Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

[Martin McFly]

I noticed that as the films progressed, the story began focusing more on Will and Elizabeth's transition into the realm of pirates. In the first film, they both disliked pirates and had no desire to have anything to do with them. By the end of the third, they both have finally embraced the pirate lifestyle.

While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it drew away from Jack Sparrow's character. He is truly the driving force behind the films and it's nice to finally see him return to the spot light.

[SHODANFreeman]

Elizabeth always found pirates interesting from when she was a young girl. She didn't dislike them at all.

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

The music in AWE is the best part of the film. It is incredible; I already said that. Not since Morricone have I heard such amazing, sweeping, perfect music out of a film. Zimmer would be a fool not to reuse some of it in the rest of the series.

Thank you for mentioning this. I couldn't recall what any of the music from the third film sounded like. I sampled some pieces a couple of nights ago. It's very impressive! As a result, I actually put in an order for the soundtrack on Amazon last night. Which is quite unusual for me, since my music collection mostly consists of rock & metal.

It was "Singapore" that really caught me - very atmospheric, powerful stuff.

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

I'm a fan of the book.

I don't plan to see the film.

Is this for any particular reason? Were you not a fan of the the previous three films? Or are you concerned about the film adaptation ruining how you envision/picture things in the book? Because I doubt that this is going to share too much in common with the book.

Originally Posted by Martin McFly

I noticed that as the films progressed, the story began focusing more on Will and Elizabeth's transition into the realm of pirates. In the first film, they both disliked pirates and had no desire to have anything to do with them. By the end of the third, they both have finally embraced the pirate lifestyle.

While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it drew away from Jack Sparrow's character. He is truly the driving force behind the films and it's nice to finally see him return to the spot light.

Originally Posted by DAISHI

The more heavily the movies focused on Jack the more I felt they were one trick ponies resting heavily on a gimmicky performance. Now they've gone full monty and put all their cards on him, and I have my doubts about the quality.

I just thought I'd point out this contradiction. I wonder what's caused these vastly different perspectives.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by Hayden

Thank you for mentioning this. I couldn't recall what any of the music from the third film sounded like. I sampled some pieces a couple of nights ago. It's very impressive! As a result, I actually put in an order for the soundtrack on Amazon last night. Which is quite unusual for me, since my music collection mostly consists of rock & metal.

It was "Singapore" that really caught me - very atmospheric, powerful stuff.

My personal favorite from the soundtrack is One Day. It has the best of every theme I love in the soundtrack. My mom, also a huge fan of the series, also loves the soundtrack a great deal, but mostly because the hanging scene in the third film is her favorite scene in the trilogy for it's music. It's not shabby, but as far as vocals, although it's one of the cheesiest scenes in the third film, I really loved the lyrics combined with the music at the end of What Shall We Die For, and of course, since I have a huge hard-on for Ennio Morricone, I loved the homage to his shapghetti western soundtracks and specifically Once Upon A Time in the West in the song Parlay. Like I said countless times in this topic, if Zimmer doesn't make re-use of some of this material in what could be a better film, I would be sorely disappointed.

[mgrant]

I can summarize my feelings for the upcoming Pirates movie thusly:

-Love the book, On Stranger Tides.

- Hated Dead Man's Chest (too many dangling plot threads) and At World's End (Wasted potential in the highest order), but loved Curse of the Black Pearl

- On Stranger Tides seems to be getting back to basics, it dropped the Will and Elizabeth millstone around its neck and is incorporating elements of the best Pirate novel in existence. I'm cautiously optimistic.

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by Hayden

Thank you for mentioning this. I couldn't recall what any of the music from the third film sounded like. I sampled some pieces a couple of nights ago. It's very impressive! As a result, I actually put in an order for the soundtrack on Amazon last night. Which is quite unusual for me, since my music collection mostly consists of rock & metal.

It was "Singapore" that really caught me - very atmospheric, powerful stuff.


Is this for any particular reason? Were you not a fan of the the previous three films? Or are you concerned about the film adaptation ruining how you envision/picture things in the book? Because I doubt that this is going to share too much in common with the book.




