy silly B movie, the sequel is...eh.

so no one's seen it?

theres another thread on this

I have, and while its not great, its not half as bad as most reviews state. Overall its a pretty good movie.

I have, and while its not great, its not half as bad as most reviews state. Overall its a pretty good movie.


known fact: movie reiewers use dice to decide how gooda movie is. No matter what they tell you they still get paid.

I saw it yesterday and its one funny arse movie. You're right about it not being as good as the orginal (most rarely are), but its a great movie. The ending leaves one hell of a cliff-hanger; there are also a lot of things left unfinished so theres a guerrantee of a third movie.

Just so you all know, they are already shooting PotC3. Specifically, while they were shooting PotC2, they filmed some shots for PotC3, and everybody is under contract to return for PotC3. All hail the strong-arm practices of Disney.

As much as I didn't like the first one, I thought it was OK, the second one looks to be quite good. I saw a 30 min making of the film of Starz the other day and it looks half decent.

My sister saw it last night, and when she got back, I asked how it was, and all she said is that she had to piss the entire time.

I don't know if that means the movie was bad or good. It could be good, because she didn't want to get up and take a piss, or it could be bad, because all she had to say about it was that she had to piss the entire time.

My sister saw it last night, and when she got back, I asked how it was, and all she said is that she had to piss the entire time.

I don't know if that means the movie was bad or good. It could be good, because she didn't want to get up and take a piss, or it could be bad, because all she had to say about it was that she had to piss the entire time.
Maybe it just means she has an urinary tract infection. Ask her about it. Better yet, tease her about it.

I really liked it, but the cliffhanger ending was extremely painful. Good, but painful.

known fact: movie reiewers use dice to decide how gooda movie is. No matter what they tell you they still get paid.

Critical miss = HORRIBLE MOVIE. (?)
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*laughs at Speoth*

I didn't see it yet, but my sister said that while it wasn't quite as bad as she expected it to be, it still wasn't as good as it should have been, and that all of the movie was setting up for the final one, sort of like Matrix 2.

It fucking rules. that is all.

I enjoyed it, wasn't as good as the first one, but still pretty good.

I liked it. Not as much as the first one though.

I saw it for the second time today.

the first time, untill about an hour through, I was waiting for them to mess it up and ruin what they had. And then I started to enjoy it. I also saw the midnight showing, so I missed some stuff.

second time, I loved it. There are alot of subtleties around there just screaming "I'm gonna show up again!"

I loved it both times. The ending is completely unexpected, but makes sense when you go back and think about it a bit.

I'm not going to do the same thing as I did with "The Matrix" and waste my money at the theatres on a pair of half-hearted sequels.

That, and cliffhanger endings in theatrical films really piss me off.

I'll be waiting until 2 and 3 are out on DVD, thanks.

I havn't seen either...

I own the first one

I work at a theatre, and can see the second at any time I want.

My friends get on my ass about this all the time :P

That movie made $55 million in one day!

That movie made $55 million in one day!
That movie prompted geeks to dress like pirates on opening day. I saw some wandering down by the harbourfront. Heh. Geeks.

The movie was horrendous. If you value storyline cohesion, stay away from this mismanaged, haphazard mess. Any semblance of a plot gets lost in a maze of nonstop action, special effects, and cheap thrills attempting to cover up the holes of this moldy swiss cheese.

In fact, the action was so prevalent that it left no room for a breath of oxygen, coming at the viewer from all sides in a completely ineffective struggle to keep them on the edge of their seat; instead, said viewer has been asphyxiated by a neverending barrage of synthetic one-liners, wasted talent in scenes that lack any sort of punch, virtually nonexistent character development, and slipshod efforts to appear suspensefully serious yet retain the classic comic relief of the original, instead forcing the audience to endure a complete joke of a film that ruins any sort of interest in the protagonists or their absurd quest; but no, Dead Man's Chest drags your rotting corpse to the bottom of the sea for two whole hours and Davy Jones knows how many minutes long, much like the length of this especially longwinded sentence and paragraph; I should warn you, it doesn't stop there - after all is said and done, you are left with a cliffhanger and total lack of closure, leaving open the crumbling gates for a third installment, but not really caring; you're just glad the torture is over, and find that you aren't experiencing blue balls at all, quite the contrary - you've been left flaccid, and passed out from weariness while an inadequate partner feebly strove to get you off.