A random assortment of people try to save Jack Sparrow from... I don't know where, it was called something but it was never specified at all. Anyway, they try to save him because it's a pretty good way to spend 90 minutes of this film, atleast on paper. Then there's an ultimate battle or something with Evil Colonel from part 2.
I watched a film called Zodiac yesterday. It was over 2 and a half hours long. I was never bored during that time. It was awesome to be honest. Today, I watched a film called Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. It was almost 3 hours long. It bored me. But unlike the second part, this one bored me with extremely bad jokes and useless drama, and dull McGuffins. Seriously, this movie has every single McGuffin ever even remotely mentioned in the series, in an important position for the "plot." When it comes to the script of this film, I'm actually surprised. The previous movie really had about 10-20 minutes of actual story, but then this film has about... Well, 10-20 minutes of actual plot, but instead of filling the film with action like was done in part 2, here we get ludicrously bad drama scenes. The humour has greatly improved since the previous movie, since I actually laughed a few times in this one (I even laughed at Sparrow once). The new and old characters here are awful, they're all cliched stereotypes that should not exist in modern cinema. Especially the man played by Chow-Yun Fat is the most stereotypical hard-ass asian I've ever seen. I can't believe Fat acted the part the way he did, since he has proved time and again that he is in fact a magnificent actor. But on the other hand this same movie has Johnny Depp "acting" as some weird drunkard, so bleh.
However, the pacing of this film is rather well composed. Since we don't get an overload of action until the very end of it, you might just notice yourself wanting to see some good old fashioned swashbuckling. This is why the indefinately best part of the entire picture, the ending, works so well. We get an action scene about 20 minutes long, which, in quality, is about as good as the action in the first part of the trilogy, but because we have been numbed by the horrible drama of the movie to that point, this mediocre action scene seems damn near divine. POTC 3 is a movie like LOTR: Return Of The King; it has about five million endings, all of which are just as boring as the other. And there's even an ending after the end of the credits, which I didn't stick around for though. The score is once again composed by Hans Zimmer, and it's mindnumbingly dull with it's repetetive sounds and second-grade choirs. Verbinski, as I've mentioned previously, is adored by yours truly because he directed The Weatherman, but in this film he produces yet again an average result. It's not as if this movie would look bad; it just hasn't got anything visually that we haven't seen before. With all this being said, I loved one scene from this film. Before the final fight, the leaders of the bad guys and the leaders of the good guys gather on a small piece of land. This scene is played off as an homage to old westerns, with it's Morricone-ish score and tight close-ups. I smiled.
The time of pirates has truly come to pass. It was over in my opinion when Erroll Flynn stopped making pirate movies. Everything that can be taken from the subject of pirates, has already been taken. The topic has been sucked dry. Someone just needs to tell this to Jerry Bruckheimer, so he would stop producing movies about them.