I just thought I'd point out this contradiction. I wonder what's caused these vastly different perspectives.

Jack Sparrow is a walking parody not worthy of more screen time. Eh.

[SHODANFreeman]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

Jack Sparrow is a walking parody not worthy of more screen time. Eh.

Take it back.

[DAISHI]

Sir, in good conscience, I cannot.

This does not mean I do not like the movies :P

[Secret Fawful]

Jack Sparrow is one of the few walking parodies that is worthy of more screen time.

[SHODANFreeman]

Originally Posted by daishi

sir, in good conscience, i cannot.

This does not mean i do not like the movies

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[Irishmile]

I was running around town today and on a whim bought the movies on Blu-ray... the 7 disc box set comes with a voucher to print off a movie ticket.. but the theaters never seem to take those anyway... Have not messed around with it too much.. but the first thing I watched was a deleted scene where Jack walks from the captains quarters, through the crew chambers and down into a few of the cargo holds... its kind of cool because we do not get to see the inside of the ship all that much previously.

[TomPravetz]

This... Movie... Must... Be... GOOD! (OrIMayDie)

[Junaid]

Originally Posted by Irishmile

I was running around town today and on a whim bought the movies on Blu-ray... the 7 disc box set comes with a voucher to print off a movie ticket.. but the theaters never seem to take those anyway... Have not messed around with it too much.. but the first thing I watched was a deleted scene where Jack walks from the captains quarters, through the crew chambers and down into a few of the cargo holds... its kind of cool because we do not get to see the inside of the ship all that much previously.

I can't wait to see those deleted scenes. They're still not on YouTube and it looks like the box set won't be coming out in Europe anytime soon so it may take I while...

[Hayden]

Alright, a lot's been coming out about this film, so I thought I'd resurrect this thread and post some of the new sneak peeks that have been released over the past week.

Palace Escape Clip - a fifty-second excerpt from the film, where Jack Sparrow makes one of his fortunate and daring escapes. It involves a chandelier.
"Live Forever" TV Spot - Just another standard 30-second trailer, but with some previously unseen content scattered throughout it.
"Die Trying" TV Spot - Same case as above, but with different unseen stuff.
"First Day of Filming" - The crew drags a bunch of cameras to a beach somewhere.
Jack and Angelica - Bruckheimer, Depp, Cruz, Rush and Marshall discuss the character of Angelica, and her connection and relationship with Jack.
"On Stranger Tides Revealed" - Pod #1 -This was apparently released in March, though I've only just stumbled upon it now. It's sort of just a mash-up of old trailers, with some new content, and some snippets of information from Marshall and Bruckheimer.
"From Disneyland to the Big Screen" - A little 2-minute video showing how the Disneyland ride has evolved into this huge franchise. The video is presented by Geoffry Rush/Barbossa, and features a lot of video showing the filming process.

Or you could just watch all of the new videos here. But hey, it doesn't hurt for me to go the stupid hard way and instead link to every individual video and provide and explanation of each of them.

[DAISHI]

I say craps to a franchise that lost its soul!

[Secret Fawful]

Except it hasn't. Also there are three more clips-

Blackbeard
King's Men
Wet Again

[Icedhope]

Even more stoked!

The movie is about Pirates; Action, ADVENTURE! All the things we loved as kids it shouldn't be about the Story, the characters it should be about the fun we had watching it, and seeing those clips. I have the highest expectations for this movie.

[DAISHI]

I just truly dislike Jack Sparrow. The more screen time he got, the less I appreciated the movie.

[Secret Fawful]

New Featurette ((new shots))

It spoils a few scenes not shown so far, so it depends on how much you want to spoil of the movie. Also, outside of Star Trek or some horror franchises, I can't think of another franchise that has survived four sequels, or might actually have a good fourth film. Well, okay, there was Die Hard and Indiana Jones and Rambo and Rocky and...yeah okay, maybe not that big of a feat now, but Pirates surviving that long is kind of cool to me.

[DAISHI]

Fortunately Pirates isn't being written by people who went completely insane after the third installment.